W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 37 25 .597 —
Lewiston .... 34 23 .596 ½
Salem ....... 33 25 .589 2
Edmonton .... 29 28 .509 5½
Vancouver ... 32 31 .508 5½
Yakima ...... 28 30 .483 7
Calgary ..... 27 29 .482 7
Wenatchee ... 25 33 .431 10
Victoria .... 26 35 .426 11
Tri-City .... 25 35 .417 11½
AP has different standings for Vic
YAKIMA — The Spokane Indians defeated the Yakima Bears, 7-5, in a Western International League baseball game Wednesday night before a scant 194 paying customers and took a one percentage point lead over rain-idled Lewiston for the league lead.
Ralph Romero of Spokane was kayoed by Yakima for the third time this season, and for the third time escaped a loss when Bob Nemes replaced him during a four-run second inning. Romero issued seven passes before he was lifted for Nemes, who went the rest of the way for the win.
Spokane .............. 200 120 101—7 14 3
Yakima ................ 040 010 000—5 3 2
Romero, Nemes (2) and Sheets, Ogle (8), Townsend and Albini.
KENNEWICK — Tri-City bunched seven hits in one inning Wednesday night to defeat the Calgary Stampeders, 8-6, in a Western International League baseball.
Although giving up 16 hits, Don Robertson racked up the victory for the Braves. He did not issue a walk and struck out eight, who of the whiffs ending with runners in scoring position.
Calgary .......... 000 030 003—6 16 2
Tri-City .......... 016 000 10x—8 11 2
Kapp, Stites (3) and Bricker; Robertson and Warren.
VANCOUVER [Keith Matthews, News-Herald, Aug. 27]—It has been 33 innings, or four days, since the Capilanos last scored a run—and if you will, professor, this one might be otherwise entitled “how bad can a drought get?”
The Capilanos went down to their sixth straight baseball defeat Wednesday, 1-0, when Van Fletcher was out-duelled by Bob Drilling, who managed to befuddle the Capilano “hitters” in much the same way as they have been this past while.
Way back on Saturday, when the Caps were in Calgary playing the second game of a double-header, Vancouver scored a run. Little did the boys know it, but the game should have been stopped right there. Somebody should have brought out the champagne, the hors-de-ovres and what not because it was a great moment. Who know? The Caps may never score a run again.
Fletcher pitched magnificently, even in losing his No. 11. For five and two-thirds innings he had a no-hitter and he only lost it when Frank Mascaro misjudged a fly ball which appeared to be just another easy out. The Tyees went on from there to score an eighth inning run which stood up as big as Mount Everest as the Caps failed away, but appeared to be using magazine covers instead of baseball bats.
Nobody has quite seen the like of it before. Way back in May, this would have been accepted as just another one of those things, because the club at that time was just that impossible at the plate. Now, a new gang has been brought in, a bunch which has been levelling the WIL with its power and its timeliness of hitting. It just happens that they need runs right now more than they ever have, and that alone could be the reason why they aren’t getting them.
The club looks “tight,” over-anxious and under pressure at all times. They are bungling easy chances to score because they seem to be trying to hit the ball out of the park instead of out of the infield. It is a habit which comes with every slump, but it happens that it couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time.
Fortunately the Caps get a day’s rest today prior to their trip to Salem and an important five-game series with the Senators. It is a must now that the Caps take at least four of these games to stay in the fight for the second-half championship, because there are only 17 left on the schedule and each one is getting more important than its predecessor.
Lonnie Myers, the young fireballer, will pitch the opener for the Caps Friday night.
Victoria ............... 000 000 010—1 5 0
Vancouver ........... 000 000 000—0 6 1
Drilling and Harford; Fletcher, Myers (9) and Duretto.
SALEM — Salem edged Edmonton, 4-3, here Wednesday night after the Canadian team had won the first game of a Western International League double-header, 1-0.
In a duel of two of the loop's top winners, Gene Roenspie posted his 17th win against only three losses in the night game, defeating John Conant, who drops to 22 and 11.
First Game
Edmonton ............ 000 010 0—1 7 0
Salem ................. 000 000 0—0 3 0
McNulty and Morgan, Dahle and Nelson.
Second Game
Edmonton ............ 011 000 100—3 9 0
Salem ................. 010 101 10x—4 10 2
Conant and Morgan; Roenspie and Masterson.
Lewiston at Wenatchee cancelled, rain.
Williams Gets Bucks to Leave Broncos
LEWISTON, Aug. 26—The Lewiston Broncs have lost the services of slugging outfielder Bob Williams for their last nine road games of the season.
Williams, who had been batting .376, has been forced to leave the club today to start on his job a football coach at Lewiston High School.
Chiefs Threatened With Eviction
WENATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 27—The Wenatchee Chiefs of the Western International League had an ultimatum from their landlord Wednesday: "Pay the rent or we'll lock up the ball park."
Mayor Si Simenson said the Chiefs owe an estimated $2,000 in back rent for use of city-owned Recreation Park. He called on the club to do something about it at next week's city commission meeting — or else.
"If no one shows up at the meeting," the mayor said, "we'll lock up the park and there'll be no baseball played that week."
Frank Dasso, general manager of the eighth-place Chiefs, said he'll show up and try to work something out. He suggested that park improvements made by the club be applied against rent.
The rental figure is based partly on attendance which hasn't been too good. Simenson asked for an official accounting. He said the club was sent two letters asking for a report on July attendance but that the city got no reply.
The Chiefs end their home schedule Sept. 3, 4, 5 and 6 against Yakima.
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Sunday, 13 July 2008
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.
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.
Monday, 17 March 2008
Chiefs Mid-Season Profile
EMMONS BYRNE
The Bull Pen
[Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, June 30, 1953]
PORTLAND, June 30.—Mighty Oaks from little Acorns grow. So, being in the general neighborhood last week while the Oaks were playing Seattle, your correspondent made a flying visit to Wenatchee to take a peek at the growing process. The Wenatchee ball club has a working agreement with Oakland. Promising rookies are assigned there for seasoning, and it is, therefore, perfectly proper to refer to the Western International League entry as an Acorn farm, even though the principal crop of the region is apples.
But the Chiefs this year are also ripening a bumper crop of young ball players, the best in the W.I.L., according to Yankee scout Babe Herman and other qualified observers.
To give you an idea ol the youth of this team, Charley Oubre is the "old man" of the pitching staff. Charley was signed by the Oaks a year ago. He had served two years in the Army, and before that had played a few months in a Class D league in Louisiana. Stretching it a bit, you might say he's had three seasons of professional experience.
Two Oakland teen agers, Rickey Botelho (St. Elizabeth's) and Charley Bramon (McClymonds) graduated from high school in January. The other players, outside of Mgr. Mike McCormick and Lyle Palmer, the former Cal fly chaser, are in their very early twenties.
Hold Their Own in Loop
Yet these comparative babes in arms have just about held their own in a Class A league that includes many Coast and major league veterans. They'll be about midway between top and bottom in the standings when the first half of the season ends next Friday.
And everybody in Wenatchee is confident they will do better in the second half. Botelho and Beamon, two of the brightest pitching prospects in the league, are just beginning to find themselves.
McCormick, who played 11 years in the majors, is also very high on Jack Klein, a right hander from El Cerrito.
"These kids are terrific," Mike said, "and they're just beginning to get the confidence that comes with experience, Give them a couple of years and they ought to be winning for the Oaks in the Coast League."
Babe Fuhrman of Berkeley was coming out of a prolonged batting slump when we saw the team.
"He was hitting the ball pretty good," McCormick said, "but it was always right at somebody. It worried him and his fielding at third suffered. But the other day he won a ball game for us with a double, and he's bounced back."
Harry Bartolomei, the stocky little catcher who completed his Army service this spring, has shown great improvement since joining the Chiefs.
Batting in Cleanup Spot
"There's only one way for a youngster to improve himself," McCormick pointed out, "and that's to play every day. They were running the bases on Harry to start with, but no more. He throws
them out."
McCormick regards Bartolomei so highly as a hitter he has him batting in the cleanup position.
Pumpsie Green, a flashy fielding infielder from West Contra Costa Junior College, has been playing first base, but with the return of Tommy Munoz will probably alternate at short with Red Stanford. It will be a break for Munoz, who has been riding the Oakland bench for the last month, to get into action.
Tommy was recalled when Jim Marshall, who played at Wenatchee two years ago, injured his leg. Marshall, now 21, is generally regarded as the best first sacker in the Coast League. By next yeat, or the year after, Jim will outgrow the P.C.L. and go on to larger fields.
When that happens Munoz should be ready to step into his shoes in Emeryville. Frank Dasso, the old Coast League pitcher who is general manager of the Chiefs, rates the 18-year-old Tommy as a "future Babe Dahlgren."
"All he has to do is improve his hitting a little," Dasso said. "He's already a master with the glove."
Rickey Botelho is rated as the top left handed pitching prospect in the W.I.L. His earned run average is among the lowest in the league, and he has developed into a good hitter.
Club Put Back on Its Feet
Perhaps the most interesting story in Wenatchee was Dasso, who with the close support of the businessmen in the town and the surrounding growers has put the club back on its feet. Frank
set some sort of a record last season when he lost 26 games for the Chiefs although he had the lowest earned run average in the league.
"I guess people sympathized with me," Frank said. "At any rate, when they asked me if I would run the club I said I would see what I could do. We were about $20,000 in the hole. I talked to everybody in the area, but nothing happened. I was about ready to call it quits, and then all of a sudden the money started to roll in.
"People would stop me on the street to give me money. One day I collected $1500 walking to the bank. You can't say interest in baseball is dead when you get a response like that."
The Chiefs, like every other ball club in" the area, have been hard hit by the weather.
"But I think we'll just about break even if it warms up for the second half of the season," Dasso said. "We owe a lot to Brick Laws (Acorn president) for the players he has sent us. They're a nice bunch of kids, real gentlemen, and everybody in town is fond of them."
The Bull Pen
[Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, June 30, 1953]
PORTLAND, June 30.—Mighty Oaks from little Acorns grow. So, being in the general neighborhood last week while the Oaks were playing Seattle, your correspondent made a flying visit to Wenatchee to take a peek at the growing process. The Wenatchee ball club has a working agreement with Oakland. Promising rookies are assigned there for seasoning, and it is, therefore, perfectly proper to refer to the Western International League entry as an Acorn farm, even though the principal crop of the region is apples.
But the Chiefs this year are also ripening a bumper crop of young ball players, the best in the W.I.L., according to Yankee scout Babe Herman and other qualified observers.
To give you an idea ol the youth of this team, Charley Oubre is the "old man" of the pitching staff. Charley was signed by the Oaks a year ago. He had served two years in the Army, and before that had played a few months in a Class D league in Louisiana. Stretching it a bit, you might say he's had three seasons of professional experience.
Two Oakland teen agers, Rickey Botelho (St. Elizabeth's) and Charley Bramon (McClymonds) graduated from high school in January. The other players, outside of Mgr. Mike McCormick and Lyle Palmer, the former Cal fly chaser, are in their very early twenties.
Hold Their Own in Loop
Yet these comparative babes in arms have just about held their own in a Class A league that includes many Coast and major league veterans. They'll be about midway between top and bottom in the standings when the first half of the season ends next Friday.
And everybody in Wenatchee is confident they will do better in the second half. Botelho and Beamon, two of the brightest pitching prospects in the league, are just beginning to find themselves.
McCormick, who played 11 years in the majors, is also very high on Jack Klein, a right hander from El Cerrito.
"These kids are terrific," Mike said, "and they're just beginning to get the confidence that comes with experience, Give them a couple of years and they ought to be winning for the Oaks in the Coast League."
Babe Fuhrman of Berkeley was coming out of a prolonged batting slump when we saw the team.
"He was hitting the ball pretty good," McCormick said, "but it was always right at somebody. It worried him and his fielding at third suffered. But the other day he won a ball game for us with a double, and he's bounced back."
Harry Bartolomei, the stocky little catcher who completed his Army service this spring, has shown great improvement since joining the Chiefs.
Batting in Cleanup Spot
"There's only one way for a youngster to improve himself," McCormick pointed out, "and that's to play every day. They were running the bases on Harry to start with, but no more. He throws
them out."
McCormick regards Bartolomei so highly as a hitter he has him batting in the cleanup position.
Pumpsie Green, a flashy fielding infielder from West Contra Costa Junior College, has been playing first base, but with the return of Tommy Munoz will probably alternate at short with Red Stanford. It will be a break for Munoz, who has been riding the Oakland bench for the last month, to get into action.
Tommy was recalled when Jim Marshall, who played at Wenatchee two years ago, injured his leg. Marshall, now 21, is generally regarded as the best first sacker in the Coast League. By next yeat, or the year after, Jim will outgrow the P.C.L. and go on to larger fields.
When that happens Munoz should be ready to step into his shoes in Emeryville. Frank Dasso, the old Coast League pitcher who is general manager of the Chiefs, rates the 18-year-old Tommy as a "future Babe Dahlgren."
"All he has to do is improve his hitting a little," Dasso said. "He's already a master with the glove."
Rickey Botelho is rated as the top left handed pitching prospect in the W.I.L. His earned run average is among the lowest in the league, and he has developed into a good hitter.
Club Put Back on Its Feet
Perhaps the most interesting story in Wenatchee was Dasso, who with the close support of the businessmen in the town and the surrounding growers has put the club back on its feet. Frank
set some sort of a record last season when he lost 26 games for the Chiefs although he had the lowest earned run average in the league.
"I guess people sympathized with me," Frank said. "At any rate, when they asked me if I would run the club I said I would see what I could do. We were about $20,000 in the hole. I talked to everybody in the area, but nothing happened. I was about ready to call it quits, and then all of a sudden the money started to roll in.
"People would stop me on the street to give me money. One day I collected $1500 walking to the bank. You can't say interest in baseball is dead when you get a response like that."
The Chiefs, like every other ball club in" the area, have been hard hit by the weather.
"But I think we'll just about break even if it warms up for the second half of the season," Dasso said. "We owe a lot to Brick Laws (Acorn president) for the players he has sent us. They're a nice bunch of kids, real gentlemen, and everybody in town is fond of them."
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Pre-Season, Wenatchee
Chiefs Boast Young Squad, Star Rookies
By JOHN RICHARDSON
Wenatchee World Sports Writer
LINDSAY, Calif., April 16 — A young ball club bolstered by highly regarded rookies from Oakland of the Pacific Coast League will wear the Wenatchee label in the Western International baseball loop this year.
Babe Herman, a scout for the New York Yankees, said during a visit to the Wenatchee Chiefs' training camp here that Oakland has the top rookie prospects in the coast circuit. Seven of these are slated to play for the Chiefs.
They include Pitchers Charley Beamon, Art Amaya, Jack Klein and Rick Bothelo, third baseman Babe Fuhrman and catchers Art Cuitti and Harry Botholomei [sic].
McCormick In Outfield
Mike McCormick, the veteran major league slugger who is guiding Wenatchee's 1953 destiny, will himself patrol the center field pasture. The rest of the backyard will he guarded by Ross McCormack, back for his third year with the Chiefs, and Shelly Edwards, a youngster out of the California semi-pro ranks.
Infieldwise, says Big Mike, the Chiefs are set. Husky Charley Neal will be posted at first base. Chuck Malmberg at second and Don Stanford at short.
Neal was in the WIL briefly in 1951 with Yakima and last year batted .314 for Bisbee-Douglas in the Arizona-Texas League. Malmberg, a good glove man and highly rated as a leadoff hitter, was picked up in an oft-season trade with Yakima, which got infielder Buddy Hjelmaa in the deal.
Dasso Returns
Frank Dasso, who will be one of the league's three pitching general managers, is getting into shape for a regular turn on the hill. (Dewey Soriano of Vancouver and Bill Brenner of Lewiston are the other front-office flingers in the circuit).
Laurie Monroe is back from the 1952 outfit as general utility man — which includes pitching.
McCormick thinks the training here in the 80-degree weather will give him a jump on the clubs that took their spring tonic at home and he's counting on his young pitching staff to get the Chiefs off to a good start.
Wenatchee opens at home April 24 against Yakima and then moves to Lewiston, both of which were stay-at-homes during the get-ready season.
By JOHN RICHARDSON
Wenatchee World Sports Writer
LINDSAY, Calif., April 16 — A young ball club bolstered by highly regarded rookies from Oakland of the Pacific Coast League will wear the Wenatchee label in the Western International baseball loop this year.
Babe Herman, a scout for the New York Yankees, said during a visit to the Wenatchee Chiefs' training camp here that Oakland has the top rookie prospects in the coast circuit. Seven of these are slated to play for the Chiefs.
They include Pitchers Charley Beamon, Art Amaya, Jack Klein and Rick Bothelo, third baseman Babe Fuhrman and catchers Art Cuitti and Harry Botholomei [sic].
McCormick In Outfield
Mike McCormick, the veteran major league slugger who is guiding Wenatchee's 1953 destiny, will himself patrol the center field pasture. The rest of the backyard will he guarded by Ross McCormack, back for his third year with the Chiefs, and Shelly Edwards, a youngster out of the California semi-pro ranks.
Infieldwise, says Big Mike, the Chiefs are set. Husky Charley Neal will be posted at first base. Chuck Malmberg at second and Don Stanford at short.
Neal was in the WIL briefly in 1951 with Yakima and last year batted .314 for Bisbee-Douglas in the Arizona-Texas League. Malmberg, a good glove man and highly rated as a leadoff hitter, was picked up in an oft-season trade with Yakima, which got infielder Buddy Hjelmaa in the deal.
Dasso Returns
Frank Dasso, who will be one of the league's three pitching general managers, is getting into shape for a regular turn on the hill. (Dewey Soriano of Vancouver and Bill Brenner of Lewiston are the other front-office flingers in the circuit).
Laurie Monroe is back from the 1952 outfit as general utility man — which includes pitching.
McCormick thinks the training here in the 80-degree weather will give him a jump on the clubs that took their spring tonic at home and he's counting on his young pitching staff to get the Chiefs off to a good start.
Wenatchee opens at home April 24 against Yakima and then moves to Lewiston, both of which were stay-at-homes during the get-ready season.
Wenatchee Now Oakland Farm Team
WENATCHEE, March 14—Wenatchee of the Western International League has signed a new three-year working agreement with the Pacific Coast League Oakland Acorns. President Paul Thomas and General Manager Frank Dasso of the Wenatchee club were in Oakland Saturday to conclude the agreement.
Dasso said Oakland will sent Wenatchee a minimum of six players on option each season and the Pacific Coast League club will be given first choice on the purchase of any player from the Wenatchee roster.
The club has signed Dee Noah, 25, who has been playing in the Mexican Pacific Coast winter league, and he will report to the Lindsay, Calif., training camp. Pitchers and catchers are to report March 25 and the remainder of the players April 1.
Dasso said Oakland will sent Wenatchee a minimum of six players on option each season and the Pacific Coast League club will be given first choice on the purchase of any player from the Wenatchee roster.
The club has signed Dee Noah, 25, who has been playing in the Mexican Pacific Coast winter league, and he will report to the Lindsay, Calif., training camp. Pitchers and catchers are to report March 25 and the remainder of the players April 1.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Wenatchee Updates
Wenatchee Fans Raise $17,300
WENATCHEE, Nov. 21—Wenatchee fans have raised $17,300 to save their Western International League baseball franchise, General Manager Frankie Dasso reported today.
A Nov. 26 deadline has been set to reach the goal of $25,000.
Dasso also said he has already lined up 12 ball players for next season if the team remains here.
Chiefs To Sign McCormick as Manager
WENATCHEE, Nov. 26—The Wenatchee Western International League baseball club’s drive to raise $20,000 to pay past team debts and assure a team for 1953 has been successful.
President Paul Thomas announced Wednesday that the goal has been reached and that Frankie Dasso, acting general manager for the past two months, has been given a year’s contract.
Dasso will attend the minor league meetings in Phoenix, Ariz., starting December 1 and outfielder Mike McCormick, who played with Portland of the Coast League last year, will be signed as playing-manager for next season, Thomas added.
WENATCHEE, Nov. 21—Wenatchee fans have raised $17,300 to save their Western International League baseball franchise, General Manager Frankie Dasso reported today.
A Nov. 26 deadline has been set to reach the goal of $25,000.
Dasso also said he has already lined up 12 ball players for next season if the team remains here.
Chiefs To Sign McCormick as Manager
WENATCHEE, Nov. 26—The Wenatchee Western International League baseball club’s drive to raise $20,000 to pay past team debts and assure a team for 1953 has been successful.
President Paul Thomas announced Wednesday that the goal has been reached and that Frankie Dasso, acting general manager for the past two months, has been given a year’s contract.
Dasso will attend the minor league meetings in Phoenix, Ariz., starting December 1 and outfielder Mike McCormick, who played with Portland of the Coast League last year, will be signed as playing-manager for next season, Thomas added.
Wenatchee Loses Boss
Pohlman Quits Wenatchee Job
WENATCHEE, Nov. 18, 1952 — Mayor Arthur H. Pohlman Monday announced his resignation from the board of directors of the Wenatchee Western International League baseball club.
Pohlman had been president of the team since local businessmen took over the franchise at the close of the 1849 season. He was retained on the board of directors when stockholders elected Paul F. Thornas, local fruit shipper, president last week.
WENATCHEE, Nov. 18, 1952 — Mayor Arthur H. Pohlman Monday announced his resignation from the board of directors of the Wenatchee Western International League baseball club.
Pohlman had been president of the team since local businessmen took over the franchise at the close of the 1849 season. He was retained on the board of directors when stockholders elected Paul F. Thornas, local fruit shipper, president last week.
Wenatchee Deadline Moved
Chiefs Extend Money Drive; Past $16,000
WENATCHEE, Nov. 11—A drive by baseball fans to raise $20,000 to save their Wenatchee Western International League baseball franchise has been extended to November 26.
Al Libke, former Coast League and major league player, said the old deadline of November 12 was extended two weeks when it was found the team was $20,000 in the red rather than $16,000 as first determined.
Libke says the drive now has passed the $16,000 mark.
Meanwhile, general manager Frankie Dasso announced agreement is expected shortly with Mike McCormick, outfielder with the Pacific Coast League Portland Beavers, to serve as player-manager with the Chiefs in 1953.
Dasso and McCormick were also teammates with the Cincinnati Reds several seasons ago.
WENATCHEE, Nov. 11—A drive by baseball fans to raise $20,000 to save their Wenatchee Western International League baseball franchise has been extended to November 26.
Al Libke, former Coast League and major league player, said the old deadline of November 12 was extended two weeks when it was found the team was $20,000 in the red rather than $16,000 as first determined.
Libke says the drive now has passed the $16,000 mark.
Meanwhile, general manager Frankie Dasso announced agreement is expected shortly with Mike McCormick, outfielder with the Pacific Coast League Portland Beavers, to serve as player-manager with the Chiefs in 1953.
Dasso and McCormick were also teammates with the Cincinnati Reds several seasons ago.
Wenatchee Funds Coming In
Baseball Drive Raises $9,000
WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 29, 1952—A baseball fans’ committee, raising funds to retain the Western International League franchise in Wenatchee, reported today it had $9,000 toward its $20,000 goal.
Al Libke, former Seattle, Hollywood and Cincinnati player, is chairman of the committee. He said a November 12 deadline had been set for the drive for the other $11,000.
A vaudeville show and rally are scheduled for the night of November 5.
Wenatchee has been a W.I.L. member since the league was formed in 1937.
WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 29, 1952—A baseball fans’ committee, raising funds to retain the Western International League franchise in Wenatchee, reported today it had $9,000 toward its $20,000 goal.
Al Libke, former Seattle, Hollywood and Cincinnati player, is chairman of the committee. He said a November 12 deadline had been set for the drive for the other $11,000.
A vaudeville show and rally are scheduled for the night of November 5.
Wenatchee has been a W.I.L. member since the league was formed in 1937.
Wenatchee Needs Money
Wenatchee Okays WIL Franchise
WENATCHEE, Oct. 25, 1952—Wenatchee originally was one of two Western International Baseball League clubs to vote against the entry of Calgary and Edmonton into the circuit.
Club officials disclosed Friday they and Lewiston at first opposed the move because of the high transportation costs involved in travel to the two Canadian cities. Both clubs later changed their votes to go along with the rest of the league directors.
The added expense was the only reason Wenatchee opposed the move, general manager Frank Dasso said. The WIL formally approved entry of the two teams Thursday, making a 10-team league for 1953.
Dasso also announced the Wenatchee will be holding a fund-raising rally here Nov. 5. The club seeks money to pay off $16,000 in debts accumulated since 1950 and to raise additional $20,000 to start out next season. A Nov. 10 deadline has been set on raising the money.
He also said Chuck Aleno, former Seattle third-sacker and Julian Morgan, a pitcher with Tacoma in 1947, have applied for the Wenatchee playing-manager’s job, held last season by Dick Adams. The club is also dickering with Mike McCormick, former Cincinnati outfielder who played with Portland last year.
Dasso estimates it will cost each WIL team $1200 to make the long trip to play at Calgary and Edmonton. Wenatchee directors, he said figured it was “too much a gamble” if games should be washed out or otherwise cancelled in the two cities.
WENATCHEE, Oct. 25, 1952—Wenatchee originally was one of two Western International Baseball League clubs to vote against the entry of Calgary and Edmonton into the circuit.
Club officials disclosed Friday they and Lewiston at first opposed the move because of the high transportation costs involved in travel to the two Canadian cities. Both clubs later changed their votes to go along with the rest of the league directors.
The added expense was the only reason Wenatchee opposed the move, general manager Frank Dasso said. The WIL formally approved entry of the two teams Thursday, making a 10-team league for 1953.
Dasso also announced the Wenatchee will be holding a fund-raising rally here Nov. 5. The club seeks money to pay off $16,000 in debts accumulated since 1950 and to raise additional $20,000 to start out next season. A Nov. 10 deadline has been set on raising the money.
He also said Chuck Aleno, former Seattle third-sacker and Julian Morgan, a pitcher with Tacoma in 1947, have applied for the Wenatchee playing-manager’s job, held last season by Dick Adams. The club is also dickering with Mike McCormick, former Cincinnati outfielder who played with Portland last year.
Dasso estimates it will cost each WIL team $1200 to make the long trip to play at Calgary and Edmonton. Wenatchee directors, he said figured it was “too much a gamble” if games should be washed out or otherwise cancelled in the two cities.
Monday, 10 March 2008
Frank Dasso Promoted
Dasso New B.M.
WENATCHEE, Sept. 24—Veteran pitcher Frankie Dasso was hired today as temporary business manager of Wenatchee’s financially-tottering Western International League baseball team.
Mayor Arthur H. Pohlman, president of the club, said Dasso would concentrate for the next two months on promotion and fund-raising efforts.
He said the team has a $16,000 deficit from this season’s operation. It drew only 55,000 fans at home and finished last in the pennant race.
League directors have scheduled a meeting in Seattle Friday amid reports that shifting of the franchise to Calgary and Edmonton, Alta., may be considered.
WENATCHEE, Sept. 24—Veteran pitcher Frankie Dasso was hired today as temporary business manager of Wenatchee’s financially-tottering Western International League baseball team.
Mayor Arthur H. Pohlman, president of the club, said Dasso would concentrate for the next two months on promotion and fund-raising efforts.
He said the team has a $16,000 deficit from this season’s operation. It drew only 55,000 fans at home and finished last in the pennant race.
League directors have scheduled a meeting in Seattle Friday amid reports that shifting of the franchise to Calgary and Edmonton, Alta., may be considered.
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