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 Rh games. The position the Washington club occupied in the campaign of 1893 can safely be said to be the result of the duo management which marked the government of the team. The veteran manager of the club ran the old League club of Buffalo for years with success, but in 1893, while in control—or part control, as alleged by the Washington scribes, of the Washington team he failed to meet the requirements of the local patrons. While good appointments for a club are, to a certain extent, as essential to the business success of a team as good management and a strong team, there is also one other requirement, and that is, an almost unanimous support of the club by the local scribes, and the magnates of a club who fail to secure this, by the excellence of their club government, fail in one important point in the running of their club. The Washington club of 1893 needed to learn this lesson, and the falling off of the patronage of the club in August and September made it impressive.

The art of pitching in base ball never received more attention from professional exemplars than was given it by the intelligent minority of the League pitchers of 1893. In fact, for the first time in League club history was skillful strategy, in delivering the ball to the bat, brought more into play as a point of excellence in the art, than ever before since professional base ball was inaugurated. The effective blow given to "cyclone" pitching by the new pitching rules which went into effect in 1893, while it did not materially affect the strategic class of pitchers—some of whom the new rules actually benefited—obliged the class of pitchers who depend solely upon their dangerous speed for success, to adopt strategic tactics to a more or less extent; and this is why a few of the old "cyclone" pitchers—as they are called—succeeded better than they had anticipated under the change made in the rules in 1893, which had placed them farther from the batsman than in 1892. Another thing in connection with the pitching of 1893, was that the more brainy class of men in the position began to pay more attention to the advice of the theorists of the game than before; and thereby they learned to realize the fact that strategic skill, thorough control of temper and the avoidance of the senseless kicking habit in vogue, had more to do with