Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Games of Monday, June 30, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Standings on Tuesday morning, July 1
. . . . . . . . .Win Loss PCT. GB
Bremerton ....... 43 31 .581 --
Spokane ......... 41 32 .562 1½
Salem ........... 40 32 .556 2
Tacoma .......... 38 35 .521 4½
Vancouver ....... 36 34 .514 5
Victoria ........ 39 37 .513 5
Yakima .......... 29 42 .408 12½
Wenatchee ....... 25 48 .342 17


VANCOUVER - Manager Bob Brenner homered with two out in the ninth inning to give the Vancouver Capilanos a 8-7 win in a Western International League game here Monday.
The Caps took an early lead at Vancouver before 2,300 fans but the Tars fought back to square the count in the top of the ninth. Brenner then hit it out for his crew for the victory.
Frank Mullens had three hits for Vancouver.
Al Maul and Matson homered for Bremerton.
Bob Hall picked up the win, and swung the hickory as well. He had two hits, including a triple, and three RBIs.
Bremerton ...... 002 001 103—7 11 0
Vancouver .... 213 100 001—8 13 2
Ahearn, P. Barisoff (4), Johnston (9) and Ronning; Hall and Brenner.

VICTORIA - The Tacoma Tigers had their eight game win streak snapped as Victoria pounded out an 11-3 win Monday at Royal Athletic Park.
Dick Mitchell celebrated his 19th birthday three days late with his best pitching performance. He scattered ten hits and only lost his shut-out in the eighth inning. He struck out five and walked three, all in the eighth and ninth innings.
Six doubles and a triple poured from the busy bats of the winners, 17 hits in all.
After opening with a run in the second, the A's salted it away with six in the third, marked by Babe Jensen's two-run homer and doubles by Bill White, John Hooper, Vic Mastro and Leo Righetti, along with singles by Mitchell and Hooper, and a walk.
Guy Miller's error paved the way for a single run in the fifth, four singles accounted for a pair in the sixth and John Cavalli's homer in the eighth wound up the scoring.
Tacoma ........ 000 000 021— 3 10 2
Victoria ........ 018 021 01x—11 17 2
Shapley, Sabutis (3) and Kuper, Clifford (4); Mitchell and Mastro.

SPOKANE, June 30 - Ex collegian Wally Kramer went the distance for the Spokane Indians in an 11-inning battle and then produced the game-winning single to earn the 5-4 triumph in the Western International League tonight.
Salem .........200 000 002 00—4 7 3
Spokane ..... 000 020 110 01—5 9 0
Mossor and Beard; Kramer and Bufflap.

WENATCHEE, June 30 - Lou McCollum led the hard-hitting Chiefs with three hits as Wenatchee chalked up an easy 8-1 win over the Yakima Stars in a series opener between the two WIL trailers.
Weak-hitting Hal Rhyne came up with a grand-slam home run. Bob Williams also hit for the circuit.
Yakima .......... 000 000 001—1 3 3
Wenatchee .... 000 101 60x—8 8 1
Nowels and Phillips; McCollum and Dalrymple.

Tacoma Loses Ace Catcher
VICTORIA — Earl Kuper, Tacoma catcher and leading hitter of the Western International baseball league may be out of the game for the rest of the season. Kuper suffered a badly mangled finger on his right hand in the fourth inning of the game with Victoria Monday night when struck by a foul tip from Manager Ted Norbert's bat.
- Tuesday, July 1, 1947

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