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Show WHERE HOME RUNS COUNTED Long Drives Broke Up 83 Games in Big Leagues Last Year Cubs and ' Phillies Set Pace. Home-run drives broke up 83 games in the major leagues last year and averted a score of shutouts. Chicago and Philadelphia Nationals set the pace in four-base smashes, each team winning 13 contests as the result of circuit wallops. The New York team led the American league with seven victories resulting from four-base blows. In the National league 59 games were decided on home runs during 1916, and 24 were decided It like manner man-ner in the younger league. The contests con-tests that would have been shutouts but for circuit hits were more evenly even-ly divided, 11 being in the sonior or ganizntion and 9 in the junior's. |