Friday, September 3, 1948

W.I.L. STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 87 55 .613 —
Spokane ..... 88 61 .591 2½
Victoria .... 84 63 .571 5½
Tacoma ...... 76 64 .543 11½
Vancouver ... 60 72 .455 22
Salem ....... 67 80 .456 22½
Wenatchee ... 64 81 .441 24½
Yakima ...... 48 98 .329 41

BREMERTON, Wash., Sept. 3—The Bremerton Bluejackets dropped their second straight game to the Victoria Athletics, 9-2, tonight, and saw their lead in the Western International League fall to 2½ games over Spokane.
John Conant gave up 13 hits and allowed three runs in the fourth and another trio in the sixth while Len Kasparovitch blanked his teammates until the seventh inning.
Third baseman Babe Jensen was hit by a pitch in the fourth inning and later scored the first run of the game. Apparently still irate, Jensen provided the last two runs for the winners in the ninth by clouting his 12th home run with a man aboard. Lou Kubiak drove in the other two runs with a triple and a single.
Victoria ......... 000 303 102—9 13 1
Bremerton ...... 000 000 101—2 13 6
Kasparovitch and Recca; Conant, Allen (7), Lee (8) and Volpi.

WENATCHEE, Sept. 3—Spokane continued their dizzy pace toward the Western International League pennant as George Valine's ninth-inning home run broke a 2-2 tie to give the Indians a 3-2 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
Wenatchee ........ 001 010 000—2 7 6
Spokane ............ 010 000 101—3 7 4
Lierman and Gardner; Teagan, Babbitt (6) and Sheely.

TACOMA, Sept. 3—Tacoma Tigers all but mathematically clinched fourth place in the final Western International League baseball standings by taking both ends of a double-header over the fifth-place Vancouver Capilanos, 4-2 and 7-3.
The double verdict put the Tigers 12 games ahead of Vancouver with two weeks of the season remaining.
Southpaw Jim Hedgecock, who relieved the sore-armed Bob Costello in the second inning of the first game, limited the Tigers two four hits in his five innings on the hill, but the home force bunched the blows with sufficient effectiveness to make Vince Lazor's seven-hit mound effort a winning one.
George Nicholas, burly Tiger right-hander, yielded only five hits to account for the victory in the nightcap.
Three of the Vancouver blows were combined with a walk in the fourth inning to give the Caps all three of their runs, but after being nicked for the tallies the Tacoma hurler retired the last 17 men to face him.
First game
Vancouver ..... 000 001 1—2 7 2
Tacoma ........ 010 210 x—4 4 0
Costello, Hedgecock (2) and Brenner; Lazor and Kuper.
Second game
Vancouver ..... 000 300 000—3 5 4
Tacoma ........ 001 211 20x—7 10 2
Manier and Warren, Brenner (7); Nicholas and Hargadon.

Yakima ........ 042 000 000—8 8 2
Salem ......... 220 000 030—7 13 4
Ford, Peterson (8) and Constantino; Olson, McNulty (2) and Samhammer.