Wednesday, July 17, 1946

                W  L  Pct GB
Salem ........ 52 32 .619 —
Wenatchee .... 54 35 .607 ½
Bremerton .... 45 30 .600 2½
Tacoma ....... 45 35 .563 5
Spokane ...... 36 38 .486 11
Yakima ....... 33 46 .418 16½
Vancouver .... 30 49 .380 19½
Victoria ..... 28 58 .326 25

SALEM, Wash., July 17—Bremerton Tars pulled within two games of the Salem Senators here tonight as they nosed out the league leaders, 4-3.
Clarence Federmeyer went all the way for the Tars, giving up only seven hits.
Carl Gunnarson also went the route for Salem, but a three-run fifth frame was disastrous.
Bremerton ...... 010 030 000—4 8 3
Salem ............ 000 200 100—3 7 1
Federmeyer and Volpi; Gunnarson and Kerr.

SPOKANE, July 17—A ninth-inning Spokane rally fell one run short tonight as Wenatchee trimmed the Indians 6-5 in a hectic Western International League baseball game.
Wenatchee took in a first-inning lead on Glen Stetter's two-run triple and forged well ahead in the third when Stetter singled in a run and scored on an error.
Wenatchee ...... 302 000 100—6 10 3
Spokane .......... 000 110 003—5 6 3
Green, Vivalda (9), Babbitt (9) and Pesut; Cadinha and Varrelman.

YAKIMA, July 17—Vancouver Capilanos made it two straight over the Yakima Stars tonight in their Western International League baseball series as Bob Snyder beat Walt McHugh in a pitchers battle to give the Caps a 4-3 victory.
Five Yakima bobbles paved the way for the Caps' win. Two were by second baseman Art Lilly and another pair by shortstop Buddy Dawson. Only one Vancouver run was unearned.
Vancouver's only big inning was the seventh when Reg Clarkson unloaded with a triple with two men on base.
In Vancouver, general manager Bob Brown reported that Len Gabrielson, the ex Seattle slugger who was supposed to be coming to the Caps, hasn't reported to the Rainiers yet and may decide to forego baseball and stick to his fireman's job in Oakland.
Vancouver ...... 010 000 201—4 6 0
Yakima ........... 010 001 001—3 10 5
Snyder and Brenner; McHugh and McConnell.

TACOMA, July 17—Despite a wild streak, Bob Jensen held Tacoma to five hits tonight while batting in three runs in Victoria's 8-5 Western International League baseball victory over the Tigers.
It broke Tacoma's four-game winning streak over the Athletics.
Jensen struck out eight, walked nine, clouted a home run in the third inning with no one on base and drive in two runs with fly balls. Victoria added its runs one per innning until outfielder Pete Hughes' homer accounted for two in the seventh.
Victoria ......... 101 101 220—8 12 1
Tacoma ........ 000 001 220—5 5 2
Jensen and N. Clifford; Sostre, Gay (8), Jimmink (8) and Kemper.

Friday, July 12, 1946

                W  L  Pct GB
Salem ........ 50 30 .625 —
Wenatchee .... 51 32 .614 1½
Bremerton .... 43 28 .606 2½
Tacoma ....... 41 34 .547 6½
Spokane ...... 33 35 .485 12
Yakima ....... 32 43 .427 15½
Vancouver .... 27 48 .360 20½
Victoria ..... 27 54 .333 23½

VANCOUVER [Carl Robertson, News-Herald, July 13]—Vancouver put on a rousing homecoming for Carl Gunnarson, the ex-Senior League hurler last night at Capilano Stadium. Briefly, the ceremony consisted of a 20-hit barrage, including three homers and a triple, by our Capilanos that put Mr. Gunnarson and Salem on the short end of a 10-3 count.
The victory tied the series at two games apiece. Tonight the Caps will tangle with the Senators in a double bill, first game starting at 7:30 and the second, a seven-inning affair, following immediately afterwards. Big John Marshall has been elected to do the slab work for the locals in the first with Alex Palica billed for the nightcap.
SLUMP ENDS
Heading the welcoming committee last night was Ray Orteig, who busted two of southpaw Carl’s slants out of the park and added a triple and a single to drive in four tallies, and Frank Mullens, who snapped out his slump by sending a trio of tallies with a homer and three singles.
With the Carnettmen hitting everything in sight, Lefty Jim Hedgecock had a comparatively easy time on the mound. He got himself in trouble more than once and was put on the spot a couple of times by errors, but he had it when he needed it, whiffing nine Salemites. Hedgecock handcuffed George Vico, the visitors’ cleanup sticker, putting him away on each of four attempts.
SECOND HOMER
Salem started off fast by scoring in the initial frame on two hits and two walks, but the Caps got two in their half and were never headed. Orteig put the game on ice when he homered with a mighty swat in the third after Carnett had singled.
In the eighth, just to make things more unpleasant for Gunnarson who left in the entire route, Carnett bunted his way to first and again Ortieg hit a round tripper. Mullen, next man up, took the ti and hit one out of the lot for good measure.
SHORT HOPS—Umpire Amby Moran was missig … Amby injured a hand at work and had to have 25 stitches put in it … the loss was Gunnarson’s fourth against 10 victories .. the win was Hedgecock’s fourth against 10 defeats … Duane Crawford played a great game in right for Salem and collected three bingles … He turned in the fielding gem by robbing Jimmy Estrada with a shoestring catch. Bob Brown says that big Len Gabrielson will be with the Caps shortly … Len’s a power hitter but the Caps all the power in the world last night.
Salem ........... 100 001 010— 3 10 3
Vancouver .... 202 012 03x—10 20 3
Gunnarson and Kerr; Hedgecock and Brenner.

BREMERTON, July 12—Yakima finally stopped Bremerton’s slugging spree, opened its own long range guns and blasted the Bluejackets into defeat.
Three home runs figured in Yakima's 16-hit attack for a 9 to 6 victory.
Manager Harlond Clift, centerfielder Gene Thompson and Catcher Eddie Gibb each connected for a circuit blow.
Yakima ........ 110 112 021—9 16 0
Bremerton .... 020 200 020—6 7 1
Kralovich and Gibb; Pintar, Medeghini (9) and Volpi.

WENATCHEE, July 12—The Wenatchee Chiefs defeated the Spokane Indians 12 to 7 here to end the home half of their league series with a clean sweep of the four games.
Spokane ........ 010 050 100— 7 8 2
Wenatchee .... 200 432 10x—12 16 2
Tising and Paglia; Green, McCollum and Fitzgerald.

VICTORIA, July 12—John Carpenter of the Victoria Athletics won a pitchers’ battle 5-3 from Ritchie Colombo of the Tacoma Tigers in a Western International league game here.
Pete Hughes of the A’s and First Baseman Bob Hedington of Tacoma hit homers. Hedington's was an inside-the-park job which gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the first inning.
The A's tied the game in the second and went ahead in the fiyrh when Bob Cherry walked, stole second and scored on Bill Dunn's one-base clout.
Tacoma went ahead again in the top of the sixth when Hedington doubled and slid over the plate on Hank Valle's hard single. Frank Cirimele's error sent Valle over with the second run.
Hughes then tied the game with a towered drive over the wall in right centre in the sixth.
The winning tally came in the eighth. Hughes led off with a sharp hit to right. Beans Marionetti sacrificed but Cherry was purposely passed. Dunn crossed up the strategy by cracking his third straight hit—a double—to score Hughes. Clifford received another intentional pass and the second run crossed the plate when Kemper fired wide to first base on Cirimele's dribbler in front of the plate.
Tacoma ......... 100 002 000—3 6 1
Victoria ......... 010 101 02x—5 8 1
Colombo and Kemper; Carpenter and Clifford.

Romple Joins the Bears
YAKIMA, July 13—Hurler Fritz Romple, pride of Zillah’s Valley league baseball team has been signed by the Yakima Bears of the Western International league, owner Fred Mercy said Friday. Romple will take the mound for the Stars in their opening game of a home stand against the Bremerton Bluejackets Saturday night.

Wednesday, July 10, 1946

                W  L  Pct GB
Salem ........ 50 28 .641 —
Bremerton .... 42 27 .609 3½
Wenatchee .... 49 32 .605 2½
Tacoma ....... 41 31 .569 6
Spokane ...... 33 33 .500 11
Yakima ....... 31 42 .425 16½
Vancouver .... 25 48 .342 22½
Victoria ..... 24 54 .308 26

VANCOUVER [Clancy Loranger, News-Herald, July 11]—Umpire Amby Moran missed a chance to make a big hero out of himself last night at Cap Stadium.
Vancouver Capilanos and Salem Senators had completed six innings in their W.I.L. tilt; the locals were leading, 2-1, and it was raining hard.
Amby might have called the game and gained the undying devotion of the faithful, but Ambrose Jason is first and foremost an honest man; he thinks everybody should get an even break. So the game went on, and Salem, better mudders, went on to a 4-2 victory.
In the seventh Vern Reynolds hit one into Sixth Avenue with one on, and Woody Salmon slapped another one a mile or so in the eighth to sew it up for the visitors. It was their second straight win over the Caps, who just couldn’t do much with the offerings of burly Bill Schubel, the Salem chucker, last night.
Tonight Ted Gullic’s hirelings will attempt to make it three in a row, and the league leaders’ choice to stop our lads will be Carl Gunnarson, the former Vancouver hurler who went to the Salems via Portland Beavers. The ex-Norvan southpaw has a record something like 9 and 4, so he’ll take a little beating.
BRENNER GETS HOMER
The Solons got their first jump last night, when long George Vico singled off Hunk Anderson’s shin to score Duane Crawford, who had walked and gone to third on Reynolds’ single. That was in the third, and Bill Brenner, who got back in the catching harness after a long layoff, squared it in our half of the fourth with the first four-bagger of the game.
A freak single by Manager Eddie Carnett put the Brownies in front in the fifth. Reg. Clarkson, who had doubled, went to third when Salem’s Walt Flager juggled Al Kretchmar’s ground ball. Carnett then bounced a ball high in front of the plate. It came down, eventually, hit the edge of the grass, and stopped dead on the baseline while a pair of Salem men waited for it to roll foul. It didn’t, and Reg scored.
And that’s the way it stood when Moran, the honest man, made his decision.
CUFF NOTES—Bob Snyder, who has developed into one of the Caps’ top flingers, will toe the mound in opposition to Gunnarson tonight …There’ll be a new deal Saturday … the afternoon game has ben eliminated, and the two clubs will play a doubleheader, starting at 7:30 … Gene Hanson, the other man in blue this week, is a former House of David player … Moran, by the way, is just helping the W.I.L. out this week, but he’s willing to go to work steady, Mr. Abel.
WILfan note: Crawford had a four-for-four night, all singles .. Clarkson and Ray Orteig accounted for half of Vancouver’s hit total with a pair each … both Anderson and Schubel struck out six.
Salem ............... 001 000 210—4 10 1
Vancouver ......... 001 010 000—2 8 0
Schubel and Salmon; Anderson and Brenner.

WENATCHEE — Pitcher Joe Vivalda notched his thirteenth victory of the season here as the Wenatchee Chiefs edged out Spokane's Indians 3 to 2 for their second win in the current league series.
With the score tied at one-all in the last of the seventh, Glen Stetter homered for Wenatchee with a mate aboard to provide the winning margin.
Spokane ......... 000 000 110—2 10 0
Wenatchee ..... 100 000 20x—3 5 0
Mehrens, Pakmus (7) and Paglia; Vivalda, Babbitt (8) and Fitzgerald.

VICTORIA, July 10—In a three-hour slugfest, Victoria Athletics edged out Tacoma Tigers 14-13.
Doug Oliver, making his first home appearance on the mound for the cellar-dwelling Athletics, put the salt on the Tigers' tail in the seventh inning when he smacked a long triple to bring in runs by Bill Dunn and Neil Clifford and break a 9-9 tie. The A's went to bat in the seventh inning trailing 9-6, but walks to Ed Murphy and Pete Hughes and hits for Bob Cherry and Dunn evened the score.
Then Clifford was purposely passed by Cy Greenlaw, pitching for Tacoma, to leave two on base and two men out. Oliver's wallop upset Tacoma's strategy.
Victoria added three more in the eighth and was only threatened in the first half of the ninth when Tacoma knocked Oliver out of the box and piled in four runs, helped along by errors by Murphy and Dunn. The game ended with the tying run on third base when Beans Marionetti, playing second, took a hot grounder from Hank Valle and threw the Tiger left fielder out at first bae. Marionetti homered in the fifth to bring in three runs.
Tacoma ............ 002 124 004—13 14 3
Victoria ............ 010 230 053—14 11 4
Greenlaw, Sostre (8) and Kuper; Oliver, Blankenship (9) and Clifford, Paulson.

BREMERTON, July 10—A home town boy came back from the major leagues to pitch Bremerton into second place in the Western International league.
Joe Sullivan, pitching his first game for Bremerton after previously having performed in the American league, turned back Yakima 11-1 in the second game of a double-header to put the Bluejackets a fraction of a game ahead of Wenatchee in the tight league race.
Yakima's only run off him was the result of Harlond Clift's homer in the fourth. It was Clift's second homer of the day.
Bremerton won the seven-inning first game 9 to 8 as Joe Gedzius' final inning single drove in two runs. It overcame an 8-7 deficit as the Stars racked up six runs in the fourth inning.
First game:
Yakima ............. 101 600 0—8 8 1
Bremerton ......... 302 200 2—9 10 1
Strait, Simon, Yaylian and McConnell; Kittle and Volpi.
Second game:
Yakima .......... 000 100 000— 1 4 2
Bremerton ...... 003 020 33x—11 12 0
McHugh, Kasepchuk (8) and Gibb; Sullivan and Volpi.

Rainiers Must Rehire Three Vets
SEATTLE, July 10—A Seattle baseball club official said today that the United States service office had instructed the management that three former played were entitled to re-employment as ex-servicemen.
Vice-President Roscoe (Torchy) Torrance said he has intructed the three—pitchers Larry Guay and John Yelovic and First Baseman Leonard Gabrielson—to rejoin the Rainiers. He said they would be turned over to the Vancouver team of the Western International League if they are unable to make the grade with Seattle's eight-place Pacific Coast League club. They were released early in the season by Seattle.