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Semi-Finals:
August 13 : Cless Hinckley tossed a four-hitter as Regina
won the opener of their semi-final series with an 8-1 win over
Saskatoon. John Lloyd had a triple and a pair of singles
for the Caps. Only two of the runs, against Bobby Singleton and
Frank Pickens, were earned as the Gems committed seven
errors. The game drew 25-hundred fans at Cairns Field.
Hinckley and Ogle
Singleton, Pickens (6) and Shirley
August 14 : Saskatoon tied the
series on a forfeit. The Gems were awarded the contest
after a ruckus in the ninth inning. Saskatoon was leading
2-1.
The uproar followed a hit to
centre by Regina's Fred Sommers. Regina claimed the ball
cleared the low centrefield fence for a homer but the Gems said
the ball had bounced over the fence. It was ruled a double and
the Caps began a noisy protest. The game was called when Regina
refused to end their protest and Caps' owner Denny Evenson
made an appearance on the playing field. Evenson had been
ordered off the field earlier in the game. Regina coach Pete
Beiden and Frank Warren had been ejected in the sixth
inning.
The game had been a pitching duel
with each side held to just four hits. Saskatoon's George
Read fanned six and walked two. The run against him
was unearned. Jack Hannah and Pete Bruni
handled the mound chores for Regina.
Hannah, Bruni (7) and Bennett
Read and Shirley
August 14 : A brilliant pitching
performance by Johnny Coleman led North Battleford to a
4-0 win over Moose Jaw in the opening game of a best-of-seven
semi-final series. Coleman allowed just two hits and a
walk. Beavers capitalized on a overthrow of third base by
catcher Jim Harford to score four unearned runs in the
eighth.
Coleman and Green
B. Hodges and Hartford
August 15 : Young lefthander Ted
Wills scattered seven hits to lead Regina to a 6-1 win over
Saskatoon and a 2-1 game lead in their semi-final series.
A four-run third inning, helped by three hits, two errors and a
walk, put the Caps in front to stay. Murray Coben took
the loss. He gave way to Chuck Holdaway in the
third.
Coben, Holdaway (3) and Shirley
Wills and Ogle
August 16: North Battleford had
16 hits in winning their second straight game in the semi-final
series. Beavers beat the Maples 12-4. Andy Swota went the
distance for the win.
Swota and Green
Robinson, Worth (4) and Hartford
August 17 : Ken
Nelson was the hero as the Beavers took both ends of a
double-header 9-3 and 8-2 to sweep their semi-final series in
four games. Nelson had six hits on the day including two
homers, a triple, and two doubles. Jackie McLeod
tossed a three-hitter in the second game.
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McLeod and ???
August 17 : In one of the best
games of the season, Frank Pickens held Regina to just
three hits as the Gems scored a 1-0 victory and evened their
semi-final series at two games apiece. 4-thousand fans turned out to
the game at Delisle. Pete Bruni gave up five hits
in a losing cause. The lone run came in the third inning on
singles by Max Bentley and Johnny Walker and Fred
Sommers' error on a grounder off the bat of Bev Bentley.
Pickens and Shirley
Bruni and Bennett
August 18 : Regina moved to within one
victory of a berth in the Saskatchewan Baseball league finals.
The Caps beat Saskatoon 6-1 to take a 3-2 game lead in the
series as Frank Warren contributed on the hill and at the
plate. Warren held the Gems to just four hits and knocked
in the first run with a bases-loaded single in the second
inning. Brilliant fielding efforts by the Caps contributed
heavily to the victory. Johnny Lloyd's circus catch
in right field in the third inning was described as the
"most outstanding fielding play of the baseball season in
Regina." Outfielder Art
Shahzade made two great running catches in centre.
Caps knocked Gems' starter Bob Singleton off the hill in
the third. Chuck Holdaway finished up.
Singleton, Holdaway (3) and
Shirley
Warren and Bennett
August 19 : Max Bentley
scored the winner in the eleventh inning as Saskatoon forced a seventh
and deciding game in their semi-final series with a 2-1 victory
before 3-thousand fans at Saskatoon. Bentley, who had singled
to centre, moved to third on a sacrifice and an infield out and
scored on an error. Doug Bentley had plated the Gems'
first run in the second inning on a single by pitcher George
Read. Frank Pickens, who relieved Read in the
eleventh, got the win. Johnny Lloyd had four hits in five
at bats for the Caps. Cless Hinckley went the
distance for the losers allowing just six hits.
Hinckley and Bennett
Read, Pickens (11) and Shirley
August 20 : Right-hander Frank
Pickens tossed a six-hit shutout and the Saskatoon Gems beat
Regina 6-0 to move into the Saskatchewan Baseball League final
series against North Battleford. George Read was the star
at the plate with three hits, including a double. Ted
Wills, the first of three Regina pitchers took the
loss. 5-thousand fans turned out for the game at Cairns Field. Wills,
Bruni (3), Warren (7) and Bennett
Pickens and Shirley
Final Series:
August 22 : Len Breckner raced home with the winning run
in the bottom of the eleventh inning as Saskatoon edged North
Battleford 2-1 in the first game of the best-of-seven final
series.
Lefty Lauer gave up just
three hits and fanned eleven in going the distance for
Saskatoon. Johnny Coleman pitched into the eleventh,
giving way to Les Dean after having loaded the bases with just one
out. Bob Herron had given the Beavers the lead with a
homer in the second. George Read drove in the tying run
in the third. 4-thousand fans watched the action at Cairns
Field.
Coleman, Dean (11)
Lauer
August 23 : North Battleford
pounded out 17 hits and whipped the Gems 10-1 at home to even
their series at a game apiece. Andy Swota
pitched a six hitter for the win. Murray Coben, Bob
Singleton and Max
Bentley worked on the hill for Saskatoon.
Coben, Singleton (7), Max Bentley
(7) and Shirley, Garcia (7)
Swota and Green, Prediger (9)
August 24 : Saskatoon scored
three runs in the top of the 12th inning and held on to beat the
Beavers 7-4. Gems were outhit 14-7 but walked away with a
2-1 game lead in the series.
Holdaway, Pickens (9) and Shirley
L. Dean and Green
August 25 : George Read,
Saskatoon's "blond pitching ace", allowed just five
hits as the hometown Gems beat the Beavers 5-3 to take a 3-1
lead in the final series. Read fanned eleven and
allowed just one base on balls.
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August 26 : Johnny Coleman
pitched a 4-hit shutout as the Beavers staved off elimination
with a 2-0 win over Saskatoon in a game at North Battleford.
Beavers scored in the third on a triple by Art Stone and
an error. Curtis Tate drove in Ken Nelson
with an insurance run in the sixth. Lefty Lauer
went the distance for the Gems allowing just five hits.
The game featured a triple-play by Saskatoon. In the
first inning, a walk and a single put Barney Fox on
second and Ken Nelson on first. Roy Dean's hard
liner toward first base was caught by Len Breckner who
tagged Nelson and threw to Walker at second to nip Fox.
Lauer
Coleman
August 28 : North Battleford
hammered out 18 hits and trounced the Gems 12-3 before 6-thousand
fans at Cairns Field in Saskatoon to sent their final
series to a seventh and deciding game. The Beavers scored three
in the first and five in the second to put the game out of
reach. They drove starter Frank Pickens and
reliever George Read from the hill before the end of the
second inning. Andy Swota went all the way for the
Beavers. Bob Herron was the hitting star for the
winners. The league's home run champion during the regular
season, had four hits including a homer and a double. He
had six RBI.
Swota and Prediger
Pickens, Reed (1), Holdaway (2) and Shirley
August 31 : The Beavers capped a
remarkable comeback with an offensive outburst to captured the Saskatchewan Baseball
League championship. North Battleford
handed the Gems an early 5-1 lead then roared back to whip
Saskatoon 22-9 in the deciding game of the best-of-seven final
series before 47-hundred fans at Abbott Field. It was the
largest crowd ever at the ball park, which normally seats about
26-hundred.
Bob Herron, who had four
hits, belted a pair of homers and knocked in five runs for the
Beavers. Art Stone had a grand slam. Max Bentley
had two homers for the Gems. Les Dean, who relieved
starter Johnny Coleman in the third, went the rest of the
way for the victory. The Gems used six pitchers -- Lefty
Lauer, Frank Pickens, Bob Singleton, Murray
Coben, Jimmy Shields and Max Bentley.
Lauer, Pickens (4), Singleton
(5), Coben (5), Shields (7), M. Bentley (8) and Shirley
Coleman, L. Dean (3) and Green
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