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Rh The record of the series with each club is as follows:

The champions won all of their series with the eastern teams, but only four out of six with the western, as they had to be content with a tie series with the Cincinnati club, and only won four out of the ten played with the Pittsburghs. This latter series cannot be charged as lost, as the Bostons had the chance left them to tie the score. When a series is not won by the winning of 7 out of 12, if it be left unfinished no lost series can be charged. Two series were left unfinished and one was tied, the champions winning nine out of the eleven played, something no other club did.

The table showing the victories and defeats of the champions, in the form of "shut outs" or "Chicago" games, together with that of the games won and lost by a single run, is as follows:

The champions, it will be seen, were not very successful in "Chicagoing" their opponents, as they only won two games in that way, while they lost five, the Pittsburghs twice shutting them out by 13 to 0 and 8 to 0, while the Cincinnati team did the trick by 6 to 0, the Chicagoes by 3 to 0, and the Louisvilles by 3 to 0, the champions whipping the Chicagoes by 7 to 0 and the Phillies by 4 to 0.

The Boston team won no less than 19 games by a single run and lost 12 by one run, the majority of victories and