Nine Shows Considerable Improvement Over Last Year

The batting and fielding averages, completed through the Brown game, prove the team much better in both branches of baseball than it was at the same date last year. The team batting average, which in 1915 was .226, is now .239, and the fielding, formerly .944, is .956. Individual averages are proportionately higher. R. Harte '17, the heaviest hitter on the team, has 31 points more than last spring. Abbot, who batted only .140, has risen from ninth in the list to tie for fourth place among the regulars with Mahan, his present average being .277. C. L. Harrison '18, who heads the list, has played only one game. Of the fourteen contests from which these averages are reckoned, only Abbot, Coolidge, Harte, and Nash have played in every one. Wyche, whose figures are included, played regularly in the first five games until that with Annapolis, in which he broke a ligament and probably will be out for the rest of the season. Murray's low average is accounted for by the fact that he has been used three times only. INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES.   a.b.  h.  r.  s.b.  Av.  Fldg. Harrison, p.  4  2  1  0  .500  1.000 Harte, c.  52  20  9  4  .384  .991 Coolidge, c.f.  53  17  9  9  .321  .958 Percy, r.f.  34  10  8  1  .294  .750 Mahan, p.  18  5  3  3  .277  1.000 Abbot, 2b.  54  15  15  7  .277  .940 Beal, 3b.  27  7  5  1  .258  .960 Knowles, l.f.  44  11  6  6  .250  1.000 Fripp, l.f.  31  6  4  4  .193  .869 Nash, 1b.  58  11  7  4  .189  .987 Whitney, p.  12  2  4  1  .166  .875 Garritt, p.  12  2  4  0  .166  .818 Wyche, r.f.  13  1  2  0  .076  .714 Bothfeld, s.s.  17  1  1  0  .058  .900 Reed, s.s.  28  1  4  1  .035  .877 Murray, 3b.  6  0  0  1  .000  1.000

TEAM AVERAGES. a.b.  h.  r.  s.b.  avge. 458  110  83  44  .239 p.o  a.  e.  avge. 447  187  29  .956

TEAM AVERAGES. a.b.  h.  r.  s.b.  avge. 458  110  83  44  .239 p.o  a.  e.  avge. 447  187  29  .956