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Show BROWN LEAGUE'S STMPjTCHER Curly Has Six Victories, No Defeats; Three Tied on Strikeouts. I i Curly Brown, but southpaw of the league-leading Angels, has all other heavers heav-ers tn the Coast league trailing in his duet at the completion of the first four weeks of play. Curly has won six -games, two of which were shutouts made in two successive starts, and has yet to meet his first Waterloo. He ranks third in greatest great-est number of innings pitched, having worked in sixty and two-thirds frames. He has allowed but fifty-two hits In seven games, and twelve runs, of which he was responsible for five. Walter Leverenz of the Bees has been the hardest worked heaver to date. This is largely due to the fact that he has been inveigled into four extra-inning contests. con-tests. In the six games in which Walter has done mound duty, he lias been forced to fling the horaehide for sixty-six innings. in-nings. Wheezer Doll of the Tigers has pitched in but four fewer frames than Lefty. Leverenz and Doc Crandall of the Angels, An-gels, although rated as two of the best heavers in the league, have been the ones to allow their opponents the greatest number of hits. The former has been touched for sixty-five hits, while Doc yielded sixty-two. Although there were an unusually large number of wild men in the first month of play, none was quite so wild as Charlie Schorr of1 the Bees. "Lefty" issued thirty free passes. Leverenz ran him a close second, for he was responsible for twenty-nine twenty-nine batters reaching first via the B. O. B. route. Piercy of Sacramento was next in line with twenty-five walks. This fact is not astonishing, for fans will remember that Bill once heaved for Salt Lake, and he has hardly had time to cast off the habit acquired while playing in a Bee uniform. Three twirl era lay claim to the title of , strikeout king. They are Leverenz, Mar- , kle, both of the Bees, and Deell, Tfgeroo. : Each one has fanned thirty batters. Gardner Gard-ner of Sacramento and Rollings of Oakland Oak-land also made bids for the kingship, the former fanning twenty-four and IIolHngs twenty-three. Reiger of Vernon and Bill Piercey appeared ap-peared to have the greatest number of grudges against the batters who faced them, each of them hitting five in the ribs. Lynn Brenton of Sacramento had the leapt number of earned runs per game of , any pitcher plnyirg in one or more full contents. Of the twelve runs made off his delivery, only one of them was in any way earned, thereby winning for himself the ! mark of 0.32 runs per nine-inning game I which he was responsible- for. Coiwell of 1 Oakland was responsible for five of the twelve runs scored while he was doing i mound duty, his average being 0.83: |