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Show TO FANS REGRET LOSS OF LEONARD Are Sad-eyed When They See Dutch's Pitching Averages. NEW YORK, Aug. 9. A salary dispute of the common garden variety, started by Dutch Leonard and ended by the Yankees, Yan-kees, who refused to grant his demands and sold him to Detroit, has had a bearing bear-ing on the American league pennant race, according to Yankee fans. Every time the Yankee fan lamps the pitching averages or sees where Leonard lias won n game for the Tigers he is reminded re-minded that things might have been different. dif-ferent. Miller Huggins, no doubt, la often reminded of it, too. Leonard, who jumped the Red Sox last summer to go to work In a shipyard, was originally included in the big Yankee-Red Sox deal which brought Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to the Yanks. But Leonard made an attempt to hold up the Yankee ownerh and stuck to his demands so strongly that he was -finally sold to the Tigers for a price said to have been 55000. The Yankee fan, therefore, is asking: How would Leonard have looked in a Yankee uniform tills year? Several members of the Yankee pitching pitch-ing staff who were expected to go great guns for Huggins have proved a disappointment, dis-appointment, Ernie Short being among them. But Leonard, with a club that got away to a rather poor start, is holding hold-ing a position among the .500 pitchers at this writing, and the chances are that he would have done aB well, or even better, bet-ter, for New York. The White Sox, setting a fast pace and making opposition dizzy by their fighting qualities, might have had Leonard, top. They could have had the pitcher had they wanted to pay his price for pitching, but they did not enthuse over it. The fact that Kid Gieason is often forced to use two or three pitchers per game indicates that Leonard would have been a pijlar of strength on the Sox roster. Cleveland, too, could have had the temperamental tem-peramental pitcher, but, like the White Sox, the owners of the Indians failed to see the value in Leonard at the price and passed him up. And the fact that at this writing the Detroit Tigers have a chance for the rag shows where Leonard can be figured as a pitcher around whom the American league pennant race might settle by chance. Any one of the clubs which might have had him today the Yanks, Sox and Indians would be well able to use him now. |