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 THE JULY RECORD.

Louisville, it will be seen, did remarkably well in July in winning as many games as they lost, something five other of the twelve clubs failed to do.

The feature of the August campaign was the successful effort made by the Boston club to secure a winning lead. In July they had won twenty out of twenty-nine games, and in August they did even better, as they won twenty out of twenty-five games. Another success of the month, too, was the rally made by the New York team, which team won nineteen out of twenty-six games, the best monthly record they made; Pittsburgh this month had to be content with third place, while Baltimore got back among the leaders, leaving Brooklyn a tie with Louisville for sixth place, Washington having assumed a mortgage on the last ditch which they occupied in July.

Here is the record of the August campaign:

AUGUST RECORD.

The feature of the last monthly campaign of the season was the marked falling off in the work of the Boston team. The Bostons had virtually won the pennant early in the month, and when their position as the coming champions