Games of Saturday, July 5, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Standings after games of July 5
. . . . . . . .WIN LOSS Pct. GB
Bremerton .... 48 33 .593 --
Spokane ...... 45 34 .570 2
Salem ........ 42 37 .532 5
Victoria ..... 44 39 .530 5
Tacoma ....... 40 40 .500 7½
Vancouver .... 38 39 .494 8
Yakima ....... 34 43 .442 12
Wenatchee .... 27 53 .338 19½

Blankenship Goes Distance for A's
TACOMA, July 5 — Victoria Athletics, a hustling bunch of speed demons boasting extra-base power at the plate and an infield which ranks at the best in the WIL, tonight handed the Tacoma Tigers their sixth setback in eight games between the two clubs this past week, 6-2.
The win moved the Victorians into a virtual tie with Salem for third place and put them two and one half games up on the Tigers in the battle for fourth place.
Joe Blankenship, relief ace used in a starting role, hurled beautiful baseball all the way as he teammates broke up a pitching duel with Stan Gilson with five runs in the eighth inning.
Speedy John Hooper led off the big frame with the fourth of his five straight singles. Bill White doubled and Vic Mastro, Jack Harshman, Babe Jensen and Johnny Cavalli singled to score five runs as the fleet Victorians scored from second on each hit and the batter hustled to the keystone on the throw to the plate.
Victoria ...... 100 000 050—6 15 2
Tacoma ...... 000 010 001—2 7 0
Blankenship and Mastro; Gilson, Greenlaw (8) and Clifford.

BREMERTON, July 5 — Jim Lowman blanked the Vancouver Capilanos on Saturday as the Bremerton Bluejackets scored 16 runs in a Western International League baseball game that consumed only an hour and 45 minutes.
Lowman gave up three singles and retired most of the opposition batters on two or three pitches and in one stretch retired five batters on five pitched balls. He also hit a three-run homer.
Vancouver ...... 000 000 000 - 0 3 2
Bremerton ...... 210 310 72x - 16 19 0
Robertson, Manier (7) and Stumpf; Lowman and Volpi.

SPOKANE, July 5 — Bob Costello rang up his 14th victory of the season in leading Spokane to a 10-1 hammering of the Yakima Stars in WIL action on Saturday.
Costello held the Stars to three hits.
Yakima ...... 000 001 000 - 1 3 5
Spokane ..... 005 500 00x - 10 13 4
Nowels, Brysch (3) and Phillips; Costello and Bufflap.

SALEM, July 5 — Joe Vivalda scattered 11 hits tonight as Wenatchee doubled Salem 6-3 in a WIL contest on Saturday.
Wenatchee ..... 022 100 001 - 6 8 1
Salem .............. 000 011 001 - 3 11 1
Vivalda and Darymple; Sinovic, Anderson (3) and Beard.

Caps Get Slugger
BREMERTON, July 5 — Slugging infielder Bill Reese has been traded by the Bremerton Bluejackets to the Vancouver Capilanos for infielder Jim Estrada.
Reese will be inserted as first base for the Caps, while Estrada will replace Joe Gedzius at short for the Tars.
Reese hit .290 and knocked in 95 runs last year.