Saturday, August 11, 1951

W L PCT GB
Spokane ..... 77 40 .658 —
Vancouver ... 76 43 .639 2
Salem ....... 61 57 .517 16½
Wenatchee ... 57 59 .491 19½
Victoria .... 54 67 .446 24
Tri-City .... 52 68 .433 25½
Tacoma ...... 48 69 .410 28
Yakima ...... 48 70 .407 28½

YAKIMA, Aug. 11 — The Spokane Indians spotted the Yakima Bears two runs in the first inning, then came back to score a 5-3 victory in a Western International League baseball game tonight.
Two Yakima runs crossed in the opening frame as Spokane missed a double play attempt with the bases loaded. Spokane got one back in the fourth as Steve Mesner and Mel Wasley singled, Mesner scored while Yakima completed a double play.
In the sixth, the Indians put the game out of reach. A walk, three singles, an outfield fly and pitcher John Marshall's double drove home four runs.
Spokane ...... 000 104 000—5-10-1
Yakima ........ 200 000 010—3- 6-1
Marshall and Sheets; Boemler and Tiesiera.

VICTORIA, [Colonist, Aug 12, 1951]—It had to happen sooner than later and it was Victoria Athletics’ tough luck that they had to be the opposition when it did.
Impotent offensively for the past two or three weeks as they wasted generally good pitching with a general club batting slump, Vancouver Capilanos ended their hit drought with a vengeance yesterday.
Bill Schuster’s hit-hungry athletes climbed all over three Victoria pitchers and outfielder Gene Thompson for 31 hits and a 24-6 decision yesterday afternoon and picked up 12 more safeties under the lights as they made it a sweep by a 6-2 count.
The double victory gave the Caps a 2-1 series lead and a 10-8 edge in season’s play, and the A’s a severe jolt in their late bit for a first-division berth.
WILD OPENING
The first game became a mere formality in the first inning when the Caps scored eight runs. Bill Osborn had nothing left after giving up four hits, a base on balls and a sacrifice.
Manager Bob Sturgeon made his play to stay in the game by calling on Bill Prior with three runs in, two on the bags and one out. Prior got the first man on a pop fly, gave up a run-scoring single and a walk and was apparently out of it when Bob McGuire hit a liner at Ben Jeffey. Jeffey dropped the ball and it cost the A’s four more runs.
Not wanting to waste Prior, Sturgeon called on Bill Carr and it rapidly became a shambles. The Caps joyously started to fatten their averages, picking on the lean righthander for 12 hits and 10 runs, all earned, in the next two innings. Gene Thompson was called in from left field to finish up and held his own, giving up six runs while the A’s picked up as many off the breezing George Nicholas.
MARTIN HURT
The loss was a costly one. A’s lost the services of Milt Martin, their only catcher, who hurt his shoulder when McGuire unnecessarily threw a block at him as he was scoring and bowled him over hard.
Al Kubacek, who does the receiving for the Eagles, was signed between games and caught the arclight game. The Caps took advantage of the situation to pilfer six bases, setting up three of their runs.
However, the loss was not the fault of the little receiver, who did a fair enough job in a tough spot. Pete Hernandez, always tough for the A’s, scattered six hits and always looked like a winner.
Benefitting most yesterday was John Ritchey, Dick Sinovic and Charlie Mead, the middle of the Vancouver batting order. Sinovic, who had six hits in as many official trips in the first game, wound up with nine for 11, including two doubles, and batted in six runs. Ritchey hit safely six times in 12 tries and batted in four runs while Mead drove across seven teammates with an identical performance.
First Game
Vancouver ..... 837 100 032—24-31-3
Victoria ......... 000 120 030— 6-12-2
Nicholas and Ritchey; Osborn, Prior (1), Carr (2), Thompson (4) and Martin.
Second Game
Vancouver .... 210 010 011—6-12-1
Victoria ........ 100 000 010—2- 6-2
Hernandez and Ritchey; Lorino and Kubasek.

KENNEWICK [Tri-City Herald, Aug. 12]—TRI-CITY swept both ends of doubleheader baseball game in the Braves home park last night. They whipped Salem 6-5 in an overtime opener and won the second Western International league contest 7-3.
An official 1,085 fans saw the two games.
Augle Zande was the winning pitcher in the second game while Nick Pesut and Bill Eddelstein [sic] furnished the artillery.
Pesut drove in two of the runs while Eddelstein sprayed two triples “where they wasn't.” Neil Bryant and Cy Greenlaw each accounted for doubles.
The team fielded by the Braves was made of “whatever was left.” Al Spaeter was out with a dislocated finger and the manager Charlie Peterson had a broken toe.
THE BRAVES’ win made it three in a row over the Senators. Today's game — last of the series — will begin at 7:30 p.m. Hurling for the visiting Salem team will be Bill Bevans, ex-New York Yankees pitching ace.
The Yaklma Bears come here for a series beginning Tuesday night.
Kenny Michaelson won the opener for the Braves. The pitcher subbing as an outfielder smashed a hot one down the third base line with the bases loaded in the ninth inning. The ball was too hot for the Salem third sacker to handle and Clint Cameron raced home with the winning tally.
Bob Costello started the game but was thumbed to the showers in the second inning by Umpire Nels Pearson. It appeared that Costello was winding up to pitch when Pearson called time. The lanky Brave didn't like this interruption of his windup and he told Pearson so.
There was an argument and finally Costello told Pearson what he could do with the ball. Pearson didn't do that but he did throw Costello out of the game.
Jack Brewer relieved and stayed until the seventh when a pinch hitter replaced him. The pinch man didn't do the trick so Buzz Berriesford, the 19-year-old hurler Tri-Clty recently got from Sacramento, took the mound.
He got credit for the win. It was his first. He has a loss against him too.
First Game
Salem ....... 101 003 000—5- 8-0
Tri-City ..... 200 000 301—6-11-2
De George and McKeegan; Costello, Brewer (4), Berriesford (8) and Pesut.
Second Game
Second Game
Salem ...... 000 001 200—3 9 0
Tri-City .... 010 501 00x—7 10 0
Monroe, Lew (4) and McKeegan, Dana (6); Zande and Pesut.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 11 — The Tacoma Tigers outlasted Wenatchee tonight to register an 11 to 8 win here In a Western International League game.
Tacoma ......... 000 102 611—11-14-4
Wenatchee .... 150 000 020— 8- 8-1
Dodeward, Mishasek (6), Clark (7) and Lundberg; Treichel, Kanshin (7), Arnerich (9) and Roberson.

Barrett Fined, Off Three Days for Fisticuffs
[Victoria Colonist, Aug 12, 1951]
Dick Barrett has been fined $25 and suspended for three days for his physical difference of opinion with Reg Patterson, business manager of the Victoria Athletics, before Wednesday’s W.I.L. game here against Yakima.
Bob Abel, league president, made the announcement here last night after a special trip from Tacoma to investigate the matter.Barrett’s suspension, which also cost him three days’ pay, will date from Wednesday. The former Victoria manager goes back on the reinstated list today and will be eligible to pitch against the Spokane Indians.

Salem Hurlers May Be Sold
SALEM, Aug. 11—The Salem Senators business office announced Saturday that two major league clubs "have expressed an interest" in the possible purchase of pitchers Bill Bevens and Sal De George, the two top winners on the Salem Western International league team.
The management did not divulge the identity of the major league clubs.
Sevens has won 17 games and DeGeorge 14 for the Senators. DeGeorge has one of the best earned run averages in baseball, 1.93, while Bevens' ERA is a shade below the 3.00 mark. Sevens is the former New York Yankee who lost a one-hit World series game to Brooklyn in 1947.
Both pitchers are righthanders.

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor [from Aug. 12, 1951]
JOTS AND DOTS . . . HERE AND THERE

When Bill Edelstein stepped out on the mound the other day it was no surprise to manager Charlie Petersen . . . Edelstein had been a pitcher long before he exchanged the toe plate to chase fly balls in the outer gardens.

BATTLE OF THE RADIOS
There's a great big battle browing under nover between the radio stations over the baseball question. When he was last here Bob Abel, president of the WIL said that he would call a meeting within two weeks after the close of the season to attempt to settle the question.
Here's what has been going on. Certain stations (who are well known to Able) have been pirating baseball games and selling them to their sponsors without paying any of the costs. In other words they lift the games from the air and put them on their own station as much as though they had paid for them. One station has gone so far as to use the World Series (it almost cost them their license when the others finally decided to take a hand).
The offenders are a chain organization with stations throughout the state. The way they operate the deal is to use a teletype circuit and relay the game to the home team station and thus make the fans think that they actually are broadcasting.
The upshot of it may be that no stations will be given broadcast rights unless they can guarantee that there will be no reproduction by a member station in the chain (if they belong to one.)

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
That's Perfect!
Great Falls, Aug. 11—Ken Kimball, 24-year-old Idaho Falls right hander, pitched the first perfect game in the history of the Pioneer Baseball league tonight. He tossed the Russets to a 3-0 triumph over Great Falls in the second game of a doubleheader. The slender San Jose, Calif., hurler had perfect control throughout the nine-inning game, striking out 13 of the 27 men who faced him. Not one Great Falls player reached first base.Barrett Fined, Off Three Days for Fisticuffs
[Victoria Colonist, Aug 12, 1951]
Dick Barrett has been fined $25 and suspended for three days for his physical difference of opinion with Reg Patterson, business manager of the Victoria Athletics, before Wednesday’s W.I.L. game here against Yakima.
Bob Abel, league president, made the announcement here last night after a special trip from Tacoma to investigate the matter.
Barrett’s suspension, which also cost him three days’ pay, will date from Wednesday. The former Victoria manager goes back on the reinstated list today and will be eligible to pitch against the Spokane Indians.