Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . Chicago 15 5 .756 Boston 12 12 .500 St. Louis 13 10 .565 Baltimore 10 13 .435 Washington ... 13 11 .542 Detroit 8 14 .364 Cleveland 13 12 .520 Athletic 7 14 .333 The pennant race record for June, however, showed Bos-ton in second place, with the Chicago champions again inthe van, St. Louis being third, and the Athletics this time Detroit had struck the toboggan, and did lit-tle better than the Athletics that month, as they onlywon eight games out of the twenty
Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . Chicago 15 5 .756 Boston 12 12 .500 St. Louis 13 10 .565 Baltimore 10 13 .435 Washington ... 13 11 .542 Detroit 8 14 .364 Cleveland 13 12 .520 Athletic 7 14 .333 The pennant race record for June, however, showed Bos-ton in second place, with the Chicago champions again inthe van, St. Louis being third, and the Athletics this time Detroit had struck the toboggan, and did lit-tle better than the Athletics that month, as they onlywon eight games out of the twenty-two in June. Here isthe pennant race record for June: THE PENNANT RACE RECORD, JUNE 30. Second Divon. Won. Lost. Washington ... 27 31 .466 Detroit 25 29 .463 Baltimore 26 31 .456 Cleveland 24 34 .414 First Division. Won. Lost. Chicago 33 19 .635 Boston 32 26 .552 St. Louis 27 25 .519 Athletic .27 26 .510 The difference in percentage points between the leaderand tail-ender in June was 221 points only, showing a grad-ual improvement each month of the season in the evencharacter of the pennant race. SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 101 The main features of the tl^e^Jiity-leampaigb^^-???^^^r ;fampaign was the•^ ^ rally for the lead in the race made by the Athletics,They had opened the race in April with a percentage at the end of that months campaign to their rivals—the Bostons—.429. In May, however, the Athletics ralliedso effectively that they led all the clubs that month, closingthe campaign ahead of both Chicago and Boston in Mayvictories, and also in the pennant race record at the endof the months campaign. In June, however, they tem-porarily struck the toboggan, and allowed both Chicago andBoston to get ahead of them; but in July they managed tostrengthen their battery force to such an extent as to en-able them not only to recover the ground lost in June, butto get into second place in the months record, and to helpdrive Chicago lower down.
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