Sunday, April 25, 1948

STANDINGS
             W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 4 2 .667 --
Vancouver .. 5 3 .625 --
Salem ...... 4 3 .571 ½
Yakima ..... 5 4 .555 ½
Spokane .... 6 5 .545 ½
Wenatchee .. 4 5 .444 1½
Bremerton .. 2 4 .333 2
Victoria ... 2 6 .250 3

SPOKANE, April 25—The ninth inning was needed to bring home the winning runs in both games of a double-header Sunday as Spokane got by Vancouver in the opener, 3-2, while the Capilanos blanked the Indians in the second game, 4-0.
Bill Reese singled home the first two runs for Vancouver in the night game, and Bill Brenner doubled to right centre for two more.
Until then, the Caps had only three hits off Frank Nelson. One of the three was Buddy Hjelmaa's single. He has hit in all eight of Vancouver's games this season.
In the opener, pitcher John Cordell dumped a single off rival Hal Saltzman over Len Tran's head at third base to break a 2-2 tie in the ninth to give Spokane the win. It was the fourth hit of the inning.
First Game
Vancouver ...... 000 002 000—2 9 1
Spokane ........ 000 000 003—3 8 1
Saltzman and Warren, Brenner (9); Cordell and Sheely.
Second Game
Vancouver ...... 000 000 004—4 8 0
Spokane ........ 000 000 000—0 7 1
Costello and Brenner; Nelson and Sheely.

TACOMA, April 25—Backing up a pair of airtight pitching performances with some heavy cannonading, the Tacoma Tigers defeated the Victoria Athletics in both ends of a Western International League doubleheader Sunday, 12-0 and 8-1, to extend their winning streak to four in a row. The win puts the Tigers at the top of the standings.
Mitch Chetkovich hurled a four-hitter in the opener while his Tigers mates were blasting five Victoria moundsmen for 17 base knocks, including a home by Larry Lee.
Jim Gleason limited the visitors to seven hits in the nightcap. Gene Clough put the Tigers in front when he led off with a homer in the first inning, but it wasn't until the fourth, when they jumped on Dick Walkingshaw for five runs, four of them unearned, that the Tigers were able to sew up the game.
First Game
Victoria ........ 000 000 000—0 4 5
Tacoma ........ 120 204 30x—12 17 0
Ward, Logue (4), Kuehl (6), Saggiani (7), Goot (8) and Recca; Chetkovich and Rossi.
Second Game
Victoria ........ 000 010 0—1 7 2
Tacoma ........ 100 512 x—8 9 3
Walkingshaw, Kasparovitch (4), Kuehl (6) and Danielson; Gleason and Hargadon.

Salem, Ore., April 25—Yakima walked to a sweep of a Western International League baseball doubleheader today, winning from the Salem Senators, 4-3 and 9-3.
Four Salem pitchers gave up 11 bases on balls in the opener, in which the Packers overcame a three-run deficit to tie and bring in the winning run in the eighth inning. In the nightcap, the Packers drew eight passes off two Salem hurlers.
First Game
Yakima ...... 000 001 210—4 5 2
Salem ....... 200 010 000—3 5 1
Ford and Constantino; Stevenson, Sporer (7), Carr (7), Olson (9) and McMillan, Hanson (8).
Second Game
Yakima ...... 202 020 3—9 9 1
Salem ....... 010 002 0—3 6 1
Freeman, Hittle (6) and Heathwood, Anderson, Olson (7) and Hanson.