Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-01-01
SPORTS
PITCHER SAM TEEVER
HAS GRAND RECORD
IN THE NATIONAL GAME

Pittsburg, Dec. lb.--Samuel Lever,
for eight years pitcher of the Pitts
burg team, is a man Of education and
refinement. Levers first profession.
Al engagement was with Richmond
Va. in the Atlantic league. In 1897.
His first game was shut.out victory.
the score being & to o. though do not
remember the name Of the opposing
team. He did fine work all season
and finished with a record of twenty
victories and fifteen defeats-a per
centage Of 81
The steadiness and cleverness
which has always characterized his
work was even then In evidence, and
he was considered the most reliable
pitcher On the team, the others being
Jack Chesbro. Henry Schmidt, Otis
Stockdale and Stimmel, all well
known names In the world of base.
ball. Manager Jake Wells. who, by
the way. is great Judge Of young
pitchers. succeeded In keeping Lever
from being drafted and saved him from
the big league for q year.
The next season Lever was even
more effective. and In nineteen games,
won fourteen. lost -four and tied one.
His arm was sore good part OF the
season, hence the small number of
games he pitched.
His remarkable work, which includ
ed the giving of but twcnty-four bases
on balls and striking out sixty-four
mon caused him to be bought by the
pittsburg team.
He only pitched one full game for
Pittsburg In 1898, but that one was a
victory. In 1899 he worked In forty
two games, winning twenty. losing
twenty-one and tying one, for ass per
cent. This was plenty good enough for
hrst-year man to hold his job and
there were plenty OF high-class per-
formers among the lot. He ranked
twenty-seventh among fifty-one pitch
ers who went fifteen or more games.
Next year he began his really great
work. and he annexed fifteen games,
losing twelve per cent. $50. ranking
ninth In thirty-four pitchers. Then. IN
1891. though handicapped by n sore arm
part OF the time, Lever won fourteen
games, lost FIVE. achieved the mark OF
1877 and took first rank among thirty
three pitchers. Though Sam put If
teen games on the right side In 1902
and lost but seven for a percentage oil
.GS2, he ranked as low as seventh
among thlrty-nine pitchers. The goods
were still In that arm, though, for In
twcnty-four contests that year, he gave
hut twenty-nine passes and famed
cighty-siy batters.
In 1903 we come to the high mari;
of Levers performances. and In thir-
ty-si> iull games be won twenty-five
lost seven and tied and was taken oui
Of fonr. This percentage of .7Sl again
gave him first rank. this time aniona
thirty-three pitchers.
In 1904, after winning the pennant
three times, the entire Pittsburg team
slumped and Levers record suffered
along with all the others.
Al that. though. he won eighteen
games and lost eleven. for percentag,
OF .62l, while the team only averaged
500, showing how much better Leeve
was than the corps as a whole. II,
came into his own again In 1905 ant
played in thirty-three games, OF which
President Pulliam gives him credit TO
twenty wins with five losses, the re
markable figures of 800 again givini
MIN first place among forty-nine slal
artists. And. now for the past season
the professor has kept up his phenom
email work and In thirty-six games h,
II credited with TWENTY-FIVE wins an'
Soy en- defeats. per cent. .75) and raj
Of third place among forty pitcher
being eXcelled only by the clubs pre-
In'er artists, Brown and Rculharh
Summing up this ten-yeaf 'aGGll t.
pru of natures roblemcn. we it'd TIA
he ha, won lS4 games. while ~ hay
gone The wrong way, swing him n per
centagc OF 1852 sor his 81 yv.iS " .,
,rSsiT.a' ball. His !. ,tohe' .ca.g,l
rH,'". ~ even better. ~ In The citl
y',rs time lie has W 4 1850 AL -,
% pdrcs. making AZ, aTclHec c. III
which H. not eQualed by ANY atn,
pitcher in the san . time.