Before and After
By Ken McConnell
[Vancouver Province, Aug. 27, 1947]
WOULD BUILD STADIUM NOW
Emil Sick, head man with the Rainier Brewing Company of Washington State and its Vancouver subsidiary, “would build a new sports stadium in Vancouver tomorrow,” if he could obtain the materials and the permission of the authorities to proceed with the work.
Earl Sheely, general manager of the Rainiers Baseball Club who is a visitor in the city, told The Vancouver Daily Province of the plans for the new stadium.
“Mr. Sick is eager to build now. He would authorize the work to start tomorrow if he could,” said Sheely.
As a matter of fact the Rainiers themselves want to increase the size of their own ball park in Seattle. They are hoping to make the park’s capacity 20,000. However, the same shortages exist in the Washington city as here and mostly it is the lack of steel which prevents the work being done.
Rainiers, for instance, are certain to see a new attendance mark this year. The present record is 519,000. Already—and they have 14 games at home yet—they have drawn 497,000.
“I think we’ll easily pass the old record,” declared Sheely, “right along we have been averaging between seven and eight thousand fans per game.”
Incidentally, the prices in the Pacific Coast Baseball League are: boxes $1.75; reserved, grandstand, $1.50; general admittance, $1.25 and bleachers 75 cents. The tax is included in these prices.
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Drive for Pennants
Under the present agreement between Rainiers and the Capilanos, there is no obligation on the part of the Rainiers to send players here.
“Naturally we will help as much as we can, but the Capilanos operate independently,” said Seattle’s boss.
The Rainiers have Carpenter, Hall, Mullens, Mohr, Snyder and Stumpf. All of them will get a chance next year and Sheely is particularly interested in Caps’ second sacker Leoo Mohr.
“We will not recall any players until your season is completed,” went on Sheely. “However next year if Mohr does not stick with us—and he has a very good chance—then we’ll send him to a Class AA team.
“If a player is not given a chance to improve himself, he never will. I think Mohr is a fine prospect.”
Los Angeles has the edge at present in the drive for the Pacific Coast League pennant. But Portland’s Lucky Beavers are the hottest club in the league right now, with the best pitching of any club.
“One bad week, though,” cautioned Sheely, “can do any team a lot of harm.”
He was impressed with the possibilities of the Caps continuing their upward thrust in the Western International League.
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He Likes Fishing, Too
Once Vancouver had high hopes of obtaining Sacramento’s franchise in the Coast League. As it turned out, with the fire practically destroying our ball park, we would never have been able to successfully compete in that league.
However it was this same Sheely who went to Sacramento and pulled that club through its roughest season and last year they drew 350,000 fans.
Big—Sheely is six feet, four inches and weighs around 230 pounds—he has been in baseball ever since he was able to walk, back in Illinois. He was a great first baseman.
He started with Spokane, in 1912, suffered a leg fracture and would up with Walla Walla, Wash. He then went to Salt Lake when that city was in the Coast circuit and from there went to the Chicago White Sox in 1920, just after the biggest scandal in baseball’s history nearly wrecked the game and the White Sox as well.
He was with the Sox until 1927 and then went to Sacramento and he was promptly drafted by Pittsburgh. He came back to San Francisco and was drafted by Boston Braves.
Then he played with Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle and ended his playing career in 1934. He was the Boston Red Sox scout for three and now the general manager of the Rainiers.
Yes, he has one other interest outside baseball. He’s a fishing addict.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Games of Friday, August 1, 1947
VANCOUVER, Aug. 1—The Vancouver Capilanos overcame the Yakima Stars 13-8 tonight despite handing the Stars six runs in the sixth inning.
The game started at 1-1 after one inning, thanks to homers by Gordon Goldsberry for Yakima and Frank Mullens for Vancouver. Then Bob Hall tripled in Buddy Hjelmaa and scored on Lee Mohr's single in the second. Hall doubled across Bob Stumpf and Len Tran in the fourth, then scored when Frank Nowels walked Paul Carpenter with the bases full to give Vancouver and 6-1 lead.
Yakima got a single run in the fifth, Vancouver got two, then came the goofy sixth.
The Stars had only one hit that inning, but they were issued seven walks, four by fireballer Hall and three by Sandy Robertson, and benefitted from a wierd play at second base. Buddy Phillips was on first and Spencer Harris on second when Les Barnes hit a potential double-play ball. Second baseman Mohr bobbled the ball, tossed to shorstop Hjelmaa covering at second, who dropped it onto Phillips' leg, and the ball rolled into the outfield. Phillips made a dash for third, but saw Harris still standing there, so he turned around and ran back toward second. Mohr had tracked down the ball, tossed it to Hjelmaa, who dropped it again and Phillips was safe.
After that came the walks, and the game was tied at 8.
Robertson put an end to Yakima's hopes in the eighth by belting a three-run homer.
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VANCOUVER [The Sun, Aug. 2]—Brooklyn Dodger scout Tom Downey paid an unscheduled visit to the WI baseball league’s Capilano Stadium last night, and for one inning he must have thought he was sitting in on a game of parcheesi.
The inning was the sixth and Yakima scored six runs on one hit, pulling this trick without the benefit of mirrors. Seven bases on balls, four by Bob Hall and a trio by fireman Sandy Robertson, combined with the single and a screwy situation at second base to knock an 8-2 Capilano lead down to an 8-8 standoff.
The second base situation was a riot. With Buddy Phillips on first and Spencer Harris on first, Les Barnes hit a potential double play bouncer to Buddy Hjelmaa. Buddy bobbled momentarily, but flipped to Lee Mohr for a forceout on Phillips, only Mohr dropped the ball.
As the ball squirted out of Lee’s glove, it hit Phillips in the leg and caromed onto the outfield grass. Phillips lit for third only to find it already occupied by Harris. By the time he had turned for the second time Hjelmaa was waiting, ball in hand. He put the tag on Phillips then dropped the ball once more.
Sighting this item as their keynote, the Yak-Yaks waited and waited, as Hall passed three men in a row to force in three runs. Robertson had his troubles at first, too, but he finally got the side out just as the crowd was settling down for an all-night stand.
DIAMOND DUST: Tonight there is another double bill on deck starting at 7:30. ... Bob Snyder and Jim Hedgecock are the likely Cap pitchers. ... Scout Tom Downey of Brooklyn is naturally happy his Dodgers are going so well. ... But his gaiety is a little more so because Johnny Jorgensen, Bruce Edwards, Hal Gregg and Vic Lombardi are all his boys and all going rather well.
[WILfan notes: Lee Mohr, Frank Mullens and Len Tran each had three hits; one of Mohr’s was a solo homer ... Hall tripled and doubled, bringing in four runs].
Yakima ........... 100 016 000—8 7 2
Vancouver ...... 120 320 23x—13 16 2
Nowels, Brysch (6), Wallerstein (7) and Phillips; Hall, Robertson (6) and Stumpf.
SPOKANE, August 1—The league-leading Spokane Indians were handcuffed by Victoria's Bill Woop, who allowed only six hits in giving the Athletics a 7-1 win tonight in Western International League play.
The A's backed their big southpaw with an 11-hit attack and three double plays. And after ten errors in two night, they were charged with only one tonight.
Over 4,500 fans were on hand to see John Hooper give Victoria a lead in the first inning with his tenth home run. Spokane tied it in their half when Billy Dunn came in, but Bill White and Babe Jensen doubled in succession in the second and Jensen later stole home to give the A's a two-run lead.
John Cavalli's triple and Vic Mastro's infield out sent another across in the third, Hooper doubled to score Woop and Cavalli in the fourth, on base through a single and an error.
Victoria's final tally came in the eighth when Jensen singled and scored on Bill Anske's single.
Victoria ........... 121 200 010—7 11 1
Spokane ......... 100 000 000—1 6 1
Woop and Anske; Kramer and O'Neill.
Wenatchee .......... 100 102 030—7 16 0
Tacoma ............... 020 002 000-4 12 0
Vivalda and Winter; Morgan and Kuper.
Salem ............ 000 100 000—1 8 2
Bremerton ..... 000 010 32x—6 8 0
Lazor, Peterson (6) and Beard; Marshall and Volpi.
The Home Plate
by KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver Sun, August 2, 1947]
The game started at 1-1 after one inning, thanks to homers by Gordon Goldsberry for Yakima and Frank Mullens for Vancouver. Then Bob Hall tripled in Buddy Hjelmaa and scored on Lee Mohr's single in the second. Hall doubled across Bob Stumpf and Len Tran in the fourth, then scored when Frank Nowels walked Paul Carpenter with the bases full to give Vancouver and 6-1 lead.
Yakima got a single run in the fifth, Vancouver got two, then came the goofy sixth.
The Stars had only one hit that inning, but they were issued seven walks, four by fireballer Hall and three by Sandy Robertson, and benefitted from a wierd play at second base. Buddy Phillips was on first and Spencer Harris on second when Les Barnes hit a potential double-play ball. Second baseman Mohr bobbled the ball, tossed to shorstop Hjelmaa covering at second, who dropped it onto Phillips' leg, and the ball rolled into the outfield. Phillips made a dash for third, but saw Harris still standing there, so he turned around and ran back toward second. Mohr had tracked down the ball, tossed it to Hjelmaa, who dropped it again and Phillips was safe.
After that came the walks, and the game was tied at 8.
Robertson put an end to Yakima's hopes in the eighth by belting a three-run homer.
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VANCOUVER [The Sun, Aug. 2]—Brooklyn Dodger scout Tom Downey paid an unscheduled visit to the WI baseball league’s Capilano Stadium last night, and for one inning he must have thought he was sitting in on a game of parcheesi.
The inning was the sixth and Yakima scored six runs on one hit, pulling this trick without the benefit of mirrors. Seven bases on balls, four by Bob Hall and a trio by fireman Sandy Robertson, combined with the single and a screwy situation at second base to knock an 8-2 Capilano lead down to an 8-8 standoff.
The second base situation was a riot. With Buddy Phillips on first and Spencer Harris on first, Les Barnes hit a potential double play bouncer to Buddy Hjelmaa. Buddy bobbled momentarily, but flipped to Lee Mohr for a forceout on Phillips, only Mohr dropped the ball.
As the ball squirted out of Lee’s glove, it hit Phillips in the leg and caromed onto the outfield grass. Phillips lit for third only to find it already occupied by Harris. By the time he had turned for the second time Hjelmaa was waiting, ball in hand. He put the tag on Phillips then dropped the ball once more.
Sighting this item as their keynote, the Yak-Yaks waited and waited, as Hall passed three men in a row to force in three runs. Robertson had his troubles at first, too, but he finally got the side out just as the crowd was settling down for an all-night stand.
DIAMOND DUST: Tonight there is another double bill on deck starting at 7:30. ... Bob Snyder and Jim Hedgecock are the likely Cap pitchers. ... Scout Tom Downey of Brooklyn is naturally happy his Dodgers are going so well. ... But his gaiety is a little more so because Johnny Jorgensen, Bruce Edwards, Hal Gregg and Vic Lombardi are all his boys and all going rather well.
[WILfan notes: Lee Mohr, Frank Mullens and Len Tran each had three hits; one of Mohr’s was a solo homer ... Hall tripled and doubled, bringing in four runs].
Yakima ........... 100 016 000—8 7 2
Vancouver ...... 120 320 23x—13 16 2
Nowels, Brysch (6), Wallerstein (7) and Phillips; Hall, Robertson (6) and Stumpf.
SPOKANE, August 1—The league-leading Spokane Indians were handcuffed by Victoria's Bill Woop, who allowed only six hits in giving the Athletics a 7-1 win tonight in Western International League play.
The A's backed their big southpaw with an 11-hit attack and three double plays. And after ten errors in two night, they were charged with only one tonight.
Over 4,500 fans were on hand to see John Hooper give Victoria a lead in the first inning with his tenth home run. Spokane tied it in their half when Billy Dunn came in, but Bill White and Babe Jensen doubled in succession in the second and Jensen later stole home to give the A's a two-run lead.
John Cavalli's triple and Vic Mastro's infield out sent another across in the third, Hooper doubled to score Woop and Cavalli in the fourth, on base through a single and an error.
Victoria's final tally came in the eighth when Jensen singled and scored on Bill Anske's single.
Victoria ........... 121 200 010—7 11 1
Spokane ......... 100 000 000—1 6 1
Woop and Anske; Kramer and O'Neill.
Wenatchee .......... 100 102 030—7 16 0
Tacoma ............... 020 002 000-4 12 0
Vivalda and Winter; Morgan and Kuper.
Salem ............ 000 100 000—1 8 2
Bremerton ..... 000 010 32x—6 8 0
Lazor, Peterson (6) and Beard; Marshall and Volpi.
The Home Plate
by KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver Sun, August 2, 1947]
An insignificant item has been attracting our eye at the ball yard for some time, and now we hear that some of the Capilanos' best fans are complaining as well. So it must be time to correct the fault.
This is to do with the habit of the right field scoreboard keeper in eliminating the zeros in the line score as the game is six or seven innings old.
Is it possible that the park has plumb run out of goose eggs. However, if this is the alibi, we have heard no recent mention of strict rationing in the making of new zeros.
Until the new park is erected, Cap Stadium will boast one of the most inadequate scoreboards in organized baseball. Correcting such as small fault as an incorrectly kept scoreboard linescore does not cost many dollars and does not take much time. So why hasn't this been done?
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There are a million types of fans in every baseball park, but we offers as the height of screwiness, the baseball wife.
They are a show in themselves if you can take your eyes off the ball game long enough for a glance toward their box to the right of home plate in the back of the grandstand.
Amid this year’s list of wives Mrs. Bob Snyder (Eileen) is about the only natural ball fan. When hubby Bob is pitching she gives it the old college try. Everything from “we wuz robbed” to “a’gwan home, you blind man, he had a corner on that one.”
But take Nancy Brenner, queen of the wives, just as husband Bill is king of the ballplayers. Nancy is a shy, quiet type, but she’s rarely without something to say when a ball game is going on.
The other night we watched them closely (they aren’t hard to look at anyway). Nancy started with the ball game, giving with the yak-yak and getting all she gave in return from Mrs. Bryant (Vivian) and Mrs. Len Tran, fair talkers in any league.
The game, as we remember it, was brilliantly played and in doubt to the final decision. It was until Bill Brenner smashed a rousing homer in the ninth to win for the Caps.
We looked to the wives’ box again. They were still wound up. Mrs. Tran touched Mrs. Brenner lightly on the shoulder and said, “Bill just hit a homer to win the game for us. It’s all over.”
Mrs. Brenner, obviously disgusted, returned, “Well, how do you like that. Just when this was getting interesting. Well, let’s go home.
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For the fan who is despairing over the Caps’ chances to getting into the WIL pennant race, we would advise a look through baseball’s history to see how many pennants have been won and lost in the torrid month of August.
Two stand out in our mind. The best case is that of the big league Chicago Cubs, who, as the National League entered the August stretch, were 15 games off the pacemaking Pittsburgh Pirates.
Then the Cubs went nuts. They won a Sunday double-header and some mid-week single games. They won another twin bill and another. They kept right on winning until they reached 22 in a row and the World Series.
Then there were the Caps of 1942. They were third as July ended. As hot August suns boiled the Cap Stadium hearth the team hit its stride. It kept on winning until seven other WIL clubs conceded they didn’t even have a mathematical chance of getting close.
Teams are made and broken in August. It will be so with the Caps this year, who have 25 home games on deck this month.
And if anyone accuses us of being an optimist we will believe him.
This is to do with the habit of the right field scoreboard keeper in eliminating the zeros in the line score as the game is six or seven innings old.
Is it possible that the park has plumb run out of goose eggs. However, if this is the alibi, we have heard no recent mention of strict rationing in the making of new zeros.
Until the new park is erected, Cap Stadium will boast one of the most inadequate scoreboards in organized baseball. Correcting such as small fault as an incorrectly kept scoreboard linescore does not cost many dollars and does not take much time. So why hasn't this been done?
* * *
There are a million types of fans in every baseball park, but we offers as the height of screwiness, the baseball wife.
They are a show in themselves if you can take your eyes off the ball game long enough for a glance toward their box to the right of home plate in the back of the grandstand.
Amid this year’s list of wives Mrs. Bob Snyder (Eileen) is about the only natural ball fan. When hubby Bob is pitching she gives it the old college try. Everything from “we wuz robbed” to “a’gwan home, you blind man, he had a corner on that one.”
But take Nancy Brenner, queen of the wives, just as husband Bill is king of the ballplayers. Nancy is a shy, quiet type, but she’s rarely without something to say when a ball game is going on.
The other night we watched them closely (they aren’t hard to look at anyway). Nancy started with the ball game, giving with the yak-yak and getting all she gave in return from Mrs. Bryant (Vivian) and Mrs. Len Tran, fair talkers in any league.
The game, as we remember it, was brilliantly played and in doubt to the final decision. It was until Bill Brenner smashed a rousing homer in the ninth to win for the Caps.
We looked to the wives’ box again. They were still wound up. Mrs. Tran touched Mrs. Brenner lightly on the shoulder and said, “Bill just hit a homer to win the game for us. It’s all over.”
Mrs. Brenner, obviously disgusted, returned, “Well, how do you like that. Just when this was getting interesting. Well, let’s go home.
* * *
For the fan who is despairing over the Caps’ chances to getting into the WIL pennant race, we would advise a look through baseball’s history to see how many pennants have been won and lost in the torrid month of August.
Two stand out in our mind. The best case is that of the big league Chicago Cubs, who, as the National League entered the August stretch, were 15 games off the pacemaking Pittsburgh Pirates.
Then the Cubs went nuts. They won a Sunday double-header and some mid-week single games. They won another twin bill and another. They kept right on winning until they reached 22 in a row and the World Series.
Then there were the Caps of 1942. They were third as July ended. As hot August suns boiled the Cap Stadium hearth the team hit its stride. It kept on winning until seven other WIL clubs conceded they didn’t even have a mathematical chance of getting close.
Teams are made and broken in August. It will be so with the Caps this year, who have 25 home games on deck this month.
And if anyone accuses us of being an optimist we will believe him.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Games of Friday, June 6, 1947
W L Pct GB
Bremerton ...... 34 17 .667 —
Spokane ........ 28 20 .583 4½
Victoria ....... 28 23 .549 5½
Salen .......... 26 24 .520 7½
Tacoma ......... 25 26 .490 9
Vancouver ...... 22 25 .468 10
Wenatchee ...... 20 29 .408 13
Yakima ......... 16 35 .314 18
TACOMA, June 6—The Wenatchee Chiefs were held to only three hits, but came out on top of a 5-3 Western International League decision Friday night against the Tacoma Tigers.
Three errors and two walks gave the winners four runs in the seventh inning to erase Tacoma's two run lead.
Tacoma .............. 001 002 000—3 7 4
Wenatchee ....... 100 000 40x—5 3 2
Morgan and Kuper; Vivalda and Pesut.
SPOKANE, June 6—The last of five errors, three by John Cavalli, allowed Levi McCormack to score the winning run in the bottom of the ninth, as Spokane Indians shaded Victoria Athletics 5-4 in Western International League baseball Friday night.
Athletics opened up an early four-run lead, with single runs in the first and second innings and a pair in the third. Spokane came back with a three-run cluster in the third and tied it in the fifth.
McCormack doubled in the ninth and later romped home from third when first baseman Jack Harshman missed a catch at first base.
Ray Miller, who took over the mound for the winnners in the fourth, held the Victorians to a loan safety in the last six innings to gain credit for the win.
Joe Blankenship relieved Bill Woop in the eighth and was charged with the loss, his first against four victories.
Victoria .......... 112 000 000—4 8 5
Spokane ......... 003 010 001— 5 5 1
Woop, Blankenship (8) and Anske; Werbowski, Miller (4) and Bufflap.
YAKIMA [Vancouver Sun, June 7]—Bob Snyder posted his fifth victory of the WIL baseball campaign here last night and his second in consecutive games, as the Capilano capitalized on a ninth-inning error to beat Yakima, 13-12, for their third successive victory.
Snyder, who pitched the Caps to a 4-3 Wednesday night win over Salem, was hustled into the breach in the first inning when Brownie starter Bob Hall went sour and allowed for Yakima runs.
ERROR BROKE IT
Bob was hit fairly hard from herein but there was more space between his nine hits than there was between the 12 Vancouver collected off four Yakima tossers.
It was a slugfest all the way, but it took an error by pitcher Rowe Wallerstein in the tenth to settle the issue.
The Caps opened with a two-run burst in the first and Yakima then batted Hall out with a four-run inning. It was all square by the third when the Caps scored four times and Yakima twice.
MEAD ON SPREE
Then Bill Brenner’s crew leaped in front with a six-run fifth chukker and the Yak-Yaks tallied three times in the fifth and sixth to bring about the standoff.
A pair of walks by Wallerstein, and the latter’s bad throw to first base accounted for the Caps’ tenth canto winner.
DIAMOND DUST—Charley Mead, who has become the Caps’ biggest runs-batted-in threat since moving into No. 5 in the batting order, knocked in three runs last night with a double and single ... Bill Brenner and Lou Estes also had two-basers and a pair of tallies brought home ... Bob Hall’s inability to get a man out last night was the third time in a row that big Robert had failed ... Catcher Buddy Phillips crashed a three-run homer in the fifth for the Yaks and had a total of five RBI’s ... Harlond Clift, Yakima boss, was tossed out of the game in the tenth for arguing a called pitch ... The Caps play Yakima once tonight, twice tomorrow and then bring Wenatchee back to Cap Stadium to open a week-long stand.
Around the Sports Map—Vancouver’s leading morning paper [The Province] gave baseball addicts quite a surprise this morning with the report that catcher Bobby Stumpf had pitched and won for the Capilanos ... a quick peek at the box score, however, ended the excitement when it was discovered that Bronx Bob entered the game in the eighth inning in his usual role of receiver.
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YAKIMA, June 6 - A pair of walks and reliever Rowe Wallenstein's error in the tenth inning brought in the winning run as the Vancouver Capilanos got by the Yakima Stars, 13-12, in ten innings.
Bob Hall was chased by the Yaks with nobody out in the first inning as they scored four times.
Charley Mead knocked in three runs with a double and a single, while Bill Brenner and Lou Estes had two-basers that scored a pair of runs.
Buddy Phillips crashed a three-run homer in the fifth for the Stars and had five RBIs on the night. Gordon Goldsberry singled in a pair for the home team.
Vancouver ........ 204 060 000 1—13 12 0
Yakima ............. 402 033 000 0—12 10 5
Hall, Snyder (1) and Brenner; Nowels, Federmeyer (3), Brysch (5), Wallenstein (8) and Phillips.
Bremerton at Salem, postponed, rain.
THE HOME PLATE
By KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver Sun, June 7, 1947]
Bremerton ...... 34 17 .667 —
Spokane ........ 28 20 .583 4½
Victoria ....... 28 23 .549 5½
Salen .......... 26 24 .520 7½
Tacoma ......... 25 26 .490 9
Vancouver ...... 22 25 .468 10
Wenatchee ...... 20 29 .408 13
Yakima ......... 16 35 .314 18
TACOMA, June 6—The Wenatchee Chiefs were held to only three hits, but came out on top of a 5-3 Western International League decision Friday night against the Tacoma Tigers.
Three errors and two walks gave the winners four runs in the seventh inning to erase Tacoma's two run lead.
Tacoma .............. 001 002 000—3 7 4
Wenatchee ....... 100 000 40x—5 3 2
Morgan and Kuper; Vivalda and Pesut.
SPOKANE, June 6—The last of five errors, three by John Cavalli, allowed Levi McCormack to score the winning run in the bottom of the ninth, as Spokane Indians shaded Victoria Athletics 5-4 in Western International League baseball Friday night.
Athletics opened up an early four-run lead, with single runs in the first and second innings and a pair in the third. Spokane came back with a three-run cluster in the third and tied it in the fifth.
McCormack doubled in the ninth and later romped home from third when first baseman Jack Harshman missed a catch at first base.
Ray Miller, who took over the mound for the winnners in the fourth, held the Victorians to a loan safety in the last six innings to gain credit for the win.
Joe Blankenship relieved Bill Woop in the eighth and was charged with the loss, his first against four victories.
Victoria .......... 112 000 000—4 8 5
Spokane ......... 003 010 001— 5 5 1
Woop, Blankenship (8) and Anske; Werbowski, Miller (4) and Bufflap.
YAKIMA [Vancouver Sun, June 7]—Bob Snyder posted his fifth victory of the WIL baseball campaign here last night and his second in consecutive games, as the Capilano capitalized on a ninth-inning error to beat Yakima, 13-12, for their third successive victory.
Snyder, who pitched the Caps to a 4-3 Wednesday night win over Salem, was hustled into the breach in the first inning when Brownie starter Bob Hall went sour and allowed for Yakima runs.
ERROR BROKE IT
Bob was hit fairly hard from herein but there was more space between his nine hits than there was between the 12 Vancouver collected off four Yakima tossers.
It was a slugfest all the way, but it took an error by pitcher Rowe Wallerstein in the tenth to settle the issue.
The Caps opened with a two-run burst in the first and Yakima then batted Hall out with a four-run inning. It was all square by the third when the Caps scored four times and Yakima twice.
MEAD ON SPREE
Then Bill Brenner’s crew leaped in front with a six-run fifth chukker and the Yak-Yaks tallied three times in the fifth and sixth to bring about the standoff.
A pair of walks by Wallerstein, and the latter’s bad throw to first base accounted for the Caps’ tenth canto winner.
DIAMOND DUST—Charley Mead, who has become the Caps’ biggest runs-batted-in threat since moving into No. 5 in the batting order, knocked in three runs last night with a double and single ... Bill Brenner and Lou Estes also had two-basers and a pair of tallies brought home ... Bob Hall’s inability to get a man out last night was the third time in a row that big Robert had failed ... Catcher Buddy Phillips crashed a three-run homer in the fifth for the Yaks and had a total of five RBI’s ... Harlond Clift, Yakima boss, was tossed out of the game in the tenth for arguing a called pitch ... The Caps play Yakima once tonight, twice tomorrow and then bring Wenatchee back to Cap Stadium to open a week-long stand.
Around the Sports Map—Vancouver’s leading morning paper [The Province] gave baseball addicts quite a surprise this morning with the report that catcher Bobby Stumpf had pitched and won for the Capilanos ... a quick peek at the box score, however, ended the excitement when it was discovered that Bronx Bob entered the game in the eighth inning in his usual role of receiver.
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YAKIMA, June 6 - A pair of walks and reliever Rowe Wallenstein's error in the tenth inning brought in the winning run as the Vancouver Capilanos got by the Yakima Stars, 13-12, in ten innings.
Bob Hall was chased by the Yaks with nobody out in the first inning as they scored four times.
Charley Mead knocked in three runs with a double and a single, while Bill Brenner and Lou Estes had two-basers that scored a pair of runs.
Buddy Phillips crashed a three-run homer in the fifth for the Stars and had five RBIs on the night. Gordon Goldsberry singled in a pair for the home team.
Vancouver ........ 204 060 000 1—13 12 0
Yakima ............. 402 033 000 0—12 10 5
Hall, Snyder (1) and Brenner; Nowels, Federmeyer (3), Brysch (5), Wallenstein (8) and Phillips.
Bremerton at Salem, postponed, rain.
THE HOME PLATE
By KEITH MATTHEWS
[Vancouver Sun, June 7, 1947]
A report in the St. Louis Sporting News, baseball’s ball's bible, said, in small letters at the bottom of the page, that the WIL’s umpiring problems were NOW at a minimum.
The word “now” was significant in that it hinted there had been trouble. The trouble was just as we pointed out in this corner three weeks ago.
In the attack, we centerd our abuse on Walter O’Loughlin, William Last, Amby Moran and Doc Regele, who had been arguing with each other, were separated. Moran now works with Last, O’Loughlin’s former aide, Regele with Martin Slavich, one of our “capable” nominations.
It is also gratifying to add that the only two members not affected in the changes were Frank DeHaney and Bill MacDonald, who were lauded in this corner and put in a class all by themselves.
We are happy that WIL president Robert Abel is willing to see the light and made the necessary alterations. As long as the “boss” has that capacity, we will be willing to suggest the necessary changes to help this league retain its status as the best Class B corporation in the country.
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Throughout the Caps’ long stay [few words unreadable] we have been asked many questions about the new ball park. We have turned these questions over to Bob Brown, and have received some definite answers.
The park will still be erected at the Little Mountain site, contrary to rumors that Sick’s Capilano Breweries were thinking of buying themselves an Indian reserve for the job.
According to R.P. Brown, the park will seat about 10,000 initially, with room for expansion to 30,000. The fences, both right and left, will be some 340 feet from home plate and they will fan out to a sort of circular centre field wall. If you’ve seen the Seattle ballyard you will get the immediate picture.
The park will be a single-decked affair, but it will have also the latest improvements in men’s and women’s lounges, a spacious and well-decorated from office and above all—a good press box.
Construction, according to the Cap general manager, is due to start in September and the park will then be ready for 1948 play. If that is so, the day is not long off when Vancouver is represented in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. And after that—maybe the big leagues. It’s a good dream anyway.
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The story carried on these pages a few days back about Ray Spurgeon returning to the Capilanos, should not be handled with a toss of the shoulders.
Last Saturday when in Tacoma, Spurgeon asked Bob Brown if he could be removed from the suspended list. Ray hastily added that he wanted to be sure to be eligible for 1948—as a Capilano, of course.
Bob ducked the question. He asked Spurgeon how the real estate business in Tacoma was going, and Ray didn’t indicate he was moving into a new income tax bracket.
The fact that Bill Brenner’s services as a catcher from herein are limited are worry enough. Brown wants Brenner to have an operation, but Bill won’t go for it. Brenner may go for the inactive manager angle though in which case another catcher would have to be added. From here it looks like Spurgeon, doesn’t it?
The word “now” was significant in that it hinted there had been trouble. The trouble was just as we pointed out in this corner three weeks ago.
In the attack, we centerd our abuse on Walter O’Loughlin, William Last, Amby Moran and Doc Regele, who had been arguing with each other, were separated. Moran now works with Last, O’Loughlin’s former aide, Regele with Martin Slavich, one of our “capable” nominations.
It is also gratifying to add that the only two members not affected in the changes were Frank DeHaney and Bill MacDonald, who were lauded in this corner and put in a class all by themselves.
We are happy that WIL president Robert Abel is willing to see the light and made the necessary alterations. As long as the “boss” has that capacity, we will be willing to suggest the necessary changes to help this league retain its status as the best Class B corporation in the country.
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Throughout the Caps’ long stay [few words unreadable] we have been asked many questions about the new ball park. We have turned these questions over to Bob Brown, and have received some definite answers.
The park will still be erected at the Little Mountain site, contrary to rumors that Sick’s Capilano Breweries were thinking of buying themselves an Indian reserve for the job.
According to R.P. Brown, the park will seat about 10,000 initially, with room for expansion to 30,000. The fences, both right and left, will be some 340 feet from home plate and they will fan out to a sort of circular centre field wall. If you’ve seen the Seattle ballyard you will get the immediate picture.
The park will be a single-decked affair, but it will have also the latest improvements in men’s and women’s lounges, a spacious and well-decorated from office and above all—a good press box.
Construction, according to the Cap general manager, is due to start in September and the park will then be ready for 1948 play. If that is so, the day is not long off when Vancouver is represented in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. And after that—maybe the big leagues. It’s a good dream anyway.
* * *
The story carried on these pages a few days back about Ray Spurgeon returning to the Capilanos, should not be handled with a toss of the shoulders.
Last Saturday when in Tacoma, Spurgeon asked Bob Brown if he could be removed from the suspended list. Ray hastily added that he wanted to be sure to be eligible for 1948—as a Capilano, of course.
Bob ducked the question. He asked Spurgeon how the real estate business in Tacoma was going, and Ray didn’t indicate he was moving into a new income tax bracket.
The fact that Bill Brenner’s services as a catcher from herein are limited are worry enough. Brown wants Brenner to have an operation, but Bill won’t go for it. Brenner may go for the inactive manager angle though in which case another catcher would have to be added. From here it looks like Spurgeon, doesn’t it?
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