Wednesday, May 16, 1951

               W  L Pct. GB
Vancouver ... 17  8 .680 —
Spokane ..... 16 10 .615 1½
Tri-City .... 11 10 .524 4
Salem ....... 12 11 .522 4
Victoria .... 12 12 .478 4½
Yakima ....... 9 14 .391 7
Wenatchee ... 10 16 .385 7½
Tacoma ....... 9 15 .375 7½

TACOMA, May 16—Bob Snyder racked up his seventh consecutive win in pitching Vancouver to a 4 to 3 Spokane victory over Tacoma in a Western International league baseball game Wednesday night.
The Capilanos grabbed a two-run lead in the first inning and added insurance tallies in the sixth and eight frames. Tacoma almost tied the game in the ninth, but Snyder forced Jose Bache to hit into a game-ending double play.
Vancouver .. 200 001 010—4 14 1
Tacoma ...... 000 002 001—3 6 3
Snyder and Ritchey; Barta and Watson.

WENATCHEE, May 16 — Little Tommy Breisinger, Wenatchee southpaw, threw a five-hit win Wednesday night as Wenatchee defeated Spokane 7 to 1 in a Western International league baseball game.
Breisinger racked up his first win after four straight losses. The Wenatchee hurler held Spokane runless until the sixth when the Indians scored their only run on
successive singles by Edo Vanni, Steve Mesner and Ken Richardson.
Spokane ........ 000 001 000 — 1 8 3
Wenatchee ..... 111 400 00x — 7 10 1
Conant, Martin (5) and Melcenheimer, Breisinger and Len Neal.

YAKIMA, May 16 — The Victoria Athletics treated three Yakima hurlers roughly Wednesday night as they pounded out a 20 to 0 win over the Bears in a Western International league baseball game.
Victoria collected an even 20 hits from three Yakima moundsmen.
The Athletes' big inning was the third when 10 runners crossed the plate, including
two chased in by Bill White's homer. Victoria southpaw Jim Hedgecock spaced four hits.
Victoria .... 03(10) 020 005—20 20 0
Yakima ...... 000 000 000—0 4 0
Hedgecock and Martin; Del Sarto, Anderson (3), Tiesiera (4) and Brenner.

KENNEWICK, May 16—Salem unleashed a 16-hit attack to defeat Tri-City 9 to 5 in a Western International league baseball game Wednesday night.
Salem roared to a four-run lead in the first inning. The Senators put together four singles and a double. Catcher Bill Beard's single chased across two of the runs.
Salem scored two more in the third, one in the fourth and two in the ninth to outdistance the Braves. Buddy Peterson's seventh-inning home run with two aboard accounted for three Tri-City runs but Aldon Wilkie came on and held the Braves runless the rest of the route.
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KENNEWICK, May 17 [Herald]—The bounding Tri-City Braves who have been bouncing around
in third place of the Western nternational league lately bounced one again last night.
Since the season started the Braves have had only two prolonged spells. The first came when they dropped four games in a row and the second when they snapped the first by putting together five consecutive victories. Since then they've been winning and losing every other game in methodical clock like style. They won Tuesday's game from Salem so Wednesday was their turn to lose. They did, 9-5.
The victory left the series even with the rubber match set for 8 p.m. tonight. If the Braves hold fast to their habit they should win this one. Lou McCollum will try and get it and the veteran (2-2) right hander, who lost the season opener to the Senators, will try to even up that score too. A left hander, Ludwig Lew, will take the hill for the Senators.
Spokane opens a four-game series here on Friday.
Cy Greenlaw made his third start last night and was charged with the defeat. Reliever Bob Costello making his fourth "fireman" appearance took over in the first with two out and was in turn lifted by Manager Charlie Petersen in the fourth. Ken Michelson, who apparently likes putting out fires better than starting games, then took over and choked the Senators with five hits. But the game was lost by the second of the third.
PITCHING IS PROBLEM
Ray McNulty notched the Saem victory although manager Hugh Luby sent Aldon Wilkie in for the last two innings after the Tri-City team had combed McNulty for three runs in the seventh.
Pitching continued to be the big problem for the Braves. Of the 26 games played thus far only seven starters have managed to go the full distance, Joe Nicholas had done it three times while McCollum and Zande each have pair of completed games.
Greenlaw after getting the first hitter, Ritchie Myers in a high foul, gave up four succesive hits which accounted for two runs. Then with two out Greenlaw walked Glenn Tuckett to load the sacks. That brought in Costello from the bullpen. Catcher Bill Beard greeted him with a single and McNulty followed with another. Two runs scored on Beard's slash and only a strike by Artie Wilson from the outfield which cut down Tuckett when he tried to score from second on McNulty's blow prevented a fifth in that inning.
Costello scored the first Tri-City run when Al Spaeter tripled him in to open the Braves' fifth. The second baseman was plated on Buddy Peteron's high fly to the outfield. Peterson put on a display of hitting power last night with a smash over the left field wall in the seventh that also found Vic Buccola aboard the bases.
Aside from a mental boot by Neil Bryant the Braves infield continued to play tight baseball as did the Senators. Both combinations robbed, and were robbed alike of potential base hits that were turned into outs.
Peterson may have gotten that extra punch onto his home run blow from a rhubarb he iiad with plate umpire George Behringer just before he poked it. Peterson took exception to a called strike, as did many other batters last night. He hit McNulty's next pitch into Port Orchard.
Salem ....... 402 100 002—9 16 1
Tri-City ..... 000 020 300—5 6 0
McNulty, Wilkie and Beard; Greenlaw, Costello, K. Michelson and Pesut.

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor [from May 17/61]
“What,” sputtered Al Spaeter, “do you have to hit on this club to get near the top. Here I'm doing as well as I did last season with a .312 average and yet my name is so far down the list I got eye-strain just try to find it.” At that Al has a good point, he was llth on Tuesday's list of Brave batting averages. Going into Tuesday's game the Braves had been at bat 591 times and hit safely 211 times. That's a stupendous team batting average of .357. Only two regulars were below the .300 mark and Neil Bryant's .291 was casting a long shadow on it.
The question that naturally follows is how in the world can a team hitting like that get beat? Well, quite a few of those 291 blows came in such games as the 21-5 victory over Yakima. Then there are other games scores as 12-10, 12-8, and 13-8. The Braves won the latter two and lost the first so right there you have a run total of 35, and it took some hitting to get them. Yet here are a couple of scores they lost by where they were still hitting. Like 9-6, to Salem, and 9-7 to Tacoma. That answers a big part of the question.
BETTER THAN ALL SEASON
Charlie Peterson had his Braves running on Salem's catcher Jim McKeegan Tuesday night and both Spaeter and Artie Wilson were successful in pilfering second. That is twice as many bases as the Braves had stolen all season up to that point.
A LITTLE LATE, BUT THEN
We're probably a little late getting around to it but Tri-City and Tacoma tied a league record a short while back. One that has been on the books since 1940 too. The 98 times the two teams went to bat in their recent 7-6 ball game in Tacoma tied a record set by Vancouver and Salem. The Braves stepped up to the plate officially 51 times and the Tigers 47. That 51 total is one more than Vancouver's 50 when the record was first established. Not too long ago the Braves tied another league mark when they and Yakima hit five triples in a single game. . .
That one base runner which Salem left stranded Tuesday nieht must be a near-record if you don't count those perfect games. It's for sure that it is at least within one of being a record or tieing one, and how much closer can you get.

Tuesday, May 15, 1951

               W  L  Pct GB
Vancouver ... 16  8 .667 —
Spokane ..... 16  9 .640 ½
Tri-City .... 11  9 .550 3
Salem ....... 11 11 .500 4
Victoria .... 11 12 .478 4½
Yakima ....... 9 13 .409 6
Tacoma ....... 9 14 .391 6½
Wenatchee .... 9 16 .360 7½

TACOMA, May 15 — Southpaw Bob Schulte pitched Tacoma to a 5 to 3 win over the Vancouver Capilanos Tuesday night.
Schulte held the Caps to seven hits - all singles. The two Cap Curlers stopped Butch Moran's consecutive hitting streak at 20 games.
Tacoma's Tigers scored three runs in the third on three singles and an error. They added two in the fourth with Froilan Mendez' single accounting for both runs.
Vancouver enjoyed a three-run inning in the sixth off Schulte. The Caps tallied on a walk, three singles and an error. Tacoma fans helped Jose Bache celebrate his birthday in a premature celebration before the game. Bache's birthday won't be until May 25 when the team will be on the road.
Vancouver .... 000 003 000—3 7 2
Tacoma ....... 003 200 00x—5 9 1
King, Schmidt (6) and Ritchey; Schulte and Sheets.

WENATCHEE, May 15—Pitching with but two days rest, lefty Dave Dahle pitched and batted the Wenatchee Chiefs to a 6 to 0 victory over Spokane Tuesday night.
Dahle spaced four hits and allowed but two Spokane runners to advance as far as second. He also chipped in with some timely hitting. His fourth-inning single drove in two Wenatchee runs.
Wenatchee scored one run in the first inning on Tommy Thompson's double and Lil Arnerich's single. The Chiefs added another when Len Neal singled and came home when Spokane hurler Ken Wyatt dished out three free passes.
Indians Notes —Spokane cut pitcher Hank Weaver from their roster Tuesday. They now have 18 players signed, one above the league limit.
Spokane ..... 000 000 000—0 4 3
Wenatchee .. 110 040 00x—6 8 1
Wyatt, Roberts (5) and Nulty; Dahle and Len Neal.

KENNEWICK, May 15—Behind four-hit pitching of Joe Nicholas, the Tri-City Braves defeated Salem 5 to 3 in a Western International league game Tuesday night.
Tri-City scored twice in the eighth to break a 3 to 3 tie. Catcher Nick Pesut's single chased one run home. The other scored on a walk with the bases ioaded.
Glen Tuckett gave Nicholas his only bad moments. His homer with one on in the sixth accounted for two Salem runs. The other had scored earlier in the inning when Dick Faber triples and was balked home by Nicholas.
The win was Nicholas' third straight for a spotless 3-0 slate.
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KENNEWICK, May 16 [Herald]—A pitcher who never looks at the scoreboard watched the fans trail out of Sanders Field last night and knew then he had won another ball game.
"I never look at the scoreboard," explained a smiling Joe Nicholas after his 5-3 victory over the Salem Senators. "That's the best way I know to avoid getting the ninth inning jitters."
He didn't have the shakes either as he posted his third victory of the season for the Tri-City Braves in the International league race. The submarine pitching ace gave up but four hits two of which were erased by double plays.
And it was some classy major league style fielding back of Nicholas which helped him on the long step toward the top of the WIL hurlers list.
For the first four innings of the game the Senators were retired in perfect order. Dick Faber who played for the Braves last year, broke the spell in the top of the fifth by lacing a triple off the wall. With one out Norm Grabar walked and then Nicholas in a moment of forgetfulness balked. That scored Faber from third but as it turned out the balk didn't make any difference because the Solons' Glenn Tuckett rapped a four-master right away. That was the sum of the Salem scoring.
The entire Tri-City infield was playing like a veteran major league organization. Buddy Peterson robbed the visitors of two cinch base hits. He dug one out in front of second base which has whistled through Nicholas' legs. Al Spaeter produced his fielding gem against another ex-Brave Jim McKeegan. Spaeter took McKeegan's ground ball over second base gong away from first. And Scrap's quick throw which Vic Blccola dug out of the dirt, caught McKeegan by a step.
Neil Bryant pulled a high grade steal on Glenn Stetter when he speared his line shot down the third base line to turn it into a twin killing. Manager Hugh Luby who had singled, was erased at second on the play. George McDonald also saw his seventh inning bingle go for nothing when he was the front end of a double play which Peterson started on Grabar's ground ball.
Peterson put the Braves out in front when his double scored Buccola from first in the third. Then after the Senators went ahead 3-1 in the fifth Bryant tied the score. He did it in Homeric fashion too rifling a sharp single to left with the sacks loaded and two out. Nick Pesut's bottom
of the eighth single which scored Artie Wilson and Bill Edelstein iced the game.
Charlie Petersen has given the starting nod for tonight's game to Cy Greenlaw (0-1) while Salem's pilot, Hugh Luby has nominated Ray McNulty (2-1).
Artie Wilson ran his string of safe hits in consecutiva games to 11 last night when he singled in the fourth.
Salem .... 000 003 000—3 4 0
Tri-City .... 001 020 02x—5 10 0
Mishasek and McKeegan; Nicholas and Pesut.

YAKIMA, May 16—Bill White's bases-loaded home run in the seventh powered Victoria to an 8 to 4 win over Yakima Tuesday night.
Victoria set up the big blow when Ron Smith and Bill Dunn opened the inning with singles. An infield error advanced them to second and third. After Ted Savarese, Yakima hurler, struck out the next two men, Lilio Marcucci was handed an intentional pass to load the bases.
White's homer was an inside-the-park variety on which outfielder Bill Andring twisted an ankle while trying for the catch. White came all the way home before the ball could be retrieved.
Victoria ........ 002 010 401—8 10 0
Yakima ........ 001 200 010—1 11 3
Smith and Martin; Powell, Savarese (3), and Tiesiera.

Yakima Releases Hurlers, Infielder
YAKIMA Wash., (UP) — The Yakima Bears of the Western International baseball league announced today they had released three players.
Lester Maddox southpaw pitcher, was released to Medford of the Far West league on a 24-hour recall basis. Maddox who lacks control, had made a 0-1 record with the Bears.
Chuck Soriano who had pitched very little for the Bears and had neither won nor lost a game, was given an outright release. He pitched for Ketchikan in semi-pro ball last year.
Manuel Travis third baseman, was released to report to Fort Ord Calif., for induction into the army.
The Bears also announced they expected to get some pitching help soon from the San Francisco Seals. They mentioned righthander Matt Zitich as a possibility.

Snyder Top Willy Pitcher
TACOMA, May 16—By hanging up his sixth victory without defeat when his capilano mates rallied for three ninth-inning runs last Saturday against Tri-City, Vancouver's Bob Snyder lengthened his lead in the Western International league pitching race.
Next in line behind Snyder's 6-0 record was a teammate, southpaw Carl Gunnarson and Joe Nicholas of Tri-Clty who remained stationary at 3-0. The fourth spot was shared by no fewer than five hurlers—Charley Gassaway of Wenatchee, Jim Holder and Bob Roberts of Spokane, Dick Stone of Tri-City and Ivan Goldizen of Tacoma, all with 2-0 records.
Left-handers continue to dominate the strikeout race, the top three spots again being held by Wenatchee's Tom Bresinger (39), Wenatchee's Dave Dahle (30), and Victoria's Jim Propst (29), with Dahle and Propst having exchanged places during the week. The right-hands most puzzling to enemy batsmen is Al Treichel of Wenatchee, with 28 whiffs to his credit.
The port-siders no longer have a strangle hold on leadership in the "walking man" department, however, Victoria's John Marshall having gained top spot in that unenviable bracket with a season's total of 41 bases on balls, of which 22 came in his last two outings and 15, the single game high for the campaign—in his winning effort Sunday against Wenatchee.
The lefties are conspicuous from there on down, nevertheless. Breisinger has issued 34 passes, Propst 30 and Tacoma's Bob Schulte 27.
The figures were released by Robert Abel, president of the league.
The leading pitchers:
                    W L SO Pct.
R. Snyder, Van .... 6 0 18 1.000
Gunnarson, Van .... 3 0  3 1.000
J. Nicholas, T-C .. 3 0  5 1.000
Gassaway, Wen ..... 2 0 10 1.000
Holder, Spok ...... 2 0 10 1.000
Stone, T-C ........ 2 0  5 1.000
Goldizen, Tac ..... 2 0  6 1.000
Roberts, Spok ..... 2 0  5 1.000
Bishop, Spok ...... 3 1  9  .750
Tisnerat, Van ..... 3 1 11  .750
Bevens, Sal ....... 3 1  8  .750

It Could Be Worse-and Was
Baseball attendance drops may worry the Johnny-come-latelys but the old-timers take them in stride. Mickey Shader, the San Francisco scout, is quoted as saying he once pitched before a "crowd" of one, back in 1917 when everybody was wrapped up in World War I. It was Tacoma against Spokane, in Tacoma, Wash. The one person who sat in the stands was Shader's wife.
- San Antonio Light, May 16, 1951

Monday, May 14, 1951

               W  L  PCT GB
Vancouver ... 16  7 .696 —
Spokane ..... 16  8 .667 ½
Tri-City .... 16  9 .526 4
Salem ....... 11 10 .524 4
Victoria .... 10 12 .435 5½
Yakima ....... 9 12 .429 6
Tacoma ....... 8 14 .364 7½
Wenatchee .... 8 16 .333 8½

SPOKANE, May 14 — Spokane's Indians blanked the Salem Senators 5 to 0 in a Western International league baseball game Monday night. The win puts the Indians one-half game behind league-leading Vancouver.
Each team used but one pitcher. Spokane's Ward Rockey, although touched for 11 hits and in danger practically every inning, came through in the pinches. He ended three innings with strikeouts and five others with fly-outs.
Losing chucker Bill Bevens gave up five hits. Each team committed one error.
Monday night's game was played to make up a rained-out clash originally scheduled for Friday. The Indians won the sderies two to one.
Salem ........ 000 000 000—0-11-1
Spokane ..... 300 010 10x—5- 5.-1
Bevens and Beard; Rockey and Nulty.

WENATCHEE, May 14—A single by shortstop Bill Dunn, good for two runs, broke up an 11-inning baseball game Monday and gave the Victoria Athletics a 5-3 Western International league victory over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
The win gave Victoria the series three games to one.
Catcher Milt Martin, with a single, started the scoring that ended the game. Bill Osborne bunted as a sacrifice but pitcher Charles Gassaway threw the ball away trying to nab him at first. Martin and Osborne moved on to second and third base. Dunn's single followed and brought both in.
Victoria ........ 010 200 000 02—5-14-2
Wenatchee ... 000 002 010 00—3-11-6
Tierney, Osborne (10) and Martin; Gassaway and Roberson, Len Neal (9).

ONLY GAMES SCHEDULED

TACOMA, May 15—A second straight better-than-.500 week with the willow has boosted Vic Buccola, Tri-City first baseman, into the Western International league batting leadership, it was revealed today with the release of unofficial averages from the office of Robert B. Abel, league president.
Buccola collected nine hits in 17 times at bat to hike his bat mark 32 points to .423, a cool 10 ponts better than the .383 runner-up figure compiled by Ken Richardson of Spokane. In third place a week ago at .397, Richardson moved into the second spot despite losing 12 points. A fortnight back, Buccola was far down the list at .290.
Ruben Navarro of Tri-City, up 37 points to .381, held down third place. Last week's leader, Tri-City's Artie Wilson, slumped 90 points to .333, which left him far off the pace.
Author of as spectacular a rise as Buccola's was Dick Sinovic of Vancouver, who belted 14 hits in 31 trips — two of the blows were homers — to move up 51 ponts to .356. The Capilano outfielder also drove in 10 runs for a season's total of 25, tops in the league. Richardson, the RBI leader a week ago for second place at 20 with Wenatchee's Walt Pocekay.
One of Buccola's nine blows was his fourth homer, elevating him into a tie with Ed Nulty of Spokane for the top spot in the four-base derby.
Average including Sunday's games (the top 10):
                     G  AB H RBI HR AVE
Buccola, T-C ...... 19  73 31 19 4 .425
Richardson, Spok .. 23  78 30 20 2 .385
Navarro, T-C ...... 14  42 18  7 0 .381
Moran, Tac ........ 22  90 33 18 0 .367
Marcucci, Vic ..... 19  72 26 10 3 .361
Sinovic, Van ...... 22  90 32 25 2 .356
Tuckett, Sal ...... 18  48 17 11 0 .354
Murphy, Spok ...... 23  88 31 14 1 .352
Vanni, Spok ....... 23 100 33 10 1 .350
Palmer, Wen ....... 23  83 29 16 0 .349

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor [May 15/51]

Listening to Ken Penner recount some of his baseball memories, and he has plenty, can best be compared to a private session with Bob Hope at his funniest. Penner, the west coast scout for the St. Louts Cardinals, is here conducting a talent search at Sanders yield. Monday morning he had eight pieces of untouched ivory on hand but his hopes were high that enough would show up today so the boys could have a ball game.
Between warmup pitches in front of the Braves dugout Monday morning Penner got off on the story of the time he took a team up to Folsom prison to play the inmates nine. “I had decided to pitch that game, or a part of it,” the scout started out, “and while I was loosening up my arm I dropped three returns in a row. A great big guy stood there eyeing me.”
“Man, you're not going to pitch this game are you?” asks the Folsomite, “Well,” continued Penner, “then I went into my windup.” Then he put on a demonstration of a pitcher going through a great big delivery, only Penner would just sort of flip the ball over his head down to the kid he was warming up with. None of the three or four he threw would have made your nose red if he hit it. But by this time those who were listening to the story, including Charlie Petersen and Tom Bradley, were leaning against the dugout wall laughing.
ALL THAT AND A SORE ARM
“That guy really got worried then,” continued Penner. “He come up to me and said, Look man I got all my money bet on your team, is that all the stuff you got?” “Yep,” went on Penner flipping; the ball from back of his head, again, “that good fast ball you see and a sore arm . .. that's all I got.”
As it turned out though Penner's curve was working good (or so he said) and the boy won his bets. Penner goes along In that same vein all the time. The stories get more and more outrageous until they become so improbably that they might actually have happened, just like some of the many things you saw Sunday if you were at Sanders Field.
RUN FAST AND THROW HARD
After the group had loosened up their arms for a while Penner called them all together. “Now, the first thing we look for in a ball player is a boy who can throw hard and run fast. As soon as everyone's warmed up we'll take some infield work from the shortstop position throwing to first base.”
When he left the park Charlie was still hitting infield practice to the prospects and Billy Howard was taking their throws at first base. From what Penner said the spring sprint tests are still to come.
GLAD TO SEE THEM BACK
Two ex-Braves will be at Sanders Field tonight when the Hugh Luby's Salem Senators roll in. They are of course outfielder Dick Faber and catcher Jim McKeegan. Mentioning McKeegan's name reminds us of a little episode about the redhead which sportswriter Al Lightner had in the Salem Statesman the other day. We'll let Al tell the story.
“The wacky play at home plate in Wednesday night's game, staring catcher McKeegan and baserunner Neal has since created considerable downtown argumentive turbulence it seems. To recreate it, McKeegan blocked the plate as the throw was coming in, forcing Neal to jump over him. Neal missed the plate as well as McKeegan. The drama then began as Neal, standing between the plate and the Wenatchee dugout, and McKeegan,anchored near the plate with ball in hand, stared daringly at one another. Both knew Neal had missed the platter but neither knew exactly what to do until McKeegan began to chase the negro shortstop. Neal feinted McKeegan off balance and zipped around him, returning to the dish to stamp it with a Wenatchee run.
“The question comes up,” continued Lightner, “What if McKeegin had said to the ump, I know he missed the plate but I'm not going to chase him. I'm going to stay right here with the ball? Had Mac done so, the ump would have demanded that Neal come back to touch the base, risking McKeegan's tag, or be called out for delaying the game. Then too, had Neal gone into the Wenatchee dugout all McKeegan would have had to do was touch home plate himself while in possession of the ball and Neal would have been called out.
“As it turned out McKeegan could have chased the negro boy all over the ball park, but the run would still count if Neal escaped the tag and returned to dent the base.”

Sports of The Times
By Art Knight
Back from a short vacation to find that San Mateo's Bud Guldborg is shopping for another pitching job in the Pacific Coast league. Bud, who led the California league twirlers last season and looked mighty impressive to date with the Seattle Rainiers, parted company with Manager Rogers Hornsby and the Suds Sunday.
Seems that the Scatlle management decided to farm Guldborg out to Vancouver in the Western International league, but Bud, who felt his record deserved higher consideration, asked and received permission to make a deal for himself. This corner
hears the San Francisco Seals, who once owned Guldborg, and the Sacramento Solons are interested. In fact, Guldborg was in the capilal city yesterday talking with Manager Joe Gordon.
Why Seattle pulled the rug on Guldborg is another of those mysteries that seem to enshroud the baseball business. The Matean's record certainly merits further engagements on the Coast league mounds.
Bud worked parts of eleven games for the Rainiers, pitching a total of 20 innings to post two victories, and was charged with two defeats. He walked only 12 men and struck out eight. His earned-run average of .386 [sic] is pretty fair, especially
considering the rest of the PCL moundsmen's record this season.
Guldborg's figures would have looked something like six earned runs in 25 innings but for a rough relief stint against Oakland recently. The Acorns had their hitting clothes on that night, and Bud was one of several Seattle slingers who were slammed around a bit.
Sacramento, surprising most fans by its runner-up position in the league race to date, quile likely is in the market to strengthen its pitching staff. Plenty of punch at the plate is keeping the Solons right in the thick of the race, and the addition of Guldborg could be just what the doctor ordered.
Surely, Bud has shown that he carries the guns to set down opposing batsmen, and, under more amiable working conditions, the San Mateo pitcher could easily lake a spot among the top PCL chuckers.
- San Mateo Times, Tuesday, May 15, 1951

Sunday, May 13, 1951

               W  L Pct GB
Vancouver ... 16  7 .696 —
Spokane ..... 15  8 .652 1
Salem ....... 11  9 .550 3½
Tri-City .... 10  9 .528 4
Yakima ....... 9 12 .429 6
Victoria ..... 9 12 .429 6
Tacoma ....... 8 14 .364 7½
Wenatchee .... 8 15 .348 8


KENNEWICK, May 14—If the Tri-City and Vancouver pitching staffs felt a ringing in their ears today there was good reason. Eleven of them paraded to the mound at Sanders Field yesterday and gave up a total of 49 base hits including two home runs, two triples and four doubles. They weren't exactly meager in the runs department either.
Both teams clattered across the plate a total of 42 times in yesterday's doubleheader. The Braves, aided by the brilliant relief pitching chore of Kenny Michelson, won the nlne-inning opener 12-8, while Vancouver used up four Trl-City hurlers in winning the seven-inning nightcap (with the lights on) 12-10.
The 1512 fans saw everything happen. The first game wasn't two innings old before Nick Pesut and Buddy Peterson were oack under the showers. Pesut got the thumb from plate umpire Milt Eiler for protesting a decision at home plate and Peterson was waved to the clubhouse by umpire Nels Pearson when he came in to see what was going on.
Mike Michelson, who grabbed Pesut's tools when he came up with the first unassisted double play of the season. He did it on an infield fly rule ball which dropped in front of the plate scoring one out then Michelson tagged the base runner from third who for some reason thought he was going to score on the play.
Inability to get the ball over the dish hurt the Braves more than anything else. The six hurlers gave up a total of 21 free passes.
Ken Michelson who took over the hill from Augle Zande in the Vancouver second frame of the first game served up a grand slam home run to Dick Sinovic the first batter he faced. But that, decided the young Pasco star, was enough. He held the Capilanos to two hits and one run over the rest of the route to notch his first victory of the season.
The Braves did practically all their scoring in the fifth and sixth innings. In the fifth they plated four and in the following inning they clubbed four more off starter Don Tisernat before he had enough. Bill White [sic], who took over, got the same rough treatment though, being rapped for four straight singles and three runs before he finally got the fire out.
In the second game the Braves were leading 9-3 going into the third before the roof fell in on starter Bob Costello. With the sacks loaded Reno Cheso unloaded a triple, then Cos lost his touch to walk two more. That sent Jim Olsen to the mound.
Alhough he was in trouble in the fourth it didn't get serious for Jim until the fifth when he gave up three singles and three walks. Then Manager Charlie Peterson called Sam Castro from the bullpen. Castro walked Brunswick to score one run but got Ritchey on an infield roller. However, when he passed George Nicholas at the start of the sixth, Petersen called on Dick Stone. Stone finished it up allowing one run in the seventh.
Tuesday night the Braves open a three-game series with Salem, Joe Nicholas (2-0) will start the first game for the Tri-City club, manager Petersen said, with Lou McCollum due to follow on Wednesday or Thursday.
First Game
Vancouver ......... 160 000 100— 8- 8- 2
T.-C. ................ 000 147 00x—12-15-1
Tisnerat, Whyte (6), King (7) and Ritchey; Zande, K. Michelson (2) and M. Michelson.
Second Game
Vancouver ...... 305 030 1—12 12 1
Tri-City .......... 450 100 0—10 14 1
Hernandez, Nicholas (2) and Ritchey; Costello, Olsen (3), Castro (5), Stone (6) and Pesut.

YAKIMA, May 13 — Tacoma and Yakima split their Western International league doubleheader here Sunday afternoon. Tacoma won the opener 4 to 0 on a four-hit pitching job by Guzman Amador.
Yakima took the nightcap 12 to 11 with a ten-run splurge in the seventh. The Bears collected nine walks in the inning, including the winning run.
Merv Dubbers doubled home three runs with the bases loaded to give Tacoma its triumph in the opening game.
First Game
Tacoma .... 000 000 301—4 9 2
Yakima ..... 000 000 000—0 4 0
Amador and Sheets; Del Sarto, Savarese (8) and Tiesiera.
Second Game
Tacoma .... 002 321 3—11 17 0
Takima ..... 000 020 (10)—12 7 3
Knezovich, Clark (4), Goldizen (6), Schulte (7), Theodosis (7) and Watson; Thompson, Anderson (4), Bedford (6) and Tiesiera.

WENATCHEE, May 13—Al Treichel handcuffed the Victoria Athletics with a well-spaced seven-batter and batted in two runs to lead the Wenatchee Chiefs to a 4-2 win over the Canadians in the second game of a day-night Western International
league baseball doubleheader Sunday night.
The Athletics captured the opener, 6-4, in 10 innings. John Marshall won his own
game with a two-run homer.
First Game
Victoria ......... 100 200 010 2—6 10 1
Wenatchee .... 000 102 001 0—4 7 2
Marshall and Martin; Breisinger, Kanshin (9) and Len Neal.
Second Game
Victoria ......... 000 000 101—2 7 0
Wenatchee .... 021 001 00x—4 8 1
Propst and Martin; Treichel and Roberson.

SPOKANE, May 13 — Spokane's Indians drubbed the Salem Senators 12 to 5 Sunday afternoon in a Western International league game which ended at the end of the fifth inning because of rain.
When Jim Holder, Spokane Indian pitcher, tossed 16 successive balls against Salem, an irate fan hollered at Manager Al Strange: "Don't take the kid out, Strange. Let him go for a record." Strange didn't. He pulled the starter in the second inning, when Salem scored three times.
The second game of the scheduled doubleheader was cancelled due to wet grounds.
Salem ........ 030 02— 5 2 0
Spokane .... 402 06—12 13 0
Wilkie, Burak (3), Hemphill (5) and McKeegan; Holder, Roberts (2) and Melchenheimer.

ON THE INSIDE

By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor [May 14/51]
There's an old baseball adage which says something to the effect that more games are lost because of walks than because of hits. And the Brave pitching staff will concur heartily with that if you were to ask them today.
In all three games the Tri-City club got in most of their hot water because of free passes. Lou McCollum's arm suddenly lost it's [sic] snap in the ninth inning Saturday night and he walked two. Before anyone realized what was happening the Braves had lost a ball game.
And it was only masterful hurling by Ken Michelson that kept him out of trouble while he was walking eight in that first Sunday game.
Perhaps this will explain a bit better just what we're driving at. Of the three men on base when Dick Sinovic hit his first round tripper, two of them had been given free tickets to the base paths. And in the second game three of the Caps who were passed, ultimately crossed home plate.
So now there's a little sign in the Braves dressing room notifying all pitchers to report at 11 a.m. in uniform each day until further notice for running exercises. "Maybe an hour or so chasing fly balls across the outfield will take some of the wildness out of their arms," said Charlie Peterson. So there should be plenty of activity this week with pitchers running and a baseball school going on at the same time.

COUPLE FOR THE BOOKS
But for zany baseball there was plenty of it Sunday afternoon. Take that double play that Mike Michelson made unassisted for one. With the bases loaded and none out a high fly was lifted up right in front of the plate.
The batter was automatically out because the infield fly rule applied. However, for some reason John Ritchey, the Caps' catcher, who was on third, strolled toward home base.

Michelson, who failed to catch the ball, then just picked it up and quickly tagged Ritchey for the second out. It's, to the best of our knowledge, the first unassisted play recorded by a catcher here.

WHO'S ON THIRD?
And here's another example of what we mean by interesting happenings. The Capilanos taking a page from the celebrated Brooklyn Dodgers managed to get two men on third base at the same time. That sort of thing doesn't go. And if you'll scan the picture on this page which shows the end of that particular play note the look on pitcher Gonzales Hernandez' face. He appears to be totally unconcerned about the affair although he turned out to be one who made the mistake and who was actually out on the play.
That's the sort of thing which drives managers to the brink. Billy (the Rooster) Schuster was ready to ladle out a $25 fine for the next bonehead play on his club, he is reported to have said between games. No wonder. When you have two in a row such as we have just mentioned.
YOU CANT DO THAT
To show you another reason why such guys as Schuster suddenly calm clown when they become managers here's an exchange which reportedly took place between he and his pitcher Don Tisernat who lost the first game. Tisernat sent word to the club house that he was going back to Richland and for Schuster to have someone pick him up at the hotel. Schuster fired word back that if the pitcher pulled out it would cost him $25. Back came Tisernat with word that Schuster couldn't do that. . .it wasn't in his contract.
BRAVES GET NEW “DOC”

The Braves were without a trainer until yesterday afternoon, but that's changed now we're happy to say. Charlie Petersen who has been trying to track down Jack Boag, and vice versa, finally made connections Saturday in Richland and the Braves signed Boag.
“Doc” as he no doubt will be called, spent the last five years with the Salem baseball team as their trainer. During the winter he has been changing from baseball to hockey, being a former hockey player himself. He has conditoned such hockey teams as the Portland Eagles and the San Francisco Shamrocks the year they won the Southern Division championship. A modest 29, Doc spent 11 years poking a hockey stick across the ice back east and in Canada. He was. born in Winnipeg but now is a citizen of Uncle Sam's.
SPORTS BAGASHELLS
Artie Wilson has run his consecutive games hitting streak to 10 now. . .it ties the current Brave record held by Clint Cameron and now Artie. . .Rube Navarro is close behind with record of nine games in a row.
Vic Buccola is way out in front in the home runs department with four. . .Wilson is closest with one. . .The big “sweat” in the club house these days is “who's going to be cut.”

Saturday, May 12, 1951

               W  L  Pct GB
Vancouver ... 15  8 .714 —
Spokane ..... 14  8 .636 1½
Salem ....... 11  8 .579 3
Tri-City ..... 9  8 .529 4
Yakima ....... 8 11 .421 6
Victoria ..... 8 11 .421 6
Tacoma ....... 7 13 .350 7½
Wenatchee .... 7 14 .333 8

KENNEWICK, May 13 [Herald]—A balk, the first this year in Sanders Field, sent the winning Vancouver run across the plate last night. The balk and the 6-5 defeat, was charged to relief hurler Sam Castro. It was the first loss for the Tri-City Braves in the current series with the Capilanos. The two teams finish out this afternoon with a doubleheader starting at 1:30 p.m.
With the score tied 5-5 in the top of the ninth and base runners on first and third Castro carried the ball high over his head preparing to deliver the pitch to Curt Schmidt. However instead of coming to the set position, Castro carried the motion through and both umpire Nels Pearson behind the plate and Milt Eiler on the bases called, "balk."
The decision scored Charlie Mead from third with the winning run.
Castro had taken over the Tri-City hill from strter Lou McCollum in the ninth inning with one out and men on first and second. Manager Charlie Petersen lifted McCollum after he had walked Ray Tran and Chuck Abernathy with Dick Sinovic coming to the plate. The strategy was well dictated for Buddy Peterson scooped up Sinovic's ground ball to force Tran at third.
But Castro walked Mead to load the bases. Then Reno Cheso blooped a single over second base to score Abernathy and Sinovic and sent Mead scurrying to third. Schmidt then came to bat and on the first pitch Castro balked.
It was a tough game to lose for the Braves had forged out in front 5-3 going into the top half of the ninth principally on the strength of two home runs. Artie Wilson rapped the first one in the fourth inning a near 400-footer which carried over the
left center field wall to give the Tri-City team a 3-2 edge at that point.
Then after Vancouver had tied the score in the top of the seventh Vic Buccola slammed his fourth four-master of the year over the right field fence. Both home runs found men aboard the sacks. Wilson drove in Neil Bryant and when Buccola plated Al Spaeter in front of him it looked like the ball game.
It was the first home run of the year for Wilson.
A crowd of 1059 shivering fans clung tightly to their seats when it looked as though the Braves might stage a ninth inning rally even though two were out. Nick Pesut got it started with a single into left field. Then Jim Olsen batting for Castro drew a free pass. That put Pesut in scoring position. However Al Spaeter, who was under the gun, lifted a high fly deep into left field to end the game.
McCollum, who was in trouble several times during the game put on a brilliant display of pitching in the fourth to get out of a jam. With the sacks full of Capilanos and only one out, the veteran right hander got Bob Snyder on a high fly to Buccola and then sent Bob McGwire back to the bench on a swinging third strike.
Vancouver .... 020 000 103— 6 10 1
Tri-City ........ 001 200 020— 5 9 2
Snyder and Ritchey; McCollum, Castro (9) and Pesut.

YAKIMA — Tacoma and Yakima went 11 innings tonight before Yakima scored in the last
of the eleventh for a 1 to 0 victory in a Western International League Baseball game.
Jerry Zuvela's triple in the 9th set up the winning run. Mike Baxes and Mansell Travis were intentionally passed to load the bases. Zuvela scored on Bill Brenner's long fly to center.
Bill Boemler, a new addition to the Yakima roster, spaced 7 hits for the win. Sol Israel's double in the seventh with two out was the only extra-base blow off his deliveries.
Jerry Barta, Tacoma righthander, dueled on even terms with Boemler until the eleventh. He gave up five hits all of which were registered by lefthanded swingers.
Tacoma .... 000 000 000 00—0 7 0
Yakima ..... 000 0000 000 01—1 5 1
Barta and Sheets; Boemler and Tiesiera.

SPOKANE, May 12—The Salem Senators downed Spokane 8 to 4 tonight in the first game of their Western International League baseball series.
The Indians held a 1 to 0 lead during the first five innings while Dick Bishop held the Senators to 3 scattered hits. But Salem went wild in the sixth, taking Bishop for four hits and scoring four runs, three of them ununearned.
Both teams used three pitchers. Ray McNulty was the winning pitcher and Bishop the loser.
Salem ......... 000 004 301—8 11 3
Spokane ..... 100 002 010—4 6 2
McNulty, DeGeorge (7), Mishasek (8) and Beard; Bishop, Worth (6), Weaver (9) and Nulty, Melchenheimer.

WENATCHEE, May 12 — The Victoria Athletics eaged the Wenatchee Chiefs 2 to 1 in a Western International league baseball game here tonight.
Shortstop Bill Dunn opened the ninth inning with a single. Tom O'Laughlin forced him at second and advanced to third on Lilio Marcucci's double. Hal Jackson's single scored O'Laughlin with the winning run.
Marcucci's double in the seventh produced the A's first run by scoring O'Laughlin after outfielder Marv Diercks sacrificed him to second.
The two clubs meet in a doubleheader here tomorrow.
Victoria ......... 000 000 101—2 7 1
Wenatchee .... 000 000 001—1 4 0
Hedgecock and Martin; Dahle and Len Neal.

Western International league averages.
Includes games of Sunday, May 6, 1951 except doubleheader of May 5 between Salem and Victoria. Compiled by Howe News Bureau.
TEAM BATTING
            G  AB   R  OR   H TB  2B 3B HR SH SB  BB SO PCT
Tri-City . 14 485  97  70 151 202 26  8  3  9  4  93 46 311
Tacoma ... 15 526  83  97 155 187 23  3  1 16  1  57 50 295
Salem .... 13 413  58  68 121 142 16  0  5  8  7  65 40 293
Wenatchee. 17 595  98 114 174 232 34  6  4 10  9  95 76 292
Spokane .. 18 622 109 106 176 246 28  3 12 16 21 131 80 283
Yakima ... 15 517  72  92 144 189 21  9  2 12  9  64 63 279
Vancouver. 16 581 108  63 157 199 27  6  1  6 11  78 44 270
Victoria . 12 394  51  66  93 121 19  0  3  8 14  65 43 236

TEAM FIELDING
             W  L T DP TP PD PO   A  E PCT
Tacoma ..... 6  9 0 15 0  0 396 176 20 955
Victoria ... 4  8 0 13 0  2 311 140 18 962
Tri-City ... 8  6 0 18 0  0 360 162 22 960
Salem ...... 6  7 0 23 0  0 347 155 16 959
Yakima ..... 6  9 0 13 0  0 391 165 26 955
Spokane ... 11  7 0 16 0  3 483 225 34 954
Wenatchee .. 6 11 0 16 0  0 449 194 32 953
Vancouver . 13  3 0 21 0  2 419 202 18 972
[WILFan note: I'm guessing 'PD' is a misprint for 'PB']

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER, Herald Sports Editor [May 13/51]

"Old baseball players never die. . .they retire to the WIL." It used to be that the Coast league was the last stop but no more. Just counting quickly the names that come to mind who stepped down from the majors and-or PCL there are Hugh Luby, Dick Barrett, Bill Schuster, Cy Gassaway, Steve Mesner, Ken Richardson, Rupe Thompson, Alan Strange, (though he doesn't play much anymore), Bill Brenner, and our own Charlie Petersen. And that doesn't include a good baker's dozen or more who make yearly trips to the Coast league for a month or two each year.
Thus we take issue with Rube Samuelson who said in his Pasadena column that the old players retire to the Coast league. . .We've got a few over this way too Rube. So it's little wonder that the WIL is a class B league in name only. And since the rookie rule was thrown into the discard fewer and fewer are the young faces appearing in the lineups.
WALK THE PLANK DAY
Which all brings us around to the fact that one week from today it will, be 'walk the plank day." That's when the WIL teams must trim their roster down to the maximum of 17 players. . .three less than the Braves are currently carrying. One method, and certainly the most desirable right at the moment, would be for Charlie Petersen to put himself on the inactive list. That would reduce the number to be cut to only two. And at the same time Petersen could carry the reinstatement slip with him and should the occasion arise, put himself back on the active list, putting say a pitcher on the inactive roster. That's an old baseball maneuver in the Minor leagues where the number of players is limited.
THERE WOULD STILL BE TWO
However, even should the Braves' pilot use this device there would still be two to be lopped off. There are quite a few possibilities. First there's the pitching staff of nine. That's a few more than a team in this league normally carries, though it is a great satisfaction for a manager to look down the bench and see all that help available should he need it. Still one could be cut. Then there's the outfield. Right now the Braves have four, and again that's one over the usual limit. If the cut should come here it would either be Rube Navarro or Bill Edelstein. But there's still one more place the cut might be made, that would be in the catching department. Meaning of course that Mike Michelson would be farmed out for further seasoning.
The only objection to cutting Michelson would be that Nick Pesut would be carrying a mighty full load. Part of that though could be transferred to Clint Cameron, who caught in the Coast league before he injured his ankle, and Petersen could also put on the tools if need be. If say, one cut was made there and another on the hurling staff, that would leave the Braves with an utility player, either Navarro or Edelstein. With Navarro hitting from the right and Edelstein from the left it makes for an ideal situation when a pinch hitter is needed. That's been proven time and time again already this season.
SOMETHING TO WATCH FOR
However, Charlie has also favored a strong pitching staff as one of the first requirements for a winning team. If he doesn't cust a hurler then it must be a catcher and an outfielder. But either way he goes it isn't going to be easy. Most managers have at one time or another in their career themselves been cut from a team and they know hosv it feels. Still that's one of the tasks included in their paycheck and one which Petersen must face this week.
The levelling off process which everyone has expected has arrived. Vancouver stumbled three times in a row and to none other than the Victoria Athletics, the last place team in the league. But the Caps were probably glad to lose that first one anyhow . . . you can't go on winning them forever and the longer you do the greater the pressure that is built up. With those three out of their system they can find the spots which need rebuilding.
Pitching is taking an odd turn in the league even though the season is still young. What we have in mind particularly is Tacoma's Guzman Amador (that's his right name Ed) and Victoria's Big Jawn Marshall. Amador,
It was hoped by the Tigers, would be one of their key pitchers, a 20-game winner perhaps. Yet now it looks as though Jim Brillheart has relegated the south-of-the-border hurler to a relief role. He just hasn't had enough to last out as a starter. It could be that pitching practically the year around as he does, that his arm has lost it's snap. That's happened to plenty others.
Marshall for some reason or other has also done an el foldo this year. It may be that the suspicion of a spare tire he's carrying around his middle is slowing him down. Whatever it is Jawn isn't proving to be the mainstay of the A's as they thought he would.

Friday, May 11, 1951

               W  L Pct. GB
Vancouver ... 14  6 .700 —
Spokane ..... 14  7 .667 ½
Tri City ..... 9  7 .563 3
Salem ....... 10  8 .556 3
Yakima ....... 7 11 .386 6
Victoria ..... 7 11 .386 6
Tacoma ....... 7 12 .368 6½
Wenatchee .... 7 13 .350 7

YAKIMA, May 11—The Tacoma Tigers climbed out of the Western International league cellar Friday night as they put together 15 hits for a 12 to 3 win over Yakima.
Tacoma sewed the game up as early as the third inning when they scored four runs. Bob Schulte and Mike Catron contributed doubles to spark the rally. Schulte, a new addition to the Tacoma roster, spaced 10 hits for the win.
Tacoma ..... 004 114 011—12 15 0
Yakima ...... 021 000 000— 3 10 5
Schulte and Sheets; Savarese, Thompson, (3), Anderson (5) and Tiesiera.

Victoria at Wenatchee postponed, rain. Game rescheduled for Monday night.
Vancouver at Tri-City, postponed, wet grounds. Single game Saturday night and doubleheader Sunday.
Salem at Spokane postponed, rain. Game rescheduled for Monday night.

Thursday, May 10, 1951

               W  L Pct. GB
Vancouver ... 14  6 .700 —
Spokane ..... 14  7 .667 ½
Tri City ..... 9  7 .563 3
Salem ....... 10  8 .556 3
Yakima ....... 7 10 .412 5½
Victoria ..... 7 11 .386 6
Wenatchee .... 7 13 .350 7
Tacoma ....... 6 12 .333 7

VICTORIA, May 10—Victoria Athletics sent Vancouver Capilanos tumbling to their third straight defeat here Thursday night, twice coming from behind then puhsing over a run in the ninth to eke out a 6-5 Western International baseball league triumph.
George Nicholas was the loser while, Ron Smith, Victoria hurler who toiled 23 innings last Saturday only to lose, enjoyed better luck this time, spacing 13 hits far apart to get credit for his third victory.
The Caps missed a chance in their half of the ninth when Tom O'Laughlin misjudged Dick Sinovic's liner to left and it went for a triple with one out. Charlie Mead was opassed intentionally and the strategy paid off when Reno Cheso slammed into an inning-ending double play.
Smith started the winning rally with a bloop double. He went to third as Bill Dunn beat out a bunt and scored after Sinovic made a tumbling catch of a short liner behind second base.
Vancouver manager Bill Shuster played the game under protest over a play in the seventh inning. One was out and Bob McGuire on first when Chuck Abernathy grounded to Hal Jackson. The throw to Dunn at second forced McGuire, who dumped the Victoria shortstop. Dunn dropped the ball as he hit the ground but base-umpire Pearson ruled that Dunn had held the ball long enough for the out.
Caps Notes—Bud Guldborg (2-2 in the PCL) is being shipped from Seattle to Vancouver on a 24-hour recall basis.
Vancouver .... 010 012 010—5 13 1
Victoria ........ 000 030 021—9 9 1
Nicholas and Ritchey; Smith and Martin.

SPOKANE, May 10—Spokane made a clean sweep of its league baseball series with Tacoma by shutting out the Tigers 3 to 0 Thursday night.
The win put Spokane within half a game of the first-place Vancouver Capilanos who lost to Victoria Thursday night.
John Conant, Spokane hurler, pitched seven-hit ball to down Tacoma, as tight fielding on the part of the Indians kept the Tigers from capitalizing on the hits. Conant chalked up his second win in five games.
Spokane collected but six hits off two Tacoma hurlers but made them good for three runs. Gary Clark was charged with the loss.
Tacoma ..... 000 000 000—0 7 2
Spokane .... 001 010 010—3 6 0
Clark, Amador (8) and Watson; Conant and Nulty.

SALEM, May 10—Lyle Palmer climaxed a last-inning uprising in the rain here Thursday night by singling in two runs to give Wenatchee a 9 to 7 win over the Salem Senators.
Wenatchee trailed, 7-5, as the ninth inning opened, then Salem hurler Ludwig Lew — a hero in Salem's 23-inning marathon last week — suddenly lost control. After getting one man out, he walked two others.
Joe Mishasek was rushed in to replace him. He got another man out, but then Bud Hjelmaa cracked a single that tied the score, 7-7.
Palmer at once stepped up and swatted the game-winning single.
Tommy Breisinger pitched the ninth inning for Wenatchee and retired Salem in order, fanning two batters. The Wenatchee starter, Charlie Gassaway, had retired for a pinch-hitter in the top of the ninth.
Rain fell throughout the game.
Wenatchee ... 001 030 014—9 11 2
Salem .......... 003 200 020—7 13 1
Gassaway, Breisinger (9) and Len Neal; Lew, Mishasek (9) and McKeegan.

Tri-City at Yakima, postponed, rain.

Krug Sold To Bees
SALT LAKE CITY, May 10 — The Pioneer league Salt Lake City Bees announced Thursrday the purchase of Marty Krug, Jr., 23-year-old first baseman, from Victoria of the Western International league. Krug played with Las Vegas in 1948 and with Portland and Salem in 1949.