| Show POOR YEAR FOR I ITHE THE TUE SPIT BALL Only Two Who od Upon Slant Fared Farad W WOI t LEGISLATION NECESSARY or TIt TIlt CI sit I Is liT II I It look a it If against the spitball might lot be ry Ina tsp much is I two 0 were wre I able ble to 10 win halt half of their cam games last I year its III Ut the American league only one lid 14 Ut the pitching marvel marvet bel being ibis to 10 beat the half hair way ay mark by ly means nil ot of his hili great reat speed and nel mar control of 01 th the Itter kd hd the t he American league pitchers with 40 vic victori Ic tori and 15 defeats while Harry Row How Howell ell elI of 01 the Browns broke even with 1 15 victories and nil many defeats although pitching for fora a club that came within an or of winnIng the pennant lost 17 mid and won 18 11 while Ol Glen n Liebhardt of the Naps Nape w was Just one pane game shy hy of splitting even n and nd h be a tam that won un th the bunting behind him at t that Cy Morgan Moan and ad MannIng were ere two that did well con Manning wits we with a taU tall end nd dub club ret reth et eth h won II 11 anti and lot bat I IC games m while Mor Mm Morn gan n with a second division db dab won wonIs on Is II and lost 14 Of aU all the molt moist fling deliverers Orth Winter and Lake 1110 fared Ih the worst ot Orth won only two game out of lb 16 while Winter won on but five out of Z 24 and nd he about a dosen games m for lor De troit a of that lake Ik won nine and nel lost tl II In the list nal that I is appended the reo re records cords Corel of the II 11 are re yen That record shows that the won pm games and nd lost an awe ap of 15 showIng that had bad all n tM the wet 1 good merchants been bean assembled milled Oil 01 that team lam would uld have fin finished In Ih the second division Lack Lak of nl control w was th the greatest fault tault of the pit bill ban pitch pitchers But It th three of nf them Walsh Walh Winter and Orth are an Walsh Walh did not aver average a apan pass pan to 10 a game am although h he hit nine men and nel unloaded ten Ilin wild pitches Winter and Orth onh dId hot 1101 averl average two passes pau to C a game while Winter want through the without a wild pitch Jimmy Dygert of the Athletics Wat wa tn the leading wild men with 97 57 pass 21 hit and Iv five wild Aad he I Is credited with pitching only NIly M JI mutes it at that Morgan lor pitching It I pm games separated himself from SO 10 passes 10 hit and aud seven eft wild pitches pitch Manning led tI the tA in hitting bat batters harpOOning 11 2 or on more chore than Howell with 11 to his eNd credit It led In wild pitches Al AI Altogether together th lb II one on of oC I whom hom pitched but It 14 1 hit batemen Issued 17 11 on helix balls and ad mae made 71 11 wIld pItches on in avera average of 01 SI It pitching errors for lor each I ITo To thie record might be I added th the large laree number of haiti and In infield field errors error that might be attributed to the spit bail baU bailIn In the following table pitchers lk Br Berger r Mullin Check and oth others II used the only ar are not nol considered J Pitcher W L lct IU J WJ WI Walsh Walh t 45 II 11 TIT 7 I II 1 IS howell 11 1 11 1 MIl W 17 11 TI IS S 8 SP P Is Smith 18 IT 17 I 1 72 11 T 7 LIbhardt 11 1 18 t I 1 81 T 7 Morgan II 1 n 14 20 10 IS III T 7 Manning annl 11 10 H 24 11 1 31 5 I S 8 tl t 3 43 41 f 4 11 15 11 C U 11 11 7 I U 14 31 41 JC 14 ff 57 II 11 c P 13 11 tell 3 to 10 I Lake S 9 II 21 PUS P II 77 17 7 r 15 20 7 H 41 0 Oi t 2 11 C 4 10 1 Totals Total Ui 71 |
