The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-17
averages Compiled by Irwin NJ
Howe, Chicago, Statistician oi
American League.)


In &c of the 61s American league
games of last season, the losing team
drew a blank, and in IL of those the
winners made virtue of necessity
and left the field happy with total
of one lone run to show for the after
Moons labor
Many odd facts stand out prom
inently when the shut outs of the
season are analysed. The eighth place
Boston team engaged in &c contests
in which the loser failed to score
and in 10 of these games the Red
Sox were returned winners Thus, the
supposedly weak pitchers of the
Duffy clan succeeded in blankine
their opponents more often than the
strong staff of the champion New
York team did theirs, the Yankee
hurle-s registering but seven shut
outs, the same number of games that
the champions themselves were let
down without run. Three of the
Boston victories were gained while
the Red Sox batters were scoring a
single tally, the winning pitchers be-
ing Pennock, Piercy and Quinn.
Johnson's Great Record
Washington BANKED rivals IS
games, in three of which the Ma
tionals were held to one run by OPP
posing pitchers. All of these games
were won by Walter Johnson, the
speed king being the only pitcher IN
the league to win more than one
one-to-nothing game. Washington
was in turn BANKED IL times, four
of these battles being one run vic
tories for the winners. Shawkey,
Pennock, Morton and Piercy were the
winners. Plainly, failure to hit in
the pinches" was a glazing weakness
of the Washington team.
The Cleveland Indians BANKED op-
ponents IA Jimes, five of these VIC
tories going to the credit of George
uhle, three to Coveleskie, three to
Morton and one each to Mails and
Boone.
White SOx Tied
The White sox were tied with
Washington for the second largest
number of victorious shutouts, 10,
led the league in percentages, being
BANKED but eight times. Faber and
Leverette turned four of these vic
tories each, while another was the
famous mo hit, no run, no man to
reach first" triumph of Robertson
over the heavy hitting Tigers.
Each OF their seven rivals blanked
the champions once-and no more,
while the Yankee slabmen evened the
count by whitewashing Cleveland,
Washington and Philadelphia each
twice and St. Louis once. Hoyt and
Shawkey were on the large end of
two to-nothing games
Two Extra Inning Shutouts
Only two of the rs shutouts went
more than nine rounds; Boone of
Cleveland banking Washington in -
| i,,r, INC xrrIf1
ton went 10 rounds to beat Chicago,
both scores being twot o-nothing.
The champion Yankees engaged tn
is overtime games. winning IL and
losing Z. OF their II victories, four
were at the expense of st. Louis and
as they finished but one game ahead
of the Browns at the end of the
season the Importance of these four
games seems larger than usual. Babe
Ruth's first home run of the year.
off Vangilder, on May %, helped to
prolong the game which the Yankees
took in the thirteenth by a score of
4 to 3.
White Sox Had Spirit
|. Far exceeding any other team in
the number of engagements, and
standing next to New York in per-
centage of overtime victories comes
1IICdSO, with 80 SduHeS, 10 NlctOTl eS
and IL defeats. How thoroughly Man
ager Gleason imbued his charges with
his own indomitable spirit is shown
by the fact that IL of the White
Sox extra inning victories were at
the expense of first division teams.
while they lost but seven to the same
clubs.
Though in eighth place most of the
season, Boston won of 8 long dis
lance matches, while Washington,
though supplied with pitchers who
allowed fewer earned runs, until near
the close of the season, than any
other staff, marked up but three ex-
ira inning victories, while losing
eight. The rejuvenated Athletics won
half of their 10 long games, giving
them fourth place in this table.
Extra Inning Games
Sixty-five extra inning battles, to-
gether with "A shutouts. make a total
of 139 games in which the result was
either most uncertain or else con-
stantly featured by team and indl-