Saturday, July 5, 1952

                W  L  Pct GB
Victoria ..... 47 26 .644 —
Spokane ...... 43 35 .551 6½
Vancouver .... 36 31 .537 8
Salem ........ 35 39 .473 12½
Lewiston ..... 34 38 .472 12½
Tri-City ..... 34 41 .453 14
Wenatchee .... 34 42 .447 14½
Yakima ....... 33 44 .429 16

SPOKANE, July 5 — The Spokane Indians moved up two game on the league-leading Victoria Tyees Saturday with a 10-5, 10-1 sweep of a Western International League baseball doubleheader.
Though they committed five errors to Victoria's four, the Indians outhit the Tyees 11-7 in the first game and never were headed. They took a five-run lead in the fourth inning, added another run in the seventh.
Victoria came within one run of the Indians in the top of the eighth, but the Indians came back in that frame with four more runs.
Bill Sheets led the Spokane attack with three singles in four trips to the plate.
Frank Chase, who pitched the first six innings for Spokane, was the winner, though he needed relief help from Bob Roberts in the seventh. Victoria starter Bill Wisneski, the loser.
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SPOKANE [Victoria Colonist, July 6]—Spokane Indians apparently know just what they were doing when they decided to play two games yesterday instead of today, as listed in the W.I.L. schedule.
Victoria Tyees, playing their ninth game since Tuesday—five days—ran into expected pitching difficulties and went down twice, 10-5 and 10-1, as the Indians pummelled weary Victoria moundsmen.
The double setback cut the Tyees’ lead over Spokane to six and a half games and to eight over Vancouver Capilanos, who won at Lewiston.
Bill Wisneski, who started a game Wednesday and relieved briefly Thursday, started the first game. He was relieved by Carl Gunnarson, pitching for the third night in a row, who was relieved by Walt Towns, Garriott’s secret weapon, after going out for a pinch-hitter. Ben Lorino, who pitched 14 innings inn two games Wednesday, had to stay in and take it in the finale.
The Tyees battled hard in the first game after dropping behind, 5-0. Helped by Spokane errors and timely use of seven base hits, they got up to 5-4 and 6-5 before a four-run eighth inning took them out of it.
Garriott, playing for the big inning in the Victoria half of the eighth, made the wrong uses to lose all chance. Trailing, 6-4, the Tyees started a rally when Chuck Abernathy got on through an error on John Treece singled. None was out and with Gunnarson pitching fine relief, Garriott could have called for a bunt and played for the tie or, as he did, go for the big inning.
He decided on the latter course and it almost—but not quite—paid off. McIrvin struck out in a pinch-hitting role. Clark whiffed but Moniz kept things alive with a run-producing single. Then Garriott, who could have made his strategy look good, saw it fail when his long fly was caught against the fence.
The Indians then scored four after two were out against Towns.
Lorino, seeking his 14th win against heavy odds, just didn’t have it and took his fifth loss instead. He was hit hard and not helped at all by three errors.
First Game
Victoria ….. 000 020 210—5 7 4
Spokane …. 003 200 14x—10 11 5
Wisneski, Gunnarson (5), Towns (8) and Marcucci; Chase, Roberts (7) and Sheets.
Second Game
Victoria ….. 010 000 0—1 4 3
Spokane …. 212 221 x—10 14 1
Lorino and Marcucci; Palm and Sheets.

LEWISTON, Idaho, July 5 — Vancouver drubbed Lewiston 14-8 Saturday night in a loosely-played Western International League baseball game that saw a total of of 29 hits and seven errors.
The win gave Vancouver a 2-1 lead in the five-game series.
Jim Wert led the Capilanos' hitting as they touched three Lewiston hitters for 15 hits, with a double and a single that sent home four runs.
After scoring twice in the first game and four times in the third, Vancouver iced the game in the fourth with four more tallies on two walks and singles by Bud Isham, Len Tran, Wert, Ed Locke and Ray Tran.
Bill Whyte, who started at the mound for the Caps, got credit for the win. He was replaced in he third by Van Fletcher. Lewiston starter Joe Nicholas was charged with the loss.
Vancouver ... 204 000 400—14 15 4
Lewiston ..... 032 300 000—8 14 3
Whyte, Fletcher (3) and Ritchey; Nicholas, Clancy (3), Brenner (4) and Helmuth.

WENATCHEE, July 5—The Wenatchee Chiefs snapped the Tri-City Braves' winning streak at five games by defeating them 7-5 in the ninth inning of a Western International League game on Saturday night.
Bill Kostenbader, signed recently by playing manager Charlie Gassaway, was credited with the loss.
Tri-City right fielder Joe Scalise led the batting parade with two for three. In the seventh inning he was nicked by a ball pitched by Charlie Oubre. Instead of proceeding to first he ran out and started pummeling Oubre, apparently feeling the pitch was deliberately aimed at him. He never got to first—the umpires thumbed him to the showers and Frank Mataya went to first for Scalise.
The Braves led the game going into the bottom of the ninth. With one away Wenatchee's Rip Robinett drew a walk. Dick Adams, batting for Oubre, hit the ball far into the right field and drove Robinett to third. Tom Moore went in the game as a pinch runner for Adams.
The next batter struck out but a clean hit by Ben Guererro drove in both runners.
Tri-City opened scoring with three runs in the first inning on two walks, two singles and an error.
The game lasted nearly three hours.
Tri-City ........ 301 011 000—6 6 1
Wenatchee ... 003 020 002—7 10 4
Kostenbader, Greenwood (9) and Pesut; Oubre and Robinett.

YAKIMA, July 5—The Salem Senators stopped the win streak of the Yakima Bears at eight straight Saturday night, taking a Western International League baseball game from the Bears, 5-2.
The Yakimans looked as if they werp about to make it nine in a row when they scored two runs in the second inning Sal Taormina singled and scored on Len Noren's double. Noren came home on John Albini's single.
Salem got its first run in the fourth. Bill White doubled, advanced to third on a walk and scored on a fielders choice.
The Senators clinched the game in the sixth with three more tallies, aided by Yakima's lone error. In that inning Bill Spaeter singled and Jim Deyo and Dick Bartle beat out infield hits to load the bases. Art Thrasher lined a drive to short right field and Jerry Zuvela caught it but in his haste to throw, dropped the ball for an error that let Spaeter home.
Salem ….. 000 103 001—5 9 0
Yakima … 020 000 000—2 7 1
Hemphill and Thrasher; Donley, Savage (8) and Albini.

Ritchey Shares Bat Lead - Gladstone Best in Clutch
John Ritchey, Vancouver catcher who won the WIL batting title last year, is aiming a strong bid to defend his laurels. Ritchey pounded out 13 hits in 27 trips for the week ending June 30 to raise his average 22 points and tie Walt Pocekay of Wenatchee for the league lead with a .351 mark.
Pocekay slipped four points but continues to lead the league in hits with 94 and total bases with 139 and shares the doubles lead with Granny Gladstone of Victoria, each with 21.
Gladstone replaced Lewiston’s Milt Smith as the home run leader with eight and bolstered his lead in the runs batted in department. He raised his total to 58, five more than Spokane’s Mel Wasley.
Cec Garriott of Victoria shares the lead in runs scored with Artie Wilson of Lewiston and Des Charouhas of Tri-City has the most triples. Vic Buccola of Tri-City leads in stolen bases with 18.
Cal McIrvin and Ben Lorino of Victoria are running oine-two in the pitch race. McIrvin tops the percentage department with a 10-3 record whole Lorino has 12-4 and is the league’s winningest pitcher.
Bob Roberts of Spokane and Ted Edmunds of Salem have appeared in the most games, 22; Ray McNulty of Salem has the most complete games, 13; and has pitched the most innings, 138. John Marshall of Spokane is the strikeout leader with 94 and teammate Gordon Palm has given up the most walks, 77. Tom Del Sarto of Yakima has made the most wild pitches, 14, and Bill Wisneski of Victoria and Bob Bowman of Lewiston have hit the most batters, 8.
The Victoria Tyees continue to set the pace in team batting with a .282 average against Lewiston’s .275. They have scored the most runs and lead in doubles.

  AB   R  OR   H  TB  2b 3b HR SH SB  BB  SO  Pct.
Victoria
2206 374 294 623 832 122 12 21 36 53 358 286 .282
Lewiston
2280 362 365 627 873 105 24 31 35 41 323 270 .275
Vancouver
2048 305 247 560 736  78 31 12 33 34     208 .273
Yakima
2391 352 418 612 820  95 31 17 48 62 372 361 .256
Spokane
2347 334 306 631 791  78 26 10 55 61 330 325 .269
Salem
2276 300 302 575 732  97 34  4 35 36 323 331 .253
Wenatchee
2242 303 357 553 719  96 17 12 48 35 275 310 .247
Tri-City
2228 325 366 533 708  79 21 18 48 52 396 395 .239

TEAM FIELDING
                DP PB   PO   A   E  Pct.
Salem ......... 81  7 1764 842  74 .973
Tri-City ...... 46 10 1792 735  97 .963
Vancouver ..... 72  4 1576 715  91 .962
Victoria ...... 61 10 1707 720 100 .960
Wenatchee ..... 55 11 1764 703 105 .959
Yakims ........ 75 14 1816 807 120 .956
Lewiston ...... 49 18 1715 730 132 .953
Spokane ....... 67  4 1847 782 138 .950

BATTING LEADERS
(Based on 150 Times at Bat)
                    AB  R  H SO  Ave.
Pocekay, Wen ..... 268 53 94 39 .351
Ritchey, Van ..... 194 44 68 37 .351
Wasley, Spo ...... 263 51 91 53 .348
Luby, Salem ...... 236 37 79 25 .335
Moniz, Victoria .. 263 55 86 27 .327
Murphy, Spo ...... 273 48 89 30 .326
Pries, Victoria .. 218 41 70 37 .321
Smith, Lewiston .. 241 53 76 33 .315
Garriott, Vic .... 222 58 69 44 .311
Hjelmaa, Wen ..... 255 38 79 14 .310
Kanelos, Spo ..... 181 31 56 31 .309
Nelson, Salem .... 221 33 68 42 .308
Vanni, Van ....... 223 38 68 19 .305
Charouhas, T-C ... 270 45 82 36 .302
Brunswick, Van ... 159 22 48 35 .302
Branham, Vic ..... 166 36 50 12 .301
Perez, Salem ..... 249 48 74 40 .297
Wilson, Lew ...... 250 58 74 28 .296
Duretto, Van ..... 210 32 62 27 .295
Adams, Wen ....... 262 38 77 32 .294

PITCHING
(Based on 10 or More Decisions)
                      W L  IP   H BB SO
McIrvin, Vic ....... 10 3 121  91 42 68
Lorino, Vic .........12 4 136 124 61 83
Conant, Spo ......... 9 3 117 108 35 57
Guldborg, Van ....... 9 3 104  78 61 68
Oubre, Wen .......... 8 3  96  81 55 50
Dahle, Wen ......... 10 4 106  97 35 51
Roberts, Spo ........ 7 3  57  55 38 42
Fletcher, Van ....... 8 4 109 105 22 29
Heard, Vic .......... 9 5 114 102 60 89
Bishop, Spo ......... 8 5 113 110 35 52
Romero, T-C ......... 9 6 122 114 75 72
Schulte, Lew ........ 6 4  82  62 60 82
Brenner, Lew ........ 8 6 109 115 33 43
McNulty, Sal ........ 9 7 138 144 52 67
Edmunds, Sal ........ 6 5  86  70 58 44
Powell, Lew ......... 6 5  76  67 35 41
Marshall, Spo ....... 6 6 137 124 67 94
Locke, Van .......... 6 6  99 104 35 61
Palm, Spo ........... 5 5  81  76 77 54