Friday, August 2, 1946

                 W  L  Pct GB
Wenatchee ..... 64 40 .615 —
Bremerton ..... 55 38 .591 3½
Salem ......... 59 41 .590 3
Tacoma ........ 54 44 .551 7
Spokane ....... 43 47 .478 14
Yakima ........ 43 54 .443 17½
Vancouver ..... 37 58 .389 21½
Victoria ...... 35 68 .340 27½

VICTORIA, Aug. 2—Jumping on Joe Faria for all of their runs in the first three innings, the Victoria Athletics squared their current series with the Spokane Indians at one game each when they handed the visiting nine a 7-2 trouncing tonight behind the brilliant pitching of Bob Jensen.
Out to break the WIL strike out record, Jensen blew his hard one past 15 Spokane batters to give him a total of 202 whiffs for the season and is practically certain to establish a new mark.
One of the Indians' top two moundmen, Faria ran into trouble in the first inning when two errors by Lou Kubiak and another by Carl Schultz allowed three unearned runs.
Singles by Ed Murphy and Bill Dunn, a pass to Jensen, a sacrifice and an outfield fly scored a pair in the second and Vic Buccola's two-run homer in the third finished the Victoria scoring.
Jensen lost his bid for a shutout in the ninth when Frank Hawkins' blooper fell in left for a double, and was followed by a double by Kubiak and a run-scoring single by Gale Bishop.
Spokane ......... 000 000 002—2 7 3
Victoria .......... 322 000 00x—7 10 1
Faria, Sadlich (5) and Clifford; Jensen and Paulson.

YAKIMA, Aug. 2 — story unavailable
First Game
Tacoma ........ 010 031 0—5 4 3
Yakima ......... 600 010 x—7 8 1
Gerkin, Jimmink and Kemper, Kuper ( ); Simon, Kralovich and McConnell.
Second Game
Tacoma ........ 100 011 201—6 11 0
Yakima ......... 302 020 00x—7 9 2
Jungbluth, Sostre (1), Gerkin (3), Greenlaw (7) and Kuper; Strait, Kralovich (7) and McConnell.

BREMERTON, Aug. 2—Bremerton won a 3-1 contest over Vancouver tonight in a tight pitchers' battle.
Jim Lowman was the winner as he held Vancouver to three hits. One was a home run by Charlie Mead in the fourth for the visitors' only run.
Bremerton cinched the game in the first inning on a walk, an error and two singles for two runs. Alex Palica tightened up to pitch one-hit ball the rest of the game.
Vancouver ...... 000 010 000—1 3 4
Bremerton ....... 200 100 00x—3 5 0
Palica and Spurgeon; Lowman and Volpi.

SALEM, Aug. 2—Salem poounded out 16 hits tonight to take a 5-2 victory over Wenatchee and break the Chiefs' winning streak in the Western International League.
Eddie Wheeler connected for four hits in five trips to the plate.
Wenatchee ...... 001 000 010—2 5 1
Salem ............. 011 201 00x—5 16 1
Vivaldi, Babbitt (7), and Fitzgerald; Wyatt and Kerr.

Tigers Sign Gerkin
TACOMA, Aug. 2—Signing of pitcher Steve Gerkin, released earlier in the week by the Salem Senators, was announced yesterday by the Tacoma Tigers of the Western International League. At the same time, the Tacoma management revealed that Morry Abbott, veteran outfielder, had been given his release.