Show PIERCEY KING OF SHUTOUT I PITCHERS I Bee Right-Hander Right Led the League With Eight Scoreless Scoreless Score Score- Scoreless I less Wins to His Credit FITTERY LIKED OAKS Crandall Failed to Win a Single Game Against the Bees Burns' Burns Record EVEN pitchers In the 1916 P Pacific Co Coast st league race were credited SEVEN S with winning five live or more shutout victories during the year Of these Bill Piercey of Salt Lake won first honors with a total of eight and Sothoron of Portland ran second with six wins Couch of San Francisco Ryan of Los An An- geles and Fromme of Vernon Ver Ver- non and Fittery of Salt Lake each won five live With the exception of one of Fittery's Fit Fit- tery's games In which a relief pitcher was needed In the eighth Inning all of these shutout victories were complete games pitched by one pitcher Of these seven lieven leading lending shutout Fromme suffered five fhe defeats in which his team failed to make u tt run behind him Pi Piercey rc y suffered three shutout defeats and Sothoron Couch and Decanniere one eachIn eachin each leach In running u his bis season record ofel of el eight ht scoreless victories Piercey found Oakland most to his blanking the theOal Oal Oaks s three times Portland and Vernon and Vernon ech and San Francisco once In InI I hl his shutOut wins against Oakland Piercey I allowed eight hits lulls in on one game four In another and anel three in another in his against Vernon Piercey Pierce pitched a a. five e and a two hit game against Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land he pitched a. a L two hit bit gam game j and and amI a a. aone aone one hi t. t game and In blanking San Francisco iran Fran cisco ChiCO be he flowed allowed six bits hits Sothoron of Portland second highest I 1 il in shut shutout ut bo honors ors blanked the champion Ix Los s Angeles cl club b three times being more moie than any other pitcher shut out the pennant pennant pennant pen pen- nant winners Once Sothoron allowed the Angels S four hits and each ach of f the theother theother erA tf other two times he allowed them e o only three hits San Ran Francisco Francico twice tice and Oak Oak- r r land once were Sothoron's other victims r. r If 1 Thirteen hits without a run was the i I- I prize shutout fou t performance of the year On August 1 1 Bill Burns l of Oakland r c blanked n Ig Portland 4 t to 0 0 and nd wa was us touched 1 t for sos thirteen Beaver hits Paul Phul Fittery of Salt Sat Jake won eight i sames mes froth Oakland during the J E Co Coast t league season more more victories f c rles th thany thin thal i any other pitcher won Avon from any ono one club 1 I during th the year eal Of the twenty seven 1 games gaines that Salt Lake won from Oakland 1 during tho the year Piercey won seven giving giving j ing Fitter and a total of fifteen victories between them from the tail tail- 4 enders 1 I Oaklands Oakland's thirteen victories from Salt SaltI I I Lake were divided among three pitchers tor Cor the most part Dart Oakland won four and lost three against Hughes won three and lost four against Hall won two to and andI lost eight t against t Fittery e won on one and I 1 lost ot none aa against nn e each of Munsell efI fw War War- Klawitter and Dougan won n none noney y 2 and l lost three against ui Hoff and od won i 1 none and lost seven against Piercey I I. I As long as s Otis Crandall was pitch pitching inS inS- I 1 pr or Oakland Salt Lako Lake had hl his number numbes I i winning winnig five games and losing none when he took tool the mound for tor the Oaks But when Crandall Jumped from the hotton bot- bot ton to j the top of the heap and put on a uniform Salt Lake Lake- lost the rope that had led Crandall's goat After winning five live games and losing none against Crandall of Oakland Salt Lake LaJe I lost to Crandall of Los Angeles by a aon aon aone on one to nothing score on September 27 27 the only time that Salt Lake lost to him during during dur dur- duri i ing the year Most of ot Salt SaIt Lakes Lake's victories against Oakland d were e at the expense e of Beer i J da aWe l t ns rB rt a and Crandall ra Against B Beer Salt Lake won von seven and lost two against Salt Sal t Lake won five and lost three against Crandall Salt Lake Lako won five and lost los none nOle against aga Bo Boyd d Salt Lake won four and lost three against Burns Salt Lake won two and lost none I and against each of I Klawitter an and I fig fig- Salt Lake won one and lost none nOM Martin was the only Oakland pitcher who could finish on the right side of the Salt Lake winning five and losing two games gaines to the Utah i I 1 tion |