Friday, August 6, 1948

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 69 45 .605 —
Tacoma ...... 64 49 .566 4½
Victoria .... 65 52 .556 5½
Spokane ..... 62 53 .539 7½
Vancouver ... 54 52 .509 11
Wenatchee ... 49 64 .434 19½
Salem ....... 51 65 .440 19
Yakima ...... 40 74 .351 29

WENATCHEE, Aug. 6—Len Kasparovitch gained his 14th triumph as he doled out nine hits and led the 14-hit Victoria attack by lining out three hits, including a double, in as many trips, and scoring three runs to beat the Chiefs, 8-4.
It was the A's seventh win in eight starts in Wenatchee.
After a shaky second inning, when he gave up the first two Wenatchee runs, the Hawaiian righthander permitted the Chiefs single runs in the fifth and seventh and coasted in after his teammates came from behind with a five-run rally in the seventh to give him a working margin.
The A's tied the count at 2-2 in the fourth, but Wenatchee's run in the fifth put them behind again. A sudden outburst in the "lucky" inning sent Glen Lierman to the showers. Six hits, including a home run by Babe Jensen — his eighth — and doubles by Vic Buccola, Jack Palmer, Dick Morgan and Kasparovitch sent in five runs.
Victoria ............ 000 200 501—8 14 0
Wenatchee ....... 002 010 100—4 9 2
Kasparovitch and Morgan; Lierman, McCollum (7), Gilson (8) and Gardner.

YAKIMA, Aug. 6—The Yakima Packers managed to gain an even split with the Bremerton Bluejackets tonight, winning the first game, 6-5, as they made an early lead stand up, and then losing a tough, 1-0, decision in the finale.
Bob Pirack bested his former teammates in a keen duel with Garth Ford in the night game.
First game
Bremerton ....... 000 050 0—5 6 2
Yakima ........... 510 000 0—6 9 2
Barnise, Allen (1), Kittle (6) and Ronning; D. Drilling and Stumpf.
Second game
Bremerton ....... 010 000 000—1 5 1
Yakima ........... 000 000 000—0 5 2
Pirack and Volpi; Ford and Constantino.

SALEM, Aug. 6—Salem managed to outslug Tacoma in a hitters battle tonight and wound up with a 15-11 win. Highlight of the slugging spree was catcher Bill Burgher's grand-slam home run in the seven-run fifth inning.
Tacoma ......... 023 001 041—11 17 3
Salem ........... 300 074 01x—15 16 1
Greenlaw, Venturelli (6) and Kuper; Stevenson, Saltzman (3) and Burgher.

SPOKANE, Aug. 6—The Spokane Indians got by the Vancouver Capilanos, 7-6, despite being outhit 13-9 tonight.
Vancouver spotted Spokane five runs in the first three innings and caught up in the sixth before finally falling.
Len Tran scored in the ninth for the Caps, who had the tying and winning runs on the bags when Gene Babbitt, back after a lengthy suspension, came in to relieve John Cordell. Babbitt forced the dangerous Jack Warren to ground into a double-play.
Vancouver ....... 000 212 001—6 13 2
Spokane .......... 113 000 20x—7 9 0
Gunnarson, Snyder (7) and Warren; Cordell, Babbitt (9) and Gibb.