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 Rh campaign ended, its percentage figures got down to .484, and it had a hard struggle to retain sixth place in the race and all this was due entirely to dissipation in the club ranks indulged in by a small but prominent minority of its team players. It is not surprising therefore when, at the end of the September campaign, with the team tied with the Cincinnatis for sixth place, the club officials became tired of the plan of condoning drinking offenses, and proceeded, for the first time in its history, to make it costly for the offenders, and especially so for the leading culprit of the team. Good management, with the result of thorough team work in the club ranks, are, of course, essentials for pennant winning clubs; but above all stands temperance in its ranks, and it is this lesson which the Brooklyn club learned at great financial cost in 1893. Will it profit by it in the near future? is the question. Messrs. Byrne and Abel say the club will do so, but nous verrons.

The Brooklyn club found the six western clubs easier to defeat than their five eastern rivals, the club winning