Games of Thursday, May 8, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Standings on Fri. morning, May 9
              W  L Pct. GB
Spokane .... 13  7 .650 --
Vancouver .. 13  7 .650 --
Victoria ... 14  8 .636 1
Bremerton .. 13  8 .619 1½
Tacoma ..... 11  9 .550 2
Salem ....... 9 12 .429 4½
Yakima ...... 6 15 .286 7½
Wenatchee ... 4 13 .190 7½

A's Trim Spokane
VICTORIA, May 8 — Pounding four Spokane hurlers unmercifully, the Victoria Athletics handed a 20-6 lacing to the Indians Thursday night in the first game of a four game Western International League series.
Len Kasparovitch had an easy time of it in his first home start blanking the Indians for seven innings to raise his record to 2-1.
After Leo Righetti's double sent the first two runs over the plate in the third, the A's never looked back.
Bill White had five well-tagged hits in six trips and batted in five runs. Righetti's two doubles and a single and drove in four runs.
Babe Jensen had three hits and Jack Harshman drove out his sixth homer of the season with a man aboard in the third.
16 of Victoria's runs were earned.
Rip Koenig picked up three of Spokane's ten hits and Bud Hicks hit one for the circuit. George Schmees had two doubles.
The Athletics are receiving shortstop Johnny Cavalli, who was signed by the Yankees after beginning the season with San Diego, who released him three weeks ago. He played in 99 games for Hollywood last year, batting. 211.
Spokane ...... 000 000 042— 6 10 6
Victoria ..... 022 105 46x—20 18 1
Zmitrovic, Stevenson (5), Spitzer (7), Lohbeck (8) and Bufflap; Kasparovitch and Mastro, Fontaine.

Five Homers as Caps Win
VANCOUVER, May 8 — Vancouver Capilanos pushed across two runs in the last half of the ninth to defeat the basement-dwelling Wenatchee Chiefs, 8-7, in a Western International League baseball game tonight that produced five circuit smashes.
Bud Hjelmaa, Capilano shortstop, produced the winning runs with a sharp single in the ninth scoring Frank Mullens and Ron Bryant. The Chiefs led, 7-6, in their half when southpaw Jim Hedgecock, relieving Bob Hall, walked four batters.
Of the five homers, three went to the Chiefs, with catcher Nick Pesut accounting for two. Lee Windsor drove in the other homer. Mullens and Charlie Mead looked after the heavy stickwork for Vancouver.
Hall worked nine innings for the Caps, whiffed 12 Chiefs, while Joe Adam fanned only three and walked nine. Caps, who have been playing errorless ball for three games, spoiled their record with a lone miscue.
Wenatchee ...... 030 200 101—7 9 0
Vancouver ...... 010 400 012—8 8 1
Adam and Pesut; Hall, Hedgecock (9), and Stumpf.

Yakima ..... 230 000 000—5 8 2
Tacoma .... 300 100 23x—9 16 2
Klisura, Nowels (7) and Phillips; Greenlaw, Gilson (2) and Kuper.

Salem ......... 000 000 100—1 6 1
Bremerton ..... 000 013 00x—4 7 1
Sinovic, O'Boyle (7) and Beard; Lowman and Volpi.