Wednesday, July 14, 1948

STANDINGS
              W  L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 54 36 .600 --
Bremerton .. 53 38 .582 1½
Victoria ... 50 39 .562 3½
Vancouver .. 43 40 .518 7½
Spokane .... 46 43 .517 7½
Wenatchee .. 39 50 .438 14½
Salem ...... 38 51 .427 15½
Yakima ..... 31 57 .352 22

BREMERTON, July 14—Bremerton Bluejackets crept to within a game and a half of league-leading Tacoma by defeating the Tigers, 9-3, tonight. Bremerton took the home end of their ten-game series, 3-2.
Keith Simon registered his 11th victory of the season, as his mates spotted him to a 7-0 lead in the first three innings.
Heavy hitter for the winners was Eddie Samcoff with a double and two singles. Dick Greco poled out a 400-foot homer for Tacoma in the fourth.
Tacoma ........... 000 200 010—3 10 2
Bremerton ........ 124 000 02x—9 13 1
Gleason, Kipp (3), Greenlaw (7) and Hargadon; Simon and Volpi.

VICTORIA, July 14—Three booming home run blasts gave the Victoria Athletics a 9-2 win over the Vancouver Capilanos tonight before 3,100 at Royal Athletic Park.
Babe Jensen broke a 2-2 deadlock in the third inning with a bases-loaded circuit clout. It was Jensen's fourth homer since July 5, and sixth of the year.
Sal Recca lifted No. 8 ball over the wall in the second and Archie Wilson poled a tremendous drive to right field with two aboard in the fifth. It was his 14th homer of the year.
Len Kasparovitch survived a shaky second inning to gain his tenth win. Buddy Hjelmaa's first home run of the year was followed by three singles as he spotted the Caps a 2-0 lead in the second inning.
Archie Wilson practically scored Victoria's first run in the second on his own, He singled, stole second and kept going to third when catcher Jack Warren threw the ball into the outfield, then slid home on Dick Morgan's shallow sacrifice fly.
The A's took the series 2-1 and have won 20 of their last 24 home games.
Vancouver ........ 020 000 000—2 9 2
Victoria ............ 024 030 00x—9 11 1
Costello, Gunnarson (5) and Warren; Kasparovitch and Recca.

WENATCHEE, July 14—Wenatchee Chiefs made it two in a row over Spokane Indians by taking a 10-4 Western International League decision tonight.
Four of their runs came on homers, a three-run blow by Neil Bryant in the third and another by Bill Wilson in the fifth. Bud Sheely got a two-runner for Spokane.
Spokane ........... 010 200 010—4 8 1
Wenatchee ....... 203 010 22x—10 14 3
Cordell and Sheely; Cronin, Rose (5) and Dalrymple.

SALEM, July 14—Bob Drilling held the Salem Senators to three hits as the Yakima Packers tripped the Solons tonight, 8-1. Gene Thompson sparked the Packer offensive, batting in four runs with three hits.
Yakima ......... 202 210 010—8 14 0
Salem ........... 010 000 000—1 3 1
Drilling and Petersen; Saltzman, Sporer (3), Wilson (9) and Burgher.