Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
LEADING PITCHERS IN OLD DAYS
MADE SOME BRILLIANTR RECORDS
Pitching as Many as Seventy-Odd Games in
Single Season, They Had Winning
Percentages of Over ZOO.

keefe was an artist. Like Radbourne and
Clarkson, he knew what good slow ball
meant. and he worked it with glittering
success; yet he had tremendous speed
and perfect control. One of his fast
shoots nearly killed John Burdock in
Boston that year, which caused Sir Tim
othy to bride his speed in a measure the
rest OF the campaign. keefe had a star
many veteran critics the best backstop
that ever donned a mask They worked
together like clockwork. and science was
never lacking.
pitchers in 1890. the Brotherhood year,
when the National League was a wreck
Ihfs did not mean that Lovett was not q
hrst-class boxman. however, for he had
a percentage Of .73s for forty-two games
Bill Hutchinson of the Chicagos car
ried OFF the honors in 1891 with sixty
three games and $685. but Ansons team
did not win the championship.
The BostOns had a gigantic pitcher,
physically, in Jack Stivetts. who worked
percentage of .7O2. Kid Nichols, how
ever, pitched fifty-one games for Boston
that year, but his percentage was only
1856. Still. all things considered. Nichols
was probably the better man, as he was
steadier and possessed more headwork.
Frank killen, a left-hander, was the
leagues leader in 1893. He was mem
Der Of the Pittsburg team. and pitched
forty-four games for percentage OF
.772.
When the Giants finished second in
1894 and then won the Temple cup from
the champion Baltimores in the post
season series, Jouett Meekin and Amos
Rusie electrified New York fans by their
wonderful pitching. Meekin led with a
percentage of 100 for forty-seven games,
but Rusie was not far behind him. Rusie.
for that matter was generally regarded
at that time as the best pitcher in the
country, and he led the league in 1897
with percentage of 1874 for thirty-seven
games
Hoffer of the Baltimores topped the
pitchers in 1895 and 1896. In the former
season he pitched thirty-seven games for
:3s4; and in the latter he took part In
thfrty-f1ve games for 1923.
Lewis of the Bostons led in 1898. with
thirtyfour games and 1851, and Jimmy
Hughes, Californian, dug up ~ Ned
Hanlon, helped the Brooklyns to win the
four games and a percentage of 1913.
1t was in the following year that Iron
Man McGinnity attracted much atten-
ton by pitching forty-one games for .769
for the Brooklyns, who won the pen
nant again.
Then Happy jack Chesbro led the
league in 1901 and 1902 while member
of the Pittsburgs, his records being
thirty games and 200 and thirty-three
games and SIS. respectively. Later, when
IueIH DeT VI the f1lS SHcSuIO
hung up a record of fourteen consecutive
victories. which was equaled by Reul-
bach of the Chicago Cubs last year.
Clarke Griffith. with the Chicago White
Sox in 1901. led the American League
twirlers with thirty-one games and a per-
centage Of ia.
Sam Lever of the Pittsburgs was the
National Leagues star pitcher in 1903.
with thirty-six games and a percentage
of .7S1. Lever was with the Pirates last
year, but his days appeared to be nearly
over
McGinnity pitched fifty-one games for
the Giants in 1904 and won 81.4 per cent
of them. Mathewson, in the same year,
worked In forty-eight games for .733. and
the Giants won the pennant with los vic-
tories and A defeats, and 1913 percentage.
Lever Of Pittsburg led in 1905 with
thirty-three games and 800.
The Chicago Cubs won three pennants
in succession after that. and Reulbach
carried off top honors each year, with
thirty-three games and .S26. twenty-seven
games and $40 and thirty-one games and
TIA.
Last year Mathewson and H. Camnitz,
the Pittsburg slabman. were tied for first
honors in the National League. with
thirty-seven and forty-one games, re-
spectively. and a percentage of .SO6.
Mullin of the Detroit Tigers was the
leading American League pitcher last
year. with .7S4 for thirty-seven games,