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Show HARRY Hlffl REAL IHON RUN ' of rail Salt Lake Catcher Works in 184 Games, League Record; Phil Koerner in 212 Contests. In the department of fielding In the 1917 ("oast league season. Catcher Harry Hannah Han-nah of the fait Lake Hub proved himself the Iron man of the venr. Many participated partici-pated as ean-her in 1M games, which is undoubtedly a Coast league record. He ha.l 713 putouts, Jr. I assists and made 41 errors. While his average is below that of aome of the en ti llers, his w ork was really of a superior quality when it Is taken into account that he caught In a record number num-ber of games. 'Phil Koerner of San Francisco played in 212 games and missed only two of hie dub's contests. Irish Meusel of Los Angeles was in everv game his club played 1 210 He fielded or hatted In every bat- tie. and played outfield In all Ills fielding ' games except one. when he. played short. i Koerner haB the honors for number of i games. Work of Infielders. . Koerner. as first baseman in 212 games, i fielded .9S8. Furnier of the Angels in 1 - 143 games, fielded .9Sn. Sheely of the Saints in 196 games, fielded even with Koerner. 988. Bill Rodgers of Portland, in 155 games, at second base, fielded .958. Bill Ken-worthv Ken-worthv of Los Angeles, in 141 games fielded .955. Gard Glslason of Salt Lake. In 131 games, fielded .953, and Karl Crandall of Salt Lake, in 72 games, fielded 946. Paddv Sislin of the Beavors fielded .047 at third base in 142 games. Morrle Rath of Salt l.ake, in 1S3 games, fielded .945. Jim Calloway of the Tigers played third In 209 games and fielded .93S. Charley Pick of San Francisco went 92S in 207 games. Rov Corhan of the Seals fielded .952 at short in 210 games and Charley Hol-locher Hol-locher of the Beavers registered .950 in 200 games. Hannah the Workhorse. The leading workers in the catching department came through the season with. : high marks. Warty Boles of the Angels, in 131 games., had 417 putouts. ICS assists as-sists and 16 errors, for an average of .9.5. T'el Baker of the Seals was in IIS games, had 558 putout. 146 assists and 20 mis-plavs, mis-plavs, an average of .972. Honus Mitze of the Tigers and Oaks was in 122 games, had 416 putouts. 151 assists and IT errors, er-rors, making him an average of .971. Hannah led them all In work. He was in 184 games, had 712 putouts. 254 assists and 41 errors. His average was .959. Numerous young pitchers went through the season with perfect fielding averages, although for the most part they were in few games. Pete Standridge of the Angeles, in 30 games, and .Tack Ryan, also of the Angels. In 29 games, had perfect fielding records. Art Fromme of the Ticers was In 43 games and fielded ,983. Jean Dubuc of the Saints, in 42 games, fielded .975: Olnf Eriokson of the Seals fielded .947 in 62 games, and Ken Penner of the Beavers was in 61 games and closed with an average of .956. |