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Is "better than its club"; that Is to say. the iiervenUme of victories achieved by the pitchers is larger than the percentage oi victories achieved by tho club in the league race. It is evident, therefore, that, the pitchers who are no Innyer with us failed to deliver. No pitcher on the present pres-ent staff Ima lost more Karnes than he has won. IJaiim lias pitched only two sanies for the Bees, one of which' lie won and the other he Hist. The other five flinders are well above the .000 mark. The. standing- of the iiees In respect of percentage per-centage of games won at the close of the twenty-first week of the H1D season, upon tiie . figures for which this comment Is based, was .551. The pitchers of the club, collectively, for the same period registered reg-istered a mark of .578. Only one pitcher, aside from Haum, was below the .551 record rec-ord Marklc, with . 5 : ' . The record of won and lost games of the six pitchers now forming the Bee corps follows: Won. Lost. P.O. Gould H 9 .fi09 Stroud lit 9 .591 Leverenz IX 9 ,f!)J Dale U S .57P Markie 15 13 .nSti Baum 1 1 .500 Totals 67 49 .678 Four Weeks to Go. In addition to the six pitchers now on the club, the Bees have had nine others during the season. They were Oeno Caldera, Adulph Schlnkle, Charlcv Schorr, A hen Conk wright, Kdgar Willutt. Guy Cooper, .Miles Main, Vincent Molyneau and Grover Jii-ant. After today's game the Bees will have twenty-nine games yet to play. If the pitchers can win two-thirds of them, eleven el-even three-fifths, the Bees have a chaneo for the flag. They have t wo weckw left on their home lot and two weeks abroax.1. Should it develop that the f lingers can enter upon another streak such as marked their labors just before the Bees went abroad, the pennant would be won, for the dull was winning three-quarters of its games in the two moot hs preceding its departure for the roast . A t any rate, whether the club wins the Sln.OOu or not, it c;m be said uuequl vo'-uliy that the Bee pitchers are a creditable a tuff. By J. C. D. IF Salt Lake bad been fortunate enough to have opened the season with its present pitching- staff, there would have been no question about the players sharing that $10,000 bonus for winning the 1019 pennant. There is still a good chance to cut the melon, but it won id have been like robbing a baby's bank had the Bees started with the string of flingers they now have. At the beginning of theseason Manager Herr worked along as best he could with one or two dependable men. All the while lie wag trying to bring some first-class heavers into camp and he made life a burden for big league managers with his avalanche of telegrams. The majors, however, needed all the pitchers they had and were in the market for more, lie got no help from them. Finally Lands 'em. Herr had better luck elsewhere. He bought Al Gould from New Orleans, to which club he had been transferred by i the Cleveland club, but refused to report. 1 Next he got Ralph Stroud from Louisville i of the American association, and then he got Jean Dale from the Indianapolis club of the American association. Still later lie got Charley Baum from the Seals, j These, with Cliff Markle and Walter ! Loverenz, who started the season with i the Bees, cumprise the present pitching . staff. Gould, Stroud and Pale, reporting in ; midseason, were slow in getting started. That was particularly true of Gould and ! Stroud, who, until they came west, had I playe l no baseball at nil this year. After j the two got straightened away, however, things began to happen. j ust before l the late road trip of the Bees, Gould I , led the league for a considerable period, j On the road the little fellow had no luck, ! losing a series of mightv tough games. 1 Stroud, however, was highly effective and so was Dale. Pitchers Higher Than Club. Markle bean the-season in fine condi- I t!on and it was lio almost innlo-h.n mind I who gave the Roes a standing at all in i the league for weeks on end. Leverenz j has Buffered from a sore arm practically all season. At times he endured Intense pain, and for a Inns stretch he was out of the same entirely, undeioin treatment. treat-ment. In the last three weeks Ieyerenz has apparently recovered some of the form that made him the best pitcher in the leaLrue last year. ITe won two of his ! three starts on the road trip. The pitching staff as It stands today- |