Show BASEBALL TAT REVIEW VW SHOWS Ii A ll IN P By HARRY A. A WILLIAMS An autopsy over the official percentages percentages percent percent- ages for 1916 reveals one busted record and another threatened writes Harry HatTY A. A Williams I of Los 1 Angeles g Aided and abetted eh by short t fences and the scarcity of atmosphere in Salt Lake Bunny Brief with three thirty-three home runs beat the former mark by three ripping the laurel wreath from the Hassle lassic brow of Ping Bodle Bodie pride of Cow Hollow There was nothing sensational doing in the way of speed nobody approximating ing Jimmy Johnstons Johnston's mark of eighty eighty- two thefts in 1916 1915 while Jimmys Jimmy's recoN f of stolen bases In 1913 remained as safe as though it had been hidden on the far side of the horizon Bill Lane a newcomer to Coast league company led the procession with fifty As AsBill AsBill AsBill Bill only onh recently emerged from the co cocoon cocoon co- co coon of obscurity and inexperience he heI I figures to improve and next season should accumulate even more fame and stolen bases A A. R R. Sothoron i winning streak of fifteen straight provided the pitching sensation of the year and lacked only one game of tying the record hung up by Peanut Browning of the Seals several years ago Pitching was the only department of play in which there was a marked Improvement Improvement improvement Im Im- im- im provement over the 1915 form and nere the batting was vas a relative reduction In figures The official figures show sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen men above the mark as against twenty-four twenty the preceding season and but for the short fences In Salt Lako Lake and San Francisco it is doubtful whether there would have been more than two or three above that mark However conditions conditions condl con con- dl in these parks only serve to equalize those found in Los Angeles and where the fields are so deep that innumerable long drives which deserve deserve deserve de de- de- de serve to go a I q hits are caught So it is about fifty Hellman Heilman WIll was the leader In 1915 1916 B with witha a mark of while Kenworthy and Brief were this year tied at for high honors The more one studies the sta- sta t-h t ore prominently does the the strength of the slabs tel'S stand out It Js IS s doubtful whether this tendency toward tight twirling proved popular a a. majority or ot the fans being partial to free and easy hitting with a a. pitching duel cluel thrown in now and then to give variety to the program Three always rare blows were a bit harder to execute than tha usual Volter Wolter Wolter Wol- Wol ter and Bates divided the honors In Jn this department with an even dozen cozen each Maggert was the three base king In 1915 with fourteen Gedeon's record of sixty-seven sixty doubles in 1915 1015 remains untarnished Kenworthy the leagues league's high man In this divIsIon stoppIng at fiftY four While striking out the batters was a a. popular r pastime no one heaver had anything anything any- any thing like a monopoly on this Industry Fittery L led ed With strikeouts while Sothoron mowed 1 down only one less Lefty Williams held the honors In 1915 1916 with vean Greggs Gregg's strikeouts compiled with Portland in 1910 still stands as a bright and shining mark for futi- futi future generation n ot pitchers to shot shoot at |