Friday, June 4, 1948

WIL STANDINGS
              W  L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 25 15 .625 --
Wenatchee .. 23 20 .535 3½
Bremerton .. 22 21 .512 4½
Spokane .... 21 21 .500 5
Victoria ... 22 24 .478 6
Salem ...... 20 22 .476 6
Vancouver .. 19 22 .463 6½
Yakima ..... 18 25 .419 8½

WENATCHEE, June 4—Tacoma will retain its Western International League lead — at least
for a while.
The Tigers made certain of that tonight in dumping second place Wenatchee 10-4 to move three and a half games out in front of the pack. It was the first of a four game series for the two leaders.
For Tacoma, it was Dick Greco. And for Greco—it was all or nothing. Six times he stepped to the plate. Four time he struck out. The first and last times, however, he slammed out circuit blows with two men on to account for six of the Tacomans' 10. The four-ply clouts gave him four in the last three games.
Tacoma ............ 411 000 004—10 10 2
Wenatchee ....... 002 200 000—4 10 4
Clary, Nichols (5) and Rossi; McCollum, Mann (8) and Andrade.

YAKIMA, June 4—Taking over in the first inning when Larry Ward faltered again, southpaw Jim Propst blanked the Yakima Packers the rest of the way as Victoria Athletics rallied to score an 8-2 victory and cop the series, 2-1. It was the fourth win in seven starts on the current road-trip for Victoria.
The Athletics lashed out 15 hits off two Yakima pitchers.
Victoria ............. 020 220 020—8 15 1
Yakima .............. 200 000 000—2 7 4
Ward, Propst (1) and Recca; Strait, Pirack (8) and Constantino, Eastwood (8).

SPOKANE, June 4—Bremerton Bluejackets snapped their slump to move past Tacoma into third place by edging the Indians, 5-4, in ten innings with Lloyd Hittle gaining credit for the win in a relief role.
Bremerton ........... 000 003 010 1—5 11 5
Spokane ............. 000 210 001 0—4 10 3
Marshall, Hittle (8) and Volpi; Teagan and Sheely.

SALEM, June 4—The Salem Senators salvaged the final game of their series with Vancouver by scoring five runs in the ninth the nip to the Capilanos, 5-4.
Bob Snyder was working on a four-run lead going into the ninth and seemed to be in no danger when the Solons erupted fror their game-winning rally to give Jim Olson his seventh victory in as many decisions. Dick Gentzkow's bases-loaded double climaxed the rally.
The Caps had pushed across their initial tally in the first inning on a walk, Joe Kaney's double and Bill Reese's long fly. They got another in the sixth as Charlie Mead doubled and Bud Hjelmaa singled, Two more in the eighth ended the visitors' scoring.
Vancouver ........... 100 001 020—4 9 1
Salem .................. 000 000 005—5 8 2
Snyder and Warren; Olson and Stumpf.