Tuesday, July 25, 1950

S T A N D I N G S
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 60 39 .602 —
Tacoma ...... 56 41 .577 3
Wenatchee ... 58 43 .574 3
Tri-City .... 54 46 .540 6
Salem ....... 41 54 .432 17
Victoria .... 43 57 .430 17½
Vancouver ... 42 56 .429 19
Spokane ..... 41 59 .410 19½


YAKIMA, Wash., July 25—Yakima's Bears defeated the Salem Senators, 3-1, Tuesday night behind the snappy hurling of Dick Larner as the teams opened a four-game series.
Ernie Domenichelli started on the mound for the Bears but was lifted for Larner in the first inning after hurting his arm. Larner gave the Solons a run in the fifth via an infield hit, a walk and a sacrifice but otherwise tightly checked the home club. The Senators totaled but four hits.
The Bears got to Ray McNulty for a pair of tallies in the third frame as Will Tiesara, Al Jacinto and Mac McCawley wrapped singles around an error. Another Salem miscue and singles by Jim Westlake and Dave Melton brought the final Yakima marker in the sixth.
Yakima ........... 002 001 000—3 8 1
Salem ............. 000 001 000—1 4 1
Domenicelli, Larner (1) and Tiesara; McNulty and Beard.

TACOMA, July 25—Tacoma rallied for seven runs in the fifth and defeated Tri-City 10 to 4. in a Western International League baseball game Tuesday night.
The Tacoma victory gave it a one notch better position in the standings, just nosing out Wenatchee for second place.
In their big inning the Tigers hopped on Jim Olsen, Tri-City's second pitcher, for 11 hits. Thirteen Tacomans went to bat, the final out coming on a hit base-runner.
Mel Knezovich went the route for Tacoma and kept the Braves' 12 hits reasonably well-scattered.
Jim Warner, the league's leading home run hitter last season, came through with his specialty in the seventh to account for one of the Tri-City runs.
Tri-City ......... 010 001 101— 4 12 2
Tacoma ......... 001 072 00x— 10 17 1
Stone, Olsen (3), Greenlaw (7) and Pesut; Knezovich and Sheets.

VANCOUVER, B.C., July 25—Jay Ragni was in control all the way Tuesday night as Wenatchee Chiefs squelched Vancouver Capilanos, 8-0, to even their series at one game apiece. It cut off a phenomenal—for Vancouver—four game winning streak.
Ragni struck out nine and allowed only five hits. His curve ball had the Caps mystified throughout as he raised his record to 12 and 4. He also had a bit of knuckler, a sneaking fastball and a slider.
On the other hand, Vancouver's youth movement failed miserably. Starter Kevin King, 21, was knocked out of the box after two thirds of an inning and Bob Bruenner, 22, came in only to be greeted by a two-run single by Jerry Ballard. He made his exit with two out in the third. Carl Gunnarson, who admits to 40, did the best heaving, giving up only two hits. Dick Alvari was the fourth Cap to make an appearance, coming on in the eighth.
With two out in the first inning, Wenatchee connected for three quick singles and ran in three runs. Those were enough. King was the loser.
Wenatchee ........ 303 100 010—8 12 2
Vancouver ......... 000 000 000—0 5 2
Ragni and Len Neal; King, Brunner (1), Gunnarson (3), Alvari (8) and Heisner.

VICTORIA, B. C., July 25—Victoria Athletics made it two in a row over the hapless Spokane Indians here Tuesday night as Aldon Wilkie coasted to an 8-3 win.
Wilkie was in excellent form and appeared set for a shutout. However, he eased up in the eighth after a five-run rally in the seventh had given him a 7-0 margin and was tagged for four successive hits. Edo Vanni's inside-the-park home run accounted for the first two Spokane runs.
Spokane ......... 000 000 030—3 11 1
Victoria ........... 110 000 51x— 8 8 3
Holder, Curran (7) and Rossi; Wilkie and Danielson.

Sandy Robertson Leads Pitchers in W-I Loop
TACOMA, July 26—Vancouver's Sandy Robertson, who pitches only when the Capilanos are at home, necessarily remained idle last week and thus failed to embellish the 9-0 mound record which puts him far ahead of all opposition for the Western International elbowing lead.
Tacoma's Bob Kerrigan, who has reached in vain for win No. 15 in four starting jobs during the past fortnight, was compelled to relinquish a half-interest in the runner-up berth to Jay Ragni of Wenatchee,who hit the 14-6 mark by chalking up a victory in his lone appearance of the week.
John Marshall of Victoria (11-5) and Gene Roenspie of Tri-City (8-4) were next in line.
Lloyd Dickey, Yakima southpaw who has won his last five starts, added 15 strikeouts to extend his season's league-leading total to 163.
Don Ferrarese, Wenatchee fork-hander, was charged with more walks in his single mound assignment to boost his aggregate in that department to 157, far and away the largest number of passes issued by any other W-I flinger.
                       W L  SO Pct.
Robertson, Van. ...... 9 0  33 1.000
Soriano, Yak. ........ 3 0  14 1.000
Greenlaw, T-C ........ 5 2  26 .714
Kerrigan, Tac. ...... 14 6  67 .700
Ragni, Wen. ......... 14 6 103 .700
Marshall, Vic. ...... 11 5 113 .668
Roenspie, T-C ........ 8 4  50 .667
Olsen, T-C ........... 6 3  26 .667
Domenichelli, Yak. ... 9 5  38 .643
Stone, T-C ........... 9 5  37 .643

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Canadian Cities Would Put Teams in Pioneer Loop
EDMONTON, Alta., July 25 — Edmonton and Calgary baseball officials will confer this week with executives of the class C Pioneer league with the view of lining the Alberta cities up with professional baseball.
If one team each from Edmonton and Calgary is admitted to the circuit, raising its membership to 10 clubs, the deal likely will become effective next spring. This was the word from John Ducey, Edmonton diamond empressario, as he left Tuesday for the southern talks.
Accompanying Ducey are Sam Irwin of Calgary, president of the Big Four Inter-City league in this province, and two Calgary baseball club managers.

Thursday, June 1, 1950

STANDINGS
              W  L  Pct GB
Tacoma ..... 29 12 .707 —
Salem ...... 22 19 .437 7
Wenatchee .. 22 20 .524 7½
Yakima ..... 21 21 .500 8½
Tri-City ... 21 24 .467 10
Spokane .... 20 23 .465 10
Vancouver .. 18 23 .439 11
Victoria ... 16 27 .372 14

TACOMA, June 1— Lefty Bob "it's getting to be a habit" Kerrigan gave up 11 well scattered hits in tossing his ninth win without a setback as Tacoma defeated Salem 8-5 in their series finale here Thursday night.
The win enabled Tacoma to gain an even break on the four-game stand, thereby preserving the Tiger's record of not having lost a series this season.
Salem ...... 103 000 100—5-11-2
Tacoma ... 201 001 31x—8-12-1
Osborn, Burak (7) and Beard; Kerrigan and Sheets.

SPOKANE, June 1—The Wenatchee Chiefs, who lost three straight to Spokane, salvaged the final game of the series Thursday night with a 6 to 3 victory over the Indians.
Al Treichel gave Spokane nine hits but wasn't bothered by the wildness that ruined Kohout.
Wenatchee ..... 005 000 010—6-6-1
Spokane ......... 000 100 020—3-9-0
Treichel and L. Neal; Kohout and Rossi.

KENNEWICK, June 2—Yakima's boast that they never lose a series to Tri-City stood the test last night as the Bears ambled to a 8-2 victory behind the six-hit pitching effort of slender Teddy Savarese. The win gave the Bears the series, 3-1, and a game and a half margin on fourth place in the Western International League race. It was the third straight series won over for Braves by Yakima.
The Braves boarded their chartered bus this morning for a trip and four-game series with Salem. Currently the Tri-City team holds a 4-0 bulge over the second place Senators. It was for the four straight wins that the Braves took in their first meeting with Salem that momentarily dropped the Senators to third in the league.
Dick Stone with a 5-2 record appeared as the most likely staffer to open the Salem series, with Joe Orrell, (4-4) slated to follow on Saturday. Probable Sunday double-bill starters are Cy Greenlaw, (3-2); Mike Budnick,(0-3) and Gene Roenspie.
Chances of evening up the set-to with Yakima went a glimmering in the third Inning last night, a pair of free tickets to first issued by Lou McCollum started the four-run spree. Jim Westlake, first baseman, and Babe Gammino, right fielder, added a pair of deuces and then Al Zuvella climaxed the parade of the bases with a single.
Vic Buccola cleated the plate for the Braves in the sixth on a combination of two errors and as many free passes. And that was as close as they got for the rest of the game.
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YAKIMA, June 1 (AP) —Tiny Teddy Savarese held Tri-City to six scattered hits as the Yakima Bears bowled over the Braves in a Western International league game here Thursday night, 8-2.
The midget lefthander struck out 11 batsmen and the two runs scored off him were unearned.
Jim Westlake provided much of Yakima's power, with two singles and a double, batting in four runs.
The Bears went ahead with a four-run blast in the third inning on two walks, doubles by Westlake and Babe Gammino and Jerry Zuvela's single. Zuvela homered over the right field fence in the eighth.
Yakima .... 001 001 000—2- 6-2
Tri-City ... 104 000 21x—3-10-2
McCollum and Pesut; Savarese and Tornay.

VANCOUVER, June 2 [Erwin M. Swangard, Daily Province]—“Sure we outhit them, but we certainly outwalked them, too.”
This unhappy observation by Manager Marty Krug of the Victoria Athletics sums up Vancouver Capilanos Western International Baseball League victory over the A’s at Cap Stadium Thursday night.
Manager Bill Brenner of the Caps still was shaking his head in bewilderment some 30 minutes after the game which certainly was as exciting as it was weird.
If any bouquets must be tossed to the winners a large one with a giant orchid in the middle must go to Sandy Robinson, Vancouver pitcher. Sandy didn’t have it but struggled gamely through nine innings and a 13-hit attack by Victoria to win his third game against no losses.
That’s a pretty impressive record for a lad who only plays part-time.
SANDY OFF FORM
Tonight the same two clubs continue their five-game series at Cap Stadium with two games scheduled for Saturday. George Nicholas will pitch for the homesters who must face their old nemesis, one of the most colourful characters in the WIL, long John Marshall.
A’S LEAD 3-0
Victoria jumped into a 3-0 lead in the fiurst inning when normally weak-hitting Jim Wert belted a home run [with two on] over the right field fence with [Vancouver getting a run back] in their half of the first on a base on balls, a fielder’s choice and a couple of singles.
But Athletics went right on with two more runs in the second via two doubles and a single. Again Caps struck in their half of the second with two runs. Then came the third, a four-run outburst by the Caps which gave them a 7-5 lead. The runs were scored on a variety of plays well calculated to keep you in suspense. There were three hits, two bases on balls, a wild pitch and a double steal.
Robertson held the lead for three innings before Victoria tied things in the sixth. Len Tran, just about the best ball player on the field, scored the winner in the seventh. Len himself made sure of the final outcome by starting a magnificent double play in the eighth inning.
Victoria used four pitchers who issued ten walks.
Lefthander Jim Propst started and lasted two and two-thirds innings. Newcomer Warren Noyes, a Boston Red Sox chattel, recently moved to Victoria from San Joe, worked for three and two-thirds innings, and looked very good until wildness got him into trouble in the seventh. Ron Smith toiled two-thirds of an inning and Bob Jensen finished.
Victoria ....... 320 002 000—7-13-0
Vancouver ... 124 000 10x—8- 9-2
Propst, Noyes (3), Smith (7), Jensen (8) and Ronning; Robertson and Brenner.

By Associated Press
(Including games of Wed., May 31)

    G  AB H RBI HR Ave
Stetter, Tacoma ..... 38 135 53 37 4 .393
Thompson, Victoria .. 41 151 57 32 7 .377
Tornay, Yakima ...... 32 107 40 22 0 .374
Greco, Tacoma ....... 40 144 53 28 3 .368
Hjelmaa, Wenatchee .. 37 136 47 28 0 .346
Chorlton, Victoria .. 42 173 58 34 3 .335
Home runs—Rossi (Spokane) 8. Thompson (Victoria) 7. Mead (Vancouver), Stetter (Tacoma), Gammino (Yakima), Warner (Tri-City) 4 each.
Runs batted in—Quinn (Tacoma) 43. Stetter (Tacoma) 37. Warner (Tri-City) 35. Bryant (Tri-City) 35. Chorlton (Victoria) 34.
Pitching—Kerrigan (Tacoma) 8-0, Loust (Tacoma) 7-1, Tierney (Salem) 8-2, Ragni (Wenatchee) 6-2.

Salem, Tri-City WIL Franchises
May Transfer to Prairie Cities
By KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver News Herald, June 1, 1950]
The Western International Baseball League is seriously considering the transfer of two of its present franchises to Alberta cities.
Calgary and Edmonton, a couple of baseball mad Alberta towns, are presently members of a semi-pro league but they are demanding the return of professional baseball.
FRANCHISE SHIFTS
In order to admit Calgary and Edmonton it would necessary to shift two of the present WIL franchises.
It has been known for some time that George Norgan, Vancouver business man and owner of the Salem franchise, wants to his affiliation closer to his home.
Mr. Norgan has been looking to New Westminster.
However, the Salem to New Westminster switch seems unlikely. To get this okayed the Vancouver Capilano Baseball Club in Vancouver must give their sanction as they have territorial rights for baseball in this area.
This the Caps would probably never do, for they say it would seriously hurt their own gate.
LOOKS AFIELD
It would appear, then, that Mr. Norgan must look elsewhere. He hasn’t been drawing well in Salem and insists it costs him upwards of $20,000 to run the franchise there.
If Mr. Norgan switched to Calgary, it is almost a certainty that Edmonton would go along to provide intercity rivalry. The cities are 200 miles apart.
Bob Brown, general manager of the Capilanos, likes the idea of prairie entries in the WIL. It would mean four Canadian cities against four American cities, a natural international set-up.
There are two—maybe three—franchises in the WIL considered “unsteady” right now. Salem is one. Wenatchee, before this season, was another but so far this year they have been drawing well.
However, there is a serious situation in Tri-City, the new Washington entry. A lot of money was sunk into making that a strong holding, but it has failed so far. The Braves are drawing poorly at the gate and in some quarters it is felt this franchise could be bought for a “song” and transferred elsewhere.

Tri-City Management Denies Report Braves Might Lose Franchise
[Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, June 2, 1950]
The management of the Tri-City Braves Thursday night denied a report in the Vancouver News-Herald that the Pasco-Kennewick-Richland Western International league baseball franchise might be transfered to Calgary or Edmonton, Canadian border cities, the Associated press reported.
The News-Herald said Thursday there is a possibility of a pair of Western International league baseball clubs being shifted to Calgary and Edmonton and that Tri-City and Salem were the two clubs figuring in the deal.
The newspaper did not disclose its source hut said that the league is "seriously considering" it. Calgary and Edmonton are both cities in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Walla Wallans will recognize Calgary as the semi-pro club Jim Forsyth, now with the local Bears, managed last summer and Bob "Stretch" Garrett pitched for.
Abel Denies Report
At Tacoma league president Robert Abel said the reported shift was all news to him. He hadn't heard of it.
The Tri-Cities management immediately denied that its club might be shifted. George Norgan, owner of the Salem franchise, could not be reached for comment, but William Mulligan of the parent Portland Beavers said it was news to him.
Calgary would be about 250 air miles from Spokane and 400 from Vancouver; Edmonton would be 1400 from Spokane and 500 from Vancouver.
The longest hop between league cities now is the approximately 400 air miles from Spokane to Salem.

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor
[from the column June 2/50]
NO SOURCE
Some days you can sit down at the 'mill' and hit a rich vein. We feel that we hit such a lucky strike when we wrote our observations yesterday about the lagging attendance at the Braves' home games. We feel that way because right on the heels of that column comes a wire story from Canada that the Tri-City club might be moved to either Calgary or Edmonton.
As it turned out the Vancouver News Herald which broke the story wasn't able to credit any source. That's the same thing as saying it was no doubt the wishful dream of a Canadian reporter.
However, following our train of thought on the subject of attendance it's rather interesting to note what the News Herald had to say. Referring to the Salem franchise first the newspaper said, "It has been known for some time that Norgan wants to switch his affiliation closer to his home." George Norgan is the owner of the club. Continuing with the story the News Herald said, "It is felt that Tri-City's franchise could be bought for a song and transferred elsewhere."
Vern Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the Tri-City club said, "Apparently the song they have in mind is "If I Had A Million Dollars." The mere fact that our gate has been the lowest in the league to date doesn't mean a thing at this point. There's still three-fourths of the season to go and with a break in the weather we'll pull just as heavy here at home as we do on the road."
A SAGA OF PYJAMAS
When Vancouver opened the 1950 WIL season here it set off a chain of events involving a sportswriter, a pair of pajamas, a hotel manager, and a customs official that is now cleared up thanks to the manner in which 'mine host' Wally Bowen runs the Desert Inn.
Hal Malone of the Vancouver Sun came down with the Capilanos to cover the opening series and stayed with the club at the Desert Inn. Comes time to return home and Malone begins to feverishly pack his bags, but no pajamas. So Malone boarded the return plane deciding they had been lost.
When he stepped off at the Vancouver airport the customs inspector decided that Malone should pay duty on the portable typewriter he was carrying. "Listen Mac," said Malone softly, "I am probably one of the few guys who crossed the bolder and came back with less than I went with." "How come?" shoots back the inspector. So Malone explains about the pajamas.
THE PAYOFF PUNCH
"Are you married?" asks the inspector when Malone finishes his tale. "Yep," nods the sportswriter. "In that case we won't argue about the typewriter," grinned the customs official, "you'll have enough explaining about those pajamas to do at home."
Fortunately for Malone, Wally Bowen's industrious crew had found the pajamas, had them washed, pressed, boxed, and shipped to his home. Thus, Wally can be credited with a great big assist in averting a martial crisis.

Tuesday, May 30, 1950

W L Pct GB
Tacoma ..... 28 11 .718 —
Salem ...... 21 18 .538 7
Wenatchee .. 21 19 .525 7½
Yakima ..... 20 20 .500 8½
Tri-City ... 20 23 .465 10
Spokane .... 19 22 .463 10
Vancouver .. 16 23 .410 12
Victoria ... 16 25 .390 13

YAKIMA [Tri-City Herald, May 31]—Disaster, triple style, overtook the Tri-City Braves when they opened a doubleheader last night against Yakima. Two of the setbacks came off the bats of the Yakima Bears as they cut down the Braves twice 12-2, and 5-1. The twin-killing moved the Braves out of the first division and the Bears back in.
Sickness, the constant foe of the Tri-City team this season, struck again over the weekend when Al Spaeter, second baseman was bedded down because of a severe head cold with a touch of stomach flu.
Mike Budnick the hard luck member of the Braves pitching staff lost his third straight game in last night's owl contest. Although Budnick gave up five runs only three of them were earned. The rest came on a combination of three passed balls.
Yakima had the contest all sewed up by the end of the fourth as Bear hurler Dick Larner held the Tri-City bats in check. Meanwhile his teammates were pushing across one run each in the third and fourth. Tho Braves' lone score came in the eighth when Jim McKeegan, filling in for Al Spaeter, rifled a single to score Nick Pesut.
"Bullet" Joe Orrell found the going hard in the seven-inning opener. It was a. good ball game until the Bears opened the bottom of the fourth. When it finally ended 12 Yakima runs had cleated the home plate. The Bullet gave up a total of 13 base knocks, while Dickey was holding the Braves to five scattered blows.
Cy Greenlaw, the Brave portsider, currently sporting a 2-2 record is expected to open for the Braves tonight when the two teams resume their four-game series.
First Game
Tri City ....... 010 100 0—2 5 0
Yakima ........ 012 900 x—12 13 0
Orrell and Pesut; Dickey and Tiesiera.
Second Game
Tri-City ....... 000 000 010—1 6 0
Yakima ........ 001 120 10x—5 7 2
Budnick and Pesut; Larner and Tornay.

TACOMA, May 30 [Frank Vaille, AP]—Old Ad Liska, the veteran submariner, had a new blaze burning today in the near charred embers of Salem's Western International league pennant hopes.
Now managing the Oregon club after more than 20 campaigns in the majors and high minors the ex-Portland ace hauled himself out of retirement Tuesday night to turn back the league-leading Tacoma Tigers 4-2. The victory snapped Salem's six-game losing streak and reinstated them in second place. Tacoma won the opener 11-2.
Liska gave up eight hits in turning back the Tacomans in the seven-inning finale and had to call on the cunning of past experience to get past the final inning. With the tying runs on second and third, the veteran squeaked through as Glen Stetter lined out and Dick Greco went down swinging. Salem won in the third, combining a walk, a hit batter, three singles and a pair of errors for three runs. Gil Loust won his seventh game against one defeat in the opener as Tacoma slugged out 16 hits including five doubles.
First Game
Salem ....... 000 200 000—2 9 2
Tacoma .... 301 223 00x—11 16 0
Burak, Waibel (5) and Beard; Loust and Sheets.
Second Game
Salem ........ 003 010 0—4 9 1
Tacoma ..... 000 100 1—2 8 2
Liska and McMillan; Knezovich, Hufford (6) and Fischer.

SPOKANE, May 30 [Frank Vaille, AP]—Wenatchee, which moved into the runnerup spot only last Saturday, dropped back to third with a double loss to Spokane, 3-2 and 11-3, Tuesday night.
Wenatchee outhit Spokane 13-6 in their opener but Joe Rossi's sixth inning home run broke a 2-2 tie for the Indians. Spokane swept the bill with a 13-hit attack on Jay Ragni and Joe Blankenship in the nightcap handing Ragni his second loss against six victories.
First Game
Wenatchee ..... 000 110 000—2 11 0
Spokane ......... 020 001 00x—3 6 1
Dahle and Len Neal; Conant and Rossi.
Second Game
Wenatchee .... 000 300 000— 3 10 2
Spokane ........ 102 230 30x—11 13 3
Ragni, Blankenship (7) and Fiscalini; Bishop and Rossi.

VICTORIA, [Colonist, May 31]—Playing championship baseball behind the fine pitching of Aldon Wilkie and Jim Hedgecock, Victoria Athletics yesterday downed Vancouver Capilanos in a scheduled W.I.L. doubleheader, 5-2 and 5-3, to sweep the Victoria end of an eight-game series and run the A’s latest winning streak to four games.
CITY FANS TURN OUT
A crowd of 2,500 was at Royal Athletic Park to see the season’s most exciting games, both play in well under two hours. Last night’s crowd made the attendance for Victoria’s ten-game stand—nine playing days—swell to 20,000.
In both games, the A’s had to come from behind to win with Gene Thompson breaking up the nine-inning opener with a three-run homer in the eighth and Manager Marty Krug ending on top in a tense battle of strategy in the thrilling finale. Wilkie and Hedgecock both pitch four-hitters, making it only 15 hits for the Caps against the improved Victoria pitching in three games.
MOORE, DUNN DELIVERS
Hooked up in a mound duel with Bob Snyder, Vancouver’s ace, Wilkie was trailing, 2-0, going into the seventh and Snyder had the A’s on his hip with four scattered hits. Only one Victoria runner had reached third when the tail-end of the batting order came through. Gene Thompson was on third and Jim Wert on first as a result of singles and two were out when Jim Moore and Bill Dunn, both currently on a batting spree, came through with run-scoring tallies to tie it up.
Then, with one out in the eighth, Joe Kronberg reached first when Jim Robinson erred on his bounder down the third-base line. K. Chorlton singled and Thompson followed with his seventh home run, a high blow over the wall, well down in left field. It earned Wilkie, who pitched a beautiful game, his second win. The veteran southpaw only gave up one hit after the third inning, a hard smash by Dick Sinovic, which took a nasty hop on Dunn.
JIM GETS HIS WISH
Hedgecock, literally itching to beat his former club, was just as effective. The slim wrong-hander set down the first nine Caps in order, faltered slightly as two messed-up bunts followed Jim Robinson’s lead-off single in the fourth to load the bags with none out. Hedgecock pitched out of that with an outfield fly and Sinovic’s hit scoring two runs. Brenner, who led off in the seventh with a home run, was the only Cap to get on base after that.
Meanwhile, the A’s made the most of the wildness of three Vancouver pitchers, although only able to pick up three hits. All five Victoria runs were put on the bags by bases on balls, and all five were moved into scoring position by four Victoria sacrifice bunts.
GRIM STRATEGY
Strategic moves by the opposing managers kept the fans on edge. Brenner called for four intentional bases on balls but it only worked once as his pitchers failed to locate the plate. He was himself given first when he pinch hit for Bill Heisner in the fourth and the move worked as Bob McLean whiffed and Ray Tran flied out to leave loaded bags.
In the Victoria fourth, Brenner called on lefthander Carl Gunnarson to face Jim Wert and Krug countered with Al Ronning as a pinch hitter but Ronning skied out. This brought Junior Krug into the game to make his first appearance of the season at first base. He handled himself well afield and drove in the winning run in the fifth with a single through the middle. Victoria’s last two runs were scored identically with a walk and a sacrifice, followed by a single.
DUNN STILL GOING
One of the features was the continued good hitting of Dunn. The shortstop made three hits in four official trip sin the twon games to make it 11 hits in his last 15 trips over a foive-day period. During that time, his batting average rose 57 points to .274. Moore’s streak now stands at 11 huts in 25 trips over the last seven games.
BIG ONE TONIGHT
The A’s open a five-game stand at Vancouver tonight with Joe Mishasek named as the starter. Jim Propst goes tomorrow, followed by John Marshall on Friday and Wilkie and Hedgecock again on Saturday. From Vancouver, the A’s go to Salem and Yakima, before returning home again June 12.
A win tonight would move Victoria out of the cellar and the club is now only six games out of second place.
First Game
Vancouver ... 010 100 000—2 4 2
Victoria ....... 000 000 23x—5 10 3
Snyder and Brenner; Wilkie and Ronning.
Second Game
Vancouver ... 000 200 1—3 4 0
Victoria ....... 001 211 x–5 3 1
Anderson, Bruenner (4), Gunnarson (4) and Brenner; Hedgecock and Weatherwax.

Calgary Wants Ball Franchise
EDMONTON, May 30 — The Edmonton Bulletin says in a sports page story Tuesday it has learned reliably that Calgary interests have applied for a Western International Baseball league franchise effective next year.
The story says that Calgary will enter the league only on condition that Edmonton also be prevailed upon to take up a W.I.L. franchise. Current members of the Class B circuit are Vancouver, Victoria, Salem, Spokane, Tacoma, Tri-Cities, Yakima and Wenatchee.
It has been more than 25 years since either Calgary or Edmonton boasted a franchise in organized baseball. Both were members of the old Western Canada league.
Two teams each from Calgary and Edmonton comprise the Big Four inter-city circuit, a semi-professional circuit.
Commenting on the report, John Ducey, Edmonton's top baseball executive, said Western International League owners apparently hope to transfer franchises to the Alberta cities. He said Edmonton would not sanction this, buy a franchise or purchase any W.I.L. holdings.

NON WIL-MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

RUN BATTED IN
Credit The Mouse
AMSTERDAM, N.Y., May 30 (BUP)—A mouse received credit for a run batted in, Tuesday, in Gloversville's 12 to 4 victory over Amsterdam in the class "C" Canadian-American baseball league.
Gloversville had men on third and first when a tiny field mouse scampered across the mound. Amsterdam pitcher Harry Owens, ready for his delivery, shied away. The umpire ruled Owens' action a balk and waved the runner home from third.