Friday, September 1, 1950

              W  L  PCT GB
Yakima ..... 87 52 .626 —
Tacoma ..... 84 52 .618 1½
Tri-City ... 74 63 .540 12
Wenatchee .. 74 64 .536 13
Victoria ... 61 79 .436 27
Vancouver .. 57 78 .422 28½
Spokane .... 56 80 .412 30
Salem ...... 56 81 .409 30½

YAKIMA, Sept. 1—Yakima increased its league lead to a game and a half over Tacoma by defeating Tri-City, 5-3, here Friday night while the Wenatchee Chiefs were trimming the Tigers.
Lloyd Dickey, in registering his 16th win of the season, was wild at the outset of the game and in frequent trouble through the first six frames but gained strength in the last innings to preserve Yakima's lead.
Neil Bryant led the Tri-City attack with three singles in four times at bat.
Tri-City ...... 010 002 000—3 12 0
Yakima ........ 001 012 10x—5 9 0
Frick and McKeegan; Dickey and Tornay.

TACOMA, Sept. 1—Wenatchee defeated Tacoma, 6 to 1, in the opener of their four-game Western International series here Friday night.
Walt Pocekay was the star of Wenatchee's 11-hit attack. He hit a home run with one aboard in the fourth, and also figured in the Chiefs' four-run rally in the sixth.
In that inning Wenatchee made four successive singles, which, with a hit batsman and Red Fischer's' error accounted for the scores.
Tacoma's lone run scored on Dick Wenner's double and Mel Knezovich's single.
Wenatchee ..... 000 204 000—6 11 0
Tacoma .......... 010 000 000—1 4 1
Ragni and Neal; Knezovich, Anderson (8), Carter (9) and Fischer.

SALEM, Sept. 1—A balk called on Spokane relief hurler Hal Yerkes Friday night gave the Salem Senators a 6-5 victory over the Indians in a 13-inning battle which opened the league cellar series between the two clubs.
Manager Alan Strange of the Indians played the game under protest following the arbiter's balk call. Yerkes made a motion to throw to the plate while his third baseman was holding the ball hoping to get an out with the hidden ball trick.
The sacks were loaded in the bottom of the 13th when two out when Spokane attempted to pull the hidden-ball trick. Yerkes made a motion to deliver to the plate but actually the third-sacker had the ball. The balk was called at that point and Bob Goldstein walked in from third to end the tilt.
Spokane ..... 000 103 000 000 1—5 13 1
Salem ........ 301 000 000 000 2—6 3 1
Conant, Yerkes (13) and Weatherwax; Costello and Beard.

VICTORIA, Sept. 1—Three unearned runs in the ninth inning cost Bob Snyder a shut out Friday night as a run in the eleventh game the Vancouver righthander a 4-3 setback as the Victoria Athletics made it two in arrow over the Capilanos. It was the ninth successive loss for the Mainland WIL club in Victoria.
Snyder hadn’t permitted a Victoria runner to get to second base and had only given up four singles when the ninth opened. He had two out and a man on first when Jim Robinson booted a hard grounder from Jim Moore’s bat to put runners on first and second.
John Hack lifted a high fly behind second base and Dick Sinovic just failed to hold it after a long run, he knee hitting his gloved hand just as he made a desperate reach and knocking the ball away.
Two runs scored and Hack went to second to score the tying run when Al Ronning drilled a single to centre field.
A walk to Gene Thompson opened the elevnth inning, who drew a life when no one touched his high foul ball between the plate and first base. Snyder, catcher Bill Brenner and first baseman Charlie Mead converged on the ball but all three stopped when someone yelled "I got it, I got it." It was Jim Hedgecock coaching first base.
Thompson stole second when Jim Moore failed to bunt safely and eventually struck out. Hack was given an intentional walk, but Bill Dunn made the strategy backfire when he grounded a single to left which sent Thompson across with the winning run.
The Caps outhit the A’s, 14-9, but got poor mileage out of their safeties.
Vancouver .... 000 210 000 00—3 14 9 1
Victoria ........ 000 000 003 01—4 9 1
Snyder and Heisner, Brenner (10); Smith, Noyes (9) and Ronning.

Record Mark In Attendance
YAKIMA, Sept 1.—The Western International league series between Yakima and Tacoma produced an all-time record single night turnout and a three-game series attendance mark but actually did not measure up to the crowds at the August, 1949 series at Parker field between the Bears and the Vancouver Capilanos.
Thursday night's record setting assemblage of 4,859 paying patrons boosted the three-night total to 11, 065. The Yakima-Vancouver series extended through four nights and drew 16,140. The attendance for the first three games was 12,095.
"We outdrew almost every Coast League team last night," said president Dewey Soriano.
Total attendance for league games at Parker field through August 31 was 110,221.

Four Caps Recalled by Seattle Suds
[Vancouver Sun, Sept. 2, 1950]
Four members of the baseball Capilanos have been recalled by the parent Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League.
Catcher Bill Heisner, outfielders Jim Keating and Dick Sinovic and youthful pitcher Dick Alvari will report to the Rainiers. All will finish out the current WIL campaign with the Caps. Sinovic, unlike the other trio, will join Seattle on September 11 for the balance of the Coast League schedule.

Monday, May 8, 1950

STANDINGS
              W  L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 13  6 .684 —
Yakima ..... 12  6 .667 ½
Wenatchee .. 11  7 .611 1½
Salem ...... 10  7 .588 2
Tri-City .... 9 11 .450 4½
Spokane ..... 7 11 .389 5½
Vancouver ... 7 11 .389 5½
Victoria .... 4 14 .222 8½

VICTORIA, B.C., May 8—Vic Buccola, Tri-City Braves first baseman, greeted his old teammates, the Victoria Athletics, with a circuit blow in the top of the ninth to break up a 4 deadlock and spark the Braves to a 6-4 victory over Victoria Monday night. Buccola found his 1949 Western Internatonal league home so much to his liking that he also pounded out a double and two singles in five trips to the plate in the Victoria park.
It was the second victory of the season for “Bullet” Joe Orrell against three losses. Artie Wilson, Brave third baseman, contributed his share to the victory by smashing a double and single to drive in two of the six Brave runs. Shortstop Neil Bryant also strengthened his hitting and runs batted in average by collecting a double and two singles and driving one run across the plate. There were no other games scheduled in the eague.
Dick Faber, regular outfielder of the Braves, is due to return to the starting lineup Thursday when the Tri-City team moves into Vancouver. Faber has been out of the lineup since May 2 when he was called to Orange, Calif., because of illness in his immediate family.
The Braves wind up their three game series with Victoria on Wednesday and then take the boat to Vancouver to open a four-game stand which includes a double-header Saturday night.
The team will return from their current road trip on Sunday.
Monday night's contest stood all even going into the ninth inning. The Braves notched two runs in the first and fifth, and the Athletics duplicated to knot the score 4-4. Then Buccola slammed one of Bob Jensen's pitches over the short left field wall. As it turned out, that was all they needed, but Neil Bryant scored a few minutes later to doubly insure the victory.
The Braves had on their hitting clothes Mondau night collecting 13 off the offerings of Jensen, while Orrell was giving up nine, including a triple and double to Victoria center fielder Thompson.
Tri-City ....... 200 020 002—6-13-2
Victoria ........ 200 020 000—4- 9-2
Orrell and Pesut; Jensen and Ronning.
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VICTORIA, B.C., May 8 (CP)—Tri-City Braves bobbled seven times Monday night to give Victoria Athletics all of their runs but Joe Orrell overcame the handicap of his sieve-like defense to go all the way for a 6-4 triumph. It was the first game of a three-game series.
With about 1,200 cold fans out in the hopes the A's would win two in a row for the first time this season the Braves scored two runs in each of the first and fiftrh innings. They gave them right back in the Victoria half, twice bobbling three times in an inning. Orrell was tight in the clutches and pitched his way out of several bad jams. None of the Victoria runs was earned.
Meanwhile, the Braves were getting to Bob Jensen for 13 hits but had trouble bunching them for runs. Vic Buccola hit the first pitch in the ninth for a home run to break a 4-4 deadlock and Neil Bryant's single, a wild pitch and Artie Wilson's double provided an insurance run.
Buccola was the batting star with a double and two singles in addition to his game-winning home run in five trips. Bryant had two singles and a couple in five trips. Gene Thompson continued his heavy hitting for Victoria with a triple and a double in four trips.

TACOMA, Wash., May 7—The San Diego Padres, pace-setters in the Pacific Coast League, had to come from behind Monday night to defeat their Western International League farm club, the Tacoma Tigers, 8-6.
The exhibition baseball game drew 3,280 fans.
The Padres, trailing 6-3, shoved across four runs on five hits in the eighth inning and added another in the eighth for good measure. Jack Graham, slugging San Diego first baseman, led the late game attack with three hits, including a triple.
Tacoma piled up an early lead off Schoolboy Rowe, capitalizing on four San Diego errors. Rowe went the distance, giving up 14 hits—three of them by Larry Lee who smashed out a pair of triples. Tacoma used four pitchers.
San Diego (PCL).. 010 002 041—8 14 4
Tacoma (WIL) .... 002 110 200—6 14 1
Rowe and Moore; Kerrigan, Loust (4), Lazor (7), Carter (8) and Sheets, Fischer (8).

Caps Looking For Missing Outfielder
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 8—Somewhere between here and San Francisco there's a Capilano outfielder and the Caps are getting worried about him.
Jim Keating, a power-hitting outfielder who was supoosed to join Vancouver in Yakima last week can't be found.
“We aren't going to spend much time waiting for him,” Cap manager Bob Brown said Monday.
“Of course we would like to have him and the power he represents, but how long can a fellow wait, eh?”
The last anyone heard of Keating he was in San Francisco.

Boise Discards Two Players
BOISE, May 8 (AP)—Two players have been trimmed from the Boise team of the Pioneer Baseball league, Owner Hadyn Walker announced yesterday.
Pitcher Carroll Yerkes, one-game winner this year, has been sold to Spokane of the Western International league. Yerkes, with the Pilots for three seasons, joined Spokane last night.
Rookie Keith Rislo, 20-year-old infielder, has been optioned to Reno of the Far West league.

TACOMA, May 9, — Nini Tornay, Yakima catcher, leap-frogged over Tacoma's Glen Stetter and Wenatchee's Bud Hjelmaa to take the lead in the Western International league's hit parade after three weeks of play according to statistics released by the league office today.
Tornay upped his average from .436 to .493 to move ahead of Stetter who dropped from .444 to .426 and third place Hjemaa continued to move along in the runner-up spot with his .429 average, a drop of nine points during the week.
In the important runs-batted-in department, Tacoma's Wimpy Quinn was the top man, having knocked across 21 runners, although he was hitting at only a .286 clip.
Joe Rossi, bid Spokane catcher, hit one home run during the week to bring his season's total to three and take the lead among the circuit's long distance swingers.
The leading averages through games of May 7:
                   AB  H RBI AVE
Tornay, Yak. ..... 53 24 10 .453
Hjelmaa, Wen ..... 70 30 13 .429
Stetter, Tac ..... 61 26 15 .426
Thompson, Vic .... 64 26 15 .406
Matoh, Spok ...... 68 25  8 .368
Bryant T-C ....... 76 26 18 .342
Greco, Tac ....... 65 22  6 .338
Baxes, Yak ....... 67 22 16 .328
Sheets, Tac ...... 55 18  7 .327
Fischer, Tac ..... 25  8  5 .320
Cameron, T-C ..... 25  8  9 .320
Spaeter, T-C ..... 76 25  5 .316
Charlton, Vic .... 70 22 15 .314
Murphy, Spo ...... 67 21  8 .313
Wilson, T-C ...... 64 20 11 .313
Bacciocco, Yak ... 64 20 10 .313
Drew, Wen ........ 55 17  9 .309
Larry Neal, Wen... 65 20  0 .308
Cheso, Yak. ...... 69 21 16 .304
Rossi, Spo. ...... 56 17 14 .304

Saturday, April 29, 1950

              W  L Pct. GB
Wenatchee ... 8  4 .677 —
Tacoma ...... 8  4 .677 —
Yakima ...... 7  4 .636 ½
Spokane ..... 6  5 .545 1½
Salem ....... 7  6 .538 1½
Tri-City .... 5  7 .417 3
Vancouver ... 4  8 .333 4
Victoria .... 3 10 .231 5½

TACOMA, Apr. 29—The Tacoma Tigers took the second straight game of their Western International league series from Tri-City Saturday night, beating the Columbia Basin crew 7-1.
Ten walks and a couple of wild pitches by two Tri-City pitchers helped the Tacoma attack. Pitcher Don Carter of the Tigers, on the other hand, did not allow two hits in any inning and issued no walks. Tri-City's only run, in the second, was unearned, coming on an error, an infield single by Artie Wilson and two infield outs.
Tacoma tied it up in the third without a hit on a walk, sacrifice, wild pitch and an infield out.
The Tigers got the first hits of the game—four of them—in the third and scored four runs. Three walks were issued in the inning,
Dick Greco tripled and Wimpy Quinn, Bill Sheets and Carter belted singles.
Tri-City ........ 010 000 000—1 6 1
Tacoma ........ 001 400 02x—7 6 2
Logg, Stone (4) and McKeegan; Carter and Sheets.

VANCOUVER [Daily Province, May 1]—The best item to have around on a baseball team is known as a “stopper”. He’s a pitcher that can step into the line of fire and quiet the booming bats of the opposition.
Such a man is Salem’s John Tierney. His efficacious six-hit stint on the mound Saturday night turned an otherwise disastrous day into one of rejoicing.
The Senators started off in the afternoon in rather glum fashion. Bill Brenner’s Capilanos battered two Salem pitchers for 16 hits and an equal total of runs.
BOB’S FIRST
Bob Costello eased in with his first victory of the Western International League season, surviving a shaky start when Brenner threatened to call for help.
It might have been much worse for the Senators had the Caps not banged into four double-plays. Ken Wyatt started for Salem and lasted three and a third innings. John Burak relieved after Wyatt stopped a line-drive with his pitching hand.
Burak should have stayed home. He walked eight, allowed 11 hits and 11 earned runs. Costello, meanwhile, settled down and coasted in with the 16-6 victory.
ROOKIE PAUL
Brenner started rookie Paul Spurlock in the night-cap. Provocative Paul responded in a manner not befitting a pitcher.
He gave up three hits in seven innings. But this scheduled performance was overshadowed by his leniency with bases on balls.
In seven innings, Spurlock walked 10 men, four of them scoring. It only went to prove what Brenner says all along: give the rookies more work and they will best any team in the league.
HEAVY NINTH
Bob Snyder pitched the last two innings. The eighth was uneventful, but came the ninth inning and Robert was being hit—hard.
Three safeties, one a home run to Bob Cherry, scored a trio of runs, putting the ball game beyond recovery.
First Game
Salem .......... 033 000 200— 8 9 2
Vancouver .... 012 724 00x—16 16 1
Wyatt, Burak (3) and Beard; Costello and Brenner.
Second Game
Salem .......... 200 001 103—7 6 0
Vancouver .... 000 000 000—0 6 2
John Tierney and Frank McMillan; Paul Spurlock, Bob Snyder and Earl Motsinger.

VICTORIA [Colonist, Apr. 30]—Victoria Athletics, who should have the pitching to put together a winning streak, are still unable to put two victories together. They got their third chance of the season at Royal Athletic Park yesterday afternoon when Wenatchee defences crumbled in the eighth inning to give the A’s a 7-4 triumph, but the Chiefs came back with a 16-hit attack against three of Victoria’s expensive mound staff to pound out a convincing 13-3 win under the lights.
Attendance took an upswing with 2,100 paid and an estimated 2,000 youngsters on hand in the afternoon, and 1,800 paying customers watching the evening rout.
Outfielder Jim Thompson and Jim Hedgecock, veteran W.I.L. southpaw, shared Victoria honors in the first game. Hedgecock cvame on in the second inning after the Chiefs ad scored four runs off starter Joe Mishasek and pitched scoreless baseball the rest of the way. Thompson put his club back in the game with two home runs, the first hit out of the park this season. He smacked one in the third inning with two aboard, and then squared it in the fifth when he lined a low pitch into Pembroke Street.
Meanwhile, Hedgecock was pitching his way out of several bad jams. He whiffed Morley Bockman and Len Neal with runners on third and second in the fifth, forced Jim Daniels to ground into a double play with two men on in the sixth, stopped a scoring chance in the seventh with another double-play pitch, and then wormed out of it in the ninth after walking the first two batters.
STILL NO SACRIFICES
The A’s also were messing up scoring opportunities and almost lost it because of their inability to lay down a sacrifice bunt. Al Smith’s failure to advance his runner in the sixth, when two hits brought southpaw Dave Dahle to the relief of starter Al Treichel cost a run which would have won the game. Bill Weatherwax, who made his first home start behind the plate, popped up on a similar attempt in the eighth. It was the fourth and fifth times in a row sacrifice attempts have failed.
Dahle walked Al Smith to open the eighth but had two out when Buddy Hjelmaa let Junior Krug’s bounder through his legs to leave men on first and third. Walt Pocekay, apparently thrown off by the approach of centre fielder Joe Unfried, then dropped Bill Dunn’s long fly to left-centre and Smith and Krug both scored. The play on Krug at the plate was close and started an argument which ended with Rupe Thompson, Wenatchee manager, taking an early shower. K. Chorlton’s single then plated the third run of the inning which a bloop hit into right.
The second game was over in the first inning when the Chiefs landed on Ron Smith for five runs. After getting Al Drew out on an easy bounder to the mound, Smith was tagged for four successive singles, which scored two runs. He walked Don Fracchia to load the bags, took Bob Goldstein on an infield fly and appeared to be almost out of it when he got two quick strikes on Jim Fiscalini. The Wenatchee catcher then broke up the game by banging a fat curve for a base-clearing double.
EASY FOR BREISINGER
While the Chiefs were fattening their bat marks, Tom Breisinger, still another of their hard-throwing left-handers, was having no trouble holding the losers in check. Too many weak spots in the Victoria batting order made it easy for him each time there was a semblance of a rally.
Edo Vanni, still slightly dizzy after his beaning on Friday night, missed both games but is expected to be ready for the Tuesday game at Salem. Al Ronning played the afternoon game in right field while Bob Haddock took over an outfield spot in the series finale.
First Game
Wenatchee ......... 130 000 000—4 9 3
Victoria .............. 003 010 03x—7 7 2
Treichel, Dahle (6) and Neal; Mishasek, Hedgecock (2) and Weatherwax.
Second Game
Wenatchee ......... 501 013 030—13 16 0
Victoria .............. 002 001 000— 3 6 2
Breisinger and Fiscalini; Smith, Olson, Blankenship and Ronning.

YAKIMA, April 29—Yakima Bears, defending W.I.L. champions, moved up to threaten, only a half game off the pace, with a 5-4 win over the slumping Spokane Indians on Saturday night.
The Bears pushed over the winning tally in the twelfth inning.
Spokane ........ 020 001 100 000—4 11 4
Yakima .......... 120 000 010 001—5 10 2
Rockey and Rossi; Larner and Tiesiera.

Obtain Keating
VANCOUVER, April 29—Vancouver Capilanos of the Western International Baseball League last week got outfielder Jim Keating on option from the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Keating will report to the Caps tomorrow.

TACOMA, April 30—In official W.I.L. averages released yesterday for games through April 23, Glen Stetter of Tacoma boasted the best plate mark with 11 hits in 20 trips for a .550 gait. In the .400 bracket were: Buddy Hjelmaa, Wenatchee, .464; Dick Bartle, Salem, .440 and Jim Robinson, Vancouver, .424. Clint Cameron of Tri-City led in runs batted in with nine, while Robinson and Hjelmaa shared the lead in total bases with 20 each.