Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, leader in five phases of hurling during 1937, today announced that he had rejected a contract of $15,000 to sign on again with the Yankees for the coming baseball season.
He said the. sum "was not enough by a long way for a man who led the American League in strikeouts, earned runs, completed games and shutouts."
Official pitching records of the American League for 1937, released recently, devote most of their arithmedical praises to the Yankee pitching ace.
After two years of drab perfor manees, Gomez last season again sealed the pitching heights he had achieved in 1934, when he won 26 and lost only 5, and turned in an earned run average of 2.33
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