On July 15 in ...
* 1968 -- Burbank's Ray Washburn won his seventh game of the year -- his fourth straight -- as the National League-leading St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2.
* 1956 -- In the roundup: Virgil Rouch, 9, and John Woodhead, 13, were winners last week in the Richland Public Works and Recreation Unit baseball pitch conducted at Riverside Park. Rouch won the midget division; Woodhead the junior division.
* 1952 -- Norm Ridgeway, rookie shortstop for the Wenatchee Chiefs of the Western International League, left for his California home to report for July 25 induction into the Armed Forces.
