Saturday, August 16, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
after games of Saturday
              W  L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 74 54 .578 --
Spokane .... 73 56 .566 1½
Salem ...... 69 55 .557 3
Victoria ... 71 59 .546 4
Vancouver .. 69 58 .543 4½
Tacoma ..... 61 66 .480 12½
Yakima ..... 48 77 .384 24½
Wenatchee .. 44 84 .344 30

Patterson's Home Gives A's Win
VICTORIA, August 16 — Pat Patterson broke 6-6 tie with a two-run homer in the eighth inning to give Victoria an 8-6 win in the second game of a pair of Saturday contests against the Salem Senators. The Solons won the first Western International League match, 9-5.
Salem brought Hunk Anderson back for his second start in two nights, and Victoria knocked him out the game, though not as early as on Friday night. The Senators gave him a 2-0 lead with single runs in the second and fifth innings.
Victoria scored for the first time in the fifth when Babe Jensen singled, moved to second on shortstop Buddy Peterson's error and scored on a scratch hit by Leo Righetti. The home nine tied it in the sixth when Vic Mastro singled, stole second and scored on Jensen's hit.
Salem chased starter Bob Jensen with a four-run seventh, featuring Ed Barr's grand slam, but the A's tied it in their half of the inning. Reliever Ray Fortier bloooped a double with one out, Pat Patterson singled, John Hooper walked, and Bill White and Mastro singled to score three runs. An intentional walk later, Jensen worked Anderson for a free one to force in the tying run.
Victoria won it off reliever Bus Sporer when Righetti led off the eighth with a double and Patterson singled to break the tie.
In the opener, White homered in the first inning, but the Senators scored two in the second and never lost the lead. Ken Wyatt struck out ten and walked four in throwing a seven-hitter for the Senators.
First game
Salem ........... 020 201 301—9 15 1
Victoria ......... 100 003 010—5 7 5
Wyatt and Beard; Arnold, Fortier (6), and Mastro.
Second game
Salem ........... 010 010 400—6 8 2
Victoria ........ 000 011 42x—8 12 1
Anderson, Sporer (7), and Beard; R. Jensen, Fortier (7), Blankenship (8) and Mastro.

Caps Win a Pair
VANCOUVER, August 16 — The Vancouver Capilanos needed extra innings to pull off a double-header sweep of the Spokane Indians, winning the first contest 3-2 in ten innings and copping the abbreviated game, 4-3, tonight.
The opener was a pitchers battle with lefty Jim Hedgecock outlasting Spokane twirlers Ray Miller and Stan Spitzer. Tied 2-2 in the seventh, Vancouver scored the winning run in the last of the 10th when Paul Carpenter doubled into left and scored on Len Tran's two-bagger off the right-centre field fence.
In the seven-inning afterpiece — called because of the curfew — Frank Mullens singled in Buddy Hjelmaa, who had doubled, with the winning run the last of the seventh.
The Caps nicked Bob Costello for one run in the third and punched out two more in the sixth.
The twin victories gave the Caps the series, 4-1. They have won 23 of their last 27 contests.
First game
Spokane ............. 100 000 100 0—2 6 3
Vancouver .......... 010 001 000 1—3 8 1
Miller, Spitzer (7) and O'Neill; Hedgecock and Brenner.
Second game
Spokane ........ 100 002 0—3 4 0
Vancouver ..... 000 102 1—4 9 3
Costello and Bufflap; Snyder and Stumpf.

Yakima ......... 100 001 010 1—4 12 0
Tacoma ........ 200 000 010 2—5 10 3
Simon and Phillips; Walden and Kuper.

Wenatchee ......... 020 000 010—3 8 0
Bremerton ........... 000 000 000—0 6 0
Day and Winter; Sullivan and Ronning.