Thursday, July 12, 2007

Sunday, August 8, 1948

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 72 45 .615 —
Tacoma ...... 66 50 .569 5½
Spokane ..... 66 53 .555 7
Victoria .... 66 54 .550 7½
Vancouver ... 54 56 .491 13½
Wenatchee ... 51 65 .440 20½
Salem ....... 52 67 .437 21
Yakima ...... 40 77 .342 32

SPOKANE, Aug. 8—Bud Sheely's long fly ball broke a 6-6 tie in the first game of two to give the Spokane Indians a 7-6 win over the Vancouver Capilanos.
The long out came after Bill Brenner's pinch-hit home run brought in three runs in the top of the inning.
In the night game, Spokane's John Orphal scattered six hits in winning 10-0.
Edo Vanni had three hits and George Valine stroked a two-run homer for the winners.
First game
Vancouver .......... 000 003 003—6 11 0
Spokane ............. 030 031 001—7 9 2
Manier, Anderson (2), Snyder (9) and Warren; Holmes, Werbowski (8) and Sheely.
Second game
Vancouver .......... 000 000 000—0 6 1
Spokane ............. 100 100 62x—10 14 0
Costellon and Warren; Orphal and Sheely.

First game
Victoria ........... 301 050 0—9 13 0
Wenatchee ...... 100 011 2—5 9 0
Logue and Recca; Stenman, Rose (3), Conover (5) and Gardner.
Second game
Victoria .......... 012 000 100—4 10 3
Wenatchee ..... 422 002 01x—11 13 0
Owens, Goot (3) and Recca; Stevenson and Dalrymple.

SALEM, Aug. 8—Dick Greco's three homers helped a 14-8 first-game win, and Vince Lazor's four-hit twirling and and eight-run sixth frame won the nightcap over Salem, 8-3.
First game
Tacoma ......... 080 240 0—14 13 1
Salem ............ 303 200 0—8 10 1
Clary, Venturelli (4) and Kuper; Sporer, Olson (2), Burgher (5) and Burgher, Samhammer (5).
Second game
Tacoma .......... 000 008 000—8 11 0
Salem ............. 000 030 000—3 4 0
Lazor and Kuper; Peterson, Sporer (8) and Burgher.

First game
Bremerton .......... 003 000 2—5 9 1
Yakima .............. 000 000 0—0 5 0
Hittle and Ronning; Kittle and Stumpf.
Second game
Bremerton ......... 404 001 011—11 15 1
Yakima ............. 101 000 000—2 5 4
Simon and Volpi; Strait, B. Drilling (3) and Constantino.

WIL Clubs in Two More Exchanges
UNDATED, Aug. 8—Spokane bought Joe Rossi, Tacoma's first-string catcher and Yakima traded first baseman Diamond Cecil to Wenatchee for second baseman Gene Gaviglio.
Lou Estes will play first for Yakima; while Earl Kuper, new Tacoma playing-manager, will catch for the Tigers in Rossi's place.

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