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 It will be seen that the Louisville club was very unfortunate during the May campaign, they winning but two games out of the fifteen they played; bad weather, too, preventing them from playing nearly a third of their scheduled games. On the other hand the Pittsburghs won no less than eighteen out of the twenty-five games they played.

Singularly enough during the third monthly campaign of the season in June, the leading club of May fell back among the tail enders again, while the Bostons jumped to the front, with the Philadelphians a close second and the Brooklyns a good third. The New York club, too, rallied well and got into position among the six leaders, while Pittsburgh was obliged to end the June campaign as occupants of eleventh place. Here is the record of the June campaign:

THE JUNE RECORD.

The July campaign saw several important changes in the relative positions of the twelve competing teams. In the first place the Pittsburghs made a second brilliant rally, and once more got to the front, they giving even the Bostons the go by; while Cleveland worked up to third place, which position they had occupied in May. But New York and Brooklyn fell off badly, while St. Louis got up among the leaders for the first time since April, Louisville pulling up to a tie with Cincinnati, while Brooklyn got so low in the race as to tie Washington for last place by the end of the month, as the appended record shows; these two clubs winning but seven games each, out of the twenty-seven each played; while the Pittsburgh club made their highest record of the season in July by winning twenty games out of the twenty-six played. The Cleveland club topped the month's record with twenty-two victories, but they lost ten games. Here is the record of the July campaign, which was so disastrous to New York, Brooklyn and Baltimore: