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 Rh Brooklyn being then second and Boston third on that date. The club retained its lead up to June 12th, when the Brooklyn team went to the front with a percentage of .622 to Boston's .615 and Pittsburgh's .595, the "Pirates"—not of Penzance, but of Pittsburgh—being forced back to third place in the race at that date. The club then began to lose more ground, and by the 23d of June it had got down to fifth place, where it remained to the end of the June campaign, the position of the six leaders on June 30th showing the Phillies, Boston and Brooklyn clubs tied for first place, each with a percentage of victories of .654, while the Clevelands stood fourth with .553 and the Pittsburghs fifth with .491, the New Yorks occupying sixth place with .472. The early part of the July campaign saw the Pittsburghs still in fifth position in the race, but on the 12th of July they began to rally for the lead, and by the 24th of that month they had worked up to third place, a position the club retained up to the end of the July campaign, at which time the Bostons held the lead with .667 in percentage points, the Phillies being second with .620 and the Pittsburghs third with .582, the next three being respectively Cleveland, Brooklyn and Cincinnati. By this time the championship had virtually been secured by the Bostons and the further interest in the race centered upon the struggle for second place, and it was by this time a foregone conclusion that but three clubs other than the Bostons were in the race as far as the first three positions were concerned, and these three were the Phillies, the Pittsburghs and the Clevelands. The whole interest in the August campaign, therefore, centred in the fight between this trio. By the 15th of August the Pittsburghs had worked up to second position, leaving the Phillies third; but by the 17th of the month, the Clevelands had overhauled the Phillies and taken their place. Then it was that the Philadelphians made a spurt to recover their lost ground, but injuries to some of their players, after they had got back to third place, enabled Cleveland to replace them in that position for a while; but the closing day of the August campaign saw the Quakers once more in third place, the percentage figures on August 31st showing the Pittsburghs second with .594, the Phillies third with .581 and the Clevelands fourth with .544; New York and Brooklyn being fifth and sixth respectively.

Now came the last monthly campaign of the season, that of September, and with the eastern teams due to play in the West, Pittsburgh and Cleveland stock began to improve