Tuesday, August 19, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
STANDINGS after games of Tuesday
              W  L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 75 56 .573 --
Spokane .... 75 57 .568 ½
Victoria ... 74 59 .556 2
Salem ...... 70 56 .556 2½
Vancouver .. 69 61 .531 5½
Tacoma ..... 62 68 .477 12½
Yakima ..... 50 79 .388 24
Wenatchee .. 45 84 .349 29

Athletics Ace Caps Twice
VICTORIA, August 19 — Led by Dick Mitchell's one-hitter in the first game, the Vancouver Athletics iced the Vancouver Capilanos in a double-header sweep, 3-0 and 9-3, tonight to the glee of 3,000 fans, including 300 knothole gang members.
The rookie flinger from Montana came within one strike of a no-hittere in gaining his eighth straight triumph and 15th of the season. He has lost nine.
Two were out in the ninth and two strikes were on former New York Ginat Charlie Mead when a curve ball hung and the Vancouver right fielder bashed a clean single to right field.
John Hooper's third inning triple followed a walk to Pat Patterson to provide the winning run in the first game. Hooper ended up scoring when Lee Mohr juggled the relay at second base. Babe Jensen's double and John Cavalli's single accounted for the final tally.
After giving up all the Vancouver runs in the finale in the first two innings, Len Kasparovitch settled down to blank the Mainlanders the rest of the way, though he had five errors behind him to contend with. His 13th win was his best performance since being hit in the face by a batted ball on July 19.
The A's had hits in every inning and were led by Leo Righetti's three-run home run.
Carl Gunnarson took the loss and fell to 14 and 6.
First game:
Vancouver ........... 000 000 0—0 1 2
Victoria .............. 002 001 x—3 7 1
Jonas, Snyder (6) and Brenner; Mitchell and Mastro.
Second game:
Vancouver ..... 102 000 000—3 8 1
Victoria .......... 031 011 12x—9 15 5
Gunnarson, Snyder (8) and Stumpf; Kasparovich and Mastro.

Indians Slip to Second
SPOKANE, Aug. 19 — Chuck Cronin unleashed his submarine pitch at the Spokane Indians tonight as the Wenatchee Chiefs defeated the Tribe, 9-3, sending the losers into the second slot in the Western International League.
Condon limited Spokane to six hits, while the cellar-dwellers jumped on league-leading pitcher Bob Costello, knocking out of the box in the eighth frame for his tenth loss against 18 wins.
Wenatchee ....... 202 010 220—9 11 6
Spokane ........... 000 030 000—3 6 3
Condon and Winter, Dalrymple (5); Costello, Forsyth (8) and O'Neill.

Tacoma .............. 000 000 000—0 5 2
Bremerton ........... 001 000 10x—2 5 0
Morgan, Greenlaw (8) and Kuper; Ahearn and Volpi.

First game:
Yakima ........... 506 041 13—23 23 0
Salem ............ 100 210 0 — 4 8 1
Sinovic and Mohler; Strait and Phillips.
Second game:
Yakima .......... 000 000 000—0 4 1
Salem ........... 100 400 00x—5 6 1
Wallerstein and Phillips; Lazor and Beard.