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Show EE SOUTHPAW LEADER me CDfiSTKURLETlS Lefty Leverenz Has Won 14 Games; Brown and Dell j Tied for Earned Run Honors. Walter Leverenz, the star Bee hurler. continues to show the other pitchers how it's done when it comes to winning ball games. Lef iy has worked in nineteen games, seventeen of them being of nine or more innings. He has won fourteen and lost four, a percentage of .77S. He has also been the hardest-worked pitcher, !ing the league in innings pitched with jT. bill Prougii of Oakland ranks sec-.jnd, sec-.jnd, by working in 14 innings, and Jack Cjuinn of Vernon is third, with 160 innings in-nings to his credit, -v When it comes to winning shutout con-tests, con-tests, first prize i;oes to Los Angeles' ISlT 'hers, who ifave put it all over other cTs in this respect. Fifteen of the games von by the Los Angeles club have to en via the shutout route. San Francisco Fran-cisco and Vernon are the next nearest uluLs, with eii"ht goose-egg games apiece. Brown Leads in Blanks., Brown of Los Angeles is leading the league in these shutout contests, with five to his credit. Pitchers with three shutout games are Fittery, Los Angeles; Pertica, Los Angeies; Quinn, Vernon, and Kantlehner, San Francisco. Curly Brown is also first in the matter of the largest number of legal at bats against him, with 623. Prough is next, with 615, and Leverenz third, with 609. Leverenz has been the most generous I heaver with his hits, allowing 15S. Prough has allowed off his delivery and Mc-Cabe Mc-Cabe and Gardner 141 each. Paul Fittery, Los Angeles southpaw, leads the league in both strikeouts and ! waiks. Me has been responsible for sixty- j five batters whiffing the breeze, as well, as sixty-six free passes to first. Quinn, has struck out sixty-four men, Pertica fifty-nine and Leverenz fifty-seven. Leverenz Lev-erenz is second in number of walks issued is-sued with sixty. Speed Martin of the Oaks is next with fifty-six and Lefty O'Doul of the Seals fourth with fifty-one. fifty-one. . Wild Pitches. Eill Pertica, Los Angeles, has heaved the most wild pitches seven. Lynn Erenton, Sacramento, has six charged against him and Jack Quinn and Walter Leverenz have five each. Fittery, Los Angeles, and Weiser Dell, Vernon, have each had two balks. O'Doul takes first in hit batsmen, having hav-ing hit twelve. Fittery is charged with ten and Lrenton with nine. Speed Martin has allowed, directly or indirectly, the larsest number of runs, with a total of seventy, but of these he is held responsible for but forty-nine. Tim McCabe. Bees, has allowed sixty-Vf0l'r sixty-Vf0l'r runs, being held responsible for fifty-?o, fifty-?o, and Brenton has sixty-two runs iSjked up against him, of which he is heli.N,ecountable for forty-two. Vv'eiser Dell and Jack Quinn, both of Vernon, are about even in earned runs per nine-inning game. Dell is charged with 1.S8 runs per contest, while Quinn's percentage of runs is 1.91. The latter heaver has pitched ten more frames than his rival, however, and that kind of evens things up. Curlv Brown, Los Angeles, An-geles, also has a mark of 1.86 earned runs per contest, and has latched in 135 1-3 innings. |