Sunday 13 July 2008

Wednesday, August 19, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 34 21 .618 —
Salem ....... 31 21 .596 1½
Lewiston .... 28 22 .560 3½
Vancouver ... 31 25 .554 3½
Yakima ...... 26 25 .510 6
Edmonton .... 25 26 .490 7
Calgary ..... 23 27 .460 8½
Wenatchee ... 22 29 .431 10
Victoria .... 22 32 .407 11½
Tri-City .... 21 33 .389 12½
AP has different standings for Lew, Edm and Vic

EDMONTON—John Conant gained his 21st win of the Western International baseball campaign Wednesday night by pitching Edmonton Eskimos to a 9-4 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos in the final game of a three-game series.
Paid attendance was 772.
Conant encountered rough treatment in the first four innings when he was tagged for nine hits. He settled down to pitch brilliant ball the rest of the route.
Esks smashed 14 hits off the combined offerings of Van Fletcher who hurled a no-hitter in his last game and Carl Gunnarson who took over with the sacks loaded, a run in and nobody out in the sixth inning. Bob Meisner and Andy Skurski led Edmonton each with three for five. Big blow of the game was Don Prentice's three-run homer to open Edmonton's scoring in the fifth inning.
Vancouver ............ 022 000 000—4 11 1
Edmonton ............. 000 034 11x—9 14 1
Fletcher, Gunnarson (8) and Duretto; Conant and Prentice.

CALGARY—(CP)—Trailing 8-1 going into the bottom of the second inning, Calgary Stampeders tied the count and then went on to outlast Victoria Tyees 19-16 in a Western International League Baseball game Wednesday night.
The cowboys battled through four Victoria pitchers while gaining their victory and a 2-1 edge in their series with the coast club. Tyees drove Stampeder starter Glenn Hittner from the mound with six hits and seven runs in the fust inning but could do little against the slants of reliefer Bill Francis.
Don Bricker homered twice for Calgary, driving in five runs. Charlie Mead also homered for Stamps. Granny Gladstone, Cec Garriott and Lou Branham drove out circuit blows for Tyees.
Victoria ......... 710 012 023—16 16 3
Calgary ......... 172 072 00x—19 22 5
Prior, Walker (5), Hodges (5), Lorino (6) and Martin; Hittner, Francis (7) and Bricker.

SALEM, Ore. — Terry Carroll's outfield fly in the 11th inning scored Jack Warren and Have Tri-City a 4-3 Western International League Baseball victory over Salem here Wednesday night.
Veteran Jess Dobernic, who came in as a reliever after Salem had pushed over the tying run in the ninth, was the winning pitcher. The run was scored by Chuck Essegian. He singled for one of his four hits, advanced to third on a sacrifice and a passed ball and came in on Dick Sabatini's outfield fly.
Dave Dahle pitched the distance break for Salem, allowing seven hits.
Tri-City .......... 000 020 010 01—4 7 2
Salem ............ 000 010 101 00—3 9 2
Robertson, Dobernic (9) and Warren; Dahle and Nelson.

LEWISTON — Lewiston chopped away at Spokane's dwindling Western International League lead Wednesday night with a humiliating 26-hit, 21-3 win Wednesday night.
Spokane ......... 003 000 000— 3 8 8
Lewiston ........ 606 013 14x—21 26 1
Franks, New (1), Giovannoni (3) and Sheets, Ogle (7); Butler and Cameron.

WENATCHEE — Wenatchee won a wild, rain-spattered Western International League game here Wednesday night, defeating Yakima 12-10 with a six-run uprising in the eighth inning.
Yakima ............. 211 113 001—10 12 2
Wenatchee ....... 210 003 06x—12 16 1
Rios, Rial (8), Townsend (8), Young (8) and Albini; Botelho, DeCarolis (5), Klein (9), Oubre (9) and Bartolomei.

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