Saturday, September 11, 1948

STANDINGS
               W  L  Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 97  62 .610 —
Bremerton ... 92  60 .605 1½
Victoria .... 91  67 .576 5½
Tacoma ...... 80  69 .537 12
Salem ....... 72  85 .459 24
Vancouver ... 65  77 .458 23½
Wenatchee ... 67  88 .432 28
Yakima ...... 51 107 .323 45½

VICTORIA, Sept. 11—Victoria's 1948 home baseball season came to an end four innings ahead of time tonight when a heavy fog halted the second game of a split twin bill with the A's at the long end of a 10-0 count to Yakima in the fifth inning. The A's won the afternoon game, 8-3, to take their final home series four game to one.
Lefty Jim Propst made one mistake in the opener as he set the Packers down with five hits while striking out 15. He grooved a pitch to Bill Barisoff in the sixth inning, which was hammered over the fence for a three-run homer.
The A's opened the scoring with a single run in the first inning when Jack Palmer's double drove in Charlie Balassi, added a single one on Babe Jensen's double and Russ Walseth's single in the second and put the result beyond all doubt with a four-run clusterin the third. They would ip scoring a pair of runs in the eighth.
Hub Kittle was hammered in the first inning of the nightcap, as 11 Athletics went to the plate in the first inning. He was reached for six singles, two by Balassi, good for six runs. The A's added single runs in the second and third and completed their scoring with three runs in the fifth on Del Owens' double and successive triples by Vic Buccola, Sal Recca and Archie Wilson before the fog rolled in to halt the game with two out.
About 2,100 fans turned out for the final game to swell the season's attendfance to 147,746, more than last year's previous high by 17,000.
A's notes — During the half-hour delay before the game was called, Kittle favoured the fans with some songs in a rich bass voice - "They Hit Me Hard," "Old Man River," and "Wagon Wheels." Vic Buccola did his human seal act, balancing a ball and a bat, and Len kasparovitch enacted his parody of "Casey at the Bat."
First game
Yakima ........ 000 003 000—3 5 3
Victoria ....... 114 000 02x—8 12 1
Freeman and Constantino; Propst and Recca.
Second game
Yakima ........ 000 00—0 2 1
Victoria ....... 610 03—10 13 0
Kittle and Estrada; Owens and Morgan.

Spokane ....... 211 220 030—11 17 4
Salem .......... 000 052 032—12 13 0
Stevenson, Peterson (5) and Samhammer; Holmes, Babbitt (2), Orphal (5), Werbowski (9) and Rossi, Sheely (8)

VANCOUVER, Sept. 11—John Conant shut out the Vancouver Capilanos on seven hits in the second gave of a twin-bill here, as the Bremerton Bluejackets rescued the second game with a 3-0 win.
Conant struck out three and walked none.
Al Maul helped him with three hits, including a double and an RBI, while Ed Murphy doubled and batted in a run and Lyle Palmer singled in the other.
In the opener, Vancouver doubled the Tars 6-3, as Carl Gunnarson and Vern Kindsfather held them to six hits.
Len Tran, Jack Hjelmaa and Bill Brenner each had a pair of hits for the winners.
First game
Bremerton ......... 021 000 000—3 6 1
Vancouver ........ 040 001 10x—6 11 2
Lee, Pirack (7) and Volpi; Gunnarson, Kindsfather (7) and Brenner.
Second game
Bremerton ......... 002 000 001—3 15 1
Vancouver ........ 000 000 000—0 7 2
Conant and Ronning; Robertson and Brenner.

Wenatchee ........ 001 000 010—2 8 1
Tacoma ............ 006 010 00x—7 13 2
Gilson, Cronin (4) and Dalrymple; Lazor and Kuper.