Sunday 23 March 2008

Thursday, August 6, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 27 17 .614 —
Salem ....... 22 15 .505 1½
Yakima ...... 20 18 .526 4
Vancouver ... 21 20 .512 4½
Edmonton .... 18 19 .486 5½
Lewiston .... 18 19 .486 5½
Tri-City .... 18 21 .462 6½
Victoria .... 18 22 .450 7
Wenatchee ... 16 20 .444 7
Calgary ..... 17 22 .436 7½


KENNEWICK — Jess Dobernic did fireman's duty Thursday night to put out a Wenatchee rally in the eighth inning and give Tri-City an 7-6 win in a Western International League baseball game.
Wenatchee ....... 201 020 010—8 9 3
Tri-City ............ 221 101 00x—7 12 2
Beamon, DeCarolis (6), Klein (8) and Bartolomei; Robertson, Dobernic (8) and Warren.

EDMONTON — The Lewiston Broncs pulled into a fifth-place tie with Edmonton in the Western International League by defeating the Eskimos 4-2 Thursday night. A crowd of 1,549 paying fans saw the opener of a four-game series.
Dean Kime pitched Lewiston to victory but needed help in the ninth after Bob Meisner walked and Sam Kanelos doubled with one out.
Lewiston ............ 000 310 000—4 8 1
Edmonton .......... 000 000 101—2 8 0
Kime, Marshall (9) and Cameron; McNulty and Morgan.

SALEM — Joe Nicholas and Gene Tanselli teamed up here Thursday night to give Salem a 9-1 Western International League baseball win over Yakima.
Yakima .......... 000 000 100—1 5 0
Salem ........... 132 200 10x—9 14 3
Edmunds, Young (3), Rial (4), Blank (8) and Albini; Nicholas and Nelson.

CALGARY — The Spokane Indians and Calgary Stampeders split a Western International League doubleheader Thursday night, Spokane winning the first game 7-6 and Calgary the second 11-4.
Two homers in the seventh and last inning lifted the Indians from behind in the first game. Stan Palys homered twice for Spokane in the first game and once in the second, and Jim Command and Will Haley once each in the opener.
In the second, a grand slam homer by Charlie Mead in the fifth helped the Stampeders towards victory.
Rocky Tedesco and playing manager Gene Lillard also homered for the Stamps.
Jim Brown of Spokane was ejected in the second game after talking to the umpire. Command was taken to hospital for observation after being struck on the ear by a hit ball.
First Game
Spokane ........... 000 040 3—7 10 0
Calgary ............ 010 400 1—6 10 1
Nemes, Cordell (6) and Sheets; Orrell and Lillard.
Second Game
Spokane ........... 200 020 000— 4 10 2
Calgary ............ 011 050 04x—11 13 1
Worth and Ogle; Kapp and Lillard.

VICTORIA — Pitcher Bill Prior wrote a storybook ending to the Western International baseball league game Thursday night, singling in the winning run with two out in the last half of the ninth inning to give the Victoria Tyees a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos.
In fashioning his 13th win of the season, the righthander gave up seven hits and seven bases on balls while striking out four batters.
Dale Thomason, who relieved starter Lonnie Myers in the eighth, took the loss as Myers had been yanked for a pinch-hitter.
The Tyees scored a single runs in the first inning. Harvey Storey briefly gave Vancouver a 2-1 lead in the fifth when his seventh home run, over the centre field wall, brought in K Chorlton. Victoria then scored single runs again in the fifth and seventh innings.
Vancouver tied it at 3-3 with an unearned run in the eighth that came on third baseman Don Pries' third error of the game. He threw away pinch-hitter Frank Mascaro's easy grounder and Nick Castas scored.
Chuck Abernathy singled to open the Victoria ninth and moved to second base on Duane Helbig's sacrifice. Granny Gladstone was intentionally walked and Milt Martin raised an infield fly for the second out. Prior stroked a looping liner off the fence into left centre field to score Abernathy and break up the game.
Vancouver ........... 000 020 010—3 7 1
Victoria ............... 100 010 101—4 8 3
Myers, Thomason (8) and Leavitt; Prior and Martin.

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