Games of Thursday, July 24, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS
after games of July 24
. . . . . . .Win Loss Pct. GB
Spokane .... 60 40 .600 --
Salem ...... 60 41 .590 ½
Bremerton .. 58 43 .574 2½
Victoria ... 56 48 .538 6
Tacoma ..... 51 50 .505 9½
Vancouver .. 46 54 .460 14
Yakima ..... 39 60 .394 20½
Wenatchee .. 34 67 .337 26½

Indians Hand A's a 12-Inning Setback
SPOKANE, July 24 —Victoria Athletics dropped six games behind the league-leading Spokane Indians here tonight as they lost a heart-breaking, 4-3 decision in 12 innings as relief hurler Jim Forsyth batted in the winning run in the third extra session.
Bill Woop went the distance for the A's to get charged with his 11th loss against a like number of wins. He held a 2-0 lead as late as the eighth inning and was ahead, 2-1, going into the last of the ninth. Both teams scored in the 11th inning of the thrill-packed encounter before the Indians put over the winning run.
Two were out in the ninth and Woop had two strikes on Herb Gorman when he uncorked a wild pitch to plate O'Neill with the tying counter. In the 11th, Leo Righetti singled and scored on John Hooper's infield hit to put Victoria ahead but Spokane once again squared matters when pinch-hitter Levi McCormack drew a walk and later scored on Righetti's error.
Two were out in the 12th when Bob Morgan and O'Neill singled to set the stage for Forsyth's game-winning poke.
Victoria ............ 000 100 100 010-5 7 3
Spokane .......... 000 000 011 011—4 11 2
Woop and Mastro, Anske (8); Kramer, Forsyth (12) and O'Neill.

Yakima Outlasts Caps
YAKIMA, July 24 — Vancouver Capilanos outhit the Yakima Stars 16-14 here tonight but Harlond Clift's club was atop the run department, 12-11, in a Western International League game.
Bob Snyder was working with a 7-0 cushion, but allowed Yakima four runs in the fourth and two more in the seventh. He was still ahead 7-6 when he was replaced by Ron Bryant, who served up a triple to Buddy Phillips and it was suddenly a 10-7 game for Yakima.
Vancouver teed off on reliever John Cordell for four runs on three walks and two hits in their half of the ninth. But Yakima charged back as Jim Hedgecock gave up a walk to Les Barnes, Art Lilly singled him in and later scored on Gordon Goldsberry's fly ball.
Phillips had a double and two singles in addition to his triple and batter in five runs.
Vancouver ... 310 300 004—11 18 3
Yakima ........ 000 400 242— 12 14 3
Snyder, Bryant (8), Hedgecock (9) and Stumpf; Strait, Brysch (5), Romple (8), Cordell (9) and Constantino.

Bremerton ...... 000 001 000—1 11 4
Salem .............. 100 101 11x— 5 8 0
Lowman and Volpi; Lazor and Beard.

First game:
Tacoma .......... 020 400 0— 6 8 3
Wenatchee ..... 282 020 x— 14 15 0
Greenlaw, Tinsley (2), Clough (2) and Kuper; Cronin, Vivalda (4) and Dalrymple.
Second game:
Tacoma ............. 312 008 300—17 19 3
Wenatchee ....... 133 011 000— 9 11 5
Morgan, Greco (3) and Kuper; Osborne, Vivalda (6), Frost (6) and Dalrymple.

McCormack Is Given 'Night'
SPOKANE, July 25 —"Chief" Levi McCormack, popular Spokane outielder, will be honored at the "McCormack night" Western International League baseball game here today against Tacoma. The Lapwai, Idaho, player who is a chief in the Nez Perce Indian Tribe will be presented a plaque by League President Robert Abel and Mayor Arthur Meehan will speak.
A former Washington State college player and one-time star with the old Lewiston, Idaho, Indians, McCormack played with the Seattle Rainiers from 1936 to 1938. He has seen playing with Spokane ever since except for three years of navy duty. He survived a bus crash which wiped out most of the Spokane team last year.