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Show TOME IPOTtSIHlES STEAL 9M1 HW bination of Boston's Baffling Bees He only led the earned-run averages, aver-ages, allowing 2.38 such tallies pel nine innings. At that, he was only a little in front of Cliff Melton, the 'other half' of the Giants' great southpaw combination, who wound up with 2.61. Along with them were Russ Bautrs. Pittsburgh's promia-ing promia-ing right-hander, in fourth place with 2.87. and Turner's Sl-year-old Boston "sidekick," Lou Fette, with 2.88. All four combined to stand the senior circuit's batamen on their collective ears. Three of them Turner, Melton and Fette won 20 games each ; the first rookies to turn in the "double-ten" victory performance since Grover Cleveland Cleve-land Alexander bowed into the big time in 1911. And, what's more. Melton, with 20 victories and nine defeats for a -tWO percentage, was second only to Hubbell in that department. Huhbell's It wina gave him a record of 20-or-better for five atralght years. The only break In the rookie ranks at the top of the earned run heap was the 2.70 third-place mark posted by Dizzy Dean. But, while Dizzy pitched 197 innings, when he wasnT arguing With Ford" TTtcITor complaining about his sors tore. Turner worked 257 frames; Fette. 259, and Melton, 248. Quite a difference. dif-ference. Altogether, seven pitchers were under the three-earned-run average for the season. Trailing fifth-place Hubbell Top Flingerfor SeniorLoup By SID FEDKR NEW YORK. Dec. 22 OP) With all due respect to Carl Hubbell and the handy little trick he has of winning more ball games than anyone any-one else, the rookies, and particularly particu-larly 31-year-old young Jim Turner, were the cream of the national league pitching crop for 1937. As usual, the league's official flinging records, released today, 5howed there was pitching galore in the senior circuit. But the old timers, like Hubbell and Hal Schumacher Schu-macher of the pennant-winning Giants, or. Dizzy Dean and Paul Derringer and Lon Warneke, did not provide the major portion of evidence. To be sure, the three generally aoosplad-fgesatsst'' sssewar im - the business were well represented. represent-ed. Hubbell, topping the won-lost won-lost records, showed 22 victories against sis defeats for a percentage per-centage of .788, and waa the loop's strikeout king with 159 "kayo" victims, but his earned run aver- Fette were Van Mungo at 2.91 (but with only nine wins against 11 defeats), de-feats), and Danny MacFayden. Boston's third reason for making a fight of the pennant chase. Danny had a 2.83. MacFayden Good With MacFayden as third man in that impressive flinging lineup, it was somewhat less than a pushover to keep those Boston Bees out of the first division. Setting the pace, Turner hurled 24 complete games, mora than any other pitcher in the league. And he and Fette, along with Lee Grissom, Cincinnati's freshman "strong boy," deadlocked for whitewashing honors, each twirling five shutouts. Hardest working elbowers, of course, were from Bandbox Baker bowl a couple of members of the Phillies' cast, Rookie Hugh Mul-cahy, Mul-cahy, who tied one of Christy Mathewson's 20-year-old records by appearing in 66 games, and Claude Passeau, who was out there for 292 innings and faced 1276 baiters. Mulcahy and Passeau, incidentally, incidental-ly, were the general and particular "cousins" of the loop's batters. The former handed out 87 walks. Paa-seau Paa-seau was tagged for most hits, 348; most runs, 158. and most earned runs, 141. Another of their mates. Rookie Wayne Lamaster, lost most games, 19. Hoyt Ranks High Cross-examining the figures otherwise: other-wise: Hubbell's won-lost percentage highest in league for second straight year. . . . Mace Brown, Pittsburgh's portly performer, broke a "freak" record by working 60 games, none complete. . . . Only no-hitter was Fred Frankhouse's 7 2-3 inning trick for Dodgers against Reds Au- Jim Turner ... He -leads In earned run averages with 2.3a tallies tal-lies per nine Innings. Ha plays for the Boston Bees. age, the barometer by which pitching effectiveness is measured, meas-ured, slipped to 3.19 per nine-Inning game, compared to hia pace-setting pace-setting 2.41 of 193. And Dizzy (remember him) Dean of the Cardinals and Van (Big Bad Boy) Mungo of the Dodgers, although al-though well up in the earned run department, were somewhat leas than world beaters In the won-lost columns. In fact, Dizzy was about as useful as a carload of Charley horses after July 15, and Mungo not only was finally suspended by "Boiling Boily" Grimes during the campaign, but wound up with a ess-than-.500 average for games won. Freshmen Hurlers Compare those records, then, to the neat job of work done by four rookies, headed by Turner, one-half one-half of the "old-man freshman com- gust 27. . . . Hubbell's eight-game winning streak at start of season, and Hollingsworth's eight losses in a row were year's extremes. . . . Hub's eight, tagged on 16 in 1936, gave him all-time run of 24 in row before Dodgers ended it. . . . Harry Gumbert, Giants, gave up most sacrifice sac-rifice hits, 26. . . . And old Waite - Hoyt, who split up his twentieth big leagua year between Pirates and Brooklyn, was still in there, with 13.42 earned run mark, fourteenth I in league |