Sunday, July 23, 1950

               W  L  Pct GB
Yakima ...... 59 39 .598 —
Wenatchee ... 57 42 .576 2
Tacoma ...... 55 41 .573 3½
Tri-City .... 54 45 .545 5
Salem ....... 41 53 .436 15½
Vancouver ... 41 55 .427 16½
Victoria .... 41 57 .418 17½
Spokane ..... 41 57 .418 17½

YAKIMA, July 23 — Yakima's Bears, leaders of the Western International league won their sixth straight game Sunday night in the opener of a twin bill by defeating the Victoria Athletics, 5-4. By taking the nightcap 10-7 they made it seven straight.
The A's pitcher, Jim Hedgecock, walked in the winning run, in the last of tbe seventh after Yakima loaded the bases on doubles by Bill Andring and Al Jacinto and an intentional pass to Bill McCawley.
Gene Thompson accounted for all of Victoria's scoring with a two-run homer in the first inning and a triple with two aboard in tne fifth.
Lloyd Dickey went the route for the Bears for his 10th win of the season against six setbacks.
First Night Game (7 Innings)
Victoria ......... 200 020 0—4 6 1
Yakima .......... 022 000 1—5 11 1
Hedgecock and Danielson; Dickey and Tiesiera.
Second Game
Victoria ........ 100 002 031—7 11 2
Yakima ......... 004 042 00x—10 11 2
Marshall, Noyes (7) and Danielson; Savarese, Soriano (8) and Tornay.

WENATCHEE, July 23 — The Wenatchee Chiefs took the second game of a twin bill from the Salem Senators here Sunday night, 6 to 1, after winning the afternoon end of a twin bill, 7-0.
Big Al Treichel scattered seven hits for his tenth win of the season against seven defeats. Starter Ludwig Lew was the loser for Salem. Wenatchee took the Western International league series three games to two.
It was Blankenship's fourth straight triumph and his seventh in 12 starts. He set the league record of 25 with Victoria in 1948. He granted only three hits as Wenatchee evened the series with the Senators at two-all.
First Night Game (7 Innings)
Salem ............. 000 000 0—0 3 1
Wenatchee ...... 001 240 x—7 8 0
Costello, Valentine (6) and Beard; Blankenship and Len Neal.
Second Game
Salem .............. 000 001 000—1 7 1
Wenatchee ...... 000 040 02x—6 10 1
Lew, Tierney (6) and Beard; Treichel and Len Neal.

KENNEWICK, July 23 — Tacoma beat Tri-City 2 to 1 here Sunday in a single night game in the Western International baseball league.
Tri-City scored first in the second inning. They remained ahead until Dick Greco scored in the ninth to tie the game. A long fly ball to center field by Bill Sheets scored Wimpy Quinn to put Tacoma in the lead.
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KENNEWICK, July 24 — [Don Becker, Herald] — Lou McCollum was within one strike and one out of his 15th victory last night before three machine gun Angles and a towering fly ball turned the tide against the Tri-City Braves. The three hits and fly gave Tacoma a 2-1 victory to split the four-game series even. But the 1,853 fans saw one of the best games of the series.
Brave hitting averages took a big nosedive. Bob Kerrigan the starter gave up but four hits in his seven inning stint and Gil Loust who took over in the eighth wasn't touched.
Neil Bryant's triple resulted in the single Tri-City run. Bryant smashed the ball deep into right field and then raced home from third when Dick Faber skied one into the same pasture.
McCollum had fashioned a neat five-hitter for the fans until the fatal ninth. He forced Ronnie Gifford to pop up and had two strikes on big Dick Greco. But the big Tiger gardener lined a fast ball through the box to set the stage. Wimpy Quinn pounded a curve and Dick Wanner lined another fast ball back through the box to score Greco with tieing run. Bill Sheets. Tacoma's catcher, blooped one into centerfield to Jim Warner and Quinn raced in from third after the catch.
ALMOST-NOT QUITE
As it was the run almost didn't count Buccola cut off Warner's throw to the plate and fired the bill to Buddy Peterson, to tag Wenner for the third out. But Quinn had crossed home plate a split second before the out was made.
Three of the Tri-City hits came in the first two innings. Their other lone bingle was Bryant's single in the seventh.
Only one Tiger had reached third and two second, going into the last stanza. McCollum's varied assortment of curves and high hard ones keeping Tacoma well in check. The veteran right hurler had struck out eight.
Today the two teams are idle but resume their battle Tuesday night in Waters Field. Tacoma for a three-game affair. Following that series the Tri-City team moves over to Salem for a four-game set-to and then returning home for a week-long stand.
Tacoma ...... 000 000 002—2 8 0
Tri-City ...... 010 000 000—1 4 0
Kerrigan, Loust (8) and Sheets; McCollum and Pesut.

SPOKANE, July 23 — The Vancouver Capilanos defeated the Spokane Indians, 8-1 here Sunday night.
This win gave the Capilanos the series, four to one and put them in seventh place ahead of the Indians.
Winning pitcher George Nicholas gave up just seven hits for his second win over the Indians. Last month he pitched a no-hit game against the Tribe.
Vancouver ..... 201 010 040—8 12 0
Spokane ........ 001 000 000—1 7 5
Nicholas and Heisner; Conant and Rossi.

WIL Notes
VICTORIA, B. C., July 23 (AP)—Lou Novikoff, the "Mad Russian" of baseball, may be on the move again.
Victoria Athletic Business Manager Reg Patterson said his WIL club had been offered Novikoff's contract but that no decision had been made yet. Novikoff currently works as an outfielder and relief pitcher for the Yakima Bears.
WENATCHEE, Wash., July 23 (UP) — Lil Arnerich, former Pacific Coast league player, was enroute to Memphis, Tenn., of the class 'AA" Southern Association today after being recalled from Wenatchee by the parent Oakland Oaks.
The Chiefs also announced the recall of Bob Barbeau from Globe-Miami of the Arizona-Texas league to replace Arnerich in the Chief outfield.

ON THE INSIDE

By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor [from July 24/50]
GET AWAY FAST
Know what the catcher says to the pitcher when he walks out to the mound during a game? Once in a while it may be a word of advice but more than likely the catcher is strolling out there to give his hurler a rest.
The convocation will usually run, “Come on let's get this guy out of here so we can get home early.” Of course it could happen like it did to Nick not too long ago.
The big guy walked out to the mound and told his pitcher to be sure and not throw a ball inside to the hitter. “He'll clobber it if you do,” said Nick. In comes the first one right at the letters and inside. “I knew I'd never have to catch that one,” said Nick wryly. It sailed right over the left field wall too.”

Saturday, June 3, 1950

              W  L  Pct GB
Tacoma ..... 29 14 .674 —
Wenatchee .. 23 21 .523 6½
Salem ...... 22 21 .512 7
Yakima ..... 22 22 .500 7½
Tri-City ... 23 24 .489 8
Spokane .... 22 23 .489 8
Vancouver .. 19 25 .432 10½
Victoria ... 18 28 .391 12½

SPOKANE, June 3—Spokane's Indiana broke a tie in the sixth inning and went on to take a 7 to 4 decision over the Tacoma Tigers in a Western Internatlonal League tilt tonight.
The Indians' win makes it two in a row over top-dog Tacoma. Spokane won Friday night 9 to 7.
The score was tied at the bottom half of the sixth after Tacoma had scored one each in the first and second innings and two in the fourth, to Spokane's three in the fourth and one in the fifth.
The Indians surged into the lead on first baseman Chuck Davis's single which scored Sol Israel, right fielder. The tribesmen added another in the sixth and one more during the seventh, while holding Tacoma scoreless, to clutch the victory.
TACOMA ..... 110 200 000—4 8 4
SPOKANE .... 000 312 10x—7 11 4
Loust, Knezovich (8) and Sheets, Fischer (6); Conant and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, June 3—The Yakima Bears coasted to an 8-1 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs here tonight behind the southpaw Lloyd Dickey.
Dickey struck out 11 Wenatchee batters. The five hits he allowed were all singles.
Yakima jumped on the Chiefs starter Joe Blankenship for five runs in the first three innings and were never headed.
Doubles by Reno Cheso and Jim Westlake in the first and another two-base hit by Babe Gammino in the second were the power hits for Yakima. Wenatchee chipped in with five errors, during the contest to help the Bears out.
The Western International League series is now evened at one game apiece.
Yakima .......... 120 230 000—8 8 0
Wenatchee .... 000 100 000—1 5 5
Dickey and Tiesiera; Blankenship, Dahle (4) and Len Neal.

SALEM, June 4—Superb relief hurling by Gene Roenspie and a pair of timely doubles by outfielder Dick Faber gave the Trl-City Braves a 5-3 victory over Salem in a Western International league game at the Senators park last night. The victory gave the Tri-City team a 2-0 edge in their current four-game series which winds up with a double-bill today.
Tri-City launched the scoring in the second off Salem's Dick Waibel via a walk, a single by Nick Pesut and Al Spaeter's double.
The Solons knotted the count at 1-1 In the third on a two-base blow by Waibel, a sacrifice and an infield rap by Wayne Peterson. They went ahead in the fourth with two more off Bob Cherry's double, Bus McMillan's single and a couple of long flys.
Joe Orrell started the seventh inning uprising that once again tied up the game. Orrell led off with a double after two were out. Faber's single scored the "Bullet" and then Vic Buccola hammered the first pitch for a triple to score Faber.
Gene Roenspie took over the hurling chore for the Braves in walked two men [sic]. A fine play by Roenspie cut down Mel Wasley at third on McMillan's bunt. A long fly made the second out and the young right hander fired Scott back to the bench with three called strikes.
It was the pitcher again who opened the scoring parade for the Braves in the top of the 11th inning to win the game. Roenspie drew a free pass to first and moved on to third on Faber's second double of the game. Buccola scored Roenspie on a fielder's choice with the hit and run working perfectly. Neil Bryant's deep fly to left field scored Faber from third.
Roenspie gave up but one hit in the five innings he worked.
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SALEM, June 3 (AP)—The Tri-City Braves knocked over two runs in the 11th inning Saturday night to dump the Salem Senators, 5-3, and take a 2-0 edge in the teams' current Western International League series. The 11th frame run-making put a successful climax to a fine hurling chore by the Braves' Gene Roenspie who relieved Joe Orrell in the seventh.
The Solons came back to knot it at 1-1 in the third on a two-base blow by Waibel, a sacrifice and an infield rap by Wayne Peterson. The Solons went ahead in the fourth with two mroe off Bob Cherry's double, Bus McMillan's single and a couple of long flys. But Orrell and Roenspie then blanked them through the seven remaining frames of the overtimer.
SALEM ..... 001 200 000 00—3-9-2
TRI-CITY .. 010 000 200 02—5-7-1
Waibel and McMillan; Orrell, Roenspie (7) and Pesut.

VANCOUVER, B. C., June 3,—Vancouver Caps and Victoria Athletics split a double-bill tussle tonight, Victoria outlasting Caps 10-7 in the nightcap after dropping the opener 8-4 to square the series at two wins each.
Seven runs in the first inning got the A's away to a flying start in the second tilt, five hits, three walks and a passed ball off three Cap pitchers doing the damage. Caps whittled away with a single in the second inning, three in the fifth on a walk Sandy Robertson's long triple and Dick Sinovic's homer and managed two more in the seventh and one in the ninth. But Victoria rallied as K. Chorlton hit a one-aboard homer in the eighth.
Jim Hedgecock was the winner and Bob Bruenner was the loser.
The first game saw Marty Krug, Jr., aid the Victoria cause with two homers as Bob Snyder and Aldon Wilkie went the route for the teams, the latter giving up 16 hits.
FIRST GAME
VICTORIA .... 000 010 201-4 11 1
VANCOUVER ... 004 000 22x-8 16 0
Wilkie and Weatherwax; Snyder and Brenner.
SECOND GAME
VICTORIA .... 700 000 021-10 12 2
VANCOUVER ... 010 030 201-7 11 5
Hedgecock, Smith (7) and Ronning; Bruenner, Anderson (1), King (1), Gunnarson (9) and
Brenner.

Salem Switch To Be Talked Soon
PORTLAND, June 3—(UP)—General manager Bill Milligan of the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast baseball league said then was “no chance for an immediate switch” in reply to a story appearing in the Vancouver, B.C. News Herald which hinted Salem franchise of the WI league might be moved to Edmonton [or] Calgary, Alta.
Mulligan admitted, however that the Salem club was costing money to keep in business, but that league approval would be needed before such a change could be engineered.
The Beaver manager said owner George Norgan was expected in Portland next week and that the subject probably would come up at that time.
Norgan was quoted in the Vancouver paper as wanting to switch the affiliation to a Canadian city. The story also said that Tri-Clty, a new entry in the league, also was being considered as a likely franchise to moved to Canada.

Chiefs Get More Help
WENATCHEE, Wash. —(UP) — Outfielder - infielder Anthony Arnerich has been optioned by the Oakland Acorns to the Weatchee Chiefs of the Western International League, club officials announced today.
Arnerich batted .328 with Bremerton in the Willy League last year. He's expected to appear here tomorrow night for the Wenatchee-Yakima game.

Squirming Herman Goes To Sunset
PORTERVILLE, Calif., June 4—Squirmin' Herman Wedemeyer, gridiron galloper making a none too especious stab at baseball, has landed with the class C Sunset league after being curveballed out of two other circuits.
Wedemeyer tried out with the San Francisco Seals in spring training and was farmed to the Yakima Bears of the class B Western International League. Then he was shuffled to Salt Lake City where he failed to last in the class C Pioneer League and shipped out to Modesto of the class C California League.
Porterville obtained him in a trade with Modesto.

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor
[from column of June 4/50]

Jot the name Jim McKeegan down in your major league "future" book. This 18-year-old red headed youngster is climbing to the top of Braves roster in the hitting department and he's got another very important asset, lots of hustle. And he'll try anything. When Clint Cameron was out of the lineup there was Jim patrolling the outer garden. Then Nick Pesut came up with a split finger and Jim took over the backstop duties. That is his normal position by the way.
But he's also been active around the keystone sack lately so much that many fans were figuring that he was a general utility man, and as circumstances have proved, he is. But he was signed as a catcher. Friday night he added four more runs to his RBI list.
He's proved time and time again that he can hit in the clutch, something the Braves have needed badly on more than one occasion.
SAY HELLO IN BIG WAY
There were 2,373 fans in the Salem stands Friday night. We mention this in passing because elsewhere on today's sports pages you'll find a letter in answer to our column last week on lagging attendance when the Braves are home. We think Roy Merrill's letter hit lots of nails on the head and thanks for your comments Roy, maybe you'll get some results. That fourth item in particular is one that we hadn't heard before, and certainly it merits immediate attention.

After reading your editorial regarding the poor attendance at Sander's Field, compared to the other cities in the league, I am convinced that more than one of the following reasons are reponsible:
1. My own observations of the attendance shows that a good part of the crowd comes from Richland myself included every chance I get. But, due to the shift work involved in Richland and that town being on dayight saving time, I am unable to attend except on days off or when working day shift, which is true for the majority of the workers in this vicinity. When I'm on graveyard shift the game starts actually at 8:30 p.m. for me, so I'm unable to see the entire game and get home in time to go to work.
2. My father played professional ball for years, and having attended many games, I consider myself a fair judge of a team and the most noticeable flaw in our Tri-City Braves team is they lack HUSTLE. They're playing good baseball, but they don't give the impression that they are enjoying it. As soon as a team shows spirit, then and only then can they hope to capture the fancy of the fans. I'm all for hearing more chatter from the players and more snappy fielding after a successful double play.
3. Many of the fans are disappointed in Charley Peterson's failure to pull a pitcher, when it's apparent he's in trouble. Several games have been lost recently, for that reason. I'm no manager and don't know any of Peterson's problems, but the fans are the ones paying the way and a winning team and good managing will bring them out.
And fourth, but not least, by far, I would like to suggest that the State Patrol station a flag man at the foot of the hill where the traffic enters Columbia Avenue. The odds are all in favor of a serious accident at this joint, sooner or later.

Tuesday the Braves will be home. As we write this they still have three games left to play in their Salem series. Win or lose let's show our team that Seattle isn't the only city that can rally their fans for a big welcome during the course of the season. Visiting will be the Vancouver Capilanos. Let's help our Braves get to the top of the league and let's get them off the bottom of the attendance roster.
QUARTER AFTER THREE
There's only two and a half games separating the second and sixth place teams in the Willy league. But, Tacoma is still way out in front with a healthy six and a half game edge. We still think Tacoma is just plain lucky. For a long time they only carried six pitchers, and may be only carrying that many now for all we know. Any time a club can get by with only six hurlers on their staff there's bound to be some luck wrapped up in those victories.
But the hottest battle is for second place, thanks to the winning ways the Braves have shown over Salem. Through Friday night's game we found five wins off the Senators without dropping one. For instance both the Braves and sixth place Spokane are only a half-game out of fourth spot in the standings.