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Show MAIhlWuUIi HAu ylftLiiI luLuUflWiii Has Taken One Hundred Games Leads Hurlers With Record of 372 Victories. It Is somewhat of a distinction to have won moro than 100 ball games in tho' major loagues. If you don't believo it, Just take a slant at the complete com-plete records of all the hurlers now holding meal tickets in the two majors, ma-jors, and you will find only thirteen pitchers who have 100 or more victories victo-ries to their credit Christy Mathewson may essay to add a few moro wins to his long string of 372 victories. And Matty may well be proud of his record, for he is the only pitcher In baseball today who has more than 300 wins to his credit. There are only threo pitchers in the game who havo passed tho 200 mark. Including Matty, they are Plank of tho Browns and Walter Johnson of the Nationals. Na-tionals. Plank has pltchod 298 victories vic-tories in tne major leagues and Johnson John-son has como off the winner 228 times. Ed Walsh, now retired, shot his bolt aftor ho had won 195 games and lost 125 for the White Sox. Included in tho list of tho "select thirteen" Is Joe Wood, who will attempt at-tempt to come back with the Clove-land Clove-land club this year. Smoky Joo has won 117 games and lost fifty-six during dur-ing his career, and If tho good old souper is really the effective souper of old, Joe may realize his ambition to pitch 200 or more winning ball games. Figuring that the pitching art is developed de-veloped to a finer point today than at any time in the history of the game, it Is easy to see tho groat value of one pitcher who can stand the gaff from season to season until he has hit the century mark in games won. The average pitcher in the big leagues is lucky if he sticks that long, and the per cent of pitchers who do is very small, as the figures show. Here is the list of the "charrged thirteen," taken from the records: Pitchers. Won. Lost. Pet Mathowson 372 189 .663 Plank 298 173 .663 Johnson 228 150 .603 Reulbach 161 95 .629 Alexander 160 75 .681 Ames i 156 136 .534 Coombs 144 80 .626 Marquard 118 84 584 Wood 117 56 .676 Sallee 115 111 .500 Cicotte 114 S5 .573 Scott 103 101 49S Tosreau 102 60 .630 : |