Ruth was now 16-9 before finishing the season at 23-12 with a league-leading 1.75 ERA. It doesn't matter if the game was different in 1916. Ruth led the league with 40 starts and nine shutouts.
Ruth only allowed 10 career home runs, four of them being inside-the-park and one being listed as bouncing, which I'll assume to be another inside-the-park homer. In his career he pitched over 1221 innings, so that is a homer every 122+ innings which would be half of season for today's pitchers.
To be fair, the most homers given up by an AL pitcher in 1916 was 8 and in 1919, Ruth's last real year on the mound, 10 homers was the most given up by an AL pitcher.
Johnson was now 19-16 on his way to 25-20 with a 1.90 ERA. He led the league in wins, innings, complete games (36 of 38 starts) and most other categories.
As the pitcher, Ruth batted last. He went 0-4 against Johnson. He hit 10 of his 714 homers against Johnson.
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