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Show THREE SHUTOUT AMERICAN GAMES Ban Johnson' Circuit Gets Better Pitching Than the National. By H. C. Hamilton United Press Staff Carres pendent. NEW YORK. Juna S. Hammering three more notches Into their record today with three shutout games, the American league Is maintaining a stretch of pitching In ths present season sea-son tpat for effectiveness has known no parallel. The Ban Johnson circuit Is getting better pitching than the National league. Thirty-eight shutouts, all told, have been marked up to tha credit of American . league fllngers so far. Twenty-one Is the best Tenor's circuit can produce. Ninety-five postponed games have cluttered up the averagea ao far and they have been about evenly divided, so. ths National league atara have had Just aa much opportunity to turn in bors collar records -as have th American leaguers. Of th four no-hit games which have been registered this season, three of them have been filed away In the archives of the American league csar. Three one-hit games hav made their appearance, and they all have bean proclaimed from American league hurling hurl-ing mounds. Th only place th National Na-tional leaguer hav shown any predominance pre-dominance I in th number of two-hit pastimes, where they have Inserted nine In their records to seven In th American. ' ' A gllmps back over th records of former years, sines the American leagu Joined In with the organized faction of baseball, give th younger circuit th hulg by aeveral oounta. That period gives the American league a total of twenty-four no-hit games, while it allot only eighteen to National league sharpshooters. The one-hit contests lean to th National league. Tha American has grabbed off 104 of these pastimes to 112 by the National, but tha American leaps back to prominence again with th two-hit counters with a record of SOI, as against 2S4 by th National mound art lata. |