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 Rh fifth place with a percentage of .531, the best they did during the season. But by June 30th they were back in the second division again, with the figures at .471. They did not improve in July, as on the 31st of that month they stood in ninth place with the figures of .430 only. They improved a little in August, as on the 31st of that month they were in eighth place with the percentage figures of .462. They did their best work in September, but could not get higher than eighth place, where they stood at the end of the season, with a percentage of .462.

It may be said of the Baltimore club in 1893 that it was forced to occupy an experimental position in the race, Manager Hanlon not having had time to get a team together in '92, and it took him half the season of 1893 to get his team in anything like working order. The fact that his team defeated Brooklyn by ten games to two, and the Clevelands by eight games to four, showed the inherent strength of the team he got together last year. In fact Hanlon had a hard row to hoe in '93, but the good effects of his work of last year will show itself this year unless all anticipations fail. The Baltimore club was certainly better managed and had a stronger team of players last year than ever before. The club's record in full for 1893 appears on page 28.

The Chicago club, in 1893, was comparatively successful against their eastern club rivals; but they lost ground by the number of defeats sustained in their home-and-home series. Against the six eastern teams they scored 35 victories to 34 defeats; but in their games with their five western rivals they were charged with no less than 37 defeats, which were offset by but 21 victories; and this difference in results made their campaign a disastrous one on the whole, the club standing lower in position at the end of the season of 1893 than in any previous year since they entered the League. They began the season with a defeat, and though they ended the short April campaign even in won games, with a percentage of victories of .500, their May record ended with their occupancy of eleventh place in the race, with the low percentage figures of .385. They improved on this a little in June, but that month's campaign saw them in eleventh place again on June 30th, with the somewhat better percentage of .400. In July they got up a peg higher, and ended that month's campaign in tenth place, with a percentage of .423. They did not advance in August, as at