Friday, April 23, 1948

STANDINGS
             W L Pct. GB
Salem ...... 3 1 .750 --
Vancouver .. 4 2 .667 --
Spokane .... 5 4 .556 ½
Tacoma ..... 2 2 .500 1
Yakima ..... 3 3 .500 1
Wenatchee .. 4 5 .444 1½
Bremerton .. 2 4 .333 2
Victoria ... 2 4 .333 2

TACOMA, Wash., April 23—Southpaw Ray Fortier, who hurled for Victoria last season, turned on his old mates tonight here as his limited the Athletics to six hits in registering a 6-3 triumph for Tacoma in the opener of a four-game series.
Victoria took the league in the first inning when Archie Wilson singled to score Jack Palmer, who got on base when Glen Stetter made a two-base muff of his fly ball.
Harry Lee, Tacoma third baseman, was the hitting star of the game for the winners. He singled home two runs in the third, then doubled to score another pair in the fifth, later scoring the fifth tally himself. The final tally for the Tigers came in the seventh when relief pitcher Jim Propst issued four walks. Al Goot, former University of Washington right-hander, took over from Propst and escaped further trouple.
The game marked the first appearance of Babe Jensen, last season's third baseman, in the Victoria line-up. Jensen opened the game at first base, but Paul Jensen took over before the game was over. He was hitless in two at-bats.
Victoria ...... 100 000 100—2 6 2
Tacoma ...... 002 030 10x—6 9 2
Kasparovitch, Propst (7), Goot (7) and Danielson; Fortier and Rossi.

SPOKANE, April 23—The Spokane Indians struck for three runs in the fifth, two on a double by Tommy Nelson, to thump the Vancouver Capilanos, 8-1, tonight in a Western International League game.
Nelson's double to left scored Edo Vanni and Gene Petralli, and he came home later in the inning. Winning pitcher Gene Babbitt singled in a pair of runs.
Buddy Hjelmaa went two for four and raised his batting average to .600. He has a six-game hitting streak.
Of the five Vancouver hits, Joe Kaney was the lone Cap who got to Babbitt for extra bases. His triple came after Len Tran singled in the sixth and scored Vancouver's only run.
Vancouver .......... 000 001 000—1 5 2
Spokane ............. 000 033 20x—8 11 1
Gunnarson, Pearson (7) and Brenner; Babbitt and Younker.

Yakima ......... 100 000 000—1 4 2
Salem ........... 011 381 00x—14 15 1
Strait, Pirack (5), Fast (6) and Constantino; Pitter and McMillan.

Wenatchee .......... 100 001 001—3 7 0
Bremerton ............ 200 000 000—2 6 1
Cronin and Sick; Marshall and Ronning.