Friday, August 30, 1946

                 W  L  Pct GB
Wenatchee ..... 82 50 .621 —
Salem ......... 72 58 .554 9
Bremerton ..... 68 56 .548 10
Tacoma ........ 70 62 .530 12
Yakima ........ 63 65 .492 17
Vancouver ..... 59 69 .461 21
Spokane ....... 53 68 .438 23½
Victoria ...... 46 85 .351 35½

VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, Aug. 31]—Next Wednesday at Capilano Stadium there will be a “Bill Brenner Night” to honor the rugged young catcher who has had nothing but success since he took over as manager of the Capilanos about three weeks ago.
The fiery backstop doesn’t make many mistakes, but Bill seemed just a little mixed up last Friday. He seemed to think last night was his night, for he slapped two home runs and a single to bat home seven runs and lead his club to a 14-5 triumph over Victoria Athletics.
The triumph was the fifth straight for Bill’s crew—the third time they’ve reached the five-in-a-row mark in three weeks—and the 17th victory for the locals in their last 20 starts.
REG MISSES BOAT
The win, incidentally, was accomplished without Outfielders Reg Clarkson and Charley Mead. Reg missed a boat, or something, and arrived late, and Charley has a cold. Bill Wright and Watts Gulan plugged the gaps admirably, and after the fourth frame, Vancouver had no trouble.
Victoria was leading 2-1 as a result of Pete Hughes’ homer in the fourth, but Mr. Brenner went to town in the Caps’ half of the inning, his single with two on putting us in front, 3-2.
Bill dropped his sixth four-bagger into Sixth Avenue in the fifth, scoring two ahead of him, and slammed out homer number two in the eighth, after his boys had worked Tony Chapetta for another four runs in the sixth.
TWELVE FOR SNYDER
Bob Snyder was warmish on the Caps’ hillock, Hughes’ round-tripper and a three-run four-ply smash by Beans Marionetti being his only mistake as he registered his 12th win.
Victoria winds up its stay here with a pair of doubleheaders over the long weekend, and the Caps will be trying for a new season record—nine straight. Alex Palica, who shut the A’s out on the islanders [sic] with four hits earlier this week, will hurl one game tonight, with Ronnie Bryant handling the other.
Tonight’s twin bill starts at 7:30, but there’ll be a change on Monday, Labor Day, with an afternoon tilt at 2:30 and a night game at 8. Hunk Anderson and Pete Jonas will likely work Monday.
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VANCOUVER, Aug. 30—Vancouver Capilanos continued their winning streak tonight as they trounced Victoria Athletics 14-5 in the first of a five-game Western International League series here.
The Caps' manager and catcher, Bill Brenner, sparked the Vancouver victory as he chalked up three hits for five and accounted for seven runs batted in, two of them being homers in the fifth and eighth.
Losing pitcher Tony Chapetta didn't help any as he gave up 17 hits to Vancouvers sluggers compared with six allowed by Bob Snyder.
Victoria's king of swat, Pete Hughes, playing a starry game in right field, came through with a circuit smash in the fourth, although the sacks were empty.
Beans Marionetti, hitting two for four, was the mainstay of the A's rally in the ninth as he pounded one over the fence bringing in Ed Murphy and Hughes for three runs.
The Caps have now won 17 of their last 20 games since Brenner took over managing the club.
Victoria ......... 001 100 003— 5 6 4
Vancouver ..... 001 234 04x—14 17 1
Chapetta and Paulson; Snyder and Brenner.

BREMERTON, Aug. 30—With homers accounting for two of the game's three runs, Bremerton defeated Salem, 2-1, in their Western International League baseball game tonight by converting three ninth-inning singles into the winning run.
Salem scored first in the second inning on Hal Summers' homer over the left field wall. Walt Bliss tied it with the same for Bremerton in the fourth.
Salem .......... 010 000 000—1 8 0
Bremerton .... 000 100 001—2 9 1
Porter, Schubel (7) and Salmon; Federmeyer and Leovich, Volpi (8)

Spokane ...... 001 000 600—7 9 3
Yakima ........ 043 000 032—12 11 1
Rompel, Strait (7), and McConnell; Hallbourg, Collins (8) and Varrelman.

Tacoma ......... 301 010 022— 9 10 1
Wenatchee .... 030 (10)02 60x—21 21 3
Jungbluth, Gerkin (4), Jimmick (4), Greco (7) and Kemper; Green and Pesut.

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Tuesday, August 20, 1946

                W  L  Pct GB
Wenatchee .... 75 48 .610 —
Bremerton .... 65 49 .570 5½
Salem ........ 67 52 .563 6
Tacoma ....... 66 55 .545 8
Yakima ....... 55 62 .479 17
Spokane ...... 50 60 .455 18½
Vancouver .... 49 67 .422 22½
Victoria ..... 43 77 .358 30½

VANCOUVER, Aug. 20—The Vancouver Capilanos crammed ten runs into a wild seventh inning to come out of the high end of an 11-10 count in a ten-inning Western International League baseball win over the Bremerton Bluejackets Tuesday night.
Catcher Gus Paglia had a chance to choke the big rally, but failed. With the bases loaded and two out, Ray Spurgeon struck out on a high, hard one by John Marshall. Paglia missed the pitch and then instead of stepping on home plate for the force, he tossed to an amazed Bill Reese at first base, but Spurgeon beat the throw.
History was made as the Caps filled and emptied the bases three times against Marshall, who was immediately yanked in favour of Ray Medgehini.
Reg Clarkson had one of the big blows in the seventh, when he cleared the bases with a triple.
Lou Estes banged home the winning run in the tenth when he looping single scored Frank Mullens, who beat the throw by a whisker.
Big Bill Barisoff equalled the league record when he blasted out his 37th homer. The record was set in 1940 by Morry Abbott of Tacoma.
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VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, August 21]—So the home team, down 8-0, rallied for 10 runs in the seventh. Then the visitors tied it up in the eighth, but the people’s choice came through to win it in the 10th, 11-10.
Sounds like a paragraph out of Thrilling Sports, doesn’t it? But it all happened at Capilano Stadium last night where Bob Brown’s script writer really outdid himself before bringing our Capilanos out in front over the Bremerton Bluejackets.
For instance, for six frames John Marshall, whom the Caps let go, had his ex-mates eating out of his hand. Besides that, he had, as we said, an 8-0 lead, which the Blues built up off the deliveries of Ronnie Bryant.
Then in the seventh, virtue (that’s us) started to triumph. After Marshall’s wildness had filled the sacks a couple of times, and the Caps had unloaded them for a couple of times for four runs, Manager Sam Gibson waved Marshall out and Fireman Ray Medeghini in.
PAGLIA MUFFS ONE
Medeghini promptly walked Lou Estes to load the bags again, then he struck out Ray Spurgeon. That should have been the third out, but Bremerton Catcher Gus Paglia dropped the last strike. Paglia hustled to recover the pill, but instead of tossing home, where he could have caught Charley Mead by quite some, he threw to first, too late to catch Spurgeon.
That was all the locals needed, and before the stanza was through another walk and a couple of blows, including Reg Clarkson’s three-run triple, put Vancouver in front, 10-8.
But the boys didn’t figure that was enough excitement for the folks, so they let Bremerton bang home a couple of runs off Larry Guay and tie the score before Jim Hedgecock came in to stop them.
They then got down to business again, and with Hedgecock pitching a great ball game for the next couple of frames, pushed home the winner in the first extra frame on Frank Mullens’ scractch single, a sacrifice, and, (with two out) Lou Estes’ sharp single to left field.
PAGLIA QUITS
To add a little more spice to his story, the script writer tossed in a league-tying homer by Bill Barisoff and a couple of bright rumors. One was that Gus Paglia turned in his uniform after his mates jumped him for his mental lapse. The other had John Marshall asking for his release. But the door was left open for both boys to change their minds today.
The win was the Brownies’ second straight over the second-place Jackets and they’ll probably toss undefeated Pete Jonas in against them tonight in an attempt to make it three in a row.
Bremerton ......... 031 300 120 0—10 17 1
Vancouver ........ 000 000 (10)00 1—11 13 4
Marshall, Medeghini (7) and Paglia, Volpi (8); Bryant, Guay (8), Hedgecock (8) and Spurgeon.

VICTORIA, Aug. 20—16 Wenatchee batters went down on strikes last night as Bob Jensen set a new record of 261 strikeouts, but was denied a victory as the Chiefs walked away with a 5-2 decision.
Over 3,000 wild-eyed fans caused a near-riot and waited around 30 minutes after the game as extra police were brought into escort umpires Dawson and Tuma off the field.
Jensen was working on a no-hitter going into the seventh, and had a 1-0 lead thanks to Bob Paulson's fifth inning homer. Dick Adams tagged him for a single, went to second on a wild pitch, and all hands were safe when he beat a throw to third on Glen Stetter's ground ball.
Nick Pesut walked one out later to load the bases, then Clyde Haskell walked after Dawson ruled he checked his swing on a 3-2 count. Paulson was ejected for arguing, then fans poured onto the field for 15 minutes.
Eddie Greene and Jim Warner followed with singles to score three runs.
Stetter tripled and scored on a Doug Williams single in the eighth.
Jensen lost no time in setting a new standard. He opened by whiffing Eddie Barr and Warner, walked Mel Wasley and Adams after getting two strikes on each, then breezed one past Stetter to set the mark.
Wenatchee ..... 000 000 410—5 5 0
Victoria .......... 000 010 010—2 6 0
Greene and Pesut, Fitzgerald (7); Jensen and Paulson, Stumpf (8).

First Game
Tacoma .......... 002 100 1—4 6 0
Salem ............. 020 010 0—3 6 0
Hedington and Kuper; Kowalski and Souza.
Second Game
Tacoma ...... 000 001 002— 3 7 4
Salem ......... 310 600 00x—10 14 1
Colombo, Jimmink (4) and Kemper; Wyatt and Kerr.

Spokane ....... 410 301 001—10 13 3
Yakima ......... 011 000 020— 4 4 3
Hallbourg and Varrelman; Strait, Simon (4), Thompson (8) and McConnell.
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Saturday, July 6, 1946

                W  L  Pct GB
Salem ........ 46 28 .622 —
Wenatchee .... 47 30 .610 ½
Bremerton .... 38 26 .593 3
Tacoma ....... 40 28 .588 3
Spokane ...... 32 30 .516 8
Yakima ....... 30 38 .431 13
Vancouver .... 24 45 .348 19½
Victoria ..... 21 53 .284 25

SALEM, July 6—Salem's Senators regained first place in the Western International baseball league Saturday by edging Wenatchee 2-1 in the hurling duel between the Solons' Ed Kowalski and Hugh Orphan of the Chiefs.
Wenatchee ........ 000 001 000—1 4 0
Salem ............... 100 010 000—2 7 0
Orphan and Pesut; Kowalski and Salmon.

SPOKANE, July 6—A wild, ten-run second inning gave Yakima a 12 to 7 victory over the reorganised Spokane Indians here tonight for their fourth straight victory in the current six-game series with the Tribe.
Yakima ............. 0(10)1 001 000—12 12 0
Spokane ........... 300 000 004— 7 11 3
Strait and McConnell; Swope, Bakamus (2) and Varrelman.

TACOMA, July 6—A three-run seventh inning and a lone counter in the eighth earned Tacoma a 4 to 3 triumph tonight over Vancouver, enabling Cy Greenlaw to notch his 13th pitching win against four defeats.
Greenlaw also batted in a run. Ed Joratz and Hank Vallee each had two hits for the winners.
Jim Estrada tripled in a teammate for Vancouver, while Charlie Mead had a pair of singles, one of them good enough to score a run.
Vancouver ......... 000 000 111—3 6 4
Tacoma ............ 000 000 31x—4 7 3
Anderson and Spurgeon; Greenlaw and Kuper.

BREMERTON, July 6—Bremerton Bluejackets took their fifth straight decision from the Victoria Athletics, 11-10, here in a long, drawn out, Western International League baseball contest.
Victoria ............ 030 101 302—10 8 5
Bremerton ........ 120 024 011—11 12 3
Carpenter, Jensen (9) and Paulson; Kowalski and Salmon.

Friday, May 24, 1946

                 W  L  Pct GB
Salem ......... 18 11 .621 —
Wenatchee ..... 18 12 .600 ½
Yakima ........ 15 12 .556 2
Spokane ....... 17 14 .548 2
Tacoma ........ 14 12 .538 2½
Bremerton ..... 13 15 .464 4½
Vancouver ..... 13 18 .419 6
Victoria ....... 8 22 .267 10½

VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, May 25]—Friday was a bad day for baseball managers. Frisco Edwards, manager of Salem Senators, died of a heart attack in Bremerton. Joe McCarthy and Jimmy Dykes resigned in the majors. Manager Mel Cole of the Spokane Indians received news of a $25 fine and indefinite suspension for his attempted attack on Umpire Rice here Thursday night.
Yep, it was a bad day for just about everybody except Syl Johnson of our Capilanos. Syl was all smiles as he watched his Brownies take their first twin bill of the season on the holiday, 14-5 and 2-1, to take a 4-2 series bulge on the Spokane crew. The Tribe won Thursday night’s tilt, 4-2.
Appropriately enough, the Caps saved the best till the last, Friday night’s 2-1 thriller keeping the goodly holiday crowd on the edge of their seats right down to the finish, as Hunk Anderson and the Spokes’ Bob Kinnaman tangled in a hurlers’ duel.
Anderson, although he looked good on the mound in registering his third win, and even batted home the winning run, had to share hero honors with Reg Clarkson. With the tying run coming home in the ninth, Reggie grabbed Neil Clifford’s blow in centre and threw out Vic Picetti at the plate to take the heart right out of the Indians.
The afternoon game was “no contest” as the locals pounded out three homers—three triples and a doubles off a pair of visiting hurlers to give Bob Snyder his first victory. Frank Mullens, Earl Silverthorn and Watts Gulan hit for the circuit, Earl getting his inside the park and Gulan’s blow clearing the left field barrier.
Tonight the Caps, with their first series victory already clinched, will attempt to make it 5-2 over the Injuns in the final game at 8 p.m. Ronnie Bryant is the hurling choice, with Gus Hallbourg the probable Spokane chucker. And remember, there’s no afternoon game today.
[WILfan note: Frank Mullens doubled in Vancouver’s first run in the fourth inning of the night game … Kinnaman held the Caps to four hits and walked only two. Estrada and Gulan (a double) got the other two hits besides’ Anderson’s game-winner … Bob James knocked a run in for Spokane for a brief 1-0 lead in the fourth … Al Kretchmar, Estrada and Silverthorn bashed the triples in the night game … Silverthorn bated in five runs and Mullens, four.]
First game:
Spokane ......... 020 000 080—5 15 1
Vancouver ...... 003 542 00x—14 12 2
Bass, Powers (4) and Paulson; Snyder and Spurgeon.
Second game:
Spokane ........ 000 100 000—1 9 1
Vancouver ..... 000 110 00x—2 4 0
Kinnaman and Clifford; Anderson and Brenner.

BREMERTON — Hub Kittle of Bremerton powered a home run in the eighth inning with one man aboard to win his own game from the Salem Senators, 4 to 3, after the visitors bad broken up his stellar pitching performance in the seventh.
The Salem team, saddened by the death the loss of manager Leo (Frisco) Edwards earlier in the day from a heart attack, lacked its usual snap.
The crowd stood for a moment in silence as a tribute to Edwards just before the game started, and the flag flew at half-mast throughout the contest.
Salem ............. 000 000 201—3  6 2
Bremerton ....... 000 000 22x—4 11 1
Gunnarson, Gerkin (7) and Kerr; Kittle, Federmeyer (9) and Volpi.

VICTORIA — The Wenatchee Chiefs and Victoria Athletics took turns slaughtering each others' pitchers with the Chiefs winning in the afternoon 9-3 and Victoria taking the flood lighter 14-1.
First game:
Wenatchee ....... 022 005 000—9 13 1
Victoria ............ 010 000 002—3 11 4
Penrose, Cronin (9) and Fitzgerald; Carpenter and Mulcahy.
Second game:
Wenatchee ....... 000 010 000— 1  4 2
Victoria ............ 00(10) 100 30x—14 10 4
Logg, Fitzgerald (3), Spurgeon (4) and Pesut; Jansen and Mulcahy.

Tacoma-Yakima, postponed, rain.

ON THE SUNBEAM
By ALF COTTRELL, Sports Editor
[Vancouver Sun, May 25, 1946]
Relations Are Mostly Cordial

The differences that come between umpires and players are a lot like the relations between husbands and wives, when you compare them. And everybody know how relations can come between husbands and wives.
The other day, for instance, Helen went down to do a spot of afternoon bowling. When I got home from the office there was no one home. Maybe it was a bit early but I felt hungry so I grabbed a bit here and a bit there and started to push it down.
Pretty soon Helen came in. With a rather hurt look she said, “Oh, you’re eating.”
“Well, yes,” I said. “Call it a whim if you like, but I like to eat once of twice a day, at least.”
Not just the thing to say, I admit. From then on everything goes wrong. Eventually it gets to the point where you clench your first wistfully, wishing she were a man. A small one, of course. And at that moment her sister will walk in.
“Helen!” He wasn’t going to hit you, was he?” she says, giving me a whithering look.
“Quite likely not,” Helen will say coolly. “Sometimes I have known him to go hours without hitting me.”
Yet we get along pretty well on the whole. Very well. I never hold out a dime on her—well hardly a dime. And she goes around doing the countless little things a wife does. We don’t appreciate it when she has the right kind of sox ready at the right time. Nor when she presses and takes the spots out of your clothes. Especially five-spots.
Indian Cole Performs War Dance
I hadn’t meant to go on so long in this tender vein, but I got to thinking like that after seeing a lively row between umpires and players at the ball game Thursday night.
Spokane had apparently driven a runner in with a bingle down the left field line. The plate umpire called it a foul ball.
Mel Cole, the young Spokane manager, tossed away his hat as if he had no further use for it in this world at least, jumped up and down a couple of times to warm up, then cocked his right fist well back as he moved in on the umpire. Seeing that nobody was ready to grab and hold him, so interested were his players in abusing the umpire, Mel held the pose until finally a couple of his men yanked him back.
He tore himself loose, cocked the fist, and was again grabbed. He must have been pulled off 15 times before he gave up and accepted the umpire’s ruling that he was off duty for the evening.
The plate umpire then consulted the base umpire. The latter seemed to disclaim any knowledge of the hit in question, not having seen it. The Capilano players bear this out. When the war showed no sign of abating, however, he reversed his field and said the hit was fair.
Then the local manager, Syl Johnson, came bouncing out. I wasn’t close to him but from a rough glance I would say he didn’t seem quite his usual sunny self. There was further name calling that ended with the announcement that Vancouver was continuing under protest.
There’s Overcrowding Everywhere
The point I wanted to make was that even an umpire is entitled to make a mistake once in a while. Earl Silverthorne, for instance, was one of the loudest debators. Yet Earl at one stage of the game, prepared to do or die for dear old Vancouver, had gone into third in a cloud of dust, only to discover that things were a bit crowded at that sack owing to it already being occupied by Earl’s teammate, Reg Clarkson.
Just like in married life, everyone makes mistakes, and some give and take is necessary. Of course, the rioting and bloodshed may be more apparent than real. Quite likely the Spokes’ manager was just saying to the ups, “Aren’t you the guy I punched in the nose in Oshkosh, Mich., one night?”
And the umps probably said, “Possibly, but one meets so many people in this business.”
Could be, I mean.

Thursday, May 23, 1946

                 W  L  Pct GB
Salem ......... 18 10 .643 —
Wenatchee ..... 17 11 .607 1
Spokane ....... 17 12 .586 1½
Yakima ........ 15 12 .556 2½
Tacoma ........ 14 12 .538 3
Bremerton ..... 12 15 .444 5½
Vancouver ..... 11 18 .379 7½
Victoria ....... 7 21 .250 11

BREMERTON — Saving its punch for the late innings, Salem clustered its runs Thursday night for an 8 to 6 victory over Bremerton in their Western International league clash, pounding out two home runs in the process.
The two second basemen led the hitting, each with three blows in five trips. They are Lou Kubiak of Salem and Frank Plouf of Bremerton.
Salem already had a 5-1 lead when Ted Kerr opened the eighth with a homer, but Dick Wenner poled another with a man on base in the same frame.
Salem ............ 000 113 030—8 13 4
Bremerton ...... 100 000 050—6  9 5
Gerkin and Kerr; Pintar, Federmeyer (9) and Paglia.

VANCOUVER, May 23 — A wild sixth inning that produced three runs and saw Manager Mel Cole ejected from the game gave Spokane Indians the margin for a 4-2 victory over Vancouver Capilanos and evened their series at two-all.
Vancouver was leading 2-1 at the time. Doubles by Jack Lohrke and Marty Martinez and a single by Levi McCormack provided two tallies in the top half of the sixth. Bob Paulson came to the plate and lined one over the fence but it was called foul. Cole disputed the decision and then argued hotly when Paulson's next hit down the third base line was also called foul. The umpire ordered him out of the game before reversing the decision and calling it fair. Vancouver manager Syl Johnson then said he was playing the game under protest.
[WILfan notes: Lohrke and Martinez each doubled twice for Spokane].
Spokane ......... 100 003 000—4 11 2
Vancouver ...... 110 000 000—2  7 1
Cadinha and Paulson; Hedgecock and Spurgeon.

YAKIMA — Tacoma weathered a shaky ninth inning to defeat the Yakima Stars 9 to 7 in a Western International baseball game.
After scoring four runs to overcome a first-inning Yakima one-run lead, Tacoma led 9-4 in the ninth. The Stars filled the bases and Francis Sostre was sent in for Harold Jungbluth. He walked three runs across the plate and one batter was retired before he lightened up and struck out two more Star batters. The game ended with the bases loaded.
Tacoma ......... 040 102 002—8 14 2
Yakima .......... 100 002 013—7  8 2
Jungbluth, Sostre (9) and Kemper; Strait, Ward (7) and McConnell.

VICTORIA, May 23 — The luckless Victoria Athletics sank deeper into last place in the league when they succumbed for a third straight night at the hands of Wenatchee Chiefs by a lopsided 18-3 score.
Chiefs ahead, 7-2, going into the eighth inning, came up with an 11-hit barrage and ten big markers in that one frame to solidly trounce the lowly Athletics.
Little Eddie Greene, who was unable to find the plate in Tuesday's game, came back Thursday night and pitched six-hit ball for the visitors.
Dick Conover, A's southpaw, pitched good ball through seven innings, striking out 13, but was unable to hold off the rampaging Chiefs in the eighth.
Every member of the Wenatchee batting order punched out at least one safety, with Greene, and Eddie Fitzgerald, his batterymate, each clouting the ball out of the park.
The Athletics were unable to do much wiuth the effective offerings of Greene, as they counted single runs in the first, fifth and ninth innings. Only one of the six hits he surrendered went for extra bases, a double by Ed Murphy.
Wenatchee ........ 040 003 0(10)1—18 23 2
Victoria ............. 100 010 001—3  6 4
Greene and Fitzgerald; Conover and Mulcahy.

Friday, May 17, 1946

                 W  L  Pct GB
Salem ......... 15  7 .682 —
Spokane ....... 14  9 .609 1½
Yakima ........ 13  9 .591 2
Tacoma ........ 11 10 .524 3½
Wenatchee ..... 12 11 .522 3½
Bremerton ...... 9 12 .429 5½
Vancouver ...... 9 14 .391 8½
Victoria ....... 6 17 .261 9½

SALEM, May 17 — Yakima nosed out Salem, 18 to 17, Friday night in a Western International league carnival of base hits and errors, taking a 3 to 1 lead in the current series and whittling Salem's league lead to a game and a half over second-place Spokane.
Yakima ...... 413 040 501—18 18 3
Salem ....... 054 200 015—17 15 7
Strait, Marshall (2) O'Boyle (3), Bohnen (9) and Gibb, McConnell (9); Gunnarson, Gerkin (3) Wyatt (7), Malgradi and Salmon.

VANCOUVER [Dan Ekman, News-Herald, May 18]—It has not been established that Ray Orteig can drive a car, whittle totem poles and play “Twelfth Street Rag” on the zither all at the same time. But the big righthander did do the work of at least two men last night at Capilano Stadium, when he pitched and batted the Brownies to a 3-2 win over Wenatchee Chiefs in his first start of the season.
The Orteig-paced win was the Caps’ third in five starts against Wenatchee, and they close out the series in a twin bill today at 2 and 8 o’clock, with Jim Hedgecock and Alex Palica slated for mound duty.
SPURGEON CONNECTS
Although Ray Spurgeon poled out the single that won the game last night, Orteig was the standout performer, as he served up nine-hit ball, came through neatly in the pinches, and rapped in the first local run. In fact, his hitting prowess was so well recognized that he was intentionally passed in the seventh, the Chiefs wisely choosing to take Reg Clarkson instead.
The game was a “beaut” from all angles, and the Chieftains made it rather too close for comfort. As a matter of fact, they outhit our lads, nine to five, and could afford to feel a little bitter at the outcome, though not quite so much as they indicated in constant tirades against the new arbiters, Tuna and Smith.
Chuck Cronin, who appeared last year here with the Fort Lewis Warriors, started on the Wenatchee hill, and allowed just four hits before retiring for a pinch-hitter in the seventh. Long John Fitzgerald took over, and also took credit (or debit) for the loss.
Wenatchee wiped out the two-run Cap advantage in the eighth, when they staged a four-hit attack, including one by Kurt Schmidt, who [unreadable] times in the series. The third counter was cut off at the plate, amid much hue and cry, and the Caps took over, with the blue chips piled high.
The outlook was foggy indeed when Dick Zender flied out. But Art Bonnell drew a free pass, and things started to happen. Estrada grounded to third, and was already called out when Wenatchee fist-sacker Adams dropped the rock. In the resultant mixup, Bonnell went all the way to third, and crossed the plate with the winner on Spurgeon’s sharp single. That was all, brother.
[WILfan note: Spurgeon and Estrada each had two hits, Orteig the other for Vancouver. Estrada and Orteig doubled].
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VANCOUVER, May 17—Although outhit nine to five, Vancouver Capilanos won a pitching duel from Wenatchee Chiefs 3-2 to take a game lead in their league series.
A pair of errors led to Wenatchee's loss and paved the way for two of Vancouver's runs in the seventh and ninth. Jim Estrada and Ray Orteig had contributed two doubles in the third to give the Caps a 1-0 lead.
Wenatchee tied the score in the eighth on four singles with Dick Adams and Clyde Haskell batting in the counters.
First Baseman Adams fumbled a throw in the final frame enabling Art Bonnell to move from first to third after which he scored on a single by Ray Spurgeon.
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 020—2 9 2
Vancouver ........ 001 000 101—3 5 0
Cronin, J. Fitzgerald (8) and Pesut, E. Fitzgerald (9); Orteig and Spurgeon.

VICTORIA—Spokane Indians made it five in a row over Victoria Athletics with a 5-2 triumph.
Three home runs supplied Spokane's winning margin as they ran up an early five-run lead. Bob Patterson clicked for a circuit clout in the first and Levi McCormick and Marty Martinez connected in the third.
Newcomer Dick Conover got roughed up in the early going but settled down to hold the Indians to two hits in the last six innings.
Ed Murphy poked out two singles, one in the first and one in the seventh, the only base hits off Bob Kinnaman until the next when the A's staged a belated rally and pushed over two runs. Frank Cirimele doubled win one down and scored on Ian Lowe's stinging single through the box. Murphy was safe on George Risk's boot, and Lowe went to third. One out later, Les Mulcahy singled in a run, but Bob Cherry flew out to centre and the ball game was over.
Spokane ....... 113 000 000—5 7 1
Victoria ........ 000 000 002—2 5 2
Kinnaman and Paulson; Conover and Mulcahy.

TACOMA, May 17—Featured by an explosive fourth inning in which the teams scored a combined total of 17 runs, game here saw the Tacoma Tigers come from behind to score a 20 to 12 victory over the Bremerton Bluejackets, knotting the series at two games each.
Bremerton ......... 100 702 002—12 13 7
Tacoma ............ 103 (10)24 00x—20 18 3
Holt, Curran (4), B. Federmeyer (4), Kostenbader (4) and Volpi; Martin, Greenlaw (5) and Kemper.

ON THE SUNBEAM
By ALF COTTRELL, Sports Editor
[Vancouver Sun, May 18, 1946]
Hunk Would Cut Home Run Quota

Big Hunk Anderson had just emerged from underneath a tree after banging the ball rather cleverly onto the second green at Langara. The Capilano pitcher, by the way, shoots in the 80s.
“This is a tough league, tougher than I thought it was when I was looking down from the Coast League,” Hunk said as he waited for Ron Bryant to putt.
“We are a long way out of first place, anyway you look at it,” he continued. “That Ray Orteig ought to help us, though, if he gets in the regular lineup. And I don’t see how they can keep him out of there. That guy can hit.
“But that short, right field fence—didn’t they ever think of putting a screen up there to keep them pop flies in the park.
“Doggone, you sail along in no trouble at all, and, suddenly a guy lofts one to right and you’re Willie Dundee.”
Anderson, who pitched a nice game Thursday night, despite losing, was here before.
“Played for Coley Hall’s club when I was just a kid. Say, is that Hal Straight around then? He pitched for our club then,” said the large fellow, who looks like Bill Findler, the old soccer fullback, except Hunk is bigger.
“This town,” he said, “is situated the prettiest of any town I ever saw, and I saw a few of ‘em in that navy. Come on, partner, can that one and keep ‘em on the run.”
I didn’t can it, or any other putt, but we practically ran them (Keith Matthews and hurler Bryant) right off the golf course. From 10 to 14 feet out, this Mr. Anderson apparently has yet to miss his first putt.