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Show SITS CLOSE YEAR LEADERS WITH HICKORY Finish 12 Points Ahead of 1916; Rath Is Champion; Tobin Well Up in All Departments. S.iH Lake finished the season with a tf.mi uvfirase of leading San Fran i'lr:n, the Saints' rHuirfht competitor, by fourteen points, the Seals finishing with a mark of .271. The. Saints this year batted twelve points better than they did last year and tho. Seals honored their 1916 mark by ten points-. The Beavers lost a point from their showing of last year, hatting- .2ii3 against .204 for lf16. The Angels gained two points, finishing at ..K2. as romparcd with -2'30 in 1016. The Oaks dropped six points. their record r aiding ..'-: against .29, and the Tigers rv-l) off four points .2 Id against .2.r3 for la-tst Heason. In addition to furnishing a great race for the pennant, the season of 1917 developed de-veloped a thrilling race for the individual lr:iUrship in baiting. For weeks Morrio Hath, Justin FUznerald and Johnny Bass-ler Bass-ler ran run k and neck. Then B.ussk-r dropped behind he never was a real eon-tender, eon-tender, anyhow, on account of his continual con-tinual a hsc?-ice from the game. The iio-iusr iio-iusr finally narrowed to three men Rath. Johnnv Tobin of Salt Lake and Filacer aid. The two Salt Lakers stcppc.l out In front during the. last two weeks, the race ending with Rath in the lead, Tobin second and KBzgerald third. Those hitters who finished within the charmed i-ircie of .Xi'O and who took pari in a maioritv of tht-ir games follow: Rath, t Sa't Lake, .311; Tobin. Salt Lake, .;-jy2; Fitzgerald, San Francisco, .3.4 ; Rya n, Sak Lake. SIS; Williams, Portland, .31Ci; Sv hall.-r. San Francisco, .313; Grists. Vernon- rortkuul, .312; Maisel, San Francisco, .:'i'7; M-M'.'-el, Los Angeles. .St'ti; Shelly, S.i It Lake. .SvS: Murphy, Oakland, .303; t'i--k. San Francisco. .302. Johnny Tobin led the league in runs ?-oivd as well as greatest number of hits. lh: finished si-mml in two-base hitting ii nd fourth in lot al base hitting. Biff prhaller of San Francisco, with fifty doubles, dou-bles, led in that division. Penny Wilie and Floyd Farmer of Portland, Port-land, witii twelve triples each, were tied for three-bagsrery. Kennel h Williams of the Beavers collected twenty-five homers during the season, six ahead of Karl Sheely of Salt Lake. Williams, with his large number of extra base hits, cinched the tot. 1.1 ha.se leadership early in Oc-to'nnr. Oc-to'nnr. Morrie Rath led in Farifiee hitting, wit ii :"ii"t v-sevn. Zob Ter' v of Los An-celes An-celes got fifty-nnn. f; nlshing second. Charley t'ick of S;i n Fra nclseo broke away in the base ie:il;n'4, yftting seven during the final nei ies and gaining the pilfering titltt with s!ty-flve. Mcusel of Los Angeles An-geles and Ti!!iams of San Francisco entered en-tered t he thirtieth week with fifty-eight and were tied for second, Meusel being unable to add his total, while Williams did not play. The leaders in the various departments: BATTLVG Rath, Salt Lake 341 Tohln. Salt Lake 332 Fitzgerald, San Francisco 324 R'-an, Salt Lake 31S Williams. Portland 315 Schaller, S-an Francisco 315 RUN" GETTING Tobin, Salt Lake 149 Wilie. Portland 134 Hollocher, Portland 134' Rath. Salt Lake 129 Pick, San Francisco 123 Fitzgerald, San Francisco 122 NUMBER OF HITS Tobin. Salt Lake 26fi Meusel, Los Anselea 24S Rath, Salt Lake 24'". Pick. San Francisco 24'"- Ryan. Salt Luke 232 Williams, Portland 232 TWO-BASE HITS Schaller. San Franctseo 50 Tobin. Salt Lake 47 Ryan. Sale Lake -. 47 Griggs, Vernon 47 Meusel. Los Angeles 47 Farmer, Portland 47 THREE-BASE HITS Wilie. Portland 12 Farmer. Portland i Miller. Oakland m n Murphy, Oakland n Rath. Salt Lake ' 3 Meusel, Los Angeles 9 Pick, San Francisco ; 9 HOME RUNS Williams. Portland 5 Sheely, Salt Lake " ' Ryan. Salt Lake 3 Griggs, Vernon-Portland WW 9 Farmer. Portia nd $ Koerner, San Francisco 8 TOTAL BASE HITTING Williams. Portland 3 Sheely, Salt Lake 341 Meusel, Los Angeles 33, "obin. Salt Lake 303 Ryan, Salt Lake '. IQ Farmer, Portland Wzo& SACRIFICE HITS Rath. Salt Lake 57 Terry. Lns Angeles ' ' 51 Middle-ton, Oakland !.".'!."!.' 43 Vaughn, Los Angeles-Vernon " 4 Wilie, Portland ' ' 33 Kenworthy. Los Angeles !:!!!!!!!! 32 STOLEN BASES Pick, San Francisco 65 Williams. Portland !!!!.!! SS Meusel, Los Anareles 5s Wilie, Portland WWW. 55 Lane. Oakland Murphy, Oakland 49 |