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 Rh the Phillies leading with .651 on July 13th, while the Bostons stood at .635, and the Brooklyns at .565. The Bostons retained second place up to July 27th, when they went to the front with a percentage of .649 to their credit, the Phillies being second with .640 and Pittsburgh third with .579, the Brooklyns having fallen off badly through drunkenness in their ranks. Boston kept in the van to the end of the July campaign, they ending the month with their percentage figures at .667, followed by the Phillies and the Pittburghs. By this time it had almost become a foregone conclusion that the Bostons would win the pennant, and it became a surety by the 19th of August, on which date the Bostons' percentage figures reach .701, the Pittsburghs, in the interim, having jumped into second place in consequence of the bad tumble made by the Phillies, who, about this time, lost the services of their noted out-fielder and crack base runner, Hamilton, who was taken seriously ill. The Bostons ended the August campaign as virtual champions, August 31st seeing them still in the van with a percentage of .698 to Pittsburgh's .594, and the Phillies' .581; Cleveland, New York and Brooklyn being the other three of the six leaders.

The Boston club touched the highest point of their season in percentage figures on September 11th, when they stood at .717 to Pittsburgh's .602 and Philadelphia's .588; New York and Brooklyn at this time struggling hard to beat each other out in the race. After then the Boston team played rather carelessly, and they fell off in their work to such an extent that on the 23d of September they had lowered their percentage figures down to .669, and finally finished the September campaign with a percentage of but .662, the Pittsburghs being second with .628 and Cleveland third with .570, the Phillies having taken another tumble, to fourth place, with but .558 to their credit, New York being fifth with .515. Cincinnati and Brooklyn tied for sixth place at .508, the former having the best of it through their leading Brooklyn by eight victories to four in their series together. Drunkenness by a minority of the champion team caused trouble in the Boston team in September, and the offenders were penalized for their escapade.

The campaign of 1893 was marked by a very uneven race, the difference in the percentage points between the leading club and the tail ender at the finish standing at .359, there being no less than six better contested pennant races in the League record between 1881 and 1893, as will be