W L Pct GB
Wenatchee ..... 64 41 .610 —
Bremerton ..... 56 38 .596 2½
Salem ......... 60 41 .594 2
Tacoma ........ 54 46 .540 7½
Spokane ....... 44 48 .478 14½
Yakima ........ 45 54 .454 16
Vancouver ..... 37 59 .385 21½
Victoria ...... 36 69 .343 28
VICTORIA, Aug. 3—The Victoria Athletics and Spokane Indians ended all square in their four-game series when they split a pair of contests Saturday, the A's batting out a 1-6 triumph in the afternoon and the Indians taking the night game 11-6.
Tony Musgrave, making his A's debut, gave up a pair on unearned runs in the first inning when Ed Murphy dropped a fly ball, but had a two-hitter going into the sixth. He gave up four hits and four runs before Joe Blankenship came in to pitch the rest of the way.
Pete Hughes, Frank Cirimele and Vic Buccola all homered in the eighth inning.
Hughes, Bill Dunn and Bob Paulson all hit solo shots in the second game for Victoria, but an eight-run fourth inning for Spokane sewed up the game. The tallies came on six hits, two bases on ball's and Dunn's error to hand Jim Carpenter the loss and Joe Faria the win.
After the contests, Buccola left to rejoin the Oakland Acorns of the Pacific Coast League to take Les Scarsella's spot on the roster. Jim Stanton will be transfered to Victoria from Idaho Falls of the Pioneer League.
First Game
Spokane ........ 200 004 000— 6 7 2
Victoria ......... 013 501 03x—13 15 4
Tising and Clifford, Varrelman; Musgrave, Blankenship (6) and Stumpf.
Second Game
Spokane ....... 000 821 000—11 16 0
Victoria ........ 001 230 000— 6 7 3
Faria and Clifford; Carpenter, Ferrara (5) and Paulson.
BREMERTON, Aug. 3—Home runs by Bill Reese and Joe Gedzius on two consecutive pitches in the last of the seventh inning earned Bremerton a 3-1 Western International League baseball victory tonight over Vancouver.
Ex big-leaguer Joe Sullivan allowed only three singles, including one to Charlie Mead that brought in a run in the sixth. Eddie Carnett and Ray Orteig had the others. He struck out eight and walked one.
Ronnie Bryant suffered the loss, scattering 10 hits, striking out five and walking one.
Vancouver .......... 000 001 000—1 3 0
Bremerton .......... 000 102 00x—3 10 1
Bryant and Brenner; Sullivan and Paglia.
YAKIMA, Aug. 3—Yakima scored an uphill 13-10 victory over the Tacoma Tigers in the first game of a Western International League doubleheader here tonight.
Yakima won the second contest, 15-7, stopped after seven innings because of a curfew.
First Game
Tacoma .......... 421 120 0—10 11 2
Yakima ........... 032 332 x—13 12 3
Oppelt, Gerkin (3), Jungbluth (4), Jimmink (6) and Kuper; Chapetta, Bohnen (4), Simon (5) and McConnell.
Second Game
Tacoma .......... 030 002 2— 7 10 1
Yakima ........... 000 139 2—15 11 3
Colombo, Greco (6) and Kemper; Romple and McConnell, Gibb (3).
SALEM, Aug. 3—Salem's Senators, making a comeback after an early week slump, slapped the leading Wenatchee Chiefs here tonight, 6-5.
Wenatchee ........ 211 000 100—5 10 4
Salem ............... 010 000 032—6 7 2
McCollum, Babbitt (8) and E. Fitzgerald; Fallin, Gunnarson (5), Wyatt (9) and Kerr.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Saturday, August 3, 1946
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Tuesday, May 21, 1946
W L Pct GB
Salem ......... 16 10 .615 —
Spokane ....... 16 11 .593 ½
Yakima ........ 15 11 .577 1
Wenatchee ..... 15 11 .577 1
Tacoma ........ 13 12 .520 2½
Bremerton ..... 12 13 .480 3½
Vancouver ..... 10 17 .370 6½
Victoria ....... 7 19 .269 9
VICTORIA—Playing listless ball after two innings, the Victoria Athletics absorbed an 18-4 loss to the Wenatchee Chiefs in WIL baseball Tuesday night.
The Chiefs punched out 17 hits off Tony Ferrara and Joe Blankenship and ran wild on the base paths, pilfering no fewer than ten cushions.
Jim Warner, Chiefs centre-fielder, touched off a five-run uprising in the second inning with a two-run homer.
Adams led the Wenatchee attack with a four-for-five night, while Bob Cherry had a pair of hits for Victoria.
Eddie Green, Sacramento farmhand, opened for the Chiefs but was bothered by control trouble, and replaced with Chuck Cronin after 1 1-3 innings. Greene didn't give up any hits, but issued five walks. Ferrara lasted 3 1-3 innings and took the loss, giving up eight hits, walking four and tossing a wild pitch.
Victoria manager Laurel Harney announced Tuesday night that he hopes to have Beans Marionetti and Vic Buccola, both former Oakland players, on hand for Wednesday's game.
Wenatchee ........ 151 361 010—18 17 3
Victoria ............. 030 000 010— 4 6 5
Green, Cronin (2) and Fitzgerald; Ferrara, Blankenship (4) and Mulcahy.
VANCOUVER, May 21—Spokane Indians bounced back to blast a 17-hit barrage off two hurlers for a 9-2 triumph over the Vancouver Canadians here tonight, levelling their Western International League baseball series at a win apiece.
The feature of the fray was a 410-foot home run by Spokane's Bob Patterson, the longest of the season here, as the Indians provided good hitting support for a well-scattered nine-hit pitching effort by Joe Faria.
Alex Palica took the loss pitching four innings before giving way to Bryant in the fourth.
Jimmy Estrada accounted for both Vancouver runs with a third ining single and an eighth frame circuit clout.
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VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 22]—It started to rain about the seventh inning up at Capilano Stadium last night, but as far as our Caps were concerned, it should have rained harder, and sooner. About seven innings sooner.
Syl Johnson’s crew, who looked like a million dollars as they beat Spokane Indians Monday night, gave a few hundred thousand back last night, the Spokes spanking out a 9-2 triumph to even the series at one game apiece.
Although Mel Cole’s Injuns teed off on Alex Palica for two runs in the opening stanza, it looked, for awhile, as if the Brownies were going to pound Spokane’s Joe Faria, the ex-Bellingham hurler, even harder.
But our boys left two men on base in the first, three more in the second, and another pair in the third, when they did manage one counter. After that Faria, seeing that the locals couldn’t hurt him, didn’t worry too much—Jimmy Estrada, who is fast becoming the people’s favorite, rapped out a home run in the eighth, but that was the best we could do.
Meanwhile Palica, who was batted out of the box Saturday night too, got no better, and he left after four frames, eight hits, and five runs. Ronnie Bryant finished up and was touched for four more runs by the powerful Tribe, who brought out their big guns for 17 blows.
CUFF NOTES—Ray Orteig, moved up into the number four cleanup slow when he took over at third base, hasn’t done a thing with the willow … but Manager Syl Johnson is hoping he’ll look like a pitcher tonight, and he’s named the strong righthander to hurl the Caps into a lead over Spokane …Incidentally, there’ll be two games on the Friday holiday, 2:30 and 8 p.m., and just one game, the night tilt, on Saturday … Lanky Bob Patterson, the swift centre fielder for the visitors who has been in somewhat of a batting slump lately, snapped out of it with the season’s longest right field home run … It was well to the left of that owl perched on the fence.
[WILfan note: Jack Lohrke, George Risk and Vic Picetti added three hits each for Spokane … Picetti and Paterson batted in a pair … Estrada singled in Oretieg in the third inning … The Caps left 11 stranded as everyone in the line-up, save pinch-hitter Sid Van Sinderen, had at least one hit.]
Spokane ......... 202 111 119—9 7 1
Vancouver ...... 001 000 010—2 12 2
Faria and Clifford; Palica, Bryant (5) and Brenner.
BREMERTON, May 21—Bremerton edged out Salem in a battle of home runs, 14-13.
Bill Barisoff of the hometown Bluejackets started the homer habit, before his teammate, Bill Reed, walloped one with the sacks full in the sixth, when Bremerton overcame an early Salem lead to go in front 12-8.
Trailing by four in the ninth, Salem got two men aboard and catcher Ted Kerr lofted a circuit clout, but the rally could go no further.
Salem used two pitchers and Bremerton three in the 30-hit fracas.
Salem ........... 230 300 203—13 13 4
Bremerton ...... 001 245 11x—14 17 1
Soderberg, Fallin (6) and Kerr; Holt, Lowman (3), Kittle (9) and Paglia.
YAKIMA, May 21—Tacoma Tigers scored five runs in the first inning and then went on to a 17-2 victory over Yakima Stars in the opening game of a Western International League baseball series Tuesday night before 2,292 fans, the second largest crowd of the season.
The Tigers picked up two more in the second and then had an eight run splurge in the eighth off relief pitcher Dick O'Boyle.
The five runs in the first came on an error, two walks and singles by Earl Kuper and Morry Abbott and Dick Kemper's three run single.
Tacoma ..... 520 000 280—17 15 1
Yakima ...... 011 000 000— 2 8 4
Greenlaw and Kemper; Kralovich, Bohnen (2), O'Boyle (8) and Gibb.
CAPS BATTING
Ron Bryant, .444; Jim Hedgecock, .429, Ray Spurgeon, .333; Reg Clarkson, .288, Bill Brenner, .267; Alex Palica, .267; Jimmy Estrada, .265; Art Bonnell, .261; Cleve Ramsey, .256; Frank Mullens, .248’ Earl Silverthorn, .244; Hunk Anderson, .222; Sid Van Sinderen, .212; Al Kretchmar, .208; Dick Zender, .182; Ray Orteig, .176; Walls Gulan, .074; Bob Snyder, .000.
CAPS PITCHING
Orteig, 1-0; Anderson, 2-1; Hedgecock, 2-2; Bryant, 2-2; Palica, 3-4; Snyder, 0-2.
Saturday, May 18, 1946
W L Pct GB
Salem ......... 15 8 .652 —
Yakima ........ 14 9 .609 1
Spokane ....... 15 10 .600 1
Wenatchee ..... 14 11 .560 2
Tacoma ........ 11 11 .500 3½
Bremerton ..... 10 12 .455 4½
Vancouver ...... 9 16 .360 7
Victoria ....... 7 18 .280 9
VANCOUVER — Wenatchee Chiefs beat Vancouver Capilanos 4-2 Saturday in the first game of a double-header, in the Western International baseball league series here.
Two extra base blows gave the Chiefs two runs in the first and they added two more on errors and such in the fifth. Caps got one back on hits by Jim Hedgecock and Reg Clarkson in the sixth and another in the eighth when Ray Spurgeon bounced a homer over the right edge of the batter's eye.
At night, with the season's top crowd on hand, ace Alex Palica never got started and the Chiefs whacked out 17 hits for a 9-4 win.
He gave up five runs and seven hits in the first two frames and left for a pinch-hitter. Four pitchers and four pinch hitters moved in and out of the game, but the Chiefs kept their advantage.
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VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 20]—Once upon a time Vancouver Capilanos tied a series in the Western International League. We almost said “won a series, but that really would have been a fairy tale.
Leading Wenatchee Chiefs 3-2 in games as they took the field Saturday afternoon, Syl Johnson’s crew booted that one, 4-2, then took a 9-4 trouncing before a capacity night crowd to keep their record clean.
Prospects of the Caps winning their next series, a seven-game effort starting tonight at Cap Stadium against the hard-hitting Spokane Indians are, on the records, not bright to say the least, unless the small-sized miracle that general manager Bob Brown is working on materializes.
Said miracle concerns a first baseman, a mysterious gent Brown says will “do us more good than Bill Wright.” That sounds a little like the Cardinals’ Dick Sisler, but it’s more likely Bill Gray, currently kicking around in the Coast League. In any case, Brown was in touch with Seattle Sunday, and the powerhouse initial sacker should be on his way soon.
The sooner the better, because Mel Cole’s Spokane crew, who feature a powerful attack of Bob Paterson, Bob James, Levi McCormack, Vic Picetti and Fred Martinez, plus some smart hurling by Milt Cadinha, Bob Kinnaman and Dick Powers, have found the Brownies much to their liking to date, winning all six games in the Spokane park.
GOOD TILT
Saturday, the afternoon tilt was by far te best contest, but the manner in which the Brownies lost it failed to cheer the hearts of the best afternoon crowd in years.
The Chiefs picked up two runs in the first inning legitimately but the pair they sent across in the fifth—the winning pair—shouldn’t have happened. Art Bonnell started it off by muffing a ground ball, then a single, an infield out, a passed ball and another boot by Al Kretchmar, who looked very shaky on the weekend, did the damage. Jim Hedgecock was the victim of his mates’ miscues, dropping his second decision of the season against as many wins.
There was never any doubt about the outcome in the game under the lights. Alex Palica was pounded for seven hits and five runs in the first two stanzas and things got worse after that as the Caps went through four pitchers and a total of 16 players.
CUFF NOTES—Syl Johnson says he will use either Hunk Anderson, who tossed three innings Saturday night, or Doug Ford in the opener against Spokane tonight … Ford is back afte a short sulk in Seattle … Earl Silverthorne hot back into action Saturday night and slapped out two blows just to discourage Reg Clarkson, who did pretty well filling up the centre field spot while the regular gardener was nursing his sore ribs … Glen Stetter, Wenatchee’s “goat” in the first two games, got back into action with a vengeance Saturday … He took part in five double plays and a rapped out six hits in seven tries, swatting five-for-five in the night game … Jim Hedgecock had to do most of his own hitting in the afternoon, poling out a double and a single … Ray Spurgeon gave him a hand with a long home run.
First Game:
Wenatchee ...... 200 020 000—4 7 1
Vancouver ....... 000 001 010—2 6 2
Vivalda and Fitzgerald; Hedgecock and Spurgeon.
Second game:
Wenatchee .......... 230 003 010—9 17 4
Vancouver ........... 000 210 100—4 10 2
Logg, Babbitt (4) and Pesut; Palica, Bryant (3), Snyder (5), Anderson (8) and Brenner.
VICTORIA [Colonist, May 19]—Nudging the hard-hitting Spokane Indians, 11-10, in the free-swinging nightcap attraction after dropping the matinee encounter, 8-3, Victoria Athletics finally napped their losing streak in the Western International Baseball League last night at ten straight games.
A’s demonstrated added power at the plate and outhit the Indians in both contests, with the clutch hitting of Les Mulcahy and the home run clouting of Pete Hughes highlighting their triumph in the thrill-packed nightcap.
Finding the range for the first time this season, Hughes kept the A’s in the ball game in the early stages with two circuit blows over the Pembroke Street fence for five runs, while timely hitting by Mulcahy gave the A’s runs when they needed them most.
There was no premium on base hits in the nightcap, with the teams collecting a total of 36 safeties, including three homers, two triples and six doubles. Of this number, 19 were punched out by the revitalized Athletics, with the Indians retaliating with 17 base knocks.
The evening contest was a battle all the way, and the large Saturday night crowd enjoyed every minute of the excitement as first one team and then the other took the lead.
Spokane Indians, fighting to make a clean sweep of the series after winning the first six games, staged a three-run uprising in the ninth inning to tie up the ball game at 10-10, but the A’s finally won the thriller when Bob Kinnaman, relief hurler, walked Steele with the bags loaded and the ball game was over.
Bob “Cannonball” Jensen, husky righthander, went the route for the A’s and chalked up his first victory at the Caledonia Avenue ball lot. He was greeted with 17 base hits, including a homer by Marty Martinez, but managed to pull through.
Indians used three hurlers, with Milt Cadinha, Pete Barisoff and Bob Kinnaman sharing the mound duties, with the latter being charged with the defeat.
The extra-base clouting of Jack Lohrke, Indians’ third sacker, who poked out two homers, one with the sacks populated, featured the matinee attraction, which the Spokane won by an 8-3 score.
Indians pushed over a singleton in the first, two in the fifth, another singleton in the sixth, and four runs in the ninth on Lohrke’s grand slam homer.
Johnny Carpenter worked for eight innings for the A’s, but was taken out of the game for a pinch-hitter in the last of the eighth. Blankenship finished the game for the locals and was on the mount when Lohrke hit his second homer.
“Pee Wee” Bass, southpaw hurler, went the route for the visitors. He gave up ten base hits, six of which were bunched in the early innings when the A\s scored their three markers, and then closed the gate for the remainder of the contest.
The fielding highlight of the game came in the seventh when Murphy took a long fly off Risk’s bat with a spectacular one-handed catch.
First Game
Spokane ........... 100 021 004—8 8 2
Victoria ............ 102 000 000—3 9 0
Bass and Paulson; Carpenter, Blankenship (9) and Mulcahy.
Second Game
Spokane ......... 112 100 113—10 17 2
Victoria .......... 300 020 321—11 19 1
Cadinha, Barisoff (8), Kinnaman (9) and Clifford; Jensen and Mulcahy.
SALEM — Yakima won its fourth game in five nights over the once-brilliant Salem Western International League squad Saturday night, with an 8-5 margin.
Salem, on the bushy side with six errors, sent in four pitchers in a futile attempt to halt Yakima's winning streak.
Bill Garbe, Yakima first baseman, starred with two home runs that drove in five runs. His first home came in the opening inning, with one man on base, and his second, in the seventh, with two on.
Yakima .......... 200 001 311—8 10 0
Salem ........... 000 041 000—5 8 6
Byrd and Gibb; Adams, Fallin (6), Malgradi (8), Gerkin (9) and Salmon.
TACOMA, May 18—Sad Sam Gibson, made his first appearance in a Bremerton uniform tonight and pitched his team to a 13-1 Western International League victory over Tacoma. Gibson pitched four innings and got credit for the win.
The victory game Bremerton a 3-2 series lead.
Bremerton ...... 000 200 900—13 12 3
Tacoma ......... 204 010 202—11 14 1
Lowman, Gibson (3), Medeghini (7), C. Federmeyer (9) and Volpi; Jungbluth, Kasepchcuk (7), Jimmink (7), Hedington (7) and Kemper.
Two New Players To Join Victoria Squad This Week
[[Victoria Colonist, May 19, 1946]
“Beans” Marionetti and Vic Buccola, former members of the Oakland Acorns of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, will arrive in the city Tuesday or Wednesday to join the Victoria Athletics, Manager Laurel Harney announced yesterday. Marionetti, reporred to be a good sticker, is a shortstop, while Buccola is a first baseman. Both are signed players with the Victoria team and will be subject to a 24-hour recall. Addition of the two players is in line with steps being taken by the Victoria Baseball & Athletic Co., Ltd., sponsors of the local W.I.B.L. entry, to bolster the squad. It was also announced yesterday that additional pitching strength for the A’s can be expected shortly. Athletics will continue their home stand at Royal Athletic Park next Tuesday evening when they open a seven-game series with the Wenatchee Chiefs. Single night games are billed for the first three days, with two fixtures scheduled on Friday and Saturday of this week.
Before and After
By Ken McConnell
[Vancouver Province, May 20, 1954]
It was hello and goodbye, as far as Wenatchee is concerned, as this series is the only one the Chiefs will play during the entire season in Vancouver. What a schedule!
Tonight Spokane will be here for a week-long stay and it is imperative that Vancouver do better—much better—in this seven game string.
Faltering in the pinches, lacking punch at the plate, despite their 10 hits Saturday night, the Caps just can’t jell their attack to the point where they can make runs stand up.
The fans were with the Caps, though. Even when the club was down 5-0, the spectators remained staunch in their support.
Toward the end though, the fans tired of attacking two unhappy umpires and started riding the Caps, in the hope, no doubt, the club would show some real fight and probably come up with a miracle.
But we were right out of miracles Saturday.
In fact, we have been devoid of luck; well-tagged balls just being setups for opposing fielders and great efforts turning sour as every attack fails.
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It’s Up To the Caps
It is obvious that Vancouver wants professional baseball. The fans were itching to be pitching with applause Saturday. But, unhappily, the Caps as a club lack color, merely go through the motions and hardly ever “talk it up” in their local displays.
Most of the gang aspire to greater things in baseball and this is the stepping off place for them. They are being watched by scouts from every big league club and they are all the property of teams in higher classifications in organized ball.
Yet even the fans lose patience as defeats pile up. Earl Silverthorne’s return was heartening; the expected comeback of the injured Cleve Ramsey is eagerly awaited.
But ..
“It looked extremely rocky for the Vancouver nine that day,
The score stood two to four, with but an inning to play…”
That’s the trouble, in a nutshell, with the Caps. They have been looking extremely rough all through the season. And so much was expected of them.
It would now appear to be up to Emil Sick and his Seattle colleagues to do some serious thinking about our baseball problem.
After all it is their baby. The fans want pro ball, but they have always had a fairly good brand of semi-pro or senior ball and there s a troublesome part of the setup this year---there should be a difference between senior and pro—and there has not been too much in evidence yet.