WIL Baseball - 1948

Fire in Spokane

2007-07-20T04:08:00.000-07:00

Western Int League Field to Be Rebuilt
By Bob Johnson.
Spokane, Wash.
Ferris Field, home of the Spokane Indians of the Western International League was destroyed by fire the night of October 29 with damage estimated at approximately $100,000.
It was the second time in three years that tragedy had struck at Spokane, holder of the Class B attendance record of 287,185 in 1947. In June, 1946, the Spokane team was virtually wiped out in a bus crash in the Cascade Mountains. Enroute to Bremerton, Wash., the bus carrying 15 players crashed through a guard railing and plunged 350 feet, taking nine players to their deaths and seriously injuring the others.
J. Lamar Butler, part owner of the Indians, said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles immediately after the fire that the Spokane park would be rebuilt of concrete and steel “so that another such fire will be impossible.”
Firemen were unable to determine the cause of the blaze. The entire wooden structure took fire with such rapidity that it was impossible to save more than a small section of the right and left field bleachers.
The park had seating accommodations for 7,223. Earlier this year, Butler had said he planned to increase the seating capacity to 11,000 but a shortage of construction materials prevented the project.
The entire structure was covered by insurance, Butler said.
The park was built in 1934 at the cost of $40,000, but had underground several major improvements in the past 24 years. It was named after George Ferris, city corporation counsel, who was a member of the Spokane Indians in the old Northwest League at the turn of the century.
Butler and Co-Owner Buddy Ryan of Sacramento purchased the club from Sam Collins at the end of the 1947 season. This year, working independently, the Indians captured the league crown, coming from nine games off the pace during the last month of the season to edge out Bremerton in the final week of the season with 102 wins and 64 defeats. There were no playoffs in the league.
- TSN, Nov. 10, 1948

Post-Season Stuff

2007-07-16T03:47:00.000-07:00

CAMILLI WON'T BUY SPOKANE
Dolph Camilli has decided against purchasing the Spokane club, but said that he was going to the minors’ convention in December “and see what I can find.” The former major league first baseman, who finished the season as Spokane manager and led the club to the Western International League pennant, also denied rumors that he might pilot Sacramention of the Coast league next year. Dolph revealed that his Mendociono (Calif.) ranch is up for sale and that he hopes to buy a ranch in the vicinity of Santa Rosa.
- TSN, Oct. 20, 1948

BEARD NEW MANAGER
Replacing Jack Wilson, who has entered private business, Bill Beard, reserve catcher of the Salem Western International League Senators. He was with Salem in 1947. Beard had a trial with Washington in the spring of 1938 after leaving the University of Willamette, and played with numerous minor league clubs, except for three years in the service.
-TSN, Nov. 24, 1948

San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League purchased controlling interest in the Yakima Western International League club, November 18. Dave [sic] Soriano, one of the Seals' pitchers is slated to become president and general manager.
- TSN, Nov. 24, 1948

ORENGO MAY DIRECT SEALS’ FARM
Joe Orengo, released as manager of the Sacramento (Pacific Coast) Solons on September 27, has been offered a position with the San Francisco Seals as director of their farm system. Joe recently entered a candy manufacturing business in partnership with his brother in San Francisco and the berth with the Seals would not interfere. The San Francisco club is building up a farm system. Yakima in the Western International was purchased recently, working agreements with Salt Lake City in the Pioneer and Clovis in the West Texas-New Mexico League are in effect and another affiliate is to be added. Orengo would have a year-round job, handling player personel for the farms and serving as general trouble shooter.
- TSN, Dec. 1, 1948
[“May” turned out to be correct. Orengo spent 1949 managing Yakima.]

SPOKANE DEAL COMPLETED
Ownership troubles of the Spokane (Western International) club officially ended with the completion of the deal whereby Roy Hotchkiss, Spokane sportsman, purchased the interests of John (Buddy) Ryan and became co-owner with J. Lamar Butler of Los Angeles. Pending, however, is a settlement of a $252,000 insurance claim for destruction of the park last October. The extent of reconstruction depends on the amount received.
- TSN, Mar. 9, 1949

BUDDY RYAN FINED $500
John (Buddy) Ryan, who recently sold his part interest in the Spokane (Western International) club, was fined $500 and player Eugene Petralli made a free agent by President George M. Trautman of the National Association in a contract irregularity, called to his attention by the youngster’s mother. It was charged and admitted by Ryan that the player was given $1,500 for signing on April 1 of last year and was to be paid 50 per cent of his sale price, none of which considerations appears on the filed contract. Ryan was made ineligible to return to Organized Ball until the $500 fine is paid and the Spokane club and any with which Ryan may be connected were forbidden to contract Petralli for three years. Pending expiration of a 30-day appeal period, other clubs are also forbidden to negotiate for the player’s services.
-TSN, March 23, 1949

Edo Vanni

2007-07-16T03:45:00.000-07:00

Vanni Returns To 'His' Club
SEATTLE, Sept. 22—Edo Vanni, fleet-footed outfielder who scampered to a new stolen base record in the Western International league this season, once more is wearing the
uniform of the Seattle Rainiers—"his club"—for six years.
Wednesday night at San Francisco, Vanni's single figured in a three-run seventh inning Rainier rally that tied the score in the second game of the final series with the Seals. An earlier double had gone to waste.
The nimble flychaser was signed as a free agent by Seattle last Sunday to help plug a gap left by the Boston Red Sox's immediate recall of Neill Sheridan.
Cut loose by Seattle early in 1947, Vanni played in the south that year and then joined the Spokane Indians of the W.I.L. circuit at the start of the '48 campaign. His base running and always dangerous bat were a major factor in the Tribe's stretch drive to a pennant.
Last week Vanni asked and got his release from Spokane. He suited up with the Rainiers the same day he signed here and saw action in the second game of a Sunday twin bill with Los Angeles. He went hitless in three trips.
Then he rode the bench until being named to Wednesday night's starting lineup.
Vanni has made no secret of the fact he feels this is his chance to "show his stuff" and again become a regular with the Rainiers.
Because he was added to the Seattle roster after the August 1 deadline, Vanni will not be eligible to compete in the PCL Governor's cup playoffs.
His six seasons with the Rainiers began in 1939 and were interrupted during the war years. He was Seattle's leading hitter in 1940 and 1946.

Mysterious Death

2007-07-16T03:30:00.000-07:00

OK, this has only a tenuous link with the Western International League; Spencer Harris left Yakima to manage in the Far West League toward the end of this season. But this tale is an interesting one, so I include it on this blog.
Just one note — some of the wire stories make it out that Wera managed Oroville that year, others say he was the business manager. The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball lists someone else as field manager.

Sleeping Pills Fatal To Ex-Major Leaguer
Oroville, Calif., Sept. 13 — (AP) — Julian Wera, 38-year-old baseball club manager and former big leaguer, took an overdose of sleeping pills early today, wrote farewell notes to his estranged wife, then slumped dead over his telephone as he started to make a call, Sheriff Herb Forward said.
The sheriff said the notes indicated Wera was despondent over his separation from his wife, Ruth, and their daughter, Jerry.
Wera, a former New York Yankee in the American Baseball league and a San Francisco Pacific Coast league player, was a Boston Redsox scout and a business manager of the Oroville club in the Far West baseball league. He played briefly for the Yankees in 1927. In his first major league game at the age of 16, he clouted Walter Johnson for a home run.

Julian Wera Confused at Report of Own Suicide
ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 14—(AP)—The man known here as Julian V. Wera, 45, former big league baseball player, was mystified Tuesday over the similar identity given a man whom police said committed suicide in Oroville, Calif.
The Rochester man said someone might have assumed his name "in order to gain my reputation as a ball player."
West coast officials of the Boston Red Sox said the dead man had been with the Boston Red Sox farm organization since the war.
Police Chief A.F. Kessler of Oroville, said Monday night a man who had given the name of Julian Wera, 39, business manager of the Sox' farm organization there, committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets.
The Oroville man had given the press to understand he had played with the New York Yankees in 1927, that he had been with the Three Eye league and the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast league.
The man in Rochester told how he had played with the Yankees in 1927, had played with the Seals from 1931-35 and in the Three Eye league with Peoria, Ill., in about 1920, He said he had three brothers in Winona.
The Red Sox farm director, George Toporcer, said that "apparently we were misled."
Toporcer said the identity of the dead man in Oroville hasn't been positively established, "but friends of his in California telephoned me that he was William Wera, a cousin of Julian."
A year ago Toporcer said, he sent a manager to the Oroville team "on the assumption that he was Julian Wera of the Yankees.
All arrangements were carried on by a west coast representative of the Sox and Toporcer didn't see the candidate.
"I knew Julian. We played together with Syracuse. But when I said I didn't recognize the picture it was explained to me that Wera had a terrific war record and his face was all cracked up in the war," Toporcer explained.

This Is Wera, Wera Peculiar, But He Was Good Man
Oroville, Calif., Sept. 15.—(AP)—Some angles in the death of a minor league baseball manager continued to mystify officials today, but a couple of items were clear:
1. He was posed as Julian Wera, representing himself as a former New York Yankee and third baseman for the San. Francisco Seals. But the real Julian Wera is in Rochester, Minn., operating a food store.
2. Whatever the man's name really was, he did a good job managing the Oroville club in the Far West league, a farm of the Boston Red Sox. Oroville won the pennant this year.
Sheriff-Coroner W. H. Forward said the Oroville manger took an overdose of sleeping pills Monday after writing farewell notes to his estranged wife.
Posing as Wera, he was hired as Oroville's manager a year ago. Jerry
Donovan, president of the Far West League, explained the circumstances:
"I played outfield when Julian Wera played third base with the Seals in 1931. This fellow came out here and said a mine had blown up in his face during the war and he had a lot of plastic surgery done on it.
"I wouldn't have recognized him, but he stood up and said 'Hello.' His face sure looked different, but he talked as if he were the real Julian Wera. It's hard to believe."
In Boston, the Red Sox farm director, George Toporcer, said "apparently
we were misled."

Suicide Reveals Cousin Posing as Former Yankee
Oroville, Cal., Sept. 15—(U.P.)—Mrs. Ruth Wera, whose husband committed suicide after posing as a former New York baseball star for several years, admitted Wednesday that he had been secretive about details of his past life.
But she said she was confident that her late husband actually was a cousin of the famed Yankee infielder, Julian Wera.
Mrs. Wera said she thought her husband's true name was William J. Wera.
Her husband was business manager of the Oroville Red Sox. The hoax was revealed Monday after the baseball executive died of a lethal dote of sleeping tablets.
Officials of the Far West league also admitted they were taken in by "Wera." Jerry Donovan, president of the league, said many baseball
men who knew the real Wera during his playing days — including himself — had been fooled by the impostor for more than a year.
Meanwhile, the "real" Julian Wera, in Rochester, Minn., insisted he is "very much alive." He is now 45 years old and manager of a meat market
Mrs. Wera explained that she married the impostor, believing him to be the former major leaguer. She had no doubt of his identity until the genuine Wera revealed he was alive, she said.
The impostor claimed he had been wounded in Italy during the war, and said plastic surgery changed his features beyond recognition.
However, Sheriff-Coroner W. H. Forward said Wera's claims of a brilliant war record proved to be a fabrication by a check with military records.
Donovan revealed that "some doubt" as to whether the Oroville manager was the Yankees' Wera was raised several months ago by old friends.
"We decided to let it go," he said, "because he was doing a good job and that's all that really mattered."
But this suicide changed things embarrassingly, he added.
Records of the Oroville team,owned by the Boston Red Sox were found to be clear, with all funds accounted for. A suicide note hinted at domestic troubles.

Wednesday, September 15, 1948

2007-07-15T15:32:00.000-07:00

FINAL STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Spokane .... 102 64 .614 —
Bremerton ... 95 62 .605 2½
Victoria .... 93 68 .578 6½
Tacoma ...... 84 73 .535 13½
Vancouver ... 67 80 .456 25½
Salem ....... 73 88 .453 26½
Wenatchee ... 69 91 .431 30
Yakima ...... 52 109 .323 47½

SPOKANE, Sept. 15—The Spokane Indians won the Western International League championship tonigth by shutting out the Tacoma Tigers, 4-0, in the first game of a doiuble-header.
The championship climaxes an amazing late season driv ethat netted the Indians 45 victories in 56 games. It is the first time the league pennant has rested in Spokane Park since 1941.
Pitcher Frank Nelson earned his 24th victory of the season in administering the whitewashing. More than 9,000 fans roared in unison as second baseman George Valine gatherd in a pop fly for the final out that meant the league crown.
The sparking stretch drive for the championship has been largely engineered by manager Dolph Camilli who took over the club August 3 with the team in fourth place. Camilli replaced Buddy Ryan who was ordered away for a rest by his doctor.
Tacoma won the second half of the double-header, 10-9, in a wild affair that saw pitchers playing in most of the positions in the field.
Shortstop Leo Thomas was named “most valuable player” in a poll among fans during the last week. Thomas was transferred from third base to short in mid-season and turned in a high grade job in the field and at the plate.
First game
Tacoma ....... 000 000 0—0 3 2
Spokane ...... 010 003 x—4 5 0
Martineau and Kuper; Nelson and Sheely.
Second game
Tacoma ...... 002 350 0—10 12 4
Spokane ..... 001 401 2—9 13 4
Hargadon and Kuper, DeVito (3); Rossi, Hedington (4), Valine (6) and Descalso.

BREMERTON, Sept. 15—Bremerton Bluejackets divided a pair of 1-0 shutouts with Wenatchee Chiefs to finish two and a half games behind the Indians.
John Conant pitched his eighth shutout for the Jackets to set a league record. The previous mark of seven was made by Hub Kittle last year. The win was Conant's 23rd of the season.
Chiefs note — Glen Lierman won his first game since being called up to Sacramento tonight, 2-1 over Hollywood.
First game
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 0—0 2 1
Bremerton ......... 000 100 x—1 4 2
McCollum and Gardner; Conant and Ronning.
Second game
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 010—1 5 0
Bremerton ......... 000 000 000—0 3 0
Stevens and Dalrymple; Marshall, Hittle (9) and Volpi.

SALEM, Sept. 15—Victoria Athletics dropped a 5-4 decision to the Salem Senators tongiht in a farcical ending to tehir season. The result gave the Solons their ninth win in 23 clashes with the A's this season.
Salem used seven pitchers—the bulk of them infielders—in the finale. The oddly-assorted hurling battalion combined to hold the A's to nine blows while the Solons blasted Lou Kubiak—an outfielder—for 16 hits.
Salem sewed up the game with a four.hit burst in the ninth that produced two runs.
Bill Harmsen, playing in the outfield, banged in three runs for the A's with a triple in the fourth.
Victoria ........ 000 310 000—4 9 0
Salem .......... 001 010 102—5 16 0
Kubiak and Morgan, Balassi (6), McNulty, Samhammer (3), Nunes (4), Barr (6), Sinovic (7), Wert (8), Spaeter (9) and Brown.

YAKIMA, Sept. 15—Rookie Vern Kindsfather pitched five-hit ball, and rapped out a single, a double and a triple, as the Vancouver Capilanos encased the Yakima Packers, 16-4, in the Western International League season closer.
Vancouver ..... 213 410 320—16 19 0
Yakima .......... 100 010 020—4 5 6
Kindsfather and Choukalas; Freeman, Drilling (3) and Peterson.

Tuesday, September 14, 1948

2007-07-15T15:22:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Spokane .... 101 63 .616 —
Bremerton ... 94 61 .606 2½
Victoria .... 93 67 .581 6
Tacoma ...... 83 72 .535 16½
Vancouver ... 66 80 .452 26
Salem ....... 72 88 .450 27
Wenatchee ... 68 90 .430 30
Yakima ...... 52 108 .325 47

SPOKANE, Sept. 14—Spokane's amazing Indians are virtually in.
The Spokes measured their flagpole for the Western International League pennant tonight by sweeping a doubleheader from Tacoma on the strength of John Cordell's iron-man act.
The rubber-armed hurler set the Tigers down with six hits in each game as the Indians seized 6-3 and 15-1 victories. The wins opened Spokane's margin over rain idle Bremerton to two and a half games.
First game
Tacoma ....... 101 000 1—3 6 0
Spokane ...... 030 030 x—6 8 1
Clary and Hargadon; Cordell and Sheely.
Second game
Tacoma ....... 000 001 000—1 6 0
Spokane ...... 301 062 03x—15 16 2
Lazor, Clary (5), Lewis (6) and Kuper; Cordell and Sheely.

SALEM, Sept. 14—Joe Blankenship cracked the all-time Western International League win record tonight in a 12-inning, 4-3 victory obver the Salem Senators.
It was his 25th triumph of the season against ten losses, breaking the mark of 24 set by Oscar "Red" Miller of Yakima in 1937.
Lou Kubiak and Del Owens singled in the 12th and Kubiak dashed home from third after a foul-out to first sacker Jim Wert. Wert fell down and was unable to throw out the runner.
Blankenship would have won the game in regulation time except for an error by Russ Walseth with two out in the ninth. That filled the bases and Wert followed with a two-run single to tie the score.
Victoria ...... 000 110 010 001—4 11 2
Salem ........ 000 010 002 000—3 7 3
Blankenship and Recca; Olson and Samhammer.

YAKIMA, Sept. 14—Charlie Peterson played an inning at each position for the Packers—the only highlight for Yakima fans tonight as their Western International League club was thumped 13-2 by the Vancouver Capilanos.
Peterson wound up his trip around the field in the ninth inning on the mound, where he gave up no runs.
Vancouver mashed Max Strait and replacement Dick Drilling for ten runs in second and third inning.
Charlie Mead, Orrin Snyder and Joe Kaney had three hits apiece, while Len Tran batted in three runs and Buddy Hjelmaa, two.
Vancouver ..... 046 001 200—13 17 2
Yakima .......... 010 000 010—2 10 4
Snyder and Choukoulas; Strait, D. Drilling (3), Peterson (9) and Constantino, Peterson (8) and Orteig (9).

Wenatchee and Bremerton, halted by rain after an inning.

Monday, September 13, 1948

2007-07-15T15:12:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 99 63 .611 —
Bremerton ... 94 61 .606 1½
Victoria .... 92 67 .579 5½
Tacoma ...... 83 70 .542 11½
Salem ....... 72 87 .453 25½
Vancouver ... 65 80 .448 25½
Wenatchee ... 68 90 .420 29½
Yakima ...... 52 107 .327 45½

SALEM, Sept. 13—Victoria Athletics got only four hits tonight but took advantage of six Salem errors to defeat the Senators, 6-3, in the opening game of their final Western International League series here. The victory was the fifth straight for the A's.
Al Goot started on the mound for the Athletics and spotted the Solons a three-run lead. He took control after the third and went the route for the first time to notch his third triumph against as many defeats.
The A's knotted the count with a three-run rally on a like number of Salem miscues in the fourth and wound up the scoring in the sixth on singles by Sal Recca, Babe Jensen and a Solon error.
The Norbertmen were the victims of a triple killing by the Senators in the eighth—the first in Salem history.
Victoria ..... 000 303 000—6 4 0
Salem ....... 102 000 000—3 6 6
Goot and Morgan; Foster and Samhammer.

BREMERTON, Sept. 13—The Wenatchee Chiefs edged the Bremerton Bluejackets, 4-3. Two Bremerton errors and a pair of walks gave Wenatchee four runs—all the Chiefs needed—in the fourth inning as the Tars dropped a game and a half and five percentage points behind the Indians.
Wenatchee ........ 000 400 000—4 6 2
Bremerton .......... 030 000 000—3 9 3
McCollum and Dalrymple; Hittle, Conant (9) and Volpi.

Vancouver ..... 500 002 100—8 10 3
Yakima .......... 024 102 00x—9 10 3
Manier, Costello (4) and Choukalas; Ford, B. Drilling (9) and Constantino, Peterson ( ).

First game
Tacoma ......... 000 100 0—1 3 1
Spokane ........ 102 000 x—3 5 0
Fortier and Hargadon; Orphal and Rossi.
Second game
Tacoma ........ 104 030 O12—11 17 5
Spokane ....... 103 500 001—10 11 2
Fortier, Clary (4), Tran (5) and Kuper; Teagan, Babbitt (3), Orphal (9), Werbowski (9) and Rossi.

Sunday, September 12, 1948

2007-07-15T15:11:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 98 62 .613 —
Bremerton ... 94 60 .610 1
Victoria .... 91 67 .576 6
Tacoma ...... 82 69 .543 11½
Salem ....... 72 86 .456 25
Vancouver ... 65 79 .451 25
Wenatchee ... 67 90 .427 29½
Yakima ...... 51 107 .323 46

BREMERTON, Sept. 12—Leftfielder Al Ronning hit a double, triple and an inside-the-park home run in the second game to drive in six runs as the Bremerton Bluejackets won 19-1 and swept a pair of Sunday games from the Vancouver Capilanos.
Ed Samcoff unloaded an inside-the-park grand-slam in the third inning. He batted in five runs during the game, while picther John Marshall, a former Capilano, had three hits and drove in three runs.
Joe Sullivan won the opener, 8-1, and batted in a pair of runs, as did Jay Ragni and Al Maul.
Buddy Hjelmaa's single accounted for the Caps' run.
First game
Vancouver ..... 000 001 0—1 5 1
Bremerton ...... 205 001 x—8 11 0
Anderson, Costello (3) and Brenner, Choukalos (6); Sullivan and Ronning.
Second game
Vancouver .... 000 100 000—1 6 1
Bremerton ..... 244 07 02x—19 14 2
Hedgecock, Kindsfather (2), Gunnarson (4), Brenner(6) and Choukalos; Marshall and Volpi.

First game
Wenatchee .... 000 000 300—3 7 3
Tacoma ......... 411 000 11x—8 8 1
Bryant, Gardner (1), Gardner and Dalrymple; Nicholas and Kuper.
Second game
Wenatchee .... 101 000 1—3 6 1
Tacoma ......... 004 100 x—5 9 3
Stevens, Stenman (4) and Dalrymple; Martineau and Kuper, Hargadon (4),

Salem ....... 100 031 011—7 11 1
Spokane .... 103 000 202—8 12 3
Sporer, Peterson (9) and Samhammer; Nelson, Babbitt (9) and Rossi.

Victoria at Yakima, postponed.

Saturday, September 11, 1948

2007-07-15T14:49:00.000-07:00

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.

Friday, September 10, 1948

2007-07-14T17:13:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 96 62 .608 —
Bremerton ... 91 59 .607 1
Victoria .... 89 67 .571 6
Tacoma ...... 79 69 .534 12
Salem ....... 72 84 .462 23
Vancouver ... 64 76 .457 23
Wenatchee ... 67 86 .425 26½
Yakima ...... 51 105 .327 44

SPOKANE, Sept. 10—Spokane bounced into the Western International League lead by a single percentage point tonight on the strength of 9-4 decision over Salem.
Bill Werbowski recorded his 15th victory for Spokane as the Indians breezed to their 17th win in their last 18 games.
Salem ........... 010 000 300—4 8 6
Spokane ........ 007 010 10x—9 12 4
Sporer, Foster (8) and Brown; Werbowski and Rossi.

VANCOUVER, Sept. 10—The Bremerton Bluejackets dropped out of first place in the Western International League after being trashed 20-6 tonight by the Vancouver Capilanos.
The Caps batted through the order and halfway through it again in the first inning to score ten times. The first four Caps reached base and Keith Simon was pulled after only two were out. Merve Allan came in to be greeted by a three-run homer by Frank Mullens, his 21st.
Bob Snyder picked up his 15th win.
Tars manager Alan Strange basically gave up after four more runs scored in the sixth. He pitched Eddie Samcoff and Eddie Murphy in the eighth inning, Murphy moving from centre field to second base to the mound. Pitcher Lloyd Hittle saw some duty in left field.
Jay Ragni homered twice and brought in four of Bremerton's runs.
Caps notes —Jack Hjelmaa, Buddy's brother, made his debut at short, as injuries have sidelined Joe Kaney and Bill Reese. He was with the Mount Vernon, Wash., semi-pro team that went to Wichita where he made the all-star team.
Bremerton ...... 111 001 200—6 7 2
Vancouver ...... (10)00 004 06x—20 17 4
Simon, Allen (1), Barnise (6), Samcoff (8), Murphy (8) and Volpi, Ronning (6); Snyder and Brenner.

VICTORIA, Sept. 10—Joe Blankenship tied the Western International League record for victories tonight with his 24th as he limited the Yakima Packers to six hits to gain an 8-3 decision.
The A's scored four runs in the first inning with three boots figuring prominently along with Babe Jensen's triple and singles by Jack Palmer and Archie Wilson.
Suceessive singles by Palmer, Wilson, Jensen and Sal Recca plated two more in the third and Vic Buccola's singles and doubles by Palmer and Jensen accounted for the final runs in the sixth.
A's note—Groundskeeper Slim Hunt was honoured in a pre-game ceremony at home plate with a radio-gramophone and other gifts. Charlie Balassi received an engraved watch as the team's most popular player, as voted by the fans.
Yakima ........ 000 101 001—3 6 5
Victoria ....... 402 002 00x—8 14 2
Dick Drilling, Peterson (7) and Constantino; Blankenship and Recca.

Wenatchee ...... 142 020 000 0—9 11 3
Tacoma .......... 300 010 410 1—10 13 4
Conover, McCollum (7) and Gardner; Fortier, Hargadon (3) and Kuper.

Thursday, September 9, 1948

2007-07-14T17:07:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .... 91 58 .611 —
Spokane ...... 95 62 .605 —
Victoria ..... 88 67 .563 6
Tacoma ....... 78 69 .531 12
Salem ........ 72 83 .465 22
Vancouver .... 63 76 .453 23
Wenatchee .... 67 86 .438 26
Yakima ....... 54 104 .329 41½

VANCOUVER, Sept. 9—The Vancouver Capilanos made five errors that coupled with 14 hits to add up to a 9-3 win by the Bremerton Bluejackets at Capilano Stadium.
But the Jackets didn't pull away from co-leading Spokane as the Indians won. Six percentage points separate the clubs.
Four runs in the third inning, aided by two Vancouver errors, had the Tars sailing home. They added three more runs off southpaw Jim Hedgecock in the fourth and fifth innings before Hunk Anderson came on to allow two more runs the rest of the way.
Ed Samcoff paced assault with a triple, two doubles and a single in six trips. One of his blows hit Joe Kaney in the face and forced the Cap second-sacker to leave the game.
Lloyd Hittle allowed eight hits in his 18th win.
Caps notes — Bill Brenner was named Most Popular Player and then drew the name of a fan out of a box for a wristwatch. The winner was Jo-Anne Hatch, a niece of Carl Gunnarson.
Bremerton ......... 004 120 011—9 14 0
Vancouver ......... 000 100 200—3 8 5
L. Hittle and Volpi; Hedgecock, Anderson (5) and Brenner.

TACOMA, Sept. 9—Spokane Indians maintained their first-place tie with Bremerton and swept their three-game series with Tacoma by defeating the Tigers, 5-4.
Frank Nelson notched his 23rd victory of the season, a two-hit job. It put him a tie with Joe Blankenship of Victoria and only one short of the league record of 24, established by Oscar (Red) Miller, of Yakima, in 1937.
The Indians showed signs of the strain of their terrific stretch burst by committing five errors. The ragged Spokane fielding kept Tacoma in contention until the ninth when the winners pushed across one tally on a double, single and an infield out.
Tacoma ended the game by checking in with their 166th double play of the season.
Spokane ......... 000 201 101—5 10 5
Tacoma .......... 010 001 200—4 2 0
Nelson and Sheely, Rossi (9); Kipp, Clary (7) and Kuper.

VICTORIA, Sept. 9—A heavy smoke rolled into Royal Athletic Park, leading to four Yakima runs in the fifth inning of the opener of a twin-bill as the Packers defeated the Victoria Athletics, 5-1.
Back-to-back doubles by Russ Walseth and Al Goot in the fourth inning gave Victoria their run. Then, the sky over the diamond became black — in more ways than one. Goot filled the bases in the fifth on Max Strait's single and two walks. With two out, Lou Estes stayed alive when Vic Buccola at first lost his foul pop up in the smoke. He walked to force in a run. Bill Barisoff followed with a high fly to left centre that Lou Kubiak was unable to find in the haze. It fell for a single and three runs scored.
The Packers finished the scoring with a single off reliever Len Kasparovitch in the seventh.
In the second game, Charlie Balassi's fifth hit of the game broke a tie in the tenth inning to give Victoria a 6-5 win.
The A's were leading 2-0 entering the eighth inning due to Archie Wilson's double that scored Balassi and Buccola, who singled in the third inning. Frank Logue had a two-hit shutout at that point, but Yakima came up with a five-run rally. A walk, singles by Gene Gaviglio and Bill Barisoff, Gene Thompson's double and three Victoria errors produced the tallies.
Victoria came back to knot the game in their half of the inning. Kubiak walked, Russ Walseth sigles and Balassi hammered his third double of the game to score them both. Buccola followed with a triple down the right field foul line.
Balassi won it in the tenth when he bounced a single over second to drive in Kubiak just as the curfew was about to be imposed.
First game
Yakima ......... 000 040 1—5 7 1
Victoria ........ 000 100 0—1 6 3
Strait and Estada; Goot, Kasparovitch (7) and Morgan.
Second game
Yakima ......... 000 000 050 0—5 9 2
Victoria ........ 002 000 030 1—6 12 3
B. Drilling, Estrada; Logue, Kasparovitch (9) and Recca.

WENATCHEE, Sept. 9—Wenatchee Chiefs closed out their home season by trimming Salem, 9-7. Bill Wilson was named the team's most popular player and added his 33rd home run of the seasson.
The Wenatchee season attendance was announced as 81,721, nearly 10,000 more than a year ago.
Salem ............ 000 204 100—7 10 2
Wenatchee ..... 300 051 00x—9 8 4
McNulty, Wilson (6) and Samhammer; McCollum, Lierman (6), Stenman (7) and Gardner, Dalrymple (7).

Wednesday, September 8, 1948

2007-07-14T16:57:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 90 58 .608 —
Spokane ..... 94 63 .603 —
Victoria .... 87 66 .569 4½
Tacoma ...... 78 68 .534 11
Salem ....... 72 82 .468 26
Vancouver ... 63 75 .457 27
Wenatchee ... 66 86 .434 31
Yakima ...... 50 103 .327 42½

VANCOUVER, Sept. 8—The Yakima Packers and Vancouver Capilanos played the second overtime game in a row, and this time it was the Packers who came out on top, 8-7.
Orrin Snyder dropped an infield throw at first base to open the 10th and Bill Freeman, third of the Yakima pitchers, was able to score the winner on a double by Gene Thompson.
Prior to this it had been another close, free-hitting contest, with sore-armed Bob Costello sustaining his 13th loss against 14 wins. With the score tied at five-all in the fifth, Vancouver twice tied it to force overtime.
Charlie Mead walloped a pair of homers, his 22nd and 23rd. Ernie Choukalous collected a double and a single to raise his average to .500. But the Packers stole eight bases off him and advanced on two passed balls.
Yakima ......... 110 031 100 1—8 12 1
Vancouver .... 203 001 100 0—7 12 3
Johnson, Peterson (6), Freeman (9) and Constantino; Anderson, Costello (6) and Choukalous.

VICTORIA, Sept. 8—John Marshall's effective curve struck out 12 batters tonight as he led the Bremerton Bluejackets to a 10-2 victory over the Victoria Athletics, and hung onto a share of top spot in the Western International League.
Two of the hits were bunt singles by Vic Buccola, the other was credited to Archie Wilson in the eighth when Don Stanford played an infield hop badly.
The Tars unloaded for seven runs in the third off Del Owens, who managed to get out of a jam with only one run in the first, when he walked in a run, but then retired the next five batters on strikes.
Ed Samcoff drew a walk to start off, Al Maul singled and Samcoff came in on Lyle Palmer's double. Then, Jay Ragni's lashing liner to right took a wicked hop over Charlie Balassi for a three-run, insider-the-park homer. Singles by Stanford and Lil Arnerich, another walk, and Babe Jensen's low throw on Ed Murphy's ground ball sent in three more runs.
The winners added singles in the sixth and seventh, while Marshall missed a shutout on account of treason in the eighth when the inner guard committed three errors.
Bremerton ..... 107 001 100—10 16 4
Victoria ........ 000 000 020—2 3 3
Marshall and Volpi; Owens, Harmsen (3) and Recca.

TACOMA, Sept. 8—The pennant-frenzied Spokane Indians kept their flag hopes burning with a 11-5 win tonight over the Tacoma Tigers.
They iced the game with a six-run burst in the second frame and coasted in. They wore
the batboy to a frazzle sending him up to the pressbox to find out how Bremerton was doing at Victoria.
Spokane ....... 060 102 200—11 6 1
Tacoma ........ 211 000 100—5 7 0
Cordell and Sheely; Lazor, Gleason (6) and Hargadon.

WENATCHEE, Sept. 8—Wenatchee Chiefs edged visitng Salem Senators tonight, 3-2, although out-hit 11-6. The win evened the series at one each.
Salem ............. 000 000 200—2 11 3
Wenatchee ...... 011 001 00x—3 6 3
Foster, Saltzman (7) and Samhammer; Stevens and Gardner.

Tuesday, September 7, 1948

2007-07-14T16:49:00.000-07:00

Western International League
W L Pct. GB
Spokane ..... 89 58 .605 —
Bremerton ... 93 62 .600 —
Victoria .... 87 65 .572 4½
Spokane ..... 78 67 .538 10
Salem ....... 72 81 .471 20
Vancouver ... 63 74 .460 22
Wenatchee ... 65 86 .430 26
Yakima ...... 49 103 .322 42½

VICTORIA, Sept. 7—Bremerton needed six early runs tonight as they held on for a 7-6 win over the Victoria Athletics to remain in a first-place tie in the Western International League with Spokane.
Eddie Murphy opened the game with a triple off Len Kasparovitch. Ed Samcoff's double and a single by Allan Maul sent two runners across. Bremerton added another pair in the second, thanks partly to errors by Jack Palmer and Charlie Balassi, then Frank Volpi's home run, followed by a boot by Palmer gave the Jackets two more in the third. What proved to be the winning tally came home in the sixth.
Sal Recca led off the Victoria second with a home run and then Dick Morgan doubled in Babe Jensen doubled and Archie Wilson in the third. Singles by Wilson and Recca were sanwiched around Jensen's triple in the seventh to make the count 7-5. Jensen homered in the ninth to complete the scoring after Wilson was called out on a close play at first base.
Bremerton ...... 222 001 000—7 12 2
Victoria ......... 012 000 201—6 12 5
Conant, Hittle (9) and Volpi; Kasparovitch, Harmsen (9) and Recca.

VANCOUVER, Sept. 7—Ernie Choukalous, known more for his football playing with the Winnipeg Bluebombers, went after the first pitch her saw and jomered over the right field wall. He went on from there to collect three hits in six tries and score the winning run as the Vancouver Capilanos outlasted the Yakima Packers, 8-7, in 12 innings.
Choukalous opened the 12th with a single and was sacrificed to second by Orrin Snyder. Sandy Robertson was intentionally walked and Bill Brenner, pinch-hitting for Larry Manier, worked a walk from Garth Ford. Len Tran laid down a bunt and Choukalous tore toward the dish with time to spare.
The game was tied on four different occasions, as the Caps batted aroun for four runs in the fifth only to have the foes turn four hits into three tallies and a 6-all score in the sixth. They went ahead in the seventh and were caught again in the ninth.
Yakima ......... 010 141 000 000—7 14 3
Vancouver .... 011 013 001 001—8 17 3
Ford and Constantino; Manier and Choukalous.

Spokane ...... 000 032 020—7 9 3
Tacoma ....... 111 000 200—5 13 3
Teagan and Rossi; Nicholas and Haragdon.

Salem ............ 231 010 120—16 16 2
Wenatchee ..... 103 100 000—5 8 3
Olson and Samhammer; Lierman, Conover (2), Gilson (5) and Gardner.

Monday, September 6, 1948

2007-07-14T16:45:00.000-07:00

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.

Sunday, September 5, 1948

2007-07-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 88 56 .611 —
Spokane ..... 90 62 .592 2
Victoria .... 85 64 .570 6
Tacoma ...... 77 65 .542 10
Salem ....... 69 81 .460 22
Vancouver ... 61 73 .455 22
Wenatchee ... 65 83 .439 25
Yakima ...... 49 100 .329 41½

First game
Wenatchee ....... 100 000 0—1 7 3
Spokane ........... 202 024 x—10 11 2
Stevens, Wilson (6) and Dalrymple; Nelson and Sheely.
Second game
Wenatchee ...... 100 000 000 01—2 8 5
Spokane .......... 000 000 010 00—1 7 3
McCollum and Gardner; Werbowski and Sheely.

First game
Salem ............. 003 000 5— 8 10 2
Yakima .......... 000 041 0—5 7 2
G. Peterson, Sporer (7) and Samhammer; Strait, C. Peterson (5) and Constantino.
Second game
Salem ............ 010 001 023—9 12 0
Yakima ......... 020 020 010—5 12 3
Saltzman, McNulty (8) and Brown, Samhammer (8); Kittle, B. Drilling (8) and Constantino.

(only games scheduled)

Seattle Purchases Warren
VANCOUVER, Sept. 4—The Vancouver Capilanos will finish the Western International League season without hard-hitting catcher Jack Warren, who has been sold to the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League.
The Caps have received Ernie Choukalous from Great Falls as a replacement.

Camilli Likes Job as Pilot For Spokane
By Bill Johnston
SPOKANE, Sept. 5—If the seven little Camillis are wondering what happened to Daddy Dolph, he's sitting up with a sick friends's ball club.
The friend is recovering, thanks, but not as fast as the ball club.
And Camilli likes his nursing chores so well he thinks he might buy a chunk of the Spokane baseball team and stick around permanently.
The former “most valuable player” of the National league hasn't been in the baseball news much since he stopped managing Oakland's Pacific Coast league team in 1945.
About that time he decided to settle down on his 1,722-acre ranch at Laytonville, Calif., and drive in cattle instead of runs.
“I found I wasn't happy out of baseball, though,” Camilli admitted.
Nobody was surprised that Camilli should prefer horsehide to cowhide.
Big Dolph was clouting baseballs as a kid in San Francisco. He sent them sailing for Logan and Salt Lake City in the old Utah-Idaho league. He broke into the Pacific Coast league under Manager Buddy Ryan at Sacramento in 1925.
Reached Big Leagues
Camilli reached the majors in 1933 and stayed there 11 years. He played for Chicago, Philadelphia and Brooklyn in the National league and spent three months with the Boston Red Sox. When Brooklyn won the pennant in 1941 the Dodger first baseman led the circuit with 122 runs batted in and 34 home runs. He was named the league's most valuable player that year.
That's how he got the baseball habit and ranch life couldn't break it.
Wide-eyed high school boys and players on the Laytonville town team soon were getting big league instruction from a rancher who found 1,722 acres more confining than a baseball diamond.
Ryan Called Him
Then Camilli got a call from Buddy Ryan, the man he credits with starting him up the baseball ladder.
Ryan and J. Lamar Butler had purchased Spokane's franchise in the class B Western International league. Ryan had been ordered by his doctor to quit managing the team for a while. Could Camilli help?
Dolph taxied his private plane onto his ranch runway and took off.
He found a “stop-and-go” ball club in Spokane. He took over “cold” August 1 with the Indians in fourth place and the team got hot. It won 30 of its next 39 games to jump into second place and put the pressure on front-running Bremerton.
The Spokane players like Camilli's knack of teaching major league tricks. The owners like his habit of winning ball games. Camilli likes baseball.
So it wasn't too surprising when Camilli announced:
“I might buy into the club as a third partner. I have had a good offer here and it looks like I might make a permanent tie-up with this ball club.”
Fans Approved
It was the best news of many a hard-luck season for Spokane fans. The Indian team was almost wiped out in a bus crash two years ago and lost the league title last year by one percentage point.
“The set-up here looks good,” Camilli said. “I think it's a fine opportunity to develop young ball players and send them up to the majors.
“I like the league. I like Spokane. I like the chance to help young players.”
But mostly, of course, he likes baseball.

Saturday, September 4, 1948

2007-07-14T16:31:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 88 56 .611 —
Spokane ..... 89 61 .593 2
Victoria .... 85 64 .570 6
Tacoma ...... 77 65 .542 10
Vancouver ... 61 73 .455 22
Salem ....... 67 81 .453 23
Wenatchee ... 64 82 .438 25
Yakima ...... 49 98 .333 40½

VANCOUVER, Sept. 3—The Vancouver Capilanos split a pair with the Tacoma Tigers, losing the opener 4-3, but thumping out a 15-2 win in the nightcap.
Charlie Mead smacked a two-run homer in the ninth inning of the opener but the rally fell short.
Cy Greenlaw, normally a pitcher, played in right field for the Tigers and smacked in three runs with a triple and a single.
The night game featured an eight-run eighth inning for the Caps.
Frank Mullens homered and he and Orrin Snyder each batted in three runs.
First game
Tacoma ......... 000 101 020—4 11 3
Vancouver ..... 100 000 002—3 7 2
Kipp and Kuper; Robertson and Brenner.
Second game
Tacoma ......... 000 100 010—2 7 6
Vancouver ..... 101 023 08x—15 14 1
Gleason, Clary (8), Hargadon (8) and Hargadon, Kuper (8); Anderson and Brenner.

VICTORIA, Sept. 3—Cooled off by a 16-hit Bremerton attack in the afternoon game, the Victoria Athletics rebounded behind the effective hurling of Del Owens to trim the Bluejackets, 6-1, in the nightcap.
After spotting the Tars to a one-run lead on a walk, fielder's choice and Al Ronning's triple in the second in the nightcap, the A's came back to knot the count in their half of the inning on Babe Jensen's single and the first of two doubles by Sal Recca.
Lloyd Hittle and Owens then hooked up in a classy pitching duel until the Athletics broke up the game in the sixth. A double by Owens and singles by Archie Wilson, Jensen, Lou Kubiak, Charlie Balassi and Vic Buccola were spaced around three errors by the Bremerton outfield to give the A's five runs and drive Hittle from the mound.
In the opener, Eddie Samcoff and Frank Volpi homered and they, and Eddie Murphy, each batted in three runs.
Victoria scored three in the fourth on singles by Jack Palmer and Russ Walseth, Recca's double and Wilson's 25th triple. They added a run on Palmer's double in the fifth, scoring Buccola, and Balassi's tenth homer in the ninth.
The teams played to a combined attendance of over 4,600 that raised the season mark to 132,013, surpassing last year's total.
A's notes — Archie Wilson broke three records. His triple in the afternoon game was his 25th, breaking his own record. His total base production is 380, breaking his own record set when he cracked Smead Jolley's old mark of 356, established in 1940. And it was his 225 hit, breaking Jolley's mark set in 1940.
First game
Bremerton ....... 050 010 033—12 16 0
Victoria .......... 000 310 001—5 11 1
Marshall and Volpi; Blankenship, Harmsen (5), Logue (9) and Recca.
Second game
Bremerton ....... 010 000 000—1 9 4
Victoria .......... 010 005 00x—6 10 0
Hittle, Allen (6) and Ronning; Owens and Recca.

Wenatchee ....... 200 041 000—7 7 4
Spokane ........... 100 052 11x—10 10 3
Conover, Stenman (5), Cronin (5) and Dalrymple; Cordell, Babbitt (6) and Rossi; Sheehy (5).

Salem ........ 000 000 000—0 5 0
Yakima ....... 003 004 02x—9 12 0
Foster, McNulty (7), Olson (8) and Brown; Bob Drilling and Constantino.

Friday, September 3, 1948

2007-07-14T16:24:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 87 55 .613 —
Spokane ..... 88 61 .591 2½
Victoria .... 84 63 .571 5½
Tacoma ...... 76 64 .543 11½
Vancouver ... 60 72 .455 22
Salem ....... 67 80 .456 22½
Wenatchee ... 64 81 .441 24½
Yakima ...... 48 98 .329 41

BREMERTON, Wash., Sept. 3—The Bremerton Bluejackets dropped their second straight game to the Victoria Athletics, 9-2, tonight, and saw their lead in the Western International League fall to 2½ games over Spokane.
John Conant gave up 13 hits and allowed three runs in the fourth and another trio in the sixth while Len Kasparovitch blanked his teammates until the seventh inning.
Third baseman Babe Jensen was hit by a pitch in the fourth inning and later scored the first run of the game. Apparently still irate, Jensen provided the last two runs for the winners in the ninth by clouting his 12th home run with a man aboard. Lou Kubiak drove in the other two runs with a triple and a single.
Victoria ......... 000 303 102—9 13 1
Bremerton ...... 000 000 101—2 13 6
Kasparovitch and Recca; Conant, Allen (7), Lee (8) and Volpi.

WENATCHEE, Sept. 3—Spokane continued their dizzy pace toward the Western International League pennant as George Valine's ninth-inning home run broke a 2-2 tie to give the Indians a 3-2 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
Wenatchee ........ 001 010 000—2 7 6
Spokane ............ 010 000 101—3 7 4
Lierman and Gardner; Teagan, Babbitt (6) and Sheely.

TACOMA, Sept. 3—Tacoma Tigers all but mathematically clinched fourth place in the final Western International League baseball standings by taking both ends of a double-header over the fifth-place Vancouver Capilanos, 4-2 and 7-3.
The double verdict put the Tigers 12 games ahead of Vancouver with two weeks of the season remaining.
Southpaw Jim Hedgecock, who relieved the sore-armed Bob Costello in the second inning of the first game, limited the Tigers two four hits in his five innings on the hill, but the home force bunched the blows with sufficient effectiveness to make Vince Lazor's seven-hit mound effort a winning one.
George Nicholas, burly Tiger right-hander, yielded only five hits to account for the victory in the nightcap.
Three of the Vancouver blows were combined with a walk in the fourth inning to give the Caps all three of their runs, but after being nicked for the tallies the Tacoma hurler retired the last 17 men to face him.
First game
Vancouver ..... 000 001 1—2 7 2
Tacoma ........ 010 210 x—4 4 0
Costello, Hedgecock (2) and Brenner; Lazor and Kuper.
Second game
Vancouver ..... 000 300 000—3 5 4
Tacoma ........ 001 211 20x—7 10 2
Manier and Warren, Brenner (7); Nicholas and Hargadon.

Yakima ........ 042 000 000—8 8 2
Salem ......... 220 000 030—7 13 4
Ford, Peterson (8) and Constantino; Olson, McNulty (2) and Samhammer.

Thursday, September 2, 1948

2007-07-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 87 54 .617 —
Spokane ..... 87 61 .588 3½
Victoria .... 83 63 .568 6½
Tacoma ...... 74 64 .536 11½
Vancouver ... 60 70 .462 21½
Salem ....... 67 79 .459 22½
Wenatchee ... 64 80 .444 24½
Yakima ...... 47 98 .324 42

BREMERTON, Sept. 2—Jim Probst hurled a five-hitter as the Victoria Athletics blanked the Bremerton Bluejackets, leaders of the Western International League, tonight, 4-0.
The win was Probst's tenth of the season against eight defeats and his first shutout. He struck out nine and was backed up by flawless fielding.
Keith Simon struck out ten for Bremerton but gave up seven hits to Propst's five. It was his ninth loss aghainst 18 wins.
The first two runs came in the third inning when Sal Recca and Propst worked Simon for walks. Charlie Balassi singled in one run and the other came after the catch of Vic Buccola's outfield fly. Singles by Babe Jensen, Dick Morgan and Recca provided the third run in the fourth and Jack Palmer's double was converted by Jensen's single in the fifth to wind up the scoring.
Victoria ......... 002 110 000—4 7 0
Bremerton ..... 000 000 000—0 5 1
Propst and Recca; Simon and Volpi.

SPOKANE, Sept. 2—Pitcher Frank Nelson had his 21st win tonight as the Spokane Indians beat the Wenatchee Chiefs 5-0 for their fifth straight victory. He homered for his club's first run in the sixth inning. Leo Thomas followed with a two-run circuit clout and the Indians added a pair in the eighth.
Wenatchee ...... 000 000 000—0 3 1
Spokane .......... 000 003 02x—5 8 2
Rose, Gilson (8) and Gardner; Nelson and Sheely.

SALEM, Sept. 2—Salem's Senators got another good pitching performance as they topped the Yakima Packers, 6-2 , behind the five-hit flinging of Bob Stevenson.
Yakima ........ 020 000 000-2 5 0
Salem ......... 005 001 00x—5 7 3
Freeman and Constantino; Stevenson and Samhammer.

Vancouver at Tacoma, postponed rain.

Wednesday, September 1, 1948

2007-07-14T16:18:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 87 53 .621 —
Spokane ..... 86 61 .585 4½
Victoria .... 82 63 .566 7½
Tacoma ...... 74 64 .536 12
Vancouver ... 60 70 .462 22
Salem ....... 66 79 .455 23½
Wenatchee ... 64 79 .448 24½
Yakima ...... 47 97 .326 42

BREMERTON, Sept. 1—The Bremerton Bluejackets salvaged their Western International League baseball series with Vancouver three games to two Wednesday by defeating the Capilanos, 7-4.
Four triples helped make Bremerton's 10 hits more effective than Vancouver's 13. The three-basers were hit by Jay Ragni, Lyle Palmer, Don Stanford and Lil Arnerich.
It took Vancouver five innings to solve the left-handed stuff of veteran Joe Sullivan. The Caps scored three times that inning, then once more in the sixth.
They had a rally going in the seventh, but with the bases loaded and two out, Lloyd Hittle came on to relieve Sullivan and struck out Joe Kaney to retired the side.
Buddy Hjelmaa, with a double and two singles, and Jack Warren with a double and a single, paced the Vancouver hitting.
Vancouver ..... 005 031 000—4 13 2
Bremerton ..... 022 001 20x—7 10 0
Anderson, Kindsfather (7) and Warren; Sullivan, Hittle (7) and Ronning.

SPOKANE, Sept. 1—The sizzling Spokane Indians keep pounding at the door of the Western International League penthouse. They moved to four and a half games behind Bremerton with a double win over the Wenatchee Chiefs, 5-4 and 6-3.
John Orphal spun a four-hitter in the night game, while the Indians needed an extra inning in the regulation seven-inning opener. The winning run scored on Neil Bryant's overthrow at first.
Wenatchee manager Chuck Cronin gave up eighth hits in the first game, none of them by Leo Thomas, thus stopping the Indian third-sacker's hitting streak at 20 games. Reliefer Gene Babbitt was the winner. It was the Indians' fourth straight over the Chiefs.
First game
Wenatchee ..... 201 100 00—4 9 3
Spokane ......... 201 001 01—5 8 2
Cronin and Dalrymple; Werbowski, Babbitt (4) and Sheely.
Second game
Wenatchee ..... 100 200 000—3 4 1
Spokane ......... 022 010 010—6 10 3
McCollum and Gardner; Orphal and Sheely.

TACOMA, Sept. 1—Singles by Bernie Hargadon, Ray Fortier and Danny Permutter resulted in a 12th inning run as Tacoma defeated Victoria, 8-7, tonight.
The teams matched scoring throughout the game with each club scoring once in the first, twice in the second, three times in the fifth and once in the ninth. The Tigers squared the count in the bottom of the ninth when Buddy Lewis singled, and completed the circuit on Ray Tran's single.
Frank Logue, bidding for the Western International Legaue won-loss percentage honours, went the route for the A's and suffered his sixth setback in 14 victories.
Victoria ......... 120 030 001 000—7 11 3
Tacoma ........ 120 030 001 001—8 13 3
Logue and Morgan; Fortier and Hargadon, Kuper (10).

SALEM, Sept. 1—Bud Sporer muted the Yakima bats on three hits as Salem strolled to a leisurely 9-0 win over the cellar tenants. The win moved the Senators into sixth place, a game ahead of Wenatchee.
Yakima ........ 000 000 000—0 3 2
Salem ......... 000 600 03x—9 8 1
D. Drilling, Kittle (6) and Constantino; Sporer and Burgher.

Tuesday, August 31, 1948

2007-07-14T16:13:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 86 53 .619 —
Spokane ..... 84 61 .579 5
Victoria .... 82 62 .569 6
Tacoma ...... 73 64 .533 12
Vancouver ... 60 69 .465 16
Wenatchee ... 64 77 .454 23½
Salem ....... 65 79 .451 23½
Yakima ...... 47 96 .329 41

BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 31—Vancouver Capilanos squared their Western International League series with the Bremerton Bluejackets at two games apiece Tuesday by defeating the league leaders 4-3.
The Caps scored the winning runs in their half of the ninth and then choked off a Bremerton rally in the bottom half to cinch the win.
Catcher Jack Warren drove in three runs to spark the Vancouver offense. They came on a triple, a double and a single.
The triple, a long one to the centre field fence, brought in the winning run with two out in the ninth. It drove in Frank Mullens, who had walked.
The win was Bob Snyder's 13th against five losses.
Vancouver ......... 101 100 001—4 7 1
Bremerton ......... 000 200 001—3 5 3
Snyder and Warren; Barnise, Allen (7), Marshall (9) and Ronning.

TACOMA, Aug 31—The Victoria Athletics wild ran on the bases, stealing second five times in six attempts, and then blasted Tacoma for 14 hits in a 12-2 win in the second game of a double-header.
Joe Blankenship held the Tigers to six hits and racked up his 22nd win — a league record. Blankenship's total gives him one more than Spokane's Bob Kinnaman and Vancouver's Bob Osborne piled up in 1922. This was the record which Bob Costello, then of Spokane, and Jim Hedgecock of the Capilanos tied last season with 21 victories.
The game was over in the first inning as the A's plated four runs. They added three more in the second and came up with a second four-run rally in the seventh.
In the opener, Del Owens had a shutout going until the sixth inning and allowed only three hits in a 5-1, seven-inning win.
The A's were held scoreless for three innings by Jim Gleason but got a run in the fourth when Archie Wilson singled to centre, stole second and scored on Babe Jensen's one-baser to left.
One hit was good for three runs in the fifth. Lou Kubiak walked, stole second and went to third as catcher Earl Kuper threw wild. Ray Tran bobbled Russ Walseth's grounder and Kubiak scored. Walseth then stole second and scored on Charlie Balassi's long triple. Balassi scored when Vito DeVito made a bad throw on Vic Buccola's ground ball.
Victoria added a final run in the seventh and Owens picked up his 14th triumph.
(First game)
Victoria .......... 000 130 1—5 7 0
Tacoma ......... 000 001 0—1 3 3
Owens and Morgan; Cirason and Kuper,Hargadon (7).
(Second game)
Victoria ......... 430 000 401—12 14 0
Tacoma ........ 010 100 000—2 6 5
Blankenship and Hecca; Clary, Lazor (2), Martineau (3) and Hargadon.

SPOKANE, Aug. 31—Spokane Indians gained a game in their battle to catch Bremerton by blanking the Wenatchee Chiefs, 10-0 behind the five-hit tossing of Del Holmes.
Leo Thomas, Spokane infielder, hit safely for his 20th consecutive game, getting his bingle in the eighth after his mated had batted around to give him another chance.
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 000—0 5 0
Spokane ........... 100 103 05x—10 9 0
Stevens, Gildon (8) and Gardner; Holmes and Rossi.

SALEM, Aug. 31—Dick Sinovic's long outfield fly in the ninth enabled the winning run to score from third as Salem Senators defeated the Yakima Packers, 7-2.
Yakima ......... 200 010 003—6 10 0
Salem .......... 040 000 201—7 8 0
Strait, Kittle (9) and Constantino; McIrvin, Peterson (9) and Burgher.

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
No-Hit Game Results in Loss
WELLSVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 31—The league-leading Lockport Reds of the Class "D" Pony League went hitless in an 11-inning game with the Wellsville Red Sox tonight but won 7-3.
The Reds scored three runs in the third on five walks and an error. The Sox deadlocked the contest in the seventh, 3-3. In the 11th the Reds pushed across four more runs on four errors, three walks, a fielder's choice and a hit batter.
Meanwhile, at Jamestown, Jerry Kleinsmith fanned 12 and walked five while holding Hamilton Cardinals hitless as Jamestown won 15-0. It was the 19-year-old right-hander's 15th victory against seven losses.

Monday, August 30, 1948

2007-07-14T15:22:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 86 52 .623 —
Spokane ..... 83 61 .576 6
Victoria .... 80 62 .563 8
Tacoma ...... 73 62 .541 11½
Vancouver ... 59 69 .461 17
Wenatchee ... 64 76 .457 23
Salem ....... 64 79 .448 24½
Yakima ...... 47 95 .331 41

BREMERTON, Aug. 30—Bremerton scored three times in the eighth inning after two men were out on their way to a 5-3 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos tonight.
The win was the 20th of the year for John Conant.
The Jackets were outhit 11-7 by the Caps but five of the blows given up by Jim Hedgecock were for extra bases.
He ran into trouble in the eighth inning when he was leading 3-2. A pair of walks to Eddie Samcoff and Al Ronning and Jay Ragni's triple beat Vancouver with two out.
Vancouver ....... 000 021 000—3 11 1
Bremerton ....... 100 010 03x—5 7 1
Hedgecock and Brenner; Conant and Volpi.

SPOKANE, Aug. 30—Spokane increased its second-place margin to two full games by turning back the Wenatchee Chiefs, 9-4. Big John Cordell went the route for the Indians to chalk up his 13th victory of the season.
Wenatchee ..... 100 021 000—4 8 2
Spokane ......... 120 023 10x—9 14 1
Conover and Gardner; Cordell and Rossi.

SALEM, Aug, 30—Frank Constantino's long outfield fly in the 10th inning scored Lou Estes from third to give Yakima a 3-2 decision over the Salem Senators and break up a pitching duel between Bob Drilling and rookie Jim Foster of the Solons.
Yakima ....... 200 000 000 1—3 7 2
Salem ........ 010 000 010 0—2 8 0
B. Drilling and Constantino; Foster and Burgher.

Victoria at Tacoma, postponed, wet grounds.

Sunday, August 29, 1948

2007-07-14T15:12:00.000-07:00

W.I.L STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 85 52 .620 —
Spokane ..... 82 61 .573 6
Victoria .... 80 62 .563 7½
Tacoma ...... 73 62 .541 11
Vancouver ... 59 68 .466 21
Wenatchee ... 64 75 .460 22
Salem ....... 64 78 .451 23½
Yakima ...... 46 95 .317 41

First game
Spokane ......... 000 010 0—1 8 1
Salem ............. 000 000 0—0 2 0
Nelson and Sheely; Olson and Burgher.
Second game
Spokane ......... 000 221 410—10 9 0
Salem ............. 002 120 010—6 17 4
Teagan, Orphal (5) and Rossi; Saltzman, McNulty (9) and Samhammer.

First game
Victoria ........... 200 000 000—2 10 0
Tacoma ........... 012 040 00x—7 12 2
Kasparovitch, Goot (5) and Recca; Nicholas and Hargadon.
Second game
Victoria ........... 100 031 0—5 7 1
Tacoma ........... 000 400 2—6 7 2
Propst, Harmsen (5), Blankenship (7) and Morgan; Kipp and Hargadon.

First game
Wenatchee .......... 020 200 0—4 8 0
Yakima ............... 110 000 0—2 5 1
Rose and Gardner; Freeman and Constantino.
Second game
Wenatchee .......... 002 102 200—7 11 1
Yakima ................ 000 002 000—2 8 4
Lierman and Dalrymple; Ford, Kittle (7) and Constantino.

BREMERTON, Aug. 29—Jack Warren tripled and came home on Buddy Hjelmaa's single in the eight inning as the Vancouver Capilanos pulled off a 2-1 win over Bremerton in the first of two Sunday games. The Bluejackets won the night contest, 3-2, with a tie-breaking run in the fifth inning.
Frank Volpi singled in Jay Ragni of the fourth inning of the opener to put the game into extra innings.
In the night, Lloyd Hittle doubled in one run for the Tars, while Lyle Palmer brought in the other two without the benefit of a hit.
First game
Vancouver ......... 001 000 01—2 7 2
Bremerton .......... 000 100 00—1 10 0
Gunnarson and Brenner; Marshall and Volpi.
Second game
Vancouver ......... 000 200 000—2 7 0
Bremerton .......... 002 010 00x—3 6 2
Costello and Brenner; Hittle and Ronning.

Saturday, August 28, 1948

2007-07-14T14:45:00.000-07:00

W.I.L STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 84 51 .622 —
Victoria .... 80 60 .571 6½
Spokane ..... 80 61 .567 7
Tacoma ...... 71 62 .534 12
Vancouver ... 58 67 .464 21
Salem ....... 64 76 .457 22½
Wenatchee ... 62 75 .452 23
Yakima ...... 46 93 .331 40

TACOMA, Aug. 28—Bremerton Bluejackets showed no signs of losing their big lead atop the Western International League standings as they took both ends of a double-header from the Tacoma Tigers, 8-4 and 8-3.
The Tars sent eight runners across the plate in the second inning of the opener for all their runs and then scored six times in the ninth frame of the nightcap to turn a 3-2 deficit into victory.
First game
Bremerton ....... 080 000 0—8 12 2
Tacoma .......... 100 001 2—4 7 3
Simon, Conant (7) and Ronning; Clary, Fortier (2) and Hargadon.
Second game
Bremerton ....... 110 000 006—8 9 2
Tacoma .......... 100 020 000—3 7 3
Pirack and Volpi; Lazor, Gleason (8) and Hargadon.

VICTORIA, Aug. 28—The Vancouver Capilanos and Victoria Athletics exchanged a pair of 7-0 games today, with Larry Manier tossing a seven-hit shutout for Vancouver in the opener, and Frank Logue doing the same in the night game for Victoria.
The A's only got five hits in the night game, but made good use of the offerings. With two out in the third, Charlie Balassi blasted a 3-1 pitch over the centre field fence. Vic Buccola walked, Buddy Hjelmaa booted a double play ball and Jack Palmer was safe and then Archie Wilson walked. Babe Jensen then singled in two runs and Hunk Anderson was replaced on the mound with Bob Snyder, who was greeted by a line single down the third base by Dick Morgan to bring in a fourth run.
In the seventh, a walk, another error by Hjelmaa and a hit batter loaded the bases before Morgan cleared them with a double.
In the opener, Bill Brenner welcomed lefthander Wally Eads to the Western International League with a first-inning, grand-slam homer. It was the only hit Eads allowed in the inning. He walked three, hit a batter and tossed a wild pitch to bring in one run before that.
First game
Vancouver ....... 510 000 100—7 9 0
Victoria ........... 000 000 000—0 7 2
Manier and Brenner; Eads, Harmsen (2) and Recca.
Second game
Vancouver ....... 000 000 000—0 7 3
Victoria ........... 004 000 30x—7 5 0
Anderson, Snyder (3) and Warren; Logue and Morgan.

SALEM, Aug. 28—Spokane Indians nosed out the Salem Senators, 3-1, tonight behind the fine twirling of Bill Werbowski. All the scoring came in the last inning. Bob Hedington's double, Werbowski's single, a triple by George Valine and a single by Leo Thomas scored the Spokane runs.
Spokane ........ 000 000 003—3 10 1
Salem ........... 000 000 001—1 6 1
Werbowski and Sheely; Stevenson and Burgher.

YAKIMA, Aug. 28—The lagging Yakima Packers won their second successive 11-inning game from Wenatchee Chiefs, this time, 4-3. Bill Wilson's 32nd home run with a mate aboard tied the count in the sixth and forced extra time.
The game was featured by a battle between Fern Paredes of Wenatchee and Gene Gaviglio. The fracas started when Gaviglio sneaked in behind first base to pick Parades off. The latter responded with a hard left hook to his tormentor's nose, which put Gaviglio out of action.
Wenatchee ....... 100 002 000 00—3 6 0
Yakima ............. 003 000 000 01—4 11 2
Cronin, Stedman (7) and Dalrymple, Gardner (7); D. Drilling and Constantino.

Friday, August 27, 1948

2007-07-14T14:27:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 82 51 .617 —
Victoria .... 79 59 .572 5½
Spokane ..... 79 61 .564 6½
Tacoma ...... 71 60 .542 10
Vancouver ... 57 66 .463 20
Salem ....... 64 75 .460 20
Wenatchee ... 62 74 .456 21½
Yakima ...... 45 93 .326 39½

VICTORIA, Aug. 27—4,500 fans who turned out for Fan Appreciation Night at Royal Athletic Park tonight didn't go away disappointed. The Athletics extended their winning streak to eight games with a 6-2 triumph over the Vancouver Capilanos.
Del Owens only allowed a drag bunt to Frank Mullens in the first inning before running into a jam with two out in the sixth. Joe Kaney doubled and Mullens connected for a home run. Jack Warren cloued a double but Vic Buccola nabbed Charlie Mead's liner for the out.
Archie Wilson's double scored Jack Palmer for Victoria's first run in the first inning, then Jim Hedgecock was given an early shower with a four-run outburst in the fourth, two walks and two doubles doing the damage, the last by Charlie Balassi scoring two. Vern Kindfather came in to relieve and took seven A's on strikes, using the sharpest and fastest curve seen here for some time. He got into trouble in the eigthh when two singles and as many walks put over the final run.
A's notes — The pre-game entertainment featured Vic Buccola dressed as Frank Sinatra doing 'Night and Day,' Len Kasparovitch and pseudo-Hawaiians Al Goot, Archie Wilson and Jack Palmer doing a pseudo-hula, Charlie Balassi and his steed with some Western entertainment, and Sal Recca with a fine solo, and teaming with his wife in a special Hawaiian number honouring umpire Bill Husband and his wife of a few hours.
Vancouver ........ 000 002 000—2 8 3
Victoria ............ 100 400 01x—6 8 0
Hedgecock, Kindsfather (4) and Warren; Owens and Recca.

Spokane .......... 000 012 110—5 6 3
Salem .............. 004 001 01x—6 12 1
Orphal, Babbitt (3) and Sheely; Peterson and Burgher.

Wenatchee ....... 010 000 000 00—1 5 0
Yakima ............. 100 000 000 01—2 8 1
McCollum and Gardner; Strait and Constantino.

Bremerton at Tacoma, postponed, rain.

Thursday, August 26, 1948

2007-07-14T14:00:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct GB
Bremerton ... 82 51 .617 —
Victoria .... 78 59 .569 6
Spokane ..... 79 60 .568 6
Tacoma ...... 71 60 .542 10
Vancouver ... 57 65 .467 19½
Wenatchee ... 62 73 .459 21
Salem ....... 63 75 .457 21½
Yakima ...... 44 93 .321 40

TACOMA, Aug. 26—Ed Murphy's two-run single in the sixth inning provided the margin of victory at Tacoma tonight, as Bremerton's stubborn Bluejackets refused to yield any more ground in the Western International League race. The Tars edged the Tigers, 8-7, in a free-hutting affair to retain their six-and-a-half game lead over Victoria. John Marshall, hurling well in relief, gained credit for the win.
Bremerton .......... 204 002 000—8 11 3
Tacoma ............. 002 311 000—7 12 2
Sullivan, Allen (3), Marshall (5) and Volpi; Fortier, Kipp (3), Gleason (4) and Hargadon, Kuper (4).

VICTORIA, Aug, 26—Joe Blankenship won his 21st game of the season, blanking the Vancouver Capilanos, 5-0, on four hits, two of them of the scratch variety.
He walked on and struck out six. Orrin Snyder's single and Charlie Mead's double where the only sold hits off his delivery and only a half-dozen balls were hit hard.
Mead received credit for a single when Lou Kubiak slipped in the muddy outfield. The fourth hit was a drag bunt by Frank Mullens.
Blankenship also lent a hand offensively, clouting a double in the third to plate Dick Morgan, who had walked, with the first run of the game.
Vic Buccola started a two-run rally in the fourth by beating out a bunt. Archie Wilson followed with a single to right and Babe Jensen sacrificed them along. Recca flied out to score Mullens before Dick Morgan doubled.
In the eight, Buccola drove in Charlie Balassi, who had singled and reached third on Mead's error and a long fly to right by Russ Walseth. He scored the final run.
Vancouver .......... 000 000 000—0 4 3
Victoria .............. 001 200 02x—5 7 1
Snyder and Warren; Blankenship and Recca.

SPOKANE, Aug. 26—Spokane Indians squeaked past Yakima Packers, 7-6, tonight after tying the game in the eighth and winning on George Valine's long single in the ninth.
Bob Drilling went the route for the losers, and took his 21st setback.
Yakima ........... 100 002 300—6 11 1
Spokane ......... 200 012 011—7 10 0
B. Drilling and Constantino; Cordell, Babbitt (8) and Sheely.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 26—Wenatchee Chiefs moved past Salem into sixth place by handing the Senators a 6-2 trimming behind the steady twirling of Dick Conover. Bill Wilson added to his league-leading home run mark by clouting No. 31.
Salem .............. 020 000 000—2 5 3
Wenatchee ....... 300 001 02x—6 10 2
McIrvin and Samhammer, Burgher (6); Conover and Gardner.

San Diego, Tacoma Exchange Players
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Aug 26,—The San Diego Baseball Club replaced veteran Vince Shupe with a new first baseman last night in an attempt to check its Coast League losing streak.
Larry Lee, brought from the Tacoma club of the Western International League, will replace Shupe.
Manager Jim Brillheart also announced that pitcher Angelo Venturelli had been called from Tacoma and that infielder Hank Vallee was being returned there.

Chetkovich Charged With Embezzlement
PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 26—Extradition of Mitchell (Mitch) Chetkovich, pitcher-manager of the Bisbee-Douglas Miners of the Arizona-Texas League, to Tacoma, Wash., was asked here yesterday.
Polcie said Chetkovich was accused of embezzing $70 from the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Chetkovich said the charge grew out of his oversight in forgetting to account for some raffle tickets he sold for the Tacoma lodge.
Chetkovich was a relief pitcher with the Washington Senators in 1939. He signed with the Tacoma Tigers in 1947.

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Umps Need More Padding
By Tom Aden
DENVER, Aug. 27—If the present trend continues Western League umpires may have to start wearing padding behind as well as in front.
At first it was only the fiery pilots like Pueblo's Jack Fitzpatrick and some of the more vociferous players who blew their tops at the decisions of the men in blue.
Fitzpatrick has engaged in so many rhubarbs that he's finished almost as many games in the dressing room as his starting pitchers.
Now however the fans are getting in on the fun with seat cushions and any other ammunition that happens to be at hand.
The Denver fans got so incensed about a close double play decision by Gerald Van Keuren recently that they let fly with cushions, rocks and pop bottles. One of the bottles caught Van Keuren in the eye.
The same thing happened to Umpire Joe Cibulka at Pueblo in the same week. Cops escorted him from the field after the game ended.
What's the solution? Better umpires, thinks Frank Reeves, president of Pueblo's parent club, the Fort Worth Cats in the Texas League.
Reeves was in Pueblo just after the cushion-throwing spree. He made suggestions for improving officiating and thought the National Association of Professional Baseball clubs should consider them at its fall meeting. They included putting all minor league umpires under the association president, having a spring training program for umpires with instructions provided by the association and grading the umpires on the basis of ability and physical condition.

Wednesday, August 25, 1948

2007-07-14T13:22:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct GB
Bremerton ... 81 51 .614 —
Victoria .... 77 59 .566 6
Spokane ..... 78 60 .565 6
Tacoma ...... 71 59 .541 9
Vancouver ... 57 64 .471 18½
Salem ....... 63 74 .460 20½
Wenatchee ... 61 73 .455 21
Yakima ...... 44 92 .323 39

TACOMA, Aug. 25—The Tacoma Tigers squeezed through for a 12-inning, 5-4, verdict over Bremerton as Dick Greco, who previously had two doubles and a single, batted in the winning run with an outfield fly.
George Nicholas pitched eight scoreless innings of relief ball, twice stopping the Tars with the bases loaded and none out.
Bremerton .......... 000 220 000 000—4 11 1
Tacoma ............. 300 100 000 001—5 12 1
Conant and Volpi; Greenlaw, Nicholas (5) and Hargadon.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 25—Sal Recca singled in Archie Wilson in the seventh inning, then brought in Vic Buccola with a fly ball in the 13th as Victoria shaded Vancouver 2-1 in the opener of a double-header at Capilano Stadium. The A's won the second game, 6-2, in five innings, as the game ran afoul of the time limit.
Vancouver had taken a 1-0 lead in the opener's fourth inning on a couple of hits and an error on Charlie Mead's ball. The Caps could have won it in the 12th when they got men on second and third with one one. Buddy Hjelmaa could have stolen home but slowed up for the called squeeze play. Hunk Anderson reached for the high outside pitch and popped up to Vic Buccola at first, who threw to third for the double-play.
Victoria picked up the win when Buccola singled and was sacrificed to second. Archie Wilson was walked, and with Babe Jensen at the plate, manager Ted Norbert called for the double steal. It worked, though Vancouver claimed interference. Jensen walked to load the bases and Recca soon came through with the game-winning fly.
Jim Propst got the win, holding Vancouver to eight hits.
Len Kasparovitch limited the Caps to five hits in gaining his 16th victory in the night contest. It was agreed no inning could start after 11 p.m. to enable both clubs to catch the boat for Victoria, and the fifth didn't start until three minutes before the time-limit.
Lou Kubiak had two hits in as many trips to the plate, while Buccola, Kasparovitch and Dick Morgan also had a pair of hits. Wilson and Buccola put together anothe double steal.
First game
Victoria .......... 000 000 100 000 1—2 5 1
Vancouver ...... 000 100 000 000 0—1 8 3
Propst and Recca; Costello, Anderson (9) and Brenner.
Second game
Victoria .......... 001 14—6 10 0
Vancouver ...... 001 01—2 5 1
Kasparovitch and Morgan; Robertson and Warren.

SPOKANE, Aug. 25—A crowd of 5,644 turned out at Spokane to see the Indians defeat the last-place Packers, 7-4, for Frank Nelson's 19th win.
Yakima ........... 102 000 010—4 11 4
Spokane ......... 200 201 02x—7 7 2
Ford and Constantino; Nelson and Sheely.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 25—Wenatchee trounced Salem, 18-5, tonight as Tom Rose scored his 15th victory of the season and Bill Wilson clouted his 30th home run.
Salem ............... 010 003 100—5 8 1
Wenatchee ........ 010 247 31x—18 16 0
Saltzaman, Dewitt (6), Whitt (6) and Burgher; Rose and Gardner.

Rain-Outs Cost Caps $30,000
The Caps are losing more than their share of WIL baseball games these days, but they're losing something else which hurts even more—money.
The recent seige of rain-out games (five days in a row without game) brought the total number of home games washed out to 20.
Of these the Caps have made up three, which leaves them with 17 yet to account for.
Figuring on an average of 2000 fans per game, which was the average per game paid attendance before the bad weather set in, and there are something like 34,000 fans who are missing from Bob Brown's front office attendance totals.
The cash value of these 34,000 absentees comes to something like $30,000.
Now the question is, which is worse, a second-division finish for the Caps, or the $30,000 which is missing from the local baseball till.
- Sun, Thursday, Aug, 26, 1948

Tuesday, August 24, 1948

2007-07-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 81 50 .618 —
Spokane ..... 77 60 .562 7
Victoria .... 75 59 .560 7½
Tacoma ...... 70 59 .543 10
Vancouver ... 57 62 .479 18
Salem ....... 63 73 .462 20½
Wenatchee ... 60 73 .451 22
Yakima ...... 44 91 .326 39

SPOKANE, Aug. 24—The Spokane Indians moved into second place in the Western International League and downed the visiting Yakima Packers twice, 9-8 and 3-0.
Joe Rossi sparked the Spokane victory in the first game, hitting a three-run double as a pinch-hitter in a fifth-inning rally and then stealing home with a fourth run. The six-run outburst brought the Indians from behind. Two runs in the next inning eventually proved to be the winning margin as a Yakima rally was cut short in the seventh.
The second game went to the Indians, 3-0, with Bill Werbowski outlasting Hub Kittle in a game shortened by the time limit.
First game
Yakima ......... 102 220 2—8 14 1
Spokane ....... 100 062 x—9 9 4
D. Drilling, Freeman (5) and Constantino, Peterson (6); Teagan, Babbitt (7) and Sheely, Rossi (5).
Second game
Yakima .......... 000 000 0—0 4 1
Spokane ........ 100 110 x—3 7 1
Kittle and Peterson, Werbowski and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, Aug, 24—Wenatchee Chiefs outscored Salem Senators, 13-10, in a free-hitting affair which produced 30 hits, evenly divided. Shortstop Neil Bryant led the way for the winners, picking up a home run, double and two singles, and driving in four runs to help Glen Lierman to his 12th victory.
Buzz Sporer was the loser.
Salem ............ 040 003 030—10 15 3
Wenatchee ..... 311 330 020—13 15 4
Sporer, McNulty (5) and Burgher; Lierman and Gardner.

Victoria at Vancouver, postponed, rain.
Tacoma at Bremerton, postponed, rain.

Monday, August 23, 1948

2007-07-14T13:03:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct GB.
Bremerton ... 81 50 .618 —
Victoria .... 75 59 .560 7½
Spokane ..... 75 60 .556 8
Tacoma ...... 70 59 .543 10
Vancouver ... 57 62 .479 18
Salem ....... 63 72 .467 20
Wenatchee ... 59 73 .447 22½
Yakima ...... 44 89 .331 38

SPOKANE, Aug. 23—Salem Senators, infuriated by two Sabbath shellacquings, rose and bludgeoned their tormentors tonight with a 13-6 hammering of the Spokane Indians.
The loss dropped Spokane into third place, half a game behind Victoria's rained-out Athletics.
Three Indian hurlers were sentenced to the slab during the evening. Bob Hedington left his usual post at third base to do duty on the mound, but found the hill as torrid as the hot corner.
The visitors touched him for four tallies in the ninth. Starter Jim Olson was the winner.
Cal Mclrvin, who has been masquerading as a pitcher, put on outfielder's livery for Salem and rapped four safeties, including a homer, to pace the 19-hit assault.
Salem .......... 201 410 014—13 19 2
Spokane ....... 041 001 000—6 9 1
Olson, Peterson (7) and Burgher; Orpha, Babbitt (4), Hedington (8) and Sheely.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 23—The Yakima Packers had to go 10 innings tonight to nip the home team Wenatchee Chiefs, 11-9.
The Chiefs came from behind with four runs in the seventh and one—Jess McWilliams' homer—in the ninth to knot the count Lou Estes doubled home Larry Orteig and later scored on Snag Moore's single in the overtime. Leroy Stevens was the losing pitcher.
Yakima .......... 221 210 100 2—11 17 3
Wenatchee ..... 003 010 401 0—9 18 2
B. Drilling and Constantino; Cronin, Gilson (3), McCollum (3), Stevens (8), Conover (10) and Dalrymple, Gardner (10).

Victoria at Vancouver, postponed, rain.
Tacoma at Bremerton, postponed, rain.

Sunday, August 22, 1948

2007-07-14T12:56:00.001-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 81 50 .618 —
Spokane ..... 77 59 .566 6½
Victoria .... 75 59 .560 7½
Tacoma ...... 70 59 .543 10
Vancouver ... 57 62 .479 18
Salem ....... 62 72 .463 20½
Wenatchee ... 59 72 .450 22
Yakima ...... 43 89 .326 38½

First game
Tacoma ........ 000 000 2—2 6 1
Bremerton ..... 101 001 x—3 4 0
Venturelli and Kuper; Marshall and Volpi.
Second game
Tacoma ........ 000 200 07—9 12 3
Bremerton ..... 200 500 00—7 11 5
Lazor, Clary (4) and Hargadon; Hittle, Simon (8), Allen (8) and Ronning, Volpi.

First game
Yakima ........ 040 010 0—5 11 1
Wenatchee ..... 020 010 0—3 5 1
Freeman and Constantino; Stevens, Gilson (5) and Dalrymple.
Second game
Yakima ........ 010 111 000—4 12 2
Wenatchee ..... 100 001 300—5 6 1
Strait, Peterson (8) and Constantino; McCollum, Rose (7) and Gardner.

First game
Salem ......... 011 100 020—5 10 3
Spokane ....... 420 201 36x—18 21 0
Stevenson, Wilson (8) and Brugher; Nelson and Sheely.
Second game
Salem ......... 200 002 000—4 10 4
Spokane ....... 033 320 15x—17 23 1
Whitt and Burgher; Cordell and Rossi.

(only games scheduled)

Saturday, August 21, 1948

2007-07-14T12:35:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 80 49 .620 —
Victoria .... 75 59 .560 7½
Spokane ..... 73 59 .553 8½
Tacoma ...... 69 58 .543 10
Vancouver ... 57 62 .479 18
Salem ....... 62 70 .470 19½
Wenatchee ... 58 71 .450 22
Yakima ...... 42 88 .323 38½

VICTORIA, Aug. 21—The Victoria Athletics moved into second place in the Western International League by supplanting Tacoma in a double-header sweep of the Tigers on Saturday.
The A's hammered their way to an 11-10 win in the opener to hand Joe Blankenship his 20th win of the season, then pulled off a 5-2 win in the finale.
Four home runs—two by Vic Buccola and one each from Babe Jensen and Jack Palmer—plated eight of the Victoria runs, but it was Sal Recca's double in the sixth inning which accounted for the tying and winning markers.
Four runs in the first, with Jensen scoring three of them with his 11th home run, gave the A's an early lead. Buccola hit the first of his two-run homers in the fourth and Palmer followed with his 17th to restore the Victoria lead after Tacoma scored three in their half of the inning.
Bill Harmsen was pulled for Blankenship in the sixtgh after two singles and Vito DeVito's home run were followed by a walk. A sacrifice hit, two singles and Archie Wilson's bobble of an easy fly ball brought in four more runs, three of them unearned.
Buccola started things in the Victoria half with his second homer and eighth of the year. Jensen followed with his game-winning blow off the fence.
In the second game, Wilson banged out his 22nd home run of the season with Buccola on first to give Victoria a first-inning lead.
In the third, a walk to Charlie Balassi, a sacrifice and an error by Ray Tran brought in a run, then two walks and singles by Del Owens and Balassi completed the Victoria scoring.
Tacoma had runners on the bags in every inning except the scond but could only break throguh with single runs in the fourth and eighth. Owens pitched out of every jam to gain his 12th win.
First game
Tacoma ....... 000 307 000—10 15 3
Victoria ....... 400 304 00x—11 12 1
Gleason, Clary (6) and Kuper; Harmsen, Blankenship (6) and Recca.
Second game
Tacoma ....... 000 100 010—2 9 1
Victoria ........ 201 200 00x—5 7 1
Nicolas and Hargadon; Owens and Recca.

SPOKANE, Aug. 21—Eddie Sanclemente drove out a long single with the bases loaded in the ninth inning tonight to give the Spokane Indians a 7-6 Western International League victory over Salem Senators and third place in the standings.
Sanclemente's blow came with none out, off Cal McIrvin.
Edo Vanni broke the Western International League stolen base record of 52 set by Vic Buccola out Spokane in 1942. His theft of second base early in the game was his 53rd of the season.
Indians note — Vanni's teammates plan to present him with a watch for his accomplishments on Sunday at Ferris Field.
Salem ............. 003 000 030—6 9 2
Spokane ......... 020 220 001—7 13 1
McIrvin and Samhammer; Werbowski, Babbitt (8) and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 21—Bill Wilson slammed his third home run in two nights and 28th of the season as Wenatchee Chiefs mauled Yakima Packers 12-1 in a Western International League game tonight.
Righthander Tom Rose won his 1th game of the yaer for Wenatchee.
The win gave Wenatchee a 2-0 lead on the five-game series.
Yakima ........... 000 100 000—1 8 3
Wenatchee ..... 400 014 12x—12 15 0
Ford and Constantino, Rose and Gardner.

Bremerton at Vancouver, rained out.

Friday, August 20, 1948

2007-07-14T00:15:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 80 49 .620 —
Victoria .... 73 59 .553 8½
Tacoma ...... 69 56 .552 9
Spokane ..... 72 59 .550 9
Vancouver ... 57 62 .479 18
Salem ....... 62 69 .473 19
Wenatchee ... 57 71 .445 22½
Yakima ...... 42 87 .325 38

SPOKANE, Aug. 20—Little Edo Vanni, flying-footed Spokane centre-fielder, equalled a Western Internaional League baseball record here tonight when he stole his 52nd base of the season in the firts game of a double-header.
While Vanni was stealing two bases in the first game, the Spokane Indians snapped an eight-game Salem winning streak with an 8-0 shutout. Salem came back to take the nightcap, 4-1.
Tight pitching by lefthander Jack Teagan kept Salem well in check in the first game. Teagan gave up only four hits, Jim Wert's double being the blow for extra bases.
Teagan had good support, too. Left fielder Jim Changaris snuffed out a possible uprising in the fourth when he went back against the fence to pull down Les Dalrymple's 400-foot poke.
In the second game, Hal Saltzman, who has sparked the Salem win streak with his glossy pitching, spun a five-hitter. He beat Johnny Orphal and his was the Spokane ace's first loss in a month.
Smart Salem fielding against successive Spokane pitchers cut off a potential Indian rally in the final inning to protect the margin.
First game
Salem ........... 000 000 0—0 4 1
Spokane ....... 200 033 x—8 8 0
Peterson and Samhammer; Teagan and Sheely.
Second game
Salem ........... 002 001 010—4 5 0
Spokane ....... 000 010 000—1 9 0
Saltzman and Samhammer; Orphal, Babbitt (9) and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 20—The Wenatchee Chiefs blasted out six home runs tonight to drub the Yakima Packers, 12-4, in a Western International League game commemorating the late Babe Ruth. Fans contributed $650 dollars to the Damon Runyon memorial cancer fund.
Bill Wilson hit two round-trippers to lead the Wenatchee parade. They were his 26th and 27th of the season—tops for the league. Diamond Cecil, Fern Paredes and Les Dalrymple each socked a homer.
Bob Drilling went all the way for Yakima to suffer his 20th loss.
Yakima ............. 300 000 100—4 9 2
Wenatchee ....... 402 501 00x—12 11 2
B. Drilling and Constantino; Lierman and Dalrymple.

Tacoma at Victoria, rained out.
Bremerton at Vancouver, rained out.

Thursday, August 19, 1948

2007-07-14T00:14:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 80 49 .620 —
Tacoma ...... 69 56 .552 9
Spokane ..... 71 58 .550 9
Victoria .... 72 59 .550 9
Vancouver ... 57 62 .479 18
Salem ....... 61 68 .473 19
Wenatchee ... 56 71 .437 23
Yakima ...... 42 86 .328 37½

VANCOUVER, Aug. 19—Lloyd Hittle came on in the ninth to stop a Vancouver rally as the Bremeton Bluejackets defeated the Capilanos 6-2 tonight.
Keith Simon gave up two walks and a hit to load the bases in the ninth. Hittle came in with a 2-0 count on Len Tran and no one out. He struck out Tran and Joe Kaney, walked Frank Mullens to force in a run and then dealt with Jack Warren. Warren slapped a sharp single to shortstop Lil Arnerich who relayed to Eddie Samcoff at second base to force Mullens and end the game.
Ed Murphy started the ball gamer rolling for the Tars in the first inning which a double, and the Bluejackets took advantage of a walk and an error plus a fielder's choice for two tallies.
They added four more in the fifth, thanks to three singles and a double of walks.
Caps notes - The centre-field flag was flown at half mast and a one minute silence obseved in memory of Babe Ruth during the game.
Bremerton ...... 200 040 000—6 10 3
Vancouver ...... 010 000 001—2 7 2
Simon, Hittle (9) and Volpi; Anderson, Kindsfather (5) and Warren.

VICTORIA, Aug. 19—The Victoria Athletics came from behind twice to hand the second-place Tacoma Tigers a stunning setback, 2-1 and 15-7.
The Tigers went in front in the second inning of the first game when Glen Stetter lined a double down the left-field line and scored on another two-base knock by Vito DeVito when Archie Wilson failed to make a shoestring catch of a liner in short centre.
The run looked big until Jack Palmer hammered his 16th home run of the season over the centre-field wall in the sixth to square the count.
Jim Propst blanked the Tigers without a hit from the third inning until they threatened in the first extra inning by loading the bases with one out. Buddy Lewis flied out and DeVito lined one right to Charlie Balassi in right.
With one away in the bottom of the inning, Balassi singled to centre and was forced at second at Vic Buccola, whowas safe at first when Larry Lee dropped the ball on a double play attempt.
Palmer lined a single into left field with Buccola holding at second, and Wilson following with a hard smash over Dick Greco's head in deep right.
The Tigers reached Joe Blankenship for six runs on seven hits in the first two innings of the second game. Al Goot came in and helf the Tigers while his teammates took advantage of Ray Fortier's wildness and score four times in the second and third innings.
Goot was taken out for a pinch-hitter between innings and replaced by Frank Logue, who held the Tigers to three hits and one run the rest of the way for his13th victory.
Buccola lead the Victoria attack with three doubles, a single and six runs batted in in five trips.
First game
Tacoma ......... 010 000 00—1 7 1
Victoria ......... 000 001 01—2 9 1
Lazor and Hargadon; Propst and Recca
Second game
Tacoma ........ 240 000 10—7 11 3
Victoria ........ 044 013 03—15 15 3
Fortier, Kipp (3), Greenlaw (8) and Kuper; Blankenship, Goot (2), Logue (4) and Recca.

Wenatchee ..... 002 001 130x—7 15 1
Salem ............ 002 010 041—8 12 1
Cronin and Dalrymple; Olson and Burgher.

Spokane ...... 112 500 011—11 5 0
Yakima ........ 000 002 200—4 9 4
Nelson and Sheely; Kittle (4), Peterson (8) and Constantino.

Wilson to Resign as Salem Manager
SALEM, Ore., Aug 19—Jack Wilson, manager of Salem's Western International League team, said today he would resign at the end of the season.
Wilson said he would enter business here. It will end 17 years in baseball for the fomer American League pitcher, who has been managing here for two years.

Wednesday, August 18, 1948

2007-07-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 79 49 .617 —
Tacoma ...... 69 54 .561 7½
Spokane ..... 70 58 .547 9
Victoria .... 71 59 .546 9
Vancouver ... 57 61 .483 17
Salem ....... 60 68 .469 19
Wenatchee ... 56 70 .444 22
Yakima ...... 42 85 .331 36½

VANCOUVER, Aug. 18—It was the second straight 1-0 ball game between the Tacoma Tigers and the Vancouver Caps, but this time the home team won—behind six-hit pitching by Angelo Venturelli. Tacoma scored in the first on Larry Lee's single and Dick Greco's triple off Jim Hedgecock, who allowed ten hits.
Hedgecock collected two of Vancouver's hits with a single and a double.
Vancouver ....... 000 000 000—0 6 0
Tacoma .......... 100 000 00x—1 10 1
Hedgecock and Warren; Venturelli and Hargadon.

BREMERTON, Aug. 18—The Bremerton Bluejackets swept a three game series from the Victoria Athletics with a 7-4 tonight.
Eddie Murphy gave Bremerton a one-run lead when he circled the bases in the first inning, but the A's bounced back with a three-run outburst in the second, highlighted by Vic Buccola's bases-loaded triple. Babe Jensen opened the inning with a double down the left field line and was sacrificed to third by Sal Recca. Charlie Balassi worked Joe Sullivan for the first count and drew a walk before Russ Walseth walked on four pitches to load the bases. Len Kasparovitch forced Jensen at the plate but beat the relay to first to break up the double play and set the stage for Buccola's long smash.
Bremerton regained the lead in the bottom of the inning with three runs, including Eddie Samcoff's two-run double. They added a single tally in the seventh and a pair in the eighth to make it 7-3.
The A's drove Sullivan from the mound in the ninth when they scored their last run and loaded the bases with one out. John Marshall came on to face Archie Wilson and forced him to ground into a double play to end the game.
Victoria ........... 030 000 001—4 9 3
Bremerton ....... 103 000 12x—7 10 1
Kasparovitch and Recca; Sullivan Marshall (9) and Ronning.

YAKIMA, Aug. 18—Spokane leaped over Victoria into third place tonight by walloping Yakima, 16-0.
The Indians combed three Packer pitchers for 20 hits while John Cordell was weaving a nine hit shutout. Leo Thomas rapped a double and three singles and Edo Vanni socked four singles for the winners. Bill Wright poked a homer and a single in the seven-run seventh inning. The win gave Spokane a 2-1 series edge.
Spokane ........ 100 530 700—16 20 1
Yakima .......... 000 000 000—0 9 3
Cordell and Sheely; B. Drilling, Strait (7), Freeman (8) and Constantino.

SALEM, Aug. 18—The Salem Senators lengthened their win filibuster to eight straight, by waxing Wenatchee, 8-7 and 9-6 at Salem. The home club surmounted a 6-1 deficit to win the first game and peppered 15 hits, most of them in the early going, for the nightcap win.
First game
Wenatchee ...... 110 400 1—7 6 3
Salem ............. 100 430 x—8 7 4
Conover, Rose (5) and Dalrymple; Stevenson, McNulty (5) and Samhammer.
Second game
Wenatchee ...... 000 130 200—6 8 1
Salem ............. 402 200 10x—9 15 2
McCollum, Gilson (5) and Gardner; Saltzman, Peterson (7) and Burgher.

Dehaney Out
TACOMA, Aug. 18—Frank Dehaney, umpire in chief of the Western International League, has been dismissed by president Robert Abel.
No reason was given.
This was Dehaney's second season in the W.I.L. Hs work drew favourable comment last season and he was elevated to umpire-in-chief this year. For most of the season, he was partnered with Jerry Mathieu.

Tuesday, August 17, 1948

2007-07-13T23:34:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 78 49 .614 —
Tacoma ...... 68 54 .557 7½
Victoria .... 71 58 .550 8
Spokane ..... 69 58 .543 9
Vancouver ... 57 60 .487 16
Salem ....... 58 68 .460 19½
Wenatchee ... 56 68 .452 20½
Yakima ...... 42 84 .333 35½

BREMERTON, Aug. 17—The league-leading Bremerton Bluejackets plastered a double defeat on the Victoria Athletics, 2-0 and 4-3.
Del Owens hooked up with John Conant in the short opener and three bad pitches cost the Victoria pitcher. Allan Maul clouted Owens' first delivery of the fourth inning down the right field line, Lyle Palmer picked the next offering for two more bases and Maul scored. Jay Ragni then rapped the very next pitch off Owens' knee for a single and the speedy Palmer counted before the ball could be recovered.
The A's had men on third and second in the second inning with one out, but Russ Walseth grounded out and Owens whiffed. In the fifth, they filled the bags with two out but Jack Palmer flew out.
In the night game, Former Bremerton High School boy Frank Logue gave up three runs in a shaky first inning, then blanked the Jackets until the ninth, when they shoved across the winning run. Lloyd Hittle opened with a single, took second on a sacrifice, stole third and scored on Maul's fourth hit of the game.
The A's had tied it in the fifth after two were out when a walk, singles by Palmer and Dick Morgan and a two-run double by Archie Wilson produced three runs.
First game
Victoria ............. 000 000 0 - 0 5 2
Bremerton .......... 000 200 x - 2 4 2
Owens and Recca; Conant and Volpi.
Second game
Victoria ........... 000 030 000 - 3 6 0
Bremerton ........ 300 000 001 - 4 9 1
Logue and Morgan, Recca (9); Hittle and Ronning.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 17—Tacoma picked up only one hit from the pitching of Vancouver's Bob Snyder last night and lost a 1-0 decision despite George Nicholas' five-hit performance for the Tigers. It was the first time in 122 games this year the Tacomans have failed to score.
Tacoma's lone hit off Snyder was a high-hopping grounder by Manager Earl Kuper which went over Snyder's head when second baseman Joe Kaney stopped but a split-second late getting it to first for the out.
Vancouver's winning run came in the sixth inning when Joe Kaney singled, was sacrificed to second and scored as Jack Warren's base knock took an erratic bounce over the head of Shortstop Ray Tran.
Vancouver ..... 000 001 000—1 5 0
Tacoma ........ 000 000 000—0 1 0
Snyder and Warren; Nicholas and Kuper.

YAKIMA, Aug. 17—Yakima's 7-6, 10th-inning win over Spokane was accompanied by the complete collapse of the Indian defense. One hit and three errors permitted Frank Constantino to cross with the winning run.
Spokane ....... 000 201 030 0—6 6 1
Yakima ......... 000 005 001 1—7 12 3
Werbowski, Babbitt (6) and Rossi; Freeman, Strait (8), Kittle (10) and Constantino.

SALEM, Aug. 17—Salem's Cal Mclrvin also rack up his 15th win of the year in holding Wenatchee to five blows. Bill Wilson clouted his 25th fence-clearing smash of the year for Wenatchee.
Wenatchee ..... 100 120 000—4 5 1
Salem ............ 000 201 02x—5 12 0
Stevens, Lierman (8) and Dalrymple; McIrvin, Sporer (9) and Samhammer.

Managerial Berth for Spence Harris
YAKIMA, Aug. 17—Spencer Harris, veteran outfielder of the Yakima Packers in the Western International League, was released today to join the Marysville, Calif. club of the Far West League as manager. Harris came to Yakima as manager in 1946 and has acted as player coach and assistant general manager.

Monday, August 16, 1948

2007-07-13T22:28:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 76 49 .608 —
Tacoma ...... 68 53 .562 6
Victoria .... 71 56 .559 6
Spokane ..... 69 57 .548 7½
Vancouver ... 56 60 .483 15½
Salem ....... 57 68 .456 19
Wenatchee ... 56 67 .455 19
Yakima ...... 41 84 .328 35

YAKIMA, Aug. 16—Spokane pushed across three runs on three hits and an error in the sixth inning to enable slender Frank Nelson to best young Dick Drilling of the Yakima Packers, 4-1, in a Western International League pitchers match tonight.
Drilling allowed only six hits.
Spokane ........ 001 003 000—4 6 2
Yakima .......... 000 010 000—1 7 1
Nelson and Sheely; D. Drilling and Constantino.

EXHIBITION
Salem 6 Portland (PCL) 4
Wenatchee 8 Sacramento (PCL) 4
San Diego (PCL) 6 Tacoma 5 (10 innings).

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Coast League Flags To Be At Half Mast
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16—President Clarence Rowland of the Pacific Coast League said flags at all PCL parks would be at half mast tonight and there would be one minute of silent tribute before the games in honor of the memory of Babe Ruth.
“He was America's sports here—a hero to young and old,” Rowland said. “There will never be another like him.”

Sunday, August 15, 1948

2007-07-13T02:19:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 76 49 .608 —
Tacoma ...... 68 53 .562 6
Victoria .... 71 56 .559 6
Spokane ..... 68 57 .544 8
Vancouver ... 56 60 .483 15½
Salem ....... 57 68 .456 19
Wenatchee ... 56 67 .455 19
Yakima ...... 41 83 .331 34½

WENATCHEE, Aug. 15—Bremerton's Bluejackets return to their home diamond Monday hoping they won't have to call out the Marines to get the Western International League situation back in hand.
The first place Tars are reeling from three straight setbacks at the hands of seventh-place Wenatchee. A 10-1 trimming Saturday night was followed Sunday by twin defeats 3-0 and 3-1.
It cut the Bremerton lead to six games over Tacoma.
First game
Bremerton ....... 000 000 0—0 4 2
Wenatchee ..... 200 200 x—3 6 0
Marshall, Allen (5) and Volpi; Conover and Gardner.
Second game
Bremerton ....... 010 000 000—1 5 4
Wenatchee ..... 020 100 000—3 6 0
Pirack, Simon (8) and Ronning, Volpi (8); Lierman and Dalrymple.

Spokane at Tacoma, postponed, wet grounds.

(only game scheduled)

Saturday, August 14, 1948

2007-07-13T02:18:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 76 47 .618 —
Tacoma ...... 68 53 .562 7
Victoria .... 71 56 .559 7
Spokane ..... 68 57 .544 9
Vancouver ... 56 60 .483 18½
Salem ....... 57 68 .460 20
Wenatchee ... 54 67 .446 21
Yakima ...... 41 83 .331 35½

VICTORIA, Aug. 14—Victoria Athletics' two veteran righthanders pitched the A's to a double victory over the Yakima Packers today, enabling the Athletics to sweep the four-game series.
Lenny Kasparovitch allowed five hits, including a two-run homer to Lou Estes and another four-bagger by Gene Thompson, in gaining an 8-3 decision in the matinee for his 15th triumph.
Joe Blankenship notched his 19th win in the nightcap, 7-5, after spotting the Packers to a 5-0 lead on two home runs by Bill Barisoff.
The A's hits started dropping in the sixth inning of the finale. Archie Wilson beat out an infield hit and went all the way to third when catcher Frank Constantino threw the ball into right field. He scored easily with the first run after Babe Jensen's smash to Larry Orteig in left field. Dick Morgan followed with a triple down the left field line and scored on Charlie Balassi's single. A walk, a fielder's choice and Jack Palmer's double drove in Lou Kubiak with the third run in the seventh.
Jensen's double, Morgan's single, a sacrifice and Russ Walseth's single squared the count and brought in Bob Drillling in place of Hub Hittle. Vic Buccola drew a walk and Kubiak followed with a double off the boards to plate the winning run.
First game
Yakima ....... 020 000 100—3 5 2
Victoria ...... 010 300 13x—8 13 0
Strait and Constantino; Kasparovitch and Recca.
Second game
Yakima ....... 000 203 000—5 9 3
Victoria ...... 000 002 14x—7 12 0
Kittle, B. Drilling (8) and Constantino; Blankenship and Morgan.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 14—Bob Costello and the Vancouver Capilanos gave away seven runs in the fourth inning of the first game but couldn't catch up as the Salem Senators pulled off an 8-7 win this afternoon. The Senators swept the twin bill and the series with a 6-4 win in the nightcap.
Costello couldn't find the plate and walked five men and gave up two hits in the fourth.
Jim Olson's seventh inning double brought in the run that proved to be the difference as the Caps nibbled away at the Senators and chased both Olson and his replacement, Ray McNulty, in the ninth. Joe Kaney's three-run single on a 3-2 pitch with the bags loaded and two out provided the runs. But they finished one shy as Frank Mullens flew out to end the game.
At night, Vancouver again collected 14 hits while Sandy Robertson surrendered seven, but left 16 men stranded.
Two clusters of three runs was too much for the home club to overcome, and errors didn't help either. Orrin Snyder failed to get a Teaxs Leaguer in the first and Robertson tossed a sacrifice into the dugout to allow two runs to score in the sixth.
First game
Salem ............. 000 700 100—8 8 1
Vancouver ....... 000 002 113—7 14 1
Olson, McNulty (9), Stevenson (9) and Samhammer; Costello, Anderson (4) and Brenner.
Second game
Salem ............ 300 003 000—6 7 2
Vancouver ...... 010 120 000—4 14 1
Peterson, Saltzman (6) and Samhammer; Robertson and Warren.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 14—Tom Rose hurled a one-hitter against the Bremerton Bluejackets tonight as the Wenatchee Chiefs took advantage of the wildness of three Bremerton hurlers for a 10-1 triumph.
The only blow off Rose was a double by Frank Volpi in the second inning which drove in Lyle Palmer, who had walked, in with the only Bremerton run.
Bremerton ....... 010 000 000—1 1 2
Wenatchee ..... 002 107 00x—10 8 0
Simon, Barnise (6), Allen (6) and Volpi; Rose and Gardner.

Spokane ...... 101 005 000—7 10 2
Tacoma ....... 030 000 000—3 7 2
Teagan and Rossi; Greenlaw, Clary (6) and Kuper.

Big Southpaw To Join A's
VICTORIA, Aug. 14—Victoria Athletics received their first pitching help since the start of the season with the announcement that Wally Eads, who was with Twin Falls last season, would join the club at Bremerton on Tuesday.
Eads, a towering lefthander, who has a real fast ball, has been out of action this season with a sore arm but is reported to be ready again. He looked good, although wild, in spring training and may prove to be a valuable addition, His record at Twin Falls shows seven victories and five setbacks in 1947. He pitched 105 innings, gave up 98 hits, 86 bases on ball and struck out 67.
His acquisition brings Victoria's roster up to the limit of 17, but it was stated that the search is still on for a proven starter.

Friday, August 13, 1948

2007-07-13T01:48:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 76 46 .623 —
Tacoma ...... 68 52 .567 7
Victoria .... 69 56 .552 8½
Spokane ..... 67 57 .540 10
Vancouver ... 56 58 .482 16
Salem ....... 55 68 .447 21½
Wenatchee ... 53 67 .442 22
Yakima ...... 41 81 .336 35

WENATCHEE, Aug. 13—With a month and a day remaining in the Western International League campaign, the pennant-bound Bremerton Bluejackets appear to be a shoo-in, barring upsets, that is.
They clung tenaciously to their seven-game lead as the result of a 9-4 victory over the Wenatchee Chiefs tonight.
The front-runners came from behind to defeat Wenatchee, shoving over five runs in the sixth and seventh frames. Don Stanford and Allan Maul, with a two-run homer apiece and Eddie Samcoff, with two doubles and two singles in four trips, topped the Bremerton attack.
Bremerton ........ 201 002 301—9 13 3
Wenatchee ...... 311 000 000—4 7 3
Conant and Volpi; Stevens, Gilson (7) and Dalrymple.

TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 13—Tacoma's Vince Lazor scattered seven hits tonight in shutting out Spokane, 3-0. Catcher-Manager Earl Kuper drove in two of the three Tiger runs with the help of Larry Lee, who banged out a triple and two singles in four times at bat.
Spokane .......... 000 000 000—0 7 2
Tacoma ........... 100 011 00x—3 7 0
Holmes, Werbowski (8) and Sheely; Lazor and Kuper.

VICTORIA, Aug. 13—Using costly errors and a series of base hits, the Victoria Athletics overcame a 3-0 first inning Yakima lead to defeat the Packers 12-6 tonight.
Victoria scored three in the fourth and four in the fifth and then added to their total in the next three frames after the Packers had made it 7-6 in the sixth on Frank Constantino's three-run homer.
Three Packer pitchers were bombarded for 17 hits and had poor support in the field. Five of the Victoria runs were unearned.
Yakima starter Garth Ford ran into trouble in the fourth when an error, a walk, two scratchy infield hits and a force play brought in three Victoria runs. Ford retired under fire in the next inning when four hits, a hit batsman and awalk sent over four more runs. Dick Drilling was reaced for three runs in the short time he was on the mound and Bill Freeman was touched for a pair of markers in his one-inning stint.
Del Owens received credit for his 12th win but manager Ted Norbert called on Bill Harmsen to finish the game when Owens loaded the bases in the ninth.
Leading Victoria's 17-hit attack was Vic Buccola, who had four safeties, including a double in six trips. Archie Wilson, the league's leading hitter, picked up his 34th double and two runs to run his his production on the season to 201, and scored three times. Owens batted in three runs with as many hits.
Yakima ........... 300 003 000—6 9 3
Victoria .......... 000 341 22x—12 17 3
Ford, D. Drilling (5), Freeman (8) and Constantino; Owens, Harmsen (9) and Recca.

Salem at Vancouver, postponed, wet grounds.

Non WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

Baseball Marathon Called at Three In the Morning
KANSAS CITY, Aug 13—Kansas City Blues defeated Toledo Mudhens of the American Association 4-0 this morning in the first game of a scheduled double-header but the second contest was called at 2:50 a.m. because of a curfew law.
Lee MacPhail, general manager of the Kansas City Club, lodged a protest, claiming the second game on forfeit on the grounds that the Toledo Club failed to cooperate. He said the Hens arrived here at 10:39 p.m. The game began at 11:57.
The Hens were leading 7-1 at the end of the third when the game was called.

Thursday, August 12, 1948

2007-07-13T01:22:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 75 46 .626 —
Tacoma ...... 67 52 .563 7
Victoria .... 68 56 .548 8½
Spokane ..... 67 56 .545 9
Vancouver ... 56 58 .491 15½
Salem ....... 55 66 .447 20
Wenatchee ... 53 66 .443 21
Yakima ...... 41 80 .339 34

VANCOUVER, Aug. 12—Cal Mclrvin picked his 14th pitching win of the year for Salem in blanking Vancouver, 6-0, tonight.
A two-run homer by Ralph Samhammer over the right field wall in the fourth and another smash by Ed Barr off the top of the fence ín the sixth gave the Oregonians an early lead.
Four Cap miscues added to the cause. Charlie Mead dropped a fly ball near the boards in the eighth and Jack Warren dropped a relay from second on an attempted double steal in the same frame. And with three hits, three runs came in.
Rookie Vern Kindsfather was the only bright spot for Vancouver. H ewent in to relieve Jim Hedgecock in the eighth inning and struck out Bill Burgher to end the inning. In the ninth, he struck out two and fielded the ball to retire the third. He also got his first hit in organised ball, the last one surrendered by McIrvin.
Salem ............. 000 210 030—6 6 0
Vancouver ....... 000 000 000—0 6 4
McIrvin and Samhammer; Hedgecock, Kindsfather (8) and Warren.

BREMERTON, Aug. 12—Lloyd Hittle gave up only four hits as he pitched the Bremerton Bluejackets to their third victory in four games against Spokane, 4-2. It was Hittle's 14th win.
Lyle Palmer with a double and triple drove in two of Bremerton's four runs and scored the other pair.
Spokane ........ 002 000 000—2 4 1
Bremerton ...... 200 020 00x—4 8 1
Orphal and Rossi; Hittle and Volpi.

TACOMA, Aug. 12—George Nicholas, returned to Tacoma Wednesday by San Diego, pitched and batted the Tigers to victory tonight in a 3-1 game with Wenatchee Chiefs. He scattered five hits and collected three himself—a triple, double and single. Bill Wilson's homer accounted for Wenatchee's lone tally.
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 100—1 5 2
Tacoma ............ 000 110 00x—3 7 0
McCollum and Dalrymple; Nicholas and Kuper.

VICTORIA, Aug 12—Frank Logue ran his personal winning streak to eight games and marked up his 12th triumph of the season against four defeats by pitching the Victoria Athletics to a 2-1 win over the Yakima Packers tonight.
The side-wheeler's effective curve was working well as he gave up eight hits and struck out nine. Only two batters gave him trouble. Larry Orteig had a perfect night at the plate with a double and three singles — half of the Packers' total — and rookie Bob Burris coaxed him for three of the four walks he gave up.
Bob Drilling went the route for the Packers and gave up seven singles with Archie Wilson picking up three of the hits. Wilson cut off the tying run at the plate in the sveenth inning when he threw a strike to Sal Recca from centre field to catch Orteig by ten feet.
The A's opened the scoring with an unearned run in the first inning. With two out, Jack Palmer was hit by a pitch and went to third on Wilson's single. Babe Jensen hit a grounder to Snag Moore at third and was safe when Gene Thompson couldn't find the bag with Palmer crossing the plate for the first run.
The Packers evened the count in the fourth on Jimmy Estrada's single off Lou Kubiak's outstretched glove, a walk and Orteig's double.
The A's gained their winning margin in the fifth when Vic Buccola singled, was sacrificed to second and scored on Palmer's hard single to left field.
Yakima ......... 000 100 000—1 8 2
Victoria ........ 100 010 00x—2 7 0
B. Drilling and Constantino; Logue and Recca.

Wednesday, August 11, 1948

2007-07-13T00:31:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 74 46 .617 —
Tacoma ...... 66 52 .559 7
Spokane ..... 67 55 .549 8
Victoria .... 67 56 .545 8½
Vancouver ... 56 57 .496 19½
Wenatchee ... 53 65 .449 20
Salem ....... 54 68 .443 21
Yakima ...... 41 79 .342 23

BREMERTON, Aug. 11—There doesn't appear to be any great rush among the runner-up to challenge Bremerton's present Western International League's supremacy.
The Bluejackets widened their first place margin to seven full games last night, despite splitting a twin bill with third place Spokane.
Bremerton dropped a 4-2 decision to the Inland Empire club in a loose seven-inning opener that saw Spokane make five miscues and the losers three, then came back for a 6-1 decision in the second game on Bob Pirack's five-hit pitching.
First game
Spokane ......... 101 010 1—4 10 3
Bremerton ....... 110 000 0—2 7 3
Nelson and Sheely; Marshall, Barnise (7) and Ronning.
Second game
Spokane ......... 001 000 000—1 5 2
Bremerton ....... 300 002 10x—6 8 1
Babbitt, Cordell (8) and Sheely; Pirack and Volpi.

TACOMA, Aug. 11—Tacoma bowed to Wenatchee 9-5 as Glen Lierman won his first game after 12 successive losses.
Wenatchee ....... 002 103 300—9 12 3
Tacoma ........... 000 410 000—5 7 3
Lierman and Dalrymple; Gleason, Greenlaw (6), Lazor (7) and Kuper.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 11—Hunk Anderson tossed a seven hitter in leading the Vancouver Capilanos to a 9-2 win over the Yakima Packers tonight.
Anderson was only in trouble in the second inning. Three of the seven Packer pokes, including Gene Thompson's double, scored two runs then. From then on, Yakima never collected more than a hit an inning.
Anderson gave up two walks in raising his record to ten and nine.
The Caps started off poorly against the left-handed slants of Bill Freeman. They failed to get a man to second base until their three-inning outburst in the fifth. Jack Warren, with two out, scored Orrin Snyder and Len Tran to tie the game.
They continued to rally the next time up. This time, with two out, Snyder hit for the second time. Anderson punched out a blow and Tran singled for the second time. That got rid of Freeman and Max Strait came in to be met with Joe Kaney's single. In all, three runs scored.
To rub it in, the 12-hit attack continued on Strait in the seventh. Four hits including doubles by Jack Warren (he hit 3 for 3) and Sandy Robertson, an error by Jim Estrada and a wild pitch added up to four runs.
The game concluded Yakima's season rivalry with Vancouver on the short end of a 12-6 won-lost margin.
Caps Notes — Anderson became a new father on Tuesday. Gregory Anderson was born in Seattle.
Yakima .......... 020 000 000—2 7 2
Vancouver ..... 000 024 30x—9 12 0
Freeman, Strait (6) and Constantino; Anderson and Warren.

VICTORIA, Aug. 11—Salem's Buzz Sporer had perfect control of his curve tonight as the righthander gave up only three hits in a 14-1 hammering of the Victoria Athletics.
He was nursing a no-hitter until Archie Wilson cracked his 21st homer with two out in the sixth inning, and only one other ball was hit out of the infield until late in the game as Sporer came up with nothing but ground balls.
Dick Sinovic's two-run homer in the first was followed by another two-run circuit blast in the second from Joe Gedzius. Two well-tagged doubles brought in Jim Propost in the fourth when the Senators drove Al Goot from the mound.
Propst gave up a home run to Ed Barr in the fifth and allowed six straight singles in the seventh, starting with Cal McIrvin. Sporer bunted and all hands were safe when Sal Recca tried an impossible play at third. Jim Wert's double and Al Spaeter's single scored the fifth, sixth and seventh runs.
This brought in Lou Kubiak to pitch and sent pitcher Del Owens to left field. Kubiak got the side out on three fly balls to his old territory, one run scoring on a catch. He blanked the Solons the rest of the way.
Salem ......... 220 110 800—14 18 0
Victoria ....... 000 001 000—1 3 2
Sporer and Burgher; Goot, Propst (4), Kubiak (7) and Recca, Morgan ( ).

Business Manager at Spokane Quits
SPOKANE, Aug. 11—John Cassidy today announced his resignation as business manager of the Spokane Indians baseball team as a result of disagreements with J. Lamar Butler, co-owner.
"I differ with Butler on policy, method of operation and handling of finances," Cassidy said.
He said he was hired to handle the club's business but found it impossible to do when his relations with Butler were strained.
Butler, in Seattle on business, was not available for comment.
Cassidy said he would spend a few days in Canada before returning to his home in southern California.

Tuesday, August 10, 1948

2007-07-12T23:07:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 73 45 .619 —
Tacoma ...... 66 51 .564 6½
Spokane ..... 66 54 .550 8
Victoria .... 67 55 .549 8
Vancouver ... 55 57 .491 15
Wenatchee ... 52 65 .444 20½
Salem ....... 53 68 .438 21½
Yakima ...... 41 78 .345 32½

BREMERTON, Aug. 10—If any of the Western International League clubs have ideas about heading off the Bremerton Bluejackets, they'd better get about it.
With roughly four dozen games remaining to be played, the Tars still are far from a shoo-in for the title. But they're looking better every day.
Lefty Joe Sullivan stretched the Bremerton lead to 6½ games tonight by cooling off the Spokane Indians 8-0 with a three-hit pitching job.
While Sullivan was being miserly with his hits, Bremerton clubbed Spokane's Bill Werbowski and Jack Teagan for 13 base knocks. Jay Ragni's two-run homer was the big blow, but consecutive triples by Ed Samcoff and Al Maul paced a three-run spree for the winners in the eighth.
Spokane ........ 000 000 000—3 3 4
Bremerton ...... 032 000 03x—8 13 1
Werbowski, Teagan (8) and Gibb; Sullivan and Ronning.

TACOMA, Aug. 10—Wenatchee spoiled Earl Kuper's home debut as playing manager of the Tacoma Tigers with a 9-7 win tonight.
Kuper picked up three hits and drove in three runs, but the Chiefs won the game in the sixth inning. Four hits, including triples by Len Scarpelli and Nick Palica, two Bremerton walks, a hit batsman and an error pushed over eight runs in that frame.
Wenatchee ........ 000 008 001—9 9 1
Tacoma ............. 100 033 000—7 10 2
Rose, Conover (6). McCollum (6) and Dalrymple, J. Grardner (9); Fortier, Venturelli (6) and Kuper.

VANCOUVER, Aug 10—Vancouver had two three-run innings but couldn't overcome
cellar-dwelling Yakima's one big spurt—a seven-run spree on eight hits in the third. The Packers toppled the Capilanos, 8-6.
Seven hits were blasted off Bob Snyder in that inning before Carl Gunnarson could come into the came. An error by Orrin Snyder in left field also contributed to the run parade.
The Caps nipped away at Dick Drilling, Bob's younger brother up from Salt Lake City, but the lead held. The Caps got three back in the third by bunching hits with walks but what could have been a big rally ended when Bill Brenner flew out with the bases loaded.
They left three stranded in the next inning as Charlie Mead flew out.
Frank Mullens crashed his 18th homer of the season in the eighth inning, brining his RBI count to 71.
Also, the fans had their first glimpse of Owen Kindsfather, the young Vancouver, Wash., pitcher the Caps recently signed. With the help of Sandy Robertson's catch in left field, he retired the Packers one-two-three in the ninth and showed a lot of poise. According to general manager Bob Brown, he also owned as agood as curve as he has seen in the raw for quite a spell.
Yakima ......... 007 010 000—8 13 2
Vancouver .... 003 000 030—6 10 2
Drilling and Stumpf, Constantino (7); Snyder, Gunnarson (3) , Kindsfather (9) and Brenner.

VICTORIA, Aug. 10—Victoria's Len Kasparovitch, got a lot of presents from Canadian fans in pre-game ceremonies tonight, but nothing but trouble from Salem. He was yanked in the second inning after being pounded for five runs, seven hits and three walks, as the Senators administered a 13-3 thumping.
Kasparovitch got off to a good start as Babe Jensen snagged Jim Wert's sharp liner and Al Spaeter missed a three strike, but was reached for two runs in the first when Dick Sinovic tripled and Ed Barr singled after Cal McIrvin walked.
But in the second, the Senators scored three runs on five hits and two walks before Bill Harsmen came on to strike out Mel Nunes with the bags loaded. The latter gave up a run in the third, two more in the fourth — all unearned — and then threw a home run pitch to Bill Burgher before leaving the game for a pinch-hitter in the fifth.
Jim Propst pitched the seventh, giving up a single and four wakks as two more Salem runs were marked up on the scoreboard. Jensen then took a whirl at mound duties, escaping damage in the eighth and permitting two more runs in the ninth, including a home run blast by Sinovic.
Bill Burgher, Salem catcher, batted four for four including his third home run in two nights.
Salem ......... 231 201 202—13 15 0
Victoria ....... 000 011 001—3 12 4
Saltzman and Burgher; Kasparovitch, Harmsen (2), Probst (6), Jensen (7) and Recca.

Monday, August 9, 1948

2007-07-12T20:26:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 72 45 .615 —
Tacoma ...... 66 50 .569 5½
Spokane ..... 66 53 .555 7
Victoria .... 67 54 .554 7
Vancouver ... 55 56 .495 14
Wenatchee ... 51 65 .440 20½
Salem ....... 52 68 .433 21½
Yakima ...... 40 78 .339 32

VANCOUVER, Aug. 9—Orrin Snyder buzzed a single past reliever Charlie Peterson's ear to bring in two runs in the ninth to end the ballgame as the Vancouver Capilanos pulled off an 8-7 win over the Yakima Packers.
Peterson was called in from left field when Larry Orteig, another outfielder, couldn't get anyone out in the first, when Vancouver scored three times. Yakima knotted the game in the second, then Vancouver went ahead 4-3 in the seventh when Frank Mullens tripled home Len Tran.
Yakima tied it in the eighth, then the Caps went ahead yet again when Charlie Mead smashed his 19th homer of the year over right centre.
Undaunted, the Packers got three runs in the eight. A walk and a hit with one out resulted in Sandy Robertson being replaced on the mound by Jim Hedgecock. Jim Estrada bounced a blooper in front of the plate and it bounced high enough that the runner scored before Hedgecock could make a play. That tied the game, then Gene Thompson singled to centre to bring home two more runs.
However, Bill Reese walked to open the Vancouver ninth and Frank Mullens hit. Mead walked to fill the bases and one run scored when third sacker Snag Moore made the forceout at third on Buddy Hjelmaa's ground ball, ignoring the double-play set-up at second and first. Bill Brenner walked to fill the bases, then Snyder ended the game with his single.
Yakima ........ 030 000 013—7 10 2
Vancouver ... 300 000 113—8 10 0
Orteig, Peterson (1) and Constantino; Robertson, Hedgecock (9) and Brenner.

VICTORIA, Aug 9—Joe Blankenship went the distance for his 18th win as the Victoria Athletics defeated the Salem Senators, 9-7, tonight, before 2,100 fans at Royal Athletic Park.
Blankenship gave up three home runs which accounted for six of the Salem runs, but four of them were unearned. He held the Solons to seven hits and struck out 11.
The A's shoved across four runs in the first inning after two were out on successive singles by Archie Wilson, Babe Jensen, Sal Recca, Charlie Balassi and Russ Walseth after Lou Kubiak had walked.
Jack Palmer's double down the left field line scored Blankenship and Kubiak in the fourth to restore Victoria's lead after Eddie Barr's two-run homer in the top half of the frame had made it close.
Vic Buccola drove home a run in the sixth to make it 7-4.
Catcher Bill Burgher slammed out the first of two long home runs in the Salem seventh and Palmer's error and Al Spaeter's double plated another run.
Recca then provided the winning runs in the bottom of the inning when he drove out a tremdendous home run, his ninth, with Jensen on the bags.
An error by Walseth paved the way for the final three Senator runs in the eighth. With a runner on first and two out, Walseth took Joe Gedzius' ground ball and elected to throw to first with an easy play at second in front of him. He heaved the ball over Buccola's head and Burgher followed with his second circuit smash.
Salem ........... 000 200 230—7 8 2
Victoria ......... 400 201 20x—9 16 3
Stevenson, Shortledge (2) and Burger; Blankenship and Recca.

(only games scheduled)

Sunday, August 8, 1948

2007-07-12T20:08:00.000-07:00

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.

Saturday, August 7, 1948

2007-07-12T20:07:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 70 45 .609 —
Tacoma ...... 64 50 .561 5½
Victoria .... 65 53 .551 6½
Spokane ..... 64 53 .547 7
Vancouver ... 54 54 .500 12½
Salem ....... 52 65 .444 19
Wenatchee ... 50 64 .439 19½
Yakima ...... 40 75 .348 30

WENATCHEE, Aug. 7—The Wenatchee Chiefs pounded out a 12-4 victory tonight, as veteran Lou McCollum blanked the Victoria Athletics after taking over for Tom Rose in the fourth inning.
Wenatchee matched Victoria's first-inning run and then drove Del Owens out of the ball game with a four-run blast in the second. After the A's rallied for three runs in the fourth, the winners again matched the effort with a rally of their own in the bottom half and added two more in the eighth for insurance.
Len Scarpelli, with a triple, double and three singles, led the Chiefs at the plate. Neil Bryant connected for a two-run homer in the eighth.
Victoria .......... 100 300 000—4 6 4
Wenatchee ..... 140 300 02x—10 12 3
Owens, Propst (2) and Morgan; Rose, McCollum (4) and Dalrymple.

YAKIMA, Aug. 7—John Marshall starred in a relief role for Bremerton tonight, stopping the Yakima Packers in the eighth inning to save an 8-5 win for the Bluejackets.
Bremerton ..... 200 010 102—8 12 2
Yakima ......... 100 011 020—5 10 1
Conant, Marshall (8) and Volpi; Freeman and Stumpf.

SPOKANE, Aug. 7—Spokane defeated Vancouver, 5-4, in the first game of a double-header, as Bill Werbowski stemmed a ninth-inning rally with a brilliant bit of relief pitching.
Werbowski came in with the bases loaded after Jack Teagan had replaced Frank Nelson and forced in two runs by hitting one batter and walking another. The little righthander struck out Charlie Mead and took Orrin Snyder on an outfield fly to save the day.
The Indians scored six times in the second inning of the finale to go on to a 9-4 triumph.
First game
Vancouver ..... 000 001 003—4 10 3
Spokane ........ 010 101 02x—5 9 0
Hedgecock and Brenner; Nelson, Teagan (9), Werbowski (9) and Gibb.
Second game
Vancouver ..... 010 002 010—4 11 2
Spokane ........ 060 201 00x—9 9 0
Anderson, Snyder (2), Kindsfather (5) and Warren; Babbitt and Sheely.

Tacoma ....... 102 010 130—8 13 3
Salem ......... 031 000 32x—9 12 3
Kipp and Hargadon; McIrvin, McNulty (5), Sporer (9) and Samhammer.

Rod MacKay

2007-07-11T20:54:00.000-07:00

City Boy, 17, Given N.Y. Giant Contract
Rod MacKay Picked at Tryout Camp;
Assigned to Reno, Nevada, for 1949
A 17-year-old Vancouver boy, Rod MacKay, yesterday was handed a professional baseball contract by the New York Giants of the National League.
MacKay was given the contract at a Giant tryout camp at Olympia, Washington, by Mickey Schader, an official of the New York farm system.
FATHER TO SIGN
“I brought the contract home, and I and my father will sign it this weekend, and send it to Mr. Schader Monday,” the young right-handed pitcher who plays for Westerns in the city senior league said today.
Under baseball law, parents or guardians must sign professional contracts for players as young as MacKay.
“I am to report to Santa Barbara, California, next spring," he said, “and I was told I will be assigned to Reno, Nevada, in a class ‘C’ league.”
MacKay was born in Vancouver and started his baseball at King Edward high on the junior and senior teams.
Last year he played for Mount Pleasant Lions, in the Junior Board of Trade League.
His father, Alex. MacKay of 562 West Nineteenth, sent him to tryout camp which ran three days this week. Jimmy Tough, manager of the Westerns, advised the MacKay family they should give Rod a chance at pro ball.
THOUGHT IT SCHOOL
“I thought it was a baseball school,” said Rod. “When I got there, it turned out to be a tryout camp, with 60 fellows there. One other player besides myself was signed.
“The camp ran Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but yesterday Mr. Schader called me in, told me I didn't have to bother staying, as he'd seen enough and gave me the contract.”
He sent a note back with me to give to Bill Brenner, manager of the Capilanos, saying: ‘Polish MacKay up for me. Let him pitch batting practice.’
-Sun, Saturday, August 7, 1948

(Note—Rod eventually played for the W.I.L. Capilanos).

Friday, August 6, 1948

2007-07-11T20:49:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 69 45 .605 —
Tacoma ...... 64 49 .566 4½
Victoria .... 65 52 .556 5½
Spokane ..... 62 53 .539 7½
Vancouver ... 54 52 .509 11
Wenatchee ... 49 64 .434 19½
Salem ....... 51 65 .440 19
Yakima ...... 40 74 .351 29

WENATCHEE, Aug. 6—Len Kasparovitch gained his 14th triumph as he doled out nine hits and led the 14-hit Victoria attack by lining out three hits, including a double, in as many trips, and scoring three runs to beat the Chiefs, 8-4.
It was the A's seventh win in eight starts in Wenatchee.
After a shaky second inning, when he gave up the first two Wenatchee runs, the Hawaiian righthander permitted the Chiefs single runs in the fifth and seventh and coasted in after his teammates came from behind with a five-run rally in the seventh to give him a working margin.
The A's tied the count at 2-2 in the fourth, but Wenatchee's run in the fifth put them behind again. A sudden outburst in the "lucky" inning sent Glen Lierman to the showers. Six hits, including a home run by Babe Jensen — his eighth — and doubles by Vic Buccola, Jack Palmer, Dick Morgan and Kasparovitch sent in five runs.
Victoria ............ 000 200 501—8 14 0
Wenatchee ....... 002 010 100—4 9 2
Kasparovitch and Morgan; Lierman, McCollum (7), Gilson (8) and Gardner.

YAKIMA, Aug. 6—The Yakima Packers managed to gain an even split with the Bremerton Bluejackets tonight, winning the first game, 6-5, as they made an early lead stand up, and then losing a tough, 1-0, decision in the finale.
Bob Pirack bested his former teammates in a keen duel with Garth Ford in the night game.
First game
Bremerton ....... 000 050 0—5 6 2
Yakima ........... 510 000 0—6 9 2
Barnise, Allen (1), Kittle (6) and Ronning; D. Drilling and Stumpf.
Second game
Bremerton ....... 010 000 000—1 5 1
Yakima ........... 000 000 000—0 5 2
Pirack and Volpi; Ford and Constantino.

SALEM, Aug. 6—Salem managed to outslug Tacoma in a hitters battle tonight and wound up with a 15-11 win. Highlight of the slugging spree was catcher Bill Burgher's grand-slam home run in the seven-run fifth inning.
Tacoma ......... 023 001 041—11 17 3
Salem ........... 300 074 01x—15 16 1
Greenlaw, Venturelli (6) and Kuper; Stevenson, Saltzman (3) and Burgher.

SPOKANE, Aug. 6—The Spokane Indians got by the Vancouver Capilanos, 7-6, despite being outhit 13-9 tonight.
Vancouver spotted Spokane five runs in the first three innings and caught up in the sixth before finally falling.
Len Tran scored in the ninth for the Caps, who had the tying and winning runs on the bags when Gene Babbitt, back after a lengthy suspension, came in to relieve John Cordell. Babbitt forced the dangerous Jack Warren to ground into a double-play.
Vancouver ....... 000 212 001—6 13 2
Spokane .......... 113 000 20x—7 9 0
Gunnarson, Snyder (7) and Warren; Cordell, Babbitt (9) and Gibb.

Thursday, August 5, 1948

2007-07-11T20:44:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 68 44 .607 —
Tacoma ...... 64 48 .571 4
Victoria .... 64 52 .552 6
Spokane ..... 61 53 .535 8
Vancouver ... 54 51 .514 10½
Wenatchee ... 49 63 .437 19
Salem ....... 50 65 .435 19½
Yakima ...... 39 73 .348 29

SPOKANE, Aug. 5—One bad inning at Spokane tonight gave Joe Blankenship his ninth setback of the season instead of his 18th victory as the Indians scored a 5-1 triumph over the Victoria Athletics to win the five-game series, 2-1.
The Indians took the lead in the first inning with a single run and the A's tied it when Sal Recca singled home Archie Wilson in the first of the fifth. Then came the four-run Spokane outburst which settled the game. Some good defensive play cut off a potential Victoria rally when the first two runners got to second and third.
Victoria ......... 000 100 000—1 7 3
Spokane ........ 100 040 000—5 9 3
Blankenship and Recca; Werbowski and Sheely.

SALEM, Aug. 5—Bremerton squared their series with Salem by pounding out an 11-5 victory over the Senators. The game featured by a row with umpires Skulik and Mathieu, Frank Volpi, Eddie Samcoff and several other Bremerton players were cleared off the bench by the men in blue after a prolonged argument.
Bremerton ...... 050 030 030—11 14 4
Salem ............ 003 000 020—5 9 1
Marshall and Ronning; Olson, McNulty (5) and Burgher.

YAKIMA, Aug. 5—The Tacoma Tigers continued their heavy cannonading to sink the Yakima Packers, 8-4, tonight. The winners got poor mileage out of their attack, though, with six doubles and a triple included in their 18-hit barrage.
The Tigers were managed tonight by Cy Greenlaw but will be under the direction of Earl Kuper, W.I.L. catching star in 1946, who has been named to replace Jim Brillheart as manager.
Tacoma .......... 131 100 020—8 18 1
Yakima ........... 310 000 000—4 12 2
Fortier and Rossi; B. Drilling and Peterson.

Vancouver and Wenatchee, rained out.

Padres Name Brillheart New Manager
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 5—The San Diego Baseball Club of the Pacific Coast League tonight summoned Jim Brillheart from his mangerial post at the Padres' Tacoma farm club in the Western International League to take the reins of the local club.
Padre president Bill Starr said Brillheart is scheduled to arrive here tomorrow and will direct the club in Friday night's club.
With the action, the Padres will have their third manager in four days. Rip Collins was relieved of his duties Tuesday and was replaced by coach Jimmy Reese. Starr said Reese will return to his coaching job.
Earl Kuper, a catcher, will succeed Brillheart, as a player-manager in Tacoma.
The Tigers also will finish out the season minus one of their winning pitchers. The Padres shift gave Hank Sciarra, a converted shortstop, a chance to try out his pitching arm in triple-A ball. Sciarra had a 7-3 record with the Tacomans.

Wednesday, August 4, 1948

2007-07-11T20:30:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 67 44 .604 —
Tacoma ...... 63 48 .568 4
Victoria .... 64 51 .556 6
Spokane ..... 60 53 .531 8
Vancouver ... 54 51 .514 10
Salem ....... 50 64 .439 18½
Wenatchee ... 49 63 .438 18½
Yakima ...... 39 72 .351 28

WENATCHEE, Aug. 4—With every player in the Vancouver lineup except Frank Mullens getting at least two hits, the Capilanos hammered the Wenatchee Chiefs, 18-3.
Bill Reese batted in five Caps with a pair of doubles and as many singles.
Orrin Synder collected three hits to bat in three runs, while Len Tran was three for six. Joe Kaney, Charlie Mead and Bud Hjelmaa got two each.
Tran had the only home run in the 20-hit attack.
Winning pitcher Bob Costello rapped out a double and a single to bat in a pair of runs, and won his 14th game by scattering nine hits.
Wenatchee tossed three pitchers, a catcher and a shortstop into the hurling breach. Shortstop Neil Bryant had the best success, holding Vancouver without a run in his two-inning stint.
Vancouver ........... 501 053 401—18 20 3
Wenatchee .......... 011 000 001—3 9 3
Costello and Warren; Conover, Stenman (1), Gilson (4), Gardner (6), Bryant (8) and Dalrymple (8).

SALEM, Aug. 4—Salems' Buzz Sporer muzzled Bremerton 3-1 with three hit pitching in a seven-inning opener tonight and Hal Saltzman gave up but seven blows as Salem won the second game 8-3.
First game
Bremerton ........ 000 001 0—1 3 1
Salem .............. 000 003 x—3 5 1
Simon and Volpi; Sporer and Burgher.
Second game
Bremerton ........ 000 200 001—3 7 3
Salem .............. 000 413 00x—8 11 0
Hittle, Pirack (6), Allen (8) and Ronning; Saltzman and Samhammer.

YAKIMA, August 4—Vince Lazor give up 15 hits in going the route for Tacoma tonight but four double plays held Yakima to two runs. Tacoma collected 18 blows off three Packer moundsmen in winning 15-2.
Hank Vallee led the Tigers, cracking out a home run, triple and single, all of which figured into the scoring.
Tacoma ......... 023 140 050—15 18 1
Yakima .......... 000 000 020—2 15 4
Lazor and Rossi; Strait, Freeman (4), Orteig (8) and Constantino.

SPOKANE, Aug. 4—For the third straight game, Victoria outhit Spokane — and lost 7-3 in the opener of a double-header, but came back to take a 12-3 decision in the second. Spokane wound up the second game with third baseman Bob Hedington pitching.
In the first game, the Indians rallied to score five runs in the fifth inning although held to six hits by a trio of Victoria hurlers. The losers again had the lead and failed to hold it for a second time. They opened the scoring in the first inning when Vic Buccola tripled and came home on Lou Kubiak's hit.
Spokane tied it in the second, but the A's forged ahead in the top of the fifth when triples by Jim Propst and Buccola and another hit by Kubiak plated two runs.
Probst weakened in the Spokane half and was replaced by Bill Harmsen with the bases loaded and one out. George Valine then tagged Harmsen's first pitch for a bases-clearing double and later scored. Propst was charged with his fourth straight loss and seventh of the season.
The A's lit on John Orphal in the nightcap for 13 hits, and scored three off him in the first inning and once in the second on Dick Morgan's home run.
First game
Victoria ........ 100 020 0—3 9 0
Spokane ....... 010 150 x—7 6 1
Propst, Harmsen (5), Goot (6) and Recca; Holmes and Gibb.
Second game
Victoria ........ 310 001 034—12 13 0
Spokane ....... 210 000 000—3 8 1
Logue and Morgan; Orphal, Hedington (7) and Gibb.

Yankee Prexy Praises Two Victoria A's
SPOKANE, Aug. 4—Del E. Webb, vice-president of the New York Yankees, today praised two players for the Victoria Athletics in the Western International Baseball League.
Webb watched Spokane beat Victoria twice last night. The Yankees have a working agreement with Victoria.
“I liked that big Wilson out there in centre-field and the young shortstop is going to be good,” Webb said.
Archie Wilson, Victoria centre-fielder, is the league's leading hitter. Russ Walseth, 19-year-old Athletics shortstop, got one hit in six at-bats last night.
“I was really impressed with the games last night,” Webb said. “Lots of hustle, good crowd, fine spirit and nice baseball. Of course I was most interested in our boys on the Victoria club.”

Tuesday, August 3, 1948

2007-07-11T20:14:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 67 42 .615 —
Tacoma ...... 62 48 .564 5½
Victoria .... 63 50 .558 6
Spokane ..... 59 52 .532 9
Vancouver ... 53 51 .510 12½
Wenatchee ... 49 62 .441 19
Salem ....... 48 64 .429 20½
Yakima ...... 39 71 .355 24½

SALEM, Aug. 3—The Salem Senators exploded in a wild ninth inning to score all their runs and rout two Bremerton pitchers tonight before falling victim to an 8-5 score.
Bremerton jumped off to a 4-0 lead in the first inning and added a paid in each of the seventh and eighth frames while John Conant held the Oregonians in check. Neither Conant nor Bob Pirack, however, could hold the Solons down in the ninth.
Salem pushed over five runs before John Marshall took over for Bremerton and halted the rush.
The victory increased Bremerton's first place margin to 5½ games over Tacoma.
Bremerton .... 000 800 000—8 13 1
Salem ......... 000 000 005—5 12 3
Conant, Pirack (9), Marshall (9) and Volpi; McIrvin and Burgher.

YAKIMA, Aug. 3—Striking with the suddenness of the rain and wind storm that threatened to cancel their game, Yakima scored 12 runs in two innings to outlast Tacoma 13-10 and snap an 11-game losing streak.
Trailing 4-0 in the third, Yakima came out with a rush to score seven times. Wally Kramer's opening single was followed by triples by Snag Moore, Spencer Harris, Gene Thompson and Lou Estes and a two-run homer by Bill Barisoff, his first since joining the Packers after being released by Bremerton.
Again in the sixth, Yakima was down 9-8 only to break out with a five-run rash that put away the contest. Moore opened the inning with a home run and Estes closed the scoring with a bases-loaded homer.
Tacoma ...... 013 231 000—10 14 0
Yakima ....... 007 015 00x—13 15 0
Clary, Gleason (3), Venturelli (6) and Rossi; Kittle, Kramer (3), D. Drilling (5) and Constantino.

WENATCHEE, August 3—Nick Palica and Jerry Gardner homered as the Wenatchee Chiefs easily handled the Vancouver Capilanos, 11-1, here tonight.
After producing a run on first-inning singles by Joe Kaney and Jack Warren, the Caps couldn't do anything with the other nine hits off LeRoy Stevens.
The Caps commited five runs errors, resulting in four unearned runs.
Vancouver manager Bill Brenner, first baseman Bill Reese and pitcher Jim Hedgecock, who wasn't on the mound, were ejected from the game in the sixth by umpire Frank Deheney after they protested heatedly over a ball-and-strike count.
Vancouver ......... 100 000 000—1 11 5
Wenatchee ........ 004 310 30x—11 8 1
B. Snyder, Kindsfather (7) and Brenner; Stevens and Gardner.

SPOKANE, Aug. 3—Victoria outhit Spokane in both games of its Tuesday double bill—but fielding miscues cut their chances as the Athletics went under twice to the Indians, 4-1 and 2-1.
Three Victoria errors spoiled Len Kasparovitch's six-hit pitching as Frank Nelson took his 13th win of the year on seven-hit hurling.
The A's went ahead in the third when Charlie Balassi scored on a wild heave to the plate. The Indians tied the count in the fifth and then put together three hits, two errors and two walks for their winning, three-run margin in the sixth.
Del Owens turned in a four-hit job in the second game, but lost it in the second inning on his own wildness and Babe Jensen's bobble. Spokane's Bud Sheely singled then Jensen bobbled Leo Thomas' sacrifice. Owens walked Ed San Sanclemente to set up a force at any base, but then walked pitcher Jack Teagan to force in a run. A minute later, Thomas stole home with the winning tally.
Owens shut the door from there but Teagan held the A's at bay until the ninth when Vic Buccola tripled and Sal Recca doubled.
First game
Victoria ....... 001 000 0—1 7 3
Spokane ...... 000 013 x—4 6 1
Kasparovitch and Recca; Nelson and Sheely.
Second game
Victoria ....... 000 000 001—1 8 1
Spokane ...... 020 000 000—2 4 0
Owens and Morgan; Teagan and Sheely.

Monday, August 2, 1948

2007-07-11T11:40:00.001-07:00

WENATCHEE, August 2—A three-run uprising in the ninth inning gave the Wenatchee Chiefs a 5-4 come-from-behind win over the Vancouver Capilanos here tonight.
Relief pitcher Stan Gilson opened the ninth with a double and scored on Nick Palica's triple. Palica scored the tying run on an error. Neil Bryant then singled in Jess McWilliams with the winning run.
Len Tran handed Vancouver the lead in the seventh when he smashed a solid triple with the bases loaded and then came home on Jack Warren's single.
Vancouver ........ 000 000 400—4 4 3
Wenatchee ....... 000 010 013—5 9 2
Anderson, Hedgecock (9) and Brenner; Rose, Gilson (8) and Gardner.

Only game scheduled.

Sunday, August 1, 1948

2007-07-11T11:34:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 66 42 .611 —
Tacoma ...... 62 47 .569 4½
Victoria .... 63 48 .568 4½
Spokane ..... 57 52 .523 9½
Vancouver ... 53 49 .520 10
Salem ....... 48 63 .432 19½
Wenatchee ... 47 62 .431 19½
Yakima ...... 38 71 .349 28½

BREMERTON, Aug. 1—Bremerton's Bluejackets basked in the glory of a 4½ game lead tonight—thanks to their eight-game win streak. The Western International league leaders swept four straight from Yakima, with a 4-1 and 9-1 victories Sunday.
First game
Yakima ........... 000 001 0—1 8 0
Bremerton ....... 030 001 x—4 7 0
B. Drilling and Peterson; Marshall and Volpi.
Second game
Yakima .......... 000 001 000—1 4 2
Bremerton ...... 104 202 00x—9 14 2
Ford and Constantino; Barnise and Ronning.

WENATCHEE, August 1—Dick Morgan's single in the twelfth inning drove in Jack Palmer with the winning run as Victoria salvaged the second game of a double-header against the Wenatchee Chiefs, 4-3. The Chiefs won the opener, 9-4.
Home runs by Palmer and Babe Jensen, the latter with Archie Wilson on board, spotted Joe Blankenship to a 3-0 first inning lead in the nightcap. The Chiefs got two back on Gil Neumann's homer in the second inning and tied the count in the ninth of Neil Bryant's single.
Blankenship notched his 17th victory of the year.
Jim propst was charged with the defeat in the opener when he lost control in the sixth after relieving Bill Harmsen in the fifth. There walks, there errors and two Wenatchee hits accounted for six runs in that inning.
First game
Victoria .......... 100 002 1—4 8 4
Wenatchee ..... 001 116 x—9 6 0
Harmsen, Propst (5), Kasparovitch (6) and Morgan; Conover, Gilson (5) and Gardner.
Second game
Victoria ......... 300 000 000 001—4 11 1
Wenatchee .... 020 000 001 000—3 8 2
Blankenship and Morgan; Lierman and Dalrymple.

First game
Salem ......... 020 000 1—3 6 0
Tacoma ...... 100 100 0—2 6 2
Olson and Burgher; Fortier and Rossi.
Second game
Salem ........ 010 001 001—3 6 1
Tacoma ..... 203 000 00x—5 9 1
Sporer and Burger; Kipp and Hargadon.

(Only games scheduled)

Camilli Managing Spokane Indians For Two Weeks
SPOKANE, August 1—Dolph Camilli, former Brooklyn Dodger first baseman and former manager of Oakland in the Pacific Coast League, today became temporary manager of the Spokane Indians of the Western International League.
Camilli flew in his own plane here from Laytonville, Calif., today to replace manager Buddy Ryan for two weeks. Ryan was ordered by his doctor to give up baseball for a two-week rest period.
Camilli was running things in tonight's 8-2 exhibition win over the House of David here. He operates a ranch in California.

Saturday, July 31, 1948

2007-07-11T11:28:00.000-07:00

WENATCHEE, July 31—Frank Logue made it four straight route-going performances for Victoria's much-maligned pitching staff at Wenatchee tonight. The smooth-throwing side-wheeler held the Chiefs to seven hits and didn't let four errors bother him as he gained his ninth victory in the 14-3 pasting the A's stuck on the Chiefs.
Only Bill Wilson caused him any trouble. The league leader in home runs hit two of them to account for all of Wenatchee's runs.
The A's landed 16 hits on a trio of Wenatchee hurlers. Lou Kubiak blasted a bases-loaded triple and two singles to account for four runs. Archie Wilson chipped in with his 19th home run, a double and a single. Five other Victorians chipped in with two hits.
Victoria .......... 044 024 000—14 16 4
Wenatchee ..... 200 000 010—3 7 4
Logue and Recca; Rose, McCollum (3), Gardner (7) and Gardner, Dalrymple (7).

BREMERTON, July 31—Bremerton's leading Bluejackets edged the Yakima Packers, 3-2, as Joe Sullivan gained his ninth win. The triumph increased the Tars' first-place margin to 3½ games over Tacoma and Victoria.
Yakima ........... 020 000 000—2 4 2
Bremerton ....... 002 001 00x —3 10 5
Kramer and Constantino; Sullivan, Conant (7) and Ronning.

TACOMA, July 31—The Tacoma Tigers dropped their second straight to the Salem Senators tonight, 5-4. Bob Stevenson went the route and tripled in the winning, fifth-inning rally to aid his own cause.
Salem .......... 000 230 000—5 10 2
Tacoma ....... 010 100 020—4 10 3
Stevenson and Burgher; Lazor, Gleason (8), Venturelli (9) and Rossi.

VANCOUVER, July 31—Four runs in the eighth, aided by umpire Bill Abbey, gave the Spokane Indians a 5-4 decision over the Vancouver Capilanos in the first of two Saturday games here. Vancouver won the second, 4-2, with a three-run seventh.
The Caps had a three-run rally in the eighth inning of the first game, thanks to homers by Jack Warren and Charlie Mead, but couldn 't catch up and Jim Hedgecock took the loss, his first of the season.
The three-run inning in the second game was a little luckier. Sandy Robertson, playing in left field, opened the inning with his second hit and Bob Costello worked John Cordell for a walk. Hits by Len Tran and Joe Kaney, the latter's third of the show, and a wild pitch added up to three runs.
First game
Spokane ........... 000 100 040—5 10 2
Vancouver ........ 000 001 030—4 10 1
Werbowski, Nelson (8) and Gibb; Hedgecock and Brenner.
Second game
Spokane .......... 001 000 000—2 6 0
Vancouver ....... 100 000 30x—4 9 1
Cordell and Gibb; Costello and Warren.

Friday, July 30, 1948

2007-07-11T11:18:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 63 42 .600 —
Tacoma ...... 61 45 .575 2½
Victoria .... 61 47 .565 3½
Spokane ..... 56 51 .523 8
Vancouver ... 52 48 .520 8½
Wenatchee ... 46 60 .434 17½
Salem ....... 46 62 .426 18½
Yakima ...... 38 68 .358 25½

BREMERTON, July 30—The taste of victory is sweet for a pitcher—particularly against a team from which he was traded.
Keith Simon savoured that cup of triumph tonight as he tossed the Bremerton Bluejackets into a 2½ game lead over the Western International League field.
His 10-5 triumph over his former teammates, the Yakima Packers, was his 14th of the season. Simon went to Bremerton early this year in a deal which shifted Hub Kittle, present Packer manager, to Yakima.
Ed Samcoff had a home run and Lyle Palmer two triples and a single for the winners.
Yakima ............ 100 020 002—5 10 1
Bremerton ........ 104 023 00x—10 12 2
D. Drilling, Freeman (5) and Constantino; Simons and Ronning.

VANCOUVER, July 30—John Orphal allowed only four hits as the Spokane Indians blanked the Vancouver Capilanos, 3-0.
The Caps' only threat off him came inn the seventh when Jack Warren singled and Charlie Mead drew a walk. But Buddy Hjelmaa flew out to end the inning.
Orphal easily handled Vancouver in the ninth as Frank Mullens and Warren were out on a called strike and Mead hit an easy grounder to second.
Larry Manier was touched for a quick run in the first when Edo Vanni doubled, stole third and romped home on Gene Petralli's long fly to left field. Manier staggered through until the sixth when he gave up two walks and two hits for two more runs.
Spokane ........... 100 002 000—3 5 0
Vancouver ........ 000 000 000—0 4 2
Orphal and Gibb; Manier, Snyder (6), Gunnarson (9) and Warren.

WENATCHEE, July 30—Len Kasparovitch game the Victoria Athletics their third well-pitched game in a row, blanking the Wenatchee Chiefs on three hits in a 10-0 win tonight.
All three were singles and were scattered as he breezed to his 15th win behind a robust 13-hit attack by his teammates.
The A's opened the scoring in the fourth when Jack Palmer tripled and scored on Dick Morgan's single. They scored five in the fifth — four on Archie Wilson's 18th homer of the year, added one in the seventh and three in the ninth.
Russ Walseth had a pair of singles and a double for the A's.
Victoria ............. 000 150 103—10 13 1
Wenatchee ........ 000 000 000—0 3 4
Kasparovitch and Morgan; Stevenson, Stenman (5) and Dalrymple.

TACOMA, July 30—Tacoma and Salem held a slugfest tonight, each team scoring six runs in the first three innings. But the Senators went on with a seven-run sixth inning and thumped the Tigers 16-6.
Meanwhile, Buzz Sporer relieved starter Jim Olson in the third and held the Tigers scoreless.
Cal McIrvin, normally a pitcher, played in the outfield and slammed out two home runs for the winners.
Salem ............... 123 207 010—16 14 0
Tacoma ............ 222 000 000—6 11 4
Olson, Sporer (3) and Burgher; Sciarra, Greenlaw (3), Greco (4), Brillheart (6) and Rossi.

Gene Babbitt Out Until August 20
TACOMA, July 30—Gene Babbitt, Spokane pitcher who on Monday was indefinitely suspended for kneeing umpire Jerry Mathieu in last Saturday's Spokane-Tacoma Western International League baseball game, will be out of the game until August 20.
W.I.L. president Bob Abel said today he had fined Babbitt $50 and set his suspension as expiring after August 19. The penalty is subject to review of the board of directors of the league and by George M. Trautman, president of the National Baseball Association.

Thursday, July 29, 1948

2007-07-11T11:06:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton ... 62 42 .596 —
Tacoma ...... 61 44 .581 1½
Victoria .... 60 47 .561 3½
Vancouver ... 52 47 .525 7½
Spokane ..... 55 51 .519 8
Wenatchee ... 46 59 .438 16½
Salem ....... 45 62 .421 18½
Yakima ...... 38 67 .362 24½

VANCOUVER, July 29—Carl Gunnarson fired a seven-hit shutout as the Vancouver Capilanos blanked the Spokane Indians, 3-0, in a Western International League game.
The Caps managed only a couple of scratch hits off Jack Teagan until the sixth. Joe Kaney doubled with two out and scored on Frank Mullens' crash against the right field screen.
For insurance, Jack Warren doubled to open the seventh and Charlie Mead and Buddy Hjelmaa followed with bingles for another run.
Hits by Len Tran and Kaney in the eighth scored an unearned run.
Bob Hedington had three of Spokane's hits. Two of them were the only two Indians' hits until the sixth inning. Then in the ninth, two were on and one out when Hedington banged his third blow off Kaney's knee at second. Kaney managed to stay in the game and turned the double-play which ended it.
Spokane ........... 000 000 000—0 7 1
Vancouver ........ 000 001 11x—3 9 2
Teagan and Gibb; Gunnarson and Warren.

TACOMA, July 29—Tacoma Tigers managed to gain a half game as they swept a twin-bill from the Yakima Packers, 5-4 and 16-3. Vito DeVito's bases-loaded double in the sixth frame of the short opener sent Hub Kittle down to defeat. Six runs in the first two innings drove Yakima starter Garth Ford from the mound, and eight more in the eighth made the second affair a walkover.
First game
Yakima ............ 400 000 0—4 11 1
Tacoma ........... 100 013 x—5 8 2
Kittle and Constantino; Greenlaw, Gleason (2), Clary (6) and Rossi.
Second game
Yakima ............ 000 000 300—3 7 6
Tacoma ........... 240 011 08x—16 16 1
Ford, Strait (2) and Constantino; Venturelli and Hargadon.

BREMERTON, July 29—Scoring five runs after two were out in the eighth inning, Bremerton's leading Bluejackets protected their lead in the W.I.L. by defeating Salem, 6-4.
Singles by Ed Samcoff, Allan Maul and Frank Volpi and triples by Al Ronning and Don Stanford did all the damage after Cal McIrvin hurled four-hit baseball.
Salem .............. 020 000 011—4 9 1
Bremerton ........ 000 000 15x—6 8 2
McIrvin and Burgher; Hittle and Volpi.

WENATCHEE, July 29—Del Owens saw his scoreless-innings streak snapped at 16 in the first inning, but went on to start a new streak by blanking Wenatchee in the last eight innings as Victoria defeated the Chiefs 8-1 tonight.
The Athletics have Owens all he needed as they landed on Dick Conover for five runs in the second inning. Dick Morgan led off with his second home run. Vic Buccola then plated the second and third runs with a double and Jack Palmer completed the rally with his 13th circuit smash.
The A's pecked away at Stan Gilson, Conover's replacement, for single runs in the sixth, eighth and ninth.
Jess McWilliams singled in the first inning, his first of four hits, and scored on Bill Wilson's triple.
Victoria has won all three games it has played in Wenatchee this season.
Victoria ............. 050 001 011—8 15 1
Wenatchee ........ 100 000 000—1 8 1
Owens and Morgan; Conover, Gilson (3) and Gardner.

Wednesday, July 28, 1948

2007-07-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 61 42 .592 —
Tacoma ..... 59 44 .573 2
Victoria ... 59 47 .557 3½
Spokane .... 55 50 .524 7
Vancouver .. 51 47 .520 7½
Wenatchee .. 46 58 .442 15½
Salem ...... 45 61 .425 17½
Yakima ..... 38 65 .369 23

BREMERTON, July 28—The Bremerton Bluejackets,who moved into the Western International League lead largely on the strength of their pitching can also slug that baseball.
The Tars unleashed a 22-hit assault on three Salem hurlers tonight to bury the Oregonians beneath a 19-3 margin.
It enabled Bremerton to maintain its two-game lead over Tacoma.
The result was never in doubt as Bremerton led off with a two-run homer by Allan Maul in the first and followed through with eight runs in the second.
Batting stars for the Bluejackets were Lyle Palmer and Jay Ragni with four singles each, Lil Arnerich, with a triple and two singles, and Eddie Samcoff, with a double and two singles.
Dick Sinovic accounted for all Salem runs with a triple and a home run.
John Conant coasted to his 15th victory.
Salem ............. 000 002 010—3 10 1
Bremerton ....... 284 112 10x—19 22 0
McNulty, Saltzman (2), Shortridge (3) and Burgher; Conance and Volpi.

VANCOUVER, July 28—Hunk Anderson turned in a three-hit effort and Frank Mullens smacked a three-run homer in the third as Vancouver defeated Wenatchee, 5-1, tonight.
Mullens' homer came after Len Tran singled and Joe Kaney was safe on Fern Parades' error.
Anderson struck out six and gave up four walks during the evening. He was never in trouble, except in the fourth, when he surrendered two walks and a single when the Chiefs scored their run. Len Tran made an error on Jack Wilson's grounder and Jack Warren dropped a pitch as Wilson scored.
Wenatchee .......... 000 100 000—1 3 1
Vancouver ........... 003 010 100—5 12 2
Lierman and Gardner; Anderson and Warren.

TACOMA, July 28—The Tacoma Tigers took the front end of a double-header from Yakima, 8-1, but had to settle for a 12-inning, 5-5 tie in the nightcap when the game was halted by the time limit.
Tacoma romped to its first game win and was never headed after scoring four runs in the first inning. They started the second game the same way, but Yakima whittled away at the margin and knotted it in the ninth.
Tacoma threatened in each of the three extra innings but couldn't put the baserunners across.
First game
Yakima ............ 100 000 0—1 7 1
Tacoma ........... 410 210 x—8 13 1
Strait, Kramer (2) and Constantino; Fortier and Rossi.
Second game
Yakima ........... 010 030 001 000—5 9 1
Tacoma .......... 410 000 000 000—5 11 1
B. Drilling, D. Drilling (9) and Constantino; Kipp, Clary (9) and Rossi.

VICTORIA, July 28—Lou Kubiak's eighth-inning single broke a 3-3 tie to give the Victoria Athletics a 4-3 win over the Spokane Indians in a Western International League baseball game tonight.
Joe Blankenship went the distance for his 16th win of the year, although Spokane got on the board first when Gene Petralli hit a solo homer in the first inning.
The A's went ahead in the second when Archie Wilson doubled, Babe Jensen tripled to right field then came home when Kubiak grounded out.
Buck Brownson's error on Kubiak's grounder to shot, Blankenship's sacrifice and a poke through the middle by Charlie Balassi made it 3-1 Victoria. But Spokane tied it when Bob Hedington singled and San Clemente lifted a high pitch to dead centre field on a 3-2 pitch for a home run.
The A's had runners on the bags in every inning but couldn't break through against Frank Nelson until the eighth. Recca drew his third walk with one out and reached thirs base on Russ Walseth's single. Kubiak then rifled an RBI single into right field.
Spokane ......... 100 002 000—3 8 2
Victoria .......... 020 100 01x—4 9 0
Nelson and Gibb, Blankenship and Recca.

Tuesday, July 27, 1948

2007-07-11T03:45:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 60 42 .588 —
Tacoma ..... 58 44 .569 2
Victoria ... 58 47 .532 3½
Spokane .... 55 49 .529 6
Vancouver .. 50 47 .515 7½
Wenatchee .. 46 57 .447 14½
Salem ...... 45 60 .429 16½
Yakima ..... 38 64 .372 22

VICTORIA, July 27—The Spokane Indians delivered a double knock-out punch to the Victoria Athletics, 7-1 and 10-7, before 4,200 disappointed fans at Royal Athletic Park.
Bill Werbowski set the A's down on six hits in the opener, and pinned the fourth defeat of the season on southpaw Jim Propst.
The Indians reached Propst early. Edo Vanni's double and George Valine's triple gave them one run in the first inning. Vanni hammered a two-run homer in the second. Propst was reached for three singles in the third before retiring in favour of Al Goot. Single runs in the third and fifth and a two-run homer by Bob Hedington in the seventh off Frank Logue completed the Indians' scoring.
The A's got their lone run in the fifth on a double by Jack Palmer and a single by Russ Walseth.
A seven-inning relief performance by Hedington, formally a third baseman, marked the Indians' second victory. The A's spotted Bill Harmsen to a seven-run lead, reaching John Orphal for ten base hits, including a three-run, inside-the-park home run by Archie Wilson and a home run over the centre field wall by Dick Morgan in the first inning. Hedington replaced Orphal in the third with two men on and none out and silenced Victoria the rets of the way.
Harmsen was shaken up by a hard line smash through the box in the third and lost his control in the fourth after an error by Babe Jensen put him in the hole. The Indians tallied five runs on only two hits before the inning was finally ended when Len Kasparovitch struck out Gene Petralli.
Kasparovitch gave up three runs on a bloop double by Bill Wright and four singles in the fourth. He was relieved by Propst who got by until the seventh when he walked four to force in a run and lost his control again in the eighth before being relieved by Frank Logue.
First game
Spokane ........... 121 010 2—7 11 0
Victoria ............ 000 010 0—1 6 0
Werbowski and Gibb; Propst, Goot (3), Logue (6) and Morgan.
Second game
Spokane .......... 000 530 110—10 11 1
Victoria ........... 511 000 000—7 15 4
Orphal, Hedington (3) and Gibb; Harmsen, Kasparovitch (4), Propst (5), Logue (8) and Morgan.

TACOMA, July 27—Tacoma nipped Yakima 1-0 in 10 innings tonight with Vito De Vito, who reached first on a walk, scoring the only run.
Vince Lazor, Tacoma hurler, gave up but six singles. Bill Freeman, Yakima lefty, allowed only four—including a triple and single to Danny Perlmutter. It was the hitter's single to short center that sent De Vito scampering across with
the winning run after Lazor's sacrifice had moved him along.
Yakima .............. 000 000 000 0—0 6 0
Tacoma ............. 000 000 000 1—1 4 0
Freeman and Constantino; Lazor and Rossi.

VANCOUVER, July 27—Jim Hedgecock, who won 21 games for the Vancouver Capilanos last season, won his first this year since arri ving from Birmigham. He tossed a six-hitter in the opener as Vancouver split a double-header with the Wenatchee Chiefs.
The Caps combined five hits with four walks in the fourth inning for runs runs in a 4-1 win. Meanwhile, Hedgecock struck out seven and walked only two.
In the night game, Wenatchee got all the runs they needed in the second inning as they went on to a 6-2 win.
Bill Wilson, the league's home run king, struck out to start the inning, but Neil Bryant and Jerry Gardner singled to put men on first and second. Then Gene Gaviglio banged a scorcher through Len Tran at third and when Tran's throw to the plato catch Bryant was dropped by Jack Warren, both Bryant and Gardner scored, with Gaviglio going all the way to third. Nick Palica brought him home with a single to right.
The Caps got back single runs in the fourth and fifth and twice filled the bases in the later innings, but it was all for nought.
First game
Wenatchee ........... 000 000 1—1 6 1
Vancouver ............ 000 400 x—4 7 3
Cronin, McCollum (4) and Dalrymple; Hedgecock and Brenner.
Second game
Wenatchee .......... 030 020 010—6 10 0
Vancouver ........... 000 110 000—2 5 2
Rose, McCollum (6) and Gardner; Snyder, Robertson (4) and Warren.

BREMERTON, July 27—Bremerton Bluejackets retained their slim lead atop the W.I.L. Standings tonight by edging Salem Senators, 3-2, as Joe Sullivan scattered seven hits. Gene Peterson matched Sullivan all the way but lost control in the ninth to force in the winning run by walking Lyle Palmer with the bags loaded.
Salem ................ 100 001 000—2 7 0
Bremerton .......... 100 100 001—3 10 0
Peterson and Burgher; Sullivan and Ronning.

Monday, July 26, 1948

2007-07-10T20:50:00.000-07:00

Spokane at Victoria, postponed, rain.
Wenatchee at Vancouver, postponed, rain.
No other games scheduled.

TACOMA, July 26—Indefinite suspension of Spokane pitcher Gene Babbitt was announced today by Bob Abel, Western International League president.
Babbitt was set down for his part in a fracas Saturday night at Spokane in a game with Tacoma. Abel said his information indicated “Babbitt physically kneed umpire Jerry Mathieu in the back with such force that the arbiter was virtually knocked down.”
Length of Babbitt's suspension and amount of a fine will de determined upon further investigation, Abel said.

Full Time Bus Drivers For Minor League Teams Urged As Safety Measure
By Oscar Fraley
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, N.Y, July 26—Twice within two years a bus bearing baseball plavers has become a pyre for minor leaguers struggling toward the top, and major leaguers who sweated through such transportation will tell you it is a wonder there aren't more.
It is about time, many of them suggest, that all minor league teams using busses be forced to hire full-time drivers instead of using players as chauffeurs.
The most recent crash occurred at Minneapolis on Saturday when six men were killed and fourteen injured, two critically, as a bus carrying the Duluth Dukes collided with a truck. The sixth to die was Steve Lazar of Oliphant, Pa., who was driving. Two
years ago nine were killed in an accident to a bus bearing the Spokane, Wash., club of the Western International League.
Not necessarily in these two cases, but all too often, those minor league busses are sent hurtling through the night by young and often reckless players anxious to get home. The situation is this: On many minor league teams, expenses are held down by getting players with drivers' licenses to pilot the bus, the usual mode of travel in the bush leagues. In some cases, the players get omething extra for these added chores.
Consider, then, that, the average minor league jump is 200 miles or more. Practically all of your minor league baseball is played at night. Which means that after a game ending at about midnight the team rushes into a bus and takes off on the
long trip home. Tired after the excitement and exertion of the game, the player turned driver is an invitation to an accident.
Which is why there should be a full time chauffeur. Many clubs have. Why not the rest?
It has even happened that because a young player is a good bus driver it has retarded his baseball progress. That's difficult to believe but it happened to George Kell, Detroit Tigers' third baseman and one of the best in the majors.
Back in 1943, when Kell was burning up the Interstate League with the Lancaster Red Roses, Larry MacPhail heard about his performances and attempted to buy him. The deal was stopped before it could get started.
“MacPhail offered a fancy price.” Kell quotes a Lancaster official. “But Kell is the only guy who can drive our bus.”
Facetious, maybe, and then, maybe not.
For getting the team to and from its games by bus in the minors is more important than having a star pitcher. The teams can't afford pullman travel and in most cases it wouldn't be available anyhow.
But they certainly could afford a full time driver and eliminate the dangerous necessity of a tired player driving through the night with sagging eyballs.

Sunday, July 25, 1948

2007-07-09T03:46:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 59 42 .584 —
Tacoma ..... 57 44 .564 2
Victoria ... 58 45 .563 2
Spokane .... 53 49 .520 6½
Vancouver .. 49 46 .510 7
Wenatchee .. 45 56 .440 14
Salem ...... 45 59 .433 15½
Yakima ..... 38 63 .370 21

SALEM, July 25—After blowing four straight games to Yakima, the Vancouver Capilanos pulled off a series sweep on the road. They took a pair of games from Salem, 6-2 and 8-3, Sunday to win the three-game series.
Salem pitcher Bob Stevenson was one pitch away from a seven-inning shutout in the first game and that pitch hit Len Tran.
With Tran on, the Caps went for Stevenson's offerings with gusto, hammering him for five hits and six big runs, including a two-run triple by Frank Mullens, before they stopped.
In the second game, Charlie Mead cracked out a home run with none on in the second to start the Brownies toward an 11-hit, eight-run triumph.
First game
Vancouver ........... 000 000 6—6 7 1
Salem ................. 000 200 0—2 4 1
Manier, Snyder (7) and Brenner; Stevenson and Burgher.
Second game
Vancouver ............ 011 310 000 2—8 11 0
Salem .................. 100 000 020 0—3 10 5
Costello and Warren; Olson and Burgher.

WENATCHEE, July 25—Bremerton stretched its league lead to two games by dividing a twin bill and four-game series with Wenatchee. The host Chiefs took the opener 5-0 on Dick Conover's three-hit pitching, but Keith Simon scattered eight hits and clouted his own home run to give Bremerton a 12-3 win in the finale.
First game
Bremerton .......... 000 000 0—0 3 0
Wenatchee ........ 001 040 x—5 7 1
Pirack, Allen (5) and Volpi; Conover and Gardner.
Second game
Bremerton ......... 211 300 311—12 15 0
Wenatchee ........ 100 010 010—3 8 5
Simon and Ronning; McCollum, Gilson (4) and Dalrymple.

YAKIMA, July 25—Del Owens hurled his second straight shutout as the Victoria Athletics blanked the Yakima Packers 3-0 in the second game of two here Sunday. It was Owens' ninth win.
First inning singles from Vic Buccola, Lou Kubiak and Babe Jensen, a wild pitch and an error gave the A's two runs. The final run scored in the sixth when Jensen drew a walk, stole second and came home on Jack Palmer's double.
Len Kasparovitch gained his 12th victory in a relief role as Victoria overcame Yakima 8-7 in the opener. Four hits in the first and one in the second gave starting pitcher Frank Logue a five-run lead, but he was unable to hold it. The Packers scored markers themselves in the fourth inning and went ahead with a pair of tallies in the fifth.
Archie Wilson's 21st triple of the season, with the bases loaded in the sixth, put the A's back in front, 8-6.
First game
Victoria ......... 410 003 0—8 9 4
Yakima .......... 000 420 1—7 7 3
Logue, Kasparovitch (5) and Recca; Ford, D. Drilling (3), B. Drilling (7) and Constantino.
Second game
Victoria ......... 200 001 000—3 6 1
Yakima .......... 000 000 000—0 7 2
Owen and Morgan; Kittle and Constantino.

SPOKANE, July 25—Spokane swept its twin bill against Tacoma, 4-3 and 10-9, to take the series 4-1. Jack Teagan pitched three-hit ball in the opener while George Valine's two-run triple followed by Bill Wright's single provided the late inning spurt that won the second tilt.
First game
Tacoma ........... 010 000 000—3 3 2
Spokane .......... 010 120 00x—4 8 3
Venturelli and Rossi; Teagan and Sheely.
Second game
Tacoma ......... 000 105 120—9 13 3
Spokane ........ 010 410 13x - 10 12 2
Clary, Gleason (4), Cierra (6), Fortier (6) and Rossi; Nelson, Babbitt (5), Cordell (7), Werbowski (8) and Gibb.

Saturday, July 24, 1948

2007-07-08T12:31:00.001-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 58 41 .586 —
Tacoma ..... 57 42 .576 1
Victoria ... 56 45 .554 3
Spokane .... 51 49 .510 7½
Vancouver .. 47 46 .505 8
Wenatchee .. 44 55 .444 14
Salem ...... 45 57 .441 14
Yakima ..... 38 61 .384 20

SPOKANE, July 24—Behind 6-1, the Spokane Indians rallied to dump Tacoma, 7-6, tonight.
Winners scored twice in the seventh and once in the eighth to make it 6-5. Gene Petralli drove in the tying run in the ninth and reached third on the play at the plate. The Tigers then leaded the bases with two intentional walks but Ed San Clemente, former University of California third baseman, came through with a single to break it up.
Tacoma ......... 000 141 000—6 13 4
Spokane ........ 100 000 312—7 7 3
Greenlaw, Lazor (7) and Rossi; Werbowski, Cordell (7) and Gibb, Sheely (9)

WENATCHEE, July 24—The Wenatchee Chiefs edged the Bremerton Bluejackets, 3-2, in tehn innings tonight, as two errors were responsible for the winning run. Catcher Al Ronning, playing in left field, made a two-base muff on Nick Palica's blow. Palica went to third on Len Scarpelli's single and scored when a ground ball got away from shortstop Lil Arnerich.
Ronning was responsible for both Bremerton tallies with a first-inning home run.
Bremerton ...... 200 000 000 0—2 8 2
Wenatchee ..... 020 000 000 1—3 10 2
Hittle and Volpi; Stevens and Gardner.

SALEM, July 24—Hunk Anderson allowed only five hits, and all of them came in the seventh inning when Salem scored their lone run as the Vancouver Capilanos dumped the Senators 4-1.
The rest of the Caps backed Anderson's effort with a three-run sixth inning. Two Salem errors and singles by Len Tran, Joe Kaney and Frank Mullens did all the damage.
Anderson scored the fourth on an outfield fly after tripling in the seventh.
Vancouver .......... 000 003 100—4 9 2
Salem .................. 000 000 100—1 5 2
Anderson and Warren; McIrvin and Burgher.

YAKIMA, July 24—Joe Blankenship went the distance to snap the Yakima winning streak at six games and pull off a 6-4 win for the Athletics tonight.
The game was featured by several arguments with the umpires. The Packers bitterly protested Vic Buccola's bases-loaded double in the fifth-inning uprising which won the game for the A's, claiming the ball was foul. The arbiters, Bluebricht and Skulik, had to have police protection from irate Yakima fans when the game was over.
Single runs in the first and third innings have Victoria an early lead, but Yakima squared matters in the fourth to set the stage for Buccola's game-winning hit down the foul line. The feature of the game took place in the seventh when Lou Kubiak stole home for the Athletics' final run. He reached base on a double.
Victoria ............ 101 030 100—6 11 4
Yakima ............ 000 201 100—4 7 4
Blanemnship and Recca; Kramer, Drilling (7) and Constantino.

IT TAKES TIME
by Jim Tang
The reason Bill Barisoff has not yet appeared in the A's lineup is because the ex-Bremerton outfielder and Business-Manager Reg Patterson have so far failed to agree on terms after an earlier announcement that everyting was set. Barisoff has upped his demand and Patterson feels that his performance this season does not rate the amount asked. This seems to make sense. If Barisoff could not make the grade with remerton, weakest hitting club in the W.I.L., it would take a complete reformation for him to help the A's , whose crying need is more pitching help, not the odd home run from a player who has not shown the drivem speed or defensive ability necessary so far this season. Finalk decision will be made today after Patterson has dicussed the possiblity of further help from the parent New York Yankees with Ed Leishman, West Coast farm director, who will be here in the Spokane series.
- Colonist, July 25, 1948

Friday, July 23, 1948

2007-07-08T12:24:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 58 40 .592 —
Tacoma ..... 57 41 .582 1
Victoria ... 55 45 .550 4
Spokane .... 50 49 .505 8½
Vancouver .. 46 46 .500 9
Salem ...... 45 56 .446 14½
Wenatchee .. 43 55 .439 15
Yakima ..... 38 60 .388 20

WENATCHEE, July 23—That ratified air at the top of the Western International League ladder seems to agree with the Bremerton Bluejackets. They sniffed the heady ozone tonight a full game ahead of the runner-up Tacoma Tigers, who tumbled out of the top spot.
The new leaders blanked the Wenatchee Chiefs, 3-0, at the apple city to gain half a game on the Tigers who split a twin bill at Spokane.
John Conant went the distance for Bremerton, setting the Chiefs down with four hits. He struck out six and issued only two walks.
Bremerton ........ 100 000 002—3 7 2
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 000—0 4 1
Conant and Ronning; Lierman and Gardner.

SPOKANE, July 23—Edo Vanni was the big news here tonight as the fleet outfielder pilfered a total of six bases, four of them in the last game, as the Spokane broke even with the Tigers.
Ray Fortier gave Tacoma a 3-0 shutout in the first game and the Indians came back to win the second one, 7-2.
First game
Tacoma ............ 011 011 0—3 8 1
Spokane ........... 000 000 0—0 6 2
Fortier and Rossi; Orphal and Gibb.
Second game
Tacoma ............ 010 000 100—2 9 0
Spokane ........... 120 002 02x—7 8 0
Kipp, Gleason (5) and Hargadon; Cordell and Gibb.

YAKIMA, July 23—The Yakima Packers made it six wins in a row tonight, defeating the Victoria Athletics 8-3 in the first game of a four-game series.
Off to an early lead with one run in the first and four in the second, the home nine were never in serious danger as Max Strait allowed only nine Victoria hits and struck out ten behind errorless support.
The A's counted once in the fourth, but Snag Moore tripled and then stole home in the sixth. Four straight hits produced two more Victoria runs in the eighth as a promising rally died early. Frank Constantino immediately got the Packers back by clouting a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning.
Victoria .... 000 100 020—3 9 3
Yakima ..... 140 001 02x—8 11 0
Harmsen, Gott (4) and Recca; Strait and Constantino.

SALEM, July 23—Outfielder Dick Sinovic hammered home Jim Wert with a single in the eighth inning to give the Salem Senators an 8-7 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos in the opening game of the clubs' Western International League series.
The Caps started strong with a six-run explosion in the first frame, highlighted by catcher Jack Warren's two-run circuit clout over the right field wall. The visitors added their final tally inn the fifth via hits by Warren and Bill Reese.
The Solons, blanked by Carl Gunnarson through the initial three frames, pulled up into a deadlock by virtue of a seve-run concentration over the fourth and fifth innings. In that outburst, the Salems poked out 10 blows, including a homer by Sinovic.
Ray McNulty went the distance for the visitors and outside of the Caps big first inning, hurled in fine style. Only three of the runs against him were earned, and he walked two and struck out a pair in allowing 11 hits.
Vancouver ........... 600 010 000—7 11 1
Salem ................. 000 034 01x—8 14 2
Gunnarson, Snyder (6) and Warren; McNulty and Burgher.

Thursday, July 22, 1948

2007-07-08T12:18:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 57 40 .588 —
Tacoma ..... 56 40 .583 ½
Victoria ... 55 44 .556 3
Vancouver .. 46 45 .505 7
Spokane .... 49 48 .505 7
Wenatchee .. 43 54 .443 14
Salem ...... 44 56 .440 14
Yakima ..... 37 60 .381 20

SALEM, July 22—A weary Jim Propst, who pitched in both games Tuesday, failed to get out of the first inning Thursday night as the Salem Senators scored four times on their way to a 6-4 win over the Victoria Athletics.
He was replaced by Len Kasparovitch, who was knocked out of the box on Wednesday. Kasparovitch was charged with his eighth loss when he gave up a two-run single to Ed Barr in the sixth after the A's had rallied to tie the score. Hits by Sal Recca, Russ Walseth, Kasparovitch and Vic Buccola sent in two runners in the second and Archie Wilson's hit and a Salem error were mainly responsible for the equalisers in the fifth,
Charlie Balassi, with a triple, double and single, and Walseth with two singles, led the A's at the plate. Barr drove in five of the Senators' runs, doubling with the bags loaded in the first in addition to his game-winning single in the sixth.
Righthander Gene Peterson struck out 12 Victoria batters.
A's note — The Athletics broke the roster up to the limit of 17 by signing Bill Barisoff, 1946 home run champion, for outfield duty. Barisoff, who drew him release from Bremerton, has been unable to find his plate form so far this season but may fill the bill for an outfielder with extra-base punch in his bat. He is expected to join his new club for the Yakima Series. Business manager Reg Patterson, who announced Barisoff's acquisition, stated that the A's were still seeking another starting pitcher.
Victoria ........ 020 020 000—4 9 0
Salem ........... 400 020 00x—6 9 1
Propst, Kasparovitch (1) and Recca; Peterson and Burgher.

SPOKANE, July 22—Scoring ten runs in the eighth inning, Bremerton Bluejackets finally gained first place by trouncing the Spokane Indians, 17-6, at Ferris Field tonight. The Tars used up three of the regular starters to make it certain.
Bremerton ....... 120 002 2(10)0—17 19 2
Spokane ........... 300 000 300—6 7 6
Marshall, Barnise (6), Simon (6) and Volpi; Teagan, Babbitt (7) Nelson (8)and Sheely.

WENATCHEE, July 22—Wenatchee Chiefs, on the upgrade again after their disasterous slump a month ago, bumped Tacoma out of the lead in the W.I.L. by coming from behind for a 4-1 decision over the Tigers. Bill Wilson's two-run homer with one out in the ninth decided the issue.
Tacoma ......... 201 100 010—5 8 2
Wenatchee .... 200 002 002—6 9 1
Sciarra and Hargadon; Rose, Gilson (8) and Dalrymple.

YAKIMA, July 22—Len Tran's wild throw handed Yakima the only run of the game in the tenth inning as the Packers swept the Vancouver Capilanos in a four-game series.
Tran scooped up Spencer Harris' bunt and threw it into the upper reaches back of first base to let Jim Estrada score all the way from first.
Tran's faux pas lost a brilliant two-hit picthing operformance for Bob Costello. Yakima's Bob Drilling gave up seven hits but the Caps couldn't capitalise.
After ten scoreless innings, Estrada opened the Yakima half with a sizzler that shortstop Buddy Hjelmaa was able to stop but unable to field.
Then came Harris' perfectly executed bunt down the third base line. Tran charged in and fielded the ball but threw high to Bill Reese at first. The ball sailed nearly to the fence in foul territory behind the right field bleachers. Estrada scored and Harris reached third before Charlie Mead was able to retreive the ball.
Vancouver ......... 000 000 000 0—0 7 2
Yakima .............. 000 000 000 1—1 6 0
Costello and Warren; Drilling and Constantino.

Wednesday, July 21, 1948

2007-07-08T12:13:00.001-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 56 39 .589 —
Bremerton .. 56 40 .583 ½
Victoria ... 55 43 .561 2½
Vancouver .. 46 44 .511 7½
Spokane .... 49 47 .510 7½
Wenatchee .. 42 54 .438 14½
Salem ...... 43 56 .434 15
Yakima ..... 36 60 .375 20½

WENATCHEE, July 21—Tacoma continued to pace the Western International League parade today—thanks to Vince Lazor's seven-inning relief mound chore.
The Tigers topped Wenatchee 8-4 tonight to stay a half game ahead of Bremerton.
It didn't look too good for Tacoma when Wenatchee took a 3-0 lead in the second inning as Ken Clary gave up a pair of bingles and walked three. But the pace-setters tied it up with three in the third, including Vito De Vito's two-run homer, and Lazor, taking over the mound in the same frame, held the Chiefs to a single tally thereafter. Tacoma sewed it up in the seventh with another three-run burst.
Tacoma ......... 003 001 301—8 11 2
Wenatchee .... 030 010 000—4 10 0
Clary, Lazor (3) and Hargadon; McCollum and Gardner.

BREMERTON, July 21—Bremerton Bluejackets kept paced with league-leading Tacoma, thanks to a 4-2 win over the Spokane Indians tonight.
The Jackets are a half-game out of first place in the W.I.L.
Bremerton had to come from behind, chasing over three runs in the sixth on two singles, a walk and pitcher Keith Simon's two-run triple. Spokane counted its pair in the second when Boh Hedington homered and Edo Vanni scored ahead of Frank Nelson's two-bagger.
Bremerton ....... 000 003 001—4 10 1
Spokane ......... 020 000 000—2 7 1
Simon and Volpi; Nelson and Sheely.

SALEM, July 21—Featuring Del Owens' three-hit shutout pitching performance in the short first game, the Victoria Athletics swept a double-header from the Salem Senators, 4-0 and 9-5.
The shutout was the first of the year from the A's, who gave Owens the only run he needed in the first inning when Vic Buccola and Archie Wilson both doubled. It was his eighth win in 15 decisions.
Frank Logue came on in a relief role in the nightcap to gain crredit for his eighth triump and second over the Solons in two nights.
Len Kasparovitch started for the A's but twice blew leads and went out in the sixth when Salem plated three runs to take a 5-3 edge. Logue went the rest of the way as the A's stormed from begind to go ahead with three runs in the seventh, the plated a pair in the eighth and one in the ninth. Buccola clouted his sixth home run in the fifth inning off Hal Saltzman, who was charged with his second loss of the series.
Victoria ......... 110 001 1—4 7 0
Salem ........... 000 000 0—0 3 1
Owens and Recca; Olson and Burgher.
Second game
Victoria ........ 100 110 321—9 13 2
Salem .......... 000 203 000—5 14 3
Kasparovitch, Logue (6) and Recca; Saltzman, Wilson (8) and Burgher.

YAKIMA, July 21—For the second night in a row, the Yakima Packers scored all their runs in one inning, then staved off a late Vancouver rally for a one-run victory. Yakima got by the Capilanos 4-3 tonight.
A two-run home from Snag Moore highlighted the Yakima eighth inning.
Packers pitcher Garth Ford held the Caps scoreless for six inning before surrending the first Vancouver run in the seventh.
Jack Warren opened Vancouver's ninth with a homer. With two out, Bill Reese, Orrin Snyder and pinch-hitter Bill Brenner, singled in succession, but Ford got Len Tran to fly out to centre to end the game.
Vancouver ...... 000 000 102—3 9 0
Yakima ........... 000 000 40x—4 5 1
Anderson, Snyder (7) and Warren; Ford and Constantino.

Tuesday, July 20, 1948

2007-07-08T12:06:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 55 39 .585 —
Bremerton .. 55 40 .579 ½
Victoria ... 53 43 .552 3
Vancouver .. 46 43 .517 6½
Spokane .... 49 46 .516 6½
Salem ...... 43 54 .443 12½
Wenatchee .. 42 52 .442 13
Yakima ..... 35 60 .368 20½

WENATCHEE, July 20—Scoring all of their runs in the first six innings, Wenatchee Chiefs managed to hang on to hand the league-leading Tacoma Tigers a 12-10 loss in a slugfest at Wenatchee tonight.
Larry Lee hit a bases-loaded home run for the Tigers and Dick Greco added another circuit clout before Tacoma pushed across four more in the sixth. Nick Palica opened the scoring by stealing home in the first inning for the seventh time this season.
Tacoma ........... 005 014 000—10 15 1
Wenatchee ...... 321 330 00x—13 16 2
Lazor, Venturelli (3), Greco (6) and Rossi; Cronin, Stevens (3), Lierman (6) and Dalrymple.

SPOKANE, July 20—Spokane Indians jumped on Max Hittle to hand the Bremerton Bluejackets a 9-3 lacing and keep Alan Strange's crew from passing Tacoma in the Western International League standings.
Spokane went scoreless until the fourth when it took a 3-2 lead. But the Indians added at least one run in every inning after that to pile up a commanding lead as Bill Werbowski scattered eight hits among the Bremerton batsmen.
Bremerton ....... 100 100 010—3 8 3
Spokane .......... 000 311 22x—9 10 1
Hittle, Barnise (7), Allen (8) and Volpi; Werbowski and Gibvb.

YAKIMA, July 20—The Yakima Packers scored all their runs in the first inning then held on for a 5-4 Western International League triumph over the Vancouver Capilanos tonight.
The runs came via three hits and an error, with the hits including a double by Snag Moore and a triple by former Capilano Jim Estrada.
Vancouver started Bob Snyder tightened up from there and the Packers did nothing until the eighth when they broke out with three more hits, including Lou Estes' double, to load the bases.
Charlie Mead stopped the rally with a towering throw from right field that picked off Estrada at third base to end the inning.
Two spectacular catches by Gene Thompson helped preserve the victory.
Snyder doubled and had a pair of runs batted in for Vancouver.
Vancouver .......... 000 000 211—4 9 2
Yakima ............... 500 000 00x—5 7 3
Synder and Warren; Kramer and Constantino.

SALEM, July 20—Sparked by effective cliuth hitting and a snappy relief job by Jim Propst, the Victoria Athletics came back at Salem tonight to score an 8-5 victory over the Senators in the second game of a double-header and gain ground in the W.I.L. pennant race. That's despite a 6-4 loss in the opening game.
The A's opened slowly against Bob Stevenson, taking the lead with a single tally in the second inning. They concentrated their attack from the fourth through the seventh innings to score their final seven runs. A three-run cluster in the seventh inning proved to be the margin of victory.
Frank Logue pitched shutout ball for the winners until the fifth, when he was reached for two runs. The Solons made it 5-3 with a single rally in the sixth and drove Logue to the showers in the seventh. Propst was rushed in and pitched hitless ball the rest of the way to give Logue his seventh victory.
Archie Wilson, Babe Jensen and Sal Recca led the A's at the plate with three hits apiece. Wilson also picked up two hits in the first game to increase his league-leading batting average.
The Senators hopped on Joe Blankenship for three runs in the first inning of the short first game. Victoria tied it up in the fourth but the home nine came back with a pair in their half and added another run in the sixth. It was Blankenship's eighth defeat against 14 wins. Cal McIrvin held the A's to five hits for his 13th win.
First game
Victoria ........... 010 200 1—4 5 1
Salem ............. 300 201 x—6 9 3
Blankenship, Goot (6), Propst (6) and Recca; McIrvin and Stumpf.
Second game
Victoria ......... 010 220 300— 8 11 1
Salem ........... 000 021 200—5 11 3
Logue, Propst (7) and Recca; Stevenson and Stumpf.

Monday, July 19, 1948

2007-07-07T17:50:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 55 38 .591 --
Bremerton .. 55 39 .585 ½
Victoria ... 52 42 .553 4
Vancouver .. 46 42 .523 6½
Spokane .... 48 46 .511 7½
Salem ...... 42 53 .442 14
Wenatchee .. 41 53 .436 14½
Yakima ..... 34 60 .362 21½

SALEM, July 19—The Victoria Athletics jumped on Hal Saltzman for four runs in the first innings and coasted to a 6-1 win over the Salem Senators tonight.
Singles by Vic Buccola, Jack Palmer, Archie Wilson, Babe Jensen and Dick Morgan did the early damage as Saltzman lasted only 2-3rds of an inning.
Two Salem errors, Charlie Balassi's double and another hit by Palmer accounted for the other two runs in the fifth.
The host Oregonians made their only tally in the sixth when they bunched four of their seven blows off Bill Harmsen. Doug Sinovic singled in Al Spaeter.
Harmsen finally picked up his first win of the season after three defeats.
Victoria .......... 400 020 000—6 12 0
Salem ............. 000 001 000—1 7 2
Harmsen and Recca; Saltzman, McNulty (1) and Burgher.

YAKIMA, July 19—The Yakima Packers breezed to an 11-4 win over the Vancouver Capilanos tonight.
Yakima's Max Strait opened the host club's half of the first inning with a home run and Yakima proceeded to bat around in each of the first two innings to pile up an 8-0 lead over Vancouver, with four runs in each of the first two innings.
Larry Manier gave up five hits in the first inning and then was pulled in the second, having pitched to only ten batters in all. The last was Snag Moore, who smacked a home run.
Len Tran hit a solo homer in the fourth for Vancouver, and Jack Warren's 372-foot circuit clout in the ninth put two runs on the board for the Caps after Buddy Hjelmaa singled up the box.
Vancouver ....... 000 100 012—4 8 3
Yakima ............ 440 210 00x—11 13 1
Manier, Higgins (2) and Warren; Strait and Constantino.

SPOKANE, July 19—The Spokane Indians defeated the House of David team, 2-1, in an exhibition game at Ferris Field tonight.

Sunday, July 18, 1948

2007-07-07T17:45:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 55 38 .591 —
Bremerton .. 55 39 .585 ½
Victoria ... 51 42 .548 4
Vancouver .. 46 41 .529 6
Spokane .... 48 46 .511 7½
Salem ...... 42 52 .447 13½
Wenatchee .. 41 53 .436 14½
Yakima ..... 33 60 .355 22

Rain Stops WI Play
By the Associated Press
Even a red-hot pennant fight couldn't keep the rain away from Tacoma's Western International league park. As a result, the pace-setters' doubleheader with runner-up Bremerton was postponed yesterday and the two teams take a day's rest today with Tacoma still holding a bare half game lead.
Second division teams monopolized the Sunday play with Victoria and Vancouver not scheduled to play.
Salem jumped on Wenatchee twice 7-0 and 6-5 to climb over the Chiefs into sixth place. Spokane and Yakima divided, Spokane besting the Packers 7-3 but losing an 11-inning nightcap 6-5.

First game
Wenatchee ......... 000 000 0—0 2 2
Salem ................ 002 221 x—7 13 1
Conover, Stevens (7) and Dalrymple; Olson and Stumpf.
Second game
Wenatchee ......... 012 020 000—5 11 1
Salem ................ 003 000 021—6 7 2
Rose, McCollum (9) and Gardner; Peterson, McNulty (9) and Burgher.

First game
Spokane ............. 000 210 4—7 11 2
Yakima ............... 100 101 0—3 9 2
Orphal, Cordell (1), and Sheely; Drilling, Kittle (7), Peterson (9) and Constantino.
Second game
Spokane .............. 020 020 000 10—5 11 3
Yakima ................ 200 100 010 11—6 10 2
Nelson, Babbitt (6) and Sheely; Kittle, Drilling (10) and Constantino.

Bremerton at Tacoma, double-header, rained out.
Vancouver and Victoria, idle due to Blue laws.

Saturday, July 17, 1948

2007-07-07T17:30:00.001-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 55 38 .591 --
Bremerton .. 55 39 .585 ½
Victoria ... 51 42 .548 4
Vancouver .. 46 41 .529 6
Spokane .... 47 45 .511 7½
Wenatchee .. 41 51 .446 13½
Salem ...... 40 52 .433 14½
Yakima ..... 32 59 .352 22

VANCOUVER, July 17—Hunk Anderson tossed an eight-hitter the Victoria Athletics and won, 8-4, in the opener of a twin-bill on Saturday. But Carl Gunnarson was even stingier in the night game. He allowed only seven hits but lost to the Athletics, 2-1.
Vancouver had three-run innings in the first and sixth innings in the opener.
About the only only highlight was umpire John Nenezich's decision to toss both Caps centre fielder Frank Mullens and Victoria manager Ted Norbert for arguing his calls too loudly.
Archie Wilson spoiled Gunnarson's game in the night contest, driving in both Victoria runs with a double and a homer.
Charlie Mead's double brought in Frank Mullens for the Vancouver run.
First game
Victoria ......... 001 120 000—4 8 2
Vancouver ..... 300 023 00x—8 11 3
Owens, Blankenship ( 6), Propst ( 6) and Anderson, and Warren
Second game
Victoria ......... 100 100 000—2 7 0
Vancouver ..... 100 000 000—1 10 1
Kasparovitch and Recca; Gunnarson and Warren.

TACOMA, July 17—Joe Sullivan, home game ace of the Bremerton club, was transported to Tacoma tonight and made the trip worthwhile as he pitched the Bluejackets to a 3-2 win over the leading Tigers. The result left the teams a half game apart as they wind up their week-long series with a twin bill tomorrow. Ed Murphy singled home the winning run in the seventh.
Bremerton ......... 000 110 100—3 8 0
Tacoma ............ 010 100 000—2 6 2
Sullivan and Ronning; Fortier and Ross.

Spokane ............ 000 012 000—3 8 1
Yakima .............. 020 110 00x—4 11 0
Werbowski, Babbitt (6) and Sheely; Ford and Constantino.

Wenatchee ....... 100 002 010 0—4 8 1
Salem .............. 000 300 100 1—5 8 2
Lierman, McCollum (10) and Gardner; McIrvin and Burgher.

Friday, July 16, 1948

2007-07-07T17:15:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 55 37 .598 --
Bremerton .. 54 39 .581 1
Victoria ... 50 41 .549 4½
Vancouver .. 45 40 .529 6½
Spokane .... 47 44 .516 7½
Wenatchee .. 41 50 .451 13½
Salem ...... 39 52 .429 15½
Yakima ..... 31 59 .344 23

Bremerton Licks Tigers
By the Associated Press
Tacoma's Tigers still had faith and hope today—but they rather wished there hadn't been quite so much charity Friday night.
The Western International League pace-setters kicked the ball around for seven errors and dropped a 6-5 decision to the runner-up Bremerton Bluejackets despite a 14-9 advantage in the hit column.
Should Bremerton sweep the remaining three games of the 10 game set—a strictly theoretical assumption—the Bluejackets could take over first place.
In other games, Vancouver dumped Victoria 7-4, Wenatchee took Salem 10-6 and Spokane measured Yakima 9-4.
The largest gathering of fans this season in the Tacoma park—5,975—watched the Tiger-Jacket contest. What they saw, in addition to the Tiger miscues, was a snappy relief performance by Bremerton's Lloyd Hittle. Removing John Conant in the eighth inning, Hittle snuffed a Tacoma rally one short of the tying run and whiffed four batters in setting the Tigers down hitless.

VANCOUVER, July 16—A capacity crowd of 4,000 saw the Vancouver Capilanos push across four runs in the seventh inning for a 7-4, come-from-behind win over the Victoria Athletics in a Western International League baseball game at Cap Stadium.
With one out, and the A's ahead 4-3, Frank Mullens walked and then Charlie Balassi lost Bill Reese's high fly in the lights and it fell for a double. Frank Logue, who had relieved starter Jim Propst in the fifth when the Caps knotted the game at 3-3, walked Charlie Mead to load the bags. Logue got a strikeout on Buddy Hjelmaa but Jack Warren brought in the tying and winning runs with a double and Orrin Snyder chipped in with a two-run single for good measure.
Vic Buccola homered to right to give Victoria a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Buccola walked and came in on Babe Jensen's homer in the third to make it 3-0. The Caps got two back in their half of the third on a double by Joe Kaney and singles by Mullens and Hjelmaa. They tied it in the fifth when Kaney doubled and Mead tripled, sending Propst to the showers.
Victoria went ahead in the seventh when Sal Recca and Russ Walseth walked, then Balassi slashed a double to left field, scoring Recca.
Victoria ............ 102 000 100—4 8 0
Vancouver ........ 002 010 40x—7 13 0
Propst, Owen (5) and Recca; R. Snyder and Brenner, Warren (3).

TACOMA, July 16—Nearly 6,000 fans, largest crowd of the season at Tacoma, saw Lloyd Hittle, southpaw ace, save the game for the Tars with some brilliant relief pitching, as Bremerton pulled off a 6-5 win over the Tigers. Hittle came in for John Conant after the Tigers had scored two runs in an eighth inning rally and struck out four of the six batters he faced to preserve the victory.
Bremerton ........... 030 010 200—6 9 1
Tacoma .............. 120 000 020—5 14 7
Conant, Hittle (8) and Ronning; Sciarra and Hargadon.

Wenatchee ......... 160 300 000—10 11 3
Salem ................ 010 012 101—6 12 2
Gilson and Gardner; Olson, Saltzman (2) and Stumpf.

Spokane ......... 320 101 101—9 12 0
Yakima ........... 200 000 011—4 8 5
Teagan and Gibb; Freeman, Kramer (2) and Peterson.

Thursday, July 15, 1948

2007-07-07T16:39:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 55 36 .604 --
Bremerton .. 53 39 .576 2½
Victoria ... 50 40 .556 4½
Vancouver .. 44 40 .524 7½
Spokane .... 46 44 .511 8½
Wenatchee .. 40 50 .444 14½
Salem ...... 39 51 .423 15½
Yakima ..... 31 58 .348 23

WI Has Close Games
By the Associated Press
It was one of those light nights in Western International League last night with each of the four contests being decided by a single run. When the last ball was pitched, it looked like this:
Tacoma nipped Bremerton 3-2, Vancouver edged Victoria 5-4, Wenatchee squeezed past Spokane 9-8 and Salem oozed by Yakima 3-2.
The results increased the pace-setting Tacoma Tigers' first place margin over Bremerton to two and a half games.
Ken Clary, Tacoma right-hander, and Bremerton's John Marshall hooked up in a mound duel in the Tacoma fray. Each gave up eight hits with Clary getting the nod as Dick Greco and Hank Vallee put together successive doubles to break a 2-all dead lock in the eighth inning.
Bill Reese's triple, two errors and successive singles by Jack Palmer and Russ Walseth enabled Vancouver to score three runs and knot Victoria 4-4 in the eighth inning. Charlie Mead made the rally worthwhile by homering in the ninth.
Five home runs marked the Wenatchee-Spokane fray, but it was Jess McWilliams' ninth-inning single that drove in Les Scarpelli with the run that enabled the Chiefs to sweep their three-game set with Spokane. Bob Hedington, Bud Sheely and Gene Petralli each clouted four-ply blows for Spokane, while Bill Wilson collected a pair for Wenatchee.
Slugging Sammy Samhammer blasted out a two-run triple in the fifth and singled home Al Spaeter in the seventh to account for all the Salem tallies in the Oregonians' win over Yakima.

TACOMA, July 15—Tacoma Tigers moved two and a half games in front of Bremerton by nipping the Bluejackets, 3-2, tonight when successive doubles by Dick Greco and Hank Vallee broke a 2-2 deadlock in the eighth.
Bremerton ........ 100 100 000—2 8 0
Tacoma ........... 000 020 01x—3 8 1
Marshall and Volpi; Clary and Hargadon.

VANCOUVER, July 15—Charlie Mead's homer to short right field with two out in the ninth inning sent Vancouver fans home happy as the Capilanos defeated the Victoria Athletics, 5-4.
Sandy Robertson was happy, too, as he picked up the win. He relieved Larry Manier in the sixth inning after two men had scored, two men were on and one was out. Manier had given up a homer to Archie Wilson over the centre field wall, and singles to Babe Jensen, Dick Morgan and Russ Walseth. Robertson got two groundouts to end the inning, then the next six in a row before a couple of hits in the ninth inning that didn't result in a run.
The Caps were trailing 4-1 going into the eighth when Bill Reese opened the inning by tripling to the centre-field fence, then scored when Jack Palmer kicked away Charlie Mead's easy roller to second base. Joe Blankenship was brought in from the bullpen and Buddy Hjelmaa hit a grounder to short that Walseth booted and the tying runs were on. Two outs later, Robertson singled to load the bases then Len Tran stroked the ball into centre field and two runs came in on the sharp single to tie the game.
Blankenship was tagged with the loss.
Victoria ........... 100 102 000—4 11 3
Vancouver ....... 100 000 031—5 12 3
Harmsen, Blankenship (8) and Recca; Manier, Robertson (6) and Brenner.

WENATCHEE, July 15—In a home-run battle at Wenatchee, the Chiefs edged Spokane Indians, 9-8, on Jess McWilliams' ninth-inning single. Bob Hedington, Gene Petralli and Bud Sheely clouted Spokane home runs while Bill Wilson replied with two for the winners.
Spokane ........... 010 142 000—8 17 2
Wenatchee ....... 000 205 011—9 12 3
Orphal, Babbitt (6) and Sheely; McCollum, Rose (6), Stevens (7) and Gardner.

Yakima ......... 000 100 010—2 9 0
Salem .......... 000 020 10x—3 8 0
Strait and Estrada; Stevenson and Stumpf.

Wednesday, July 14, 1948

2007-07-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

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.

Tuesday, July 13, 1948

2007-07-07T15:58:00.001-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 54 35 .607 --
Bremerton .. 52 38 .578 2½
Victoria ... 49 39 .557 4½
Vancouver .. 43 39 .524 7½
Spokane .... 46 42 .523 7½
Wenatchee .. 38 50 .432 15½
Salem ...... 38 50 .432 15½
Yakima ..... 30 57 .345 23½

Bremerton Moves Up
By the Associated Press
Bremerton Bluejackets were back in a challenging position in the Western International league after their second straight 10-inning win over the leading Tacoma Tigers.
Tne victory—by a 3-2 score—came on Frank Volpi's single with two out in the extra inning.
The single scored Al Maul, who had walked and moved up on a sacrifice.
It left the two pace-setters all squared after four games and pared Tacoma's first place margin to two and a half games.
Victoria grabbed off another 10-inning decision, turning back Vancouver 8-7 on Babe Jensen's homer. Joe Blankenship, fourth of the Victoria mound corps to see duty, was credited with his 14th win.
Wenatchee got only seven hits off Spokane's Frank Nelson, but the Chiefs bunched five of the blows into the second inning to score runs. It set the stage for a 6-3 decision as Dick Conover effectively spaced five Spokane bingles.
Salem roughed up Yakima 8-2 on Gene Peterson's four-hit hurling. The Solons put together two three-run innings while the lone Yakima counters came in the sixth on three walks and hits by Snag Moore and Jim Estrada.

BREMERTON, July 13—Bremerton Bluejackets outlasted Tacoma Tigers in a Western International League baseball game tonight, pushing over a run in the tenth inning to win 3-2.
The victory squared the crucial 10-game, home-and-home series at two apiece and left the Bluejackets only 2½ games the league-leading Tigers.
With two out in the 10th, catcher Frank Volpi singled across Al Maul to give Bremerton its winning run. Maul had walked and advanced on a sacrifice.
Tacoma ........... 000 000 020 0—2 9 1
Bremerton ........ 020 000 000 1—3 12 2
Lazor, Fortier (8), Venturelli (9) and Rossi; Hittle and Volpi.

VICTORIA, July 13—Babe Jensen poled the ball over the centre-field fence in the tenth inning to end the game as the Victoria Athletics outlasted the Vancouver Capilanos 8-7 tonight.
Len Tran's high throw to Bill Reese with two out in the first inning led to the first pair of Victoria runs. Archie Wilson followd with the first of four successive hits to score Jack Palmer and then Babe Jensen plated Wilson with a double.
Vic Buccola's two-run homer made it 4-0 in the second and Dick Morgan drove in a fifth run in the third, when the A's used four singles to get their lone marker.
Vancouver managed to tie the game in the fourth. A walk, a double, Jack Warren's two-run single and Orrin Snyder's home run caused the damage and chased starter Del Owens.
Three singles and an error by Babe Jensen at third base put two more on the board for the Caps in the fifth.
Victoria squared matters in the sixth. Jensen led off with a single, went to third when Sal Recca's fly ball was lost in the lights and landed for a double, and scored on Vic Buccola's ground out. Recca moved to third on the play, and came in when Jim Propst hit a pinch single to left field.
Both sides settled down to play scoreless ball until the 10th.
Joe Blankenship worked the final 3 1/3 innings to go his 14th victory, allowing three hits and two walks.
Vancouver ....... 000 520 000 0—7 15 1
Victoria ........... 221 002 000 1—8 14 5
Anderson and Warren; Owens, Harmsen (4), Logue (6), Blankenship (6) and Recca.

Spokane .......... 002 001 000—3 5 2
Wenatchee ...... 040 000 02x—6 7 0
Nelson and Gibb; Conover and Gardner.

Yakima ........... 000 002 000—2 4 1
Salem ............ 033 110 00x—8 9 0
Kittle and Constantino; C. Peterson, G. Peterson (3) and Burgher.

Monday, July 12, 1948

2007-07-07T15:43:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 54 34 .614 --
Bremerton .. 51 38 .572 3½
Victoria ... 48 39 .552 5½
Vancouver .. 43 38 .531 7½
Spokane .... 46 41 .529 7½
Wenatchee .. 37 50 .425 16½
Salem ...... 37 50 .425 16½
Yakima ..... 30 56 .349 23

Caps Trounce Victoria
By the Associated Press
Vancouver wants to stay in the Western International League's first division.
The defending champions said so last night with a barrage of extra basehits that turned an already one-sided contest into one of the season's most solid shellackings.
Going into the ninth inning, the Caps led Victoria 8-1. But a home run, triple, five doubles, a brace of singles and three walks sent another 11 runs scurrying across the plate. The final count: Vancouver 19 Victoria 2.
The win kept the Caps a bare two percentage points ahead of Spokane's fifth place Indians who blanked Wenatchee 3-0 behind Bill Werbowski's five-hit hurling. The loss dropped Wenatchee into a tie with idle Salem for sixth place.
At Bremerton, the sagging Bluejackets snapped back to nip Tacoma 6-5 and cut the Tigers' first place markin to three and a half games. Consecutive triples by Al Maul and Bill Barisoff, plus an outfield fly, pushed over Bremerton's tying and winning runs in the eighth inning.

VICTORIA, July 12—The Vancouver Capilanos scored 11 times in the ninth inning to crush the Victoria Athletics 19-2 before 2,700 stunned fans at Royal Athletic Park tonight.
14 Vancouver players walked to the plate in the crazy inning, which featured a bases-loaded home run, a triple, five doubles, two singles and three walks. Four runs were in and the bases loaded with two out when manager Ted Norbert walked out to the mound to relieve the faltering Al Goot. Norbert tossed three wide ones to catcher Jack Warren and then came in with a soft pitch. Warren promptly knocked it out of the park.
But that wasn't all. Orrin Snyder doubled, brother Bob got credit for his second single of the inning when Babe Jensen failed to get his glove on an infield loft. Len 'Red' Tran banged out his second double of the inning and third of the game, and Joe Kaney doubled for his fifth hit of the game.
Bob Snyder gained credit for his ninth victory in ten decisions.
Jim Propst easily held the Caps for the first three innings. Jack Palmer dropped a double-play ball at second in the fourth frame and it led to the first two Vancouver runs. Propst left in the sixth after walking three and giving up three hits to score four more runs.
Vancouver ........ 000 204 02(11)—19 21 3
Victoria ............ 000 001 001—2 7 2
Snyder and Warren; Propost, Logue (6), Goot (8), Norbert (9) and Morgan.

BREMERTON, July 12—Al Maul and Bill Barisoff blasted out consecutive triples to give Bremerton Bluejackets a 6-3 decision over Tacoma Tigers and cut the Tigers' league to 3½ games.
John Conant, sent in in the seventh inning, was given credit for the win, his 12th of the season. Cy Greenlaw was the losing hurler.
Tacoma ............ 003 000 200—5 11 0
Bremerton ......... 030 010 02x—6 10 1
Greenlaw and Rossi; Barnise, Conant (7) and Volpi.

SPOKANE, July 12—Bill Werbowski limited Wenatchee to give hits as Spokane Indians blanked the Chiefs, 5-0, tonight to take the series, three games to two.
Werbowski fanned four men and picked up good support in the field as the Indians turned three double plays to run their record of twin-killings to 19 in nine games.
Wenatchee ........ 000 000 000—0 5 2
Spokane ............ 000 000 12x—3 6 2
Lierman and Gardner; Werbowski and Sheely.

Sunday, July 11, 1948

2007-07-07T15:36:00.000-07:00

Pressure On Bremerton
By Associated Press
This is the week the pressure is on—but it's all on Bremerton.
The Western International League runner-up opened its week-long 10-game home-and-home series with Tacoma's pace-setters Sunday by dropping both ends of a doubleheader 4-1 and 7-2.
The twin loss, six in seven starts, left the Jackets four and a half games behind the Tigers and only a game ahead of Victoria's third place Challengers.
Spokane also suffered its reversals, dividing a twin bill with Wenatchee and falling out of the first division in favor of Vancouver. Spokane bumped Wenatchee 3-2 in the opener but bowed 18-3 in the second game.Yakima and Salem also split the day's only other double-bill. Yakima edging a 6-5 win in seven innings hut bowing 5-0 to Cal McIrvin's four-hit pitching in the nine-inning nightcap.
Both Victoria and Vancouver were idle.

First game
Tacoma ........... 000 310 0—4 10 0
Bremerton ........ 100 000 0—1 2 1
Sciarra and Rossi; Sullivan and Ronning.
Second game
Tacoma ............ 100 013 002—7 13 2
Bremerton ......... 110 000 000—2 7 2
Fortier and Hargadon; Marshall, Pirack (8) and Volpi.

First game
Wenatchee ....... 200 000 000—2 5 0
Spokane ........... 000 000 201—3 11 1
Rose, Gilson (8) and Dalrymple; Holmes, Babbitt (8) and Gibb.
Second game
Wenatchee ....... 100 005 110—8 9 2
Spokane ........... 000 210 000—3 9 4
McCollum and Gardener; Orphal, Babbitt (7) and Sheely.

First game
Salem ............. 000 500 0—5 8 2
Yakima ........... 004 000 2—6 9 0
Olson and Stumpf; Freeman, Strait (4) and Constantino.
Second game
Salem ............ 100 030 010—5 11 2
Yakima .......... 000 000 000—0 4 2
McIrvin and Burgher; Ford and Constantino.

Saturday, July 10, 1948

2007-07-07T14:55:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 52 33 .612 --
Bremerton .. 50 36 .581 2½
Victoria ... 48 38 .558 4½
Vancouver .. 42 38 .525 7½
Spokane .... 44 40 .524 7½
Wenatchee .. 36 48 .429 15½
Salem ...... 36 49 .424 16
Yakima ..... 29 55 .345 22½

VANCOUVER, July 10—Vancouver Capilanos tonight came from behind in the last half of the twelfth inning to edge the leading Tacoma Tigers 6-5. Tigers took the afternoon half of the double-header 8-5.
Glen Stetter's fourth hit of the game — a 350-foot home run — in the first half of the 12th gave Tacoma a 5-4 lead.
But Vancouver wasn't done. Sandy Robertson and pinch-hitter Bill Brenner walked and Vince Lazor replaced Ken Clary on the mound. Lazor hit Len Tran. That brought up Joe Kaney, who fouled a couple of pitches before banging a single to centre to score Robertson and pinch-runner Carl Gunnarson to win the game.
Clary was charged with the loss. Bob Costello went the route for Vancouver.
Jim Gleason started for Tacoma in the afternoon game and was the winning pitcher although relieved by Manager Jim Brillheart in the sixth inning. Frank Higgins started for Vancouver but was knocked out in the third inning and relieved by Larry Manier.
First game
Tacoma ......... 123 100 100—8 13 2
Vancouver ..... 021 200 000—5 12 2
Gleason, Brillheart (6) and Rossi; Higgins, Manier (3) and Brenner.
Second game
Tacoma .......... 000 102 010 001 - 5 13 3
Vancouver ...... 200 002 000 002 - 6 14 3
Clary, Lazor (12) and Hargadon; Costello and Warren.

VICTORIA, July 10—Bremerton Bluejackets spoiled Victoria's plans for a series sweep by taking advantage of errors in an 11-4 victory over the Athletics in the second game of a Saturday double-header.
Victoria won the opener, 4-1.
The Athletics got to John Conant for four early runs , but it was a different story from then on.
Jay Ragni smacked a home run in the fourth to cut the Victoria lead in half. A's third baseman Babe Jensen booted the ball to begin the fifth and sixth innings. One run scored in the fifth and three crossed the plate in the sixth after Vic Buccola mishandled a ball at first base.
The win came despite the fact manager Alan Strange picked the line-up out of a hat.
In the opener, Frank Volpi's homer in the eighth spoiled Len Kasparovitch's bid for a shutout.
Sal Recca homered to begin the scoring in the second. A two singles and a sacrifice scored a run in the third, while Archie Wilson's double, a hit batsman, passed ball, a walk, a bunt and a fielder's choice sent in two in the fourth. Single runs scored in the fifth and sixth.
Kaparovitch won his ninth, while Keith Simon fell to 10 and 5 with the loss.
First game
Bremerton ........... 000 000 010—1 6 2
Victoria .............. 011 211 00x—6 9 2
Simon and Volpi; Kasparovitch and Recca.
Second game
Bremerton ........... 000 213 032—11 10 0
Victoria .............. 013 000 000—4 7 4
Conant, Barnise (7), Hittle (9) and Volpi; Blankenship, Harmsen (8), Logue (9) and Morgan.

Salem .......... 000 016 002—9 10 2
Yakima ......... 001 003 000—4 9 0
Saltzman and Stumpf; Drilling, Kittle (6), Freeman (7) and Tornay.

Wenatchee ........ 104 020 000—7 10 0
Spokane ............ 000 000 000—0 5 0
Cronin and Dalrymple; Teagan, Cordell (9) and Sheely.

Packers Add Trio
YAKIMA, Wash., July 10—In a determined effort to lift the Yakima Packers out of the Western International League cellar, Dick Richards, Packer business manager, announced the acquisition of three new players last night.
Pitcher Bob Pirack was traded to Bremerton for Snag Moore, third baseman, and Catcher Joe Paglia, who was with the Jackets in 1946. It was a straight trade deal and no money was involved, said Richards.
The Packers also signed Wally Kramer, a free agent, who won six and lost seven with Spokane last season. Kramer, who is from Toppenish, Wash., was the mainstay on the Washington State College, northern division champions last season.

Friday, July 9, 1948

2007-07-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 51 32 .610 --
Bremerton .. 49 35 .583 2½
Victoria ... 47 37 .560 4½
Spokane .... 44 39 .530 6½
Vancouver .. 41 37 .526 7½
Wenatchee .. 35 48 .422 16
Salem ...... 35 49 .417 16½
Yakima ..... 29 54 .349 22

SPOKANE, Wash., July 9—Spokane Indians moved into the upper division of the Western International League tonight by edging the Wenatchee Chiefs, 9-7, in the first of a five-game series.
Pitcher Frank Nelson was credited with his 12th win of the season, but reliefer Gene Babbitt pulled the game out of the fire. Babbitt went in for Nelson in the top of the ninth inning and struck out two men with a pair of Wenatchee runners on base.
The longest blow of the game was Indian Bob Hedington's 400-foot home run that scaled the left field fence in the fifth inning with the bases clear.
Wenatchee ......... 000 001 051—7 10 5
Spokane ............. 112 011 12x—9 13 3
Conover, Stevens (8), Gilson (8) and Gardner, Dalrymple (8); Nelson, Babbitt (9) and Gibbs, Sheely (8).

YAKIMA, Wash., July 9—A ten-run eighth inning turned a tight game into a runaway here tonight as Salem downed the Yakima Packers, 14-3, in the first of a four-game Westen International League series.
Mel Nunes went four-for-six, including a home run in the big inning, for the Senators.
Salem ............ 200 001 0(10)1—14 22 2
Yakima .......... 100 001 020—3 9 2
Stevenson and Stumpf; Strait, Kramer (8), Estrada (8) and Constantino, Tornay ( ).

VANCOUVER, July 9—Buddy Hjelmaa stepped in to home plate with the winning run in the eleventh inning as Vancouver beat Tacoma in the second of two games Friday, 9-8.
Hjelmaa doubled down the left field line before Jack Warren, who had already hit three times and sacrifice, laced a drive to the outfield. Hjelmaa barely beat the throw, having to step out of the way of umpire John Nenezich, who had been knocked over by a wild lunge to get the runner.
It was a see-saw match. Tacoma scored three runs in the first to chase Hunk Anderson and another three in the second. Four runs in the fifth got rid of Tacoma starter Cy Greenlaw and made the game 7-6 in favour of the visitors. The Caps tied it in the fifth when Bill Reese stretch a blow off the right centre field wall for three bases and came in on Charlie Mead's single. It was Reese's third triple of the game.
Tacoma went ahead in the seventh, then Vancouver had tied the game in the ninth when pinch-hitter Bill Brenner hit a two-out single to bring in Hjelmaa.
The Tigers used a five-run fifth inning to take the first game, 8-2. Tacoma ended Carl Gunnarson's six-game win streak.
Vince Lazor, recently acquired for Salem, picked up the win. He also went three-for-three and batted in two runs.
First game
Tacoma ........... 120 050 0—8 13 0
Vancouver ....... 200 000 0—2 6 0
Lazor and Rossi; Gunnarson and Brenner.
Second game
Tacoma .......... 330 100 100 00—8 14 0
Vancouver ...... 002 041 001 01—9 15 1
Greenlaw, Venturelli (5) and Hargadon; Anderson, Robertson (1), Snyder (9) and Warren.

VICTORIA, July 9—In only one hour and 37 minutes, the fastest game of the Western International League season, Victoria dispatched of Bremerton, 6-1 tonight.
Del Owens allowed five hits to gain his seventh victory. He and losing pitcher Lloyd Hittle allowed only a walk apiece.
Babe Jensen did most of the damage. He had three of Victoria's nine hits, a homer, a triple and a single, and batted in four runs while scoring two.
Jensen singled in the second inning, went to third on Dick Morgan's single and scored when Vic Buccola grounded one to second baseman Ed Samcoff, who threw wide to Lil Arnerich covering the base on a force attempt.
Archie Wilson's 18th triple in the fourth inning was followed by Jensen's smash over the wall. Then in the eighth, Lou Kubiak singled, Jack Palmer walked and Wilson singled for the second time to bring in a run. Jensen then sent a long ball to left field which went for three bases when Harlow lost it in the lights.
Bremerton's run in the fifth came when Al Ronning singled and Frank Volpi doubled him in.
Bremerton ......... 000 010 000—1 5 1
Victoria ............ 010 200 03x—6 9 1
Hittle and Volpi; Owens and Morgan.

W.I.L. Signings
SPOKANE, July 9—Spokane members of the Western International circuit announced yesterday the signing of Ed Gibb, Gardena, Calif., as a relief catcher. Gibb caught 57 games for the Yakima Packers in 1946 and played for the Boise Pilots in the Pioneer League last year.

LEWISTON, Ida., July 9—“Snag” Moore, former third baseman for Bremerton in the Western International League, has been sold to the Yakima Packers.
Moore said today he has been asked to report to the Yakima team tomorrow night.

Mid-Season Attendance, Part Two

2007-07-07T14:21:00.000-07:00

Term Attendance Report for W.I.L. “Misleading”
VANCOUVER, July 8-Officials of the Western International League today are disturbed by an attendance report issued by President Bob Abel.
The report, based on games played to July 1, has been described as “inaccurate” and “misleading” by officials of several teams in the circuit.
Bob Brown, general manager of the Vancouver Capilanos, said the attendance figures were correct as far as they went, but they needed some clarification.
“Abel led fans to believe the the W.I.L. was having a bad year,” said Brown. “We are almost 25 per cent ahead of our 1947 attendance. Abel merely gave the attendance to July 1 on a parallel basis with July 1, 1947.
“At that time in 1947 we had played for more games that this year, however.”
In 1947 at July 1, the Caps had drawn 53,114 customers for 34 games. This year the Caps have drawn 51,518 for only 28 games.
“I hardly think Abel's release of the figures is a fair indication of the trend of our league ... A little more work in getting the right information could have made the picture bright.”
Brown said that Salem had protested Abel's report, and it was indicated other officials had protested.

Thursday, July 8, 1948

2007-07-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 50 31 .617 --
Bremerton .. 49 34 .590 2½
Victoria ... 46 37 .554 5
Vancouver .. 40 36 .526 7½
Spokane .... 43 39 .524 7½
Wenatchee .. 35 47 .427 15½
Salem ...... 34 49 .410 17
Yakima ..... 29 53 .354 21½

VANCOUVER, B.C., July 8—Tacoma Tigers flashed eight runs in the sixth inning tonight to score a 10-8 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos in the first of a five-game Western International League series.
Fresh from a five-hit shutout last week, Bob Costello had only given up two hits until the sixth when a walk was followed by three straight hits, and a merry-go-round of 12 Tigers at the plate.
Four of the runs were unearned, as Buddy Hjelmaa was screened by a runner when trying to field a ground ball, and the scorer ruled an error on the play.
Dick Greco slammed a 400-foot homer in the ninth, his 13th of the season and one of the hardest hit balls here this season, but no mates were aboard.
Frank Mullens homered with a man aboard on the ninth inning for the 16th time this year.
Charlie Mead and Bill Reese also homered for Vancouver.
Costello was batted from the hill in the eventful sixth, but Tiger flinger Ray Fortier went the route, yielding 13 hits.
Tacoma ........... 000 008 101—10 11 0
Vancouver ....... 013 010 102—8 13 2
Fortier and Rossi; Costello, Snyder (6) and Brenner.

SPOKANE, July 8—Spokane Indians shellacqued the Yakima Packers 13-7 tonight for their fourth win against one loss in the five-game Western International League series.
The Indians picked up two runs in the first and were never headed the rest of the game.
Yakima .......... 000 043 000—7 11 5
Spokane ........ 200 604 10x —13 14 0
Pirack, Johnson (4) and Constantino, Tornay ( ); Werbowski, Cordell (6) and Sheely.

WENATCHEE, July 8—Salem Senators defeated the Wenatchee Chiefs, 7-4, here tonight to close their Western International League series at two wins apiece.
Jim Olson's slow curve that nicked the outside corner was effective against Wenatchee batsmen. Two doubles in the seventh that sparked two runs and a two-run homer by Gil Neumann in the eighth were the only extra base blows the Chiefs got.
For Salem, Dick Sinovic hit a home run.
Salem .............. 010 200 031—7 10 2
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 220—4 9 2
Olson and Stumpf; Lierman, Gilson (9) and Gardner.

VICTORIA, July 8—Jim Propst struck out a league season-high 14 batters and allowed only four hits as the Victoria Athletics shaded the Bremerton Bluejackets, 3-2, before a sell-out crowd tonight at Royal Athletic Park.
Propst got ninth-inning help from Joe Blankenship to record his seventh win against two defeats. He made one mistake in the first inning when he grooved a three-and-two pitch to Eddie Samcoff, who lined it over the left centre-field wall.
Al Maul was the only Bremerton player to reach second in the next seven frames when he hammered a double in the fourth.
Entering the top of the ninth with a 3-1 lead, Propst lost his control and issued consecutive walks to Samcoff and Maul. He got the next two outs, but Bremerton manager Alan Strange pulled off a double steal. Samcoff scored on a wild pitch, with Maul going to third, walked Al Ronning , then got a 3-0 count on Frank Volpi. That's when Blankenship came in and used three fastballs to strike him out to end the game.
Charlie Balassi led off the first inning for Victoria with a homer to left field. Lou Kubiak singled, Jack Palmer walked, and after a double-play, Babe Jensen doubled to right to score another run. The winning run came in the seventh when Balassi walked, took second on an infield out and scored when Wilson's hit to short took a high hop over Lil Arnerich's head.
6,850 fans turned on Fan Appreciation Night. Another 1,000 entered the park when the fence behind the first base stands was pulled down, while an estimated 3,000-4,000 were turned away. Special ground rules had to be put in place, and they cost the Athletics. Jensen hit a liner to the left field corner and into the throng. It was ruled a double and Kubiak, who was on first, was held up at third.
Bremerton ........... 100 000 001—2 4 0
Victoria .............. 200 000 10x—3 8 0
Barnise and Volpi; Propst, Blankenship (9) and Morgan.

Wednesday, July 7, 1948

2007-07-07T13:27:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 49 31 .613 --
Bremerton .. 49 33 .598 1
Victoria ... 45 37 .549 5
Vancouver .. 40 35 .533 6½
Spokane .... 42 39 .519 7½
Wenatchee .. 35 46 .432 14½
Salem ...... 33 49 .393 17
Yakima ..... 29 52 .358 20½

VICTORIA, July 7—The Victoria Athletics overcame a 7-0 deficit after three innings to score a 10-7 triumph over the Bremerton Bluejackets tonight at Royal Athletic Park.
Frank Logue replaced Bill Harmsen in the third inning and gave up a run, then shut the door the rest of the way.
Harmsen got roughed up in the first inning. That's when Bremerton catcher Al Ronning put the Tars ahead with a grand-slam homer run, after an intentional pass to Bill Barisoff.
Victoria started pecking away at starter John Marshall in the fourth when three hits produced two runs. Jack Palmer homered off him in the fifth after a double-play, and Russ Walseth's fly to right field produced a run in the sixth.
The A's then struck for five in the seventh inning. Barisoff misplayed Charlie Balassi's roller at third base for an error, Lou Kubiak and Palmer singled for a run and Marshall was replaced with John Conant, who gave up a walk to Archie Wilson to load the bases. Babe Jensen picked this occasion for his third home run of the season.
The game was marred by a collision between Lyle Palmer and Eddie Murphy, Bremerton outfielders, in the eighth. They ran into each other at full speed in a fruitless attempt to get Jensen's ball heading over the fence. Both were knocked cold and Palmer was taken to hospital for x-rays.
Bremerton ......... 511 000 000—7 9 2
Victoria ............. 000 211 51x—10 14 1
Marshall, Conant (7) and Ronning; Harmsen, Logue (3) and Morgan.

WENATCHEE, July 7—Shutting off two late-inning rallies, in which Salem twice loaded the bases, Wenatchee Chiefs defeated the Senators 6-2 in a Western International League contest here tonight. The win gives the Chiefs a 2-1 edge in the series.
Salem ............... 000 100 010—2 8 0
Wenatchee ........ 100 121 01x—6 9 1
Peterson, Sporer (8) and Stumpf; McCollum and Gardner.

SPOKANE, July 7—Yakima Packers outhit, but failed to outscore Spokane Indians tonight and lost a Western Interntional League contest, 5-2. It was the third Spokane win in four games.
Yakima ........... 000 000 020—2 12 2
Spokane ......... 000 200 21x—5 9 2
Ford and Constantino; Orphal and Sheely.

Tacoma at Vancouver, postponed, wet grounds.

Kittle Defiant in Fight Talk
SPOKANE, July 7—The Yakima Packers don't like the basement of the Western International League and don't intend to stay there.
"The Packers will be out of the cellar and climbing in less than two weeks," Manager Hub Kittle told the Spokane Sportswriters and Broadcasters' Association today.
Dick Richards, one of the Packers' owners, attributed part of the club's misfortune during the season to the fact it has many young and inexperienced player.

To Pay W.I.L. $50
TACOMA, July 7—Robert B. Abel, president of the Western International League, said today he had fined Richard Richards, Yakima Club President, $50 for "abusive language" directed at Umpires Frank Dehaney and Jerry Mathieu in a recent game.

Tuesday, July 6, 1948

2007-07-07T13:14:00.000-07:00

WENATCHEE, July 6—Salem and Wenatchee divided a Western International League double-header by identical 7-6 scores on Tuesday.
Home runs by Sammy Samhammer and Dick Sinovic in the tenth were enough to off-set a two-run circuit clout by losing pitcher Tom Rose as the Senators copped the extra-inning opener. Rain interrupted the second affair after five and a half frames with the Chiefs holding a one-run margin.
Eleven home runs were hit in the two games. Samhammer had three in the first game whiole Nick Palica and Bill Wilson had one in each game for Wenatchee. Joe Gedzius, Eddie Barr, Rose and Sinovic had the others.
First game
Salem .............. 001 111 000 3—7 12 0
Wenatchee ..... 001 200 100 2—6 13 0
McIrvin and Stumpf; Cronin, Rose (7) and Gardner.
Second game, called because of rain, 5½ innings
Salem ............. 010 130—6 7 1
Wenatchee .... 203 20x—7 9 2
Saltzman and Burgher; Conover, Gilson (5) and Dalrymple.

SPOKANE, July 6—Spokane Indians scored four runs in the ninth inning to defeat Yakima Packers, 12-11.
Centerfielder Bob Hedington's hit plated Leo Thomas with the run which won for the Indians.
Yakima .......... 040 030 040—11 9 2
Spokane ........ 100 112 124—12 13 7
Freeman, Drilling (5), Strait (9) and Constantino; Holmes, Babbitt (5) and Discalso.

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

Credit Stolen Base to Catcher's Mask
MILWAUKEE, July 6—Leon Culberson, Kansas City outfielder, had the easiest stolen base of his career yesterday — he went down while the ball was stuck in the plate umpire's mask.
The theft occured in Milwaukee's American Association doubleheader yesterday with the Blues.
Brewer catcher Frank Kerr missed a pitch by Ray Martin with Culberson on first. The ball slammed into Umpire Harry King's mask — and stuck. Kerr jerked the mask, but couldn't free the ball. Culberson went to second and was credited with a stolen base after King and his fellow umpires, Milt Schoffner and John Mullen, ruled the ball was in play.

Monday, July 5, 1948

2007-07-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 49 31 .613 --
Bremerton .. 49 32 .605 ½
Victoria ... 44 37 .543 5½
Vancouver .. 40 35 .533 6½
Spokane .... 40 36 .506 7
Wenatchee .. 33 45 .423 15
Salem ...... 32 47 .405 16½
Yakima ..... 29 50 .467 19½

TACOMA, July 5—The Victoria Athletics won their second series in five days from the leading Tacoma Tigers Monday, taking a 7-5 victory in the afterpiece of a holiday double-header after dropping the first game, 11-4.
The results gave Victoria a 2-1 series edge in Tacoma and a 5-3 margin in the five-day stretch of games between the two clubs.
The A's had a 5-2 lead in the night game when the Tigers scored twice in the sixth then tied it in the seventh on two singles, a sacrifice and an outfield fly. Victoria rallied against Jim Gleason, the fourth Tacoma pitcher, in the ninth. Singles by Charlie Balassi, Lou Kubiak, Jack Palmer and Babe Jensen and an infield out produced two runs.
Vic Buccola had a solo homer for the winners.
In the first game, outfielder Dick Greco went the distance on the mound and scattered eight hits. His mates jumped on Al Goot for seven runs in the first two innings. Goot was relieved by Roy Gilmore, spare outfielder.
Greco batted clean-up and brought in four runs on a double and a single.
Charlie Balassi homered with no one on in the ninth inning for Victoria.
First game
Victoria .......... 000 003 001—4 8 0
Tacoma ......... 250 002 20x—11 12 1
Goot, Gilmore (2) and Morgan; Greco and Rossi.
Second game
Victoria ........... 014 000 002—7 12 2
Tacoma ........... 011 002 100—5 11 2
Kasparovitch, Blankenship (6) and Recca; Clary, Venturelli (3), Brillheart (6), Gleason (9) and Hargadon.

BREMERTON, July 5—Bremerton Bluejackets missed a chance to tie for the Western International League lead when rain washed out the second contest of a double-header with the Vancouver Capilanos in the eighth inning Monday. The teams were tied, 4-4, after the Jackets had managed to tie it in the bottom of the final frame. They won the seven-inning opener, 4-3.
Ed Murphy and Ed Samcoff sparked the winners in the first game. Each drove in two runs — Murphy with two doubles and a single, and Samcoff with a triple, double and single. Murph's triple was the big blow in the three-run Bremerton first inning in the second game.
First game
Vancouver ........ 000 200 1—3 5 0
Bremerton ........ 000 030 1—4 9 1
Higgins, Costello (7) and Brenner; Sullivan and Ronning.
Second game, called rain
Vancouver ........ 200 001 10—4 6 0
Bremerton ........ 300 000 01—4 9 3
Manier, Gunnarson (8) and Warren; Simon and Volpi.

SPOKANE, July 5—The Spokane Indians copped the first game from the Yakima Packers, 12-6, with Frank Nelson gaining credit for his 11th win. Nelson, who finished his first 16 starts, needed relief for the second game in succession.
Hub Kittle, Yakima manager, had a no-hitter for five innings in the second fixture. Dick Discalso, new Spokane catcher, singled to start the sixth for the first hit off Kittle. The Packers finally won in the tenth, 7-6.
First game
Yakima ............ 000 042 0—6 9 2
Spokane .......... 016 113 x—12 14 1
Strait, Johnson (3), Pirack (6) and Constantino; Nelson, Babbitt (6) and Sheely.
Second game
Yakima ............ 100 200 210 1—7 10 3
Spokane .......... 000 000 105 0—6 3 8
Kittle, Pirack (8), Strait (9), Drilling (9) and Tornay; Teagan, Cordell (10) and Discalso, Sheely (10).

only games scheduled?

Sunday, July 4, 1948

2007-07-07T12:37:00.000-07:00

BREMERTON, July 4—Bob Snyder allowed one scratch single as the Vancouver Capilanos shut out the Bremerton Bluejackets 2-0 in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader.
Lyle Palmer blooped an opposite field single for the Jackets.
Bill Reese singled home a run in the first and Bill Brenner connected for his third home run of the year in the fifth.
Snyder walked five and struck out five to raise his record to 11-1.
In the nightcap, Vancouver and Bremerton each had five hits, by the Bluejackets won it in the tenth by a 2-1 count.

First game
Vancouver ......... 100 010 0—2 5 1
Bremerton ......... 000 000 0—0 1 2
Snyder and Brenner; Conant and Ronning.
Second game
Vancouver ......... 000 000 001 0—1 5 2
Bremerton ......... 000 001 000 1—2 5 2
Anderson and Brenner; Hittle and Volpi.

First game
Victoria ........... 001 152 1—10 11 0
Tacoma .......... 020 200 0—4 3 3
Logue and Recca, Morgan (5); Greenlaw, Gleason (5) and Rossi.
Second game
Victoria ............ 000 000 200 0—2 6 0
Tacoma ............ 000 010 001 0—2 10 4
Owens and Morgan; Lazor and Hargadon.

Salem ........... 224 032 101—15 16 3
Spokane ....... 010 003 020—7 10 4
Stevenson and Stumpf; Werbowski and Sheely.

First game
Wenatchee ......... 000 000 0—0 1 1
Yakima ............... 003 111 x—6 8 0
Lierman, Stevens (6) and Gardner; Freeman and Tornay.
Second game
Wenatchee ......... 020 100 200—5 9 2
Yakima ............... 000 300 01x—4 8 2
Gilson, McCollum (8) and Dalrymple, Gardner (7), Ford, Pirack (7) and Constantino.

Saturday, July 3, 1948

2007-07-07T12:04:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 48 29 .623 —
Bremerton .. 47 31 .603 1½
Vancouver .. 39 33 .542 5½
Victoria ... 42 36 .538 6½
Spokane .... 39 36 .520 8
Wenatchee .. 32 44 .421 15½
Salem ...... 30 47 .390 18
Yakima ..... 27 48 .360 20

VICTORIA, July 4—Victoria Athletics climbed into a virtual tie with the Vancouver Capilanos and gained two full games on the leading Tacoma club as they downed the Tigers in a Saturday double-billing.
The A's won the first game in ten innings, 4-3, then breezed to a win in the nightcap, 7-3.
Trailing 3-1 in the afternoon contest, the A's tied the count in the eigh when Archie Wilson slapped his 17th triple of the season to right field after Charlie Balassi and Lou Kubiak singled,
A double play followed by a stop by Jack Palmer at second base cut off a Tacoma rally in the ninth before Victoria won it in the tenth. Kubiak led off with a single, Palmer faked a bunt, then lined a double over the drawn-in infield to win it.
Joe Blankenship came in to pitch the last two innings and got his 12th win. Tacoma reliever Angelo Venturelli was the loser.
In the finale, Jim Propst got into early trouble, loading the bags in the first two innings with no one out, but only escaping with one run. He struck out Dick Greco, Joe Rossi and Hank Vallee to end the first, then after an unearned run in the second, struck out Ray Tran and got Larry Lee to bat into a double play.
The A's big inning was the fifth, when four runs came in. Wilson's triple and Vic Buccola's double were the big hits. Wilson has now hit in 15 straight games.
Starter Bill Clary was chased during the rally and replaced by manager Jim Brillheart.
First game
Tacoma ....... 011 100 000 0—3 8 2
Victoria ....... 100 000 020 1—4 11 0
Fortier, Venturelli (8) and Rossi; Harmsen, Logue (7), Blankenship (8) and Morgan.
Second game
Tacoma ......... 010 000 020—3 5 4
Victoria ......... 012 040 00x—7 10 2
Clary, Brillheart (5) and Hargadon; Propst, Kasparovitch (7) and Morgan.

VANCOUVER, B.C., July 3—Led by the five-hit piutching of Bob Costello, Vancouver Capilanos tonight won their first shutout victory of the Western International League baseball season, blanking the Bremerton Bluejackets, 7-0.
Costello's pitching record now stands at ten wins and six losses. It was his fourth win in a row.
A smashing circuit to the centre-field side of the Owl sign by Vancouver's Frank Mullens scored Len Tran and Joe Kaney to give the Caps three runs in the eighth inning. Mullens was the star hitter of the game, batting four for five, including a homer, a double and two singles.
Kaney and Jack Warren hit solo homers for the home club.
Bremerton ............ 000 000 000—0 5 2
Vancouver ............ 110 100 31x—7 8 1
Barnise and Volpi; Costello and Warren, Brenner (5).

SPOKANE, Wash., July 3-Spokane Indians outscored Salem, 11-7, tonight in a Western International League slugfest which lasted 3½ hours.
Salem ........... 101 000 500—7 10 1
Spokane ........ 430 200 02x—11 12 2
Peteson, Sporer (3) and Burgher; Nelson, Babbitt (7) and Sheely.

YAKIMA, Wash., July 3—Len Scarpelli's infield single in the top of the ninth sent Gil Neumann home with the run that gave Wenatchee a 5-4 win over Yakima Packers here tonight.
Wenatchee ......... 220 000 001—5 10 0
Yakima .............. 001 201 000—4 7 2
Rose and Dalrymple, Gardner (7); Ford, Pirack (2), Drilling (5) and Constantino.

Friday, July 2, 1948

2007-07-07T11:34:00.000-07:00

VICTORIA, July 2—Despite Charlie Balassi's second grand-slam home run in as many nights, the Victoria Athletics fell to the Tacoma Tigers, 9-8, in a Western International League thriller tonight.
Victoria scored a pair in the ninth to come within a run but Vic Buccola stopped the rally cold when he was out attempting to steal home. An inning early, Russ Walseth ignored manager Ted Norbert's stop sign and ended an eighth-inning rally when he was out at home.
Balassi's big blow to left-centre came in the second inning to put Victoria up 4-0. Tacoma scored three in the third and went ahead with a five-run seventh. It could have been more, but Dick Greco lost credit for a home run when his clout hit one of the light gloves on the standard in left centre and fell back into play. Greco had to be content with a single instead of a homer, thanks to the ground rules.
Former infielder Hank Sciarra held the A's at bay from the second until the eight when an error started them off. After loading the bases, two balls were lost in the lights for a pair of runs, and then Walseth was cut down trying to come in from second on an error.
Buccola tripled after Archie Wilson and Dick Morgan singled in the ninth to make it 9-8. On the third pitch to Walseth, Buccola went for the plate but he was out sliding.
Tacoma ......... 003 000 500—9 16 5
Victoria ......... 040 000 022—8 11 1
Sciarra and Rossi; Blankenship, Kasparovitch (9) and Morgan.

VANCOUVER, July 2—Bremerton Bluejackets kept pace two games behind the league-leading Tacoma Tigers by trimming the Vancouver Capilanos, 6-2, tonight.
Doubles by Lil Arnerich, Ed Murphy and Al Maul, coupled with three walks and an error by Buddy Hjelmaa, gave Bremerton five runs in the fifth.
Bremerton .......... 100 050 000—6 5 3
Vancouver .......... 000 200 000—2 5 1
Marshall and Volpi; Robertson and Brenner.

YAKIMA, July 2—Roaring back from a 6-0 deficit, the Yakima Packers scored three runs in the eighth and five in the ninth to shade the Wenatchee Chiefs, 8-7, and give Hub Kittle a victory in his first game as manager. Jim Estrada's triple with the bases loaded pushed over the winning runs with one out.
Wenatchee ......... 100 000 051—7 12 2
Yakima ............... 000 000 035—8 11 0
McCollum, Lierman (9) and Gardner; Drilling, Pirack (9) and Tornay.

Salem ............ 000 200 000 00—2 6 1
Spokane ........ 020 000 000 01—3 8 2
McIrvin and Stumpf, Burgher (9); Orphal and Sheely.

New Manager in Yakima
YAKIMA, Wash., July 2—Hub Kittle, veteran Western International League pitcher, was named to succeed Vern Johnson as manger of the last-place Yakima Packers in a surprise announcement from Business Manager Richard Richards today.

Attendance Down at Mid-Season

2007-07-06T11:04:00.001-07:00

TACOMA, July 3—On the basis of official turnstile figures through last Sunday, June 27, Western International League attendance for the current campaign is 87,825 below the 1947 total for a comparable period, it was revealed today by Robert B. Abel, president of the circuit.
Abel blamed the 20 per cent drop in paying customers on an unprecedented number of rain-out games, plus the fact that several clubs have gone ahead with contests under adverse weather conditions, despite the scarcity of customers.
With the advent of warmer and drier weather, however, attendance is climbing.
Spokane, perennial league attendance leader, has been the hardest hit by the weather to date and has likewise suffered at the gate, the Indians having played to 73,222 customers thus far, as against their 1947 figure of 117,439.
The complete list of 1948 and 1947 figures covering roughly the first half of the two seasons follow:
1948 1947
Bremerton ... 33,242 42,735
Salem ....... 33,085 42,948
Spokane ..... 73,222 117,439
Tacoma ...... 51,384 58,525
Vancouver ... 51,518 53,114
Victoria .... 61,900 57,269
Wenatchee ... 37,870 34,671
Yakima ...... 30,351 53,647
Totals ..... 372,573 460,398

Thursday, July 1, 1948

2007-07-06T03:52:00.000-07:00

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.

Wednesday, June 30, 1948

2007-07-06T03:21:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 46 26 .639 --
Bremerton .. 45 30 .600 2½
Vancouver .. 38 31 .551 6½
Victoria ... 39 34 .534 7½
Spokane .... 37 35 .514 9
Salem ...... 29 45 .392 18
Wenatchee .. 30 43 .411 16½
Yakima ..... 26 46 .366 20

Caps Take Three In Row At Tacoma
By the Associated Press
That home field jinx which the Tacoma Tigers held over their Western International League opponents is definitely a thing of the past.
Until several weeks ago, the league leaders hadn't lost two straight games on its home lot. Then Salem came to town—and left with three straight wins.
Vancouver did it Wednesday night, downing the pace-setters 5-3 to sweep their three-game set and narrow Tacoma's lead to 2½ games over Bremerton which bumped Victoria 3-1.
Wenatchee doubled Yakima 6-3 to jump into sixth place as Salem fell twice before Spokane 7-3 and 6-2.

TACOMA, June 30—A two-run homer in the ninth inning by Joe Rossi wasn't enough as the Tacoma Tigers fell to the Vancouver Capilanos, 5-3 tonight.
The Caps scored twice in the eighth with what ended up being the winning runs, thanks to Bill Reese's double.
Bob Costello tossed a four-hitter for the win.
Vancouver ..... 100 011 020—5 8 2
Tacoma ........ 100 000 002—3 4 1
Costello and Warren; Nicholas and Rossi.

BREMERTON, June 30—Bremerton Bluejackets rallied to score three runs in the ninth inning tonight to take the series decider from the Victoria Athletics, 3-1.
Hooking up in a keen hurling duel with Lloyd Hittle, ace Bremerton southpaw, Len Kasparovitch was eventually charged with his seventh loss of the season against eight defeats.
He held the Tars for four hits through seven innings and was ahead 1-0 when he ran into a sudden uprising. Ed Samcoff's triple, a double by Eddie Murphy, a walk and singles by Al Ronning and Frank Volpi accounted for the runs.
Victoria's only run came in the sixth when Archie Wilson singled and went to third on Babe Jensen's blow to right on a hit-and-run play. The A's attempted a double steal, which worked when catcher Volpi uncorked a wild throw.
Victoria ........... 000 001 000—1 6 3
Bremerton ........ 000 000 03x—3 8 2
Kasparovitch and Recca; Hittle and Volpi.

First game
Spokane ......... 020 023 0—7 9 0
Salem ............ 100 020 0—3 6 2
Werbowski and Sheely; Wyatt and Burgher.
Second game
Spokane ......... 000 203 001—6 8 0
Salem ............ 000 000 020—2 8 0
Holmes, Babbitt (9) and Sheely; Olson and Burgher.

Yakima ............. 100 010 001—3 7 2
Wenatchee ....... 110 010 30x—6 11 1
Kittle and Constantino; Cronin and Gardner.

Tuesday, June 29, 1948

2007-07-06T02:58:00.001-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 46 25 .648 --
Bremerton .. 44 30 .595 3½
Vancouver .. 37 31 .544 7½
Victoria ... 39 33 .542 7½
Spokane .... 35 35 .500 10½
Salem ...... 29 43 .403 17½
Wenatchee .. 29 43 .403 17½
Yakima ..... 26 45 .366 20

BREMERTON, June 29—Banging out 13 hits from the offerings of Joe Sullivan, ex-major league southpaw, Victoria Athletics tonight evened their current series with Bremerton Bluejackets by scoring a 5-3 victory here.
Although he had to be relieved by Joe Blankenship in the eighth inning, lefthander Jim Propst gained credit for his fifth win of the season as the A's pecked away at Sullivan to take and maintain an early lead.
Jack Palmer and Babe Jensen led the assault, each picking up three hits. Palmer opened the scoring by crashing out his tenth home run in the fifth inning. He also figured prominently in the two-run third frame. With two away, Lou Kubiak singled and scored on Palmer's double. Wilson then plated Palmer with another single.
After Bremerton scored twice in the fourth, Victoria added single runs in the fifth and eighth and held off two late rallies. The Tars scored once in the eighth and had the tying run on the bags in the ninth when Blankenship forced pinch-hitter Keith Simon to ground out.
Victoria .......... 102 010 010—5 13 0
Bremerton ....... 000 200 010—3 5 2
Propost, Blankenship (8) and Morgan, Recca (5); Sullivan and Ronning.

TACOMA, June 29—Vancouver Capilanos poured it on the Tigers for the second straight night as they came up with two five-run innings for a 13-10 win. Winners picked up 13 of their 18 hits in the last five innings and were finally stopped by 47-year-old Jim Brillheart, Tacoma manager, who pitched his first baseball of the season. Hunk Anderson, who gained credit for the victory, batted in four runs with the singles, while Frank Mullens batted in three runs with a home run and two singles.
Vancouver ...... 000 015 250—13 18 3
Tacoma ......... 200 010 250—10 13 4
Anderson, R. Snyder (8) and Brenner; Clary, Fortier (7), Sciarra (8) and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, June 29—Three Wenatchee pitchers combined on a one-hitter, but Yakima proved you don't need hits to score. The Chiefs hung on for a 7-6 win tonight as the Packers scored on five errors.
Yakima ........... 031 000 020—6 1 3
Wenatchee ...... 000 130 021—7 14 5
Pirack, Freeman (6), Drilling (9) and Constantino; Rose, Gilson (5) and Dalrymple, Gardner (8).

Spokane ....... 001 403 214—15 19 2
Salem .......... 000 010 202—5 9 2
Nelson and Sheely; Saltzman, Sporer (6) and Burgher.

Monday, June 28, 1948

2007-07-06T00:31:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 46 24 .657 --
Bremerton .. 44 29 .603 3½
Vancouver .. 36 31 .537 8½
Victoria ... 38 33 .535 8½
Spokane .... 34 35 .493 11½
Salem ...... 29 42 .408 17½
Wenatchee .. 28 43 .394 18½
Yakima ..... 26 44 .371 20

BREMERTON, June 28—Bremerton Bluejackets gained a game on the leading Tacoma Tigers and dropped Victoria Athletics from third to fourth place in the Western International League standings by squeezing out a 2-1 victory in the series opener here tonight. It snapped Victoria's win streak at seven games.
Bill Harmsen lost his third close contest since joining the A's several weeks ago. He hooked up with Nino Barnise, rookie Bremerton pitcher from University of Southern California, in a tight hurling duel and lost it in the eighth. Each pitcher gave up six hits.
The Tars took the lead in the fifth after Archie Wilson led off in the Victoria half of the inning with a triple and was left standed. The A's tied it up in the sixth when Jack Palmer tripled and Wilson singled him over.
Winning run came when Snag Moore doubled and scored on Eddie Samcoff's single.
Victoria ......... 000 001 000—1 6 0
Bremerton ...... 000 010 01x—2 6 2
Harmsen and Recca; Barnise and Volpi.

TACOMA, June 28—The Vancouver Capilanos captured the first game of the series from the Tacoma Tigers, 7-5, when Charlie Mead's pop fly with Bill Reese on and two out in the ninth dropped safely for a home run. Dick Greco lost the ball in the haze, and before he could return it to the catcher both runners scored.
The Tigers made it close in their half by scoring a run. Hargadon blasted one to centre-field that Frank Mullens tried to catch at his shoe-tops. The ball rolled for a triple, and when second baseman Joe Kaney's relay went into the stands, Hargadon came in.
The Caps picked up 16 hits, four of by Buddy Hjelmaa, to end Tacoma's latest winning streak at eight games.
Vancouver ...... 000 310 012—7 16 1
Tacoma .......... 001 012 001—5 7 1
Gunnarson and Brenner; Venturelli and Rossi.

SALEM, June 28—Salem Senators took it out on Spokane's ambitious Indians as they
pounded out a 15-9 triumph to break a prolonged losing streak. Seven errors by the losers help the Solons,while Cal McIrvin staggered the distance to receive credit for the win.
Spokane ...... 130 120 100—4 9 1
Salem ......... 014 316 00x—15 17 2
Perry, Orphal (4), Babbitt (6) and Sheely; McIrvin and Burgher.

WENATCHEE, June 28—Yakima Packers downed the slipping Wenatchee Chiefs, 4-2, in the fourth game to move within a game and a half of the seventh-place opponants.
Yakima ........... 000 120 100—4 8 1
Wenatchee ..... 100 000 001—2 9 1
Ford and Eastwood; Lierman, McCollum (6) and Gardner.

Sunday, June 27, 1948

2007-07-06T00:14:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 46 23 .667 --
Bremerton .. 43 29 .597 4½
Victoria ... 38 32 .543 8½
Vancouver .. 35 31 .530 9½
Spokane .... 34 34 .500 11½
Wenatchee .. 28 42 .400 18½
Salem ...... 28 42 .400 18½
Yakima ..... 25 44 .362 21

First game
Wenatchee ........ 100 020 000 0—3 10 2
Tacoma ............. 200 100 000 1—4 10 1
Gilson, Stevens (8) and Gardner; Greenlaw, Nichols (6) and Rossi.
Second game
Wenatchee ......... 100 200 0—3 6 1
Tacoma .............. 100 210 x—4 5 0
Conovor and Gardner; Fortier, Sciarra (5), and Hargadon, Rossi (6)

First game
Spokane ........ 000 000 2—2 4 2
Bremerton ...... 000 000 1—1 6 0
Orphal, Babbitt (7) and Salmon, Shelly (7); Simon and Volpi.
Second game
Spokane ........ 011 011 301—8 13 0
Bremerton ...... 000 000 021—3 9 3
Teagan and Sheely, Marshall, Hittle (8) and Ronning.

(only games scheduled)

Saturday, June 26, 1948

2007-07-05T20:41:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 44 23 .657 --
Bremerton .. 43 27 .609 3
Victoria ... 38 32 .543 7½
Vancouver .. 35 31 .530 8½
Spokane .... 32 34 .485 11½
Wenatchee .. 28 40 .412 16½
Salem ...... 28 42 .400 17½
Yakima ..... 25 44 .362 20

VICTORIA, June 26—Victoria Athletics ended their most successful home stand in the three-year history of the club tonight by downing Salem Senators in both games, 15-2 and 5-4, for a clean sweep of the series and a clean seep of their week-long home stand.
The double victory gave them a 17 home games [sic], 16 out of their last 20, and moved them into third place ahead of the Vancouver Capilanos.
Archie Wilson, Joe Blankenship, and Del Owens added the most to their personal records although every player on the club played his part in the twin win. Wilson clouted three home runs in the first game to run his season's total to 13; Blankenship recovered after a dubious start to pitch brilliant baseball for his seventh triumph in a row and his 11th of the season, and Owens gained his sixth mound win with a well-pitched game in the afternoon.
Other highlights were provided by Charlie Balassl, who covered acres of ground in right field; Jack Palmer, who completed his 16th and 17th games without an error; Vic Buccola, who singled in the winning run in the nightcap, and by the club itself, which hit in timely fashion to make their 20 hits good for as many runs.
With over 2,000 of the 3,600 fans in attendance for the two games saw the A's come from behind at night with another of their typical rallies to extend their winning streak and send the reeling Solons home with their 20th defeat in their last 22 games.
Blankenship was given a boiterous reception. The Senators greeted him two doubles, a single and a long outfield fly to send over two runs in the first. Three singles and a double after two were out in the second doubled the score. From there, Blankenship pitched probably his best baseball of the season. He gave up an infield single in the eighth and another in the ninth, and that was all. His control was perfect.
Lack of control was Ken Wyatt's downfall. The slender southpaw, who won 17 games for Salem last year, walked ten men and four of them scored. Wilson's single an error by Spaeter and Recca's double-play ball sent in Victoria's first run in the second. The game was tied up in the fifth when Gilmore, Blankenship and Balassi all drew walks. Kubiak's outfield fly scored one run and Wilson's terrific double sent in the other two.
A walk to Palmer started the winning rally in the eighth. Wilson forced the runner and took second as Jensen grounded out. Recca was purposely passed to get at the left-handed hitting Buccola, who promptly grounded a sharp single to the left second base for the decider.
The first game was a breeze. After scoring single runs in the second, third and fourth, the A's piled in four in the fifth, five in the seventh and three in the eighth as Bob Stevenson stayed in and took it. Wilson hit one over the fence in the second, raced all the way around in the fifth when his slashing drive to right bounced over Sammy Samhammer's shoulder, and got his third circuit clout in the seventh. Owens also hit one to dep right field for a home run; Dick Morgan, behind the plate for the first time, had a triple and a double, and Balassi, Jensen and Gilmore all chipped in with doubles.
- from the Victoria Colonist.
First game
Salem ........... 000 001 100—2 9 2
Victoria ......... 011 140 53x—15 15 1
Stevenson and Burgher, McMillan (7); Owens and Morgan.
Second game
Salem .......... 220 000 000—4 10 1
Victoria ........ 010 030 01x—5 5 3
Wyatt and Burgher; Blankenship and Recca.

YAKIMA, June 26—Len Tran went six for six and scored the winning run as the Vancouver Capilanos defeated the Yakima Packers 8-7 in a ten-inning twin-bill finale tonight. Yakima took the first game 4-3.
Tran singled, advanced on Joe Kaney's sacrifice, went to third of Frank Mullens' infield out and then came home on Tornay's passed ball.
The Packers jumped on Bob Costello's fast ball for four runs in the third and chased him in the next frame. The Caps tied the count at 6-all and got rid of Bob Drilling into the fouth,
Relievers Bob Snyder and Bill Freeman headed into the ninth tied 7-all when the Yaks ganged three hits for the tying run in the eighth.
Sandy Robertson pitched the tenth for his second win, retiring all three men he faced after coming in Snyder, who was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the ninth. Robertson retired all three batters he faced.
Besides Tran's six hits, he made all three Vancouver errors.
Gene Thompson and Jim Estrada homered for the Packers.
In the opener, Vancouver's Frank Higgins gave up four hits and two runs in the first frame before settling down, allowing one more hit until the ninth. That's when Lou Estes singled with one out, Thompson doubled past third base, then one out later, Larry Orteig banged another one along the chalk at third base and both runs scored.
The Caps had taken a 3-2 lead in the fifth on four hits off Max Strait, Mullens getting credit for two RBIs.
First game
Yakima .......... 200 000 002—4 8 1
Vancouver ..... 000 030 000—3 9 1
Strait and Constantino; Higgins and Brenner.
Second game
Yakima ......... 104 100 010 0—7 14 1
Vancouver ..... 210 310 000 1—8 17 3
Drilling, Freeman (5) and Tornay; Costello, Snyder (4), Robertson (10) and Warren.

First game
Wenatchee ...... 000 000 0—0 6 0
Tacoma ........... 000 100 x—1 5 0
Cronin and Gardner; Gleason and Rossi.
Second game
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 000—0 5 2
Tacoma ............ 000 100 00x—1 6 0
McCollum and Gardner; Clary and Hargadon.

Spokane ........ 001 100 300—5 14 1
Bremerton ...... 000 020 000—2 8 2
Orphal and Sheely; Conant and Volpi.

Friday, June 25, 1948

2007-07-05T20:26:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 42 23 .646 --
Bremerton .. 43 26 .623 1
Vancouver .. 34 30 .531 7½
Victoria ... 36 32 .529 7½
Spokane .... 31 34 .477 11
Wenatchee .. 28 38 .424 14½
Salem ...... 28 40 .412 15½
Yakima ..... 24 43 .358 19

VICTORIA, June 25—Len Kasparovitch provided the pitching and Babe Jensen the hitting tonight as the Victoria Athletics made it two straight over the Salem Senators, and five in a row in their latest win streak.
Surviving a shaky start, Kasparovitch blanked the Solons from the second until the ninth inning to gain a 5-3 verdict over Jim Olson.
Jensen hit a two-run homer in the first inning and singled in what proved to be the winning run in the eighth.
Walks to Charlie Balassi and Jack Palmer sandwiched around Lou Kubiak's single put three men on in the first inning. Archie Wilson bounced into a double play to score one run before Jensen lifted one over the fence.
Salem cut the margin to a single run in the second. Ed Barr homered with no one on to start it. Bill Burger's double and singles to Joe Gedzius and Olson accounted for the second run.
The A's could only get three men on the bags fromn the first until the eighth, when they came up with the rally that decided it.
Singles by Palmer, Wilson and Jensen plated one run and another scored as Dick Morgan forced a runner at second.
Two singles and a wild pitch sent in Salem's last run in the ninth.
Salem ......... 020 000 001—3 10 0
Victoria ...... 300 000 02x—5 8 1
Olson and Burgher; Kasparovitch and Recca.

BREMERTON, June 25—Jay Ragni of the Bremerton Bluejackets virtually defeated Spokane single-handed in both games of a Western International League double-header tonight. Bremerton picked up a 3-1 win in each game.
Ragni accounted for five of Bremerton's six runs. In the first game, he hammered out a triple in the third inning, good for two runs.
In the second, he poled a 350-foot homer over the right field fence, bringing in two runs.
First game
Spokane .......... 010 000 0—1 6 0
Bremerton ....... 012 000 x—3 8 3
Nelson and Sheely; Sullivan and Ronning.
Second game
Spokane ......... 001 000 000—1 3 0
Bremerton ...... 000 003 00x—3 7 1
Babbitt and Sheely; Hittle and Volpi.

VANCOUVER, June 25—Larry Manier tossed a four-hit, 4-1 victory against the Yakima Packers tonight that squared the Vancouver' Capilanos series with the visitors at Capilano Stadium.
Manier is four and three on the season.
He gave up a jit in the first, but the 76th double-killing by the Capilanos this season rubbed that out and he faced but the minimum three men in all but the fourth and fifth frames.
A Packer did get to third in the fourth frame, Larry French coming in spikes flying to cause Len Tran to drop Frank Mullens' perfect throw from the outfield. And in the fifth, a shutout was spoiled when the foes ganged two hits for their run. Jim Estrada had singled, Diamond Cecil walked and Frank Constantino singled in that inning.
This matched a first frame tally by the Caps. Joe Kaney had walked, gone to third on Mullens' single and scored on Bill Reese's fly ball. Three runs on three hits and an error cinched things in the sixth. Leading the Vancouver attack was Bill Reese, who hit three himes in a row after that run-scoring fly in the first.
Caps Notes — Pitcher Hal Saltzman has departed for points unknown. Caps general manager Bob Brown said tonight he had sold him to Salem. ... The game started right on time, thanks to Joe Louis. The Louis-Walcott fight was aired to many early-goers to the stadium and ended just as the groundman was lining out the batter's box and getting the basepaths ready after infield practice. ... Bob Brown signed Manier because of a player he sold to Cleveland in 1915 named Ed Doty. Doty retired to Michigan, and recommended Manier to him. Manier is from Benton Harbor.
Yakima ......... 000 010 000—1 4 2
Vancouver .... 100 003 00x—4 9 1
Kittle and Constantino; Manier and Warren.

Wenatchee ....... 000 200 010—3 10 3
Tacoma ............ 051 100 42x—13 17 1
Lierman, Horton (5), Rose (6) and Dalrymple; Sciarra and Rossi.

Umpires

2007-07-05T03:26:00.000-07:00

Before and After
by KEN McCONNELL
Umpires, you will be surprised to learn, are regular fellows. Some of them have even got themselves married. You'll be glad to know, too, that the boys in blue working the current series between Vancouver and Wenatchee at Capilano Stadium, Johnny Nenezich and Harry Ornest, have no use for glass eyes, rabbit ears or any other accessories with which, on occasion, they have been charged.
They make up a good team. About 42 games Western International Baseball League games ago they met.
“I am Harry Ornest—a Hebe.” the young man introduced himself. And his partner shot back: “I am Johnny Nenezich—a Bohunk.”
Nenezich, for a little guy—he weighs only 150 pounds and once fought professionally here and along the west coast as Johnny Morgan—has been in several celebrated rhubarbs.
Probably the most notable was in Spokane late last fall and the loss of that game might have been the winning factor so far as the Caps were concerned. You may recall the Spokes were rained out and the Caps clinched the pennant by a single percentage point, by just sitting chilly.
* * *
Spokane was playing Salem. The score was 5-5 and it was the top half of the ninth inning. Salem had two men on base with nobody out.
The first Salem man planned a sacrifice. The Spokanes' picked up the bunt, hestitated where to throw the ball and all hands were safe, desplte the final, frantic heave to third base.
Ben Geraghty, the Spokane manager charged out for Nenezich. “That was a bad call, the runner was out,” he shouted.
That started things.
Geraghty was eventually tossed out of the ball game. Then John Gorman, Spokes' first baseman, came charging across the diamond, made some pithy observations and he was run off.
Meanwhile, Harry Schmees, the Spokane centrefielder, had come in to second base.
“Come on, let's go,” ordered Nenezich as he tried to resume play. Then he noticed Schmees at second.
“What are you doing there?” he demanded.
“I can play any place I want.” was the reply.
Nenezich then turned away and turned back just in time to see Schmees making some signs with his hands which were easily understood by the fans—and Nenezich when he saw them. Schmees went out!
* * *
Geraghty came back on the field.
By this time the fans were in a tizzy and Nenezich was fit to be tied.
“Eggs were 90 cents a dozen and they threw $50 worth at me,” recalls Johnny.
Then he issued an ultimatum.
“This game resumes right now,” he told all and sundry. “Or I am going home.”
“You have not enough guts to do that.” a Spoke shouted.
“I have not what”? asked Johnny. Like all umpires he did not want to forfeit the game. After all he has to protect the team and the fans.
But the statement was repeated.
“You have not enough guts to ...”
And that was that. Jobnny Nenezich called off the game, Salem was the winner.
That night the same two teams met again in Spokane. The place was packed. The umps had to reach the field through the home team's dugout.
Nenzich walked through. There was dead silence. But one Spokane player whispered: “Stay with 'em, John.”
* * *
Arguments between players and officials are quickly forgotten.
Johnny has a saying that carries considerable authority. “If I get into a fight with a guy, no matter how big he is, I'll get a sandwich even if he is getting a full course meal.”
He means it too. He knows about baseball fights.
There was a team when Smead Jolley joined Spokane. The opposing catcher called a ball.
“You really didn't like that one, did you?” asked Jolley.
“Why should an old has-been like you get any breaks?” came the reply.
“Take off your mask," and the catcher did so. “Take off your belly pad,” belligerently ordered Jolley. “Old man, eh, I'll outhit you by 200 points before the season is over.”
By this time Johnny had taken a hand and the would-be fight never materialized.
There was no contest in hitting, though. Jolley topped the league in everything but stolen sweaters. He hit a ton. The catcher referred to is still in the league and according to Johnny, “He finds it difficult to get along with anyone—even himself.”
- Vancouver Sun, June 12, 1948
(Note - the catcher referred to is likely Frank Volpi, who kicked around the WIL before and after the war).

Thursday, June 24, 1948

2007-07-05T02:36:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 41 23 .641 --
Bremerton .. 41 26 .612 1½
Vancouver .. 33 30 .524 7½
Victoria ... 35 32 .522 7½
Spokane .... 31 32 .492 9½
Wenatchee .. 28 37 .431 13½
Salem ...... 28 39 .418 14½
Yakima ..... 24 42 .364 18

TACOMA, June 24—Tacoma Tigers gained a half game on the Bremrton Bluejackets tonight by sweeping a double-bill from the erratic Spokane Indians, 5-3 and 7-1. A three-run sixth gave the Bengals the seven-inning opener and they breezed home in the finale.
First game
Spokane ......... 000 102 0—3 4 0
Tacoma .......... 020 003 x—5 9 0
Werbowski, Babbitt (6) and Sheely, Ncholas and Rossi.
Second game
Spokane ......... 000 000 100—1 9 3
Tacoma .......... 100 320 01x—7 11 0
Orphal, Perry (4) and Sheely; Venturelli and Hargadon.

BREMERTON, June 24—Bremerton copped an 11-inning, 4-3 battle from the Wenatchee Chiefs tonight. Lil Arnerich drove in Jay Ragni with the winning run. John Conant gained credit for his ninth victory.
Wenatchee ...... 020 000 010 00—3 8 2
Bremerton ....... 000 001 020 01—4 8 1
Stevens, Rose (10), McCollum (11) and Gardner, Barnise, Conant (9) and Volpi.

VANCOUVER, June 24—Former Vancouver Capilano Lou Estes came back to hunt his ex-mates by driving in the winning run in the eleventh inning to give Yakima a 5-4 victory here in Western International League baseball.
It was a tight game at the start. Hunk Anderson allowed only three Packers to get base after six innings, while Vancouver collected three hits in the first five innings off Bob Pirack.
The Caps went ahead when Anderson scored on a wild pitch in the sixth and again in the seventh when Charlie Mead's homer cancelled the first Packer tally.
The Yaks got to Anderson for two singles and a run in the eighth and chased him in the ninth with two runs. But Vancouver managed to tie the game again in the bottom of the inning.
With one out, Buddy Hjelmaa walked and was safe when shortstop Jim Estrada messed up Jack Warren's grounder. Orrin Snyder singled to centre to score Hjelmaa, pitcher Pirack pitched to centre field to try to get Warren at second and when the centre fielder was a little lax tossing the ball back, Warren came home to tie the game.
Sandy Robertson got the Packers out in the tenth, but surrendered singles in the eleventh to Frank Constantino, Ray French and Charlie Peterson before Estes singled in the game-winner.
Charlie Mead thought he had tied the game with a home run in the eleventh, but umpire Bill Abbey ruled it was foul, and Mead was tossed after arguing his point with some inappropriate words. Abbey had tossed Frank Mullens for arguing a called third strike in the tenth.
It was Yakima's third overtime game in as many nights, the last two coming in Victoria.
Yakima ........... 000 000 112 01—5 12 3
Vancouver ...... 000 001 102 00—4 8 0
Pirack and Tornay, Constantino (9); Anderson, Gunnarson (9), Robertson (10) and Warren.

VICTORIA, June 24—Three home runs, six doubles, five singles and eight walks adding up to 13 runs should be enough to win a ball game. But not for the Salem Senators tonight. The Victoria Athletics used 21 hits, ten bases on balls, and two boots to score 19 times and take the opener of a four-game series.
It was Victoria's fourth win in a row, their 12th in their last 14 home games and 13th in their last 18 games.
Victoria batted around three times, opening up with an eight-run blast in the first after Salem scored twice in the top half. Each club scored four times in the fourth, but the A's made it certain with a five-run explosion in the sixth.
Every player in the winning line-up, except starter Frank Logue, had at least one hit and scored one or more runs. Vic Buccola, who had four singles in a row, led the hit parade, while Lou Kubiak, Babe Jensen, Sal Recca and reliever Jim Propst had three bingles.
Distraught Senators manager Jack Wilson even took a turn on the mound to try to stem the damage. He gave up two runs in his two-inning stint, but he also had a home run and a walk in two trips, and batted in three runs.
Salem ........... 200 401 123—13 14 2
Victoria ......... 800 405 20x—19 21 27
Sporer, McMillan (1), Lazor (6), Wilson (7) and Burgher; Logue, Propst (4), Owens (9) and Recca.

Wednesday, June 23, 1948

2007-07-04T20:36:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 39 23 .629 --
Bremerton .. 40 26 .606 1
Vancouver .. 33 29 .532 6
Victoria ... 34 32 .515 7
Spokane .... 31 30 .508 7½
Wenatchee .. 28 36 .437 12
Salem ...... 28 38 .424 13
Yakima ..... 23 42 .354 18

BREMERTON, June 23—Tom Rose, Wenatchee righthander, qualified as a hard-luck pitcher of the season here tonight when he held the Bluejackets to a single hit only to lose the first game of a double-header, 2-0.
The Chiefs were only able to pick up two hits from the offerings of Keith Simon, who won the game himself by clouting a home run with Frank Volpi, who had walked, on base.
The aroused Chiefs came back in the second game to pound out a 10-2 victory, making good use of ten hits and sending John Marshall down to defeat. Their four runs broke a scoreless streak of 29 innings. The Tars won three games in a row, 2-0.
First game
Wenatchee ......... 000 000 0— 0 2 1
Bremerton ........... 002 000 x—2 1 0
Rose and Dalrymple; Simon and Volpi.
Second game
Wenatchee ......... 410 001 004—10 8 0
Bremerton ........... 000 010 100—2 11 2
Gibson and Gardner; Marshall, Moore (9) and Ronning.

TACOMA, June 23—The Tacoma Tigers added a half game to their Western International League lead as they got a two-hit pitching chore from Cy Greenlaw.
The veteran southpaw bested Jack Teagan and the Spokane Indians, 1-0. The only run was scored by Glen Stetter, who singled, stole second, went to third on an infield error and came in on a successful double steal.
Spokane .......... 000 000 000—0 2 2
Tacoma ........... 001 000 00x—1 3 1
Teagan and Sheely; Greenlaw and Rossi.

VANCOUVER, June 23—The Salem Senators lost their 16th game in 18 starts and the Vancouver Capilanos won their 13th in 18 tonight. The Brownies had two big innings to register a 10-9 victory. Bob Snyder received credit for his sixth win, despite socking him for a dozen blows and ganged five of those for as many runs in the third inning.
The Caps had a six-run assault in the eighth inning to go ahead, after trailing 8-4. With one out, Len Tran dumped a three-run homer over the right wall. Joe Kaney flew out and Frank Mullens lofted a fly that would have the rally. But right fielder Bus McMillan lost the ball and the game was tied.
Jack Warren, who had homered in a four-run first frame rally, walked and after Charlie Mead singled, Ken Wyatt was replaced on the mound by Jim Olson. He walked Buddy Hjelmaa and Bill Brenner, coming up for the second time in the inning, singled home two runs.
Salem attempted to make a comeback in the ninth. reliever Sandy Robertson got the first two out, but walked Mel Nunes who scored on Bill Burgher's ringing double to left centre. But he personally tossed out pitcher Olson to end the game after intentionally walking McMillan.
Bob Snyder received credit for his sixth win, despite socking him for a dozen blows in eight innings and ganging five of those for as many runs in the third inning.
Salem ............ 105 000 201—9 13 1
Vancouver ...... 400 000 06x—10 11 2
Wyatt, Olson (8) and Burgher; Snyder, Robertson (9) and Brenner.

VICTORIA, June 23—A wild pitch by Bob Drilling with the bases filled in the tenth inning brought in the winning run as the Victoria Athletics shaded the Yakima Packers, 7-6, in a Western International League thriller here tonight.
The A's gave up an unearned run in the tenth to put the Packers in front, then scored twice to give reliever Joe Blankenship his tenth win and sixth straight.
The Packers tallied once in the first without the aid of a base hit and tied the score in the second at 2-2 after Lou Kubiak put the A's in front with his first home run of the season with Charlie Blassi on base.
Archie Wilson's long fly scored Kubiak in the third to make it 3-2, but Yakima squared the count in the fourth. Wilson led off the sixth with a long triple to right field and scored on Babe Jensen's fly to put the Athletics ahead. Singled by Sal Recca, and Balassi, Bill Harmsen's sacrifice and Kubiak's infield out added another run in the seventh.
The Packers drove Harmsen from the box in the ninth, the first two batters reaching second and third on singles and Wilson's error. Ray French's single drove in both runners to score but Blankenship got out of the inning with a double play.
Bob Pirack, who relieved Bill Freeman, retired in favour of Drilling, after giving up a single to Kubiak and a double to Jack Palmer in the tenth. Wilson then beat out an infield hit to load the sacks and Jensen bounced a single through short to tie the score. With Morgan at the plate and the bases still loaded, Drilling uncorked a wild pitch and Palmer came in from third to send 1,900 fans home happy.
Yakima ........... 110 100 002 1—6 12 1
Victoria ........... 201 001 100 2—7 13 4
Freeman, Pirack (9) , Drilling (10) and Eastwood; Harmon, Blankenship (9) and Recca.

Tuesday, June 22, 1948

2007-07-04T20:23:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 38 23 .623 --
Bremerton .. 39 25 .609 ½
Vancouver .. 32 29 .525 6
Spokane .... 31 29 .517 6½
Victoria ... 33 32 .508 7
Wenatchee .. 27 35 .435 11½
Salem ...... 28 37 .431 12
Yakima ..... 23 41 .359 16½

VICTORIA, June 22—Catcher Dick Morgan, making his first appearance in the Victoria line-up, batted in the tying run in the eighth and the winning run in the tenth to give the Athletics a 3-2 decision over the Yakima Packers tonight.
The A's handed the Packers both their runs. Jack Palmer tried to make a force play at the wrong time in the second inning. He got a bases-loaded grounder tossed to him at second by shorstop Lou Kubiak, but instead of throwing to first, he threw to third. But the force play was off and a run scored. Pitcher Del Owens' wild toss into right field on a bunt allowed another run to score in the sixth.
The Athletics fought back, starting in the seventh. Palmer singled Owens across, then tied it in the eighth when Babe Jensen singled, was bunted along by Sal Recca then Morgan smacked a hard drive through the infield.
Jensen singled to open the tenth and Vic Buccola walked, setting the stage for Morgan's game-winning hit.
Yakima ............ 010 001 000 0—2 10 0
Victoria ........... 000 000 110 1—3 9 1
Ford, Kittle (9) and Constantino; Owens and Recca.

VANCOUVER, June 22—Carl Gunnarson tossed a five-hitter in the opener and Bob Costello responded with an eight-hit game in the nightcap as the Vancouver Capilanos swept the Salem Senators, 4-2 and 7-2.
Charlie Mead started the Caps in both contests. He poked one over the right field fence in the second inning of the first game for the first score and topped off a rally in the second game with a ringing single to centre that put Vancouver ahead 3-0 in the third inning.
Gunnarson kept the Senators off the scoreboard in the first game until the sixth inning when former Cap Ralph Samhammer poked a single to centre field and Dick Sinovic slashed a homer over the right field wall.
In the second game, Joe Kaney started things with two out in the third. He singled, Frank Mullens walked and Warren scored them both with a double to right before Mead lashed out a single to drive in Warren.
First game
Salem ........... 000 002 0—2 5 1
Vancouver ..... 010 120 x—4 7 1
Lazor and Burgher; Gunnarson and Brenner.
Second game
Salem ........... 000 001 010—2 8 1
Vancouver ..... 003 001 12x—7 13 0
Stevenson and Burgher; Costello and Warren.

Wenatchee ...... 000 000 000—0 0 5
Bremerton ....... 001 001 00x—2 7 0
McCollum and Gardner; Conant and Volpi.

Spokane .......... 102 000 011—5 10 1
Tacoma ........... 000 101 010—3 8 2
Nelson and Sheely; Fortier, Gleason (9) and Rossi.

Monday, June 21, 1948

2007-07-04T06:32:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 38 22 .633 --
Bremerton .. 38 25 .603 1½
Spokane .... 30 29 .508 7½
Vancouver .. 30 29 .508 7½
Victoria ... 32 32 .500 8
Salem ...... 28 35 .444 11½
Wenatchee .. 27 34 .443 11½
Yakima ..... 23 40 .365 16½

VICTORIA, June 21—Joe Blankenship gained his ninth victory of the season and snapped a three-game losing streak tonight as Victoria defeated the Yakima Packers, 5-1, in the opening game of a three-game series.
Blankenship allowed a run in the second then blanked Yakima the rest of the way.
Bob Drilling, who entered the contest with a 1 and 11 record for the Packers, allowed Victoria to tie the game in the bottom of the second when Archie Wilson hit the first of two triples and Babe Jensen sent him home with the first of two doubles.
Drilling, who relied exclusively on a fastball, lost it in the seventh. Jensen singled, went to second on an out by Sal Recca, then broke the tie on Vic Buccola's double. Blankenship and Charlie Balassi walked to fill the bags and Lou Kubiak bounced one through the middle for two more runs. Wilson's second triple and Jensen's second double accounted for a run in the eighth.
A's notes - Catcher Dick Morgan has finally arrived in Victoria. He was delayed for seven days by an auto accident in Montana.
Yakima .......... 010 000 000—1 8 0
Victoria ......... 010 000 31x—5 10 1
Drilling and Tornay; Blankenship and Recca.

VANCOUVER, June 21—Orrin Snyder's single in the tenth inning tonight gave the Vancouver Capilanos a 7-6 win over the Salem Senators in the opener of a four-game Western International League series.
The contest in which neither pitcher racked up a strikeout was the first loss for the Senators' Jim Olson — against nine victories —and the first win for Sandy Robertson of Vancouver.
The Caps' extra-inning run came after surging Salem roared back in the top of the ninth with three runs on singles by Sammy Samhammer, Dick Sinovic and Bill Burgher and a sharp double by Mel Nunes. The burst tied the count 6-6.
Snyder's single scored Bill Reese who had doubled. The same two Caps started off a five-run outburst in the seventh. Their singles, two walks and two Salem errors gave Vancouver a 6-2 lead.
Salem ............ 100 100 013 0—6 10 1
Vancouver ...... 000 001 500 1—7 12 0
Olson and Stumpf, Burgher (4); Anderson, Robertson (4) and Warren.

BREMERTON, June 21—Bremerton's red-hot Bluejackets won their sixth game in a row and their 16th in their last 19 starts as they shut out the Wenatchee Chiefs, 2-0, in the opener of their Western International League series.
The victory pared the idle Tacoma Tigers' margin over the runner-up Bluejackets to 1½ games. Joe Sullivan, ex-major leaguer, limited the Chiefs to there hits. Bill Wilson doubled to become the only Wenatchee player who got past first base.
Wenatchee .......... 000 000 000—0 3 0
Bremerton ........... 000 000 02x—2 6 1
Cronin and Dalrymple; Sullivan and Ronning.

(only games scheduled)

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

KATCHER—PITCHER
Katcher now pitching for Lubbock.
It has the fans all confused.
To make it worse, Frank Katcher, the pitcher, hurls with either hand.
Katcher, Stilwell, Okla., rookie, recently assigned to the Lubbock Huggers of the West Texas-New Mexico League, switched from left-handed to right-handed pitching after he hurt his left shoulder in France. Now his left arm has recovered, giving him the choice.
- June 21, 1948

Sunday, June 20, 1948

2007-07-04T06:24:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 38 22 .633 --
Bremerton .. 37 25 .597 2
Spokane .... 30 29 .508 7½
Vancouver .. 29 29 .500 8
Victoria ... 31 32 .492 8½
Salem ...... 28 34 .452 11
Wenatchee .. 27 33 .450 11
Yakima ..... 23 39 .371 16

Triple Killing Notched By Indians
By the Associated Press
The Spokane Indians sit in third place in the Western International League today despite being victims of the season's first triple play.
The Redmen slapped a pair of defeats on the Victoria Athletics 13-11 and 10-1 yesterday to jump into the first division a half game ahead of Vancouver.
The triple play came in the third inning of the opener after Bill Wright and Bud Sheely had singled. George Valine, attempting to bunt, popped the hall behind the pitcher's box. Vic Buccola raced over from first base to make a diving catch, fired the ball to Lou Kubiak at second who relayed to Jack Palmer at first to complete the triple killing.
Tacoma slapped Salem down twice 6-2 and 5-4 but failed to gain ground on runner-up Bremerton which dumped Salem by scores of 9-7 and 7-3.
Vancouver and Wenatchee divided their twin bill, the Canadians winning the first 7-4 and Wenatchee breaking an 11-game losing streak with a 5-4 second game triumph.

WENATCHEE, June 20—Home runs by Bill Reese, Charlie Mead and Jack Warren helped Vancouver pick up a 7-4 win in the opener of a Sunday twin-bill in Wenatchee. The Chiefs won the second game, 5-4.
Reece and Warren hit solo homers, Warren's in the fifth inning, while Charlie Mead had a two-run shot for Vancouver. Bill Wilson batted in three of the four Wenatchee runs, two of them on a home run.
In the night game, Warren had two homers amongst his four hits, and batted in all the Vancouver runs. Wilson also smacked a solo shot in this game.
First game
Vancouver ........... 000 232 0—7 7 5
Wenatchee .......... 101 020 0—4 9 3
Costello and Warren; Horton, Gilson (5), Stevens (7) and Gardner.
Second game
Vancouver .......... 101 020 000—4 8 1
Wenatchee ......... 104 000 00x—5 8 3
Saltzman and Warren; Lierman and Dalrymple, Gardner (8).

First game
Tacoma .......... 000 420 0—6 7 2
Yakima ........... 001 000 1—2 9 1
Vanturelli and Hargadon; Kittle and Eastwood, Constantino (5).
Second game
Tacoma ......... 000 010 310—5 10 0
Yakima .......... 001 003 000—4 7 0
Clary, Nicholas (6) and Rossi; Strait, Drilling (7) and Wyatt.

First game
Bremerton ......... 401 121 0—9 12 1
Salem .............. 300 200 2—7 10 1
Barnise and Volpi; Wyatt and Stumpf.
Second game
Bremerton ........ 001 303 000—7 9 1
Salem .............. 002 010 000—3 11 5
Hittle and Ronning; Sporer and Stumpf.

First game
Victoria ......... 000 502 004—11 16 2
Spokane ........ 400 330 30x—13 15 5
Harmsen, Goot (4), Ward (4), Owens (6) and Recca, Holmes, Perry (4), Orphal (9), Nelson (9) and Sheely.
Second game
Victoria ........ 000 000 001—1 5 2
Spokane ....... 102 106 00x—10 16 1
Kasparovitch, Goot (6) and Recca; Babbitt and Sheely.