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 32 let the manager have entire control of the team, or place the team in command of the captain and let the president or such other club official who thinks he knows how to run a team assume the responsibility of manager of the club. The players quickly find out whether the manager is boss, as Anson always has been, or the president of the club, as in the case of the well-known "boss manager" of St. Louis.

The record of the St. Louis club in full appears on page 31.

The old League club of the seventies had a rather unlucky experience in the opening months of their League championship campaign of 1893, inasmuch as bad weather prevented them from playing many of their scheduled games during May; besides which the first part of the season was largely experimental with them, and it was not until midsummer