SUMMARY RECORD.
The leading pitcher of each of the twelve clubs against the six clubs of each section, in percentage of victories pitched in, by those who occupied the box in 10 games and over, is given in the following table:
——————————————————————————————————- BALTIMORE. AGAINST THE EASTERN CLUBS. AGAINST THE WESTERN CLUBS Percent. of Percent. of Pitchers. Victories. Pitchers. Victories ——————————————————————————————————-
McMahon .706 McMahon .811
NEW YORK.
Meelin .778 Rusie .889
BOSTON.
Nichols .756 Stivetts .763
PHILADELPHIA.
Taylor .625 Taylor .778
BROOKLYN.
Stein .692 Stein .650
CLEVELAND.
Sullivan .600 Cuppy .778
PITTSBURGH.
Gumbert .471 Killen .769
CHICAGO.
Griffith .625 Griffith .667
ST. LOUIS.
Breitenstein .448 Breitenstein .609
CINCINNATI.
Parrott .500 Dwyer .588
WASHINGTON.
Mercer .294 Maul .636
LOUISVILLE. Hemming .250 Hemming .429 ——————————————————————————————————-
It will be seen that Rusie leads all the pitchers against the Western teams and Meekin all against the Eastern teams, Rusie having the highest individual percentage of victories against a single section.
There can be no really reliable criterion of a pitcher's skill, as judged by the data of his averages, until the figures of runs earned off the pitching solely by base hits, and not by base hits and stolen bases, and the errors they lead to combined, as is the case under the defective scoring rules in existence in 1894. To call a run scored by a combination of base hits and stolen bases is unjust to the pitcher, while judging his pitching by the percentage of victories pitched is only less faulty; but the latter is the better criterion of skill than that of earned runs, as calculated on the basis of the rules of 1894.