Thursday, July 1, 1948

W.I.L. STANDINGS
              W  L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 47 27 .635 --
Bremerton .. 46 30 .618 2
Vancouver .. 38 32 .543 7
Victoria ... 40 35 .533 7½
Spokane .... 37 36 .507 9½
Wenatchee .. 31 43 .419 16
Salem ...... 30 45 .400 17½
Yakima ..... 26 47 .356 19½

Jackets Hack At Tiger Lead
By The Associated Press
Bremerton's Bluejackets are inching their way back into Western International League pennant fight. They chopped another half game from the margin separating them from the first place Tacoma Tigers Thursday night as the two leaders tangled with the league's Canadian entries in Dominion Day doubleheaders.
Tacoma divided with Victoria, winning the opener 9-8 but dropping the nightcap 16-8.
Bremerton downed Vancouver 6-5 and battled to a 13-inning; 9-9 draw. It narrowed the Tacoma lead to two games.
Salem bounced back at Spokane to edge the Indians 3-2 while Wenatchee won its third in a row over Yakima 7-2.
Both Tacoma-Victoria clashes were slugfests, the two games producing 63 hits from the slants of nine hurlers. Victoria had the cumulative edge with 36 blows, but Tacoma's long range artillery sparked both frays. Larry Lee clouted two homers and Dick Greco and Hank Vallee one each in the second game, while Vallee and Glen Stetter each cleared the fence in the opener.

VANCOUVER, July 1—Al Ronning doubled the winning run home in the ninth inning as Bremerton took the opening contest of a twin-bill here this afternoon, 6-5.
The Caps had tied the game when Charlie Mead homered with two on in the eighth.
The two teams ran afoul of a curfew rule that no inning can start past 11:45 p.m. The score was stuck 9-9 in the 13th inning of the second game when the clock put an end to it.
Jack Warren batted in two runs to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth and then tied it again in the 13th when he singled a run in.
The Caps could have ended the game earlier. Charlie Mead opened the inning with a double and was sacrificed to third. Two batters were walked to get to pitcher Bob Snyder. The suicide squeeze play was on, but Snyder didn't get a piece of the ball and Mead was out at home.
Snyder also struck out to end the game.
First Game
Bremerton ........... 110 111 011—6 14 2
Vancouver ........... 011 000 030—5 10 2
Conant, Hittle (9) and Volpi; Higgins, Anderson (9) and Brenner.
Second game
Bremerton .......... 000 400 400 000 1—9 16 1
Vancouver .......... 200 004 002 000 1—9 14 3
Simon, Barnise (8), Hittle (9) and Volpi; Manier, Gunnarson (4), Snyder (8) and Warren.

First game
Tacoma ............. 203 010 201—9 14 2
Victoria ............. 313 000 001—8 16 2
Greenlaw, Lazor (3) and Rossi; Owens, Goot (7) and Recca, Morgan (7).
Second game
Tacoma ............ 005 300 000—8 13 3
Victoria ............ 001 033 072—16 20 0
Gleason, Venturelli (6) and Rossi; Logue, Goot, (3), Harmsen (8) and Morgan.

Spokane ........... 000 000 020—2 11 2
Salem ............... 030 000 00x—3 10 0
Teagan, Babbitt (8) and Sheely; Saltzman and Burgher.

Yakima ............ 020 001 000—2 8 3
Wenatchee ...... 300 211 00x—7 11 0
Strait and Constantino, Tornay (8); Conover and Dalrymple.