Saturday 15 March 2008

Sunday, May 17, 1953

WIL STANDINGS
W L Pct GB
Lewiston ..... 15 7 .682 —
Vancouver .... 13 8 .619 1½
Wenatchee .... 13 11 .542 3
Victoria ..... 12 11 .522 3½
Tri-City ..... 11 11 .500 4
Calgary ...... 11 12 .478 4½
Salem ......... 8 10 .444 5
Edmonton ...... 9 12 .429 5½
Yakima ....... 10 15 .400 6½
Spokane ....... 9 14 .381 6½


KENNEWICK — Lewiston's front-running Broncs had to settle for a split in a Western International League baseball double header Sunday as they dropped the first game to Tri-City, 5-2, and took the abbreviated second contest, 6-5.
Bob Snyder was both the hero and the goat for Tri-City. He went all the way for the Braves in the opener and, as a reliefer, was charged for the loss in the second game.
The Braves had little trouble in the first contest, with Jack Warren's two-run homer in the fifth the big blow. Lewiston got its two runs in the third. Earl Dollins singled and was chased home on
Nick Cannuli's double. Cannuli scored on a long fly to Mel Wasley.
The Broncs started scoring in the second frame of the nightcap with one run on a walk and Al Heist's double. They added another run in the fourth, two in the fifth and wound up scoring in the sixth on Wasley's triple, a walk to Dick Neal and Larry Barton's two-bagger.
Tri-City, trailing 6-5 going into the last of the ninth, tried for a comeback, but the rally failed after one run had crossed the plate.
First Game
Lewiston ..... 002 000 000—2 10 1
Tri-City ..... 001 220 00x—5 15 1
Dollins, Tench (4), Brenner (5) and Cameron; Snyder and Warren.
Second Game
Lewiston ..... 010 122 0—6 6 0
Tri-City ..... 013 000 1—5 11 1
Marshall and Neal; Hedgecock, Dobernic (4), Snyder (5), Bloom (7) and Pesut.

SALEM— Bob Collins won his fifth straight game here Sunday as the Salem Senators defeated Spokane 4-1 in the first game of a day-night Western International League doubleheader.
Spokane opened the scoring in the third inning of the first game with an unearned run. Collins threw wild in trying to pick Wilbur Johnson off first base, and he went to second. Earl Bush followed with a double, scoring Johnson.
Connie Perez evened the score with a bases-empty home run in the fourth inning. A seventh-inning balk by Spokane Pitcher John Cordell enabled Jim Deyo to tally Salem's next run.
In the eighth Salem scored two more runs. Manager Hugh Luby singled and scored on Milt Smith's triple, and Smith came home on an infield out.
The Indians picked up a 4-3 win in the nightcap.
First Game
Spokane … 001 000 000—1 6 0
Salem ……. 000 100 12x—4 7 3
Cordell and Sheets; Collins and Nelson.
Second Game
Spokane ... 001 002 010—4 7 0
Salem ....... 020 001 000—3 7 2
Romero and Weatherwax; Borst and Masterson.

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