Thursday, September 4, 1947

W L Pct GB
Vancouver .... 85 64 .570 --
Spokane ...... 87 66 .569 --
Bremerton .... 84 68 .553 2½
Salem ........ 80 66 .548 8½
Victoria ..... 79 72 .523 7
Tacoma ....... 71 79 .473 14½
Wenatchee .... 57 91 .385 27½
Yakima ....... 57 94 .377 29

Vancouver and Spokane remained neck and neck in their race for the Western International league title Thursday night as they prepared to enter their final series of the year.
The Canadians toppled Bremerton 7-4 to slide the Puget Sound nine two and a half games back in third place, while Spokane drubbed Yakima 19-9 and moved within .001 percentage points of the northerners.
Salem retained its' mathmematical chances with a 2-1 edge over Wenatchee, but looked forward with no delight to a five-game meeting with Bremerton.

Yakima ......... 302 001 000—6 6 2
Spokane ....... 203 306 50x—19 17 0
Romple, Strait (4), Wallerstein (6) and Phillips, Constantino (7); Miller, Samson (3) and Bufflap.

BREMERTON, Sept. 4 - The Vancouver Capilanos won for the first time in Bremerton all season, defeating the Bluejackets, 7-4, tonight, as Jim Hedgecock won his 21st game of the season.
He allowed eight hits, walked four and struck out four, and lost his shutout in the eighth when former Cap Jim Estrada smacked the ball into the right-field corner. Pete Jonas, normally a pitcher, was in right, and took his time fielding the ball. Estrada stopped at third, saw the confusion in the outfield, so started for home and was awarded an inside-the-park home run.
They scored three more off him in the ninth, including the final run on Estrada's single.
Lee Mohr led off the game with a single, the first of his four hits, and scored on Frank Mullens' single. Bill Brenner singled him home in the third, and after a single run in the sixth, Mohr's bloop single brought in a pair of runs in the four-run seventh.
The losing pitcher was Joe Sullivan, who only works weekend home games due to his job as a fireman, who dropped to 13 and 4.
Vancouver ........ 101 001 400—7 11 0
Bremerton ........ 000 000 013—4 8 1
Hedgecock and Brenner; Sullivan, Ahearn (7) and Volpi.

Wenatchee ......... 000 100 000—1 6 2
Salem ................. 000 101 00x—2 8 0
Condon and Dalrymple; Lazor and Beard.

TACOMA, Sept. 4 - It was the same old story tonight, as the Victoria Athletics booted away a well-pitched game by Dick Mitchell, who allowed only five hits, but lost to the Tacoma Tigers, 3-2. Dick Greco singled home the winning run in the eighth inning.
Vic Mastro played second base in place of the ailing Leo Righetti with Bill Anske seeing action behind the plate for the first time in several weeks after breaking a finger.
Victoria ......... 020 000 000—2 7 3
Tacoma ........ 000 020 01x—3 5 0
Mitchell and Anske; Tinsley and Kuper, Clifford (5).