Monday, July 5, 1948

STANDINGS
              W  L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 49 31 .613 --
Bremerton .. 49 32 .605 ½
Victoria ... 44 37 .543 5½
Vancouver .. 40 35 .533 6½
Spokane .... 40 36 .506 7
Wenatchee .. 33 45 .423 15
Salem ...... 32 47 .405 16½
Yakima ..... 29 50 .467 19½

TACOMA, July 5—The Victoria Athletics won their second series in five days from the leading Tacoma Tigers Monday, taking a 7-5 victory in the afterpiece of a holiday double-header after dropping the first game, 11-4.
The results gave Victoria a 2-1 series edge in Tacoma and a 5-3 margin in the five-day stretch of games between the two clubs.
The A's had a 5-2 lead in the night game when the Tigers scored twice in the sixth then tied it in the seventh on two singles, a sacrifice and an outfield fly. Victoria rallied against Jim Gleason, the fourth Tacoma pitcher, in the ninth. Singles by Charlie Balassi, Lou Kubiak, Jack Palmer and Babe Jensen and an infield out produced two runs.
Vic Buccola had a solo homer for the winners.
In the first game, outfielder Dick Greco went the distance on the mound and scattered eight hits. His mates jumped on Al Goot for seven runs in the first two innings. Goot was relieved by Roy Gilmore, spare outfielder.
Greco batted clean-up and brought in four runs on a double and a single.
Charlie Balassi homered with no one on in the ninth inning for Victoria.
First game
Victoria .......... 000 003 001—4 8 0
Tacoma ......... 250 002 20x—11 12 1
Goot, Gilmore (2) and Morgan; Greco and Rossi.
Second game
Victoria ........... 014 000 002—7 12 2
Tacoma ........... 011 002 100—5 11 2
Kasparovitch, Blankenship (6) and Recca; Clary, Venturelli (3), Brillheart (6), Gleason (9) and Hargadon.

BREMERTON, July 5—Bremerton Bluejackets missed a chance to tie for the Western International League lead when rain washed out the second contest of a double-header with the Vancouver Capilanos in the eighth inning Monday. The teams were tied, 4-4, after the Jackets had managed to tie it in the bottom of the final frame. They won the seven-inning opener, 4-3.
Ed Murphy and Ed Samcoff sparked the winners in the first game. Each drove in two runs — Murphy with two doubles and a single, and Samcoff with a triple, double and single. Murph's triple was the big blow in the three-run Bremerton first inning in the second game.
First game
Vancouver ........ 000 200 1—3 5 0
Bremerton ........ 000 030 1—4 9 1
Higgins, Costello (7) and Brenner; Sullivan and Ronning.
Second game, called rain
Vancouver ........ 200 001 10—4 6 0
Bremerton ........ 300 000 01—4 9 3
Manier, Gunnarson (8) and Warren; Simon and Volpi.

SPOKANE, July 5—The Spokane Indians copped the first game from the Yakima Packers, 12-6, with Frank Nelson gaining credit for his 11th win. Nelson, who finished his first 16 starts, needed relief for the second game in succession.
Hub Kittle, Yakima manager, had a no-hitter for five innings in the second fixture. Dick Discalso, new Spokane catcher, singled to start the sixth for the first hit off Kittle. The Packers finally won in the tenth, 7-6.
First game
Yakima ............ 000 042 0—6 9 2
Spokane .......... 016 113 x—12 14 1
Strait, Johnson (3), Pirack (6) and Constantino; Nelson, Babbitt (6) and Sheely.
Second game
Yakima ............ 100 200 210 1—7 10 3
Spokane .......... 000 000 105 0—6 3 8
Kittle, Pirack (8), Strait (9), Drilling (9) and Tornay; Teagan, Cordell (10) and Discalso, Sheely (10).

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