The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-20
PITCHING RECORDS
 OF FEDERAL LEAGUE
 ARE NOT BELOW PAF
Mcconnell Leads With Cul, Top SecOnd-Fewer Runs Were Scored Off
 Plank

The weak spot of the Freder,f ,e..r
 Is commonly attributed to tho ,,,,h;,., "ep"f f'"ent' This. however. can hard,
 " be so, for the indiyidua, rscora.
 oh the tsviriers for the past se.so, .rI
 exceptionally good. About onethird of the nitcbers i;
 the league hurled over 800 ball vbicl
 is considered good percentage. McConl
 ei oi the pennant winning Chica sd
 'eaih' leads, losing only 10 while bd 1 'e'uihed victories in 25. His nearesl conhpetitor was Nick Cu1Iop of Kansa l; oity' who won 22 and lost but II
 Reuibach of Newark takes tb;r,A honors,, winning 21 and losing 1oh
 While Eddie Plank. the former st, 5 plteher of organized baseball. rank I 1ourth, winning 21 and losing IL chieh
 oehoer Jared miserably. winning bua While he met defeat in 16. The In t ei eian possessed none of his former efn ti.S,rN sehess ana when released by Bal 4 tlnofe near the end of the season il was seen that the days of the fovmeI star were over. george Suggs, Russel Ford and otb < CT former organized baseball ,starsi
 Jared poorly, winning but few of theiJ, contests. Otis Crandall, the formel 1lant did not follow this rule bna
 ranked fifth in the league. winning 9 ana meeting defeat on 15 occasions.
 davenport of St. Louis proved to h,
 the Iron man of the league. pitchjner 90 games. Of this number he complete6'
 9i' s. lie pitched 393 innings, leadiner n nis nearest competitor, Crandall with 'IZ innings. by a wide margin. Crandall was touched up for the mos mus by the opposing batsmen, 309 be Ing fe1stered off his delivery. Daven port was next with 299, while Huele bedient of Buffalo was third with 2Sf
 Moran of. Pittsburg was the wild man or the league, hitting IS battersi ochultz Of Buffalo issued the most
 passes, walking 145 batters Bailey ot Chicago was second with l24 a Davenport also led in the number etl patsmen struck out. The St. Loutsi finger famed 22S opposing battersi schultz was second with 160 and Mel Connell of Chicago third with 149. G. Johnson of Kansas City made the1 most wild pitches with 13. Hendrix of Chicago was second with Il. Balks were numerous Fourteens pitchers committed balks during thes
 season. Five made two, while the re \
 malnder made only one. In propor-- ton this easily surpassed the Ameri-S can and National league flingers-l which is some honor Eddie Plank allowed fewer earned 1 runs per game than any other pitch -s CT. Sixty runs were earned off hint during the 269 innings that he occupied ! the mound, being an average Of 2.O1' runs per game Mcconnell was second With 2.O5. Seaton of Newark allowed the most earned runs with 1O4, while. Ehmke of Buffalo brought up the rear
 with an average of 5.27 runs per gamei
 Thus, since it is seen that the pitch Y CTS are now below par while the bat \ ters and fielders are far above the. standard, the real reason why the< Feds are not classed on equal termsss
 with the American and National
 leagues remains a mystery. The onlys logical reason that can possibly bel
 given is that the entire league is far5
 below the standard of organized base,
 ball.