STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Vancouver ... 83 64 .565 —
Bremerton ... 84 66 .560 ½
Spokane ..... 84 66 .560 ½
Salem ....... 79 65 .549 2½
Victoria .... 70 70 .530 5
Tacoma ...... 69 79 .466 14½
Yakima ...... 57 91 .385 28½
Wenatchee ... 56 90 .384 26½
VANCOUVER, Sept. 2 — It was gift night at Capilano Stadium tonight — management gave members of the Vancouver Capilanos engraved wrist watches and the Caps gave the Bremerton Bluejackets seven runs in the fourth inning and an 8-7 Western International League win.
Charlie Mead hit a three run homer for the Caps before Bob Hall got into trouble in the fourth and was replaced by Carl Gunnarson, who gave up three more hits and a couple of walks and seven runs came in. A single and Charlie Bushong's double in the seventh proved to be the difference.
Frank Mullens hit a two run homer for Vancouver in the fifth. The Caps scored twice in the eighth but had a chance for more. Bill Reese, Bill Brenner and Len Tran hit singles in a row to score a run. Pitcher Ron Bryant was sent in to pinch run and got trapped off second for an out. Bob Stumpf then ripped a pinch single and only one run scored. Reliever John Marshall got the next two outs to end the threat.
Bremerton ....... 000 700 100—8 11 1
Vancouver ...... 003 020 020—7 11 1
Ahearn, Lowman (5), Marshall (8) and Volpi; Hall, Gunnarson (4), Hedgecock (9) and Brenner, Stumpf (9).
Victoria ....... 000 100 002—3 7 6
Tacoma ...... 101 111 00x—5 7 2
Kasparovich and Mastro; Walden and Kuper.
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 010—1 7 2
Salem .............. 006 014 00x-11 13 2
Osborn, Waltho (3) Byrd (8) and Dalrymple; Wyatt and Mohler.
Yakima ....... 002 000 005— 7 8 4
Spokane ..... 000 660 16x—19 15 3
Strait, Brysch and Phillips; Costello and Bufflap.
Rainiers Recall 11 Men From Lower Class Loops
SEATTLE, Sept. 2—Seattle's Pacific Coast league baseball club management announced Tuesday night that it is recalling 11 players who were optioned this year to leagues' of lower classification.
Seven of the players are with Vancouver in the Western International League. They will report to the Raimcrs next Tuesday, after the W.I. season ends. The others will not report until next spring.
The seven recalled from Vancouver are: Pitchers Bob Hall, Bob Snyder, Harold Saltzman; Catcher Bob Stumpf; Infielder Leon Mohr; Outfielders Paul Carpenter and Frank Mullens; Infielder Dick Briskey and Pitcher Carl Shapley will be called back from Boise's Pioneer League,
team. The other two are First Baserman John Sturm, who has been player-manager for Ventura in the California league, and Shortstop Joe Kaney, with Lynn in the New England league.
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Games of Tuesday, May 27, 1947
Woop Scores Sixth Win for Athletics
TACOMA, May 27 - Successive doubles in the eighth inning by Leo Righetti and Bill Anake produced the tie-breaking rally as the Victoria Athletics defeated the Tacoma Tigers here tonight in the third game of their W.I.L. series.
Tacoma broke in front in the first frame when Dick Greco doubled home two runners, on board after getting bases on balls from Bill Woop to open the inning.
Single counters by the Athletics in the third, fourth and fifth gave them the lead, but a single by Guy Mitchell and a triple by Pete Tedeschi tied it again in the sixth.
Woop, who secored his sixth victory of the season against four losses, closed the door after that and won an Anske's hit.
Pat Patterson led the way for the winners, producing four singles in as many official trips and waliing once while Righetti contributed two doubles and a single.
Victoria ................ 001 110 010—4 13 1
Tacoma ................ 200 001 000—3 9 3
Woop and Anske; Greenlaw, Chetkovich (9) and Clifford, Kuper (9).
Tars Hold Off Caps
BREMERTON, May 27 - A ninth inning rally by the Vancouver Capilanos was nipped in the bud as the Bremerton Bluejackets handed them a fifth straight defeat in a 5-3 Western International League contest Tuesday night.
John Marshall opened the ninth having walked ten, but spacing four hits. But Bill Reese dropped Lee Mohr's pop-up and Buddy Hjelmaa followed with a stinging single. Frank Mullens forced Hjelmaa but Lou Estes socked his second single and Mohr scored.
Jim Estrada grounded out then Charlie Mead, who had already doubled in a run, drove a fast ball to deep centre. But Ed Murphy snared it with one hand against the wall just as the tying runs were trotting home.
Hooks DeVaurs had three singles for the winners.
Vancouver ............. 000 200 001—3 6 2
Bremerton ............. 020 200 01x—5 10 1
Hall, Snyder (8) and Stumpf; Marshall and Volpi.
Wenatchee .......... 110 003 050—10 13 1
Spokane ............. 000 300 000— 3 9 1
Vivaldi and Pesut; Stephenson, Zmitrivich (8), Samson (8) and DiMaria.
Yakima ............. 100 022 001—6 10 0
Salem ................ 000 000 020—2 7 4
Nowels and Phillips; Mossor and Beard.
Pete Jonas Signs With Vancouver Capilanos
SEATTLE, May 27 — Pete Jonas, stocky little right handed pitcher who was given his outright release by the Seattle Rainiers Sunday, signed Tuesday with Vancouver of the Western International League.
Edo Vanni, outfielder, given his release at the same time, has not signed yet with another team.
TACOMA, May 27 - Successive doubles in the eighth inning by Leo Righetti and Bill Anake produced the tie-breaking rally as the Victoria Athletics defeated the Tacoma Tigers here tonight in the third game of their W.I.L. series.
Tacoma broke in front in the first frame when Dick Greco doubled home two runners, on board after getting bases on balls from Bill Woop to open the inning.
Single counters by the Athletics in the third, fourth and fifth gave them the lead, but a single by Guy Mitchell and a triple by Pete Tedeschi tied it again in the sixth.
Woop, who secored his sixth victory of the season against four losses, closed the door after that and won an Anske's hit.
Pat Patterson led the way for the winners, producing four singles in as many official trips and waliing once while Righetti contributed two doubles and a single.
Victoria ................ 001 110 010—4 13 1
Tacoma ................ 200 001 000—3 9 3
Woop and Anske; Greenlaw, Chetkovich (9) and Clifford, Kuper (9).
Tars Hold Off Caps
BREMERTON, May 27 - A ninth inning rally by the Vancouver Capilanos was nipped in the bud as the Bremerton Bluejackets handed them a fifth straight defeat in a 5-3 Western International League contest Tuesday night.
John Marshall opened the ninth having walked ten, but spacing four hits. But Bill Reese dropped Lee Mohr's pop-up and Buddy Hjelmaa followed with a stinging single. Frank Mullens forced Hjelmaa but Lou Estes socked his second single and Mohr scored.
Jim Estrada grounded out then Charlie Mead, who had already doubled in a run, drove a fast ball to deep centre. But Ed Murphy snared it with one hand against the wall just as the tying runs were trotting home.
Hooks DeVaurs had three singles for the winners.
Vancouver ............. 000 200 001—3 6 2
Bremerton ............. 020 200 01x—5 10 1
Hall, Snyder (8) and Stumpf; Marshall and Volpi.
Wenatchee .......... 110 003 050—10 13 1
Spokane ............. 000 300 000— 3 9 1
Vivaldi and Pesut; Stephenson, Zmitrivich (8), Samson (8) and DiMaria.
Yakima ............. 100 022 001—6 10 0
Salem ................ 000 000 020—2 7 4
Nowels and Phillips; Mossor and Beard.
Pete Jonas Signs With Vancouver Capilanos
SEATTLE, May 27 — Pete Jonas, stocky little right handed pitcher who was given his outright release by the Seattle Rainiers Sunday, signed Tuesday with Vancouver of the Western International League.
Edo Vanni, outfielder, given his release at the same time, has not signed yet with another team.
Game of Monday, May 26, 1947
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Standings, Monday morning, May 26
. . . . . . . . . . . W .L Pct. GB
Bremerton .......... 28 13 .683 --
Spokane ............ 22 17 .564 5
Victoria ........... 22 18 .550 5½
Salem .............. 22 19 .537 6
Tacoma ............. 21 19 .525 6½
Vancouver .......... 18 20 .474 8½
Yakima ............. 16 25 .390 12
Wenatchee .......... 11 29 .275 16½
Spokes Sink Chiefs
SPOKANE, May 26 - A four-run, eighth inning outburst on three hits, a walk and an error gave the Spokane Indians a 5-2 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs in the Western International League's only game on Monday.
Sam Latino held the Chiefs to eight hits and struck out three.
Wenatchee ........ 000 100 001—2 8 4
Spokane ............ 000 100 04x—5 9 1
Condon and Pesut; Latino and Dimaria.
(only game scheduled)
Suds Release Pete Jonas
SEATTLE, May 26 — Pete Jonas and Edo Vanni, veteran members of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast baseball league, were given unconditional releases from the squad over the weekend, officials said Monday. Both joined the Seattle team in 1938, Jonas from the Whitman College Missionaries and Vanni from the Seattle high school ranks after a brief fling at the University of Washington. Neither announced their future plans, although Jonas, a pitcher, announced this spring that he planned to retire from the game.
Standings, Monday morning, May 26
. . . . . . . . . . . W .L Pct. GB
Bremerton .......... 28 13 .683 --
Spokane ............ 22 17 .564 5
Victoria ........... 22 18 .550 5½
Salem .............. 22 19 .537 6
Tacoma ............. 21 19 .525 6½
Vancouver .......... 18 20 .474 8½
Yakima ............. 16 25 .390 12
Wenatchee .......... 11 29 .275 16½
Spokes Sink Chiefs
SPOKANE, May 26 - A four-run, eighth inning outburst on three hits, a walk and an error gave the Spokane Indians a 5-2 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs in the Western International League's only game on Monday.
Sam Latino held the Chiefs to eight hits and struck out three.
Wenatchee ........ 000 100 001—2 8 4
Spokane ............ 000 100 04x—5 9 1
Condon and Pesut; Latino and Dimaria.
(only game scheduled)
Suds Release Pete Jonas
SEATTLE, May 26 — Pete Jonas and Edo Vanni, veteran members of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast baseball league, were given unconditional releases from the squad over the weekend, officials said Monday. Both joined the Seattle team in 1938, Jonas from the Whitman College Missionaries and Vanni from the Seattle high school ranks after a brief fling at the University of Washington. Neither announced their future plans, although Jonas, a pitcher, announced this spring that he planned to retire from the game.
Wenatchee, Vancouver 1947 Previews
Chiefs' Team Mostly New
WENATCHEE, April 14—When Manager Buddy Ryan sends the Wenatchee Chiefs out in defense of their Western International league baseball pennant in the season's opener against Victoria here April 18, there will be only two players in the bunch who worked with the champions last year.
But home town fans aren't as worried as you might think. They remember that Ryan took a flock of rookies last year and built a pennant winner. Many of his aces have won berths with teams in higher classification baseball, including a flock who have stuck with Sacramento in the Pacific Coast loop. Glenn Stetter, top batsman of the W.I.L. in 1946, was sold outright to Tacoma.
One of the current crop of rookies, just out of Folsom, Calif., high school, is Hal Rhyne Jr., son of the former Tacoma manager. He'll be at first base.
Team Is Young
Ryan describes his team as "young, promising, but lacking in experience," and says his biggest need is for a couple of experienced pitchers. Club President Joe Brownlow is looking to the parent Sacramento club for some aid in the mound department.
Teddy Grenhalgh, here from Sacramento on option, and Eddie Barr from the 1946 squad are the Chiefs experienced outfielders. Clyde Haskell, shortstop who nearly made the grade with Sacramento this year, is the other holdover. One catcher, Gabe Sady, played a few games with the Chiefs at the end of last season.
Out of High School
Tommy Warner and husky Dave Soracco, 19 years old and just out of Sacramento high, round out the outfield. Other catchers are rookies Leroy Winter and George Bandy. Another highschooler, Hal Hutchinson, 18, and from Alameda, Calif., will be at second base.
The youthful complexion holds from top to bottom in the pitching staff. Les Logg was briefly with the club last season before going to the Pioneer loop and Bob Condon joined the team in the last week of action, winning one game. Bill Osborne, who won 23 straight for Hartline high school, is out of the navy and reasy for action. Another G.I., Bill Monahan, has shown promise. Tom Rose, Bob Capps and Bob Frost complete the roster of righthanders and the southpaws are Dean Hamilton, Bob Adam and Jim Mann.
VANCOUVER, B. C., — The kid brother of Rudy York—one of the tall timbermen of the Boston Red Sox, as you very well know— is following in the first base footsteps of Rudy and this year he’ll stamp on the initial sack for Vancouver's Capilanos in the Western International baseball league.
And Lavis York hopes all Vancouver, will be a carbon copy of Rudy and knock down all the fences—a thing he has given promise of doing in training camp contests. Lavis, for instance, hit one 387-foot round tripper out of the Yakima park.
Manager Bill Brenner, who took over the reins in the middle of last season and will handle the catching, has a veteran club with a sprinkling of newcomers. Pitching appears especially strong and the outfield is potent, on training camp performance. Young Bob Stumpf will understudy Brenner behind the plate.
Veterans Back
Back this year are four pitching veterans—Ron Bryant, Hunk Anderson, Jim Hedgecock and Bob Snyder. Bryant, bothered last year with arm trouble, has shown plenty of power and ability in pre-season workouts. Snyder was unimpressive through much of last season but caught fire near the close of the schedule to win a return engagement. Hedgecock is the only "wronghander" of the quartet.
Among the rookie flingers, Jack Meister of Seattle has plucked a starting berth and Sandy Robertson, a Vancouver boy, will work in home games. He is studying to be a mechanical draftsman and the Red Sox, who held his contract, optioned him to Vancouver so he
could remain here and continue his studies. Other new tossers are slim Burke, Bill Reynolds and Bill Emerson, the latter a southpaw.
The Caps are hopeful that Leon Mohr. currently with the Seattle Rainiers, will be in camp soon to handle second base. Business Manager Bob Brown says the little Californian
is so fast "he can bunt .300 in this league." Jimmy Estrada returns to his shortstop position, but is getting competition for the job from young Buddy Hjelmaa. At third base the struggle is between Len Tran and Herb Pashowski, with Tran likely to get the call and Pashowski to be held as a utility outfielder.
Those outer gardens will be patrolled by Bill Wright, who hit .412 while playing the latter part of the season with the Caps last year; Frank Mullens, a star in the middle field defensively and a good hitter, and Charles Mead, formerly of the New York Giants, who also played part of last year with the Caps.
“We'll have,” says Brenner, “Plenty of hustle and will give all the teams a run for their money.”
The Capilanos tee off against Salem Friday on the Oregon City's home field and play their first home tilt against the same club Monday.
- Thursday, April 17, 1947
WENATCHEE, April 14—When Manager Buddy Ryan sends the Wenatchee Chiefs out in defense of their Western International league baseball pennant in the season's opener against Victoria here April 18, there will be only two players in the bunch who worked with the champions last year.
But home town fans aren't as worried as you might think. They remember that Ryan took a flock of rookies last year and built a pennant winner. Many of his aces have won berths with teams in higher classification baseball, including a flock who have stuck with Sacramento in the Pacific Coast loop. Glenn Stetter, top batsman of the W.I.L. in 1946, was sold outright to Tacoma.
One of the current crop of rookies, just out of Folsom, Calif., high school, is Hal Rhyne Jr., son of the former Tacoma manager. He'll be at first base.
Team Is Young
Ryan describes his team as "young, promising, but lacking in experience," and says his biggest need is for a couple of experienced pitchers. Club President Joe Brownlow is looking to the parent Sacramento club for some aid in the mound department.
Teddy Grenhalgh, here from Sacramento on option, and Eddie Barr from the 1946 squad are the Chiefs experienced outfielders. Clyde Haskell, shortstop who nearly made the grade with Sacramento this year, is the other holdover. One catcher, Gabe Sady, played a few games with the Chiefs at the end of last season.
Out of High School
Tommy Warner and husky Dave Soracco, 19 years old and just out of Sacramento high, round out the outfield. Other catchers are rookies Leroy Winter and George Bandy. Another highschooler, Hal Hutchinson, 18, and from Alameda, Calif., will be at second base.
The youthful complexion holds from top to bottom in the pitching staff. Les Logg was briefly with the club last season before going to the Pioneer loop and Bob Condon joined the team in the last week of action, winning one game. Bill Osborne, who won 23 straight for Hartline high school, is out of the navy and reasy for action. Another G.I., Bill Monahan, has shown promise. Tom Rose, Bob Capps and Bob Frost complete the roster of righthanders and the southpaws are Dean Hamilton, Bob Adam and Jim Mann.
VANCOUVER, B. C., — The kid brother of Rudy York—one of the tall timbermen of the Boston Red Sox, as you very well know— is following in the first base footsteps of Rudy and this year he’ll stamp on the initial sack for Vancouver's Capilanos in the Western International baseball league.
And Lavis York hopes all Vancouver, will be a carbon copy of Rudy and knock down all the fences—a thing he has given promise of doing in training camp contests. Lavis, for instance, hit one 387-foot round tripper out of the Yakima park.
Manager Bill Brenner, who took over the reins in the middle of last season and will handle the catching, has a veteran club with a sprinkling of newcomers. Pitching appears especially strong and the outfield is potent, on training camp performance. Young Bob Stumpf will understudy Brenner behind the plate.
Veterans Back
Back this year are four pitching veterans—Ron Bryant, Hunk Anderson, Jim Hedgecock and Bob Snyder. Bryant, bothered last year with arm trouble, has shown plenty of power and ability in pre-season workouts. Snyder was unimpressive through much of last season but caught fire near the close of the schedule to win a return engagement. Hedgecock is the only "wronghander" of the quartet.
Among the rookie flingers, Jack Meister of Seattle has plucked a starting berth and Sandy Robertson, a Vancouver boy, will work in home games. He is studying to be a mechanical draftsman and the Red Sox, who held his contract, optioned him to Vancouver so he
could remain here and continue his studies. Other new tossers are slim Burke, Bill Reynolds and Bill Emerson, the latter a southpaw.
The Caps are hopeful that Leon Mohr. currently with the Seattle Rainiers, will be in camp soon to handle second base. Business Manager Bob Brown says the little Californian
is so fast "he can bunt .300 in this league." Jimmy Estrada returns to his shortstop position, but is getting competition for the job from young Buddy Hjelmaa. At third base the struggle is between Len Tran and Herb Pashowski, with Tran likely to get the call and Pashowski to be held as a utility outfielder.
Those outer gardens will be patrolled by Bill Wright, who hit .412 while playing the latter part of the season with the Caps last year; Frank Mullens, a star in the middle field defensively and a good hitter, and Charles Mead, formerly of the New York Giants, who also played part of last year with the Caps.
“We'll have,” says Brenner, “Plenty of hustle and will give all the teams a run for their money.”
The Capilanos tee off against Salem Friday on the Oregon City's home field and play their first home tilt against the same club Monday.
- Thursday, April 17, 1947
More Pre-Season
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1947
Curfew Ends Game
LEWISTON, Idaho, April 14—A curfew ruling Monday night ended after eight innings a tilt which Spokane won 16 to 9 from Bremerton.
The session was the last of the exhibition variety before the two Western International baseball league clubs start the regular season
Play was stopped at the end of eight frames in order to comply with a ruling which says the flood lights on the field shall be out after ten p. m. any night.
The Spokane club came from behind to post a compelling lead, with eight tallies in the fourth inning.
SUNNYSIDE, Wash., April 14 — Following a two-run homer by Len Tran in the sixth inning, breaking a 4-4 tie, the Vancouver, B. C. Capilanos of the Western International league tallied two more runs in the eighth to defeat the Boise Pilots of the Pioneer league 8 to 5 Monday for the Canadians' third exhibition victory over the Idaho club.
Tacoma and Vancouver Open Two-Game Series Here Tonight
[Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, April 15, 1947]
WALLA WALLA, Wash. - The Tacoma Tigers will wind up the spring training season here Tuesday and Wednesday nights, meeting the Vancouver Capilanos in Western International league exhibition games scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. at Borleske Field.
The Tigers defeated the Capilanos, 10-9, two weeks ago at the Sunnyside camp of the Vancouver team, but on the debit side are a pair of losses to Yakima and one to Bremerton.
Manager Red Harvel named Julie Morgan and Marion Moake to share the pitching duties Tuesday. Morgan, a righthander from Atlanta, Ga., has played in the Appalachian, Inter-state and Southern leagues. Moake is a young southpaw with semi-pro experience in Illinois.
No word has been received from catcher Earl Kuper, who was called to Tacoma over the weekend by his wife's illness, and Neil Clifford will again be behind the plate.
Glen Stetter, W.I.L. batting king in 1946, injured his left thumb late last week, jamming it into the ground in a fielding try, and it was still bothering him Monday. After he hit a foul in Sunday's game with Yakima, the pain was so severe that he had to step out of the box several times before he could grip the bat.
Another worry for the Tacoma head man was the failure of Patton, recently-assigned first baseman who hit over .320 with Nashville of the Southern Association last year, to check in with the club.
Vancouver will have a young club this year. Manager Bill Brenner has announced, with eight veterans and 10 newcomers tentatively slated to fill the squad after the final cut. Brenner, a playing manager who runs the squad from behind the plate listed three veterans in the outfield, Bill Wright, Charley Mead, and Frank Mullins, all left-handed hitters. Jim Estrada at second is the only holdover infielder.
Four pitchers are back from last year's sixth-place club, including Bob Snyder, Hunk Anderson, southpaw Jim Hedgecock and Ronnie Bryant.
ON THE SUNBEAM
By ALF COTTRELL
[Vancouver Sun, April 17, 1947]
Our Ball Club Has Improved
I noticed, being right on the bit this morning, that the Western International League baseball season opens tomorrow at various scattered outputs in Oregon, Washington and B.C.
Since you can’t tell you players without a teacup reading, in the interests of science I was forced to break a lifelong habit by swizzling some tea with my lunch today.
Our Capilanos open in Salem, the capital city of Oregon. I suspect it would be safe to see how the Caps make out in the series down there before making any predictions regarding their fate in the WIL struggle this summer, but it wouldn’t be half the fun.
The locals figure to be better than last year, for sure. I don’t want to dwell a great deal on last year’s club, except to say that the altitude seldom bothered it. Nevertheless comparisons are necessary.
There is a distinct strengthening along the imaginary line that stretches itself from home plate to centre field, from what we saw at the Sunnyside training camp, and historians saw that the line of least importance.
The catching staff, with Bill Brenner in there from the start and Bobby Stumpf understudying him, is considerably enhanced. Big Bill is the best receiver in the league. Stumpf has a remarkable throwing arm and a nice voice that may secure him a place on the dressing room glee club.
Quite an Array of Chuckers
The pitching mound figures to be tastefully decorated most of the time, allowing for such intangible as off days and an occasional pain in the sword arm. The five starters on the training camp trial, should be holdovers Bob Snyder, Jim Hedgecock, Ron Bryant, Hunk Anderson and rookie Jack Meister.
Lanky Bob should be there with his hair in a braid tomorrow at Salem in the opener. Hedgecock was bothered by a flutter in the flipper at Sunnyside, but he assured us that it was nothing serious.
Bryant, who says he will either make good in a huge way this year or quit the profession for a nobler one, might be the ace of the staff. He says his arm has that rich, chunchy freshness back again and is very serious about the whole thing.
Anderson’s arm was a mite “ouchy” a week ago. It might be premature to count on him, but there is plenty more pitching wherever you turn in the camp of the Brenner-men. Meister, for instance. The kid is a couple of pitchers in himself, from the standpoint of bulk, and he seems to have arrived.
Plenty of Zip for the Infield
During spring exhibition sessions, Jack sharpened his control by throwing at baseball caps. It didn’t seem to disturb the poise he has achieved when he discovered that there was always a hitter underneath the cap. That would have upset him at one time, but now, a married man for several months, nothing does.
There are hurlers Sandy Robertson, Ernie Kershaw, Bob Hall, Larry Manier and others to fall back on should the first stringers fail.
Around second base there will be Leon Mohr (down from Seattle Rainiers), Jim Estrada and/or Buddy Hjelmaa.
We take Mohr on hearsay, but there is positive assurance that he can trickle from point to point quite rapidly. On the evidence, Mohr should wrap up second base and take it home unchallenged.
Estrada has never been crazy about being curved on the outside, but he still gets his base hits. He is a steady if unspectacular shortstop. Hjelmaa is a white-haired Scandinavian kid, not long out of college. It is in his favor that he has done everything that they have asked him to do, to date.
In centre field, to run the line all the way out, it is our guess that Frank Mullens will cover that pasture more capably than Clarkson did last year. Defensively there is the setup.
On offense, there wouldn’t appear to be any hitters of the banjo type that strangled last year’s attack. Lavis York hit the Yakima pitching as if he owned it, and should get help in cuffing the opposition around from Charlie Mead, Bill Wright, Brenner, Mullens, Mead and either Lenny Tran or Lou Estes.
All in all, and at the risk of being torn limb from limb by wild readers, I will go so far as to say that, wind and weather permitting, the Caps will be in there somewhere, straight, place or show.
Curfew Ends Game
LEWISTON, Idaho, April 14—A curfew ruling Monday night ended after eight innings a tilt which Spokane won 16 to 9 from Bremerton.
The session was the last of the exhibition variety before the two Western International baseball league clubs start the regular season
Play was stopped at the end of eight frames in order to comply with a ruling which says the flood lights on the field shall be out after ten p. m. any night.
The Spokane club came from behind to post a compelling lead, with eight tallies in the fourth inning.
SUNNYSIDE, Wash., April 14 — Following a two-run homer by Len Tran in the sixth inning, breaking a 4-4 tie, the Vancouver, B. C. Capilanos of the Western International league tallied two more runs in the eighth to defeat the Boise Pilots of the Pioneer league 8 to 5 Monday for the Canadians' third exhibition victory over the Idaho club.
Tacoma and Vancouver Open Two-Game Series Here Tonight
[Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, April 15, 1947]
WALLA WALLA, Wash. - The Tacoma Tigers will wind up the spring training season here Tuesday and Wednesday nights, meeting the Vancouver Capilanos in Western International league exhibition games scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. at Borleske Field.
The Tigers defeated the Capilanos, 10-9, two weeks ago at the Sunnyside camp of the Vancouver team, but on the debit side are a pair of losses to Yakima and one to Bremerton.
Manager Red Harvel named Julie Morgan and Marion Moake to share the pitching duties Tuesday. Morgan, a righthander from Atlanta, Ga., has played in the Appalachian, Inter-state and Southern leagues. Moake is a young southpaw with semi-pro experience in Illinois.
No word has been received from catcher Earl Kuper, who was called to Tacoma over the weekend by his wife's illness, and Neil Clifford will again be behind the plate.
Glen Stetter, W.I.L. batting king in 1946, injured his left thumb late last week, jamming it into the ground in a fielding try, and it was still bothering him Monday. After he hit a foul in Sunday's game with Yakima, the pain was so severe that he had to step out of the box several times before he could grip the bat.
Another worry for the Tacoma head man was the failure of Patton, recently-assigned first baseman who hit over .320 with Nashville of the Southern Association last year, to check in with the club.
Vancouver will have a young club this year. Manager Bill Brenner has announced, with eight veterans and 10 newcomers tentatively slated to fill the squad after the final cut. Brenner, a playing manager who runs the squad from behind the plate listed three veterans in the outfield, Bill Wright, Charley Mead, and Frank Mullins, all left-handed hitters. Jim Estrada at second is the only holdover infielder.
Four pitchers are back from last year's sixth-place club, including Bob Snyder, Hunk Anderson, southpaw Jim Hedgecock and Ronnie Bryant.
ON THE SUNBEAM
By ALF COTTRELL
[Vancouver Sun, April 17, 1947]
Our Ball Club Has Improved
I noticed, being right on the bit this morning, that the Western International League baseball season opens tomorrow at various scattered outputs in Oregon, Washington and B.C.
Since you can’t tell you players without a teacup reading, in the interests of science I was forced to break a lifelong habit by swizzling some tea with my lunch today.
Our Capilanos open in Salem, the capital city of Oregon. I suspect it would be safe to see how the Caps make out in the series down there before making any predictions regarding their fate in the WIL struggle this summer, but it wouldn’t be half the fun.
The locals figure to be better than last year, for sure. I don’t want to dwell a great deal on last year’s club, except to say that the altitude seldom bothered it. Nevertheless comparisons are necessary.
There is a distinct strengthening along the imaginary line that stretches itself from home plate to centre field, from what we saw at the Sunnyside training camp, and historians saw that the line of least importance.
The catching staff, with Bill Brenner in there from the start and Bobby Stumpf understudying him, is considerably enhanced. Big Bill is the best receiver in the league. Stumpf has a remarkable throwing arm and a nice voice that may secure him a place on the dressing room glee club.
Quite an Array of Chuckers
The pitching mound figures to be tastefully decorated most of the time, allowing for such intangible as off days and an occasional pain in the sword arm. The five starters on the training camp trial, should be holdovers Bob Snyder, Jim Hedgecock, Ron Bryant, Hunk Anderson and rookie Jack Meister.
Lanky Bob should be there with his hair in a braid tomorrow at Salem in the opener. Hedgecock was bothered by a flutter in the flipper at Sunnyside, but he assured us that it was nothing serious.
Bryant, who says he will either make good in a huge way this year or quit the profession for a nobler one, might be the ace of the staff. He says his arm has that rich, chunchy freshness back again and is very serious about the whole thing.
Anderson’s arm was a mite “ouchy” a week ago. It might be premature to count on him, but there is plenty more pitching wherever you turn in the camp of the Brenner-men. Meister, for instance. The kid is a couple of pitchers in himself, from the standpoint of bulk, and he seems to have arrived.
Plenty of Zip for the Infield
During spring exhibition sessions, Jack sharpened his control by throwing at baseball caps. It didn’t seem to disturb the poise he has achieved when he discovered that there was always a hitter underneath the cap. That would have upset him at one time, but now, a married man for several months, nothing does.
There are hurlers Sandy Robertson, Ernie Kershaw, Bob Hall, Larry Manier and others to fall back on should the first stringers fail.
Around second base there will be Leon Mohr (down from Seattle Rainiers), Jim Estrada and/or Buddy Hjelmaa.
We take Mohr on hearsay, but there is positive assurance that he can trickle from point to point quite rapidly. On the evidence, Mohr should wrap up second base and take it home unchallenged.
Estrada has never been crazy about being curved on the outside, but he still gets his base hits. He is a steady if unspectacular shortstop. Hjelmaa is a white-haired Scandinavian kid, not long out of college. It is in his favor that he has done everything that they have asked him to do, to date.
In centre field, to run the line all the way out, it is our guess that Frank Mullens will cover that pasture more capably than Clarkson did last year. Defensively there is the setup.On offense, there wouldn’t appear to be any hitters of the banjo type that strangled last year’s attack. Lavis York hit the Yakima pitching as if he owned it, and should get help in cuffing the opposition around from Charlie Mead, Bill Wright, Brenner, Mullens, Mead and either Lenny Tran or Lou Estes.
All in all, and at the risk of being torn limb from limb by wild readers, I will go so far as to say that, wind and weather permitting, the Caps will be in there somewhere, straight, place or show.
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