OCR Text |
Show COOPER MAKES FINE RECORD Pirate Pitcher Turned in Seventeen Victories This Year Charged With Eleven Defeats. Just how good a pitcher AVilhur Cooper of the Pirates is illustrated by the fact that the star of the Smoky City team's staff turned in 17 victories this year. As he is charged with 11 defeats, he has an average of .COS, compiling this mark while pitching for a team that finished In last place with an average of .3"1. Cooper alone won nearly a third of the Pirates' victories for them and would hae made an even more Impressive record had his support been better. Only five pitchers In the National league won more games this year than Cooper did. They are Schtipp, Sallee, Alexander. Toney and Yuuirhn, and with tlx exception of Yaughn, all were on first division clubs. Cooper nbly fllls Al Mnmaux's shoes us the best of the Pirate pitching corps. |