Tuesday 18 March 2008

Saturday, July 18, 1953

W L Pct GB
Spokane ..... 14 5 .737 —
Salem ....... 13 5 .722 ½
Vancouver ... 10 8 .556 3½
Lewiston ..... 9 8 .529 4
Calgary ...... 9 9 .500 4½
Yakima ....... 9 10 .473 5
Tri-City ..... 9 11 .450 5½
Edmonton ..... 7 12 .368 7
Victoria ..... 7 12 .368 7
Wenatchee .... 6 13 .316 8


SALEM — Spokane moved into a half game lead in Western International League standings by defeating Salem 6-3 here Saturday night.
Salem Starter Jack Hemphill had a one-hitter going into the eighth inning. But then Bob Donkersley homered to lead off a four-run spurt. The runs came on a walk to first, then a single to right field by Carl Bush and a single to left field by Stan Palys which scored Brown. Hemphill was replaced by Gene Roenspie. Will Hafey collected a line drive which Jim Deyo failed to handle and which permitted the other two runs to be scored.
Spokane added two more in the final inning.
Salem scored one run in the first, third and fourth innings.
Spokane ........ 000 000 042—6 6 2
Salem ............ 101 100 000—3 7 1
Spring, Cordell (8) and Sheets: Hemphill, Roenspie (8) and Masterson.

YAKIMA —The Calgary Stampeders made the best out of five hits Saturday night and beat Yakima 4-3 in a Western International League game.
Charlie Mead walked in the second and Calgary Manager Gene Lillard homered over the center field fence 372 feet from the plate.
Edmunds allowed only one hit the last six innings, a single by Mellinger.
The Bears scored once in the ninth to make the count 4-3 when Al White's single brought in Jim McNamara but Herman Lewis lined to the shortstop to end the game.
Calgary ........ 022 000 000—4 3 0
Yakima......... 100 100 001—3 9 3
Hittner and Lillard; Edmunds and Albini, Novick (4).

WENATCHEE — Pete Hernandez stopped the Wenatchee Chiefs on six hits for the 11th win of the year as the Vancouver Capilanos easily pulled off a 12-3 win Western International baseball league win Saturday.
Gale Taylor drove in three runs in a sixth-run seventh. Hernandez was two for five and batted in a run as well.
Vancouver ........ 011 000 613—12 12
Wenatchee ....... 000 111 000— 3 6 2
Hernandez and Leavitt; Oubre, Klein (8) and Bartolomei.

KENNEWICK—Former Victoria first baseman Vic Buccola's line drive broke up the game in the 11th inning to give the Tri-City Braves a 3-2 win in the first contest of a Western International League doubleheader Saturday.
Reliever Bill Bottler's old foe—lack of control—caught up with him in the 11th. He walked Ray Tran and Robertson to open the frame then uncorked a wild pitch. Bob McGuire was intentially passed to load the bases, but Buccola foiled the plan with a run-scoring single to deep right field.
First Game
Victoria ......... 002 000 000 00—2 10
Tri-City ......... 000 101 000 01—3 7 2
Lorino, Walker (6), Bottler (8) and Harford, Martin (10); Robertson and Warren.
Second Game
Victoria ........ 221 000 200—7 10 0
Tri-City ........ 000 000 003—3 6 1
Drilling and Martin; Snyder, Michelson (9) and Pesut.

LEWISTON — John Marshall chalked up his 13th victory as the Lewiston Broncs pounded out a 12-5 win over the Edmonton Eskimos in Western International baseball play here Saturday.
Edmonton ........ 002 012 000— 5 11 1
Lewiston ......... 533 001 00x—12 14 1
Widner, Utley (2) and Morgan; Marshall and Cameron.

SEATTLE — Salem's Jim Deyo is the active batting leader in the Western International League now that his teammate, Milt Smith, has been called up by the Coast League.
Statistics released Saturday showed Deyo batting .378. Smith was leading the league with .391 when he was called up by San Diego in midweek.
Howe News Bureau's figures including games through July 12 showed Charlie Mead of Calgary replaced Gene Tanselli of Salem as the leader in runs, with 72 to Tanselli's 67.
Vancouver's Pete Hernandez, at 2.44, still holds the best earned run average among the league's pitchers, and Joe Nicholas, Salem, again leads in won-lost percentage with 13-3.
Andy Skurski's 19 stolen bases put him one ahead of Salem's Connie Perez, but the latter continued to lead in runs batted in with 65.
Others who held their places are:
Len Noren, Yakima, 118 hits; Harvey Storey, Vancouver, 25 doubles; Clint Weaver, Edmonton, 156 total bases; Al Heist, Lewiston, 10 triples, and Don Hunter, Calgary, 18 homers.
TOP TEN BATTERS
                            AB  H RBI Ave.
Smith, Salem ............. 202  79 51 .391
McNulty, Edmonton ......... 49  19 12 .388
Deyo, Salem .............. 241  91 53 .378
Palmer, Wenatchee ......... 37  14  4 .376
Warren, Tri-City ......... 258  96 60 .375
Noren, Yakima ............ 335 118 52 .352
Storey, Vancouver ........ 273  96 46 .352
Palys, Spokane ........... 246  86 42 .350
Wisneski, Vic-Cal ......... 20   7  4 .350
Williams, Lewiston ....... 109  38 29 .349

TOP TEN PITCHERS (on earned run average):
                            G  W L ERA
Hernandez, Vancouver ..... 14 10 3 2.44
Franks, Spokane .......... 20  7 5 2.61
Roenspie, Salem .......... 13  9 2 2.61
Fletcher, Vancouver ...... 19 10 6 2.75
Conant, Edmonton ......... 23 14 7 2.87
Tisnerat, Edmonton ....... 18  5 4 2.90
Brenner, Lewiston ........ 26 14 4 3.07
Collins, Salem ........... 20  7 3 3.16
Guldborg, Vancouver....... 16  5 6 3.22
Nicholas, Salem .......... 19 13 3 3.31

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