Thursday, August 13, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 32 17 .648 —
Salem ....... 26 20 .585 4½
Yakima ...... 25 21 .543 5½
Vancouver ... 27 23 .540 5½
Edmonton .... 23 22 .511 7
Lewiston .... 21 22 .488 8
Victoria .... 21 26 .447 10
Calgary ..... 19 25 .432 10½
Tri-City .... 20 27 .426 11
Wenatchee ... 18 27 .400 12
AP has 20-27 for Victoria

SPOKANE, Aug. 13—A fellow alumnus of Washington State College spoiled Jack Spring's effort at a no-hit Western International League game Thursday night as Spokane beat Tri-City 4-1.
Terry Carroll, Spring's former teammate at Washington State College, accounted for both Tri-City safeties. He beat out a bunt in the seventh to wreck Spring's bid for a no-hitter, and singled in the ninth.
Tri-City....... 000 001 000—1 2 1
Spokane ..... 000 002 11x—4 11 4
Snyder and Warren; Spring and Sheets.

EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 13—Behind six-hit pitching by Eddie Kapp, the Calgary Stampeders trounced the Edmonton Eskimos 10-4 Thursday night in the opener of a four-game Western International Baseball league series.
Paid attendance was 1,058.
Capp was seldom in trouble in a dull contest between two travel-weary clubs. Calgary scored a pair of runs in the first inning and recaptured the lead to win going away after Edmonton scored three runs in the third.
The big righthander fanned 10 in claiming his sixth victory of the season against as many losses. Charlie Mead led Calgary's 12 hits against two Edmonton hurlers with a single, a double and a triple in live trips.
Calgary ....... 200 230 120—10 12 2
Edmonton .... 003 001 000— 4 6 2
Kapp and Bricker; Manier, Johnson (8) and Morgan.

VANCOUVER [By Dick Beddoes, Sun, Aug. 14]—Peter Hernandez’s right-handed hooks snagged 13 Yakima Bears Thursday night but enough big ones got away to wreck the Senor’s bid for his 15th win.
Peter’s curve came in alive and crackling, humiliating 13 Yakima batsmen who swung where there wasn’t any ball. However, the challenging Bruins gobbled up whatever else he had to offer, winning 5-2 to shatter Vancouver’s five-game win streak and bust past the Caps into third place in the Western International League.
The loss shoved the Cap Stadium residents 5 ½ games to the rear of the front-running Spokane Indians, who whacked Tri-City Braves 4-1. Caps get two chances tonight to shake off their temporary lapse on the route to a second-half pennant, playing Yakima in a double-header beginning at 7 o’clock.
NEW PUNCH SHOWS
In the very first inning the locals demonstrated their new-found punch at the plate, Jimmy Clark singling to centre and Harvey Storey screaming a triple to The Sun sign 400 feet from home base. Storey’s shot scored Clark, and the Vancouver manager came home himself on a passed ball.
Following that rally, however, the Caps were never again able to mound a serious threat. This was a tribute, in part, to the pitching of Lefty Tom Del Sarto, who seems to have licked the damaging habit of choking up in the late innings.
But Yakima’s hustle in the field and hammer with the bat complemented Del Sarto’s performance. The Bears have been re-staffed and revitalized since the spring, experiencing a housecleaning that detached all but first-baseman Irv Noren and right-fielder Herman Lewis from their jobs.
ROBERT RAPS
One of the newcomers is Robert Joseph Wellman, who muscled up in the seventh inning and crashed a low-inside curve over the left field wall. It was Wellman’s 20th home run of the year and was accomplished with third-baseman Phil Steinberg on base.
Wellman’s wallop provided Yakima with two insurance runs, the Bears having squared it with two in the fifth and moved ahead with another in the sixth. Their tie-breaker was the product of singles by Lewis and Noren and a lengthy fly swatted by Andy Anderson.
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VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 13—Pete Hernandez struck out 13 batters Thursday, but he allowed enough base hits in between to allow Yakima a 5-2 baseball victory, thereby ending Vancouver's five game win streak in the Western International League.
When big Bob Wellman hit his 20th home run of the season in Vancouver Thursday night he erased another Yakima Western International baseball league record set by Harlond Clift.
Clift, Yakima's former major league, now coaches the San Francisco Seals in the Pacific Coast League.
Clift set the former record for Yakima at 19 home runs seven years ago.
Wellman, who was leading the WIL hitters with .363 in the last official averages, also tied Don Hunter, Calgary, for the league's home run leadership. However, Hunter had an advantage in playing half of his games in Calgary's bandbox park.
Although Wellman didn't join the Bears until a third of the season had gone, he stands a good chance of leading the league in home runs, total bases, two-base hits and runs-batted-in if he keeps up his present pace.
The 6-foot-4-inch 225-pound outfielder, who is 26, played briefly with the Philadelphia Athletics several years ago. Most of his career has been in the WIL.
Wellman's 350-blast over the left field wall also scored Phil Steinberg in the seventh inning and ensured the win for Tom Del Sarto.
Vancouver got its two runs in the first inning on a single by Jim Clark and manager Harvey Storey's single.
Yakima ............ 000 021 200—5 10 0
Vancouver ....... 200 000 000—2 7 0
Del Sarto and Albini; Hernandez and Duretto.

Salem at Victoria postponed, teams unable to reach Victoria in time.

Only games scheduled.

Rock Slide Costly To Tyees
VICTORIA [Colonist, Aug. 14]—One of the worst slides in the history of Snoqualmie Pass prevented the Victoria Tyees from arriving home in time for a scheduled double-header with the Salem Senators last night, cost the financially-embarrassed club an estimated $1,500, and came uncomfortabaly close to causing an accident.
En route by bus to Seattle from Yakima, where they had concluded a series Wednesday night, the Tyees missed the slide, which took two lives and caused plenty of damage, by a matter of minutes. It was at Snoqualmie Pass in 1946 that the Spokane club bus went over the side, killing players and cutting short the baseball careers of others.
The Tyees were forced to detour to Wenatchee and finally reached Seattle late yesterday by way of Blewett and Stevens Passses. They arrived in town last last night.

Infielder Bought
CALGARY, Alta. — Calgary of the Western International League had purchased First Baseman Jim Wert from Vancouver, also of the WIL.

Broncs Sign New Pitcher
LEWISTON, Aug. 14—Pitcher Larry Powell, who was with Lewiston of the Western International League in 1952, has signed with the Broncs for the remainder of the season.

Bleak Outlook for Wenatchee Chiefs; $4,400 in Red
WENATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 14 - Wenatchee's Western International League baseball club has dropped $4,400 in operations through June 30, President Paul F. Thomas said Wednesday.
Thomas said reports for July will show further losses, as attendance at home games declined during the month. Expenses for the team are $710 a game on the road and $740 at home, he said, and many times these figures have not been reached.

Sunday, July 12, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Salem ....... 9 3 .750 —
Spokane ..... 10 4 .714 —
Calgary ..... 7 5 .583 2
Lewiston .... 7 5 .583 2
Vancouver ... 6 6 .500 3
Yakima ...... 6 8 .429 4
Tri-City .... 5 7 .417 4
Edmonton .... 4 8 .333 5
Victoria .... 4 8 .333 5
Wenatchee ... 4 8 .333 5

SALEM — Salem, after winning the opener 6-3, was blanked 5-0 by Tri-City in a Western International League doubleheader here Sunday.
It was the first shutout the league-leading Senators have suffered since early in the season.
Bob Snyder, who went the route for Tri-City, scattered six hits to Salem batters.
Third Baseman Jack Warren led Tri-City's third inning five-run spurt with his three-run homer. Manager Edo Vanni and Vic Buccola drove in the other tallies.
Home runs by Jerry Ballard and Bob Nelson highlighted Salem's scoring in the first game. Ballard scored two runs in the second inning and Nelson collected his in the sixth with the bases empty.
First Game
Tri-City .......... 000 210 0—3 9 0
Salem .............. 022 101 x—6 10 0
Dobernic and Pesut; Dahle, Roenspie (5) and Nelson.
Second Game
Tri-City ........... 005 000 000—5 8 1
Salem ............... 000 000 000—0 6 1
Snyder and Pesut; Hemphill, Collins (5) and Masterson.

WENATCHEE — Spokane gained a split in the Sunday Western International League baseball doubleheader here with Wenatchee by winning the second game, 7-2.
First Game
Spokane .............. 001 000 3—4 5 0
Wenatchee ......... 202 030 x—7 9 1
New, Cordell (5) and Ogle; Bowman, Beamon (7) and Bartolomei.
Second Game
Spokane ............. 003 012 010—7 10 1
Wenatchee ........ 101 000 000—2 7 2
Spring, Franks (6) and Sheets; De Carolis, Klein (8), Monroe (9) and Bartolomei.

LEWISTON — The Lewiston Broncs squeezed out a 6 to 4 victory over the Yakima Bears in the seven inning opener of their Sunday night Western International League doubleheader.
First Game
Yakima ............... 004 000 0—4 5 1
Lewiston ............ 001 032 x—6 5 1
Del Sarto, Flinn (5) and Novick; Butler, Perez (3) and Garay.
Seeond Game
Yakima ................ 010 000 000—1 6 2
Lewiston .............. 030 200 10x—6 9 0
Tanner, Rial (7) and Albini; Brenner and Garay.

Caps Cut Veterans
VANCOUVER, July 11—The Vancouver Capilanos have chopped their roster Sunday with the announcement that first baseman Jim Wert and catcher Don Lundberg have been removed. Both have returned home to Seattle.

Saturday, July 11, 1953

W L Pct. GB
Salem ....... 8 2 .800 —
Spokane ..... 9 3 .750 —
Calgary ..... 7 5 .583 2
Vancouver ... 6 6 .500 3
Yakima ...... 6 6 .500 2
Lewiston .... 5 5 .500 3
Tri-City .... 4 6 .400 4
Edmonton .... 4 8 .333 5
Victoria .... 4 8 .333 5
Wenatchee ... 3 7 .300 5

SALEM — Salem collected 13 hits off two pitchers as it defeated Tri-City 10-2 and retained its lead in Western International League standings here Saturday.
Joe Nicholas registered his 13th win in 16 decisions with a five-hit performance.
Tri-City ........... 000 000 020— 2 5 2
Salem ............. 010 011 61x—10 12 2
Hedgecock, Michelson (7) and Pesut; Nicholas and Masterson.

WENATCHEE — The Spokane Indians evened their current Western International League series at one game apiece Saturday night by walloping the Wenatchee Chiefs, 9 to 2.
Bill Sheets with a double and a single four runs batted in and Jim Command with three runs batted in led the Spokane attack.
Southpaw Art Worth effectively spaced 10 hits to gain credit for the victory.
Spokane ........... 015 200 100—9 14 1
Wenatchee ....... 011 000 000—2 10 1
Worth and Sheets; Monroe, Botelho (4), Klein (9) and Bartolomei.

VANCOUVER, B. C. — The Calgary Stampeders jumped on two Vancouver pitchers for 13 hits Saturday night to defeat the Capilanos, 6-1, in a Western International League baseball game.
The win gave Calgary a 2-1 edge in the series here.
The Stamps racked up three runs in the sixth inning. Gus Travos tripled and scored on a single by Charlie Mead.
Mead was sacrificed to second base, sent to third on a single by Jim Mellinger and scored on the same play when Vancouver's left-fielder, Gale Taylor, let Mellinger's single go through him.
Mellinger came in after the catch on a long fly after he moved to third on a single by pitcher Gerry Levinson.
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VANCOUVER [Keith Matthews, News-Herald, July 13]—The “in with the new” which the Capilanos are trying out as their change of pace in the WIL’s second-half baseball campaign failed miserably in its first try Saturday as Calgary stepped on the Caps 6-1.
With Bob Duretto and Gene Petralli in the lineup and Jim Wert and Don Lundberg both departed for their homes, the Capilanos could manage no better than one of their feeblest efforts before a close to 2000 house.
Gerry Levinson, who beat Vancouver once before with a spectacular job of pitching, four-hitted them Saturday and hung the collar on both Duretto and Petralli.
In Duretto’s case it could be expected. Bob hasn’t seen a ball park since September, 1952 when he was a Capilano. It will take him at least a week to get his batting eye and maybe two to find his “sea legs.”
Petralli has been playing some semi-pro ball, but he managed no better than a few pop-ups.
The newcomers, however, were not to blame for the loss. Nobody was in face of Levinson’s cagey pitching.
Bob Roberts kept pace with Gerry for five innings then bust loose at the seams in the sixth as the Stampeders chased across three runs. They chased Bob for good in the seventh with three more, as the short right-hander picked up his first loss since joining the Caps.
As the new deal started to take hold, it was noted that all efforts to sell or trade Wert and Lundberg had failed. A deal had been cooking with Victoria, but the Tyees poured cold water on it Saturday, so Wert and Lundberg packed their duffle bags and went home. They are on the suspended list and will remain their indefinitely unless a sudden sale or trade pops up.
DIAMOND DUST – The Capilanos have a day off today and will travel to Yakima Tuesday for the opening of a week-long road trip … Pete Hernandez pitches tomorrow night with Van Fletcher following him Wednesday … One more player is expected in this week.
Calgary .......... 000 003 300—6 13 0
Vancouver ...... 000 001 000—1 4 3
Levinson and Bricker; Roberts, Meyers (7), and Leavitt.

LEWISTON, Idaho — Ken Richardson and Mel Wasley both hit home runs in the third inning to build up Lewiston's winning lead as the Broncs downed Yakima 9-6 in a Saturday night Western International League baseball game.
Richardson opened the inning with his homer and Wasley's big hit came after Artie Wilson was safe at first on a fielder's choice and Glen Tuckett had singled. The Broncs had already pushed over one run in the first and two in the second and Wasley's tally proved to be the winning point.
Yakima ..... 100 102 002—6 12 2
Lewiston ... 124 100 10x—9 13 3
Flinn, Young (3), Jacome (4), Rial (9) and Albini; Marshall and Cameron.

VICTORIA — Righthander Bill Prior allowed only six hits as Victoria Tyees defeated Edmonton Eskimos 3-2 here Saturday night after Edmonton had taken the afternoon game of their day-night Western International baseball doubleheader 4-2.
Prior picked up his ninth victory against six defeats while John Conant, who allowed eight hits in pitching the distance for Edmonton, took his seventh loss in 21 games.
Don Prios doubled home Tyees' first run in the opening frame but Edmonton went ahead 2-1 with a pair of runs in the sixth on successive singles by Clint Weaver, Dan Prentice and Andy Skurski and manager Bob Sturgeon's infield out.
First Game
Edmonton ...... 100 000 003—4 5 0
Victoria ......... 000 200 000—2 10 3
Tisnerat and Morgan; Younie, Walker (9) and Martin.
Second Game
Edmonton ...... 000 002 000— 2 6 2
Victoria ......... 100 000 02x—3 8 2
Conant and Prentice; Prior and Martin.

Caps, Eskimos Add Players

UNDATED, March 15—Lanky Jim Wert will have to battle for his first base job with the Caps this spring.
General manager Dewey Soriano announced Friday he has signed Ron Bowen, a free agent, who saw limited service last season with Grand Rapids of the Class “A” Central League because of an ankle injury.
In 1951, Bowen drove in 114 runs, his 25 home runs and batted .301.
Edmonton Eskimos added Duri Vital, a 26-year-old outfielder from San Francisco, who has been with Evansville of the class “B” Three-I League the past three seasons.