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Show NO RECORD OF' 191 2 GAMES TO APPEAR No record of the games won and lost by American league pitchers will appear ap-pear in the official averages compiled for the baseball season of 1913, according ac-cording to a statement of President Johnson here last night. "I am opposed to the present methods meth-ods of rating hurlers," said Johnson, "and the won and lost column will be absent in the next batch of pitching figures sent out from my office "Instead of having the pitchers arranged ar-ranged according to their victories and defeats, it is my intention to have them rated according to the number of runs that arc earned off them. The details of the new plan have not been worked out, but the present method will be forsaken for all time. "I intend to put an export at work to evolve a satisfactory formula and expect to have one ready by the opening open-ing of the season." |