(May 31) The Kamsack Cyclones rapped out a solid 5 - 1 win when they encountered the Yorkton Cardinals in the opener of the Manitoba - Saskatchewan League. The Kamsack nine held the edge throughout the entire 7 innings of play as hurler Johnny Zeeben tossed a 3-hitter and went the route for the win. Bill Chypyha had a double and a single for the Cyclones, with both hits driving in a run. Jack Sharpe was hit with the loss. The Cards had their big opportunity in the opening frame when they had runners at 2nd and 3rd with none out but blew consecutive squeeze plays.
Sharpe (L) and xxxx
Zeeben (W) and Achtemychuk
(June 1) Steve Yaholnitsky led the hard-hitting Yorkton attack as the Cardinals blew out the visitors from Grandview 12 - 6 in the Redbirds home opener. Yaholnitsky had a triple, double and single plus a base on balls to reach base each time he stepped into the batters' box. D. Wilson of Grandview belted a home run for the losers.
(June 4) Grandview whipped Dauphin 12-4 for their second straight win in the Man-Sask Baseball League. A five-run outburst in the 7th inning sewed up the contest for the Maroons who trailed 4-3 in the early going. Connelli fired a five-hitter. He walked five and fanned six. Frank Goran started for the Red Birds and took the loss. Bent Hubchick paced the offense with four hits. John Wagner, Ken Ridley and Holt each had a pair. The Maroons, with several imports on the roster, earlier suffered a 12-6 beating at the hands of Yorkton and managed a 10-9 win over Gilbert Plains. Dauphin had defeated Gilbert Plains 10-2 in their league opener.
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Connelli and xxx
(June 9) Roblin Seniors downed the Cardinals 10-8 at Yorkton with 15-year-old Si Coleman gaining credit for his first win in senior ball.
(June 10) Roblin crushed Yorkton 17-5 in a game at Roblin.
(June 15) At Madge Lake, the Kamsack Cyclones experienced no difficulty in turning back the Dauphin team in both ends of a twin-bill. The scores were not published in the Kamsack Times.
(June 20) Roblin at Bowman
(June 21) Temperamental hockey star Vern Pachal yielded seven hits as he pitched the Yorkton Cardinals to an 8 - 2 victory over the Kamsack Cyclones at Jubilee Park. Harry Prystai led the Cards at bat with a 2 for 4 performance.
(June 21) In exhibition action at Saskatoon, Kamsack Cyclones came away with a win and a tie in a twin-bill with the Gems. In the opener, Len Tucker keyed a five-run 3rd inning with a booming triple as the Cyclones went on to an 11-3 victory. Len Breckner belted a homer for the Gems. Mike Berezowski and John Zeeben worked the mound for the Kamsack win. Each team had ten hits.
Berezowski, Zeeben (7) and Garcia
Eisner, Breckner (3), Rubicic (4), Jacobson (9) and Reg Bentley
Len Tucker rapped homers in his first two trips in the second game as the teams fought to a 5-5 draw in 12 innings. Cyclones John Carlson had a no-hitter into the 7th inning before the Gems came to life with three hits including a two-run double by Cliff Jacobson. Kamsack out hit Saskatoon 11-6.
Carlson and Garcia,
Achtymichuk (6)
Jacobson and Shirley
(June 23) Roblin at Grandview
(June 24) Tex Conley, an import from Cincinnati, Ohio, pitched Roblin to a 7-1 victory over Yorkton. Conley allowed just five hits and compiled 10 strikeouts. He was also a star on offense belting a two-run homer in the 5th inning scoring Keast ahead of him.
The first two Roblin runs came in the 1st and 3rd innings on wild pitches by Ernie Koroluk who went the distance for Yorkton. He gave up eight hits. Roblin padded their lead in the 8th scoring three times, two on a bases-loaded single by Souter, which plated both Gove and Lee Fisher. Lafayette Washington later scored on Keast's infield grounder.
Team W L RO T
Kamsack 9 2 3 1
Roblin 6 2
Grandview 7 5 2
Gilbert Plains 6 4
Dauphin 4 7 1
Yorkton 4 7 2
Bowsman 2 9 1
* Won, Lost, Rainouts, Tied
(June 26) The Yorkton Enterprise published the latest batting statistics for the Yorkton Cardinals baseball club and it showed that, after 4 weeks of league play, Stan Obodiac leads the team with a .390 average based on 17 hits in 41 times at bat. Metro Prystai is right behind with 17 hits also, but he has been at bat 46 times for a .369 average. In the very important runs-batted-in department, Metro Prystai has knocked in 18. The "Meatball" also has hit 4 home runs, a pair of 3-baggers and 5 doubles to lead those categories as well. Vern Pachal has scored the most runs with 13. Steve Yaholnitsky is the top pitcher with a 2 - 0 record.
(June 26) Roblin at Kamsack
(June 27) Nineteen year-old Ernie Koroluk pitched six-hit ball against Gilbert Plains as the Yorkton Cardinals fashioned an 8 - 7 win over the Manitobans. The Yorkton bats were booming in this encounter which saw Vern Pachal go 3 for 4 including a triple and double. Stan Obodiac drilled a 4-bagger and double while Metro Prystai belted a pair of doubles.
(June 27) Roblin at Grandview
(July 3) Latest standings published in the Yorkton Enterprise show the Kamsack Cyclones with a comfortable lead.
Man - Sask standings
as of July 2 W L Pct.
Kamsack 10 2 .833
Roblin 6 2 .750
Gilbert Plains 7 5 .583
Grandview 8 6 .571
Yorkton 5 8 .385
Dauphin 4 9 .308
Bowsman 2 9 .182
(July 3) Len Tucker belted a homer and a three-run double to lead Kamsack to a 5-4 win over the Florida Cubans. The visitors took a four-run lead in the first inning but were shutout the rest of the way. Tucker homered in the 7th for the Cyclones' first marker and tied it in the 8th with his double. Stan Green scored the winner in the 9th on an error. Steve Stavrianoudakis registered the win.
(July 3) Gilbert Plains at Roblin
(July 4) Roblin at Kamsack
(July 5) Dauphin Redbirds topped Yorkton Cardinals 4-1 at Dauphin. The Redbirds were bolstered by two recruits from the Indian Head Rockets, Ira Donaldson and Jones. Donaldson fired a four-hitter and one walk in going the distance for the win. He also contributed two hits. Jones helped with a first inning single which drove in Bob Kabel and Bill Smegelski with the game's first two runs. The Prystais handled all the offense for the visitors. Harry had two singles while Metro and Bill each had one.
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Donaldson (W) and xxx
(July 7) Grandview Maroons scored a pair in the 8th inning to shade Gilbert Plains 2-1 in the final of their four-team invitational tournament. Maroons out-hit the visitors 12-4.
Frank Watkins fired a one-hitter as Grandview blanked Dauphin 4-0 in opening round action. Holt had three hits for the winners. Gilbert Plains defeated Roblin 12-3 to reach the final. The game featured 27 hits, 14 by the winners. They were four homers, Ed McDonald and Ed Garay for Gilbert Plains and Tex Conley and Gove for Roblin.
(July 9) Catcher Lenny Pigg clouted a grand slam homer in the 5th inning to pace Roblin to a 13-10 victory over Grandview Maroons in a Man-Sask tussle at Roblin. Roblin pushed across seven runs in the frame to salt away the win. Tex Conley went the distance on the hill for the winners. Bill Saunders poked a three-run homer for the Maroons.
Holt, Wiley (5) and Stempak
Conley (W) and Pigg
(July 11) The Indian Head Rockets walked away with top money in the Kamsack Elks' $6,000 tournament when they trounced the popular Florida Cubans 13 - 1 in the final. The hometown Kamsack Cyclones were earlier disqualified from the tournament and their game awarded to the Grandview, Manitoba aggregation when the Cyclones used a pinch-hitter who was not a registered member of the team at the beginning of the tournament. Close to 10,000 people saw some first-class baseball in the 2-day event which drew 16 teams.
(July 11) Roblin at Yorkton
(July 12) Dauphin at Roblin
(July 13) Kamsack at Roblin (2)
(July 15) Roblin at Dauphin
(July 21) Dauphin at Roblin
(July 22) A five-run 1st inning carried Roblin to a 9-6 win over Gilbert Plains. Lafayette Washington went the distance for the win in spite of giving up a three-run homer to Bob Newton.
McDonald, Parker (1) and Garay
Washington (W) and Pigg
(July 24) The Kamsack Cyclones took out the Yorkton Cardinals by a 7 - 3 count in the gas town as Negro import Len Tucker led the Cyclones at bat. For Yorkton, Steve Chorney hit a pair of singles.
(July 25) At Gilbert Plains, the Yorkton Cardinals blew leads of 7 - 0 and 10 - 7 and fell to the homesters 11 - 10. Eddie McDonald's bases-loaded triple off loser Jack Sharpe won it for the Plainsmen.
(July 25) The hometown Maroons took top money in the Grandview Baseball Tournament. Maroons downed Roblin 7-3 in the final after a first round, 3-2, win over Gilbert Plains.
(July 26) The Yorkton Cardinals shook out of their tail-spin as Ernie Koroluk pitched them to a 6 - 4 win over a Grandview Maroons squad featuring 10 import players. Stan Obodiac supplied the power for the Cards as he lit up Maroons' pitching for a pair of home runs.
(August 16) Grandview Maroons downed Gilbert Plains 6-3 to win the championship of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Baseball League. Dauphin Red Birds held the title in 1951. Despite the defeat, Gilbert Plains was reported to be justly proud of their team which ended in first place during the regular season. The local players and imports Eddie McDonald, Eddie Garay, Rudy Garcia, Jim Moore and Bob Newton played a fine brand of ball through the season.
(Sept 9) The Roblin Review carried a story noting an All-Star team selected by the Yorkton Enterprise.
Catcher - John Stempak, Grandview
First - Len Tucker, Kamsack
Second - Stan Obodiak, Yorkton
Third - Metro Prystai, Yorkton
Shortstop - Tex Conley, Roblin
Left Field - Stan McPhee, Dauphin
Centre Field - Hubchuk, Grandview
Right Field - Shiner, Roblin
Utility - Ed McDonald, Gilbert Plains
Pitcher - Keast, Roblin
Pitcher - Steve Wylie, Grandview
Pitcher - Parker, Gilbert Plains
Pitcher - Stacko, Dauphin