Monday, September 6, 1948

STANDINGS
               W  L  Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 88  58 .603 —
Spokane ..... 92  62 .597 —
Victoria .... 87  64 .578 3½
Tacoma ...... 78  66 .542 9
Salem ....... 71  81 .467 20
Vancouver ... 62  74 .456 21
Wenatchee ... 65  85 .433 25
Yakima ...... 49 102 .329 41½

VANCOUVER, Sept. 6—Three hits in the ninth, including two doubles, ruined Bob Snyder's shutout bid, but the two runs that scored weren't enough and the Vancouver Capilanos came up with a 3-2 win over the Tacoma Tigers.
The Bengals won the night game, 9-7, after batting around in the first inning to chase Carl Gunnarson and again in the fourth.
Charlie Mead hit his 20th home run of the year in the opener.
First game
Tacoma ....... 000 000 002—2 8 1
Vancouver .... 010 011 00x—3 7 0
Fortier and Kuper; Snyder and Brenner.
Second game
Tacoma ......... 400 004 100—9 10 3
Vancouver ...... 200 003 020—7 9 4
Clary and Hargadon; Gunnarson, Kindsfather (1) and Brenner, Choukalos (7).

VICTORIA, Sept. 6—Bremerton dropped into a first-place tie with Spokane in the Western International League tonight as the Bluejackets lost twice to the Victoria Athletics, 8-3 and 16-3. Victoria clustered all their hits, including homers by Jack Palmer and Archie Wilson, into the third inning to score all their runs in the opener.
They retained their batting eyes through the nightcap, walloping 19 hits, good for 36 bases, off three Bremerton hurlers. Included were two homers, one a grand slam blow by Sal Recca, and four-baggers by Vic Buccola and Wilson.
First game
Bremerton ...... 101 100 000—3 8 3
Victoria .......... 008 000 00x—8 8 1
Pirack, Lee (3) and Volpi; Propst and Recca.
Second game
Bremerton ...... 000 020 100—3 9 0
Victoria .......... 107 120 50x—16 19 2
Simon, Allan (5), Barnise (8) and Ronning, Blankenship and Recca.

First game
Salem .......... 015 035 3—17 17 0
Yakima ......... 020 000 2—4 10 3
Stevenson and Samhammer; D. Driling, Strait (3), Barisoff (5), Estes (6) and Constantino.
Second game
Salem .......... 020 100 101—5 13 1
Yakima ......... 010 001 200—4 9 3
Sporer and Brown; Freeman and Estrada.

First game
Wenatchee ...... 000 012 1—4 12 6
Spokane .......... 120 012 x—6 6 0
Stenman, Gilson (6) and Dalrymple; Holmes, Babbitt (6) and Sheely.
Second game
Wenatchee ...... 010 100 000—2 6 1
Spokane .......... 202 002 10x—7 9 2
Rose and Gardner; Orphal and Sheely.