Show S I OF Of What Value Are II Hits to a Team 1 I The team that gets the hits wins the theames games ames is Ie an old baseball adage but its Us truth Is sn not apparent after a perusal of the unofficial records for the season of or 1916 in the N National I league ea These sta statistics sta- sta mt s rrth slow show gw that t the Cincinnati Y in ise iseR R Reds who finished in a tie for last place made more ore bingles than any other team Iny in only the y league sixteen i fe behind except t the he Brooklyn and Brooklyn Brook Brook- r were k lyn had a no total of ot 1346 safeties and Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cm- had 1330 Pitts PIttsburg burg made 1245 bingles Dingles exactly as many as the Phillies yet et Moran Morans Moran's s men finished se second ond and the Pirates landed sixth Boston which finished fin fin- third made fewer hits than any other team in the league league- league only 11 1176 i 6 Another peculiar thing tiling shown In the records Is that while Brooklyn won twenty-nine twenty more games than did Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg the scored only sixty sixty- nine more runs New York New York which finished fin fin- fourth scored twelve more runs than Brooklyn the pennant winning team had more runners left leCt on bases than an any of ot its rivals 1020 Superba runners being stranded The Pirates were second with 1012 men ne left In the American league the Red Sox scored fewer runs than any other team except Washington n and the Athletics C and eRk 1 I the were the only Imade team which made de fewer hits Evidently winning a q pennant is not so much a a. matter of ot how man many hits and runs you make as It is isto of how few fW y you U al' al allow W the OPposition P to So make Again the poor down trodden ball play play- 11 er Both the White Sox and the tile Cub UD managements have approved plans for swimming tanks for the players of those le teams Maybe some of the player play- play er em will that 11 they be furnIshed with wilh bathing suits |