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Show Wednesday Is Williams Day S Jfi Fans Will Honor Lefty & & & We Owe Him a Great Deal Claude Williams. PRESIDENT F. P. MURPHV yesterday announced that next Wednesday would be Claude William Wil-liam day at Majestic park. Thus the patrons of the game in Salt Lake will be given an opportunity oppor-tunity of extending to Salt Lake's great pitcher the recognition he deserves. de-serves. Lefty William.- first put the ISalt Lake club in the running, and afterwards he kent it there, lie has been the one best bet of Salt lake in the Dps aud downs of the club. lie was the one who stopped the opposition when tho club was in that awful slump. Lefty Williams goes to the fhl-cago fhl-cago White Sox next year. There is little question that he will make good. His work in the '"'oast league this vear has been the sensation of the circuit. He has learned a lot, and the White Sox will find him a willing and capable worker. Williams has set about all. the pitching records in the Coast league this year. He hs pitched more innings" than any other heaver. He has worked in more games and has pitched more full games. Also he has pitched more extra-inning' games. He set a strike out record of twelve twice, and theu bettered it with thi rteen. He has the season's strike-out record, with 25$, and is chasing the league record of 274. Williams's pitching record to date is: Games : 55 Full games 31 Taken out 10 Extra inning games ... Inoings pitched 366 1-3 Opponents at bat 1315 Opponents' runs 134 Opponents ' hits 324 I Runs responsible for . . 108 Bases on halls ln4 Struck out 258 Wild pitches 6 , Hit batsmen 14 Gaines won 26 Games lost 12 Owing to the fact that Wednesday Wednes-day will he Williams day, it will not be ladies ' day. Portland will be Salt Lake's opponent op-ponent on the occasion. |