| Show J 1 HANNAH LED lEO LEDALL THEM ALL STARTING DOUBLES i 1 Fittery Fattened His Win Column at E Expense pense of Oaks League Dope I ARRY HANNAH of S Salt lt Lake started more double plays from behind behind be be- behind H HARRY hind the plate than any other catcher during the Coast league season Bassier of Los Angeles and Sepulveda of S San ln Francisco were the only other catchers near enough to be called rivals This same trio figured among the leading half dozen catchers In total assists Hannah led the catchers for the year with assists with Roche of Portland next with Boles BoIes Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles Rowdy Elliott Oakland Sassier Bassler Los Angeles Sepulveda San Francisco Hannah started 1 12 double plays from behind time the plate Sassier Bassler b r and n Sepulveda each Nl started ten double l killings Boles l lof of Los Angeles started seven and was the only other catcher to go above four The Time following shows the double plays started by catchers of oC the various clubs during the season LOS ANGELES ANGELES Bassler LES-Basler LES Bassler 10 Boles 7 OAKLAND OAKLAND ROWdY Rowdy Elliott 3 Griffith 2 ann Vann 2 Harwood 2 Cadman 2 F. F Elliott 1 PORTLAND PORTLAND Fisher Fisher 4 Roche noche 4 Haworth Haworth Haworth Ha- Ha worth 2 OBrien O'Brien 1 SALT LAKE LAKE Hannah Hannah 12 Easterly 1 Shee Sheely 1 SAN FRANCISCO Sepulveda 10 Brooks Brook 4 VERNON pencer Spencer pencer 4 I. Whaling Whalin 4 Mitze 3 Schmidt 1 Easy for Nine Ine of ot the time 1916 Pacific Coast league pitchers fattened up their pitching records records' with whim five or more victories at the expense expense of tho the Oakland club during the time season with two Salt Lake pitchers running running running run run- ning off with most of ot the time honor Fittery l itter of ot Salt Lake had a total of eight wins for the season over Oakland that Oakland that being more snore victories than titan any other pitcher re recorded recorded re- re corded over any anyone one club his teammate had imad a record of seven wins over Oakland Sothoron of ot Portland Baum of San Francisco and Fromme of Vernon each pulled six victories out of their series with Oakland while Houck of Portland Decanniere of Vernon and Hogg and Standridge of Los Angeles were the slab slab- aters with five victories over the time s squad Portland ortland came the tIme nearest of any club to being a rival of Oakland for the cellar position so it is natural that Portland should have won fewer games than an any other club from front the also rans Sothoron was Portland's best pitching bet against Oakland wining six and losing only one for the season Houck buck won on five and lost two games against Oakland Kelly won four and lost one Reuther Reuther- won two and lost one Noyes Nyes won tout four and lost four in his Imis games against Oakland Hagerman r won Harstad two each and ac l lost won t two and DJ f lost Higginbotham fg one and tL Lush and g gwon won none and lost one Kicked Em Vernon with a total of ot errors for tor forthe forthe the 1916 Coast league season piled up the biggest total of miscues in the time field- field line Une but hut Vernon took the time league honors for the year ear when it came to the playIng playIng play play- Ing of consecutive errorless games Early In the time season eason Vernon went through seven straight games without an error and no other club was able to equal that mark during the time year althou although h Salt Lake came close with a string of six errorless games games' Second to Vernon for total errors dur ing the season came Oakland and portland port Port land nd each with San Saim Francisco was next with Los Angeles 12 and Salt Lake San Francisco Francico showed the time largest I number number num nurn- ber her of errorless games played during the season going the time route GS times without a bobble The tail end Oakland club was next in itt line with 52 errorless games be beIng being being be- be ing one of those baseball paradoxes that thatis thatIs is further emphasized by the Ume fact that the time champion Los Angeles club played fewer errorless games than any other club Salt Lake played 51 errorless games Vernon 47 Portland I. 45 and Los Angele Angeles Angeles Ange Ange- le les 44 Vernons Vernon's e ons run of seven errorless games was against San Fr Francisco and anti Oakland from April 14 to 20 inclusive Vernon winning winning winning win win- ning three and losing four our of the time games Salt Lakes Lake's run of fix six errorless games was made against Oakland and Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles from Irons September 9 to 13 Inclusive Salt Lake winning four and losing losing- two Los Angeles and Oakland could not run up a string of more snore than four foul errorless games at any aimy time duri during g the year eat Errors for One Game I San Francisco the club that played 1 the most errorless games In the 1916 Coast league season and Vernon the time club that ran up P the b biggest e string rI of errorless games e d during I g gb the year te shared h h honors er in making the time biggest total of errors for an any one game Eight errol's errors In one game was the time prize winner in the tIme ragged fielding fielding field field- ing class of the time year rear San Francisco o perpetrated perpetrated per per- it once on July 11 and lost to Salt Lake 7 to S 8 and Vernon booted eight chances on August 2 and lost to L Los Angeles 3 t to 6 Los o ni Angeles i and d Oakland each had seven-error seven games gamnes Six errors to one ode game was the worst that the season records rec see charge up to Portland and S Skit Salt lt Lake Hut But of all nil these occasions of oC ragged ragged rag rag- ged fielding Los Angeles with seven er errors er- er ross on June Tune 9 furnished the only time when bad had fielding did dil not prevent a victor vic vic- ic tor tory the time Angels booting time the ball seven selen times and still w winning from Salt Lake 4 to 3 The Time champion Angels went the longest time between errorless games of an any of oC the clubs during the i year ear from August 12 to 29 28 rolling up eighteen games with at i j least one error to a game for tor a total of I thirty five errors But despite this bad i I showing they broke even crest In winning i games winning nine and losing nine Vernon went seventeen games between errorless games for tor a total of twenty-six twenty errors winning eight games game and losing n nine Portland and nd Salt Lake each had Imad a stretch of ot fifteen games between clean est slate that days ysA Oakland thirteen games was the longest longest long- long aE ever went without an errorless F game Av San Francisco sprinkled In Its s Ji errorless games often h so that ten games was time the longest longest long- long est f that t time the Seals credited with f ever went without being a perfect fielding elding day Angels Held First Division Los Los Angeles 1916 Coast league cham champions never dropped cham sion slon during the below the time first division divi divi- year Portland Lake never and ami Salt stopped place place althou although h both over l night in secona In-secona second teams stayed a few days in n first place lace at various the ear With Ith the these e three times during eyer every club In th league exceptions playing day finished at least one In eer every to time the position from top cellar celar In U the ranking P pennant ant race race Counting two Mondays were played there were is when games r in the 1916 s season ason of days da days s In these Oakland spent pent tIme ce cell cellar and was in Continued on page 4 I HANNAH LED Continued from page 2 first place seven days The fifth place Portland club spent twenty three days in ir inthe the cellar and three in first place the fourth place San Francisco club was on for seven days clays and in the cellar one day the third place Salt Lake club dub wason was wason on top four days in t third P place twenty twenty- g one e days ura and spent t tt nine e eP days is in rn the ellar Cellar out of the 16 days dan that Salt Lake was rated as as' as asa a second division outfit The second place Vernon club was in the cellar one day and n only spent B six other days inthe in inthe f r ro f the second n division l for sixty days Vernon Vernon Ver- Ver non was in first place and for ninety-five ninety days jn in second place The league champion cham chain pion 0 Angels e were In first place l days I I r PJ ii in second e place a nine forty y days and d only dropped as low as third place for twenty I da days vs daf The e following table shows total playing I days that each club finished in each position position post post- tion in the penn pennant nt ranking 1st 2nd 3rd Los Angeles 49 20 0 0 0 Vernon 60 Os 95 20 4 2 1 Salt Lake 4 0 21 65 8 SO o 9 San Francisco 7 1 20 41 10 1 Portland 3 0 20 68 68 23 Oakland 7 13 1 4 14 Dope On Assists Four assists to a game was the smallest club total that was made in any anyone one game of the 1916 Coast league season Los Angeles and Vernon each had games to their credit In which they made only a total of four assists but In each case their opponents were only at bat for tor eight innings Five assists was the lowest lowest lowest low low- est total for tor the season where a club played nine Innings of a fielding game San Francisco f ft played less an se e eleven evirs i inning j ga game with only five assists s to its credit ft and also had two five five- assist nine nine- inning games e Vernon had a five assist am Jn r narod ilp nine Inning 1 game as also d did Portland ts Salt Lake had two Six assists was the lowest total that Los Angeles and Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land ever to In nine innings of the fielding Oakland piled plied up the biggest total of assists for the season with 2958 Vernon was next with 2830 San Francisco 2673 2613 Salt Lake 2605 Los Angeles 2583 Portland Port Port- land 2447 2441 Twenty-four Twenty assists was waa the biggest single lIngle team total for a nine-inning nine game San Francisco and Oakland sharing the honors Twenty-three Twenty assists in eight innings of were credited to Vernon Vernon Ver Ver- Vernon non in one game Twenty three assists was th the largest nine inning I n total of which Vernon e Portland and Los Angeles An An- geles could coull boast during the year while two twenty-two assists was Salt Lakes Lake's largest largest larg larg- est eat nine-inning nine total In extra Inning games Portland had twenty-six twenty assists in a I In a had twenty-six twenty and Vernon game ame inning fifteen-inning game for the seasons season's I honors Had Horstman's Goat Portland the only club that trot got ot as good goodas I as an even break pfd with hL the e 1916 ile Pacific I Coast ar l league e champion Los A Angeles club had the goat of Pitcher Horstman of Los Angeles more completely captivated I Ithan than did an any other club have any Pitchers Pitcher's I goat during the year Portland won eighteen eight eight- een and lost t eighteen games against I r i Los Angeles ef td d during ie the e season and six I of those Portland wins were at the expense expense expense ex ex- ex- ex pense of Horstman who was unable to tc pull through with a a. win over Portland for the whole season Those six Portland victories without a a defeat against Horstman easily take the sting out of Jack Ryans Ryan's record of ot seven Los Angeles victories and only one de defeat defeat de- de feat against Portland for the year Next i to Ryan Rvan Zabel and Hogg HOlg were the only Ar Artel el pitchers who could work effectively against the Beav Beavers rs Zabel won four tour and lost none against Portland and Hogg broke even with three wins and three defeats defeats defeats de de- de- de feats against the Beaver squad Scoggins and Crandall each won one and Jolt ost Jost none against the Beavers Hall halt won one and lost two Standridge won one and lost five and Brant won none noile and lost one ona |
