Sunday, June 2, 1946

                 W  L  Pct GB
Salem ......... 25 15 .625 —
Spokane ....... 24 16 .600 1
Wenatchee ..... 25 17 .595 1
Tacoma ........ 22 15 .595 1½
Bremerton ..... 20 19 .513 4½
Yakima......... 18 20 .473 6
Vancouver ..... 16 24 .400 9
Victoria ....... 9 33 .214 16

SALEM [Vancouver News-Herald, June 3]—Vancouver’s baseball fans are just a little confused today.
When our Capilanos waved good-bye a week ago, and headed for Salem, they had just finished polishing off the Spokane Indians, an appeared to be on the way to fame, fortune and the first division of the Western International League.
Today the Caps sneak home for a seven-game stand against Bremerton, hiding shyly behind their backs their record of two wins and six losses at the Oregon capital.
Syl Johnson’s crew won the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, 6-2, after dropping the first tilt by a similar score to stretch their losing string against the Salem squad to five straight. Salem polished them off Saturday night, 12-7.
There were two bright spots in the otherwise bleak week for the Brownies, said bright spots being the performances of Lou Estes and Hunk Anderson.
A SLUGGER
Estes was sent down on option from San Diego as a replacement for Watts Gulan at third base, but when Gulan started to play smart ball, Estes was shoved into the left field spot. He made an auspicious debut, parking one pitch over the distant left field fence, and continued to keep up the punching pace all week. Over the weekend, he hit his third and fourth home runs of the series to assure himself a spot in the lineup.
Anderson, who notched the Caps’ first win against Salem in the second game of the series last Wednesday, was the winning pitcher Sunday afternoon. He had a bad first inning when Ted Gullic hit a terrific double with two on for Salem’s only runs, but he kept the Senators completely in check thereafter to register his fifth victory against one defeat. Besides that, he picked up three hits in four tries.
ORTEIG BEATEN
Ray Orteig pitched the first game Saturday, but he didn’t have his stuff. Salem just kept pecking away at him, and he was in constant trouble.
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This week the locals will get a crack at a second-division team for a change, starting Tuesday at Cap Stadium. Another player was lopped off the list over the weekend, too. Dick Zender, the Bellnigham utility outfielder, getting his release.
First Game:
Vancouver ......... 000 002 000—2 7 1
Salem ............... 020 112 00x—6 12 1
Orteig and Spurgeon; Gerkin and Kerr.
Second Game
Vancouver ......... 020 102 1—6 12 0
Salem ............... 200 000 0—2 6 2
Anderson and Brenner; Wyatt, Fallin (6) and Kerr.

First Game
Victoria ....... 000 102 001—4 7 4
Spokane ...... 022 120 63x—16 13 0
Carpenter, Babich (7), Biale (7) and Clifford; Barisoff and Paulson.
Second Game
Victoria .......... 002 000 000—2 4 6
Spokane ......... 002 000 30x—5 13 1
Raimondi and Mulcahy; Cadinha and Paulson.

First Game
Yakima .......... 000 230 000—5 12 8
Tacoma ......... 102 513 30x—15 13 0
McHugh, Bohnen (4), Strait (6) and McConnell; Jungbluth and Kemper.
Second Game—Seven Innings
Yakima .......... 011 000 2—4 7 2
Tacoma ......... 331 000 x—7 8 1
Kralovich and McConnell, Gibb (4); Greenlaw and Kuper.

First Game
Bremerton ......... 010 051 030—10 9 0
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 130— 4 5 4
Kittle and Paglia; Babbitt, Orphan (6) and Fitzgerald, Pesut (6).
Second Game
Bremerton ......... 010 001 100—3 5 2
Wenatchee ....... 200 001 20x—5 8 1
Federmeyer and Volpi; Green, Vivalda (6) and Pesut.