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 Rh that they got their team in good working order, and then they played good ball beyond question, as many of their July and August games fully proved. The club closed the April campaign ahead of Pittsburgh, and in May had Boston and Chicago as close companions; but the handicapping they were subjected to early in the season could not be overcome, and the campaign of June and July saw the club low down in the second division. In August they got out of the last ditch and pushed the unlucky Washington club into the tail end place, their percentage figures on August 30th reaching .400. The team's best work was done in September, and they finished the campaign in eleventh place with a percentage of .400. Manager Barnie entered upon the campaign of 1893 with a difficult task before him, in making up a team which would suit the rather exacting class of patrons of Louisville. With the able assistance of Captain Pfeffer, however, he managed to get together a strong team, and one which did some excellent work during the campaign. But it had its weak points, which will doubtless be strengthened this year. The team quitted even with Cincinnati and Baltimore—the latter result pleasing Mr. Barnie—and had close fights with New York and Brooklyn, while they took the Washingtons into camp easily.

The record of the club for 1893 appears on page 32.

There is no city in the League circuit which affords better opportunities for the establishment of a first-class representative League club than does the city of Washington at this day. In fact, it is an exceptionally favored city for League club representation under first-class management and with grounds so fitted up as to court the high-class patronage the city can give. But thus far in the club's brief League history it has been lacking in both these important essentials: the club grounds, for one thing, not being above the standard of that of a minor League organization; and as regards the club government, the deficiency has been conspicuously apparent for the past two years. In fact, both Baltimore and Washington have been far behind the other eastern League clubs in respect to their lack of good ball grounds and the proper facilities for the encouragement of the best class of patronage which is at the command of the clubs of both cities if properly catered for. No club can be financially successful to any special extent which neglects to furnish its patrons with the best diamond