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 THE MONTHLY PERCENTAGE.

The progress made by each club each month of the campaign in the pennant race, as shown by the monthly percentage figures, makes up an interesting table, as the appended record shows:

It will be seen at a glance that the progress made by the Boston club from the start to the finish was steadily forward up to the middle of September, with one exception, and that was in July, when they fell off in their western trip of that month. The Pittsburghs alternated each month until the last, when they led all the clubs in their September percentage.

The Clevelands led off with a spurt, and doing well up to August, fell off badly in that month, but managed to be third in monthly percentage figures in the last month of the campaign. The Phillies started well and reached high percentage figures in June, and then fell off badly. New York's progress was up one month and down the next, just as they played at home in the east or abroad in the west, their best month's percentage being that of August and their poorest in May and September. Cincinnati's best monthly percentage was that they made in September, their lowest being that of June. Brooklyn went up like a rocket to July and that month they fell like the stick, their June percentage being .657 and that of July .259 only. Baltimore jumped from .357 in July to .556—their highest monthly percentage—in August, and then fell off in September. Chicago varied each month, just as they faced eastern or western teams, they doing nothing against their western