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 Rh of that month they headed the second division with a percentage of .460, and they finished the July campaign in that position. They fell back in August, and on the 31st of that month were in ninth place with a percentage of .439. In September they allowed the Chicagoes to lead them, and the end of the season saw them in tenth place with a percentage of .432. Taking the season altogether it was the best one they had had since Comiskey left them with a four-times-winner's record in the old association; Manager Watkins having done very well with the team under the usual St. Louis handicapping arrangement of official interference.

It may be here remarked that the St. Louis club has for years been handicapped by official interference with its team manager. Mr. Von der Ahe ought, by this time, to have learned the costly nature of interfering with the team manager's control of his men. Of what use is it going to the expense of engaging a regular manager of a club team while you practically nullify his work by allowing club officials to interfere with his government of the team? Either