Thursday, September 2, 1954

                W  L  Pct GB
Lewiston ..... 40 25 .615 —
Yakima ....... 38 25 .603 1
Salem ........ 34 24 .586 2½
Vancouver .... 31 24 .584 4
Edmonton ..... 28 31 .475 9
Wenatchee .... 21 36 .368 15
Tri-City ..... 20 39 .339 17

VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, Province, Sept. 3]—Don’t want to cut in on Emily Post’s shopping guide, but we must simply tell you about the tremendous fall bargains coming up at Capilano Stadium. Bargains, bargains, bargains!
The Capilanos have two nights left in the regular season, and yes, they’re offering bargains galore. Yes, bargains galore!
Tonight the Caps offer two games—two for the price of one—with a doubleheader scheduled against the Wenatchee Chiefs. But Saturday! Er—bargainers.
OLD BOYS BACK
Not only is there a regularly scheduled professional baseball game between Wenatchee Chiefs and the Capilanos, but also an old-timers’ game, featuring such well-known names of 20 years ago as Coley Hall, Johnny Nestman and Jimmy Watters. All this and clown Norm Trasolini, too.
But there’s more! (Bargains, etc.) There will be no regulation charge that night. You pay what we want. What you feel you can afford. (But just between us, some of the bigger ball players will be standing by the collection boxes with baseball bats, so bring your folding money).
Bill Brenner and his boys promise to do better than they did Thursday, when they lost a close one, 5-4, to the Chiefs. Arnie Hallgren pitched a good game for the locals, despite the 10 walks he gave up, but five errors behind him accounted for a couple of unearned runs and cost him the decision.
CORDELL ON HILL
The local youngster gave up just one hit for the first six innings, with Wenatchee winning it with two runs in the ninth, on three hits, a walk and two Vancouver errors.
Tonight, Bill Brenner will try again for his 22nd victory and John Cordell will pitch the other game. Charley Oubre and John Tierney will start for the visitors.
[WINfan notes: Jake Helmuth gave the Chiefs a 1-0 lead in the first on a sacrifice fly … The Caps scored three in the third inning on four hits off ex-Victoria pitcher Berlyn Hodges. K Chorlton and Marv Williams singled, Bob Wellman doubled in Chorlton, and Ken Richardson singled in the other two … Bob Duretto brought in a final run in the sixth on a single to right after Neil Sheridan walked and was safe at second on a botched force play on Dick Greco's grounder … All six hits surrendered by Hallgren were singles … Jerry Green, Helmuth and Dain Clay got the trio of hits in the ninth, Helmuth tying the game and Clay scoring the game-winner … Hallgren struck out five and committed an error.]
Wenatchee ........ 100 000 112—5 6 2
Vancouver ......... 003 001 000—4 6 5
Hodges and Self; Hallgren and Duretto.

SALEM [Tri-City Herald, Sept. 3]—The Tri-City Braves plunged deeper into the cellar Thursday night with a 6-1 loss to the Salem Senators at Salem and for all practical purposes, that is where they will finish the fast-dying Western International League season.
The loss itself was not unusual—since the beginning of August, the Braves have won but nine games of 33 starts for an anemic .273 percentage.
Don Robertson, who went the distance for Tri-City, was again the loser. It was his tenth defeat against 16 wins.
Tonight, Hal Flinn, Tri-City's only optioned players and Walt Clough, are slated to pitch against Salem. Flinn has an 8-13 record.
The Braves and Senators will play another game there Saturday and a fourth Sunday before returning to Sanders Field for a season-ending three-game series here.
In Thursday's game, Tri-City scored one run in the first when Terry Carroll led off with a double, moved to third on Bob Moniz' single, and scored on Vic Buccola's sacrifice fly.
In the third inning, Salem scored four times with Tom Herrera and Mel Krause each getting singles and moving up on an infield out. Harry Warner was deliberately walked but all three runners scored when a ball got through the outfield.
The win for Salem gave them a chance to gain a half game on idle Lewiston and Yakima, the current leaders. Wenatchee upended Vancouver, 5 -4, to knock the Caps further out of the second-half running.
(Lewiston was reported erroneously as scheduled to open Thursday night at Edmonton. Instead, those two teams start their five-game series Friday night with doubleheader).
Tri-City ........ 100 000 000—1 9 4
Salem ........... 014 000 10x—6 9 0
Robertson and Warren; Herrera and D. Luby.

Only games scheduled.

Wednesday, September 1, 1954

                 W  L  Pct GB
Lewiston ...... 40 25 .615 —
Yakima ........ 38 25 .603 1
Salem ......... 33 24 .579 3
Vancouver ..... 31 23 .574 3½
Edmonton ...... 28 31 .475 9
Wenatchee ..... 20 36 .357 15½
Tri-City ...... 20 38 .345 16½

VANCOUVER [Skip Rusk, Sun, Sept. 2]—Odds on the Western International League tote board Wednesday night had Lewiston Broncs even-money favorites to win the second half title. Yakima Bears were 2-1, Salem Senators closed at 3-1 and Vancouver Caps were the outsiders at 6-1.
These odds were derived following last night’s WIL action which saw Bill Brenner’s Caps defeat Yakima 6-2 as George Nicholas recorded his 16th win at Cap Stadium; Lewiston eke out a 1-0 verdict over Edmonton, and Wenatchee upset Salem 1-0 in 10 innings.
CAPS TRAIL SENATORS
As a result, Larry Barton’s Broncs moved into undisputed possession of first place, one game ahead of Lou Stringer’s Bears. Salem is in third place, two-and-a-half lengths off the pace while Caps are one jump behind the Senators.
Tonight, Pete Hernandez (if he arrives from his home in Hayward, California) will pitch for Vancouver as they open their final four-game series of the season against Wenatchee. If Pete doesn’t arrive in time, Brenner will start Arnie Hallgren.
If Caps sweep this series, they’ll end up with a percentage of .603. If Lewiston splits their remaining six games, they’ll have .606. And if Hugh Luby’s red-hot Senators win five of their seven games, they’ll have .600.
However, they’re still playing baseball and it’s a safe bet that the second-half winner will not be decided until the league officially ends Labor Day (Monday).
GEORGE WAS HOT
Last night, Nicholas pitched one of his better games this season, setting the Bears down on four hits. He allowed three in the second inning when Yakima scored its only two runs, and didn’t allow another until Don Pries’ singled in the eighth.
Caps tied up the game in the fourth when Ken Richardson hit his second home run in two nights with Bob Wellman aboard. They sewed it up in the sixth as Yakima starter Tom Lovrich, a former Cap, lost his control. Tom walked two, hit Neil Sheridan with a pitched ball and gave up singles to Richardson [for one run] and Dick Greco [for two].
[WILfan note: Marv Williams’ single in the seventh accounted for the final Vancouver run … Irv Noren doubled, went to third on a passed ball by Bob Duretto and scored the first Yakima run on Summers sacrifice fly. John Albini then singled, stole second and was doubled in one out later by Dick Briskey.]
Yakima ........... 020 000 000—2 4 1
Vancouver ...... 000 203 10x—6 7 0
Lovrich, Rios (7) and Summers; Nicholas and Duretto.

LEWISTON, Idaho, Sept. 1—Lewiston's Jack Martin won a pitcher's battle with Edmonton's Ken Kimball Wednesday night to give the Broncs a 1-0 Western International League victory over the Eskimos.
A walk he gave up in the second inning after the bases were loaded proved Kimball's downfall. Kimball, who gave up only four walks and four hits in the game, walked Mel Wasley in that frame, then gave up singles to Nick Cannuli and Jack Martin, and a walk to Al Heist.
Martin struck out six and walked only one, while giving up five hits during his tour of duty. He posted his 11th victory and sixth shutout of the year.
The game, Lewiston's last home performance of the regular season, gave the Broncs a 2-1 edge of the three-game series. A crowd of 2,164, the second-largest of the
season, turned out.
Edmonton ........ 000 000 000—0 5 0
Lewiston ......... 010 000 00x—1 4 0
Kimball and Prentice; Martin and Cameron.

WENATCHEE, Sept. 1—Catcher Tom Self's 10th inning single with the bases loaded scored the winning run Wednesday night as Wenatchee shaded Salem, 6-5, in the rubber game of their Western International League baseball series here.
Salem pitcher Jon Briggs, trying for his 20th win, absorbed his 17th loss.
Salem .............. 200 001 002 0—5 10 2
Wenatchee ....... 010 002 110 1—6  8 0
Briggs and Ogden; Shandor and Self.

BASEBALL MAN DIES IN U.S.
Fans Will Remember Wimpy
By KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver News Herald, Sept. 2, 1954]
“Wimpy” Quinn, a well known and tremendous popular baseball figure in Vancouver, died of cancer in Los Angeles Wednesday.
The death came as no surprise to those, locally, who knew Wimpy intimately. He has been ailing with the disease the last four years and as recently as 1952 when he played with Tacoma in the Western International League. It was rumored that the big fellow was close to playing out the string.
DIDN’T LIKE NAME
Quinn was 36 years old, and a big, good-hearted guy who laughed at everybody’s jokes and became everybody’s straight man. He impressed as a native of the Ozarks, even though he was born and raised in the heart of California’s greatest metropolis, Los Angeles.
The “Wimpy” part of the name came naturally. The real surnames were J. Wellington and the suspicion is the J. was for Jason. Wimpy would never explain say exactly.
Bob Brown brought Quinn first in the dying days of his old semi-professional baseball league at Athletic Park. The Los Angeles Angels owned Quinn, then, and he was the third baseman Bob wanted for one of his clubs.
Quinn was never the third baseman he was rumored to be. What didn’t hit him in the chest, shins or teeth usually went by for a base hit. What he did was an automatic out, for the Wimp could throw a baseball through a brick wall.
By the time Brown had moved back into professional baseball with the Capilanos, Quinn was his first baseman. He did better there because there weren’t as many ground balls hit his way.
POWER HITTER
As much as could be criticized about Quinn’s fielding, just as much could be added in praise about his hitting. His power, even though a right-handed hitter, was in right centre field, and he shot so many live drives over Athletic Park’s short porch that he was often accused of having a Nordin site on his bat.
Quinn played for the Capilanos in 1940 under Jimmy Crandall, the old St. Louis Browns catcher, and in 1941 under Don Osborn, the former Chicago Cubs pitcher. Quinn, himself was later to play a season for Los Angeles and he had a war-time trip with the Cubs.
TOO MANY BURGERS
Quinn, though he never talked about himself greatly, did detest his nick-name “Wimpy.”
Everywhere he went, people wanted to see him buy hamburgers. Once, in Bakersfield, where he managed in the twilight of his career, on rambunctious fan—a Quinn lover, naturally enough—brought a dozen hamburgers to the field and gave them to his hero.
The fact of the matter was, though, Quinn hated hamburgers. He gave them all to his team-mates a practice he had performed many times before. It made him, he used to confess, a sort of players’ ball player.

Tuesday, August 31, 1954

                W  L  Pct GB
Yakima ....... 38 24 .613 —
Lewiston ..... 35 29 .605 1
Salem ........ 33 23 .589 2
Vancouver .... 30 23 .566 3½
Edmonton ..... 28 30 .483 8
Wenatchee .... 19 36 .345 15½
Tri-City ..... 20 38 .345 16

VANCOUVER [Skip Rusk, Sun, Sept. 1]—It was photo night at Cap Stadium Tuesday but the Vancouver Caps didn’t fit into the picture which was a double feature co-starring Herman Lewis and the Yakima Bears.
Lou Stringer’s Bears destroyed Bill Brenner’s Caps twice—5-2 and 5-4—to move into first place in the Western International Baseball League, four percentage points ahead of Lewiston Broncs. Salem Senators are a game-and-a-half off the pace, while the Caps occupy fourth spot, three-and-a-half games behind the leaders.
DIDN’T LOOK GOOD
The first 2000 fans—1500 attended the twin bill—received pictures of the Caps, courtesy of the management. And no matter how good Brenner’s boys looked in those glossy prints, they were out of the picture on the playing field.
Sandy Robertson started the seven-inning opener for Vancouver. He lasted three innings, during which time Yakima scored all its five runs. After Don Pries, former Victoria manager, singled in Des Charouhas in the first inning with Yakima’s initial run, Herm Lewis blasted a 350-foot homer over the right field fence.
Sandy managed to get through the second and gained new hope when Ken Richardson smashed a homer over the left field wall in the Caps’ half of the inning. However, the Bears bounced back in the third when Lewis whacked his second straight homer with Pries, who had singled, patiently waiting on first.
BRENNER LOSER
The second game started with Bears scoring three runs off Caps’ Bill Brenner, who was seeking his 23rd victory. They added single runs in the second and fourth innings, then withstood a late Vancouver rally to give John Carmichael his 19th win against 10 defeated.
Caps got one run back in the second, added another when K Chorlton homered in the seventh and had a real rally going in the ninth. First man up, Jim Clark, was safe on an error. He scored from first on Marv Williams’ double and Williams came in on Richardson’s single. Neil Sheridan singled to put men on first and second, but Dick Greco grounded to short, forcing Sheridan and the rally was ended. [Danny Rios pitched to the last two batters to save the game].
[WILFan notes: Brenner was victimised on the first batter he faced in the night game. Catcher Nick Pesut dropped a third strike on Des Charouhas. Pries, Len Noren and John Albini later singled that inning ... from Dick Beddoes’ column in The Sun after the game: The Vancouver Caps have particated in 41 baseball games this season which have been decided by one run, and have won 20 ... Ex Cap Manager Harvey Storey is getting $1,100 to play for the Lewiston Broncs]
First Game
Yakima ........ 302 000 0—5 7 0
Vancouver ... 010 001 0—2 3 2
Edmunds and Summers; Robertson, Bowman, (4) and Duretto.
Second Game
Yakima ......... 310 100 000—5  8 2
Vancouver .... 010 000 102—4 12 1
Carmichael, Rios (9) and Summers, Brenner and Pesut

LEWISTON, Idaho, Aug. 31—Edmonton Eskimos bunched four runs in the fourth inning Tuesday night to snap Lewiston's six-run winning streak with a 4-3 victory over the Western International League leaders.
The Broncs snuffed out an Eskimo scoring threat in the first inning with a double play and the game went scoreless until the fourth when Edmonton tapped Bronc hurler Guy Fletcher for four singles, which, combined with two Lewiston fielding errors, won the game. Only one run was unearned.
Lewiston countered in the bottom of that frame with one run on a double and a single, and in the eighth Larry Barton brought in two runs with a homer.
Edmonton starter John Conant was the winning pitcher. The two teams meet today for the deciding game of their three-game series.
Edmonton ......... 000 400 000—4 7 2
Lewiston .......... 000 100 020—3 8 2
Conant, McNulty ( ) and Prentice; Fletcher, Marshall (8) and Cameron.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 31—Wenatchee slammed out 13 hits off three Salem pitchers here Tuesday night to win 9-5 and even the series at one win apiece.
Jerry Green, Wenatchee lead-off better, slammed the first pitch of the game out of the park to start the winner's run parade.
Salem ............. 011 030 000—5 10 1
Wenatchee ..... 140 201 01x—9 13 0
Rayle, Roenspie (2), Johnson (4) and Ogden; Hodges, Romero (2), Waters (5) and Self.

Hemphill Released By Braves
KENNEWICK [Tri-City Herald, Sept. 1]—Tri-City doesn't play until Thursday when they journey to the Oregon capital for a four-game series there. Then Sunday and Monday, the same two teams come here for a season-ending series.
General manager Eddie Taylor said today the series here will be called "baseball appreciation nights." All passes for the two nights, except working press passes, naturally, will be canceled.
Taylor also announced that pitcher Jack Hemphill, who had a 4-8 record this season has been released.

Sports Notes
BY GIL GILMORE
[Tri-City Herald, Sept. 1, 1954]

One of those who has passed quietly from the Western International league baseball scene near the tail end of this season is umpire Lowell Fulk of Wapato.
Fulk was dismissed recently by league president Robert Abel and although no reason was given it is generally felt the dismissal grew out of a rhubarb between the ump and Salem's firstbaseman Harry Warner.
The ruckus, which happened in a game with Yakima, resulted first in a three-day suspension for Warner, which was later cut to one day. It was charged that Warner "pushed umpire Fulk" which, ordinarily, would have resulted in an indefinite suspension. And now it is voiced around that Hugh Luby, Salem general manager, and admittedly a power in the league, pulled strings that enabled Warner to return to active duty.
This, in itself, would indicate, that WIL pennants are not decided by play on the field but rather by "politics" in league circles.
And as further evidence, one has to but cite the statement shortly thereafter of Bruce Williams, president of the Salem club and league vice president who said bluntly:
"We've had the lousiest umpiring in the history of the league this season."
But despite this, and in effort to clear any cries of "favoritism," it can be reported that the dismissal of Fulk was in the making long before the Warner incident.
And since Tri-City and playing manager Edo Vanni had a hand in the matter, it might be well to start from there.
* * *
Reached Climax In Tie Game
Now through the season, Vanni had been having rows with Fulk. This in itself doesn't mean much, because you could substitute the name of any one of the other WIL umps for Fulk, and the statement would be just as true.
However, things reached a climax when Tri-City and Lewiston played a 12-inning tie game there July 24. In one of the later innings, Artie Wilson uncorked one that called over the leftfield wall.
Fulk ruled that the ball was foul, and this brought Vanni out with a roar. Again, that isn't unusual since any time a Tri-City batter hits one foul within 10 feet of the pole, Edo is going to come out shouting, "You can never tell," he contends, "maybe the ump might give you one."
But Tri-City has other players on the roster who are not inclined to debate close calls nor see things with a distorted vision. And all will contested Artie's blow was a fair ball. So we will mark it down as just an ump's mistake.
* * *
Edo Talked Way Out Of Fine
Anyhow, since this one really was fair, and eventually cost Tri-City a game, Edo was a little more violent than usual, received the boot and was in line for a heavy fine.
However, in the communications with the league office that followed Vanni fast-talked himself out of the fine and invited league president Able to come over and see Fulk in action.
Edo even went so far as to make the impossible promise that he would be on his good behavior and wouldn't be involved in any rows, rhubarbs or ruckuses.
Abel came to Sanders for one of the games during the Lewiston series to check on Fulk. He was also treated to the spectacle of several Lewiston and Tri-City ballplayers fist-fighting around second base. The fight was touched off by Lewiston shortstop Nick Cannuli, and naturally, Tri-City's Edo Vanni.
I have no way of knowing what impressions Abel got of Fulk's ability that night, although as it was commented here before, the fight was so obviously in the making that prompt action by the ump could have presented the entire incident.
But in any case, all this shows that satisfaction with Fulk, and the events leading up to his dismissal, started long, long before the Salem Harry Warner incident,
* * *
Umps Weak Spot In Game
This business about umpires is complicated to no end but the officiating is probably the biggest weakness in professional baseball.
First off, it takes some kind of a peculiar makeup to be an ump. For what ordinary person would subject himself to a life with almost no friends, and where it may be detrimental to even have casual acquaintances, plus the prospect of being insulted by strangers, for no more pay than the average minor league scale.
Even raising the wages isn't likely to up the standards of the profession because to the average Joe, you couldn't pay him enough to take the job.
You'll have to concede the men who take the job must love the game, and they are honest, but the field to select from is so narrow, it isn't always easy to find those who are competent.
Yet so much hangs on the decisions of the ump that only the very best, from the majors to the D leagues, should rule.
* * *
Jess Said They Get Worse
Jess Dobernic, Tri-City pitcher who isn't inclined to create much of a fuss over the decision of umpires, believes the situation gets worse each year and doesn't look for any improvement.
"How can there be?" Jess asks. "They've got the same umps they've always had. All they can do is" get worse."
Jess's solution: "The only thing would be some kind of an electric eye device back of home plate calling the balls and strikes."
* * *
Victorians At Funeral
Up in Victoria, some 40 persons attended the burial ef4he Victoria Baseball and Athletic company last week. The 40 were but a small part of the 700 or so who owned stock in the defunct enterprise.
* * *
Fletcher Pitch Solved
Vanni says he has solved the mystery of Lewiston pitcher Guy Fletcher's unorthodox pitch.
"Ya notice only Ed Garay catches when Fletcher pitches? You know why Clint Cameron doesn't catch for him? Because Cameron doesn't chew tobacco and can't work up enough spit in his glove. That's how they load 'em."
What about Edo? Every time he goes to the plate at Lewiston, some individual, always wants to check up and see if he is using a corked bat.

Monday, August 30, 1954

                W  L  Pct GB
Lewiston ..... 39 24 .619 —
Yakima ....... 36 24 .600 1½
Salem ........ 33 22 .600 2
Vancouver .... 30 21 .588 2
Edmonton ..... 27 30 .474 9
Tri-City ..... 20 38 .345 16½
Wenatchee .... 18 36 .333 16½

LEWISTON, Aug. 30—If the Edmonton Eskimos don't put the deep freeze on Lewiston, the boys from Idaho should win the Western International League second half pennant.
The Broncs play their remaining eight games against the Northerners. The teams meet twice more in their current series at Lewiston then move on for a six-game stand at Edmonton.
And a quirk in the schedule, brought about by Victoria's withdrawal last month, may work in Lewiston's favor. The Broncs' three closest competitors—Yakima, Salem and Vancouver—all have fewer games to play and must face each other at least twice. Any kind of an even break would put the Idahoans in the driver's seat.
The Broncs elevated themselves a notch higher Monday night at the expense of Edmonton, heading the Eskimos, 6-2 in the first game of their three-game series. The win increased Lewiston's lead to 1½ games over Yakima. The Bears' scheduled contest at Vancouver was postponed because of conflict with a football game. The teams will play a doubleheader Tuesday night.
Edmonton built up a 2-0 first inning lead that held up until the fifth inning when Lewiston pushed across four runs. The scoring came on a single, a double by Larry Barton and three walks. A lone run in the seventh when Clint Cameron doubled in Don Hunter, and another counter in the eighth ended the scoring.
The Eskimos two runs in the first frame were scored off four singles.
Rain held up the start of the game for 15 minutes, then drenched the field during the ninth inning.
Edmonton ..... 200 000 000—2 8 2
Lewiston ....... 000 040 11x—6 9 2
Worth and Partee, Prentice (8); Yaylian and Cameron.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 30—Salem topped Wenatchee, 9-7, to move into a percentage tic with Yakima for second place.
Salem rallied for four runs in the top of the ninth to salvage its game at Wenatchee. The Chiefs had led since the first inning when they drove Tom Herrara to the showers with five runs made on seven singles.
The Senators teed off on starter Charlie Oubre and reliefer John Tierney for five hits in the ninth.
Consecutive doubles by Dennis Luby and Gene Tanselli tied the count. The eventual winning run was scored when Bob Kellogg's bad hopper Rot by second baseman Tony Rivas for a single. Luby led the Senators' attack with three doubles.
The same teams meet again Tuesday night.
Salem ........... 100 300 104—9 14 2
Wenatchee .... 510 000 100—7 14 3
Herrera, Franks (2) and Ogden; Oubre, Tierney and Self.

Yakima at Vancouver, postponed.

Sunday, August 29, 1954

                W  L  Pct GB
Lewiston ...... 38 24 .613 —
Yakima ........ 36 24 .600 1
Salem ......... 32 22 .593 2
Vancouver ..... 30 21 .588 2½
Edmonton ...... 27 29 .482 8
Tri-City ...... 20 38 .345 16
Wenatchee ..... 18 35 .340 15½

SALEM, Aug. 29—The only people not laughing in this Oregon city Sunday were the Vancouver Capilanos. For it was a comedy of errors at Waters Field—eight of them—committed by the Caps in the second game of a twin-bill, swept by the Salem Senators by scores of 8-4 and 10-4.
Eddie Murphy started the error parade in centre field, and was followed by second baseman Marv Williams, with three, and two each by third baseman Ken Richardson and catcher-turned-shortstop Bob Duretto.
Add to that a passed ball by outfielder-turned-catcher Danny Holden, and a wild pitch by outfielder-turned-relief pitcher Arnie Hallgren.
Victimised by the inept play was Vancouver starting pitcher, who was responsible for eight runs in the first inning and a third—only one of them earned. He was bailed out by Hallgren, who gave up only two runs the rest of the way, one earned, allowing four hits, walking five and striking out seven.
Perez batted in three runs with a pair of doubles for the Senators, while Harry Warner and Jim Deyo brought in a pair each.
Marv Williams had gotten Vancouver off to a 1-0 start in the first inning by doubling in K Chorlton, who started the game with a base hit. Bob Duretto’s homer in the third accounted for the three remaining Vancouver runs.
The Caps committed a comparatively-few three errors in dropping the opener, Williams, Bob Wellman and Duretto being the culprits. They resulted in only six of the eight runs off George Nicholas being earned.
Harry Warner homered and brought in three runs, while Duretto accounted for all of Vancouver’s runs with a three-run double in the second and a single in the fourth that scored Dick Greco, who had doubled.
Jon Briggs, the WIL strikeout and walk leader, added three whiffs and a base on balls to his totals.
First Game
Vancouver ...... 030 100 0—4  6 3
Salem ............ 210 032 x—8 12 2
Nicholas and Pesut; Briggs and Ogden.
Second Game
Vancouver ...... 103 000 000— 4  8 8
Salem ............ 440 101 00x—10 12 1
Cordell, Hallgren (2) and Pesut, Holden (3); Roenspie, Johnson (4) and D. Luby.

LEWISTON [Tri-City Herald, Aug. 30]—The Tri-City Braves will take the next three days off from play and let the other six teams in the Western International league hassle over second-half honors.
The Braves were originally scheduled to play the high-class Coos Bay, Ore., semi-pro team this week but general manager Eddie Taylor said today the games were called off because of constant rain along the Oregon coastal area.
The vacancy in the league schedule was caused by the demise of the Victoria entry.
With the Tri-City out of it, the race for top honors should force other teams to take over first place on their own for a while in place of getting there by crawling over the backs of the Braves.
In recent weeks, Salem climbed to first place by winning three of four games from Tri-Clty. But the Senators didn't stay there long. Tri-City then went to Lewiston for four games, and dropped all four, and the Broncs are again in first place.
If the pattern continues for the rest of the dismal and fast-dying season, Salem will be facing Vancouver in the playoffs because the Senators will have at it with Tri-City for the last seven games of the season.
Four of them will be at the Oregon Capital beginning Thursday and three of them here on Sunday and Labor Day.
The Broncs took both ends of the twin bill from the Braves, 3-2, and 8-2, Sunday to move into first.
Homers accounted for the scoring for both teams. Hal Flinn, the losing pitcher in the first game, hit one but Clint Cameron, the Lewiston catcher, knocked out the winning homer in the seventh.
Cameron's bat also accounted for the Lewiston win in the second game. His second homer came in the fourth inning with two on. In the third inning, he drove in two more with a double.
For Tri-City playing manager Edo Vanni homered with one on for Tri-City's two runs.
First Game
Tri-City ......... 001 010 000—2 10 1
Lewiston ....... 000 200 01x—3  8 1
Flinn and Warren; Orrell and Cameron.
Second Game
Tri-City ......... 100 001 000—2  8 2
Lewiston ....... 122 300 00x—8 10 0
Thomason, Robertson (3), Hemphill (8) and Warren; Martin and Cameron.

YAKIMA, Aug. 29—The Yakima Bears skirted past Salem and Vancouver in the Western International League standings by trouncing Edmonton, two out of three games in their series. The Bears won both ends of a Sunday twin bill, 7-0 and 6-1.
Yakima hurler Tom Lovrich fashioned a neat one-hitter in the Bears' seven-inning opener. He was nicked for a first inning single by Augie Amorena, the Eskimos only hit of the game.
Lon Summers was the big mouse with the bat. The Yakima catcher hit a grand slam homer in the third inning of the opener and added another round-tripper with two on in the sixth frame of the nightcap.
Danny Rios had some early inning trouble in the second game but settled down and gave up only six hits for the victory.
First Game
Edmonton ...... 000 000 0— 0 1 0
Yakima .......... 205 300 x—10 5 0
McNulty and Partee; Lovrich and Summers.
Second Game
Edmonton ...... 200 100 000—3  6 2
Yakima .......... 000 204 00x—6 10 2
Widner, Manier (6) and Prentice; Rios and Summers.

Saturday, August 28, 1954

               W  L  Pct GB
Vancouver ... 31 19 .620 —
Lewiston .... 36 24 .600 —
Yakima ...... 34 24 .586 1
Salem ....... 30 22 .577 2
Edmonton .... 27 27 .500 6
Tri-City .... 20 36 .357 14
Wenatchee ... 18 35 .340 14½

SALEM, Aug. 28—Bill Brenner notched his league-leading 21st victory Saturday night as he scattered nine hits in leading the Vancouver Capilanos to a 1-0 shutout of the Salem Senators in the second game of a twin bill.
Vancouver swept the home club, winning the first contest 7-2 behind Keith Bowman’s five-hit pitching.
Brenner allowed no hits to fall for extra bases, and only had trouble with Gene Tanselli, who touched him for three. Brenner walked three and strike out three.
Joe Rayle allowed only five Vancouver hits but, unfortunately, two were all Vancouver needed. Marv Williams singled in the fourth inning and was doubled home by Bob Wellman.
In the opener, Tanselli proved troublesome again, as he had two of the five hits allowed by Bowman, who allowed six walks, but struck out eighth for his first win in a Vancouver uniform. Only one of the runs he gave up was earned, thanks to shortstop Jim Clark’s error.
Ken Richardson singled in a pair of runs in the fourth inning and Wellman and Clark both hit sacrifice flies.
First Game
Vancouver ...... 110 300 2—7 9 1
Salem ............ 000 100 1—2 5 0
Bowman and Duretto; Herrera, Johnson (4), Franks (5) and D. Luby
Second Game
Vancouver ...... 000 100 000—1 5 0
Salem ............ 000 000 000—0 9 1
Brenner and Pesut; Rayle and Ogden.

YAKIMA, Aug. 28 — The Edmonton Eskimos crashed through with four runs in the fifth inning Saturday night to subdue Yakima, 8-4, and even their Western International League baseball series at a game apiece.
Trailing 4-3 entering the inning, the Eskimos picked up their four tallies on a walk, singles by pitcher Ken Kimball and Bob Brown, a double by John McKeown and a triple by Andy Skurski.
Yakima chased in three runs in the second and ended its scoring in the fourth on Lon Summers' none-on homer.
The win went to Kimball who went the distance allowing seven hits.
Yakima ends its home season here Sunday in a doubleheader with Edmonton.
Edmonton ........ 001 240 100—8 12 3
Yakima ............ 000 204 00x—6 10 2
Widner, Manier (6) and Prentice; Rios and Summers.

LEWISTON, Idaho, Aug. 28—The Lewiston Broncs used four double plays Saturday to snuff out virtually every Tri-City scoring threat as they whipped the Braves 9-1 to take a 2-0 lead in their four-game Western International League series.
John Marshall gave up eight hits in pitching the win for the Broncs, who are fighting to regain first place in the league. A walk to Edo Vanni when the bases were loaded and two men out in the ninth gave Tri-City its lone run. It was Marshall's 15th victory against 12 losses.
The Broncs, who got 13 hits off Tri-City hurler Jack Hemphill, bunched three runs in the first inning on a single, double and two walks. Two singles and an error gave them another run in the second, and Clint Cameron's home run brought in three of four runs made in the sixth.
Cameron got four hits in five times at bat for four runs batted in.
The two teams wind up their series in a doubleheadcr on Sunday.
Tri-City ........ 000 000 001—1 8 2
Lewiston ...... 310 004 01x—9 13 2
Hemphill and Johnson; Marshall and Garay, Cameron (6).

Friday, August 27, 1954

               W  L  Pct GB
Salem ....... 30 20 .600 —
Yakima ...... 34 23 .596 ½
Vancouver ... 29 19 .596 ½
Lewiston .... 35 24 .593 ½
Edmonton .... 26 27 .491 5½
Tri-City .... 20 35 .364 12½
Wenatchee ... 18 35 .340 13½

YAKIMA, Aug. 27—John Carmichael picked up his 18th win to lead Yakima to a 10-4 win over the Edmonton Eskimos Friday night in WIL play here.
Edmonton ........ 000 002 020— 4  9 3
Yakima ............ 103 401 10x—10 14 3
Conant, Manier (4) and Partee, Prentice (8); Carmichael and Summers.

LEWISTON [Tri-City Herald, Aug. 29]—On Friday evening, Don Robertson failed in his bid for his 17 victory when Lewiston scored five runs in the third inning and went on to a 7-5 win.
The Broncs bobbled the ball five times but Tri-City couldn't get the winning runs across.
Jess Dobernic took over in the third, put out the fire and was taken out for a pinchitter in the ninth.
Tri-City ......... 020 100 101—5 9 1
Lewiston ....... 005 020 00x—7 12 5
Robertson, Dobernic (3), Clough (9) and Johnson; Fletcher and Garay.

Vancouver at Salem, postponed, rain.

WIL STATISTICS
(Compiled by William J. Weiss, Official Statistician, San Mateo, Calif. Averages include games of Sunday, August 22, except Wenatchee at Lewiston (tie), July 21; Vancouver at Lewiston, Aug. 16, 17 (2), 18) .
TEAM BATTING
Vancouver, .305; Tri-City, .291; Lewiston, 281; Yakima, .277, Edmonton, .277; Wenatchee, .275; Salem, .274.
Hits, Tri-City, 1195; Doubles, Tri-City, 208; Triples, Wenatchee, 40; Home runs, Vancouver, 96; Bases on Balls, Lewiston, 630; Strike outs, Lewiston, 657, Runs Batted in, Lewiston, 657; Hit Batsmen, Wenatchee, 40, Sacrifice Hits, Tri-City, 142.
TEAM FIELDING
Yakima, .971; Edmonton, .968; Vancouver, .967; Salem, .964; Lewiston, .964, Wenatchee, .960; Tri-City, .960.
Errors, Wenatchee, 192; Double plays, Salem, 127.
BATTING LEADERS
Percentage, Marv Williams, Van., 359; Runs, Al Heist, Lew., 117; Hits, K Chorlton, Van., 163; Total Bases, Chorlton, Va., 237; Two Base Hits, Bob Moniz, T.C., 39; Three Base Hits, Herman Lewis, Yak., 13; Home Runs, Bob Wellman, Van., 19; Sacrifice Hits, Dain Clay, Wen., 23; Stolen Bases, Chorlton, Van., 25; Bases on Balls, Heist, Lew., 102; Runs Batted In, Wellman, Van., 101; Strikeouts, Tom Munoz, Wen., 108.
PITCHING LEADERS
ERA., Jon Briggs, Sal., 2.42; Wins, Brenner, Van., 19; Losses, Billy Joe Waters, Wen., 15; Strikeouts, Briggs, Sal., 198, Bases on Balls, Briggs, Wen., 144; Innings Pitched, Bill Brenner, Van., 245; Complete Games, Brenner, Van., 21; Home Runs Allowed, John Marshall, Lew., 20.




Name                 G   AB  R   H  RBI  Ave
Williams, Van ..... 102 393 100 141  76 .359
Greco, Van ......... 84 294  65 104  79 .354
Wellman, Van ....... 99 366  72 130 101 .355
Chorlton, Van ..... 106 460 102 163  71 .354
Vanni, TC .......... 48 216  31  75  41 .347
Storey, Lew ........ 63 230  34  79  36 .344

Week’s Work
By CLANCY LORANGER
[Vancouver Province, Aug. 28, 1954]
WEDNESDAY—About people: There has been a definite shortage of baseball scouts at Capilano Stadium this summer … Guess they don’t figure Ken Richardson and John Cordell are prospects … One finally turned up this week: Marv Scott, WIL and Pioneer League scout for the Chicago Cubs … Marv was taking a good look at Pete Hernandez, as a New York Giant scout did recently when the club was on the road.
THURSDAY—The WIL batting race is one of the best in years, especially to what Vancouver Capilano followers there are … It’s a tossup among four Caps for the title, with Marv Williams, Dick Greco, Bob Wellman and K. Chorlton currently running 1-2-3-4 in the league.
FRIDAY—Baseball is now officially buried in Victoria … Only 40 of the 700 shareholders attended a meeting this week at which the company quietly disbanded.