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 GRAND TOTAL.

Rusie troubled the Clevelands the most, as he did in 1892, while in the east he was most successful against the Brooklyns. Pittsburgh hit him hard, however. German was the most successful against his old club, the Baltimores, in the east, and against the St. Louis Browns in the west. Three of the eastern teams and two of the western did not win a game against him. In fact, German and Wilson were the best working team of the New York batteries in 1893. The trouble with Rusie was his not having a catcher to suit him half the time. He did his most effective pitching with Milligan behind the bat. Baldwin troubled the Bostons most in the east and the Cincinnatis in the west, Unluckily, this fine pitcher's uncontrolled temper is dead against him in his box work; in all other respects his pitching is up to a high mark. Donahue, Foreman, Jones and Schmidt did not add a single victory to the club record against the six western teams, and Davies but one, and not one of them pitched in a victory against the five eastern teams, while they aggregated ten defeats out of eleven games pitched in. In fact, the pitching experiments of the New York club in 1893, with one exception, were dead failures. The record in full appears on page 46.

THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD.

The Cincinnati club experimented with nine pitchers in 1893 and at considerable cost in loss of games, there being but four of the nine who did not pitch in more defeats than victories. Darby—who did not pitch against an eastern team—led in percentage of victories, but in the aggregate Chamberlain was the most successful pitcher, Dwyer being second and Parrott third. Mullane did well against the western teams, but he was useless against the eastern batsmen, as four defeats out of five games show. King did well in the Cincinnati team, he doing his best against the eastern teams. Sullivan only pitched in one victory out of seven games against the western teams, but did better