VANCOUVER SENIOR LEAGUE
VANCOUVER SENIOR LEAGUE
Pat Thomas, the third sacker for the Athletics, captured the batting championship in the Vancouver Senior League in spite of a mid-season attack of appendicitis. Thomas, who did not return after a hospital stay two months ago, finished the season with a .382 average, 15 points better than runner-up George Smith of Arnold & Quigley. McGinnis of Arnold & Quigley was third with a .343 mark and Ross Edy of United Distillers took fourth place, hitting .340 a few points ahead of teammate Billy Adshead. Frank Plouf of the Athletics led in runs scored, with 45. Don Stewart of the Distillers clouted eight homers to lead the circuit and Edy topped the bases thieves with 13. Eddie Holden of the Clothiers was tops in total bases with 88
AVE : Thomas VAC - .382
RUNS : Plouf VAC - 45
HITS : Three with - 61
TOTAL BASES : Holden VAQ - 88*
2B : Adshead VUD, Moore VAQ - 11
3B : Smith VAQ - 5
HR : Stewart VUD - 8
SB : Edy VUD - 13 Vancouver Senior League GP AB R H TB 2B 3B HR SB RBI PCT Thomas Pat VAC 131 20 50 66 6 2 2 3 .382 Smith George VAQ 166 34 61 94 4 5 4 4 .367 * McGinnis VAQ 140 26 48 62 6 4 0 7 .343 Edy Ross VUD 159 43 54 72 6 3 2 13 .340 Adshead Billy VUD 183 27 61 81 11 3 1 2 .333 Sayles Bill VAQ 78 10 26 41 3 0 4 0 .333 Holden Eddie VAQ 174 33 56 88 9 4 5 4 .322 Moore Don VAQ 190 37 61 77 11 1 1 10 .321 Quinn Wimpy VAC 44 8 14 20 1 1 1 1 .318 Miron Charlie VAC 96 18 30 51 3 0 6 7 .313 Plouf Frank VAC 188 45 58 86 9 2 5 4 .309 Watters Jimmy VAQ 180 41 55 75 9 1 3 7 .306 Kennedy Tommy VAC 144 21 44 60 5 1 3 1 .306 Henderson Sandy VAQ 119 22 36 52 4 0 4 1 .303 Thirsk Bruce VUD 162 29 49 66 9 1 2 3 .302 Koch Bill VAC 31 4 9 11 2 0 0 0 .290 Henry Ed VUD 180 34 52 68 6 2 2 8 .289 Wallace VAQ 45 4 13 13 0 0 0 1 .289 Hall Coley VAC 131 19 37 55 5 2 3 0 .282 Telosky Andy VAQ 157 17 44 67 6 4 3 2 .280 Cousins Alymer VAQ 18 1 5 5 0 0 0 1 .278 Sherman Jackie VUD 138 16 38 45 5 1 1 2 .275 Fagundas Mel VUD 141 20 38 45 7 0 0 4 .270 Stong Ralph VAC 168 30 45 68 5 0 6 3 .268 O'Banion Hal VAC 172 25 46 53 2 1 1 1 .267 Lewis Earl VAC 83 15 22 31 6 0 1 0 .265 Straight Hal VAC 54 10 14 17 0 0 1 0 .259 Keith Johnny VUD 149 25 38 52 5 3 1 5 .255 Morrison Jimmy VAQ 146 23 37 45 3 1 1 6 .253 Marionetti Harry VUD 119 19 30 49 2 3 4 3 .252 Stewart Don VUD 193 46 48 87 9 3 8 0 .249 Hall Frank VAC 178 20 43 56 4 0 3 1 .242 Transolini Norm VAQ 93 15 20 28 8 0 0 0 .215 McCarthy VAC 40 5 8 11 3 0 0 1 .200 Lewis Bryan VAQ 15 1 3 6 0 0 1 0 .200 Mann Bert VAC 64 7 12 15 0 0 1 0 .188 Kershaw Ernie VUD 33 3 6 7 1 0 0 0 .182 Musgrave Tommy VUD 37 6 6 8 2 0 0 0 .162 McDonald Hec VAC 90 4 14 18 3 1 0 2 .156 Jowett Reg VUD 34 3 5 8 0 0 1 1 .147 Richardson VUD 35 3 5 5 0 0 0 0 .143 Yehle Fred VAQ 31 3 3 4 1 0 0 0 .097 Pezzola Harvey VAC 33 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 .061
* With numbers shown Smith's Total Bases should be 87, thus one back of Holden.
VAC=Athletics, VAQ=Arnold & Quigley, VUD=United Distillers
Source ; Vancouver Sun, September 3rd