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Show Lefty Leader in Earned Run Average With 2.33; IndiaiLffinsiS, Loses! By HENRY SIPER United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec 14 A pair of comeback artists Vernon (Lefty) Gomez of the New York Yankees and Johnny Allen of the Cleveland Indians shared pitching honors for the 1937 American Amer-ican league season, official averages released today revealed. ) - good baseball that his manager, 1 Joe McCarthy, said: "I never had a better pitcher on any staff I managed." man-aged." He also received part of his cut back in the form of a bonus. Gomes, who was the leading pitcher pitch-er in 1834, won 21 games and lost 11. He was the only pitcher in the league to win more than 20 games. He also led in strikeouts with 194, and his earned run average was the lowest since 1934, when he led with the same figure. Allen won 15 straight games during dur-ing the season and lost to the Detroit De-troit Tigers in the last game. That streak was one short of the American Ameri-can league record held jointly by Joe Wood, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove and Schoolboy Rows. The all-time mark of 18 was set by Rube Marquard in 1812. Allen's percentage of .838 was the best in major league history, supplanting sup-planting the former record of .886 set by Grove in 131. Allen's lifetime life-time record now Is 88 won and 30 lost, the best record of any active pitcher. Gomes, his salary slashed 18001 for a poor year in 1938, topped thi league with an earned run averagi ef 133. Allen, out six weeks at mid- foTS season for an ap-' -Xjf j pendectomy, won f .- .. ". 1 '. 13 games and lost -" 'Ni one for a win-lose 1 : average of .838 fil",. best in m a J o r k . league history. p ssV w, f , Gomes worked, ' m nder a number i ?4 ef handicaps In . T , turning in the ' m ' V? M . most effective Job !a L X on the circuit. s ' During spring J j training he , ' worked two hours n eaaaeaBan a day trying to re- Gome have an arm ailment that had bothered both-ered him In 1838. In September his mother died, and on that same day he beat Washington with a three-bit three-bit performance. His 830,000 salary of 1938 was cut ky 88000, and he was on the spot when the season started. By September, Sep-tember, Gomes had pitched such Dietrich Twirls Only No-Hitter; Feller Strikes Out 16 in One Tilt Second to Gomes In effectiveness was Monty Stratton of Chicago, with a mark of 140. Allen was third with 2.S8. , Most phenomenal phenome-nal single game per f or man ees were registered by Bill Dietrich of Chicago, who pitched a no-hit, a-o - run game against 8t Louis on June 1, and Bob Feller, Cleveland, Cleve-land, who struck out 18 Boston batters bat-ters oa August 26. This was one less than Feller's league record of -rr i : ' . m ..'' M.I Newsom, Washington snd Boston, gsve the most walks, 187. Ferrell led the league In starting and finishing fin-ishing games, completing 28 of 35. Gomes was second high man with 34 starts and 28 completions. Completed games on the whole were down In the league. In 1937 there were 588 games in which the starting pitcher finished. This year's total was 588. Gomes led the league In shut outs, with six, equaling the performance of Grove the preceding year. The 10 leading pitchers on an earned run basis follow: Player O W L ret. H CR BB SO Avi Ooaaea. Mew York a 31 li . 333 T3 S3 1S3 3 33 Stratton, Chicago ....... .... .. 33 15 S IM 141 44 37 St 3 40 Alia. Cleveland .34 13 t S IS 137 44 SO S7 3 33 Chandler, N.w York , 13 T 4 S.IS T IS -30 31 3 S3 Rultlna. New York . . . , .13 30 f 741 341 SS SS 131 1 Orove. Boaton . . ,33 17 es4 34. SS S3 163 3 03 Cosjea, Waahlngton ........... ., 33 3 4 333 S It IT 33 3 11 Pearson. New Terk ... .,. ., 23 B 3 750 145 II M 71 3 IT Fella. Cleveland , II T .! IIS SS 10S 150 3 38 Brawn. Chlcaeo ................. S3 T T .500 H 3S 3d 31 3 43 17 in 1938. Allen Clint Brown, White Sox relief pitcher, completed 49 , out of 83 games to lead that department Wea Ferrell of Washington and Boston led the league in most Innings pitched, 281; most batters, faced, 1138; most hits yielded, 825; and ' most runs scored off htm, 177. Buck - |