Monday 17 March 2008

Saturday, June 20, 1953

W L PCT GB
Lewiston .... 31 18 .633 —
Vancouver ... 30 21 .588 2
Salem ....... 28 21 .571 3
Edmonton .... 31 26 .544 4
Spokane ..... 25 26 .490 7
Victoria .... 25 28 .472 8
Calgary ..... 23 29 .442 9½
Wenatchee ... 23 30 .434 10
Tri-City .... 21 28 .429 10
Yakima ...... 23 35 .397 12½


VANCOUVER, B.C. — The Vancouver Capilanos lost the ball game 4-2 here Saturday night to the Calgary Stampeders after taking four straight wins in the Western International League, three of them over the Stamps.
The Stampeders capitalized on the wildness of pitcher Van Fletcher to pick up the win before 848 fans.
Fletcher had a no-hitter going for three innings and Jim Wert had scored had scored on Harvey Storey's triple in the first inning. But he hit Jim Mellinger to open the fourth, then hit Bob Bonebrake one batter later before Gus Stathos brought them home with a single.
Calgary ......... 000 120 010— 4 4 3
Vancouver .... 100 000 001—2 7 1
Levinson and Bricker; Fletcher, Thomason (8) and Lundberg.

VICTORIA [Colonist, June 21]—Long on pitching but short on hitting—except for one inning—the Victoria Tyees broke even in a split doubleheader with the Edmonton Eskimos at Royal Athletic Park yesterday as the clubs concluded their four-game Western International League series with two victories each.
The one inning when the Tyees’ batters found the range, and finally produced some runs for Bob Drilling, was the eighth frame of the night contest. The outburst produced five runs that gave the hard-luck righthander a 5-0 triumph as he subdued the Eskimos on five hits.
CONANT GETS No. 100
Southpaw Earl Dollins and Bill Bottler combined their efforts to limit Edmonton to five hits in the afternoon contest but Bob Sturgeon had John Conant on the mound for his Eskimos and although touched for seven safeties, the veteran wriggled out of a couple of tight spots to defeat the Tyees 3-1 for his 100th WIL victory and his 11th triumph this season, against five losses.
Edmonton got to Dollins for three hits and three runs in the first inning of the afternoon game. Granny Gladstone scored Victoria’s only run on Chuck Abenathy’s single in the fourth as the Tyees left the bases loaded and Sturgeon was ejected from the game in a hectic inning.
Sturgeon objected to umpire Luksik’s call on Branham at second base and was thumbed out after a few heated words. Third baseman Sam Kanelos followed him to the showers shortly after with Dan Prentice taking over for Sturgeon at second and pitcher Leon Day going in for Kanelos.
Drilling and Widner each had given up four hits until the eighth frame of the nightcap before the Tyees exploded for their big inning.
Branham, who filled in for Jim Clark at shortstop yesterday, started it with his second straight single with one away.
Branham stole second before Bob Moniz walked and then hurried to third on Garriott’s fly to right. Don Pries laced a single to right to score Branham with Moniz taking third and Pries second.
Chuck Abernathy was intentionally walked but Dwane Helbig sliced a double to right for two runs and ended the scoring as Gladstone scratched a hit through the middle.
Jim Harford, 20-year-old Victoria catcher, has been purchased from Yakima and will join the Victoria Tyees in Edmonton, where the Tyees open their current road trip tomorrow night, business manager Reg Patterson announced last night.
Harford, a former Victoria High School student, played in the local senior amateur league before joining the strong Moose Jaw semi-professional team for two seasons.
[Jack Widner, who lost the nightcap, now has five wins and five losses for the season].
First Game
Edmonton ...... 300 000 000—3 5 1
Victoria ......... 000 100 000—1 7 0
Conant and Morgan; Dollins; Bottler (5) and Martin.
Second Game
Edmonton ..... 000 000 000—0 5 0
Victoria ........ 000 000 05x—5 8 1
Widner and Prentice; Drilling and Martin.

KENNEWICK — Bob Wellman's extra-inning homer—his second of the game—brought the cellar-dwelling Yakima Bears a 10-8 win over the Tri-City Braves Saturday night after they dropped their first game to the Braves, 6-2.
First Game
Yakima ........... 000 020 000—2 6 0
Tri-City .......... 100 320 00x—6 13 1
Thompson, Rios (5) and Novick; Snyder and Pesut.
Second Game
Yakima ........... 001 043 02—10 15 2
Tri-City ......... 022 301 00— 8 9 2
Rial, Flinn (4), Rios (7) and Novick; Robertson, Dobernic (6), Snyder (7) and Pesut, Warren (7).

SPOKANE — The Spokane Indians edged out Wenatchee 2-1 and 4-3 in a Western International Baseball League doubleheader Saturday night, but it took them 16 innings to accomplish the second victory.
First Game
Wenatchee ...... 000 000 1—1 4 0
Spokane ........... 001 010 x—2 5 2
Klein and Bartolomei; Spring and Ogle.
Second Game
Wenatchee ....... 100 000 100 000 010 0—3 12 3
Spokane ........... 100 000 100 000 010 1—4 14 3
Bowman, Botelho (15) and Bartolomei; Franks, Cordell (14), Worth (15) and Sheets.

LEWISTON — The Salem Senators swept both ends of a baseball doubleheader with the Western International League pace setters of Lewiston Saturday night, taking the opener 14-4 and the seven-inning nightcap, 8-1.
First Game
Salem ............ 104 202 320—14 19 3
Lewiston ....... 000 000 400— 4 9 2
Collins and Masterson; Marshall, Brenner (3), Arnzen (7) and Cameron, Garay (7).
Second Game
Salem ........ 000 000 8—8 8 1
Lewiston ... 100 000 0—1 6 1
Roenspie and Nelson; Butler, Perez (7) and Cameron.

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