W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 34 21 .618 --
Bremerton .. 32 25 .561 3
Vancouver .. 26 26 .500 6½
Victoria ... 28 29 .491 7
Salem ...... 28 29 .491 7
Wenatchee .. 26 28 .481 7½
Spokane .... 25 28 .472 8
Yakima ..... 22 35 .386 12½
TACOMA, June 16—Bulky John Marshall and veteran Hub Kittle split a double-header tonight. Marshall captured the seven-inning first game as the Bremerton Bluejackets blanked Yakima, 5-0. It was the ninth straight loss for the Packers and their first whitewashing of the season.
The Bluejackets scored all five runs in the fifth inning when they reached Kittle for seven hits, including a three-run double by catcher Frank Volpi and another two-bagged by Ed Samcoff.
Kittle got his revenge in the second game. Relieving Max Strait, who got in trouble in the eighth, Kittle stopped the Tars and gained credit for the victory when the Packers rallied with two runs off Marshall in the bottom of the ninth for a 5-4 triumph. Marshall relieved Lloyd Hittle in the eighth.
First game
Bremerton ........... 000 050 0—5 10 1
Yakima ................ 000 000 0—0 8 0
Marshall and Volpi; Kittle and Eastwood.
Second game
Bremerton .......... 000 000 040—4 7 4
Yakima ............... 000 120 002—5 14 2
Hittle, Marshall (8) and Ronning, Volpi (8); Strait, Kittle (8) and Constantino.
SALEM, June 16—One streak continued and another was broken as the Tacoma Tigers divided a double-header with Salem to remain three games ahead of Bremerton.
Jim Olson marked up his ninth straight pitching triumph for the Senators in the afterpiece, despite giving ip 12 hits, as Salem edged the Tigers, 8-5. The game brought an end to Tacoma's winning streak, which was extended to eight straight as the Tigers took the opener, 5-4.
First game
Tacoma ........ 010 003 01—5 12 1
Salem ........... 100 011 10—4 10 0
Clary, Nicholas (7) and Hargadon, Rossi (7); Wyatt, Carr (7) and Burgher.
Second game
Tacoma ......... 012 200 000—5 12 2
Salem ............ 011 600 00x—8 16 1
Smith, Venturelli (2), Sciarra (4) and Rossi; Olson and Stumpf.
Spokane at Vancouver, rained out.
Wenatchee at Victoria, rained out.
Shortstop Added to A's Roster
VICTORIA, June 16—Reg Patterson, business manager of the Victoria Athletics, announced the signing of a new shortstop today.
Russ Walseth attended Yankees' training camp and was highly regarded by Yankees officials. He flew in today following completion of his studies at the University of Colorado.
Walseth becomes the 17th man on the A's roster, which has lacked a utility player.
Sammy Signs With Salem
SALEM, Ore., June 16—Ralph Samhammer, left-handed power-hitter who has long been in the Western International League, was signed today by Salem.
He was with Vancouver, B.C., this season, but was released because club officials felt he wanted too much money.
Samhammer will arrive here Friday to open Salem's series with Bremerton. He is now at his home in Ventura, Calif.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Tuesday, June 15, 1948
STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 33 20 .615 --
Bremerton .. 31 24 .564 3
Vancouver .. 26 26 .500 6½
Victoria ... 28 29 .491 7
Salem ...... 27 28 .491 7
Wenatchee .. 26 28 .481 7½
Spokane .... 25 28 .472 8
Yakima ..... 21 34 .382 13
VICTORIA, June 15—Len Kasparovitch tossed two-ball through eighth innings but gave up a three-run homer to Jerry Gardner in the ninth. Still, a late-game surge for Victoria gave Kasparovitch his seventh win, as the Athletics beat the Wenatchee Chiefs 8-4 tonight.
Tom Rose, on the mound for the Chiefs, had allowed only two runs through the first six innings, but ran into a wild streak. Five bases on balls sandwiched around Vic Buccola's single broke up a 2-1 ball game. Two more walks brought in Chuck Cronin in the eighth and Jack Palmer tagged the Chiefs' manager for a home run for the final Victoria tally.
The A's opened the scoring in the fourth when Archie Wilson singled, went to second as Nick Palica let the ball go through, stole third and scored onn Babe Jensen's slashing hit. Rose struck a blow when he smacked on over the fence in the sixth, but Wilson got the run back in the A's half of the inning with his tenth home run.
Wenatchee ........ 000 001 003—4 7 1
Victoria ............. 000 101 33x—8 9 0
Rose, Cronin (8) and Dalrymple; Kasparovitch and Recca.
SALEM, June 15—Tacoma Tigers, Western International League leaders, swept a twin bill from the Salem Senators tonight, taking the nightcap 5-3 after capturing the opener 6-3.
Jim Gibson set Salem down with six hits in the second game, the Tigers getting their winning margin on a two-run outburst in the ninth when Dan Perlmutter and Jim Gleason singled and Larry Lee followed with a triple.
First game
Tacoma .......... 042 000 0—6 10 3
Salem ............. 000 030 0—3 6 1
Fortier and Rossi; Lazor, McMilan (4) and Burcher.
Second game
Tacoma ........ 100 101 001—5 10 0
Salem ........... 100 000 101—3 6 1
Gleason and Rossi; Sporer and Stumpf.
SPOKANE, June 15—Pitcher Bill Werbowski claimed win No. 1 in seven tries tonight as Spokane Indians thumped Vancouver Capilanos, 11-0, in a Western International League game.
The Caps could collect only four hits off Werbowski, who was a 17-game winner for Spokane last year. Three of the hits went to Frank Mullens. Bob Snyder got the other.
Leo Thomas had a three-run double for the winners in the eighth, when the Indians scored six times.
Vancouver ...... 000 000 000—0 4 3
Spokane ......... 122 000 06x—11 12 1
Costello, Snyder (8) and Warren; Werbowski and Sheely.
YAKIMA, June 15—After giving up two runs in the first two inings, Keith Simon shut out his former teammates tonight as Bremerton defeated Yakima, 8-2. It was his eighth victory against four setbacks.
Bremerton ......... 102 100 103—8 10 2
Yakima .............. 110 000 000—2 10 2
Simon and Volpi; Ford, Pirack (4), Herder (8) and Constantino.
College Stars to Join Tars
Bremerton, Wash., June 15—Several changes on the roster of the Bremerton Bluejackets were disclosed in Associated Press dispatches today.
Joining the Tars will be two of the outstanding stars of the University of California club signed by the parent Oakland Acorns. They are Nino Barnisse, the Bears' leading hurler, and Lyle Palmer, fleet-footed centre-fielder.
To make room for the duo, the Oaks have recalled infielder Jimmy Brown and pitcher Gene Chelli, and assigned them to Stockton, their farm club in the Class "C" California State League.
Both Barnisse and Palmer are rated as major league prospects and their acquisition is expected to strengthen the already potent Jackets even further.
Baseball Scapegoat as Police Chief
Forbids Staging of Sunday Games
by ED ROMAINE
Vancouver, June 16—Vancouver had its first Sunday baseball game this week. The fans liked it, as did the flood victims. But John Law didn't.
Baseball was made the innocent scapegoat in the sudden appearance of the Lord's Day Act in the British Columbia flood relief picture.
Following Sunday's Western International League exhibition tilt between Vancouver Capilanos and Victoria Athletics, Police Chief Walter Mulligan said, "Don't do it again."
Local sports scribes promptly jumped to the defence of the game.
Don (Vancouver Sun) Carlson says: "Well, Fraser River, don't you do it again."
The two ball clubs sidestepped fixtures with teams south of the border in order to play the benefit game. Everyone paid, even the management. The exhibition grossed $2,500-odd for the flood fund from the 2,000 or so who defied the Lord's Day Act. By playing the benefit game both teams "losy" $1,000 each.
Carlson says: "You could have knocked everybody in the Capilano front office over with a feather after Chief Mulligan's statement appeared in Monday's early editions.
"HEATHER RIVER"
"Of course, sooner or later, we were bound to hear about this anachronistic law, what with a bunch of heathens rushing about trying to raise money for victims of a heathen river which threatened lives and property Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday."
"So," says Carlson, "on one side you had a sport organization anxious to help flood victims with an act of Christian charity. On the other you had the Lord's Day Act. In the middle you had Attorney-General Gordon Wismer and Chief Mulligan, charged with enforcing the Act.
"The Act was offended. And who now is left in the middle? That rag-tailed, Sabbath-breaking game of baseball."
Carlson contends baseball took a public tar and feathering.
"The boys who cover the floods tell me the river was just as high on Sundays as on Mondays," he continued. Houses and barns went a-floating downstream as buoyantly on the Sabbath as on a Tuesday.
"In my day I don't think I have ever run into a disaster which picked a week day because there was a Lord's Day Act against it."
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 33 20 .615 --
Bremerton .. 31 24 .564 3
Vancouver .. 26 26 .500 6½
Victoria ... 28 29 .491 7
Salem ...... 27 28 .491 7
Wenatchee .. 26 28 .481 7½
Spokane .... 25 28 .472 8
Yakima ..... 21 34 .382 13
VICTORIA, June 15—Len Kasparovitch tossed two-ball through eighth innings but gave up a three-run homer to Jerry Gardner in the ninth. Still, a late-game surge for Victoria gave Kasparovitch his seventh win, as the Athletics beat the Wenatchee Chiefs 8-4 tonight.
Tom Rose, on the mound for the Chiefs, had allowed only two runs through the first six innings, but ran into a wild streak. Five bases on balls sandwiched around Vic Buccola's single broke up a 2-1 ball game. Two more walks brought in Chuck Cronin in the eighth and Jack Palmer tagged the Chiefs' manager for a home run for the final Victoria tally.
The A's opened the scoring in the fourth when Archie Wilson singled, went to second as Nick Palica let the ball go through, stole third and scored onn Babe Jensen's slashing hit. Rose struck a blow when he smacked on over the fence in the sixth, but Wilson got the run back in the A's half of the inning with his tenth home run.
Wenatchee ........ 000 001 003—4 7 1
Victoria ............. 000 101 33x—8 9 0
Rose, Cronin (8) and Dalrymple; Kasparovitch and Recca.
SALEM, June 15—Tacoma Tigers, Western International League leaders, swept a twin bill from the Salem Senators tonight, taking the nightcap 5-3 after capturing the opener 6-3.
Jim Gibson set Salem down with six hits in the second game, the Tigers getting their winning margin on a two-run outburst in the ninth when Dan Perlmutter and Jim Gleason singled and Larry Lee followed with a triple.
First game
Tacoma .......... 042 000 0—6 10 3
Salem ............. 000 030 0—3 6 1
Fortier and Rossi; Lazor, McMilan (4) and Burcher.
Second game
Tacoma ........ 100 101 001—5 10 0
Salem ........... 100 000 101—3 6 1
Gleason and Rossi; Sporer and Stumpf.
SPOKANE, June 15—Pitcher Bill Werbowski claimed win No. 1 in seven tries tonight as Spokane Indians thumped Vancouver Capilanos, 11-0, in a Western International League game.
The Caps could collect only four hits off Werbowski, who was a 17-game winner for Spokane last year. Three of the hits went to Frank Mullens. Bob Snyder got the other.
Leo Thomas had a three-run double for the winners in the eighth, when the Indians scored six times.
Vancouver ...... 000 000 000—0 4 3
Spokane ......... 122 000 06x—11 12 1
Costello, Snyder (8) and Warren; Werbowski and Sheely.
YAKIMA, June 15—After giving up two runs in the first two inings, Keith Simon shut out his former teammates tonight as Bremerton defeated Yakima, 8-2. It was his eighth victory against four setbacks.
Bremerton ......... 102 100 103—8 10 2
Yakima .............. 110 000 000—2 10 2
Simon and Volpi; Ford, Pirack (4), Herder (8) and Constantino.
College Stars to Join Tars
Bremerton, Wash., June 15—Several changes on the roster of the Bremerton Bluejackets were disclosed in Associated Press dispatches today.
Joining the Tars will be two of the outstanding stars of the University of California club signed by the parent Oakland Acorns. They are Nino Barnisse, the Bears' leading hurler, and Lyle Palmer, fleet-footed centre-fielder.
To make room for the duo, the Oaks have recalled infielder Jimmy Brown and pitcher Gene Chelli, and assigned them to Stockton, their farm club in the Class "C" California State League.
Both Barnisse and Palmer are rated as major league prospects and their acquisition is expected to strengthen the already potent Jackets even further.
Baseball Scapegoat as Police Chief
Forbids Staging of Sunday Games
by ED ROMAINE
Vancouver, June 16—Vancouver had its first Sunday baseball game this week. The fans liked it, as did the flood victims. But John Law didn't.
Baseball was made the innocent scapegoat in the sudden appearance of the Lord's Day Act in the British Columbia flood relief picture.
Following Sunday's Western International League exhibition tilt between Vancouver Capilanos and Victoria Athletics, Police Chief Walter Mulligan said, "Don't do it again."
Local sports scribes promptly jumped to the defence of the game.
Don (Vancouver Sun) Carlson says: "Well, Fraser River, don't you do it again."
The two ball clubs sidestepped fixtures with teams south of the border in order to play the benefit game. Everyone paid, even the management. The exhibition grossed $2,500-odd for the flood fund from the 2,000 or so who defied the Lord's Day Act. By playing the benefit game both teams "losy" $1,000 each.
Carlson says: "You could have knocked everybody in the Capilano front office over with a feather after Chief Mulligan's statement appeared in Monday's early editions.
"HEATHER RIVER"
"Of course, sooner or later, we were bound to hear about this anachronistic law, what with a bunch of heathens rushing about trying to raise money for victims of a heathen river which threatened lives and property Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday."
"So," says Carlson, "on one side you had a sport organization anxious to help flood victims with an act of Christian charity. On the other you had the Lord's Day Act. In the middle you had Attorney-General Gordon Wismer and Chief Mulligan, charged with enforcing the Act.
"The Act was offended. And who now is left in the middle? That rag-tailed, Sabbath-breaking game of baseball."
Carlson contends baseball took a public tar and feathering.
"The boys who cover the floods tell me the river was just as high on Sundays as on Mondays," he continued. Houses and barns went a-floating downstream as buoyantly on the Sabbath as on a Tuesday.
"In my day I don't think I have ever run into a disaster which picked a week day because there was a Lord's Day Act against it."
Monday, June 14, 1948
STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 31 20 .608 --
Bremerton .. 30 24 .556 2½
Vancouver .. 26 25 .510 5
Salem ...... 27 26 .509 5
Wenatchee .. 26 27 .591 6
Victoria ... 27 29 .482 6½
Spokane .... 24 28 .462 7½
Yakima ..... 21 33 .389 11½
VICTORIA, June 14—For the third time in five days, the Victoria Athletics rallied for two runs in the bottom of the eleventh inning, as they beat the Wenatchee Chiefs 3-2 at Royal Athletic Park before 1,300 fans.
Jack Palmer came through with his game-winning triple which plated the tying and winning runs.
Frank Logue started the game and made only one mistake. He grooved a pitch to Nick Palica, who rifled it over the fence in the eighth inning for Wenatchee for the game's first run.
The A's left two men stranded in the eighth and then tied it in the ninth. Singles by Archie Wilson and Babe Jensen put runners at first and third. Lou Kubiak was walked to load the bases and Roy Gilmore came through with a walk on a 3-2 pitch to force in the equaliser.
The A's stranded three men in the tenth when Palmer failed to sacrifice. Wenatchee mounted a challenge in the 11th when Palica led off with a double and pitcher Glen Lierman bunted, and was safe when the throw didn't reach third base in time. Jess McWilliams lined to reliever Joe Blankenship, who doubled the runner at first, but on the first pitch to Ray McNulty, Palica stole home to put the Chiefs ahead.
Victoria's winning runs came with two out. Charlie Balassi rapped a single to right with two strikes against him and Vic Buccola followed with a smash past first base. Palmer missed a high pitch, took a called ball and then rammed a high hit to left-centre to end the game.
Wenatchee .......... 000 000 010 01—2 5 0
Victoria ............... 000 000 001 02—3 10 1
Gilson, Lierman (9) and Dalrymple; Logue, Blankenship (10) and Recca.
SPOKANE, June 14—Leo Thomas hit the first Spokane home run of the season at Ferris Field tonight, but Vancouver stopped the Indians, 5-4, in the opener of a three-game Western International League series.
A crowd of 2,514 saw Thomas belt a two-run, 375-foot homer in the third inning.
A single by Orrin Snyder, a sacrifice by winning pitcher Carl Gunnarson and Len Tran's single over second base produced the tie-breaking run in the ninth for the Caps.
Vancouver's Joe Kaney banged out two hits in three trips. Late in the game, Kaney was trapped between third and home and was injured in the rundown by Thomas. He retired to the clubhouse.
Vancouver......... 003 000 1010—5 8 1
Spokane ........... 102 000 010—4 10 2
Gunnarson and Brenner; Orphal and Shelly.
SALEM, Ore., June 14—Salem lost a 7-1 exhibition to its Coast League parents, Portland, in the only other tilt tonight.
Lou Estes Traded to Yakima Nine for Neil Bryant
YAKIMA, June 14—Lou Estes, hard-hitting Wenatchee first baseman, has been traded to Yakima and will start in the outfield for the lowly Western International League Packers tomorrow night against Bremerton.
Dick Richards, general manager of the Packers, said Yakima acquired Estes in trade for infielder Neil Bryant. Estes is hitting .314.
Jim Estrada, who batted .273 for Bremerton last year, has also been sold to the Packers and will take Bryant's place in the infield, Richards said. Estrada has been attending college this spring. His contract from purchased from the Tars.
Richards also announced the outright release of shortstop Bud Fortier, former University of Oregon star. Fortier was sent to the Packers by the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League.
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 31 20 .608 --
Bremerton .. 30 24 .556 2½
Vancouver .. 26 25 .510 5
Salem ...... 27 26 .509 5
Wenatchee .. 26 27 .591 6
Victoria ... 27 29 .482 6½
Spokane .... 24 28 .462 7½
Yakima ..... 21 33 .389 11½
VICTORIA, June 14—For the third time in five days, the Victoria Athletics rallied for two runs in the bottom of the eleventh inning, as they beat the Wenatchee Chiefs 3-2 at Royal Athletic Park before 1,300 fans.
Jack Palmer came through with his game-winning triple which plated the tying and winning runs.
Frank Logue started the game and made only one mistake. He grooved a pitch to Nick Palica, who rifled it over the fence in the eighth inning for Wenatchee for the game's first run.
The A's left two men stranded in the eighth and then tied it in the ninth. Singles by Archie Wilson and Babe Jensen put runners at first and third. Lou Kubiak was walked to load the bases and Roy Gilmore came through with a walk on a 3-2 pitch to force in the equaliser.
The A's stranded three men in the tenth when Palmer failed to sacrifice. Wenatchee mounted a challenge in the 11th when Palica led off with a double and pitcher Glen Lierman bunted, and was safe when the throw didn't reach third base in time. Jess McWilliams lined to reliever Joe Blankenship, who doubled the runner at first, but on the first pitch to Ray McNulty, Palica stole home to put the Chiefs ahead.
Victoria's winning runs came with two out. Charlie Balassi rapped a single to right with two strikes against him and Vic Buccola followed with a smash past first base. Palmer missed a high pitch, took a called ball and then rammed a high hit to left-centre to end the game.
Wenatchee .......... 000 000 010 01—2 5 0
Victoria ............... 000 000 001 02—3 10 1
Gilson, Lierman (9) and Dalrymple; Logue, Blankenship (10) and Recca.
SPOKANE, June 14—Leo Thomas hit the first Spokane home run of the season at Ferris Field tonight, but Vancouver stopped the Indians, 5-4, in the opener of a three-game Western International League series.
A crowd of 2,514 saw Thomas belt a two-run, 375-foot homer in the third inning.
A single by Orrin Snyder, a sacrifice by winning pitcher Carl Gunnarson and Len Tran's single over second base produced the tie-breaking run in the ninth for the Caps.
Vancouver's Joe Kaney banged out two hits in three trips. Late in the game, Kaney was trapped between third and home and was injured in the rundown by Thomas. He retired to the clubhouse.
Vancouver......... 003 000 1010—5 8 1
Spokane ........... 102 000 010—4 10 2
Gunnarson and Brenner; Orphal and Shelly.
SALEM, Ore., June 14—Salem lost a 7-1 exhibition to its Coast League parents, Portland, in the only other tilt tonight.
Lou Estes Traded to Yakima Nine for Neil Bryant
YAKIMA, June 14—Lou Estes, hard-hitting Wenatchee first baseman, has been traded to Yakima and will start in the outfield for the lowly Western International League Packers tomorrow night against Bremerton.
Dick Richards, general manager of the Packers, said Yakima acquired Estes in trade for infielder Neil Bryant. Estes is hitting .314.
Jim Estrada, who batted .273 for Bremerton last year, has also been sold to the Packers and will take Bryant's place in the infield, Richards said. Estrada has been attending college this spring. His contract from purchased from the Tars.
Richards also announced the outright release of shortstop Bud Fortier, former University of Oregon star. Fortier was sent to the Packers by the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League.
Sunday, June 13, 1948
STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 31 20 .608 --
Bremerton .. 30 24 .556 2½
Salem ...... 27 26 .509 5
Vancouver .. 25 25 .500 5½
Wenatchee .. 26 26 .500 5½
Victoria ... 26 29 .473 7
Spokane .... 24 27 .471 7
Yakima ..... 21 33 .389 11½
First game
Yakima ......... 210 000 010—4 9 1
Tacoma ........ 220 030 230—12 17 0
Freeman, Strait (2), B. Fortier and Constantino, Nicholas and Rossi.
Second game
Yakima ........ 100 010 0—2 3 4
Tacoma ........ 000 030 x—3 8 2
Drilling and Eastwood; Sciarra and Rossi.
First game
Salem ........... 000 000 0—0 3 1
Bremerton ..... 000 010 x—1 1 0
McIrvin and Stumpf; Conant and Volpi.
Second game
Salem ........... 010 010 000—2 8 2
Bremerton ..... 102 000 10x—4 9 3
Stevenson and Stumpf; Sullivan and Ronning.
Caps, A's Boost Fund by $2,500
VANCOUVER, June 13—The Provincial Emergency Flood Benefit Relief Fund benefitted by $2,500 today. The amount was the total proceeds from the exhibition baseball game between the Victoria Athletics and Vancouver Capilanos at Capilano Stadium.
The final was 2-2. For six innings, it was a ball game with the A's holding a 1-0 lead on Vic Buccola's home run, one of three hits allowed in seven innings by Frank Higgins. The Caps ganged up on Bill Goot for a pair of runs in the sixth. Then everything happend as the players changed positions and the scorer left to sell peanuts. Manager Ted Norbert ended up pitching for the A's, with Charlie Balassi behind the plate and Len Kasparovitch at first.
Balassi put on an act that vaudeville could use. He wore full catcher's regalia when batting, and once stepped in front of a pitch and allowed it to bounce off his belly pad.
Kasparovitch, meanwhile, aped practically every player on the field and conceded himself an inside-the-park home run on a base on ball.
(only games scheduled)
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 31 20 .608 --
Bremerton .. 30 24 .556 2½
Salem ...... 27 26 .509 5
Vancouver .. 25 25 .500 5½
Wenatchee .. 26 26 .500 5½
Victoria ... 26 29 .473 7
Spokane .... 24 27 .471 7
Yakima ..... 21 33 .389 11½
First game
Yakima ......... 210 000 010—4 9 1
Tacoma ........ 220 030 230—12 17 0
Freeman, Strait (2), B. Fortier and Constantino, Nicholas and Rossi.
Second game
Yakima ........ 100 010 0—2 3 4
Tacoma ........ 000 030 x—3 8 2
Drilling and Eastwood; Sciarra and Rossi.
First game
Salem ........... 000 000 0—0 3 1
Bremerton ..... 000 010 x—1 1 0
McIrvin and Stumpf; Conant and Volpi.
Second game
Salem ........... 010 010 000—2 8 2
Bremerton ..... 102 000 10x—4 9 3
Stevenson and Stumpf; Sullivan and Ronning.
Caps, A's Boost Fund by $2,500
VANCOUVER, June 13—The Provincial Emergency Flood Benefit Relief Fund benefitted by $2,500 today. The amount was the total proceeds from the exhibition baseball game between the Victoria Athletics and Vancouver Capilanos at Capilano Stadium.
The final was 2-2. For six innings, it was a ball game with the A's holding a 1-0 lead on Vic Buccola's home run, one of three hits allowed in seven innings by Frank Higgins. The Caps ganged up on Bill Goot for a pair of runs in the sixth. Then everything happend as the players changed positions and the scorer left to sell peanuts. Manager Ted Norbert ended up pitching for the A's, with Charlie Balassi behind the plate and Len Kasparovitch at first.
Balassi put on an act that vaudeville could use. He wore full catcher's regalia when batting, and once stepped in front of a pitch and allowed it to bounce off his belly pad.
Kasparovitch, meanwhile, aped practically every player on the field and conceded himself an inside-the-park home run on a base on ball.
(only games scheduled)
Saturday, June 12, 1948
VICTORIA, June 12—The Victoria Athletics pulled out the first game of two with a four-run ninth inning as they defeated the Spokane Indians, 6-5, this afternoon. The Indians came back to win the night game, 4-2.
The late rally in the opener came on home runs by Roy Gilmore and Vic Buccola.
Babe Jensen drew a walk to start the uprising. Lou Kubiak followed with a single. Gilmore, a strikeout victim on his three previous trips, ran the count to 3-2, lined a long foul down the left field line, then dropped a high home run over the centre field fence. The next two outs were easy for Frank Nelson and it looked like extra innings before Buccola came through.
Bill Harmsen made his Victoria debut and gave up 12 hits in the night game. But an error by Babe Jensen led to two runs in the eighth inning that were the margin of victory.
The A's reached winning pitcher Jack Teagan for 11 hits, including five doubles.
First game
Spokane ......... 011 300 000—5 10 1
Victoria .......... 100 001 004—6 8 1
Nelson and Sheely; Kasparovitch, Owens (4) and Recca.
Second game
Spokane ........ 010 000 120—4 12 1
Victoria ......... 100 001 000—2 11 3
Teagan and Sheely; Harmsen and Recca.
VANCOUVER, June 12—The Vancouver Capilanos took both ends of a double-header with the Wenatchee Chiefs here today to gain a tie with their opponants for fourth place. Vancouver swept the three-game series.
The Caps trimmed Wenatchee 13-1 in the opener as Charlie Mead hit two homers, one with the bases loaded in the fourth inning.
Caps took the nightcap 6-5 in 11 innings. Frank Mullens' solid single to centre scored Hunk Anderson, who singled, moved to second on an error on a bunt, then to third a walk before coming in with the winning run.
The Caps beat Lou McCollum, seeking his eighth win and looking adequate in spite of the 15 hits he gave up. Four of those went to Buddy Hjelmaa, who had a perfect night.
A tough fourth frame had given Wenatchee four runs and a 4-2 lead. Both Nick Palica and Jerry Gardner hit homers in that frame. Caps tied it in the sixth, trailed again in the seventh and ganged three hits for the tying run in the eighth.
The game marked the end of Joe Kaney's 22-game hitting streak.
First game
Wenatchee ............. 000 000 001—1 7 2
Vancouver .............. 110 400 52x—13 18 2
Horton, Lierman (1) and Dalrymple; Snyder and Brenner.
Second game
Wenatchee ............ 000 400 100 0x—5 11 3
Vancouver ............. 020 011 010 01—6 15 1
McCollum and Dalrymple; Robertson, Anderson (10) and Warren.
TACOMA, June 12—Tacoma Tigers came from behind in both their contests with the last-place Packers to triumph 5-4 and 8-5 tonight.
The double-victory made it three in a row for Tacoma in the current series ansd seven out of seven against the lowly Packers for the season.
The Tigers jumped on Hub Kittle, an old nemesis, for four runs in the eighth inning to grab the opener. Five Yakima errors figured strongly in the second game, all but one of the eighth Tigers counters being unearned. Tacoma's Dick Greco, with four hits in seven trips to the plate, was the leading sticker.
First game
Yakima ........... 100 120 000—4 9 3
Tacoma .......... 000 000 14x—5 8 5
Kittle and Constantino; Greenlaw and Hargadon, Rossi (8).
Second game
Yakima .............. 103 000 1—5 7 5
Tacoma ............. 002 130 x—6 8 1
Pirack, Harder (6) and Eastwood; Clary, Venturelli (3) and Rossi.
First game
Salem ............ 010 101 0—3 7 1
Bremerton ...... 020 001 x—1 4 1
Olson and Stumpf; Marshall and Volpi.
Second game
Salem ............ 020 000 000—2 6 0
Bremerton ...... 020 001 00x—3 7 1
Wyatt and Stumpf; Hittle and Ronning.
The late rally in the opener came on home runs by Roy Gilmore and Vic Buccola.
Babe Jensen drew a walk to start the uprising. Lou Kubiak followed with a single. Gilmore, a strikeout victim on his three previous trips, ran the count to 3-2, lined a long foul down the left field line, then dropped a high home run over the centre field fence. The next two outs were easy for Frank Nelson and it looked like extra innings before Buccola came through.
Bill Harmsen made his Victoria debut and gave up 12 hits in the night game. But an error by Babe Jensen led to two runs in the eighth inning that were the margin of victory.
The A's reached winning pitcher Jack Teagan for 11 hits, including five doubles.
First game
Spokane ......... 011 300 000—5 10 1
Victoria .......... 100 001 004—6 8 1
Nelson and Sheely; Kasparovitch, Owens (4) and Recca.
Second game
Spokane ........ 010 000 120—4 12 1
Victoria ......... 100 001 000—2 11 3
Teagan and Sheely; Harmsen and Recca.
VANCOUVER, June 12—The Vancouver Capilanos took both ends of a double-header with the Wenatchee Chiefs here today to gain a tie with their opponants for fourth place. Vancouver swept the three-game series.
The Caps trimmed Wenatchee 13-1 in the opener as Charlie Mead hit two homers, one with the bases loaded in the fourth inning.
Caps took the nightcap 6-5 in 11 innings. Frank Mullens' solid single to centre scored Hunk Anderson, who singled, moved to second on an error on a bunt, then to third a walk before coming in with the winning run.
The Caps beat Lou McCollum, seeking his eighth win and looking adequate in spite of the 15 hits he gave up. Four of those went to Buddy Hjelmaa, who had a perfect night.
A tough fourth frame had given Wenatchee four runs and a 4-2 lead. Both Nick Palica and Jerry Gardner hit homers in that frame. Caps tied it in the sixth, trailed again in the seventh and ganged three hits for the tying run in the eighth.
The game marked the end of Joe Kaney's 22-game hitting streak.
First game
Wenatchee ............. 000 000 001—1 7 2
Vancouver .............. 110 400 52x—13 18 2
Horton, Lierman (1) and Dalrymple; Snyder and Brenner.
Second game
Wenatchee ............ 000 400 100 0x—5 11 3
Vancouver ............. 020 011 010 01—6 15 1
McCollum and Dalrymple; Robertson, Anderson (10) and Warren.
TACOMA, June 12—Tacoma Tigers came from behind in both their contests with the last-place Packers to triumph 5-4 and 8-5 tonight.
The double-victory made it three in a row for Tacoma in the current series ansd seven out of seven against the lowly Packers for the season.
The Tigers jumped on Hub Kittle, an old nemesis, for four runs in the eighth inning to grab the opener. Five Yakima errors figured strongly in the second game, all but one of the eighth Tigers counters being unearned. Tacoma's Dick Greco, with four hits in seven trips to the plate, was the leading sticker.
First game
Yakima ........... 100 120 000—4 9 3
Tacoma .......... 000 000 14x—5 8 5
Kittle and Constantino; Greenlaw and Hargadon, Rossi (8).
Second game
Yakima .............. 103 000 1—5 7 5
Tacoma ............. 002 130 x—6 8 1
Pirack, Harder (6) and Eastwood; Clary, Venturelli (3) and Rossi.
First game
Salem ............ 010 101 0—3 7 1
Bremerton ...... 020 001 x—1 4 1
Olson and Stumpf; Marshall and Volpi.
Second game
Salem ............ 020 000 000—2 6 0
Bremerton ...... 020 001 00x—3 7 1
Wyatt and Stumpf; Hittle and Ronning.
Thursday, June 10, 1948
STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 27 20 .574 --
Bremerton .. 27 23 .540 1½
Salem ...... 26 23 .531 2
Wenatchee .. 26 24 .520 2½
Vancouver .. 23 25 .479 4½
Victoria ... 25 28 .472 5
Spokane .... 23 26 .469 5
Yakima ..... 21 29 .420 7
VICTORIA, June 10—Charlie Balassi bounced a single through the middle with runners on third and second with one out in the 13th inning to give the Victoria Athletics a 6-5 decision over the Spokane Indians here tonight.
Manager Buddy Ryan elected not to intentionally walk the pitcher with first base open to set up a force at every base, even though intentional passes were followed by outs four times earlier in the game.
With Sal Recca hitting a home run and double to bat in four runs, and Jim Propst in his best form, the A's were sporting a 5-1 lead at the end of six innings. Babe Jensen started Propst's downfall with a boot on John Cordell's grounder after Changaris had singled. Jack Palmer then dropped Lou Kubiak's toss at second in a double-play attempts. Singles by Thomas and Roy Younker scored three runs.
Valine led off the Spokane eighth with a double and all hands were safe when Vic Buccola took Nelson's ground ball and tried to make an impossible play at third. Joe Blankenship took over for Propst, who gave up an outfield fly to Changeris to tie the score.
From there, Victoria kept the Indians off the board, and not without trying.
Kubiak made a throw from deep short in the ninth for the third out as a run crossed the plate. In the 11th, Gene Petralli led off with a double and Jensen bobbled Thomas' sacrifice bunt to put runners at first and third with non out. But Blankenship struck out Younkers, walked Bud Sheely intentionally, then got Valine to hit into a double-play.
The A's had the winning run on second in the ninth, loaded the bases in the tenth, and had two runners on in the 12th before breaking through in the 13th.
Jensen led off with a single and Buccola hustled out a bunt for a base hit. Blankenship sacrificed to set the stage for Balassi's game-winning bounder.
Only 900 fans took in what was likely the most suspenseful game in three years of Western International League play here.
Spokane ......... 000 001 310 000 0—5 11 0
Victoria .......... 000 203 000 000 1—6 12 4
Cordell, Babbitt (10) and Sheely; Propst, Blankenship (8) and Recca.
BREMERTON, June 10—Bremerton Tars took over second place in the Western International League tonight with a 5-3 win over Salem as Keith Simon held the Senators to two hits. Salem failed to score until the ninth when Al Spaeter clouted a three-run triple after an error and two walks had filled the sacks.
The victory was Simon's eleventh against two defeats.
Salem ........... 000 000 003—3 2 1
Bremerton ..... 000 131 00x—5 10 1
Lazor, McMillan (7) and Stumpf; Simon and Volpi.
TACOMA, June 10-Tacoma Tigers broke loose with an eight-run uprising in the fifth inning to defeat Yakima 12-3.
The big inning was highlighted by Dick Greco's two-run double and Hank Vallee's three-run triple. Ray Fortier, Tacoma left-hander, pitched a near six-hitter.
Yakima .......... 200 000 001—3 6 1
Tacoma ......... 000 080 40x—12 15 3
Drilling, Harder (5), B. Fortier (7) and Eastwood; R. Fortier and Rossi.
VANCOUVER, June 10—The Wenatchee Chiefs arrived in Vancouver with only 13 players, so they likely were a little pleased when rain called a halt to the proceedings after six innings here tonight, as Vancouver pulled off an 11-3.
The Caps slapped out a dozen hits, two of them homers by Frank Mullens and Charlie Mead. Mullens also banged a triple and Orrin Snyder collected three hits.
Tom Rose went the distance for the losers. Nine of the runs against him were earned.
Bob Costello might have had a shutout except for a tough fifth inning when the Chiefs scored three to bring the score close at 4-3. Len Tran threw away a double-play ball and Jack Warren dropped a perfect strike thrown after the catch by Mullens to aid the foes.
Mead's two-run homer bumped the lead, and five runs, along with the rain, ended the game in the sixth.
Wenatchee ...... 000 030—3 5 1
Vancouver ....... 201 125—11 12 3
(called after six innings due to rain)
Rose and Dalrymple; Costello and Ward.
W L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 27 20 .574 --
Bremerton .. 27 23 .540 1½
Salem ...... 26 23 .531 2
Wenatchee .. 26 24 .520 2½
Vancouver .. 23 25 .479 4½
Victoria ... 25 28 .472 5
Spokane .... 23 26 .469 5
Yakima ..... 21 29 .420 7
VICTORIA, June 10—Charlie Balassi bounced a single through the middle with runners on third and second with one out in the 13th inning to give the Victoria Athletics a 6-5 decision over the Spokane Indians here tonight.
Manager Buddy Ryan elected not to intentionally walk the pitcher with first base open to set up a force at every base, even though intentional passes were followed by outs four times earlier in the game.
With Sal Recca hitting a home run and double to bat in four runs, and Jim Propst in his best form, the A's were sporting a 5-1 lead at the end of six innings. Babe Jensen started Propst's downfall with a boot on John Cordell's grounder after Changaris had singled. Jack Palmer then dropped Lou Kubiak's toss at second in a double-play attempts. Singles by Thomas and Roy Younker scored three runs.
Valine led off the Spokane eighth with a double and all hands were safe when Vic Buccola took Nelson's ground ball and tried to make an impossible play at third. Joe Blankenship took over for Propst, who gave up an outfield fly to Changeris to tie the score.
From there, Victoria kept the Indians off the board, and not without trying.
Kubiak made a throw from deep short in the ninth for the third out as a run crossed the plate. In the 11th, Gene Petralli led off with a double and Jensen bobbled Thomas' sacrifice bunt to put runners at first and third with non out. But Blankenship struck out Younkers, walked Bud Sheely intentionally, then got Valine to hit into a double-play.
The A's had the winning run on second in the ninth, loaded the bases in the tenth, and had two runners on in the 12th before breaking through in the 13th.
Jensen led off with a single and Buccola hustled out a bunt for a base hit. Blankenship sacrificed to set the stage for Balassi's game-winning bounder.
Only 900 fans took in what was likely the most suspenseful game in three years of Western International League play here.
Spokane ......... 000 001 310 000 0—5 11 0
Victoria .......... 000 203 000 000 1—6 12 4
Cordell, Babbitt (10) and Sheely; Propst, Blankenship (8) and Recca.
BREMERTON, June 10—Bremerton Tars took over second place in the Western International League tonight with a 5-3 win over Salem as Keith Simon held the Senators to two hits. Salem failed to score until the ninth when Al Spaeter clouted a three-run triple after an error and two walks had filled the sacks.
The victory was Simon's eleventh against two defeats.
Salem ........... 000 000 003—3 2 1
Bremerton ..... 000 131 00x—5 10 1
Lazor, McMillan (7) and Stumpf; Simon and Volpi.
TACOMA, June 10-Tacoma Tigers broke loose with an eight-run uprising in the fifth inning to defeat Yakima 12-3.
The big inning was highlighted by Dick Greco's two-run double and Hank Vallee's three-run triple. Ray Fortier, Tacoma left-hander, pitched a near six-hitter.
Yakima .......... 200 000 001—3 6 1
Tacoma ......... 000 080 40x—12 15 3
Drilling, Harder (5), B. Fortier (7) and Eastwood; R. Fortier and Rossi.
VANCOUVER, June 10—The Wenatchee Chiefs arrived in Vancouver with only 13 players, so they likely were a little pleased when rain called a halt to the proceedings after six innings here tonight, as Vancouver pulled off an 11-3.
The Caps slapped out a dozen hits, two of them homers by Frank Mullens and Charlie Mead. Mullens also banged a triple and Orrin Snyder collected three hits.
Tom Rose went the distance for the losers. Nine of the runs against him were earned.
Bob Costello might have had a shutout except for a tough fifth inning when the Chiefs scored three to bring the score close at 4-3. Len Tran threw away a double-play ball and Jack Warren dropped a perfect strike thrown after the catch by Mullens to aid the foes.
Mead's two-run homer bumped the lead, and five runs, along with the rain, ended the game in the sixth.
Wenatchee ...... 000 030—3 5 1
Vancouver ....... 201 125—11 12 3
(called after six innings due to rain)
Rose and Dalrymple; Costello and Ward.
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