Monday 17 March 2008

Tuesday, June 23, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Lewiston .... 31 21 .596 —
Salem ....... 31 21 .596 —
Vancouver ... 30 22 .577 1
Edmonton .... 33 26 .559 1½
Wenatchee ... 26 30 .464 7
Spokane ..... 25 29 .463 7
Victoria .... 25 30 .455 7½
Calgary ..... 24 29 .453 7½
Tri-City .... 23 30 .434 8½
Yakima ...... 25 35 .417 10


EDMONTON—Edmonton Eskimos chalked up a 7-5 victory over Victoria Tyees Tuesday night for their second straight win in their current three-game Western International Baseball League series here.
A paid attendance of 1,344 saw Don Tisnerat go to the mound with two out in the fourth inning to gain credit for the win.
Bill Prior went tbe route for the Tyees.
Big batter for the Eskimos was Dick Morgan who had a three-for-five record, including a double.
The two clubs meet here in tbe series finale Wednesday night.
Victoria ......... 010 400 000—5 7 2
Edmonton ...... 100 042 00x—7 11 1
Prior and Martin; Day, Tisnerat (4), Conant (9) and Morgan.

YAKIMA, Wash.— Yakima Bears defeated Lewiston Broncs 6-4 Tuesday night and thereby moved idle Salem into a tie for first place in the Western International League with Broncs.
Lewiston scored three runs in the third inning on walks to Glen Tuckett, John Marshall and Ed Garay, Mel Wasley's Texas leaguer into right centre and Larry Barton's two run single.
Tom Del Sarto came in at that time to relieve Rial and get credit for the game. Lewiston added another tally in the sixth and looked like a winner until the Bears collected four earned runs in the eighth.
Lewiston ... 003 001 000—4 5 1
Yakima ..... 200 000 400x—6 9 0
Marshall and Cameron; Rial, Del Sarto (3) and Novick.

WENATCHEE — Third baseman Bob Fuhrman drove home three runs with a bases loaded double in the fourth irming and Wenatchee went on to defeat Tri-City, 6-1, in a Western International League game here Tuesday night.
Tri-City scored their only run in the second inning when Manager Edo Vanni singled home Ray Tran who had walked.
Tri-City ......... 010 000 000—1 8 2
Wenatchee .... 000 500 10x—6 9 0
Hedgecock, Bloom (7) and Pesut; Botelho and Bartolomei.

Vancouver at Calgary, postponed, rain.
Salem at Spokane, postponed, wet grounds.

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