Sunday, October 14, 2007

Monday, May 21, 1951






               W  L  PCT GB
Vancouver ... 22  8 .733 —
Spokane ..... 20 11 .645 2½
Salem ....... 15 13 .536 6
Tri-City .... 12 14 .462 8
Yakima ...... 12 16 .429 9
Victoria .... 12 17 .414 9½
Tacoma ...... 12 17 .414 9½
Wenatchee ... 11 20 .355 11½


VANCOUVER, May 21—The high-scoring Vancouver Capilanos loaded Victoria's luckless Athletics aboard the Western International baseball league elevator Monday night and pushed the "down" button.
And the Athletics, who were reaching for a first division berth before the fateful series at Vancouver, dropped to a sixth-place tie with Tacoma, only two games out of the cellar, on the 17-0 thrashing administered by the Caps.
The win gave the Caps a sweep of the four-game series with Victoria and extended their current victory string to six straight, one of them the 22-7 drubbing handed Victoria Saturday night. Vancouver pitcher Bob Snyder gave up seven hits to post his eighth straight victory of the season against no defeats.
The Caps started off with five runs in the first inning. Their attack bogged down somewhat in the second when they scored only three but they made up for it with six more in the third. Jim Hedgecock, Victoria's starting pitcher, was mercifully taken out in the fourth after giving up 14 earned runs.
Second baseman Reno Cheso had the fattest night at the plate, hitting five for five and driving in six runs.
Victoria loaded the bases in the bases in the fifth inning with two out but the last man up weakly dribbled down to third for an easy out.
The Vancouver-Victoria clash was the only scheduled W.I.L. game Monday night.
Victoria ........ 000 000 000— 0- 7-1
Vancouver .... 536 201 00x—17-22-0
Hedgecock, Tierney (4) and Martin; Snyder and Ritchey.

TACOMA, May 21—San Diego of the Pacific Coast league spanked its Western International farm team, the Tacoma Tigers, 10-2 in an exhibition baseball game here Monday night.The two teams battled through five scoreless innings before the Padres started their scoring. They made two in the sixth, five in the seventh, another in the eighth and two in the ninth.
Jack Graham and Joe Rowell poled homers over the right field wall. Graham had the best evening with a homer, triple and a single in five trips.
S. Diego ....000 002 512—10-13-0
Tacoma ....000 001 010— 2- 8-1
Kerrigan, Harris (3), Wietelmann (7) and Naragon; Schulte, Theodosis (4), Clark (8) and Sheets, Watson (5).

ONLY GAMES SCHEDULED

TACOMA, May 22 — Vic Buccola's batting average sagged by 23 points during the past week, but his current .402 mark was still comfortably aheadof his nearest rivals in the Western International league willow race, it was revealed in figures released today from the office of Robert B. Abel, W-I president.
Runner-up by virtue of a 15-for-26 week, including one five-for-five performance, was Victoria's Don Pries at .383. His average for the seven games was a cool .577, and he hiked his season's mark 70 points from .313.
In third place at .379 was Yakima's Jerry Zuvela, who also registered a sharp gain during the week, climbing from .348 by clubbing 13 hits in 29 trips.
Vancouver's Dick Sinovic batted in four more runs to increase his league-leading total to 29, while a pair of Victoria tossers, Lilio Marcucci and Bill White, each hit homers to climb into a tie with Buccola for the lead in circuit blows at five apiece. Buccola clouted one boundary belt during the week.
Batting average of the top 12 follows (including games of Sunday, May 20):
                     G  AB H RBI  AVE
Buccola T-C ....... 26  97 39 23 .402
Pries, Vic. ....... 27  94 36 17 .383
Zuvela Yak ........ 24  95 36 11 .379
Navarro, T-C ...... 18  46 17  9 .370
Marcucci, Vic ..... 16 100 36 16 .360
Stetter, Sal. ..... 25  96 34  8 .354
Palmer, Wen ....... 31 111 39 20 .351
Richardson, Spok .. 31 104 36 23 .346
Sinovic, Van ...... 28 113 39 29 .345
Vanni, Spok ....... 31 134 45 14 .336
Serrell, Yak ...... 28 119 40 22 .336

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