Tuesday, July 1, 1952

W L Pct GB
Victoria ..... 43 23 .652 —
Spokane ...... 40 32 .566 6
Vancouver .... 34 28 .548 7
Lewiston ..... 33 34 .493 10½
Salem ........ 33 36 .478 11½
Wenatchee .... 32 38 .457 13
Tri-City ..... 30 40 .429 15
Yakima ....... 29 43 .403 16

VICTORIA, July 1—Jehosie Heard posted a four-hit, 11-0 shutout for Victoria in the first half of a Western International League twin bill Tuesday.
Wenatchee took the nightcap 3-1.
Heard posted recorded victory No.10 in his fourth attempt. Backed by a 16-hit attack, he worked easily and was never in any serious danger. Bob Moniz gave him his third shutout in the eighth with a perfect throw that got a runner at the plate trying to score from second on a single.
Jim Clark had a perfect afternoon, going four for four, all singled. Lilio Marcucci smacked four hits, including a homer and a triple, for three runs, while Cece Garriott and Granny Gladstone also brought in a trio of Victoria runners each.
Two of the hits hits allowed by Heard were doubles—by Buddy Hjelmaa and Bill Cleveland. Heard struck out seven and walked three.
Cal McIrvin, who arrived only a couple of hours before game time, was a tough-luck loser in the second holiday game. Two ninth-inning runs broke a 1-1 tie and gave him his fourth loss instead of his 11th win.
Of the 11 hits in the game, only one was for extra bases, by Ross McCormack.
Cleveland’s groundout put Wenatchee on the board in the third inning, then Don Pries tied the game in the fourth by singling in Gladstone.
Monroe, with a single, and Ridgeway, with an out, were credited with the ninth-inning RBIs.
Hjelmaa had three hits for the winners.
First Game
Wenatchee .... 000 000 000—0 4 3
Victoria ......... 311 204 00x—11 16 0
Dahle, Bauhofer (5) and Robinett; Heard and Marcucci.
Second Game
Wenatchee .... 001 000 002—3 7 1
Victoria ......... 000 100 000—1 4 1
Stites and Robinett; McIrvin and Marcucci.

SALEM, July 1—Salem batters collected 14 hits off three Spokane pitchers as the Senators won a Western International League baseball game here 6-0 Tuesday night.
Bill Spaeter led the Salem hitting attack with three singles in four times at bat. He also drove in two runs.
Dick Bishop, the losing pitcher, was knocked out of the game in the second inning.
Spokane .... 000 000 000—0 6 1
Salem ....... 130 011 00x—6 14 0
Bishop, Palm (2), Chase (7) and Sheets; Hemphill and Thrasher.

VANCOUVER [News-Herald, July 2]—They haven’t called out the militia yet, but a state of emergency exists at Capilano Stadium where the Capilanos continue to blow WIL leads to second division clubs.
Tuesday, the Caps made it four in a row—all to the seventh and eighth place contenders in the league—with a double loss to the bottom place Yakima Bears, 7-5 and 5-1. It isn’t just the way a potential champion is supposed to act.
Of the two, the afternoon game was far the worst. John Guldborg had a 4-0 shutout going for six-plus innings when he blew high, wide and handsome. In the seventh, the Vancouver ace allowed five runs, got himself batted out of the box and treated very roughly. Guldborg didn’t pick up the loss as the Caps came back with one run in their seventh to tie it, but a two-run ninth by Yakima off Billy Whyte was the coup de grace.
NO ONE KNOWS
What is the matter? No one seems to know.
Most everybody agrees the club is not pulling together. There has even been talk of dissention, though no exact cases are known. However, four losses in a row to the lowest teams in the league is apt to prompt most any kind of rumors.
Injuries have hurt the Caps sorely. The club has been getting along on just 14 men, not all of them able bodies. Last night, for instance, Bob Duretto came back into the line-up after a week on the shelf. He relieved John Ritchey, who badly needed a day off, but Duretto had to quit after eight innings because his bad leg would stand up no longer.
TRAN HOBBLING
Ray Tran is hobbling about with another bad leg; Jesse Wiliams’ feet still hurt, and Edo Vanni still operates on pulled muscles. All of which makes you wonder why Bill Schuster doesn’t go on the active list again and play some baseball.
Schuster says he is ready and can play as well as the next fellow. He agrees somebody has to light a fire underneath his club and he has the feeling he is the one to do it. However, he’s not in there and nobody can explain why.
Yesterday the Caps came up with a new pitcher. He’s Tom Lovrich, a bonus kid signed by Seattle from the Southern California college campus. Over a three-year span he won 33 and lost nine for USC. He’s 6 feet 5 ½ inches tall, a right-hander, and he throws hard. In fact, he looks somewhat like a minor league Ewell Blackwell.
SEE ACTION SOON
The youngster will see action soon, as the Vancouver pitching staff is sorely taxed. The Caps sold Carl Gunnarson outright to Victoria yesterday to allow the veteran to see some action.
Last night’s was Bob Snyder’s first loss after three straight wins. It was a 2-1 ball game for nine innings when Yakima broke through for three late runs. That settled it, because Tom DelSarto, the Bears’ leftie, had it in spades, allowing the locals only four hits and keeping them far enough away for an easy win.
The same two clubs meet again tonight at 8:15 with Van Fletcher (6-4) going for Vancouver.
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VANCOUVER, B.C., July 1 — The Yakima Bears concentrated on last-inning rallies to take both ends of a day-night Western International League baseball doubleheader with the Vancouver Capilanos Tuesday.
They won the opener 7-5 on two runs in the ninth and then broke through for three late tuns and a decisive 5-1 victory in the nightcap.
Third game of their four-game series is scheduled for Wednesday.
In the nightcap, the Bears scored their three ninth inning runs on singles by John Albini, manager Dario Lodigiani and Mike Donahue and a double by Ernie Schuerman.
First Game
Yakima ........ 000 000 502—7 10 3
Vancouver ... 100 2120 100—5 12 1
Shandor and Albini; Guldborg, Whyte (7) and Ritchey.
Second Game
Yakima ........ 101 000 003—5 11 3
Vancouver ... 000 001 000—1 4 1
Del Sarto and Donahue; Snyder and Duretto, Ritchey (9).

KENNEWICK, [Tri-City Herald]—The Lewiston Braves gave Tri-City a 7-1 victory Tuesday night and the Braves reluctantly accepted.
The Broncs almost set a record for donated runs when their pitchers walked 11 men and the team nade four errors in the first five innings.
The Braves big inning was the fourth when they scored three times and didn't get a hit.
It came about this way:
First baseman Vic Buccola walked. Tom Marier, the second baseman, also walked. Then Des Charouhas, the left fielder, bunted down the third base line.
Lewiston pitcher Art Bowman picked up the ball and flung it and from a sitting position in the general direction of first base. First baseman Butch Moran couldn't make the catch and Buccola and Marier scored. Charouhas went all the way to third on the play.
Tri-City first baseman, Nick Pesut then sacrificed to bring Charouhas home.
In the first inning, Buccola got a single. Marier also rapped out a hit. Charouhas picked up a third hit and Buccola scored. Marier was thrown out at home.
An error gave Tri-City another run in the third frame. Charouhas, the first man up, walked.
John Kovenz, center fielder, hit a ground ball and Charouhas was thrown out on a fielder's choice. Catcher Nick Pesut popped out. Joe Scalise also walked putting runners on first and second.
Then the Lewiston catcher, in an attempt to catch Kovenz, threw the ball over the second baseman's head and Kovenz scored. Scalise holed up at third.
Pitcher Bob Schulte walked two more to load the bases before the was jerked and Art Bowman sent in. Bowman struck out Tri-City pitcher Art [sic] Greenwood to retire the side.
In the fifth inning third baseman Bob Rittenburg lead-off with a single. Don Lopes struck out but Greenwood got a hit that sent Bittenberg to second. Buccola filed out. Marier knocked out a double which scored Bittenberg and sent Greenwood to third.
Charouhas drew a base on balls loading the bases. Kovenz followed with a hit that scored Greenwood. Lopes struck out to end the inning.
Lewiston's only run came in the sixth. Milt Smith got a hit. He stole second base and then Nick Pesut dropped the ball and Smith went to third. He came in on a double by Moran.
All night long the Braves passed up scoring chances given to them by the Broncs. In the second inning with one out, three walked to load the bases. Then the next two batters fanned to end the inning. The third inning end in much the same way.
In the fourth inning the Braves also retired with the bases loaded.
Lewiston ... 000 001 000—1 5 4
Tri-City ..... 101 320 00x—7 7 1
Schulte, Brenner (5) and Lundberg; Greenwood and Pesut.

Michelson Quits Tri-City Braves
Departure Leaves Team Three Pitchers Short
[Tri-City Herald, July 2, 1952]
Pitcher Kenneth Michelson has quit the Tri-City Braves and Monday night, Manager Cbartle Gassaway was feeling mighty low.
The reason for Gassaway's down-in-the-dumps attitude:
As of Tuesday night, the Braves faced five games in four days and Gassaway has but four pitchers, including himself. This means that unless Gassaway can get hold of some more pitchers, he will be unable to send in relief men regardless of how high scores may run.
This is the way the Braves' pitching staff stands. Bob Greenwood hurled his game last night. Bob Satalich has gone to Portland to have his bad back treated. That leaves Ralph Romero, George New and Gassaway for the two games here with Lewiston and the double header July 4 at Wenatchee.
And things aren't looking up. The schedule for another game at Wenatchee followed by another doubleheader the next day.
Meanwhile, Dick Richards, the club's vice president, and Gassaway are trying desperately to find more pitchers. But Gassaway reports that most clubs have out a "Pitcher Wanted" sign.
Gassaway is seriously considering curtailing workouts to save on his 14 remaining players.
Michelson's departure was not entirely unexpected. Don Becker, former sports editor of the Tri-City Herald, reported two weeks ago that one of the pitchers was seriously thinking about quitting. Becker wrote then that the pitcher thought he could make more money outside of baseball.
Michelson reported to Richards Monday and told the vice president he was quitting. He then picked up his personal belongings and left without seeing Gassaway.
Gassaway said Tuesday night he was sorry to see Michelson go. He said Michelson felt that if he couldn't do good at baseball, he would drop out.
Gassaway had been using Michelson in relief roles. He said the pitcher probably saved him 12 to 14 games this season in that capacity.
However, Gassaway said, Michelson apparently thought he could get no where fast in organized ball as a relief hurler and decided to quit.
Michelson played in 21 games this season for a total of 72 innings. He won three and lost seven for an average of .300. He gave up 65 runs, 98 hits and 55 bases on balls. He is credited with 33 strikeouts.

Spokane Club Puts $50,000 Price Tag on Jack Spring
SPOKANE, July 1— The Spokane Indians put a $50,000 price tag Wednesday on a rookie lefthanded pitcher who hasn't won a game yet.
Owner Roy Hotchkiss said he fixed the price for young Jack Spring after the Brooklyn Dodgers showed considerable interest in the 19-year-old and asked "how much."
Spring, signed last month by the Indians after an impressive season with the Washington State College varsity, has made three appearances in the class A Western International League. He has lost two, hasn't won yet.
Several big league scouts watched him work last week in a relief role against Yakima. He fanned five in 3 1/3 innings, gave up two hits but was charged with the loss when one of the men he struck out got to first on a catcher's error and scored the winning run.

Wednesday, June 11, 1952

W L Pct. GB
Victoria ..... 33 15 .688 —
Spokane ...... 32 21 .604 3½
Vancouver .... 23 20 .535 7½
Lewiston ..... 25 25 .500 9
Salem ........ 23 28 .451 11½
Wenatchee .... 23 28 .451 11½
Tri-City ..... 23 29 .442 12
Yakima ....... 18 34 .346 17

WENATCHEE, June 11—Wenatchee cashed in on Victoria errors Wednesday night to down the Tyees 5-2 in a Western International League baseball game.
The win evened the series at a game apiece.
The game was tied 2-2 until the seventh when the Chiefs found their batting eye and scored three runs on three hits and two Victoria miscues.
Bob Garrett was the first to cross the plate in the big Wenatchee inning. Garrett, safe at first on an error by Victoria third sacker John Treece, was sacrificed to second by Norm Ridgeway and came home on Bill Cleveland's single.
Victoria ....... 000 011 000—2 10 2
Wenatchee .. 001 001 30x—5 7 2
McIrvin and Marcucci; Oubre and Pocekay.

SPOKANE, June 11 — The Spokane Indians came from behind in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-2 win and handed the Tri-City Braves their second straight loss.
Behind 2-1, the Indians filled the bases as Tri-City pitcher Bob Greenwood walked Wilbur Johnson, gave up a single to Eddie Murphy and an intentional pass to Mel Wasley. Greenwood then walked Ed Bouchee, Washington State College player signed by the Indians Tuesday, to send in the tying run, and Murphy scored the winning run on a squeeze play.
Spokane hurler John Marshall pitched four-hit ball. He gave up two hits in the fifth inning and two more in the seventh, when the Braves took a 2-1 lead by scoring twice as Wilbur Johnson dropped the ball on an infield fly.
Bouchee singled in the Indians' first run in the third inning.
Tri-City ....... 000 000 200—2 4 0
Spokane ...... 001 000 002—3 10 2
Greenwood and Pesut; Marshall and Sheets.

YAKIMA [Vancouver News Herald, June 12]—Ed Locke’s hitting and Bob Snyder’s pitching, a one-two punch which yet may pay off at the $50 wicket for the Capilanos combined to give Vancouver baseballers their second straight win over Yakima here Wednesday night, 4-2.
Locke came off the bench to fill in for the injured Edo Vanni, out with a pulled muscle in his leg. He did the job so well that today Bill Schuster is likely praying that the capable Mr. Vanni will stay on the sick list for a while to come.
Locke doubled to lead off the fourth inning and following singles by Bob Duretto and John Ritchey and another double by Gordon Brunswick produced there runs.
Then in the fifth, Locke struck again. He tripled and scored on Duretto’s long fly for Vancouver’s fourth run.
Snyder, meanwhile, had the Bears pretty well on his hip. He allowed the cellar-dwellers to get off to a 1-0 lead in the third inning when he got one too fat for Sal Taormina. Sal made an inside the park homer out of a Snyder fast ball which lasted only as along as Locke could get in a few licks at the plate.
Mike Donahue’s single and Dick Briskey’s double made up the other Yakima run in the sixth, but Snyder was plenty good enough thereafter for his second straight win.
Tonight the same clubs play the windup of the series and the Caps will probably send out their ace, Van Flecther (5-2) in an effort to clean up on the basement keepers.
[The winners who got 10 safeties off John Albini, who went the route for Yakima.]
Vancouver .... 006 310 000—4 10 0
Yakima ......... 001 001 000—2 6 1
Snyder and Ritchey; Albini and Donahue.

Salem at Lewiston, rain.

Trautman Will See WIL Tilts
YAKIMA, June 11 — President George Trautman of the National Association of Professional Leagues will see two Western International League baseball games while he is in the Northwest this month if his schedule permits.
Opening a league meeting here Wednesday, the directors made plans to meet Trautman at Portland June 21 and take him to Spokane to attend a game that night. He also will confer there with the directors.
The next day he will go to the Tri-Cities area to view another loop tilt, then go on to Denver via Pendleton.
Welcoming Committee
League President Robert Abel of Tacoma and club Presidents Roy Hotchkiss of Spokane and Frederick Mercy Jr., of Yakima will make up a welcoming committee. On hand for the session here also were Tom Holman of Salem, Reggie Paterson of Victoria, Bob
Brown ol Vancouver Dick Richards of Tri City and A. H. Pohlman of Wenatchee.
The directors did not get around to the much discussed extension of tne veterans limitation from nine to ten. It was understood that four of the leagues eight clubs favor the change.

WIL Moguls Move Waiver Price On Vets
YAKIMA, June 11 — Directors of the Western International League have increased the baseball league's waiver price from $1,000 to $2,500 for all but rookies.
Frederick Mercy Jr., president of the Yakima WIL club, said the action was taken at Wednesday's meeting here to protect players from being shipped to leagues of lower classification.
The directors discussed amendment of the so-called rookie rule to allow more veteran players but decided to continue the present regulations to the end of this season. Clubs are now permitted a maximum of nine players whose previous professional experience extends over three seasons.
Preliminary steps were taken toward drafting a 1953 schedule with a view of having a tentative slate ready to consider at the winter meeting.
Directors said George Trautman, president of the National Association of Professional Leagues, would be invited to attend WIL games at Spokane June 25 and Kennewick June 26. Trautman is scheduled to arrive at Portland the morning of June 25 for a northwest visit.

Indians Sign Another Bear
[Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, June 12, 1952]
The Spokane Indians made their second raid in less than a week on the Walla Walla Bears roster when they announced Wednesday night the signing of lefthanded pitcher Jack Spring.
Earlier in the week Ed Bouchee, promising first baseman, inked a Spokane contract.
Both Spring and Bouchee are products of Spokane's Lewis and Clark high school, and played the past season with the Washington State Cougars. Both had been counted on by Bear Manager Bobby Dyer as starters in the Tri-State league campaign.