Games of Friday, July 4, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Standings after games of July 4
. . . . . . . .Win L PCT. GB
Bremerton .... 47 33 .588 --
Spokane ...... 44 34 .564 2
Salem ........ 42 36 .538 4
Victoria ..... 43 39 .524 5
Tacoma ....... 40 39 .506 6½
Vancouver .... 38 38 .500 7
Yakima ....... 34 42 .447 11
Wentachee .... 26 53 .329 20½

A's Tigers Divide Holiday Twin Bill
TACOMA, July 4 — Babe Jensen's solid single in the ninth inning of a scheduled seven-inning fixture drove Vic Mastro over the plate with the winning run as the Victoria Athletics came back in the second half of a Western International League double-header here today to grab a 4-3 decision after taking the short end of a 15-4 count in the opener.
Playing before a capacity holiday crowd, the Tigers broke through against Dick Mitchell in the fifth inning for three runs to break up a scoreless pitching battle between Mitchell and Milt Chetkovich.
Victoria promptly tied it in the sixth when two bases on balls, a double by Jack Harshman, manager Ted Norbert's pinch single and a wild pitch plated three runs.
Len Kasparovitch, the Athletics' ace, took over on the mound as Norbert gambled for the victory by using a badly-needed starter. The big righthander blanked the Bengals the rest of the way to earn his ninth win of the season and his sixth in a row.
A seventh-inning Victoria rally fizzled. Jensen hit into a double play by way of the plate and Johnny Cavalli popped out after the first three men reached base.
The Victorians won it in the ninth. Bill White opened with a double, Vic Mastro followed with a single, and went to third as White was caught trying to score. Harshman was intentionally passed but Jensen broke up the strategy with his game-winning hit.
Tacoma gathered an easy win in the first game as they pounded Jim Arnold and Ray Fortier for 21 hits, while southpaw Carl Shapley held the Canadian nine to four.
First Game
Victoria ....... 020 100 010 — 4 4 0
Tacoma ....... 141 006 30x — 15 21 2
Arnold, Fortier (5) and Mastro; Shapley and Clifford.
Second Game
Victoria ..... 000 003 001 — 4 9 0
Tacoma ...... 000 030 000 — 3 12 2
Mitchell, Kasparovitch (6) and Mastro; Chetkovich and Clifford.

BREMERTON — The Bremerton Bluejackets regained the top spot in the Western International League, thanks to a sweep of the Vancouver Capilanos, 4-3 and 6-5.
The Caps scored twice in the sixth inning of the seven-inning opener and threatened to tie it in the seventh when Buddy Hjelmaa hit a one-out triple. Hub Kittle replaced starter Bill Ahearn and forced out Frank Mullens, then watched Joe Gedzius go a mile into the air to haul down Lou Estes' liner to save the game.
Gedzius singled in the eleventh inning to score Eddie Murphy from second base in the 11th inning of the nightcap to end the game.
First game
Vancouver ......... 010 002 0 – 3 9 1
Bremerton ......... 010 210 x – 4 8 2
Snyder and Brenner; Ahearn, Kittle (7) and Ronning.
Second game
Vancouver ......... 000 050 000 00 – 5 8 2
Bremerton ......... 010 400 000 01 – 6 11 2
Hall and Stumpf; Marshall, P. Barisoff (5) and Volpi.

SPOKANE — The Spokane Indians ran into trouble against the Yakima Stars, who won the opener of a doubleheader, 7-6, and deadlocked, 8-8, in the nightcap called at the end of the eighth by the midnight curfew.
Reversing the usual process in the Yakima-Spokane contests, the greatest number of hits did not insure victory. The Indians out-hit the Stars 13 to 8 in the opener but could not convert them into enough runs to win.
The prolonged second game which lasted almost three hours before running into the curfew deadline saw Yakima get double the number of hits, 18 to 9, but for each team the safeties were good for eight runs.
First game
Yakima ........ 502 000 0 — 7 8 1
Spokane ...... 000 041 1 — 6 13 0
Frost, McCollum (8) and Dalrymple; Anderson, Sporer (4), Eliason (9) and Beard.
Second Game
Yakima ............. 030 004 11—8 16 4
Spokane ............ 500 201 00 — 8 9 0
(Called at end of 8th, curfew)
Meister, Wallerstein (1) and Constantino; Kramer and Bufflap.

SALEM, Ore., July 4 —The Salem Senators squeezed by the Wenatchee Chiefs, 2-1, in the opener of an Independence Day doubleheader today and then dropped the finale, 9-7.
Shortstop Joe Gedzius sparkled at the plate and afield in Bremerton's sweep, nabbing a scorching liner that would have tied the count in the last inning of the first game and singling home the winning run in the 11th frame of the overtime nightcap.
First Game
Wenatchee ........ 000 001 0—1 8 1
Salem ................ 100 100 x—2 5 1
McCollum and Dalrymple; Mosser and Kerr.
Second Game
Wenatchee ........ 010 500 030 — 9 12 3
Salem ................ 200 004 010 — 7 10 3
Frost, McCollum (8) and Dalrymple; Anderson, Sporer (4), Eliason (9) and Beard.
(note - linescore of game two does not reflect the wire story)

A's Add Second Hurler
VICTORIA - Athletics business manager Reg Patterson announced yesterday that Bill (Red) Rose, righthander from Binghamton, would join the A's at Tacoma.
Rose compiled an impressive record at Fond du Lac in the Wisconsin State League last year, winning 17 games and losing one. Sixteen of his victories came in succession. He completed 13 starting assignments, worked 143 innings, gave up 129 hits and 53 bases on balls, struck out 108 men and boasted an earned run average of 2.25.
Rose spent spring training with Newark and was later sent to Binghamton.
The A'll now need to cut their roster to 16 players.
- July 5, 1947