W L Pct GB
Salem ......... 13 0 1.000 —
Tacoma ......... 7 5 .583 5½
Wenatchee ...... 7 6 .538 6
Victoria ....... 5 7 .417 7½
Yakima ......... 5 7 .416 7½
Bremerton ...... 4 8 .333 8½
Vancouver ...... 4 8 .333 8½
Spokane ........ 4 8 .333 8½
WENATCHEE — It was the same story for the Salem Senators Wednesday night only it took longer.
A three-run rally in the first of the ninth to tie the score and another three runs in the tenth won the ball game for Salem against the Wenatchee Chiefs 8 to 5.
It was Salem's 13th straight to start the season win with no defeats, setting a new Western International League record. The old record was made by Yakima in 1938.
In the 10th, with two away, two singles and four Wenatchee walks provided the winning margin. The Chiefs were able to get one man on base in the last two frames.
Salem ............. 100 100 003 3—8 12 2
Wenatchee ...... 100 112 000 0—5 9 5
Janeway, Gerkin (8) and Salmon, Kerr (8); Babbitt, John Fitzgerald (10) and Ed Fitzgerald.
YAKIMA—Max Strait, the Yakima Valley farm boy making his first start in professional baseball, shut over the Victoria Athletics on four hits in a 7-0 victory for the hometown Yakima Stars.
Mental and physical bobbles by the Victoria defence made his work light. Yakima scored four runs in the third on one hit—that by Strait.
In the fifth, Yakima added three more runs, with a base on balls to Bill Garbe and singles to Bill McCloskey, Robert Moore and Eddie Gibb. Four errors were sandwiched in.
Victoria ......... 000 000 000—0 4 7
Yakima .......... 004 030 00x—7 6 1
Jensen, Blankenship (4) and Myers, Mulcahy (7); Strait and Gibb.
SPOKANE—Frank Gosney's blooper into left field to lead off the third inning was the only hit allowed by curve-ball artist Milt Cadinha, who led the Spokane Indians to an 11-0 Western International league thrashing of the Vancouver Capilanos.
Cadinha had two-hit the Caps earlier in the series.
Gosney never got past second base after Bob Snyder sacrificed him there. And neither did any of the other Caps. Jimmy Estrada walked, and he was the only other Vancouver base-runner.
Spokane opened the scoring in the second inning as Vic Picetti doubled to left field, stole third, then scored on Fred Martinez' double. Martinez came in on Bob James' single.
The Spokes collected three more runs in the third. Levi McCormack's blooper scored Jack Lohrke from second, and Martinez tripled to bring in McCormack and Bob Paterson.
In the fifth, McCormack doubled and scored on an error by second baseman Art Bonnell, and Paulson's single brought in Martinez, who had gone to second on an error and a wild pitch.
Martinez hit a single in the eighth with the bases loaded to score George Risk and Paterson. Billy Dunn scored on James' single and Martinez romped home on a bad throw to third base to end the scoring.
Martinez ended up five RBIs as the Indians slammed 14 hits off Bob Snyder and Dick Conover.
Cadinha struck out eight.
Vancouver ........ 000 000 000—0 1 1
Spokane ........... 023 020 04x—11 14 0
Snyder, Conover (4), and Spurgeon; Cadinha and Paulson.
TACOMA—The Tacoma Tigers took the second straight game in the opening series with the Bremerton Bluejackets in the Western International League series here by a score of 4-3 in ten innings.
Tacoma opened with a run in the first frame. The Bluejackets evened the score in the third and added two more in the fourth. Tacoms were behind until one run in the seventh levelled the score at 3-3. In the last of the 10th, Bob Hedington singled and then scored on Cliff Clifford's two-base hit.
Bremerton ............. 001 200 000 0—3 9 1
Tacoma ................ 100 010 100 1—4 9 1
Barisoff, Curran (6) and Volpi; Martin and Kemper.
Stagg to Memphis
SEATTLE, May 9—Bob Stagg, young left-handed hitting catcher, has been optioned by Seattle of the Pacific Coast League to Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association. Stagg previously had been optioned to the Yakima Stars of the class B Western International League. Officials explained Memphis manager Doc Prothro promised to give Stagg "plenty of work" in the faster junior circuit.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Wednesday, May 8, 1946
Tuesday, May 7, 1946
W L Pct. GB
Salem ......... 12 0 1.000 —
Wenatchee ...... 7 5 .583 5
Tacoma ......... 6 5 .545 5½
Victoria ....... 5 6 .455 6½
Bremerton ...... 4 7 .364 7½
Vancouver ...... 4 7 .364 7½
Yakima ......... 4 7 .364 7½
Spokane ........ 3 8 .273 8½
WENATCHEE — Defeating the Wenatchee Chiefs 8 to 7 here Tuesday night the Salem Senators notched their 12th straight Western International league baseball against no defeats, tying the opening win mark set by Yakima in 1938.
But Salem did it the hard way. They were trailing 7 to 2 going into the fourth inning. Then in the eighth, behind 7 to 3, Henry Bartolomei hit a home run with no one aboard. Carney walked, was advanced by George Vico's single, and both scored on a Wenatchee error. Later Carney got on base through an error and scored the winning run on Crawford's fly to left field.
Chuck Cronin held Salem to five hits in eight innings, but three of them were homers by Bartolomei, Woody Salmon and Vico. Dick Adams homered for Wenatchee.
Salem ........... 000 210 140—8 6 1
Wenatchee .... 032 200 000—7 11 4
Gunnarson, Adams (2), Kowalski (7) and Salmon; Cronin, Vivalda (9) and Fitzgerald.
TACOMA — The Tacoma Tigers outlasted the Bremerton Bluejackets by coming from behind in the last of the ninth to win their league debut before the home folks Tuesday, 11 to 10.
Relief hurler Gene Holt of Bremerton walked two men and hit another to fill the bases. He was relieved by Bill Kostenbader who was greeted with a double to right by Bob Hedington and the winning runs scampered across.
The attendance of 4,850 was the league's highest opening-day figure.
Bremerton at one time led 7-3 mainly because of two homers over the left field wall by opening pitcher ray Medeghini. He drove in five runs in all. The Tigers tied it in the sixth and went ahead in the seventh on Roy Peterson's circuit clout.
Both teams counted once in the eighth, and in the ninth, pinch-hitter Bill Barisoff homered with one on to put the Jackets in front. Southpaw Holt got the first batter before his control blew, and the Tigers swarmed in.
The loss dropped Sam Sad Gibsons's Bremerton squad into a three-way tie with Yakim and Vancouver.
Bremerton ......... 021 040 012—10 14 1
Tacoma ............ 020 113 112—11 16 4
Medeghini, C. Federmeyer (6), Holt (9), Kostenbader (9) and Volpi; Colombo, Jungbluth (7) and Kemper.
Victoria at Yakima — postponed (rain).
Vancouver at Spokane — postponed (rain).
Cap Janicek Heads South
VANCOUVER, May 7—Vancouver baseball fans have caught their last glimpse of one-time left-handed thinking Lou (Tex) Janicek, nee Goldman.
Janicek was returned to the parent Seattle Rainiers yesterday by the Capilanos, who immediately farmed him to Gadsden in the Southwestern League. Thus room as been made for Hunk Anderson. The twirler will join the team in Tacoma Friday.
(No) Games of Monday, May 6, 1946
S T A N D I N G S
W L Pct. GB
Salem ......... 11 0 1.000 —
Wenatchee ...... 7 4 .636 4
Tacoma ......... 5 5 .500 5½
Victoria ....... 5 6 .455 6
Bremerton ...... 4 6 .400 6½
Vancouver ...... 4 7 .364 7
Yakima ......... 4 7 .364 7
Spokane ........ 3 8 .273 8
Wenatchee to Test Salem
Salem's unbeaten Senators, with 11 — count 'em — consecutive victories, put their winning streak to the test Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights when they tangle with the second-place Wenatchee Chiefs at Wenatchee.
Four games ahead of the field, the Western International league leaders first victimized Yakima in four straight, then hung seven straight defeats on the erstwhile visitors from Spokane, sending the Indians into the basement.
The way ex-umpire Leo "Frisco" Edwards' club is going, the other club, owners are beginning to case the umpire field to see if they can find somebody else among the bandits in blue who can manage a team into eleven straight victories.
Only Victoria and Yakima play a straightaway seven game series this week, the Canadian Athletics unpacking for a week's stay at Yakima.
While Salem is testing Wenatchee's hospitality, Bremerton goes to Tacoma for that city's season inaugural, and Vancouver travels to Spokane.
Come Friday, Vancouver goes to Tacoma, Bremerton returns to Wenatchee for the second straight weekend, and Salem picks on Spokane again, this time in the Inland Empire. All are four-game series.
Hunk Anderson Joins Caps Friday
[Vancouver Sun, May 7, 1950]
Vancouver Capilanos’ starting staff gets its first shot in the arm—and a sorely needed one—Friday when the team opens in Tacoma. The new flinger is Hunk Anderson, the Seattle Rainier product.
Anderson, another college protégé like Doug Ford, has kicked around baseball’s pro circles more than Ford. He divided a series with the Pioneer and “Willie” loops in 1941 before entering the Army. This year he was good enough to catch two starting calls with the Rainiers.
The Caps start their week-long road trip tonight at Spokane against the slugging Indians. Syl Johnson yesterday named either Jim Hedgecock or Bob Snyder as his starting mound choice.
VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 7]—Vancouver Capilanos checked into the Halliday Hotel in Spokane Monday and, we trust, got a good night’s sleep.
It was less than two weeks ago that our Western International League entry hit the Inland Empire for the first time this season—but what a whale of a difference less than two weeks makes.
When Syl Johnson’s boys debarked from their bus April 24, they had just pulled in from training camp at Sunnyside, Wash., and they were rarin’ to go. They had looked pretty good in training, and the experts had them tabbed as one of the teams to beat.
‘TWAS DISASTROUS
And so they got down to business. Or rather, they got the business. They wound up at Spokane with one win and three losses, and limped home to face Yakima, who hadn’t won in four starts at Salem.
Well, you know what happened there. After getting away to a good start against the hard-hitting Stars, our Caps ran into that disastrous weekend, when they dropped three games to wind up with a 3-4 record in the seven-game series.
That left them, or leaves them as they open their three-game string with the Indians of Spokane tonight, with four wins and seven losses and a sixth place tie with Yakima. And that, no matter how you look at it, ain’t good.
The trouble would seem to be in the department that was supposed to be our strongest—pitching.
Of the seven flingers who have worked in the two series, only two, Alex Palica and Jim Hedgecock, have looked at all good. Two more, Ronnie Bryant and Bob Snyder, are expected to come around soon.
FORD DISAPPOINTS
The other three, Doug Ford, Lou Janicek and Dick Conover, haven’t shown much. Biggest disappointment is Ford. The large University of Washington chucker, who came down from the parent Seattle Rainiers marked “handle with care,” was supposed to burn up the league. So far, all the big boy has done is burn up the fans—and his teammates—with his uninspiring and uncontrolled hurling, and his lack of hustle.
You can expect some action on—or from---the hurling corps soon, though. For one thing, Ray Orteig joins the club this week, and he’ll help a lot.
As for the rest of the cub, there’ll be a shakeup before the weekend, which probably will see first sacker Frank Gosney replaced. Vice-president Bob Brown, who doesn’t approve of a losing club, visited Seattle on the weekend, and got a line on three possible replacements.
First of these is Bill Wright, a member of the pennant-winning ’42 Caps, just released from the Army. Bill is now the property of the Los Angeles Angels, and may be shipped here after reporting.
NICK LOOKS GOOD
Then there’s Nick Sunseri, who looked very good in spring training with the Spokane club, but was shunted out of starting spot when Vic Picetti was optioned to the Indians by Oakland. And finally, there’s Bill Gray, now with the Hollywood Stars.
Major disappointment, outside of the pitching, has been the hitting, or lack of it, of big Sid Van Sinderen. The tall Bellingham youngster hit the ball hard and often at Sunnyside, but it’s apparent they weren’t throwing any curves in the spring. Sid, who fields well and ha a wonderful arm, had better find out how to hit that wrinkle if he’s to stay in organized ball.
All this paints a very sad, sorry picture indeed, but before you order a dozen crying towels, take a look at the date. Got it? Okay. The season lasts till Sept. 8.
By ALF COTTRELL, Sports Editor
[Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, May 7, 1946]
Sorry Saga of the Sagging Caps
It begins to seem that members of the Vancouver Capilanos board of baseball strategy made one or two mistakes this spring: they either under-estimated the strength of the Western International League or they over-estimated the ability of their own hirelings.
Putting the finger on which of the two errors was committed is barely necessary. It doesn't matter whether the executioner uses the old-fashioned hemp or a neat hot chair job. In the end, you are equally as dead.
Yours truly was fortunate enough to be with the Caps at Spokane when they made their official debut in their new grey road suits against the Spokes. I say “fortunate,” because Spokane is a brisk sporting little city. I wouldn’t want to indicate that being in attendance at Ferris Field when the Caps bowed before the Indians was either enlightening or pleasant.
That Spokane series was hardly enlightening, because it led us to think (a thing we should never do, of course), that in the Indians we were losing to the club which we would ultimately have to whip.
Manager Syl Johnson brought his club home, then. He seemed ready to expose them to the home fans with a good deal of confidence, despite the necessity of having to shuffle, because of injuries, the deck in the manner of a card sharp in an E. Phillips Oppenheim novel.
Our Pitchers Are Getting Wilder
In view at Boss Johnson’s assurance, your truly feels no particular shame in revealing that he, too, felt quite fairly good about the club. After all, Johnson has been around practically since catchers first started to wear gloves.
For that matter, vice president Bob Brown, as far as we could judge, was another believer in the Caps, and he is rumored to have been the inventor of the first glove.
After the first two victories against Yakima here, old Sylvester told he thought the boys were finally going to settle down. Only now do we realize the serious portent of those words. Over the weekend the Caps began to settle down at an alarming rate with the basement now just one more stumble or so away.
About now Mr. Johnson is probably peering anxiously at the blueprints to see just where he went wrong, Better, or at least older, architects than he have had the same problem. Certainly the Capilanos began to show serious signs of disorganization as last week wore on. First sacker Frank Gosney spent all too much time looking intently, bat on shoulder, at curve balls.
In the main, pitchers were at fault. With only a couple of left-handed sticking regulars on their own squad and scads of them swinging for the opposition, that short right-field wall became a nightmare.
You could hear them trying to figure it out.
“Curve ‘em and pray,” suggested one righthander, “but above all, curve ‘em.”
“Fire at their heads,” suggested another flinger.
“What's the use?” said Lefty Jim Hedgecock, “The cowards duck.”
Help Is Coming—Vancouver Hopes
Meanwhile, Salem, apparently in an awful hurry for some reason or other, has won all of its first 11 games. A lot of those games were won from Spokane, the club the boys figured they had to beat.
Help is said to be coming. Ray Orteig, the one-man gang from the U.S. Coastguard, told our pal Bill Finlay in Bellingham on Sunday that he will join the Capilanos late this week at Tacoma. Mr. Brown is following all available clues in search of a first baseman. He trailed one down in Seattle last week, but it turned out to be Peerless Hal Chase’s mother.
It seems she had played for the House of David nine in ’96.
Our main hope lies in the known fact that Brown is allergic to losers. We suspect, after hearing some of the remarks around town yesterday, that a check on the fans would show that he has a lot of company.
Before and After
By Ken McConnell
[Vancouver Province, May 7, 1946]
LIFE CAN BE, ETC.
So we had a brisk set of tennis and then went to the P.A. Club where Eric Alberg punched sagging muscles back into place. No place quite like a steam-room to pick up interesting items, including the desire to live again.
In a nearby shower was Watts Gulan, Capilanos’ third sacker now recovering from a leg injury, and he was groaning a trifle over a torn ligament.
On a table nearby was a survivor of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association’s recent annual convention. He was ironing out the kinks, or something.
A citizen with a flare for the body beautiful was doing a hand-spring and dishing out liberal lashings of information regarding the Pro-Rec display at the Forum on Friday night.
My friend Tack, with a critical eye, was out surveying the entire scene and you got the impression he wouldn’t wager a thin dime on the possibility of any of them living out the day.
And then somebody asked what was the matter with our baseballing Caps.
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THEY’LL BE BETTER
Well there does not seem to be a great deal that can not be fixed.
Our pitching, obviously enough, has no been good although Alex Palca has turned in a fair enough chore. Disappointing so far is Doug Ford and that practically goes for the rest of the hurlers.
There have been a good many injuries, including Al Kretchmar stopping one pitch with his head. Cleve Ramsey, a fairish hitter, has been on the sidelines and Gulan, as we mentioned before, is still limping.
All of these things can happen to a ball club in the early part of the season, and those teams which are now flying may be slowed down considerably when the campaign has been in progress a month or so.
Meanwhile, Salem continues to set the pace of any team in baseball. Imagine, 11 straight! That really isn’t fair and something should be done about it.
Probably something will be done about that, though. There is considerably rivalry between these two particular clubs and with the front office in Seattle more than slightly interested in the Caps, it can be taken for granted that any needed replacements will be here in good time. At least time enough before Salem arrived!
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In a subdued voice, Robert P. Brown, vice-presdent of the Capilanos, announced this morning:
“Hunk Anderson, a really good pitcher, will join our club Friday at Tacoam. Cleve Ramsey should be back with us then and also Watts Gulan. I think manager Johnston [sic] will switch Cleve to first base in place of Frank Gosney and Gulan will, of course, go to third base.
Sunday, May 5, 1946
SALEM — The Salem Senators ran their Western International league victory string to 11 straight games here Sunday by winning from Spokane 3 to 1 and 4 to 3 to stay on top of the league.
The Senators had to go 13 innings, however, to notch their bats for the nightcap, but made it on a single that sent shortstop Al Kubiak homeward. Salem's three other runs came in the sixth with pinch-hitter Woody Salmon driving in two runners with his single.
In the first game, Spokane had a 1 to 0 lead in the fifth but the "Little Beavers" brought home three runs in the eighth to clinch their hold on the victory string.
First game:
Spokane ....... 000 010 000—1 4 2
Salem ........... 000 000 03x—3 6 2
Kinnaman and Clifford; Fallin, Gerkin (9) and Salmon.
Second game (13 innings)
Spokane ..... 010 010 100 000 0—3 10 1
Salem ......... 000 003 000 000 1—4 9 2
Bass and Cole; Janeway, Adams (6) Gerkin (7) and Kerr.
SEATTLE — Yakima staved off a last inning rally here to defeat Vancouver 5-4, in a game played here because of British Columbia's ban on Sunday baseball.
Ray Spurgeon singled home Art Bonnell to give Vancouver the lead in the second inning. Yakima tied it in the third when a single to right by Bob Stagg scored Bud Dawson.
In the sixth the Stars rallied for three runs, with Harlond Clift's double the big blow of the inning.
Sid Van Sinderen struck out with the tying run on third to end the game.
Bonnell had three hits for Vancouver, two of them doubles.
Jack Kralovich finally beat his former teammates, sriking out ten and walking six. Alex Palica allowed four hits and five walks in the eight innings he worked. Tex Janicek gave up what proved to be the winning run in the ninth on Gene Thompson's single.
Yakima won the series with Vancouver four games to three.
Yakima ......... 001 003 001—5 10 1
Vancouver ... 010 000 003—4 13 1
Kralovich and Stagg; Palica, Janicek (8) and Spurgeon.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Chiefs defeated Bremerton Bluejackets 5 to 3 to end their seven-game series with a four to three advantage. Chief Pitcher Hugh Orphan had limited Bremerton to two scratch hits when he was hit in the hand by a pitched ball in the fifth.
Bill Reese hit a homer for Bremerton with Walt Bliss aboard in the seventh. Glen Stetter homered with a mate aboard in the fourth for the Chiefs and Dick Adams hit a circuit clout in the eighth.
Bremerton ....... 000 000 210—3 8 2
Wenatchee ....... 101 200 01x—5 7 2
Kittle, Holt (8) and Volpi; Orphan, Babbitt (7) and Pesut.
Tacoma at Victoria, not scheduled.
VICTORIA - Manager Laurel Harney has announced the release of right handed pitcher Leo Jones.
He worked only 2/3rds of an inning in his only start, giving up four runs on three hits and walking two on May 3 against Tacoma. He did not strike out a batter.
Jones will be returning to his home in the United States.
Saturday, May 4, 1946
W L Pct GB
Salem ........ 9 0 1.000 —
Wenatchee .... 6 4 .600 3½
Tacoma ....... 5 5 .500 4½
Victoria ..... 5 6 .455 5
Bremerton .... 4 5 .444 5
Vancouver .... 4 6 .400 5½
Yakima ....... 3 7 .300 6½
Spokane ...... 3 9 .333 7½
VANCOUVER—Yakima Stars beat Vancouver Capilanos 8-4 Saturday night to win the Western International League series three games to two. Stars had won the afternoon contest 10-1.
John Marshall was the winning pitcher for Yakima and although he allowed 13 hits, Vancouver got only four runners across the plate.
Meanwhile, the Stars were making seven hits with eight runs.
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VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 5]—Visitors to Bob Brown’s office at Capilano Stadium Saturday night were a little startled to see the Vancouver team’s vice-president-business manager fingering the sharp edge of a double-bitted axe.
Although the Capilanos’ brain trust wasn’t talking, rumors were flitting about the ball park that heads would roll following our Western International League entry’s sad showing Saturday, when the locals dropped two games to Yakima Stars…
Down 3-1 in games to the Vancouver crew following our spectacular ninth-inning with Friday, the visitors pulled up all square with 10-1 and 8-4 victories in Saturday’s afternoon and evening tussles…
Our vaunted pitching staff, counted on to carry the major burden for the Brownies, didn’t have a look-in against the Yakima power Saturday.
The Yaks, who got the range on the right field wall Friday night, when they hit five of that weird contest’s nine home runs, had their big guns booming in the same manner in the afternoon tilt, whopping four more round-trippers over the right field ramparts.
Bob Stagg, who took over behind the bat when Hugh McConnell split his finger, hammered two of the four-baggers, one of them hitting the top of a right field light standard. Bill McCloskey and Bill Garbe also hit for the long ball as Ron Brant was shelled from the mound.
FORD LEAVES EARLY
Doug Ford, the expensive Seattle chattel, made his third start pitching under the lights, and didn’t look any better than he did in his first two unfortunate mound ventures.
Still unable to find the plate, Ford walked three in the first inning, and gave up a double and a single for four runs and the ball game. Doug got no better after that, and Yakima was leading 7-0 when Ford walked the plank early in the fourth. Lefthander Jim Hedgecock looked good as he finished up, but his efforts came too late.
[WILfan notes: Ray Spurgeon’s seventh inning homer accounted for Vancouver’s run in the first game. He had three of the Caps’ six hits … Winning pitcher Al Yaylian walked five in going the route … Bryant gave up ten hits and seven walks …Reg Clarkson had a four-for-five performance in the night game … Frank Gosney hit a solo homer for Vancouver … Ford struck out seven and walked seven … Stagg bashed a pair of doubles in the night game].
Afternoon game:
Yakima .......... 210 112 021—10 14 1
Vancouver ..... 000 000 100— 1 6 2
Yaylian and McConnell, Stagg; Bryant, Conover and Spurgeon.
Night game:
Yakima .......... 410 200 010—8 7 2
Vancouver ..... 000 031 000—4 13 3
Marshall and Stagg; Ford, Hedgecock and Zender.
VICTORIA—Warren Martin, Tacoma Tigers and Al Raimondi, Victoria Athletics, staged a pitchers' duel Saturday, Raimondi emerging victor as A's won 3-2 in the opener of a day-night WIL double-header.
Martin allowed only five hits to Raimondi's six but Victoria bunched three of theirs in the eighth, scoring three runs on a single by Bob Cherry and Les Mulcahy, the latter pinch hitting for Al Raimondi with Al Steele on the bags.
In the finale, the Athletics picked up three markers in the first, picked up a single in the third on Ed Murphy's homer over the centre field fence and added another in the fifth.
Victoria announced the release of first baseman Hardy Mollath, who didn't see action in either game.
First Game
Tacoma ......... 000 100 100—2 6 0
Victoria ......... 000 000 03x—3 5 3
Martin and Kemper; A. Raimondi, Bruno (9) Jensen (9) and Myers.
Second Game
Tacoma ...... 001 100 001—4 10 1
Victoria ...... 301 100 00x—5 7 2
Jungbluth, Kasepchuk (8) and Kuper; Ferrara and Mulcahy.
WENATCHEE, May 4—Scoring in every inning, the Wenatchee Chiefs of the Western International league defeated the Bremerton Bluejackets 13-7 here Saturday afternoon.
The second half of an apple festival doubleheader is scheduled for Saturday night.
The winners scored three runs on two hits and two errors in the first inning.
Bremerton ...... 001 021 003— 7 14 3
Wenatchee .... 312 211 12x—13 16 3
Pintar, Gibson (6) and Paglia; Penrose and Pesut.
WENATCHEE—Beak Federmeyer won his second WIL victory in five days from the Wenatchee Chiefs as the Bremerton Bluejackets defeated the Chiefs 8 to 4 here Saturday night.
Federmeyer was master all the way.
Bremerton ........ 020 021 120—8 13 3
Wenatchee ...... 100 001 002—4 4 4
Federmeyer and Volpi; Vivalda, Logg (6), Fitzgerald (9) and Pesut.
SALEM — no story available.
Spokane ...... 000 000 000—0 3 2
Salem ......... 630 300 000—12 11 0
Corsan, Oliver (1), Prosser (2), Cvitanich (4) and Cole; Kowalski and Salmon, Kerr (7).
Friday, May 3, 1946
W L Pct GB
Salem ........ 8 0 1.000 —
Tacoma ....... 5 3 .625 3
Wenatchee .... 5 3 .625 3
Vancouver .... 4 4 .500 4
Bremerton .... 3 4 .429 4½
Spokane ...... 3 5 .475 5
Victoria ..... 3 6 .333 5½
Yakima ....... 1 7 .125 7
VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 4]—How does the song go? Over and over, and over and over again?
Well, throw in a few more loose overs, and you’ll have the background music for last night’s fantastic Western International League ball game at Capilano Stadium, which our Caps won from Yakima, 13-12.
The balls just kept going over and over the right field fence—although one went over the left field fence just to break the monotony—and when the adding machines were checked, it was found there were no less than nine (9) home runs recorded.
CAME FROM BEHIND
Yakima cut in for five of the record-breaking total (it must break some kind of record), but the Vancouver crew timed theirs a little better. They saved two of them until the last inning when Earl Silverthorn and Jimmy Estrada hit the jackpot to create a screwy ending for the generally batty proceedings.
The locals were down 12-11 at the time, having come from behind a 12-9 deficit, after blowing a 7-0 second inning lead. That’s the sort of thing we mean, and it was going on all evening.
Four instance, six of those home runs were hit by three men, with Hugh McConnell and Gene Thompson for the visitors, and Frank Mullens of the Caps getting a pair. Bob Moore got the other Yakima four-ply swat.
Five pitchers were used, with Jim Hedgecock, who took over for Bob Snyder in the eighth, getting credit for the win. Joe Kralovich, last of three Star hurlers, tossed those last two home runs, and was losing pitcher.
BATTLE TODAY
The two clubs play two games here today before winding up their seven-game series in Seattle Sunday.
Ronnie Bryant will likely toss ‘em up for Sylvester Johnson’s crew, who have now won three out of four from the Yaks, in the afternoon tussle, which starts at 2 p.m.
The evening Vancouver mound choice is still undecided, but John Marshall, one of the local public’s best hates, is slated to toe the mound for Yakima. Hissing starts at 8 p.m.
[WILfan notes: Ray Spurgeon, who didn’t homer, was four-for-five for Vancouver. All were singles. Silverthorn had three hits and only needed a triple for the cycle. He also batted in five runs. Mullens produced four.]
Yakima ............ 005 013 300—12 15 2
Vancouver ....... 072 000 002—13 15 1
Byrd, Ward (3), Kralovich (8) and McConnell; Snyder, Hedgecock (8) and Spurgeon.
VICTORIA, B.C.—Although out-hit 13-9, Tacoma Tigers edged out Victoria Athletics 6-5.
The home team made the game close with three runs in the eighth, including a two-run homer by Les Mulcahy that brought the fans to their feet.
Righthander Les Jones was pulled in the first inning as Tacoma scored four runs on three hits off him, two on a home run by Hank Valle. Joe Blankenship was brought in until the ninth until he was lifted for Frank Bruno.
Tacoma added single runs in the second and sixth while Victoria managed one in the first and another in the fifth before the big eighth.
Besides Mulcahy's homer, Eddie Murphy singled home a run.
Cy Greenlaw was the winning pitcher.
Tacoma ........ 410 001 000—6 9 1
Victoria ........ 100 010 030—5 13 1
Greenlaw, Colombo (9) and Kemper; Jones, Blankenship (1), Bruno (9) and Mulcahy.
WENATCHEE—The Wenatchee Chiefs defeated the Bremerton Bluejackets 7 to 1 here to open a four-game Apple Blossom festival WIL series.
Buddy Haskell's triple scored three runs in the first frame and Wenatchee added single runs in all innings but the third and fourth. Ed Barr hit a homr in the fifth with no one aboard.
Bremerton ........... 000 001 000—1 8 0
Wenatchee ......... 310 010 13x—7 12 0
Holt, Kostenbader (3) and Paglia; Cronin and Pesut.
SALEM—The mighty Salem Senators kept their baseball slate clean by downing the Spokane Indians, 9-4.
It was Salem's eighth straight victory. Pitcher Carl Gunnarson kept Spokane's eight hits fairly well scattered to win his second game in as many tries.
Spokane ........ 010 010 101—4 8 0
Salem ........... 230 000 04x—9 13 2
Barisoff and Clifford; Gunnarson and Kerr.
Thursday, May 2, 1946
W L Pct GB
Salem ........ 7 0 1.000 —
Tacoma ....... 4 3 .571 3
Wenatchee .... 4 3 .571 3
Bremerton .... 3 3 .400 3½
Spokane ...... 3 4 .429 4
Vancouver .... 3 4 .429 4
Victoria ..... 3 5 .375 4½
Yakima ....... 1 6 .143 6
VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 3]—The win-hungry Yakima Stars, who hadn’t tasted victory in six previous Western International League starts, gobbled our Capilanos at Cap Stadium last night, 13-6.
Spencer Harris’ hirelings banged out 15 hits off two Vancouver pitchers, Doug Ford and Lou (Tex) Janicek in the third contest of the seven-game series which continues tonight at 8 o’clock.
The loss dropped the locals below the .500 mark in the wins and losses department again, with three and four. Lanky Bob Snyder has been given the nod to pitch the Brownies back even tonight.
Our boys, who had taken the first two tilts of the series from the Yaks, hung on for one inning last night, but that was all. Husky Doug Ford, who received a husky bonus for signing this season, showed smatterings of a fast ball in the two stanzas he worked, but he had no idea where to put it. Doug, who walked eight in his first start in Spokane, issued six free passes last night as the Stars took a commanding 6-2 lead in the first two frames.
PLENTY OF WORK
Janicek, the eccentric southpaw who has been complaining that he hasn’t had enough work, got plenty when he took over on the Cap mound in the third.
The tall Texan was rapped for 13 blows, including a three-run homer by Manager Harris, and walked nine before the last man was out.
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CUFF NOTES.—Walt McHugh, who toiled on the Yakima mound, showed a lot of stuff, and gave up just four hits in the first six innings … Every man on the Capilano roster has seen action now … Janicek’s appearance last night was his first, and Reg Clarkson, who has just finished his Varsity exams, played left field … Reg got one hit, a single, in five tries, but swing at a few bad balls … The Caps are developing a lot of hitting pitchers … Janicek surprised everybody, including himself, by singling with the bases loaded, but made up for it by running the men ahead of him off their bags and into trouble.
[WILfan notes: Bud Dawson had two singles and a double to bat in three Stars … both catchers, Dick Zender of Vancouver and Hugh McConnell of Yakima, were charged with two passed balls … the only double play of the game ended with the Caps getting an out at the plate … McHugh walked ten, Janicek walked nine].
Yakima ......... 241 130 020—13 15 2
Vancouver .... 201 000 030— 6 8 3
McHugh and McConnell; Ford, Janicek (3) and Zender.
VICTORIA, B.C.—Victoria Athletics pulled on even terms in their current series as they trounced Tacoma Tigers 10-3. The series now stands at two victories apiece.
The big blow in Victoria's six-run second inning was Walt Raimondi's bases-loaded triple to the left field fence. Les Mulcahy added a two-run double.
Athletics starter Bob Jensen helped his own cause with a two-run homer in the seventh.
Hal Jungbluth gave up seven hits and six runs during his three innings on the mound to take the loss.
Tacoma's fielding was spotty with five errors chalked up against them as they pushed across single runs in the first, fifth and seventh frames.
After the game, Victoria announced it had signed Jimmy Carpenter, a former pitcher for the Seattle Rainiers and Vancouver Capilanos, who is attending U.B.C. He will be ready to pitch in about a week.
Tacoma ........... 101 000 100— 3 8 5
Victoria ........... 060 010 30x—10 14 1
Jungbluth, Dupre (3) and Kemper; Jensen and Mulcahy.
SALEM, Ore.—The Salem Senators, undefeated so far this season, racked up their seventh straight win by trimming Spokane, 9-7.
Spokane ......... 310 020 010—7 7 5
Salem ............ 107 001 00x—9 9 5
Hallbourg, Oliver (2), Powers (3) and Cole; Gerkin and Kerr.
BREMERTON—Bill Scopetone doubled in the last of the ninth to cap a four-run rally that gave Bremerton a 6 to 5 victory over Wenatchee.
Wenatchee ..... 200 000 201—5 7 2
Bremerton ...... 110 000 004—6 11 2
Babbitt, Penrose (9) and Pesut; Barisoff, Medeghini (7) and Volpi.
New Pitcher Signed Is by A’s
[Victoria Colonist, May 3, 1946]
Johnny Carpenter, former member of the Seattle Rainier’s pitching staff, will report to the Victoria Athletics tomorrow, Manager Laurel Harney announced last night. Carpenter, who played with the Vancouver Capilanos prior to joining the Pacific Coast League team, has been attending the University of British Columbia.
Carpenter, according to Haney, will require about one week’s conditioning before he wil be ready to take his turn on the “A’s” pitching staff. After reporting here to join the team, Carpenter will make the road trip to Yakima with the Athletics, and should be prepared to pitch toward the end of the series with the American team.