Tuesday, July 28, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Salem ....... 19 9 .679 —
Spokane ..... 20 12 .625 1
Vancouver ... 16 15 .516 4½
Yakima ...... 15 14 .517 4½
Lewiston .... 13 14 .481 5½
Edmonton .... 13 15 .464 6
Calgary ..... 13 16 .448 6½
Tri-City .... 13 17 .433 7
Victoria .... 13 17 .433 7
Wenatchee ... 11 17 .393 8

EDMONTON—John Conant won his 17th game of the Western International Baseball League season by pitching Edmonton Eskimos to a 4-1 victory over Calgary Stampeders Tuesday night. Paid attendance was 2,204.
Conant, who has suffered nine defeats this season, lost his bid for a shutout when Don Bricker homered for Calgary in the seventh.
Catcher Dick Morgan led the Edmonton attack on Bill Stites with two singles and a double.
It was Edmonton's 14th win over Calgary in 18 meetings this season.
Calgary ........... 000 000 100—1 7 0
Edmonton ....... 200 020 00x—4 11 1
Stites and Bricker; Conant and Morgan.

KENNEWICK—Lewiston pulled out of some tough spots three times running Tuesday night to defeat Tri-City, 6-4, in a Western International League baseball game.
Lewiston ........ 000 020 400—6 7 3
Tri-City .......... 000 000 112—4 6 1
Kime, Perez (8) and Cameron; Hedgecock, Dobernic (8) and Warren.

YAKIMA — Danny Rios limited Salem to seven scattered hits Tuesday night as Yakima beat the Solons, 7-2, in a Western International League baseball game.
Senators, were able to get more than one hit in only one inning— the ninth, when two hits gave them one of their pair of runs.
Yakima batters knocked Salem's starter, Joe Nicholas, out of the box in the seventh.
Salem ........ 000 000 101—2 7 0
Yakima ....... 000 201 40x—7 11 0
Nicholas, Collins (7) and Nelson; Rios and Novick.

VICTORIA — The Victoria Tyees got six runs in the second inning and another in the third Tuesday night to defeat the Wenatchee Chiefs 7-6 in the second game of a three-game Western International League baseball series here.
Victoria took a 7-1 lead in the third inning before Wenatchee rallied.
Bob Drilling went all the way for his ninth win against 12 losses in the season, giving up 12 hits but only one base on balls.
Wenatchee ........ 100 022 010—6 11 1
Victoria ............. 061 000 00x—7 8 1
Oubre and Bartolomei; Drilling and Martin.

SPOKANE — Spokane started out with a four-run burst in the first inning and then had to stage a ninth inning rally to eke out a 8-7 Western International League win over Vancouver Tuesday night.
Harvey Storey smashed his fifth home run of the year, a long four-run shot over the left field fence, for the losers in the seventh inning.
John Cordell ambled in from the bullpen in the ninth as the Capilanos got a runner in scoring position, and then put out the fire before the Indians went on to win it against a tiring Pete Hernandez, who didn't have hit best stuff and gave up 14 hits.
The big bat for Spokane was first baseman Carl Bush who got four hits in four times at bat, including a triple.
Vancouver ......... 100 010 410—7 14 1
Spokane ............ 400 200 011—8 14 2
Hernandez and Duretto; Worth, New (7), Cordell (9) and Ogle.