Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-06 | Page 16 | Lefty Gomez Ranked Peer of Junior Loop Hurlers

Cef Lefty eft ty Gomez Ranked Peer i Of Junior Loop Hurlers J By LAWTON CARVER I J r 1 r United Press Sports Writer Wrier NEW NW YORK Dec 6 Vernon 6 Gomez breezed through the 1934 season with an sri around all performance to American league pitching supremacy wih RJ ranking among the te best the circuit has known Official averages released Tur Thursday Thurs ThurE- day credit him Wm with wih th these e top tp rankIng rank- rank 1 Ing ilIg performances Won most games Iames 26 low earned run average average 33 most complete games 25 most low lilt hit hi lames games nine nie under five lve its lilts hIts most strikeouts most Innings pitched He lIe le tied ted Mel Harder liar Har ln- ln der of Cleveland Clevland for leadership in I shutouts shutout six That at swift swit ball one ball bal ne one of the swiftest ever held ever held the Cas Casi defeats defeat down to t five lve and pu put the Yankee pItching pitching pitch pitch- pith pith- ing ig staff staf as a whole r rt 1 on t top op F W t x New York pitchers pitch ers ers- ts allowed the thee 1 fewest hits and andL 1 runs runs struck stuck his out the te mot most batsmen I ad and had the lowest i I earned run aye average aver aver- avert t age Detroit z was next net and anci Cleveland t h hi i r d. d dA v dk v 2 Besides Beide Gomez for shutouts shut shut- shut shut-r J outs out Harder was the only regular Gomez through the te season seaon other than Gomez who dropped below below be low three tree In Jn the earned eare run averages average The Te Indian Inin curve bailer ranged next to t Gomez with Tommy Bridges Bridge of Detroit ranked I second in iR strikeouts He fanned Lynwood Schoolboy Rowe a teammate team mate and Charlie Ruffing of the Yankees Yan kees tied for third with wih 49 each The Schoolboy was wa second only to Gomez Gomex Gome through the season in irs around ll-around ability and arid in one stretch started in August won von 16 straight games to equal the league record held jointly by Walter Waler Johnson Johnon Smoky Joe Wood and Lefty Grove Grov He lie turned In 24 2 victories just two less than Gomez Gome leading total and lost only eight His earned run average aver aver- average age ae pr was Wa He outdid Gomez by a small smal margin In stability In the innings he pitched 81 batters bates walked he was wa charged with wih one wild wid pitch pich and he hit one batter bater Gomez Gomex walked 96 an and was charged with three wild ws wih wid pitches in 22 innings