Monday, August 25, 1947

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS
after games of Monday
              W  L Pct. GB
Bremerton .. 79 60 .568 --
Spokane .... 79 61 .564 ½
Salem ...... 75 60 .556 2
Vancouver .. 74 62 .544 4½
Victoria ... 75 64 .540 5
Tacoma ..... 66 72 .478 12½
Yakima ..... 53 85 .384 25½
Wenatchee .. 50 87 .365 28

Caps Win Fourth Straight
VANCOUVER, Aug. 25 — Len Tran atoned for a third inning error that allowed three runs by doubling in Charlie Mead with the winning run in the eighth inning, as the Vancouver Capilanos went on to a 5-4 Westren International League win tonight.
Jim Hedgecock recorded his 18th victory in giving up ten hits and striking out six.
The only time he was in trouble was in the third, after the Caps took the lead in the second on singles by Mead and Bill Reese, a timely bunt by Bob Brenner and a fielder's choice. That's when three runs scored on three hits and Tran's error.
Vancouver responded with three of their own in the third. Lee Mohr, Buddy Hjelmaa, Frank Mullens and Paul Carpenter all ripped singles of Gordon Walden, Carpenter's being an infield fly that nobody was able to field. This, plus two errors and a fielder's choice, brought in the runs.
Tacoma tied it in the fifth as Pete Tedeski singled, took advantage of Guy Miller's hit and Mohr's error to round third and came home on a fly ball to centre field.
Reese and Tran rapped doubles one out apart in the eighth to give Vancouver its fourth straight win.
Tacoma ........... 003 010 000—4 10 2
Vancouver ....... 013 000 01x—5 13 2
Walden and Clifford; Hedgecock and Brenner.

Tars Hammer A's
VICTORIA, Aug. 25 — An eight-run eighth inning capped a night of scoring against the Victoria Athletics, as the front-running Bremerton Bluejackets easily won, 17-5. It was Victoria's fourth straight defeat.
Joe Blankenship fell to 9 and 12 and gave up the first seven runs in seven innings on 12 hits. Bob Jensen came in for the last two innings and was battered for four hits and four walks. Seven of the eight runs against him were unearned as brother Babe nooted a ground ball.
Allan Maul had two doubles, a triple and a single in six trips to the plate, scored five times and batted in three runs to lead the Bremerton attack.
John Marshall received credit for his 14th win in 21 decisions, though he walked eight and gave up five runs in 6 1-3 innings. Hub Kittle finished off the game.
Bremerton ........ 013 022 180-17 16 2
Victoria ........... 000 011 300—5 7 5
Marshall, Kittle (7) Volpi; Blankenship, Jensen (8) and Mastro.

Salem .......... 000 500 000—5 8 1
Spokane ....... 002 003 01x—6 11 2
Mosser and Beard; Werbowski and O'Neill.

Yakima .......... 000 120 200—5 11 4
Wenatchee .... 030 705 13x—19 19 0
Nowels, Brysch (4), Zarenitski (8), and Constantino; Vivalda and Dalrymple.

Fred Mercy Sells Yakima Stars to 3 Californians
YAKIMA, August 25 — Frederick Mercy Jr., owner of the Yakima Stars baseball club of the class B Western International league said today that the team has been sold to three Californians including Vernon Johnson, former Oakland pitcher in the Pacific Coast league.
Mercy did not disclose terms of the contract and said the sale is effective at the close of the current season, subject to approval by the league's board of directors.
The other purchasers are Richard Richards of Palo Alto, who negotiated the deal, and Monte Peyl.
Richards, manager of a semi-pro team in the San Francisco area, said "I definitely intend to keep the Western International league franchise in Yakima."
The Stars are currently in seventh place in the league, 24½ games out of first place.

Suspended Spokane Manager, Player, Will Re-Join Club
SPOKANE, Aug. 25 — Western International League president Robert Abel said tonight that Spokane manager Ben Geraghty and outfielder George Schmees, suspended Sunday for their part in an argument which resulted in a forfeited game to Salem, will be permitted to rejoin the Indians Wednesday.
Abel said the two players and first baseman Herb Gorman will be fined an amount to be determined later. Gorman was not suspended. Abel flew here from Tacoma to get first-hand information on the incident.

Ball Shaggers Go On Strike in Victoria For Pay Raise
VICTORIA, Aug. 25 — Ball and scoreboard boys went on an unorganized and almost effective strike just before game time tonight.
The young park employees confronted the business manager of the Victoria Athletics, Reg Patterson, with a demand for a 25 cent per night increase or else.
They were promptly escorted out the front gates but were far from through. Two new scoreboard boys were dispatched to the scoreboard but left under threats of violence from the would-be unionists who had taken up a station behind the fence.
Only when the pickets were sent on their way by police did the hired youngsters venture out onto the board.

Games of Wednesday, June 18, 1947

A's Drop Another to Stars
YAKIMA, Wash., June 18 - The Yakima Stars combined three double plays, six Victoria errors and nine hits to whop the Victoria Athletics 10-0 in the second of a three-game Western International League series before a crowd of 1,700 fans here tonight.
The Stars jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning and then proceeded to add seven more runs in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Four of the Yakima nine hits were good for extra bases. Manager Harlond Clift smacked a triple and a double and Gene Thompson and Buddy Phillips each connected with two-baggers.
Pitcher Frank Nowels, in notching his sixth win of the season against two defeats, scattered seven Victoria hits. The A's were unable to collect more than one safe hit in any one inning.
Catcher Vic Mastro led the Victoria batters at the plate, hitting a double and two singles. He also made three errrors. Babe Jensen hit a double and a single.
Victoria ..... 000 000 000 — 0 7 6
Yakima ...... 300 012 31x—10 9 3
Woop and Mastro; Nowels and Phillips.

SPOKANE, June 18 - Lefthander Carl Gunnarson got a start a day early, and scattered ten hits in 7 2-3 innings as the Vancouver Capilanos shaded the Spokane Indians tonight, 8-7, in a Western International League encounter.
Gunnarson needed help in the eighth as Levi McCormack belted a two-run triple. Ron Bryant came in and didn't allow a hit.
Gunnarson walked nine and struck out two in picking up the win, his fourth for Vancouver and his seventh against one loss for the season.
Frank Mullens went two-for-five to run his hitting streak to 13 games, while Buddy Hjelmaa knocked in three runs with a pair of doubles, including the two runs that proved to be the game-winners in the eighth.
The Capilanos' victory spoiled Wally Kramer's pitching debut in the W.I.L. Kramer, who hurled Washington State College to a Northern Division title, doubled in a pair of runs in the seventh,
Vancouver ....... 040 100 120—8 14 3
Spokane ........... 000 120 220—7 10 2
Gunnarson, Bryant (8) and Stumpf; Kramer and Bufflap.

Chiefs Win Second in a Row Over Tars
WENATCHEE, June 18 - The cellar-dwelling Wenatchee Chiefs made it two wins in a row over the league-leading Bremerton Bluejackets, winning 5-4 tonight thanks to a four-run outburst in the fifth inning.
The break came after a fourth-inning decision at the plate when Umpire Bob Last ruled Clyde Haskell out at home trying to score the tying run for the Chiefs. The protest that followed resulted in Nick Pesut being thrown out of the game.
The Chiefs went into the fifth a run behind, but a single by Warner and homers by pitcher Lou McCollum, Mel Wasley and Steve Andrate brought in four runs.
Bremerton .......... 200 000 020—4 6 1
Wenatchee ........... 000 140 00x— 5 13 2
Kittle and Ronning; McCollum and Pesut, Winter (5)

SALEM, June 18 - The Salem Senators gained a one-run victory from the Tacoma Tigers tonight, winning a Western International League match by a 2 to 1 score.
A ninth-inning home run by Dick Greco deprived lefty Wandall Mosser of a shiutout for Salem. Aside from Greco's homer, Wasser had the Tigers well in hand.
Tacoma ....... 000 000 001—1 8 1
Salem .......... 000 100 10x—2 6 0
Gilson, Greenlaw (8) and Clifford; Mosser and Beard.

Spokane's Leading HomeRun Hitter Left Out of Lineup, Quits Ball Club
SPOKANE, - George Schmees, the Spokane Indians’ leading home run hitter, said Wednesday night he quit the team when he was left off the lineup in Wednesday night’s Western International League baseball game against Vancouver.
The big centre fielder, currently batting .283 and a .316 hitter for Ogden in the Pioneer League last year, said he was “going home to California.” He is a left-handed hitter.
Jake Phillips, new member of the team, took Schmees’ place in the lineup against the left-handed Carl Gunnarson.
Manager Ben Geraghty said after the game that Schmees would be fined $50 for “insubordination.”
- Thursday, June 19, 1947

SPOKANE —The Spokane Indians baseball team Wednesday optioned outfielder, James Dow, lead-off hitter, to Santa Barbara, Calif., to make room on the squad for Jim Phillips, who arrived from Pueblo, Colorado.
- Thursday, June 19, 1947