Thursday, July 29, 1954

                 W  L  Pct GB
Lewiston ...... 17  9 .654 —
Yakima ........ 15  8 .652 ½
Salem ......... 14  9 .609 1½
Edmonton ...... 11 13 .458 3
Tri-City ...... 11 13 .458 3
Victoria ....... 8 10 .444 5
Vancouver ...... 9 12 .429 5½
Wenatchee ...... 7 18 .280 9½

YAKIMA, July 29—Vancouver used two converted outfielders on the mound for eight innings Thursday night and almost got away with it, but not quite.
The Bears pushed across a run in the ninth off a full-time pitcher, George Nicholas, to edge the Capilanos 5-4.
Arnie Hallgren, an outfielder, started the game and gave way in the fifth in favour of Dick Greco, another flycatcher, who lasted until the ninth. Hallgren and Greco gave up just two hits and three runs in the eight innings the worked.
Nicholas came on in the ninth in the face of a Yakima threat. The Bears then tied it with a walk, a single and an error by second baseman Marv Williams which allowed pinch hitter Danny Rios to reach first, and won it when Len Noren singled in pinch runner Elmer Clow.
The Bears managed only four hits off the combined slants of the three Vancouver hurlers against 10 hits for the Capilanos.
Hallgren allowed only two hits, but walked six, and committed a balk. Greco faced 12 batters, one more than Hallgren, and allowed one hit and walked three. Both hit a batter and struck out three. Greco ended up taking the loss.
John Albini cleared the loaded bases with a double in the third inning to give Yakima the lead. The Caps scored in the seventh on Eddie Murphy’s single, then tied the game in the eighth when Marv Williams singled in a run before Greco's two-run homer.
Vancouver ...... 000 000 130—4 10 1
Yakima ........... 003 000 002—5  4 0
Hallgren, Greco (5), Nicholas (9) and Duretto; Schaening, Lovrich (7) and Albini.

LEWISTON, July 29—The Lewiston Broncs salvaged the final game of their series with Salem, 3-2, Thursday night to snap a five-game Senator winning streak, and remain a half game ahead of Yakima in the Western International League lead.
Lewiston pushed across all three of its runs in the first inning. Singles by Don Hunter and Eddie Bockman, a double by Larry Barton and a walk and an error accounted for the scoring. Salem's rally came late in the game, Bill (Floyd) Ogden singling in one run in the seventh, and Harry Warner hitting a ninth-inning homer for the final tally.
Joe Orrell, who went to Lewiston from the defunct Calgary club, gave up eight hits in pitching his second straight victory for the Broncs.
Salem .......... 000 000 101—2 8 1
Lewiston ...... 300 000 00x—3 7 0
Rayle and Ogden; Orrell and Garay.

VICTORIA [Jim Tang, Colonist, July 30]—Led by Don Lundberg and Neil Sheridan, Victoria Tyees had their most productive night of the season last night at Royal Athletic Park as they slaughtered Edmonton Eskimos, 18-4.
It was the third straight win after a disastrous nine-game losing streak and it gave the Tyees the four-game WIL series, 3-1.
Catcher Lundberg, who has been turning in a useful job as a first-baseman in the line-up shuffle necessitated by outfielder Tom Perez’ wrist injury, batted in five runs with his 13th and 14th home runs and a single.
SHERIDAN HANDY
Up with men on the bases in each of his five plate appearances, Sheridan singled, walked, doubled, grounded out and doubled in that order. Both of his doubles came with the bags loaded and the rugged outfielder added six to his runs-batted-in total.
It was a rout from the start as the Tyees hit with power at the right time to gallop to a 13-0 lead after three turns at the plate. They scored three times in the first inning, six times in the second and four times in the third. Then, to make certain, they added five in the sixth.
Every Tyee, except Steve Mesner, who didn’t get a chance as a substitute for Eddie Lake, picked up at least one hit and everyone except Milt Martin and Mesner scored at least one run.
EXTRA LOOT
In addition to improving their personal statistics, the Tyees also won themselves some extra loot, with Lundberg the biggest gainer. He rapped his single off Woodward’s scoreboard to win a mantle radio, and one of his home runs sailed over the sign which proclaimed a steak dinner would be given for the feat.
Lake also won a radio for hitting the scoreboard and the department store may find itself short of a certain model. Dain Clay collected Wednesday night.
While all this was going on, John Tierney breezed along in a fine pitching performance to get his third win in five decisions. The curve-balling righthander had a three-hitter after seven innings, with his shut-out gone on an unearned run, before easing up to allow the last three of six hits in the three-run eighth.
DEFENSIVE PLAYS
Sheridan and Edmonton’s Vern Campbell came up with the top defensive plays of the game. Sheridan made a long run to his left with his shoulders scraping the fence to rob Bill Brown of extra bases in the fourth, while Campbell, whose error won for the Tyees Wednesday, grabbed a sinking liner off his knees in the eighth to take a hit away from Don Pries.
The Tyees play the first game of a four-game series at Yakima tonight, then return home Monday for a four-game series against Salem.
Edmonton ...... 000 010 030— 4  6 3
Victoria ......... 364 005 00x—18 17 1
Kimball, LeBrun (2) and Partee, Prentice (6); Tierney and Martin.

KENNEWICK [Tri-City Herald, July 30]—The league-leading Lewiston Broncs, primed and loaded to sweep the second-half of the Western International league season, come to Sanders Field tonight for the opening of the four-game series with the Tri-City Braves.
The series may find another familiar face on the Lewiston roster. The club announced today that second baseman Glen Tuckett and outfielder Mel Wasley have been released and former Salem manager Harvey Storey has been signed.
Storey was sought by the Tri-City club, as well as other clubs in the league following his release by Salem, but none could match the salary offered by the Minnesota semi-pros.
The third-baseman is the latest of a long series of players acquired by Lewiston in its bid for accond-half honors. Others include pitchers Guy Fletcher and Al Yaylian, and infielder Eddie Bockman.
So far, the "beefing up" has partly paid off and the Broncs are currently .004 ahead of Yakima for first place.
Walt (the Deacon) Clough will get the starting assignment against this aggregation tonight. Clough has an 8-9 record for the season.
Also at stake for Tri-City tonight will be a possible move to the first division. The Braves are now tied for fourth place as the result of their ll-5 win over cellar-dwelling Wenatchee Thursday night at Sanders.
Jack Hemphill pitched the win for Tri-City. He gave up two homers, one to Tom Munoz in the fifth with one on and one to Ross McCormack in the eighth with none on.
However, the almost complete absence of walks kept Wenatchee from doing too much damage.
The Braves jumped on starting pitcher Charlie Oubre for seven runs in the first three innings. The first inning run came as the result of two Wenatchee errors.
In the second frame, four singles, a walk, a hit batsman and an interference call on Wenatchce catcher Jack Self accounted for four runs.
Terry Carroll and Edo Vanni drove in two runners each during that inning with singles.
In the third, Terry Carroll was safe on a fielder's choice, stole second and came in on Dick Watson's double. Vanni then singled Watson home.
A double by Len Tran off reliefer Ralph Romero in the fifth brought in two more and a double by Bob Moniz, his 34th of the season, brought in two in the seventh.
Watson, batting No. 2 in place of Vic Buccola, had a lively night getting two for three, sacrificing the runners along for Tran to drive in, and scoring three runs himself.
Buccola was out of the lineup because of a muscle injury suffered while at bat in the game the night before.
However, It was Vic Buccola night and the veteran Brave received gifts ranging from watermelons to watches.
Wenatchee ..... 000 120 110— 5  9 4
Tri-City .......... 142 020 20x—11 12 0
Oubre, Romero (4) and Self; Hemphill and Warren.

Sunday, June 20, 1954

                W  L  Pct GB
Vancouver .... 33 18 .647 —
Yakima ....... 31 24 .563 4
Spokane ...... 30 24 .556 4½
Wenatchee .... 28 27 .509 7
Lewiston ..... 26 27 .491 8½
Edmonton ..... 22 23 .489 8½
Salem ........ 25 30 .455 10
Victoria ..... 22 28 .440 10½
Tri-City ..... 24 31 .436 11
Calgary ...... 19 28 .404 12

CALGARY, June 20—The Spokane Indians and Calgary Stampeders split a Western International League doubleheader Sunday, the Indians won the afternoon game 9-1 and Calgary the evening contest 17-8.
Bud Closs pitched four-hit ball for Spokane as the Indians posted their eighth consecutive win in the first game. Closs also belted a homer in the sixth inning.
The nightcap was a nightmare for the Indians as the Stampeders gained revenge for earlier trouncings. Three Spokane pitchers gave up 21 hits, including six home runs, two by Gale Taylor. Bob Schulte went the route for Calgary, scattering nine hits.
First Game
Spokane ...... 300 021 210—9 12 0
Calgary ....... 000 000 010—1  4 3
Closs and Dean; Tompkins and Luby.
Second Game
Spokane ...... 010 120 130— 8  9 6
Calgary ....... 141 411 41x—17 21 0
Trautwein, Wisneski (4), Cummins (7) and Dean; Schulte and Lillard.

SALEM, June 20—Salem won both ends of a Western International League doubleheader here Sunday, defeating Wenatchee 8-7 and 1-1.
The score was tied at 7-7 at the end of nine innings in the opener. Then with one out, Salem catcher Floyd Ogden tripled. Billy Joe Waters, Wenatchee pitcher, walked the next two batters to fill the bases. Then Mel Krause singled to score Ogden with the winning run.
Successibe singles by Jerry Green, Don Stanford and Jake Helmuth gave Wenatchee its only run in the afterpiece.
First Game
Wenatchee ..... 110 020 003 0—7 10 0
Salem ............ 202 210 000 1—8 12 3
Beamon, Oubre (3), Thompson (6), Monroe (9), Waters (9) and Helmuth; Del Sarto, Rayle (9) and Ogden.
Second Game
Wenatchee ..... 000 000 1—1 6 0
Salem ............ 020 100 x—4 6 0
Bowman and Helmuth; Briggs and Ogden.

EDMONTON, June 20—The Lewiston Broncs and Edmonton Eskimos split a Western International League doubleheader Sunday. The teams are now tied for fifth place. Edmonton won the first game 2-1 and Lewiston the second 7-2.
John Conant limited Lewiston to five hits in the opener as he racked up his fifth victory of the season. Mel Wasley and Clint Cameron homered for Lewiston in the second game.
First Game
Lewiston ....... 010 000 0—1 5 0
Edmonton ..... 000 100 1—2 8 0
Fletcher and Garay; Conant and Prentice.
Second Game
Lewiston ....... 020 120 002—7 13 0
Edmonton ..... 000 001 100—2  6 0
Derganc and Cameron; Kimball and Self.

KENNEWICK [Tri-City Herald, June 21]—From the standpoint of attendance, Tri-City’s split double-header Sunday was a howling success.
From the standpoint of baseball, well, there were times when the opposition scoring threatened to exceed the size of the gate.
The Braves lost both ends of the twin bill, 10-7, and 12-3, in two tilts with Yakima which could be best described as a double fiasco.
Today they take the day off before traveling to Salem for a three-game series with their “natural rivals” which they have downed five of eight times this season.
The Braves will then return here for a weekend series with the same team.
After the series, Tri-City will make the first of two jaunts along the Cariboo trail to Edmonton and Calgary where, partly because of the size of the Yakima series crowd, there is pretty good assurance that travel costs and payroll bills will be met.
Altogether, 2,300 turned out to see the two Sunday games. Nearly 850 saw the windy opener and more than 1,300 trooped out to see the night game. Those figures, coupled with the 1,120 the night before and 1,300 paid Friday night, brought the series attendance to more than 4,700 or about one-fifth the season total.
Unfortunately, the Sunday 2,300 were not treated to the same brand of baseball as the Friday and Saturday fans who saw Yakima win 3-2 and Tri-City’s Dale Bloom shutout the Bears, 3-0.
An indication of what was to come in those awful Sunday games appeared in the first inning of the afternoon tilt. The Bears got four hits including the first of Charlie Mead’s homers plus one Tri-City error for four runs.
The three unearned runs represented the Yakima margin the rest of the way. Mead’s other homer came in the fourth inning with none on. Lon Summers of Yakima also homered. His blow came in the seventh with none one.
For Tri-City, Len Tran got his third homer of the season in the third frame. There was none on at the time.
But it was the lack of any kind of a hit in the pinch that cost Tri-City. Three times the Braves went down with the bases-loaded.
The high winds did tricky things to the ball and hurt both pitchers. Guldborg was taken out in the 4th, and received his release six hours later. Yakima’s Dick Young was taken out in the sixth and at last accounts he is still with the team.
In the second game, everyone but Danny (the Lion) Rios got at least one hit off Don Robertson, and everyone but Rios and Herm Lewis got at least two hits.
Of the 19 base blows, there wasn’t over a half-dozen respectable ones in the carload. One of them was manager Lou Stringer’s double in the eighth which drove in one run. It was the only extra-base hit for Yakima and Jack Warren’s 17th double of the season in the second was the only other extra-base hit of the game.
Lon Summers came close when he whopped out what should have been a triple. However, he missed second base and was eventually called out on an appeal play.
Errors figured in the scoring in the third and eighth innings.
Earl Lemieux pitched the ninth inning and put the Bears down with no hits. However, he hit Lewis with a pitch and Yakima kept its record intact of getting at least one runner on base throughout the game.
First Game
Yakima ....... 400 301 200—10 16 0
Tri-City ...... 201 101 110— 7  9 3
Young, Lovrich (6), Schaening (8) and Summers; Guldborg, Thomason (4), Dobernic (9) and Johnson, Warren (7).
Second Game
Yakima ........ 002 123 040—12 19 1
Tri-City ....... 020 002 000— 4  8 3
Rios and Summers; Robertson, Lemieux (9) and Warren.

ONLY GAMES SCHEDULED

CAPS’ STAND CONTINUES
‘Save Indians’ Campaign A Flop
[Vancouver Province, June 21, 1954]
Final two weeks of baseball’s longest home stand ever starts Tuesday night for the Capilanos with Spokane Indians on hand for local fans’ second “bonus” series.
The Spokane series was switched here because the Indians won’t play in their old park, Ferris Field, owned by Roy Hotchkiss, and their new home isn’t ready. The Spokane team was taken away from Hotchkiss last week and is being run by the league.
Reason for the Tuesday start is that the Spokes, currently in Calgary, couldn’t make it in time for a Monday game. They’ll play two games Tuesday at Capilano Stadium, starting at 7 p.m. Bill Brenner and George Nicholas will pitch for Vancouver.
If the Caps have as much success in the next two weeks as they had at home last week, they should romp home with the first-half championship. They won five out of seven games from Victoria, with the final game Saturday washed out. First half schedule winds up July 5, and the locals have 15 of their remaining 19 now set for their home grounds. Lewiston Broncs finish out this week, then Spokane again and Yakima visit the following week.
That’s assuming that Spokane is still around by then. The league has given the “Save the Indians” group an extra week to raise the $40,000 necessary to keep the Tribe alive. So far, the money-raising campaign has been a flop, with just $1000 raised to date. The Athletic Round Table has offered to pay 25 percent of the tab—after the first 75 percent has been raised.
Vancouver had to forward Spokane the fare for the trip here.

Spokane Of WIL Gets New Baseball Life
SPOKANE, June 20—The Spokane Indians baseball team was almost disbanded again Sunday but a last-minute assist from the Vancouver Capilanos and Spokane's Athletic Round Table put the team back on the road.
Don Osborn, manager of the Indians, said Sunday that if the tickets for the team's train trip to Vancouver did not arrive in Calgary by noon, he would have to bring the team home, notify the parent Philadelphia Phillies and “pull the players out.” Osborn had already arranged for a bus to bring the Tribe back to Spokane after the final Calgary game.
The tickets arrived from Vancouver, next stop for the traveling Indians, at 10:30.
Meanwhile, Joe Albi, president of the ART, was busy rounding up money to send to the team. He dispatched $450, compliments of the ART.
The Spokane club, one of the more financially troubled teams in the Western International League, has been granted a week of grace to raise money to continue operations after the league took over the club’s franchise.
But the fund drive, headed by the newly formed Save Spokane Indians Inc., appears bogged down with little of the estimated $40,000 needed raised to date.

Braves Deal For Storey
[Tri-City Herald, June 21, 1954]
Tri-City pitcher Bud Guldborg received his outright release Sunday and the club is currently dickering for the services of Salem manager Harvey Storey.
Guldborg received his release after losing Sunday afternoon’s game to the Yakima Bears. It was his fifth loss of the season against two wins.
The Tri-City club is not the only one trying to sign Storey. The Salem Senators have offered him a player’s contract but he has taken no action yet.
The Salem general manager, Hugh Luby, who is also playing manager now, said today at Salem that Storey was expected to make a decision sometime this afternoon.
It ii also reported that Spokane is seeking Storey’s services but the possibility seems unlikely because of the shaky financial stains of the Spokane club.
If Storey joins the Braves, he will probably do so when Tri-City travels there for the series Tuesday. Should he be signed, it will mean another shakeup in the Tri-City roster. Storey will undoubtedly play third-base which means the Braves will again have five outfielders — Artie Wilson, Bob McGuire, Bob Moniz, Terry Carroll, and playing manager Vanni.
They will still be under the player limit but it is likely that the Braves will sign another pitcher soon to bring the mound staff to full strength.
If that happens, it will mean that one of the other players will be released or Vanni will again go on the sick list.

Wednesday, May 5, 1954

             W  L  Pct.  GB
Salem ...... 6  2  .750  —
Spokane .... 4  3  .571  1½
Lewiston ... 4  3  .571  1½
Wenatchee .. 4  3  .571  1½
Victoria ... 4  3  .571  1½
Yakima ..... 4  4  .500  2
Vancouver .. 4  4  .500  2
Edmonton ... 3  4  .429  2½
Calgary .... 2  5  .286  3½
Tri-City ... 2  6  .250  4

VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, Province, May 6]—One thing you can say about this year’s Capilanos so far: they’re consistently inconsistent. Their hitting totals range from seven base hits one night to 15 the next, and their pitching staff is either the best in the league or merely mediocre.
Wednesday provided an excellent example of the Caps’ rags to riches theme. There were two games against Salem Senators, one in the afternoon and the other at night, and the Caps couldn’t have reversed their field more completely.
BIG CHANGE
In the afternoon, everybody had it. The hitters had a field day, pounding out 15 safeties, including two home runs, and the pitching matched. Result: a 10-0 victory for the locals.
At night, the same hitters managed just seven hits and the pitchers, who had put together a string of 30 scoreless innings—including Bob Roberts’ stint against Seattle—suddenly couldn’t get anyone out. That result: 11-3 for Salem.
The split gave the Caps the series, two games to one, and left them at an even .500 average for the season. Tonight Edo Vanni and his Tri-City Braves come to town, and possibly the hitting, anyway, will level out. Added to the Vancouver batting order wll be one of the league’s most-feared hitters of 1953, Bob Wellman.
AT FIRST TONIGHT
Big Bob, who hit .350 with Yakima and collected 26 home runs, was bought yesterday from Seattle Rainiers. He arrived too late to get into the starting lineup last night, though he did appear as a sixth inning successful pinch hitter [he reached base on an error]. He’ll be at first base tonight and batting sixth in what now rates, on paper, as the WIL’s most dangerous batting array.
The Caps didn’t need Wellman yesterday afternoon, when some 500 people turned up for the experimental daylight tilt. Dick Greco and K Chorlton, with home runs, Arnie Hallgren, with three doubles, and Jim Clark, with four-for-five, backed up George Nicholas’ fine five-hit pitching.
At night, only Chorlton, with a double, managed more than a single, and Salem, led by ex-Cap Jack Bukowatz with a triple, double and two singles, teed off on four Vancouver pitchers for 18 hits.
PROVINCE STARS – Dick Greco, still the Caps’ big gun … Arnie Hallgren, who added a perfect throw to the plate to catch a charging runner in his batting feats … and Jack Bukowatz, who made the folks wonder why he was let go.
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VANCOUVER, May 5— Jack Bukowatz of Salem lead the hitting with four for six Wednesday night as Salem Senators bested Vancouver Capilanos 11-3 in the second game of a Western International League baseball double-header. Vancouver won the afternoon contest via a 10-0 shutout.
Bukowatz picked up a triple and double and batted in three runs as the Senators unleashed an 18-hit attack.
Pitcher George Nicholas went the route for the Caps in the first game, allowing only five hits, all singles. The Caps tallied two home runs and four doubles. Dick Greco and K. Chorlton scored the homers.
First Game
Salem ............ 000 000 000— 0 5 0
Vancouver ...... 104 102 20x—10 15 1
Bridges, Borst (3) and Ogden; Nicholas and Pesut.
Second Game
Salem ............. 000 330 500—11 18 2
Vancouver ....... 000 012 000— 3 7 4
Peterson and Heisner, Ogden (5); Franks, MacKay (3), Cordell (5), Brenner (7) and Pesut.

SPOKANE, May 5 — Spokane and Calgary divided their Western International league baseball doubleheader Wednesday, Spokane taking the nightcap, 8-7.
Spokane blew a 6-1 lead in the second game when Calgary tied up with five runs in the sixth inning, three of them on a home run by outfielder Chuck Lundgren.
Gale Taylor opened the inning with a walk, moved to third on a single and scored on an infield out. Jim Stack and Dennis Luby hit consecutive doubles for the second run. Then, after Don Hunter drew a base on halls, came Lundgren’s long one over the left field fence.
Calgary scored what proved to be the winning runs in the seventh when Taylor and Gene Lillard singled, sending Spokane starter Ralph Romero to the showers.
First Game
Calgary ....... 000 001 000—1 3 2
Spokane ..... 040 010 00x—5 10 2
Orrell, Owens (8) and Lundberg; Anderson and Dean.
Second Game
Calgary ....... 000 015 200—8 14 3
Spokane ..... 302 011 000—7 13 1
Kapp and Lillard, Lundberg (8); Romero, Lawson (7), Aubertin (9) and Hack, Dean (9).

LEWISTON, Idaho, May 5 — Lewiston outscored Edmonton 11-8 Wednesday night in a Western International League baseball game that saw a total of 29 hits.
Both teams paraded three pitchers to the mound in their efforts to stop the hitting. The Broncs after trailing by one run through the first four innings, tied it in the fifth, and went home ahead for good in the sixth. Mel Wasley led off with a home run that inning. Russ Roseberg and Al Heist singled and Clint Cameron followed with a double that scored them with what proved to be the winning runs.
Both teams retired their starting pitchers, Dale Hittle for Edmonton and Don Tisnerat for Lewiston, in the first inning. Edmonton tapped Tisnerat for four singles, a double and a walk, good for fire runs before he left. And the Broncs got three singles, a double and a triple and a walk off Hittle during the 2-3 of an inning he pitched.
Edmonton ...... 510 000 200— 8 11 0
Lewiston ....... 410 013 11x—11 18 1
Kittle, Lebrum (1), Worth (1) and Self; Tisnerat, Smith (1), Kine (5) and Cameron.

VICTORIA [Tri-City Herald, May 6]—The much-beaten Tri-City Braves move on to Vancouver today with the prospect or facing even tougher opposition in the power-packed Capilanos while still seeking a win in the current road trip.
Tri-City dropped the third and last game in the Victoria series 7-6 Wednesday to run the losing streak to five straight.
Walter (Deacon) Clough, who has no record but had started and pitched eight innings of one game, will be playing manager Edo Vanni’s choice of a starter against Bill Brenner’s Caps tonight.
Meanwhile, in the Tri-Cities, general manager Eddie Taylor has been in contact with playing manager Vanni and both are talking ways of strengthening the Tri-City lineup.
One player under discussion is infielder Sam Kanelos, former Tri-City third baseman who was released by Edmonton recently. Kanelos, not an exceptionally high percentage hitter, is a batter who gets good wood on the ball.
Last season with Edmonton, he hit 32 doubles, 8 triples and 11 home runs. Some of the homers, however, come in the short Calgary park where Edmonton played 26 games.
Taylor said he had also been offered a pitcher from San Diego in the Pacific Coast league but he did not feel we need pitching. He had hoped to get another outfielder and is working on a deal now.
The Braves infield and outfield troubles have been quite apparent in the recent series. The fulltime play of Bob McGuire and the addition of shortstop Charlie Davis are expected to help some but neither will be ready for two or three weeks.
However, in Wednesday’s game, it was not so much defensive weakness as it was Jess Dobernic’s old bugaboo, the gopher ball, which scalped the Braves.
Don Robertson, Tri-City starter, had a 6-3 lead going into the bottom of the eighth. Then he gave up a single to Dane Clay and a triple to Milt Martin before being taken out for Dobernic.
With none away, Jess started to work and momentarily it looked as if the game might be saved. He struck out pinch-hitter Art Saguso, fanned Ron Jackson, and lost his control to walk Don Pries.
With two on and two away, Tom Perez caught one of Jess’s pitches and sent it over Victoria's short centerfield wall. The three-run homer decided the game. The Braves were unable to score in the final frame after Vic Buccola hit, Len Tran struck out and Jack Warren struck out. Buccola was then thrown out trying to steal.
Warren, however, was the man at the plate who kept the Braves in the game in the first place.
After going hitless for a seven-time-at-bat streak in the current series, Warren hit what he himself had always considered the impossible—a triple which scored one runner in the fifth inning. He scored on Bob Moniz’ single and Moniz came in on Des Charouhas’s single.
Tri-City ..... 000 112 110—6 7 2
Victoria ..... 000 200 14x—7 11 2
Robertson, Dobernic (8) and Warren; Bottler, Moen (7), Drilling (9) and Martin.

WENATCHEE, May 5 — Ted Shandor, newly acquired hurler who started the season with San Francisco, arrived in Wenatchee just in time Wednesday night to pitch six innings against Yakima and be credited with a 9-3 win in a Western International League game.
Less than five hours after arriving by car, Shandor entered the game and allowed only five hits in the final six and a third innings.
Joe Unfried drove in five runs with four hits, including a homer.
Yakima .......... 002 001 000—3 8 2
Wenatchee .... 202 004 01x—9 13 1
Rios, Machado (6) and Summers; Bowman, Shandor (3) and Jenney.

IT BEATS ME
By Jim Tang
[from column in the Victoria Colonist, May 6, 1954]
Latest on the baseball situation at Calgary is that the Stampeders will likely remain in the Alberta city. Rumor has it that Norman Lacey and his associates will probably put up the necessary finances. However, if reports are right, there is still quite a problem getting the Calgary park ready for play. It’s said that it was used as a skating rink during the winter and that some of the ice is still there … Victoria baseball fans saw a lot of good shortstopping when the Tyees had Johnny [sic] Clark but they certainly have quite a replacement in veteran Eddie Lake, who gets a big jump on the ball and can throw with the best. And, he’s likely to outhit Clark by quite a margin … Dain Clay has hit safely in each of the seven games the Tyees have played and, almost invariably, he has got the hits when they were needed … One can’t help but wonder why Milt Martin is still in the WIL. The peppery catcher can receive with the best and there aren’t many, if any, catchers in the Coast League who can match that rifle arm. And his hitting is solid even if he won’t get many ankle hits … Tri-City Braves will need considerable help before they are a threat. As long as they get pitching, they can make games interesting but they lack punch. They did get 32 hits in three games here but their extra-base production only amounted to two doubles and a triple. Twenty-nine of their hits were singles … Now that they have Bob Wellman for first base duty, Vancouver Capilanos must be ranked as the team to beat, and more particularly so because they will probably get more pitching from the Seattle Rainiers. Tom Lovrich looms as their next acquisition.

The Sports Herald
KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver News-Herald, May 6, 1954]
The Snow is snowing—back east
A couple of former Capilanos, Chuck Davis, and Frank Mascaro, have apparently hung up their baseball spurs … Davis refused to report to Tri-City when Seattle sold him to Edo Vanni and Mascaro likewise decided in favor of the lunch-bucket when San Francisco peddled his contract to Yakima … Calgary, of course, still has snow and ice on its field … and here we’re worried about out 40-degree evenings.
Dad Storey got his lumps, too
The Capilanos have a left-hander named Bill Tompkins … It was decided he would go to Calgary, but Bill asked the club to reconsider because it was too cold to play baseball there … Reason we mention this is, Bill’s home is in Anchorage, Alaska!
Harvey Storey comes to town again with a couple of priceless stories … During the winter, the family had the run of the mumps … First it was one of the twins, Charlie, who caught the bug … Later, when the other twin, Harvey, Jr., picked it up, Father Storey kidded the youngster as he sent him to bed … Junior was just as sharp as his father, though … “Unless, you’ve got a bad toothache, dad,” he said, “you’d better crawl in here beside me … The boy was right, too. Harv had the mumps.
Another concerns the spring phemon who turned up in Salem to catch a spot with the Senators’ ball club ... The boy couldn’t run, throw or hit and general manager Hugh Luby finally instructed the lad to go home .. The phenom rebutted, “You’re a dirty soandso. Storey likes me but you’ve got a grudge against me. I can’t do anything about it now, bu there’ll be a place for you in the Hereafter where you’ll get yours, Luby.”

Senators Tell New Storey

Harvey Storey Is New Manager Of Salem
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 30—Harvey Storey, a former Pacific Coast League player, has been named manager of the Salem Senators of the Western International League.
Storey, 36, last year was the playing manager of Vancouver, B.C., of the same league, but was fired after the season ended.
His hitting record with Vancouver was .343 and he led the league in fielding at third base. His batting average for 13 years in the Coast League, where he played for Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, was .310.
Storey, whose home is in Forest Grove, began his professional career with the Portland Beavers in 1935. He is married and is the father of three children.
The announcement was made by Salem’s general manager, Hugh Luby, who recently announced his resignation as playing manager.

Storey And Brenner to Exchange Homes

WIL Managers May Desire To Swap Jobs
LEWISTON, Idaho, Nov. 1 — It appears the 1953 managers of the Lewiston and Vancouver Western International League baseball clubs would like to switch jobs.
Both resigned from their clubs at the end of the season.
Bill Brenner, who as player-manager steered the Broncs to a second-place finish during the second half of the WIL season, was reported earlier to be interested in the Vancouver job. A ruling by George Trautman, boss of the minor leagues, approving his severance from Lewiston Saturday paves the way for him to sign a contract.
Meanwhile, the Lewiston club announced that Harvey Storey, erstwhile manager for Vancouver, has become the eleventh to apply for the position left vacant by Brenner.
Tom Tabor, Lewiston business manager, said a decision on a manager can be expected in the next ten days.
Storey's team finished third during the second half of the season.

CAPS G.M. FREED
Harv Storey Seeks Brenner’s Old Job
LEWISTON, Nov. 1—Just a few hours after George Trautman, president of the minor leagues, had declared former Lewiston manager Bill Brenner a free agent, Harvey Storey, ex-manager of the Vancouver Capilanos, applied for the Broncs’ job.
Tom Tabor, Lewiston business manager, said a decision on a manager there can be expected in the next ten days.
Earlier the Broncs accepted Brenner’s resignation but later maintained that they still owned him as a player.
Brenner contended that when his resignation as manager was accepted his connection with the club was automatically severed also. Trautman said Brenner was right.
“He (Brenner) had signed a player-manager contract and the only way he could have been released of other position would be through unconditional release ot the signing of a new contract as a player…” wrote Trautman.
He added that under baseball law Brenner had no right to resign as either player or manager, but since he did, and since the club accepted the resignation “It is clear … the club cannot withdraw such acceptance.”
Lewiston has the right to appeal Trautman’s decision but business manager Tom Tabor said no appeal is planned.

Storey Story Closed

AT CAP HELM
Stars’ Eddie Malone May Replace Storey
By CLANCY LORANGER
[Vancouver Province, Sept. 11, 1953]
Harvey Storey won’t return as manager of the Vancouver Capilanos in 1954. General manager Dewey Soriano said today he was “disappointed” by the club’s late losing streak that finished their second half flag chances and had decided to make a change.
The decision was not unexpected. Soriano had indicated as the season progressed that he would have liked a man with more color and the fire to stir up the club, which leaned to the listless.
Soriano admitted that the “first half” Caps lacked batting punch, but he felt that the second half additions, particularly Jim Clark, made the locals strong enough to win it all.
“Harvey and I had a talk when he got Clark,” said Dewey, “and we agreed there were no excuses if we weren’t in the fight. So then we hit that eight-game losing streak…”
JOB LINED UP
Storey, highly popular here and one of the league’s best hitters, probably will be back elsewhere in the loop as a manager. He said recently he had an “in case” job lined up, probably at Salem. It’s close to his Oregon home and Hugh Luby wants to get out of uniform and move into the front office permanently.
Outstanding candidate for Storey’s job here would appear to be Eddie Malone, the Hollywood Stars’ catcher whom Soriano tried to sign last spring but couldn’t get away from the Stars.
FIVE COME BACK
The new field boss should be just one of many new faces on next year’s crew. Soriano today listed five men he’s counting on as a nucleus, outside of pitchers: Catcher Bob Duretto, first-baseman Gene Petralli, second-baseman Jack Bukowatz, shortstop Jim Clark, and centre-fielder K Chorlton.
[The Capilanos] picked up a player from Calgary in final payment on the deal that sent Jim Wert there. Outfielder Bill Bonebrake is the man, but it’s likely he’ll be converted into a pitcher.