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Show PORTSIDER BEST HURLER IN A. L. Garland Braxton Was Most Effective in 192S. K. Garland Kraxton, whom everybody every-body overlooked while admiring performances per-formances of Crowder and Iloyt nnJ Hubert Moses Grove, was the American Amer-ican league's leading pitcher In 192S. While the angular Washington southpaw won only 13 games and lost 11, which Isn't so impressive, his earned run average the best thing yet devised as a criterion of a pitcher's pitch-er's worth was only 2."- per cine-inning cine-inning game. This means that ar:y time the Nuts went out and got three runs behind Braxton, provided they didn't kick in a few more, they would win, writes Gordon CobbledicU, in the Cleveland News. That be lost 11 decisions de-cisions is merely a commentary on the Washington club's ability to got three runs. It was the second year In succession in which Braxton has yielded less than three earned runs a game, so he must be a pretty fair sort of pitcher. On the basis of games won atid lost, Gen. Alvin Crowder of the St. Louis Browns was the lending burler. He won 21 and lost 5, for a percentage of .SOS, but he was well clown In the earned run column, with an average of 3.G0 per game. Waite Iloyt, mainstay of the Yankees Yan-kees in their successful pennant drive. E. Garland Braxton. was a half jump behind Crowder in victories and defeats, with a record of .767, but be led the Brownies' ace in earned runs, with 3.37. The official American league averages, aver-ages, made public recently, reveal the interesting fact that, in spite of the scarcity of good southpaws, three men who dish them up with the left arm were at the top, and practically in a class by themselves, in effectiveness. They were Braxton, 2.1)2 ; Pennock, 2.56, and Grove, 2.57. Their nearest rival among the right-handers who pitched 100 innings or more was old Sad Sam Jones, Braxton's teammate at Washington, who limited the opposition oppo-sition to 2.S4 earned runs per game. The league's biggest winners were Grove and Pipgras, each of whom won 24 games, and Hoyt, who won 23. Hudlin led the Cleveland boxmen with 14 victories, while Shaute bad 13 and Utile 12. Pipgras, the young Yankee righthander right-hander was the year's iron man. He pitched 301 innings of baseball, the equivalent of 33 complete games. He took part in 40 games altogether, which was only two less than Fred Marberry. the famous Washington finisher. |