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Show SHMEY LEADS I UfRLEIIS Coveleskie Finished in Second Place During 1920 Season: Shocker Is Third ! The leading pitcher of the year was ! Robert Sbawkey of New York who worked in :iS games. jr.T innings, and allowed but 'i3 runs for an average of .lt( for each full game of nine ln-nings. ln-nings. Stanley Coveleskie, premier j hurler of the champion Cleveland team Was Becond with an earned mn 'average of 2.48, Coveleskie appeared! I in 41 battles, worked ?, 1 ." Innings and, allowed R7 riinsi' frb.in Shocker, Si : Louts, followed the Indian star with aj 2.7 averaH sained in 3S games. 24 InninEs in which opponents counted 74, 1 1 incs Edwin Rommel ud David E. Kccf,-, two young stars of the Athletics Were fourth and sixth with averages of 2.S4 and ' 'J7 respectively. James p, Bsg- ; v . ihe Cleveland veteran w ho led the 'league in number of games won 31.! holds fifth position. His opponents gleaned 2,89 runs per game from his deceptive delivery in 3to rounds i:ag-jiiy i:ag-jiiy pitched In more games 4X than any other hurler and also in more innings. Carl Mays of New Vim, appeared in 1 43 contests, winning 26 and losing li, I finishing second to liagby on tin basis of games won and loit. Mays pitched 312 Innings and gave 8.06 earned runs er game. Coveleskie was also soCOpd in games won and lost being victor 24 rimes and losing II. Urban l-'aber of Im ago whs forth in the won and lost column, winning 23 and losing 13, standing seventh in the earned run table ta-ble with an average of 2 99 in 40 games. Faber was second in Uagby in Innings pitched, 31H. Kerr of Chicago was third to Bagby and Mays in the won i nd lost record winning 'l land losing 9. i Hesids Rommel and Keefe, Walter- , Malls of Cleveland. W illiam Burwell and William Payne of St. Louis, War- ren 'olllns Of N'ew York, Jose Acosta, Washington iiari Courtney, Washington Wash-ington and Bryan Harris of Philadelphia Philadel-phia were other newcomers who performed per-formed brilliantly, EHmer Myers, 'transferred from Cleveland to P.oston in mId-8CaSOIl, closed the year with a run of nine straight victories. on |