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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 + +Author: Various + +Editor: Henry Chadwick + +Posting Date: November 5, 2011 [EBook #9916] +Release Date: February, 2006 +First Posted: October 31, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPALDING'S BASEBALL GUIDE *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Thomas Hutchinson and PG +Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: Some portions of the original text were illegible; +these portions are noted with an asterisk (*).] + +[Title page] +[Illustration: + + + +SPALDING'S + +SPECIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY + +BASE BALL + +GUIDE + +1895] + + + + + + + +[Advertisement] +The Leader for 1895 +is +The Spalding Bicycle. + +ITS NAME IS ITS GUARANTEE. + +_The name stands for the Highest Grade in Athletic Goods throughout the +world, and now stands for THE HIGHEST-GRADE BICYCLE MADE._ + +THE SPALDING BICYCLE ... +DURING THE YEAR 1894 MADE A PHENOMENAL RECORD + +A. 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Spalding.] + +BASE BALL GUIDE +AND +OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK FOR 1895. + + * * * * * + +A Complete Hand Book Of The National Game +Of Base Ball, + +Containing The +Full Official League Records +For 1894, + + +Together With + +The New Code Of Playing Rules As Revised By The +Committee Of Rules. + +Attached To Which Are Explanatory Notes, Giving A +Correct Interpretation Of The New Rules. + + * * * * * + +A Prominent Feature Of The +Guide For 1895 +Is The New Championship Record; Added To Which Are +The Complete Pitching Records Of 1894 And +Special Chapters On The +Fielding And Base Running +Of 1894, + + +Together With + +Interesting Records Of The Most Noteworthy Contests, Incidents +And Occurrences Of The Eventful Season Of 1894, Occurring +In The College Arenas As Well As In +That Of The Professional Clubs. + + * * * * * + +Edited By +Henry Chadwick. + +Published By +American Sports Publishing Company, +241 Broadway, New York + + + + +PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. + +The official handbook of America's national game--SPALDING'S BASE BALL +GUIDE--which was first issued in 1876, has grown in size, importance and +popular favor year by year, until it has become the great standard +statistical and reference annual of the game throughout the base ball +world; and it is now recognized as the established base ball manual of +the entire professional fraternity, as well as the authorized _Guide +Book_ of the great National League, which is the controlling +governmental organization of the professional clubs of the United +States. + +The _Guide_ of 1895 not only records the doings of the twelve clubs of +the National League for the past season, with all the official +statistics, but it gives space to the championship campaigns of 1894, +not only of the Minor Professional Leagues of the country, but also of +those of the College clubs and of the leading organizations of the +amateur class--the majority class of the entire base ball world--and in +this respect the _Guide_ has no equal, the book of 1895 being +exceptionally full of the most interesting chapters of the leading +events of the diamond fields of the past year, and for the first time +contains many fine half-tone illustrations of all the leading clubs and +players, making it the largest and most complete Guide ever issued. + +Copies of the _Guide_ will be mailed to any address upon receipt of +twelve cents each. Trade orders supplied through the News Companies, or +direct from the Publishers, + +American Sports Publishing Company, +241 Broadway, New York. + + + +The _Guide_, as hitherto, is issued under the entire editorial control +of the veteran writer on sports, Mr. Henry Chadwick, popularly known as +"The Father of Base Ball." + +The great size of the _Guide_ precludes the possibility of including the +game record of the League campaign, as also other records of League +legislation, etc., and these will be found in the "Official League +Book," which contains only official League matter, as furnished by +Secretary Young, including the League Constitution in full. + + + + +PREFACE. + +SPALDING'S BASE BALL GUIDE for 1895 is the twentieth annual edition of +the work issued under the auspices of the National League. It is also +the fifteenth annual edition published under the editorship of Mr. Henry +Chadwick, he having first entered upon his editorial duties on the GUIDE +in 1881. Moreover, it is the fourth annual edition issued under the +government of the existing major League, which League was the result of +the reconstruction measures adopted during the winter of 1891-92; and +this latest issue of SPALDING'S LEAGUE GUIDE in several respects, if not +in all, surpasses all of its predecessors. New features are presented +in its pages this year which are of special interest; the most +noteworthy being the new record of every game played in the League +championship series---won, lost or drawn---from April 19 to September +30, 1894, inclusive; the names of the opposing pitchers in each game; +being a record never before published in any base ball manual, this +alone making the GUIDE of 1895 a model book of reference for the whole +base ball fraternity. Added to this are not only the full statistics of +the League season of 1894, but also special articles on the latest +scientific points of play developed in the professional arena; together +with editorial comments on the leading events of the past season---now +regarded as one of the interesting features of the book---and the scores +of the model games of 1894, etc. A new chapter is "The Reference Guide," +devoted to statistics valuable as references. In addition to which is +the new code of rules which went into effect in April, 1895, and the +editorial explanatory appendix, revised by President Young of the +League; the whole making the GUIDE the model base ball manual of the +period, the book being of special value, alike to the amateur class of +the base ball fraternity, as to the class of professional exemplars of +the game. + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY, +241 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. + + * * * * * + +WASHINGTON, D. C, March, 1895. + +By authority vested in me, I do hereby certify that Messrs. +A. G. Spalding & Bros, have been granted the _exclusive_ right +to publish the "OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK" for 1895. + +N. E. YOUNG, +Secretary of the National League and American Association of Professional +Base Ball Clubs. + +[Illustration A.G. Mills; N.E. Young; Wahulbert--The Three Presidents] +[Illustration: Baltimore Base Ball Club. Champions of 1894.] +[Illustration] +[Illustration: New York Base Ball Club, '94.] + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + +The decade of the nineties in League history bids fair to surpass, in +exciting events, that of every preceding series of years known in the +annals of professional base ball. The decade in question began with the +players' revolt in 1890 and was followed up by the secession of the old +American Association, a fatal movement, which ended in the death of that +organization in the winter of 1891-92; the reorganization of the +National League resulting in the absorption of the best half of the old +Association clubs and the beginning of the experiment of governing the +whole professional fraternity by one _major League_ instead of by a +dual government as before; this one powerful League being itself +controlled by the laws of the "_National Agreement_." The cost of the +amalgamation of the four American Association clubs with the National +League, together with the financial losses incurred by the revolutionary +period of 1890 and 1891--losses, by the way, which the players did not +participate in, the clubs alone being the sufferers--left a heavy burden +of debt to handicap the reconstructed National League in its efforts to +recover the public confidence in professional ball playing lost by the +malcontents of 1890 and 1891. But, nevertheless, the seasons of 1892 +and 1893 saw the heavy indebtedness removed from the League's shoulders; +and in 1894 the flourishing financial times of 1888 and 1889 were, in a +measure, renewed, and for the first time since the Brotherhood revolt of +1890, the professional base ball business in 1894 became a paying +investment. + +It will scarcely be believed that, in the face of the financial losses +incurred during the revolutionary period of 1890 and 1891, that the +closing part of the season of 1894 saw another attempt made to renew the +troubles of 1891, by an effort made to resuscitate the defunct American +Association under the banner of "_Death to the League's reserve rule_," +together with that of a joint attempt made to revive the old Brotherhood +plan of rival League clubs in the larger base ball cities of the Union. +This revolutionary effort, made by one of the promoters of the revolt of +1890, aided by two dismissed managers and a disgruntled star player +itching for notoriety at any cost, led the magnates of the National +League to adopt repressive measures calculated to put an end to any +future revolutionary efforts of the kind, by severely punishing any +League club manager or player who should prove recreant in fealty to the +laws of the National Agreement, or who should join in any attempt to +organize any base ball association opposed to the reserve rule, which +rule over ten years' experience had proved to be the fundamental law and +corner-stone of the professional base ball business. Without such a +repressive law it was evident that the League would be subject to +periodical attempts on the part of unscrupulous managers or players to +war upon the reserve rule for blackmail purposes. The necessity for some +such law was made evident by the recent efforts made to organize a new +American Association on the basis of not only warring upon the reserve +rule but of trespassing on the territorial rights of existing League +clubs. + + + +#The League Manifesto of 1894.# + +The finale to the annual meeting of 1894 was the issuing of a manifesto +by the National League, which was called forth by an effort at treachery +in the League ranks which required prompt action for its +repression. This manifesto was issued without regard to efforts to +organize a new American Association, any opposition of the kind to the +National Agreement clubs, with the major League at its head, being +looked upon as futile, owing to the character of the men alleged to be +at the head of the movement; the main incentive of the League magnates +being to publicly announce what the penalty of treachery to National +Agreement interests would be in the future. The manifesto in question +was the work of a special committee appointed by the National League at +its annual meeting in November, 1894, which consisted of Messrs. Chas. +H. Byrne, H. R, Von der Horst, James A. Hart and John T. Brush. + +The following is the statement drawn up by the committee, and referred +to the National Board for adoption: + +TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL ASSOCIATIONS: + +From the year 1876, when base ball was established in this country on a +substantial and responsible basis by the disbandment of the so-called +National Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs and the +organization of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +down to the present time, the duty has been imposed upon some body or +organization to uphold and enforce the objects for which base ball was +established, to wit: + +First--To perpetuate base ball as the national game of the United +States, and to surround it with such safeguards as to warrant for the +future absolute public confidence in its integrity and methods. + +Second--To protect and promote the mutual interests of professional base +ball clubs and professional base ball players. + +The National League formed in 1876 found a difficult task before it in +undertaking to carry out the objects above referred to. Interest in base +ball was at a low ebb. Gamblers were in possession. The game was without +discipline, organization or legitimate control. The sport was conducted +with dishonest methods and for dishonest purposes, and had neither the +respect nor confidence of the press or public. Heroic methods were +absolutely necessary. At a meeting of the National League, held in +Cleveland December 5, 1877, the League directors unanimously ratified +the action of the Louisville club in expelling from the professional +ranks James A. Devlin, W. H. Craver, A. H. Nichols and G. W. Hall "for +conduct in contravention to the object of the League." + +These men had been charged with and convicted of willfully selling a +game of base ball. At first the action of the League in taking such an +extreme course was strongly denounced. The League, however, foresaw that +any condonation of fraud or crookedness meant death to the national game +and remained firm in its position. Public opinion soon turned, and +to-day it is universally conceded that the course then taken did more to +establish the honesty and integrity of base ball than any action taken +or legislation since enacted. From that day to this no charge of +crookedness or dishonesty has been made against a professional ball +player. Repeated attempts have been made to reinstate these men or those +of them now living, but their expulsion was final and irrevocable. + +That the League was earnest in its efforts to purify the game was +further demonstrated by its action taken at a special meeting held at +the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., on June 24, 1882, when Richard +Higham, a League umpire, was, upon charges preferred by the Detroit +club, expelled for "crooked" work as an umpire. From that day to this no +such charge has ever been made against an official umpire. The rapid +increase in the compensation of ball players soon opened up another +avenue of trouble for the League, which needed and received prompt +attention. This was flagrant and open dissipation in the ranks at home +and abroad. While this was confined comparatively to a few men, the +innocent suffered largely from it, and the National League was brought +into disrepute. Heroic measures were again adopted, and several players +were indefinitely suspended, with excellent effect. It is safe to say +that to-day there is less dissipation and drunkenness in the ranks of +professional ball players in proportion to their number than in any +other organized or unorganized body in this country identified with +outdoor sports. + +The success achieved by the National League in its efforts to develop +base ball as the national game became apparent in its rapid growth in +popular favor, and the establishment of clubs and associations +throughout the various States. It became evident soon that something +must be done to foster and protect the rights and interests of these +various bodies, and "that there was a recognized need of some central +power in base ball to govern all associations, by an equitable code of +general laws, to put the game on a prosperous and lasting basis." + +To accomplish this purpose a meeting was held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, +New York, February 17, 1883, at which delegates were present +representing the National League, the American Association, and the +Northwestern League. At that meeting the so-called Tripartite Agreement +was drawn up and agreed to, which substantially was an offensive and +defensive alliance, embodying a mutual respect of all contracts and +other obligations, and all rights of the parties to the agreement to +territorial rights, players under contract or held under reserve. + +The adoption of the tripartite agreement opened a new era in base ball, +and it was so readily recognized as being a step in the line of progress +that when the committee which drew up the agreement was called together +in New York city in October, 1883, they decided to call the instrument +they had framed the National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +the purpose being to open the door to all clubs, leagues and +associations desiring to live under the conditions, rules and +regulations of the agreement. Immediately several leagues and +associations applied for the protection assured the, and readily pledged +themselves to abide by the requirements designated in the agreement. + +The action of the committee in framing the new national agreement was +subsequently ratified by the signatures of the Presidents of the parties +thereto, viz.: + +The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, A. G. Mills, +President, November 22, 1883. + +The American Association of Base Ball Clubs, H. D. McKnight, President, +December 13, 1883. + +The Northwestern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, Elias Mather, +President, January 10, 1884. + +The Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, William C. Sedden, +President, February 19, 1884. + +The fundamental principle of the national agreement as originally drawn, +and which is now in operation, is a respect for territorial +rights. This, in fact, is the corner stone of the structure. + +It contemplates and provides for the organization of cities into leagues +or associations, with one club, and one only, in each city, and a +contest between the respective cities for championship honors. The +interest which base ball arouses in any city is based absolutely on +local pride. The essence of value to a championship is entirely to the +city to which the victorious club belongs. + +Experience has demonstrated that whenever and wherever territorial +rights have been invaded and rival clubs established, the element of +local pride is absent and interest in both destroyed. It is this which +makes a respect for territorial rights a principle which we must uphold. + +It is true, nevertheless, and we so declare that we will gladly welcome +and shall encourage the formation of leagues and associations who desire +to operate under the national agreement, and consent to abide by the +fundamental principles of that document. + +Reference has been made above to the difficulties and the obstacles +which at times have presented themselves and which have been by severe +but just methods removed. + +To-day the future of base ball is confronted by a new condition, a +condition which in every particular is as harmful and in many respects +far more dangerous than open dishonesty or flagrant dissipation. That +is, treachery within the lines. To-day, and for months past we have had +men identified with professional base ball who for years have been the +beneficiaries of the game, have received liberal compensation for the +work they have done, earned their livelihood entirely and absolutely +from the opportunities afforded them by clubs and organizations +operating under the national agreement, and we find and now know that +these men, during this time, have persistently been identifying +themselves with schemes and combinations the objects and sole purposes +of which are to weaken and perhaps destroy the splendid fabric of our +national game, which it has taken years of effort, anxiety and large +outlay of capital to construct. + +To-day we have the confidence of the public and the press of the country +in the methods and the integrity of base ball in larger measure than at +any prior period in the history of our national game. It devolves upon +us to continue to deserve and retain this confidence. We must endeavor +to do it. + +The interests of clubs and professional ball players are identical. One +cannot succeed without the other. Success means mutual benefit. The +moment any suspicion attaches to base ball, public confidence lost or +even chilled, the occupation of the ball player is gone. We must all +stand or fall together. There is no middle ground. We stand by the +fundamental law, our national agreement, which guarantees protection to +players as well as to clubs, or we destroy it. One road leads to the +perpetuation of the national game, the other to its decline. There +should be no place, no standing room in base ball for any anarchistic +element which never aids in building up but is ever ready to destroy. + +The time has come when some action should be taken to place this element +without the pale of our ranks. The National Board, operating under the +national agreement, was created to protect and guard the interests of +all players, clubs and associations identified with the agreement. Any +attempt to encroach upon that, to nullify or affect any of its +provisions, is of direct and material concern to all alike. + +The obligations of contracts, the right of reserve, and the territorial +rights of clubs, associations and leagues must be upheld, and shall be, +at any cost. + +It is a matter of public rumor and is also a fact which has come to our +knowledge that men identified with clubs, members of the national +agreement, have been co-operating in the formation of clubs or +organizations whose purpose is to conflict with the national +agreement. In view of this knowledge, the National League and American +Association of Professional Clubs in convention assembled respectfully +suggests to and requests the National Board to declare A. C. +Buckenberger, William Barnie and Fred Pfeffer ineligible to be +employed either as manager or player or in any capacity whatever, by any +club or organization operating under the national agreement, and they be +forthwith suspended. Such suspension to remain in force until such time +as they or either of them can satisfy the National Board that they have +in no way been engaged directly or indirectly in the organization of any +club, league or association formed or to be formed in conflict with the +principles of the national agreement. And in the event of their failure +to relieve themselves from this suspension within such time as your +Board may direct, they shall be expelled and forever debarred from any +connection with clubs or organizations identified with the National +Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs. + +We furthermore request that your Board take like action in the case of +any player, manager, umpire or club official who in the future +identifies himself with a similar movement. + +C. H. BYRNE, +J. T. BRUSH, +JAMES A. HART, +H. R. VON DER HORST, +N. E. YOUNG. + +The above address was submitted to the National League at its annual +meeting, fully discussed and unanimously adopted. + + + +Appended is the decision of the National Board: + +To all National Agreement Clubs, Leagues, and Associations: + +At a meeting of the National Board of Professional Base Ball Clubs, held +in New York city November 16, 1894, a communication was received from +the National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball +Clubs, in convention assembled, requesting this Board to take action in +the case of certain individuals heretofore identified with clubs +operating under the national agreement who have been charged with +treachery to their employers and the organizations with which they have +been identified. The request, so presented, was supplemented by an +appeal from the executive officers of the Eastern League of Base Ball +Clubs and the Western League of Base Ball Clubs to take such action as +was proper to protect said leagues in the rights assured them under the +national agreement. + +After mature consideration, and governed absolutely by a desire to +comply with the letter and spirit of the requests made to this Board, +and having reasonable and substantial evidence upon which to base our +action. + +This Board has decided to announce, and it does declare that A. C, +Buckenberger, William Barnie and Fred Pfeffer are ineligible to be +employed either as manager, player or in any other capacity by any club +or organization identified with the national agreement, and said persons +are hereby declared suspended. + +This Board further declares that such suspension shall remain in force +up to and including December 31, 1894, and in the event of the failure +of the above named persons, or either of them, on or before the above +named date, to show to this Board that he or they have been in no +manner, directly or indirectly, engaged in any attempt to promote the +organization of clubs, leagues or associations antagonistic to the +national agreement, they shall be expelled and forever debarred from any +connection with clubs or organized bodies operating under the national +agreement. + +N.E. YOUNG, +A.H. SODEN, +C.H. BYRNE, + + + +The foregoing action was partially caused by the following +communication: + +NEW YORK, November 15, 1894. +TO THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL +BASE BALL CLUBS. + +_Gentlemen_: We the representatives of the undersigned leagues, +operating under the National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +respectfully submit the following: Your body is the recognized major +base ball organization of the country, and have sole right to elect the +National Board and control all bodies identified with the agreement. + +It has been made known to us, and we have good and substantial reasons +for believing that such knowledge is correct, that a new organization of +base ball clubs is contemplated, which, of necessity, must operate +without the pale of the national agreement. It appears also that it is +the purpose of the new association, if it materializes, to attempt to +take from our respective organizations and clubs players now held by us +under the right of reservation accorded us by the national agreement. We +therefore request that you, as a body, take some action to protect us, +so far as possible, against all outside organizations. We trust you will +give this immediate attention, and we await your action. + +Respectfully, + +B.B. JOHNSON, Sec. Western League, P.B.B.C. +P.T. POWERS, Pres. Eastern League. + + + + * * * * * + +#The Base Ball Season of 1894.# + +To professional base ball, as governed by the existing National League, +is mainly due the great popularity our national game has achieved within +the past twenty years. Of course the amateur class of the fraternity +greatly outnumber the professionals; but the game could never have +reached its present point of excellence in field work but for the time +and attention the professional clubs were enabled to devote to its +thorough development from the year of Harry Wright's famous "Red +Stocking" nine of Cincinnati, in 1869, to the existing period of model +professional ball playing. In the first place, the amateur clubs could +never have given the game the time and labor required for its evolution +which the professional clubs were enabled to do; and, moreover, not one +club in a thousand could have spared the money required to fit up and +keep in serviceable condition such finely equipped ball grounds as those +now owned by the leading professional clubs of the National League. To +these facts, too, are to be added the statement that to the National +League's government of the professional class of the fraternity is due +the lasting credit of sustaining the integrity of play in the game up to +the highest standard; so much so, indeed, that it has reached the point +of surpassing, in this most important respect, every other sport in +vogue in which professional exemplars are employed. Take it for all in +all, no season since the inauguration of the National League in 1876, has +approached that of 1894 in the number of clubs which took part in the +season's games, both in the amateur as well as the professional arena; +and certainly no previous season ever saw the professional clubs of the +country so well patronized as they were in 1894. Moreover, it was the +most brilliant and successful season in every respect known in the +annals of the college clubs of the country. In fact, there was but one +drawback to the creditable success of the entire championship campaigns +of 1894, and that was the unwonted degree of "hoodlumism" which +disgraced the season in the professional arena, and this, we regret to +say, was painfully conspicuous among the players of the National League +clubs, this organization having been noted, prior to its absorption of +the old American Association element in its ranks in 1892, for the +reputable character of its annual struggles for championship honors. One +result of the rowdy ball playing indulged in by a minority of each club +team in the League was a decided falling off in the attendance of the +best class of patrons of the professional clubs. + +Much of the "_Hoodlumism_"--a technical term applicable to the use of +_blackguard language; low cunning tricks_, unworthy of manly players; +_brutal assaults_ on umpire and players; that nuisance of our ball +fields, "kicking," and the dishonorable methods comprised in the term +"_dirty ball playing_"---indulged in in 1894 was largely due to the +advocacy of the method of the so-called "_aggressive policy_," which +countenanced rowdy ball playing as part and parcel of the work in +winning games. The most energetic, lively and exciting method of playing +a game of ball can mark a professional club contest without its being +disgraced by a single act of rowdyism--such as that of spiking or +willfully colliding with a base runner; bellowing like a wild bull at +the pitcher, as in the so-called coaching of 1893 and 1894; or that of +"kicking" against the decisions of the umpire to hide faulty captaincy +or blundering fielding. Nothing of this "hoodlumism" marked the play of +the four-time winners of the League pennant from 1872 to 1875, +inclusive, viz., the old, gentlemanly Boston Red Stockings of the early +seventies, under the leadership of that most competent of all managers, +Harry Wright. Yet, despite of this old time fact, if club managers do +not adopt the rough's method of playing the game, as illustrated in the +League arena in 1894, advocated by the class of newspaper managers of +local clubs, the scribes in question go for the local team officials for +not having a team with "plenty of ginger" in their work and for their +not being governed by "a hustling manager." Is it any wonder, under such +circumstances, that the League season of 1894 was characterized by +"hoodlumism?" + +But little advance was made in the way of effective team management in +the League in 1894. About a third of the twelve teams of the League only +were controlled by competent team managers, while at least another third +were wretchedly managed, and the other third were not above the average +in management. Two of the old drawbacks to the successful running of +teams by professional clubs conspicuous in 1892 and 1893 marked the team +management of 1894, viz., the employment of drinking players and the +condoning of their costly offenses, and the interference of club +presidents and directors in the work of the regular manager of the club +team. There is a class of club officials in the League who, for the life +of them, cannot keep from interfering with the club's legitimate manager +in his running of the team. Some of them have the cool effrontery of +stating that "the manager of our team is never interfered with in any +way." One costly result of this club official interference is, that +needed discipline of the players is out of the question, and in its +absence cliqueism in the ranks of the team sets in--one set of players +siding with the manager, and another with the real "boss of the team," +with the costly penalty of discord in the ranks. It is all nonsense for +a club to place a manager in the position with a merely nominal control +of the players and then to hold him responsible for the non-success of +the team in winning games. Under such a condition of things, the club +manager might sign a team of costly star players and yet find himself +surpassed in the pennant race by a rival manager, who, with _entire +control of his team_, and that team composed of so-called "second-class +players" or ambitious "colts," working in thorough harmony together, and +"playing for the side" all the time and not for a record, as so many of +the star players do, would deservedly carry off the season's honors. + +Since the reconstructed National League began its new life, blundering +management of teams has characterized the running of a majority of its +twelve clubs, and it will continue to do so while the system of engaging +players for their records merely and not for their ability in doing team +work and in playing harmoniously together, is continued. Especially, +too, is the plan of engaging players whose daily habits of life are at +war with their ability to do first-class work in the field. Year after +year are drinking offenses condoned by the club officials who run the +club, and old time drunkards re-engaged for the coming season, while +steady, sober players are left out in the cold. Besides this blunder, +there is that of engaging half worn out stars in the place of rising +young players ambitious of distinguishing themselves in the League +arena. This mistake in team management was as conspicuous in 1894 as it +was in 1893. + +A feature of the professional base ball season of 1894 was the almost +phenomenal success of the clubs--alike of the minor leagues as of the +great major league itself--in battling against the serious drawback of +the "hard times" of the year, which prevailed throughout the entire +season. Experience shows that in the sports in vogue which have innate +attractions for public patronage in times of great financial +difficulties in the commercial centres of the union, the national game +stands conspicuous; and the past season in this respect presented a most +notable record, no such crowds of spectators ever having been seen at +the leading contests of the season as in 1894. + +Another feature of the past season was the interest taken in the college +club contests of the spring and early summer campaign, the leading club +teams giving a superior exhibition of team work play in the field to +that of 1893. In fact, the national game flourished as a whole +throughout the entire country in 1894 as it never had done before in the +history of the game. + + + +#The League Championship Campaign of 1894.# + +The struggle for the League's championship pennant in 1894 was the most +noteworthy one on record in one particular respect, and that was in the +exciting struggle by the three leaders of the first division for the +championship, which struggle began on June 20th with the Baltimores +first and Boston second, and was continued on that line until New York +became one of the trio on July 5th, after which date these three clubs +occupied the position of first three in the race to the finish, the +other nine clubs not being "in it" after July 5th. In all other respects +the race for the pennant of 1894 was far from being up to the standard +that should characterize the League's championship season, no less than +three of the minor league pennant races being more evenly contested than +was that of the great major league. From the following record of the +difference in percentage points each season between the leader and tail +ender it will be seen that in no less than seven of the seasons from +1881 to 1894, inclusive, were the pennant races of past seasons superior +in this respect to that of 1894, that of 1891 being the smallest in +difference of points on record. + +Here is the record in question: + +------------------------------------------------------------- + POINTS OF POINTS OF POINTS OF +YEARS. DIFFERENCE. | YEARS. DIFFERENCE. | YEARS. DIFFERENCE. +------------------------------------------------------------- +1881 277 | 1886 493 | 1890 499 +1882 441 | 1887 333 | 1891 223 +1883 570 | 1888 303 | 1892 367 +1884 400 | 1889 328 | 1893 359 +1885 442 | | 1894 418 +------------------------------------------------------------- + +Judging by the percentage figures of the twelve clubs, recorded at the +end of each month's campaign of the season, the race was a one-sided one +almost from the start, the Baltimore and Boston clubs being in the +leading positions from the very outset of the race, the remaining ten +clubs fighting for third place from April 19th to June 20th, when New +York took the lead of the other nine, joining Baltimore and Boston in +the struggle for the leading position. + +A League pennant race--or that of a minor league, for that matter--to be +up to the regulation standard, should at least show a difference in +percentage figures varying, on the average, not far from 250 points; a +model race, in these figures, not exceeding 200 points. But this +standard has not been reached in League records for fifteen years, the +best being over 223 points. Then, too, comes the record of the occupancy +of the several positions of the two divisions, this, to a certain +extent, showing the character of the pennant race of the season. In this +regard, an evenly contested race should show a weekly change of position +in each division, for one thing, and also a change from first division +to second division at least once a month. A model race should see the +first three positions changed weekly, the first six places at least +fortnightly, and the tail end positions once a month at farthest. But +what does the figures of the pennant race of the League for 1894 show? +Let us glance at the; records of the occupancy of the first and second +divisions in last year's pennant race. From the 22d of April to the +close of the season, the Baltimore and Boston clubs were never out of +the ranks of the first division clubs; nor were the Chicago, Washington +and Louisville clubs ever out of those of the second division. This +alone was a one-sided condition of affairs in the race. From May 1st to +July 17th the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubs occupied positions in +the first division, and the Cleveland club was in the first division +from April 22d to June 27th and from July 17th to the finish, while New +York was in the same division from June 29th to the close and Brooklyn +from August 27th to the end of the season. On the other hand, Chicago, +St. Louis and Cincinnati, together with Washington and Louisville, were +practically out of the race from May to September. + +The April campaign finished with St. Louis, Cleveland and Boston tied +for first place in the race, with Philadelphia, Baltimore and Cincinnati +following. Boston and Baltimore's occupancy of fourth and fifth places +being the lowest each occupied during the entire season's campaign, +while Cincinnati's position, tied for that of first in the race on April +20th, was the highest that club reached from April 19th to September +30th; St. Louis, as tied for first place, together with Louisville on +April 20th, was the highest these three clubs reached. Baltimore was +the first to reach the leading place in the race, that club being first, +with the percentage figures of 1.000, on April 24th; St. Louis occupying +the lead on April 28th; Cleveland on May 2d, that club occupying the +leading place from that date to May 28th, when Pittsburgh jumped into +first place for a short time. Boston occupied the lead for the first +time on April 26th. The nearest New York got to the leading position was +on April 19th, when the club was tied for first place with Boston, +St. Louis and Washington. The highest position the "Phillies" reached in +the pennant campaign was second place, which they occupied on May +23d. Brooklyn's highest position was reached on June 22d, when that club +occupied third place. Chicago's highest was eighth place, and the only +clubs which stood in the last ditch were Chicago, up to May 10th; +Washington, from May to August 15th, and afterwards Louisville up to the +finish of the season. + +For the first time in the annals of the League, but one western club +occupied a position in the first division as early in the season as July +2d, when the Pittsburgh club stood fourth in the race, following +Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn, being followed by Philadelphia and New +York, Cleveland at that date being in the second division. On July 17th +Cleveland replaced Brooklyn in the first division, and remained there to +the finish of the race. Pittsburgh was driven into the ranks of the +second division on August 21st, and failed to get back again. Baltimore +had the pennant virtually in hand in August, and New York drove Boston +out of the second place on September 6th, the percentage figures of the +three leaders on that day showing Baltimore to be in the van with .676, +New York .652, and Boston .646; with the "Phillies" fourth, the +Brooklyns fifth and the Clevelands sixth, these relative positions not +afterwards being changed. Neither were those of the clubs in the second +division at that date, except in the case of the Cincinnati and +St. Louis clubs, the team under the Boss Manager, Chris Von der Ahe +beating the Brush-Comiskey combination team of Cincinnati out the very +last day of the race, greatly to the disgust of the Cincinnati cranks. + +A great disappointment to the Louisville cranks, whose pet club started +the season with a picked team of star players, containing three +ex-captains of League teams, in Pfeffer, D. Richardson and Tom +Brown--was the sad falling off of that club from the position of being +tied for first place with Baltimore and Boston in April, to a permanent +place in the last ditch in August, a result which relieved Manager +Schmelz considerably, as up to August 22nd Washington had occupied the +tail end position in the race from July 9th to August 23d. Similar bad +management of a club team had retired Pittsburgh from second position, +on June 8th, to seventh place, on July 2d, and it was only through a +wise change of managers that the club was able to retain the lead in the +second division to the end of the campaign. + +An incident of the campaign of 1894 was the disastrous start in the race +made by the Chicago club, which occupied the tail end position in the +race at the close of the April campaign and remained in the last ditch +up to May 11th, after which the club gradually passed the Washington, +Louisville, Cincinnati and St, Louis teams, finally occupying eighth +position the last of September. The pennant race of 1894, as a whole, +was a decided failure as far as an evenly contested race was concerned, +the only exception in the way of an exciting struggle for the lead being +that between the three leaders from July 5th to September 30th, this +being the one redeeming feature of the League championship campaign of +1894. + + + +#The Contests for the Pennant in 1894.# + +Not since 1890 has a new candidate for League championship been +successful in winning the pennant, but in 1894 another club was added to +the list of League pennant winners, the interest in the annual races, of +course, being thereby proportionately increased. In 1876, when the +League was organized, Chicago was the first city to win League +championship honors, and in 1877 Boston entered the arena of pennant +winners. Next came Providence in 1879, after which a whole decade of +League seasons passed without a new pennant winner being added to the +above two, Detroit winning in 1887 for the first time. Next came New +York in 1888, followed by Brooklyn in 1890, and now Baltimore has +entered the contest arena of champion clubs, that city winning the +honors in 1894. During the intervals of this period of nineteen years of +League championship campaigns the Boston and Chicago clubs won the +majority of pennant races; Boston carrying off the flag during the +seasons of 1877, 1878, 1883, 1891, 1892 and 1893, and Chicago winning in +1876, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885 and 1886, this latter club being the only +one to win the pennant in three successive years, from 1876 to 1890 +inclusive, the Bostons not being three time winners until the seasons of +1891, 1892 and 1893. That club, however, is the only one to win the +championship in four successive seasons--outside of the League--since +the professional championship was inaugurated in 1871, the Bostons +afterwards winning in 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875. There are now in the +League eight clubs out of the twelve which have yet to win a single +pennant race, viz., the Philadelphia and Washington clubs of the Eastern +divisions, and all six of the Western clubs. There are also but four +clubs now in the League which have never reached higher than second +position since the League was organized, viz., Louisville, 1877--that +club's earned title to first place having been lost by the crookedness +of four of its team of that year--Cincinnati in 1878, Philadelphia in +1887 and Pittsburgh in 1893, while there are two clubs now in the League +which have never reached higher than third place, viz., St. Louis in +1876, and Cleveland in 1880 and 1893. The only aspirant for a position +in League pennant races higher than fourth place at the close of the +season now in the League is the Washington club; so there is plenty of +room to win honors in 1895 if only in getting in among the six leaders +by October next. + + + +#The Three Leading Clubs in the Pennant Race of 1894.# + + +It is about time that the record of the championship campaigns of each +year should be divided up, in order that the leading minority of the +competing teams may be awarded the additional credit due them for +obtaining positions of special distinction during each season; +beginning, of course, with the winner of the pennant, and followed by +the occupants of _second_ and _third_ positions with the three other +clubs of the first division ranking in due order. By thus extending the +list of honorary positions in the race an additional incentive for +making extra efforts toward the close of the race is given to each one +of the twelve clubs of the League at large. Thus, in the early part of +the championship campaign, if two or three clubs find themselves +hopelessly contending for the pennant itself, there will still be left +over those of the other two honorary places in the race, viz., _second_ +and _third_ positions, to compete for; and failing to achieve success to +that extent, there will be one or other of the last three places in the +_first division_ to strive for. This opens the door to win other +creditable places in the season's race to be fought for by the six clubs +of the second division, instead of their losing heart in the contest, +simply because, by the end of the May or June campaign, they are left +without a chance of winning the pennant. It would seem to be, from this +view of the case, an object of special interest for the League to award +a series of honorary prizes to the players of each team attaining one or +other of the three leading positions in the race of each year, in the +proportion, we will say, of $3,000 for the first place, $2,000 for +second and $1,000 for third. In the future the GUIDE will give special +prominence, in its statistical records, to the clubs attaining second +and third positions; in the race, leaving a less detailed record to the +other nine clubs entering the campaign for championship honors, this +change beginning with the GUIDE of 1895. We now present first in order +the complete record of the Baltimore champions of 1894: + + + +#The Campaigns of the Three Leaders and of the First Division Clubs for +1894.# + +An interesting statistical chapter of the GUIDE of 1895 includes the +comparative tables of the three leaders in the pennant race of 1894, +viz., those of the Baltimore, New York and Boston clubs, the struggle +between these three clubs being a decidedly attractive feature of the +past season's championship campaign. The season opened on April 19th, +and the close of the first day's play saw the Boston and New York clubs +tied for first place, with Baltimore tied with four other clubs for +second place, only eight of the twelve clubs playing on that day. By the +end of the first month's campaign, on April 30th, Boston had dropped to +third position; Baltimore to fifth place and New York down to ninth in +the race. On May 31st, the close of the second month's campaign, +Baltimore led Boston, being then in third position, and Boston in +fourth, New York having pulled up to sixth place. On June 2d Baltimore +jumped to first place, with Boston fifth and New York seventh. By June +9th the Bostons had got up to second place, but New York was still in +the second division, Baltimore, of course, still leading in the race on +that date. At the end of the third month of the season's campaign, on +June 30th, Baltimore held the lead, with the percentage of victories of +.712, with Boston second, having .667 in percentage figures, while New +York had got back into the first division again with the figures of +.564. On July 5th the "Giants" had worked up to third place, preceded by +Baltimore and Boston, each with the percentage figures respectively of +.679, .672 and .593, it being a close fight at this time between +Baltimore and Boston, while New York was close behind. From July 5th to +the finish these three clubs occupied the three leading positions in the +race, the others being virtually "not in it," as far as winning the +pennant was concerned. This fact alone made the pennant race of 1894 a +very one-sided one, as nearly three months of the season's games +remained to be played. At the end of the July campaign the record showed +Boston in the van, with the percentage figures of .659, to Baltimore's +.618 and New York's .613, Boston having taken the lead from Baltimore on +July 24th, It was just about this time that Boston stock on the racing +market was above par, it being fully expected at this time that the best +the Baltimores would be likely to accomplish would be to retain second +place, while New Yorkers were sanguine at this period of the contest +that the "Giants" would soon lead Baltimore. The Boston champions +retained first position up to July 30th, while New York tried in vain to +push Baltimore out of second place. By, the close of the August campaign +the Baltimores, by a brilliant rally, had replaced Boston in the lead, +the record on August 31st showing Baltimore in the van with the +percentage figures of .657, followed by Boston with .645, and New York +close to the champions with .639. Now came a grand fight for second +place on the part of New York, the Bostons, from this time to the finish +failing to make the accustomed final rally which their friends had +anticipated. On September 6th New York ousted Boston out of second +place, at which date Baltimore led with the percentage figures of .676, +followed by New York with .652, Boston's figures being .646; the rest of +the clubs in the first division at that time being in the five hundreds +only in percentage figures. Boston got down to .632 on September 19th, +New York being then credited with .667 and Baltimore "way up" with +.692. It was now Baltimore's race and New York was regarded as a fixture +for second position, there being a difference in percentage points +between Baltimore and Boston of no less, than 62 points on September +22d; New York then being behind Baltimore 39 points and ahead of Boston +24 points; in fact, a week before the finish, on September 30th, the +positions of the three leaders were fixtures, the only interest left +remaining being the struggle between Philadelphia, Brooklyn and +Cleveland for fourth place. As before remarked, the chief interest in +the September campaign was the expectation on the part of the majority +of the patrons of the game that the Bostons would rally towards the +finish and that the Baltimores would fall off during the last week or +two; instead, however, it was the Boston champions who failed to play up +to their old mark, while it was the Baltimores who did the rallying, and +in fine style, too, under the leadership of the champion manager of the +campaign of 1894. + + + +#The New Champions of 1894.# + + +The Baltimore Club's Career. + +We have the pleasure of greeting a new champion club in the League arena +in the GUIDE of 1895, viz., the Baltimore club, and it is therefore a +point of interest to give a brief resume of its career from the time it +entered the defunct American Association in 1882 to the date of its +being taken into the reconstructed National League in 1892. The +Baltimore club's career in the late American Association was one thing; +that of its progress since the club was taken into the National League +is altogether quite a different matter. From 1882, the year of the +organizing of the old American Association, up to the period of its +secession from the National Agreement ranks in 1891, the Baltimore club +occupied the position of being the occupant of the "last ditch" in the +Association's pennant races for no less than four years, viz., in 1882, +1883, 1885 and 1886. In 1884, when twelve clubs were in the Association +race of that year, the highest the Baltimore club reached was sixth +position. In 1888, 1889 and 1890, the club got no higher than fifth +place in the three races of those years; while the nearest it could get +to first place during the decade of the eighties was in 1887, when it +ended in third place, being led by St. Louis and Cincinnati. During all +that period William Barnie was the club's manager. In 1892 he was +superseded by Manager Hanlon; and from that date to the close of the +past season, the club began to get out of its previous "slough of +despond," induced by its repeated failures to win a pennant race. + +Here is the club's record while in the American Association, from 1882 +to 1890, inclusive, showing the positions occupied in the several +pennant races of that period: + +------------------------------------------------------ + NUMBER OF CLUBS +YEAR. POSITION. IN THE RACE. +------------------------------------------------------ +1882 Sixth (last ditch) Six. +1883 Eighth " Eight. +1884 Sixth. Twelve. +1885 Eighth (last ditch) Eight. +1886 Eighth " Eight. +1887 Third. Eight. +1888 Fifth. Eight. +1889 Fifth. Eight. +1890 Fifth. Eight. +------------------------------------------------------ + +In 1891 the Cincinnati club was ahead of the Baltimores when the former +was transferred to Milwaukee, after which the "Reds" broke badly, and +the Baltimores were thus enabled to get into third place. The wretched +management of the Association during the year was costly in +demoralization to every club in the race. Up to the date of the +Cincinnati transfer, that club stood with a percentage of .619, to +Baltimore's .526. During the season of 1892 the Baltimore club occupied +an experimental position in the race of that year, Manager Hanlon not +joining the club in 1892 until too late to get a good team +together. They began the campaign of 1893 low down in the race record, +but they finally pulled up among the six leaders, beating out Brooklyn +in the race by 10 games to 2, as well as St. Louis, Louisville and +Cleveland; but they were so badly beaten by Boston-2 games to 10-and by +Pittsburgh--1 game to 11-that they finished in eighth place only. That +season's experience enabled Manager Hanlon to prepare for 1894 with a +better chance of success than he had had since he took the club in hand, +and the effect of the improved management was made apparent before the +May campaign of 1894 had ended, his team closing that month one among +the three leaders. From that position the club was not afterwards +removed, the team first heading the Bostons and finally taking the lead +in the race, the New Yorks coming in second, ahead of the previous +three-time champion club of Boston. + + +THE BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. + +Under the heading of "The Three Leaders in the Race," will be found the +record of the monthly campaigns of the Baltimores and the progress made +by Hanlon's team from the start to the finish in the race of 1894. We +now give the detailed record of the season's campaign of the Baltimores +in full. + +Here is the record of the club's victories, defeats, games played and +drawn, and the percentage of victories made against each individual +club, as well as the grand percentage against all of the eleven opposed +to the Baltimores: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Total Total +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 6 4 6 8 11 35 9 6 9 10 10 10 54 89 +Defeats 6 8 4 4 1 23 8 4 2 2 2 2 16 39 +Games played 12 12 10 12 12 58 12 10 12 12 12 12 70 128 +Drawn games 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Per cent. of + Victories .500.333.400.667.917 .603 .750.600.750.833.833.833 .771 .695 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the "Orioles," under Hanlon, did the pennant +winning business up in style in 1894. Of the six Eastern clubs in the +race, they tied the New York "Giants," had the best of the unfinished +series with the "Phillies," took the Brooklyns into camp without +difficulty, had almost a walkover with the Washingtons, and found the +Boston champions the only club that got the best of them in the five +series played against their Eastern adversaries, their percentage of +victories against the Bostons being only .333, while their figures +against the Washingtons were as high as .917. Against their six Western +opponents, the Baltimores almost wiped out the St. Louis, Cincinnati +and Louisville teams, each of these clubs winning but two games out of +the twelve played with the "Orioles," while the best each of the +Cleveland and Chicago teams could do was to win three of the twelve, the +Pittsburgh "Pirates" being the only Western team to trouble them, their +series with that club being unfinished, with a credit of but four +victories to Pittsburgh's six. Only one game was drawn, and that with +the "Phillies." + +The additional details of the record follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 7 +Series lost 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series tied 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series + unfinished 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" + victories 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +"Chicago" + defeats 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +Won by 1 run 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 3 2 2 9 11 +Lost by 1 run 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 7 +Single figure + victories 2 1 2 4 3 12 6 1 2 7 5 7 28 40 +Single figure + defeats 5 3 2 1 0 11 1 3 1 0 1 1 7 18 +Double figure + victories 4 3 4 4 8 23 3 5 8 3 5 2 26 49 +Double figure + defeats 1 5 2 3 1 12 2 1 2 2 1 1 9 21 +Home victories 5 1 4 5 5 20 6 4 7 8 6 6 37 57 +Home defeats 1 4 2 2 1 10 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 13 +Victories abroad 1 2 3 3 6 15 3 2 2 2 4 4 17 32 +Defeats abroad 5 4 2 2 0 13 2 3 3 1 2 2 13 26 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Baltimores "shut out" but one Eastern team and +not a single Western opponent, while they themselves were "Chicagoed" +once by each, viz., by New York and Louisville, the tail ender's "shut +out" being annoying. Only two of their contests with the Eastern teams +were won by a single run, but they won three games against the Eastern +teams by one run. They lost seven games by a single run, three of them +in the East and four against Western adversaries. No less than forty of +their games were won by single figure scores, viz., 12 against Eastern +teams and 28 against Western opponents. They lost a total of but 18 +single figure games. Their double figure victories were no less than 49, +against but 21 double figure defeats. They won 57 home victories against +32 abroad, the defeats being 18 at home to 26 abroad. Take it all in +all, the Baltimores did splendid work in the box, the field and at the +bat, the only drawback to their creditable season's campaign being too +much kicking and rowdy ball playing, in the latter of which McGraw was +the principal offender. + +#The Records of the New York and Boston Clubs of 1894.# + +The New York club's team entered the campaign of 1894 decidedly +handicapped. The club had excellent material at command wherewith to +make up a strong team; but the manager had great difficulty at first in +getting it into team work condition, he being hampered by the +interference of the class of scribe managers of League cities who are +very confident of their ability to run a club team better, on paper, +than the actual manager can on the field. Then, too, a minority of these +journalists seem to delight in getting up sensations which lead to +discord in the ranks of a team; as they have their pet players on the +teams, as well as those they have a special grudge against; moreover, +the directors of the club were at times, in the early part of the +season, not in accord with the manager in his methods of selecting +players, and in appointing them to special positions. Finally the +experience of April and May taught the club officials that if much more +of the interference racket was continued, the result would be a +permanent place in the second division, inasmuch as on May 24th, the +club stood no higher than eighth place, with but little likelihood at +that time of getting any higher. By June, however, an improved condition +of affairs in running the team was manifested; the scribe managers were +ignored, the manager was given more control of the team, and by the +close of the June campaign the New York club was in the first division, +and by the end of July were among the three leaders, where they remained +until the end of the race. + +The club was fortunate in being able to make its team unusually strong +in its battery players. The very profitable and liberal investment made +by Director Wheeler, in the purchase of the release of Meekin and +Farrell, was a potent factor in enabling the club to reach the high +position it did, both of these model players, in their respective +positions, proving to be a great accession to the strength of the club's +team. Another valuable acquisition to their team was that noted college +player, young Murphy, he proving to be the most valuable utility man in +the club, and an equal of Ward in team-work batting. By the closing +month of the campaign the team had been trained up to the point of +working together in more harmony, besides doing better team-work in +their batting than any previous players of the club had ever before +exhibited. Moreover, the team, during 1894, manifested greater rallying +power at the finish in a game than ever before, they fully equaling the +Bostons in this respect; in fact, this past season they excelled the +champions in securing the lead in the latter part of a contest, a very +important factor in winning pennants. THE NEW YORK CLUB'S RECORD. + +The record of the club for 1894 giving the victories and defeats scored, +with the total of games played, and the percentage of victories against +each club is as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 6 6 5 7 10 34 9 8 11 7 7 12 54 +Defeats 6 6 7 5 10 26 3 4 1 5 5 0 18 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .500 .500 .417 .583 .833 .567 .750 .667 .917 .583 .583 1.00 .750 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The above record shows that the "Giants" defeated Brooklyn and +Washington in the Eastern series of games, and tied with Boston and +Baltimore, they losing to the "Phillies" only. Against the Western clubs +they won every series, excelling both Baltimore and Boston in this +latter respect, as the Baltimores failed to get the best of the +Pittsburghs, and the Bostons were tied with the St. Louis. Then, too, +the "Giants" excelled the other two leading clubs in shutting out +Louisville in no less than thirteen successive games, one game being +thrown out. In addition they took Anson's "Colts" into camp in eleven +out of twelve games, and defeated the Washingtons in ten games out of +the twelve of the series. + +The record of the series of games won, lost, tied and unfinished, +together with that of the "Chicago" victories and defeats, and the +single and double figure games of the New York and Boston clubs is as +follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 8 +Series lost 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series tied 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Series + unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" + victories 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 5 +"Chicago" + defeats 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 +Single figure + victories 5 4 2 3 7 21 7 7 8 5 4 7 38 59 +Single figure + defeats 2 4 4 2 1 13 1 1 0 5 5 0 12 25 +Double figure + victories 1 2 3 4 3 13 2 1 3 2 3 5 16 29 +Double figure + defeats 4 2 3 3 1 13 2 3 1 0 0 0 6 19 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The foregoing table shows that the New York club won eight out of the +eleven series, they losing but one--that with Philadelphia -and tieing +two, one with Baltimore and one with Boston. In "Chicago" games they won +five and lost four, and in single figure games they won 59 and lost but +25, while in double figure games they won 29 only and lost but 19. + + +THE BOSTON CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Boston club, in 1894, after being League pennant winners three years +in succession, was obliged to fall back to third place in the past +year's pennant race, after a hard fight for first place in the race from +April to September, that club standing in first place on April 26th and +also on the 29th of August, they varying their position but little +during that period. Hitherto, in the races of 1891, '92 and '93, the +Bostons were noted for their rallying powers, not only in the latter +part of a game, but especially in the closing month of each season. It +will be remembered, that in 1892, though they had to succumb to +Cleveland in the last part of the divided campaign of that year, they +rallied handsomely and easily won the championship in the world's series +of that year. This year, however, they went back on their record badly, +in failing to attend to the rallying business in the last month of the +campaign, the result being that they not only lost the pennant, but had +to submit to being forced into third place in the race. The question as +to "why this was thusly" is not easy to answer. It may be said, for one +thing, that the loss of the valuable services of the veteran Bennett, +was one drawback to their success, and the failure of a majority of +their pitchers, another; their only really successful "battery" team +being Nichols and Ganzel. Then, too, they lost ground in playing, as +well as in popularity, by the kicking and noisy coaching profanities of +a minority of their team; that kind of "hustling" in a team having +become played out as a winning factor in the game in 1894. It must not +be forgotten, however, that the Boston club, in 1894, encountered +stronger teams in New York and Baltimore than ever before; moreover, +they were troubled considerably by the strong opposition of the +St. Louis club's team, the only club to score three straight victories +from them during the season. That the club had the material to do better +than they did, goes without saying; it was a failure in its running that +did the business, chiefly. + +Here is the record of the victories, defeats, games played, and +percentage of victories against each club for the past season of 1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e + Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 8 6 6 6 9 35 9 8 7 6 8 10 48 +Defeats 4 6 6 6 3 25 3 4 5 6 4 2 24 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .667 .500 .500 .500 .250 .583 .250 .667 .583 .500 .667 .833 .667 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The Bostons, in 1894, took the Baltimore and Washington teams into camp +without difficulty, but the best they could do against New York, +Philadelphia and Brooklyn, was to tie each series. Against the Western +clubs, it will be seen, the only club that troubled them was the +St. Louis Browns. Four series tied out of the eleven they played was an +unusual record for the ex-champions. In victories, they did better +against the West than against the East, by 48 victories to 35; in +defeats, however, the result was more even, viz., 25 to 24. + +The following is the club's record of series won, lost, tied and +unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and defeats, and the +single and double figure victories and defeats scored by the club in +1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 7 +Series lost 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series tied 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Single figure victories 4 4 4 3 0 15 2 7 2 0 3 5 19 34 +Single figure defeats 1 4 1 3 2 11 1 1 1 5 2 1 11 22 +Double figure victories 4 2 2 3 9 20 7 1 5 6 5 5 29 49 +Double figure defeats 3 2 5 3 1 14 2 3 4 1 2 1 13 27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The club won but seven of the eleven series played in 1894, though they +did not lose a series, no less than four being tied. In "Chicago" games +they won but 3, but did not lose a single game by a "shut out." By way +of comparison, we give below the records of the same three clubs in +1893, when the three leaders in the race were Boston. Pittsburgh and +Cleveland, and the three leaders of the Eastern teams were Boston, +Philadelphia and New York, the Baltimores that year being eighth +only. Singularly enough, all three clubs did better against their +Eastern confreres in 1893 than against the Western clubs. + +Here are the three club records of 1893 + + +RECORDS OF 1893. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 10 8 8 8 7 41 7 4 8 10 6 10 45 +Defeats 2 4 4 4 5 19 5 6 3 2 6 2 24 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 10 11 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .853 .667 .667 .667 .583 .680 .583 .400 .727 .833 .500 .833 .652 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 8 4 7 6 7 32 6 4 5 8 6 7 36 +Defeats 4 8 5 6 5 28 6 8 7 4 6 5 36 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .667 .333 .583 .500 .583 .533 .500 .333 .417 .667 .500 .417 .500 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 2 5 10 7 28 8 1 5 9 4 5 32 +Defeats 8 10 7 2 5 32 4 11 7 3 8 5 38 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 10 70 +Per cent. of + Victories .383 .167 .417 .833 .583 .467 .667 .083 .417 .750 .333 .560 .475 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +To show what the new rivals--the New York and Baltimore clubs--did in +the two past seasons combined, we give the figures of the double records +of 1893 and 1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 14 10 12 13 17 66 15 12 16 13 15 19 90 +Defeats 10 14 12 11 7 51 9 12 8 11 9 5 54 +Games played 24 24 24 24 24 120 24 24 24 24 24 24 144 +Per cent. of + Victories .383 .417 .500 .542 .708 .550 .625 .500 .667 .542 .625 .792 .625 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 10 6 11 18 18 63 17 7 14 14 18 15 85 +Defeats 14 18 11 6 6 55 7 15 10 10 5 7 54 +Games played 24 24 22 24 24 118 24 22 24 24 23 22 139 +Per cent. of + Victories .417 .250 .500 .750 .534 .708 .708 .318 .583 .583 .783 .682 .612 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +In this combined record New York leads Baltimore, the poor season's work +of 1893 by the Baltimores more than offsetting the honors they won in +1894. + + + +#The Campaigns of the Other Nine Clubs of 1894.# + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +At the end of the first day's contests, on April 19th, four clubs were +tied for first place as victors, and four others were tied next in order +as losers, the third four of the twelve clubs of the League not playing +until the 20th of April. At the end of the first week's play in the +April campaign the "Phillies" stood fourth in the race, they being +headed by Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis, respectively, and followed by +Baltimore and Cincinnati, all of which six clubs were in the first +division, the Pittsburgh, New York, Louisville, Washington, Brooklyn and +Chicago following in order in the second division; the difference in +percentage figures between the leader and tail ender being 833 points, +as the Chicago team had not then won a single game out of six played, +and the Brooklyns but one, while the "Phillies" had won 5 out of 7, they +starting off well, Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis having won 5 out of 6 +played. By the end of the April campaign the "Phillies" stood in fourth +place, being led by St. Louis, Cleveland and Boston, the other first +division clubs being Baltimore and Cincinnati. During the May campaign +the "Phillies" fluctuated between fifth place on May 9th up to second +position on May 16th, finally finishing the May campaign a poor fifth on +May 31st, with Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore and Boston in advance of +them, and New York close at their heels. In June the "Phillies" began to +do a little better, and by June 18th, they had pulled up to second +place, with Baltimore in the van and Boston close behind the "Quakers." +Then once more they fell back in the race, the close of the June +campaign seeing them in fifth place, and in the rear of Baltimore, +Boston, Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, with New York within a few points of +them. During July this "up-hill and down-dale" method of racing was +continued until July 23d, when they were driven into the ranks of the +second division clubs, they occupying seventh place on that date, the +end of the July campaign seeing the team in seventh place, with a +percentage of victories of .526, Boston, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, +Brooklyn and Pittsburgh being the six first division clubs. During the +August campaign the "Phillies" got back into the first division ranks, +and on the 21st of that month were in fourth place, which position they +retained to the end of that month's campaign. They tried in vain to get +higher, but could not do so, and on the last day of the season they +stood a bad fourth, the next club above them leading them by 75 points +in percentage figures, and by eleven games. + +The following is the Philadelphia club's record of victories and defeats +scored, with the total number of games played, and the percentage of +victories against each club, and also the record of the series won, +lost, tied and unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and +defeats, and the single and double figure victories and defeats scored +by the club during 1894: + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S RECORD. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + W P C L + B a C i S i o + a N B s l t t n u + l e r h e t C . c i +PHILADELPHIA t w B o i v s h i s + i o o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s k g l u c o n i + o o t l t a r a u a l + r r o y o n g g i t l + e k n n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 7 6 7 8 32 5 8 5 5 8 8 39 +Defeats 6 5 6 5 4 26 7 4 7 7 2 3 30 +Games played 10 12 12 12 12 58 12 12 12 12 10 11 69 +Per cent. of + Victories .400 .583 .500 .583 .667 .552 .417 .667 .417 .417 .800 .727 .585 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + + W P C L + B a C i S i o + a N B s l t t n u + l e r h e t C . c i +PHILADELPHIA t w B o i v s h i s + i o o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s k g l u c o n i + o o t l t a r a u a l + r r o y o n g g i t l + e k n n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 6 +Series lost 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series unfinished 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Single figure victories 2 4 3 3 3 15 3 3 1 2 2 2 13 28 +Single figure defeats 2 2 5 5 3 12 2 3 0 3 3 0 10 22 +Double figure victories 2 3 3 4 5 17 2 5 4 3 6 6 26 43 +Double figure defeats 4 3 1 0 1 8 5 1 7 4 2 3 22 30 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The above table shows that the Philadelphia team in their games with +their Eastern opponents had but little difficulty in defeating the +Washingtons, besides getting the best of both New York and Brooklyn in +the race. But they lost to Baltimore and tied with Boston. With the +Western teams they did not do so well, as they only won three out of the +six series, they winning easily with Cincinnati by 8 to 2 in won games, +while they had but little difficulty with Louisville and Pittsburgh. +They lost with Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis by 5 to 7 each in won +games. + + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Brooklyn club opened the season's campaign on April 19th, and at the +close of the first day's play, stood tied with Baltimore, Philadelphia +and Pittsburgh for fifth place, they standing as low as eleventh +position on April 23d. During the May campaign they made but little +headway in the race, as, up to May 22d they had got no higher than +seventh place. After that they got into the first division for a few +days, but at the end of the May campaign they were tied with New York +for sixth place; Pittsburgh, on May 31st, being in the van, with +Cleveland and Baltimore second and third, Pittsburgh's percentage +figures being .710 at this date; the "Orioles" being followed by Boston +and Philadelphia. The Brooklyns began the June campaign by leading New +York and taking up a position in the first division, occupying sixth +place, next to Boston, then in fifth position. By June 19th they had +reached fourth place, and they closed their June campaign in third +position, Baltimore leading, with Boston second. During the early part +of July the Brooklyns fell back to sixth place, and the "Giants" jumped +into third position. On July 31st the Brooklyns stood fifth only, and +they began falling lower the first week in August, and on the fourth of +that month were back in the second division ranks, and after that date +"the subsequent proceedings interested them no more," as far as the +three leading positions were concerned. They remained in seventh place +up to August 21st when they got back into the first division, and on +August 31st they were in fifth place. During September there was a close +fight between Cleveland and Brooklyn for that position, but finally the +Brooklyns retained it at the finish by the percentage figures of .534 to +.527, a lead of but seven points. The Brooklyn team made but a poor +record against their Eastern team rivals in 1894, but were more +successful against the Western clubs. They won but one series in the +East, and that was against the tail-end Washingtons, Baltimore, New York +and Philadelphia beating them out in the race, while they tied the +Bostons. Against the Western clubs they won in three series; tied with +two others, and had the series with Cleveland, but they only won four +series out of the eleven. + +The following tables show the Brooklyn club's record of victories and +defeats scored, with the total number of games played and the percentage +of victories against each club; also, the record of the series won, +lost, tied and unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and +defeats, and the single and double figure victories and defeats scored +by the club during the season of 1894: + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S RECORD. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a s l t t n u + l e d h e t C . c i +BROOKLYN t w B e i v s h i s + i o l n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s p g l u c o n i + o o t h t a r a u a l + r r o i o n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 5 6 5 9 29 6 7 6 8 6 8 41 +Defeats 8 7 6 7 3 31 5 5 6 4 6 4 30 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 11 12 12 12 12 12 71 +Per cent. of + Victories .388 .417 .500 .452 .750 .483 .545 .583 .500 .667 .509 .667 .577 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a s l t t n u + l e d h e t C . c i +BROOKLYN t w B e i v s h i s + i o l n e b i L n v + vs. m Y s p g l u c o n i + o o t h t a r a u a l + r r o i o n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 4 +Series lost 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 +"Chicago" victories 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 +Single figure victories 1 2 3 5 3 14 4 3 5 3 1 4 20 34 +Single figure defeats 3 3 4 3 1 14 2 2 2 3 3 1 13 27 +Double figure victories 3 3 3 0 6 15 2 4 1 5 5 4 21 36 +Double figure defeats 5 4 2 4 2 17 3 3 4 1 3 3 18 35 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Cleveland club did not begin their opening campaign until April +20th, and then in the ranks of the second division; but they soon, +jumped to the front, and by the end of the April campaign they stood a +tie for first place with Boston and St. Louis, with the percentage +figures of .750 each. They opened the May campaign by pushing Boston out +of first place, and they retained the leading position from May 2d to +the 28th, they reaching the high percentage of .867 on May 10th--the +highest of the season. On Decoration Day Pittsburgh went to the front, +with the percentage of .700 to Cleveland's .692, and they retained that +position to the close of the May campaign. During June the Clevelands +fell off, and by the 21st of that month they had got down to fifth place +in the race, and by the end of the June campaign had been driven into +the ranks of the second division, they then occupying seventh place with +a percentage of .549; Pittsburgh, on June 30th, being the only Western +team in the first division. This fact alone showed a one-sided race up +to that date. + +The Clevelands did not get back into the first division until July 17th, +and after that they never left it. During August they battled well for +third place, but could get no higher than fourth position, where they +stood up to August 21st, when they began to fall off, and on August 31st +they were down to sixth place. This position they were forced to keep +all through September up to the finish of the race. + +The Cleveland team managed to win two of their series with the Eastern +clubs, viz., with Washington and Philadelphia, but were badly whipped by +the three leaders; they managed, however, to make a close fight of it +with their old antagonists of Brooklyn, the latter winning the series by +a single game only. + +With their Western rivals the Clevelands won every series but one, viz., +that with the Pittsburgh club, thereby winning the _championship of the +West for_ 1894, as Boston did the championship of the East. Then, too, +the Clevelands were the only Western club remaining in the first +division at the close of the season; so they had some consolation in the +race in excelling their Western rivals, all of whom they beat out in the +race, even if they failed to win the pennant or to get among the three +leaders in the race. Moreover, they excelled all the Western teams in +team work in the field and at the bat, as they did the Brooklyns and +Washingtons of the Eastern division. + +Here is their record: + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a i S i o + a N a B s t t n u + l e d r h t C . c i +CLEVELAND t w B e o i s h i s + i o l o n b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g u c o n i + o o t h l t r a u a l + r r o i y o g g i t l + e k n a n n h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 3 3 3 7 5 8 29 4 10 9 8 8 39 +Defeats 9 9 9 5 6 4 42 8 2 3 3 3 19 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 11 12 71 12 12 12 11 11 58 +Per cent. of + Victories .250 .250 .250 .583 .455 .667 .408 .333 .883 .750 .727 .727 .672 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a i S i o + a N a B s t t n u + l e d r h t C . c i +CLEVELAND t w B e o i s h i s + i o l o n b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g u c o n i + o o t h l t r a u a l + r r o i y o g g i t l + e k n a n n h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 +Series lost 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 1 5 7 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 +Single figure victories 1 1 1 2 3 4 12 3 7 7 4 6 27 39 +Single figure defeats 6 7 2 3 4 4 26 5 1 1 2 1 10 36 +Double figure victories 2 2 2 5 2 4 17 1 3 2 4 2 12 29 +Double figure defeats 3 2 7 2 2 0 16 3 1 2 1 2 9 25 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +#The Second Division Clubs.# + + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Pittsburgh club opened the April campaign in the ranks of the second +division, the end of the month seeing the team in seventh place, three +other Western teams leading them on April 30th. During May they got into +the first division, and May 21st they were among the three leaders, with +Cleveland and Baltimore first and second in the race. At the end of the +May campaign they had rallied as well, and had pulled up to first place, +with the percentage figures of .710 to Cleveland's .679 and Baltimore's +.654, Boston, Philadelphia and New York being the next three. In June, +the Pittsburghs fell off in the race, and by the 11th of that month they +were down to fifth place, then pulled up again after touching sixth +position, and on June 30th stood fourth, they then being headed by +Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn, with Philadelphia and New York in their +rear. In July they fell off badly, and on the 20th of that month they +had been driven out of the first division. At the end of the July +campaign they stood sixth in the race. They got a step higher the early +part of August, but the end of that month's campaign saw the club once +more in the ranks of the second division, and they struggled in vain to +get out of the company of the six tail-enders, the end of the race +seeing the club in seventh place with the percentage figures of .500, +Cleveland leading them by 27 points. + +The record of the Pittsburgh club for 1894 giving the victories and +defeats scored, with a total of games played and the percentage of +victories against each club; also, the record of the series of games +won, lost, tied or unfinished, together with that of the "Chicago" +victories and defeats, and the single and double figure games scored by +the club, is as follows: + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W C L + B l a C S i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e C . c i +PITTSBURGH t w B e o i v h i s + i o l o n e i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l c o n i + o o t h l t a a u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 4 4 4 5 8 29 8 6 6 7 9 36 +Defeats 6 8 8 8 7 4 41 4 6 6 5 3 24 +Games played 10 12 12 12 12 12 70 12 12 12 12 12 60 +Per cent. of + Victories .400 .333 .333 .333 .417 .667 .414 .667 .500 .500 .500 .583 .600 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W C L + B l a C S i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e C . c i +PITTSBURGH t w B e o i v h i s + i o l o n e i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l c o n i + o o t h l t a a u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 +Series lost 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 . 0 0 0 0 0 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 1 1 0 0 2 2 +Series unfinished 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 . 0 0 0 0 0 1 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 . 0 0 0 0 2 2 +Single figure victories 3 1 1 3 2 3 13 5 3 4 3 7 22 35 +Single figure defeats 1 7 7 3 3 0 21 3 2 4 2 3 14 35 +Double figure victories 1 3 3 1 3 5 16 3 3 2 4 2 14 30 +Double figure defeats 5 1 1 5 4 4 20 1 4 2 3 0 10 20 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The "Pirates," it will be seen, were very unsuccessful against the +Eastern teams, the Washingtons being the only club they could win a +series from. Against their Western rivals, however, they did not lose a +series, defeating Cleveland, Cincinnati and Louisville, and tieing with +Chicago and St. Louis. The very club they wanted most to defeat they +captured, viz., the Clevelands; that, and the fact that they led the +second division clubs being the only consolation they had. + + + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +Never before in the history of the Chicago club had any of its teams +ever started a pennant race so badly as did the Chicago "Colts" in +1894. They finished the April campaign with the unenviable record of +eight defeats out of nine games played, they then being a bad tail-ender +in the race, with the poor percentage figures of .111 only. They +remained in the last ditch up to May 10th, by which date they had won +but two games out of thirteen played, the result being costly to the +club in poor gate receipts. The next day they pushed the Washingtons +into the last ditch--their home place for years--and by May 14th had got +up to tenth position. But the end of May saw the "Colts" no higher in +the race record than eleventh place, just on the ragged edge of the last +ditch. By the end of the June campaign they had pulled up a little, they +were standing in tenth place on June 30th; there they remained until the +last day of the July campaign, when they managed to get into ninth +place. During August they rallied for the first time in the race, and by +the end of that month's campaign they stood eighth. But they could not +get higher in the race, and they had to be content with eighth position +at the end of the season, their poor record including that of being the +only club of the twelve which had not, at one time or another, occupied +a place in the ranks of the first division clubs. It was the worst +season's record known in the history of the Chicago club. + +Here is the club record: + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t . c i +CHICAGO t w B e o i v s i s + i o l o n e b L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u o n i + o o t h l t a r u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d h s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 3 1 5 7 6 7 29 2 6 6 6 8 28 +Defeats 9 11 7 5 6 5 43 10 6 6 6 4 32 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 60 +Per cent. of + Victories .250 .083 .417 .583 .500 .583 .403 .375 .500 .500 .500 .667 .467 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t . c i +CHICAGO t w B e o i v s i s + i o l o n e b L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u o n i + o o t h l t a r u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d h s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 +Series lost 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .. 1 1 1 0 3 4 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 5 +Single figure victories 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 1 2 3 2 6 14 20 +Single figure defeats 2 8 2 1 5 4 22 6 3 4 2 3 18 40 +Double figure victories 2 1 4 7 4 6 24 1 4 3 4 2 14 38 +Double figure defeats 7 3 5 4 1 1 21 4 3 2 4 1 14 35 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The Chicago "Colts" won two series against the Eastern teams, viz., +those with the Washingtons and the Philadelphias, and they had a tie +series with Brooklyn and a close fight with Boston; but the New Yorks +whipped them the worst any club had ever before succeeded in doing in a +season's series, as the "Giants" won eleven out of twelve games; the +Baltimores, too, had an easy task in winning against the +"Colts". Against their Western rivals, however, they lost but one +series, viz., that with Cleveland; but they only won one series--that +with Louisville--they tieing Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati. + + + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The St. Louis club opened the April campaign among the leaders, and put +up their stock to a premium, by ending the month's record tied with +Boston and Cleveland for first place, each with a percentage of .750, +the club's special rival--Comiskey's Cincinnati "Reds"--ending the April +campaign tied with Baltimore for fifth place. After this April spurt in +the race, however, the "Browns" began to fall back in their record +during May, and by the 7th of that month were down to sixth position, +and on May 14th they had to give way to Cincinnati, they then falling +back into the second division ranks; and on the 17th of May they were +down to ninth place, and then the best they could do during the last +week of the May campaign was to end eighth in the race on May +31st. During June they tried to get back into the first division, but +they failed to reach higher than seventh position. During July they got +lower down in the ranks of the second division, and they ended that +month's campaign as low as tenth place, and they were kept there until +the very last day of the season, when two victories over the +Washingtons, with a tie game between Cincinnati and Cleveland, enabled +the "Browns" to win the consolation prize, viz., leading Cincinnati at +the finish, by the percentage figures of .424 to .419, the St. Louis +team ending in ninth place and the Cincinnatis in tenth position. + +The record of the St. Louis club for 1894 giving the victories and +defeats scored, with the total of games played and the percentage of +victories against each club; also, the record of the series of games +won, lost, tied and unfinished, together with that of the "Chicago" +victories and defeats and the single and double figure victories and +defeats scored by the club, is as follows: + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e t C c i +ST .LOUIS t w B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c n i + o o t h l t a r a a l + r r o i y o n g g t l + e k n a n n d h o i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 5 6 7 4 6 30 3 6 6 5 6 26 +Defeats 10 7 6 5 8 6 42 9 6 6 7 6 34 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 12 12 12 12 12 69 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .417 .500 .583 .333 .500 .417 .250 .500 .500 .417 .500 .433 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e t C c i +ST. LOUIS t w B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c n i + o o t h l t a r a a l + r r o i y o n g g t l + e k n a n n d h o i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 +Series lost 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 5 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 3 5 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 4 5 +Single figure victories 0 5 5 3 3 2 18 1 4 4 4 4 17 35 +Single figure defeats 7 5 0 2 3 3 20 7 4 3 5 6 25 45 +Double figure victories 2 0 1 4 1 4 12 2 2 2 1 2 9 21 +Double figure defeats 3 2 6 3 5 3 22 2 2 3 2 0 9 31 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The St. Louis "Browns" did well in winning one of their Eastern +series--that with Philadelphia--and tieing with Boston and +Washington. But the Baltimores gave them a bad whipping, and the +Brooklyns and "Phillies" took them into camp easily. Against their +Western adversaries, however, they failed to win a single series; but +they only lost one--that with Cleveland--as they tied with Pittsburgh, +Chicago and Louisville. + + + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Cincinnati club did not begin their opening campaign until April +20th, and during that month's short campaign they occupied third place +on April 24th, and retained their position among the leaders to the end +of the month. In May, however, they fell back into the ranks of the +second division clubs, and remained there until May 16th, when they +occupied sixth place in the first division. By the end of that month, +however, they had been pushed back to ninth position. There they +remained during the whole of the June campaign. During July they +improved their position by getting into eighth position, where they +stood on July 31st. August's campaign did not improve their standing; on +the contrary, they fell back into ninth place, where they stood on +August 31st. During September they were almost anchored in that +position, but on the very last day of the race they let their old +rivals, the "Browns," beat them out, and Comiskey had to finish tenth in +the race, and then he said he'd had enough, and he concluded to "go +West," where he will remain for 1895. + +Here is the Cincinnati club's record: + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P L + B l a C i o + a N a B s l t S u + l e d r h e t C t i +CINCINNATI t w B e o i v s h . s + i o l o n e b i L v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o i + o o t h l t a r a u l + r r o i y o n g g i l + e k n a n n d h o s e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 5 4 2 6 7 26 3 5 6 7 7 28 +Defeats 10 7 8 8 6 5 44 8 7 6 5 5 31 +Games played 12 12 12 10 12 12 70 11 12 12 12 12 59 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .417 .338 .200 .500 .583 .371 .273 .417 .500 .583 .588 .475 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P L + B l a C i o + a N a B s l t S u + l e d r h e t C t i +CINCINNATI t w B e o i v s h . s + i o l o n e b i L v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o i + o o t h l t a r a u l + r r o i y o n g g i l + e k n a n n d h o s e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 7 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 +Single figure victories 1 5 2 3 3 5 19 2 2 2 5 6 17 36 +Single figure defeats 4 4 3 2 1 5 19 4 3 2 4 5 18 37 +Double figure victories 1 0 2 1 3 2 9 1 3 4 2 1 11 20 +Double figure defeats 6 3 5 6 5 0 25 4 4 4 1 0 13 38 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The season of 1894 was made noteworthy in the annals of the Washington +club, owing to their being able to pay off their six years' mortgage on +the last ditch, and transferred it to the Louisville club. The +"Senators" opened the season in a very lively style, inasmuch as they +stood a tie for first place at the end of the first day of the campaign, +and had the credit of winning their first games with the "Phillies," the +New York and Boston clubs. After this dash at the start they settled +down among the second division clubs for the season, resigned to +everything but the fate of again being tail-enders. Chicago kept them +out until May, when the "Senators" fell into their old quarters, the +tail-end place, where they remained until August 23d, when, to the great +joy of Manager Schmelz, they had a wrestle with Louisville and threw the +"Colonels" into the last ditch. + +Here is their record: + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i P C L + B l C i S i o + a N a B l t t n u + l e d r e t C . c i +WASHINGTON t w B e o v s h i s + i o l o e b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k l u c o n i + o o t h l a r a u a l + r r o i y n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 1 2 3 4 3 13 4 4 5 6 5 8 32 +Defeats 11 10 9 8 9 47 8 8 7 6 7 4 40 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .083 .167 .250 .333 .250 .217 .333 .333 .417 .500 .147 .667 .444 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS + P + h + i P C L + B l C i S i o + a N a B l t t n u + l e d r e t C . c i +WASHINGTON t w B e o v s h i s + i o l o e b i L n v + vs. m Y s p k l u c o n i + o o t h l a r a u a l + r r o i y n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 0 1 0 4 9 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" defeats 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 +Single figure victories 0 1 2 3 1 7 4 0 4 3 5 5 21 28 +Single figure defeats 3 7 0 3 3 16 4 3 1 2 5 3 18 34 +Double figure victories 1 1 1 1 2 6 0 4 1 3 0 3 11 17 +Double figure defeats 8 3 9 5 6 31 4 5 6 4 2 1 22 53 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The "Senators" won but one series in the whole campaign, and that was +with the Louisvilles. They managed to tie with the St. Louis "Browns," +but all the rest knocked them out--the Baltimores by 11 to 1. + + + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Louisville club started in the race with better prospects than they +had for years past, they being tied for first place on April 20th, but +they only remained in the first division a few days, after which they +took up their home position among the tail-enders, which they occupied +from April 30th to September 30th, never once getting back to the ranks +of the first division. Gradually, during the May campaign they worked +their way down towards the last ditch, they having a close fight for the +ditch with Washington during June. But July saw them rolled into the +tail-end position, and there they remained until the ending of the +championship campaign. The Louisvilles had the consolation of tieing the +the St. Louis "Browns" in their series, and of "Chicagoing" the Boston +champions, and also in defeating them in another game by 11 to 1. Here +is their record: + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C + B l a C i i + a N a B s l t S n + l e d r h e t C t c +LOUISVILLE t w B e o i v s h . i + i o l o n e b i L n +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o n + o o t h l t a r a u a + r r o i y o n g g i t + e k n a n n d h o s i + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 0 2 3 4 4 15 3 3 4 6 5 21 +Defeats 10 12 10 8 8 8 56 8 9 8 6 7 38 +Games played 12 12 12 11 12 12 71 11 12 12 12 12 59 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .000 .167 .273 .333 .333 .211 .273 .250 .333 .500 .417 .356 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C + B l a C i i + a N a B s l t S n + l e d r h e t C t c +LOUISVILLE t w B e o i v s h . i + i o l o n e b i L n +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o n + o o t h l t a r a u a + r r o i y o n g g i t + e k n a n n d h o s i Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 0 1 4 10 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" victories 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 +Single figure victories 1 0 1 0 1 3 6 1 3 3 6 5 18 24 +Single figure defeats 8 8 5 2 4 5 32 6 7 6 4 6 29 61 +Double figure victories 1 0 1 3 3 1 9 2 0 1 0 0 3 12 +Double figure defeats 2 5 5 6 4 3 25 2 2 2 2 1 9 34 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The nearest the Louisvilles came to a series victory was in their series +with the St. Louis club, which they tied; all the others they lost, they +being "shut out" by the "Giants," with which club they lost thirteen +successive games, one of which was thrown out. The Club Management of +1894. + +The management of the twelve League clubs in 1894 was, in but few +instances, in advance of that of 1893; and in a minority of cases it was +worse. The experience of the past season in the management of club +teams, points out the indisputable fact that the majority of managers +are blind to the folly of condoning drinking offences in the ranks, for +one thing, and equally ignorant of the damaging effects, in lessening +the reputable patronage of their grounds, of countenancing that phase of +"hoodlumism" in teams known as "kicking against the decisions of +umpires." Despite of the costly experience of the past five years in the +countenancing of drunkards in the League ranks, we see, this season of +1895, club teams including players notorious for their old drunken +habits. Why managers cannot perceive the folly of re-engaging such men +is a mystery. No matter what their skill at the bat or in the field may +be, their drinking habits, with the demoralizing effect on the teams at +large which follows, more than offset the advantage of their alleged +ability in the field. Despite this obvious fact, however, club +officials--either presidents, directors or managers--still blunder on in +having these drunkards on their teams, even after condoning their +offences time and again, on the promise of reform, which in no single +instance has ever taken place that I am aware of. But surpassing this +folly, is that of engaging ugly and vicious tempered players for their +teams, who are simply demoralizing agents in any team on which they are +engaged. These ill-tempered fellows are not only death to necessary +discipline, but they are sure to find occasions to form cliques in a +team, which war against the best interests of the club at large, and are +obnoxious in the extreme to the pennant winning rule of _playing for the +side_, a rule as important to the success of a club team in a pennant +race, as the reserve rule is to the life of the professional club +business at large. Bad management of clubs involves a variety of +blunders, not only in the running of the team without regard to business +principles--sadly neglected by a majority of the League clubs in +1894--but especially in the making up of teams in the spring months, in +which one blunder is conspicuous, viz., that of selecting players for +each team without regard to their ability to play in _harmony together_, +but solely by the records made in the unreliable table of averages of +the past season, in which everything in the way of scoring figures tends +to aid the mere record player and throws obstacles in the way of team +work players' records. Another managerial blunder is shown in the +gathering together of a long list of signed players, with the view of +selecting a strong team of a dozen players from the crowd for the +serious work of the campaign. For instance, in the makeup of many of the +League teams of 1894, the blunder of getting together six or eight +pitchers and occupying the whole of the early part of the season's +campaign in experiments with them was positive folly. It has never paid +in a single instance. It was, in fact, death to the success of at least +four League teams last season, Cincinnati in particular. Many of last +year's team managers failed to realize the important fact that in +testing the merits of pitchers in the spring season they need to be +given a fair trial, and not dismiss them after the hasty judgment of +their ability of a few games of trial. Pitchers need to be thoroughly +tested before they are released, after engagement, and this testing +process cannot at the shortest be done in less than a month's trial. No +pitcher can do his best while in doubt all the while as to the result of +a single day's play on his engagement. Five pitchers are amply +sufficient to begin a season with, and at most three catchers. But one +of the greatest and most costly blunders in team management made in 1894 +was that of encouraging "hoodlumism" by the countenancing of blackguard +kicking, in defiance of the laws of the game, which presidents and +directors, as well as managers and captains, were alike guilty of to a +more or less extent. The rules of the game positively prohibit any +player of a nine on the field from disputing any decision of the umpire +except the captain, and he only in certain exceptional cases, and yet +not only did captains of teams allow this rule to be violated in every +game of the season, but they were openly countenanced in it by not only +their managers, but in many cases by club presidents and +directors. Under such circumstances is it any wonder that the season of +1894 stands on record as being marked by more disgraceful kicking, rowdy +play, blackguard language and brutal play than that of any season since +the League was organized? And all this was the result of a neglect of +business principles in club management, and in the blunders in managing +teams committed by incompetent managers and captains--an arraignment of +the National League which we hope never to have to record again. + + + +THE MONTHLY CAMPAIGNS. + + +THE APRIL CAMPAIGN. + +The short April campaign of 1894 began on April 19th, on which date +eight of the twelve clubs opened the season; New York losing at +Baltimore, Brooklyn at Boston, Philadelphia at Washington, and +Pittsburgh at St. Louis, rain preventing the games scheduled for +Louisville and Cincinnati. On the 20th Chicago opened at Cincinnati with +a defeat, as did Cleveland at Louisville. By the end of the month's +campaign, on April 30th, the games played left the Boston, Cleveland and +St. Louis clubs tied for first place in the month's record, with +Philadelphia fourth, Baltimore fifth, and Pittsburgh sixth the second +division clubs being headed by Cincinnati--tied with Pittsburgh for +sixth place--and followed by Louisville, New York and Brooklyn tied for +ninth position, Washington and Chicago, the latter club being a bad +tail-ender with a record of eight defeats out of nine games played. + +Here is the complete record of the thirteen days' campaign of the +opening month of the season, fifty victories and as many defeats having +been recorded: + +THE APRIL RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------- +Boston 6 2 8 .750 Cincinnati 4 4 8 .500 +Cleveland 6 2 8 .750 Louisville 4 5 9 .444 +St. Louis 6 2 8 .750 New York 3 5 8 .375 +Philadelphia 6 3 9 .667 Brooklyn 3 5 8 .375 +Baltimore 5 3 8 .625 Washington 2 7 9 .174 +Pittsburgh 4 4 8 .500 Chicago 1 8 9 .111 +-------------------------------------------------- + +It had been confidently expected that Boston would be in the lead and +Cleveland not far off; but that St. Louis should be tied with both for +the lead was a surprise. Philadelphia was in its anticipated place, but +Baltimore was lower than the club officials had looked for, as also New +York, while the fact that the tail-ender of 1893 led the Chicago "Colts" +of 1894 was a disagreeable ending of the month's play for the Chicago +cranks. + + + +THE MAY CAMPAIGN. + +The May campaign changed the relative positions of the twelve clubs +materially. By May 31st, Pittsburgh had pulled up to the leading +position, having won 18 out of 23 games; and while Cleveland had held +its position fairly well, Baltimore had done better than Boston, and New +York had won more games than Brooklyn. Chicago, too, had rallied, while +St. Louis had fallen off badly, as also Cincinnati and Louisville; the +Washingtons winning but 4 games out of 23, that club ending the second +month's campaign a bad tail-ender in the figures of May. Here is the +record for May: + +THE MAY RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh 18 5 28 .783 Brooklyn 12 11 23 .522 +Cleveland 13 7 20 .684 Chicago 9 12 21 .429 +Baltimore 12 6 18 .667 St. Louis 9 16 25 .360 +Boston 14 8 22 .636 Cincinnati 7 13 20 .350 +Philadelphia 12 7 19 .632 Louisville 6 14 20 .300 +New York 13 11 24 .542 Washington 4 19 23 .174 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The monthly record differs in its percentage figures from the pennant +race record, as the latter gives the totals of the games played from +April 19th, while the former gives the totals of each month's games +only. A hundred and twenty-nine games, resulting in victories, were +played in May, with, of course, the same number of defeats. Seven of the +twelve clubs won more games than they lost. + + + +THE JUNE CAMPAIGN. + +The June campaign opened with Cleveland in the van in pennant race +percentages, the other clubs in the first division being the Pittsburgh, +Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn clubs in order; New York +leading the second division, followed by St. Louis, Cincinnati, +Louisville, Chicago and Washington; the leader in the race having a +percentage of .690, and the tail-ender .212, a difference in percentage +figures of 478 points, showing a poorly contested race thus far. Only +two Western clubs by this time remained in the first division, viz., +Cleveland and Pittsburgh; New York and Washington being the two Eastern +clubs in the second division. Baltimore overtook and passed Cleveland in +the first week of the June campaign, and closed the month in the +lead. Boston, too, rallied and pulled up in the race from fifth place on +June 4th to second position by June 11th, and remained there to the end +of the month. Brooklyn also took a jump from sixth place on June 18th to +third position on June 29th; New York not getting out of the second +division until the last of the month. In the meantime the two Western +teams of Cleveland and Pittsburgh began to lose ground, and by the 21st +of June they occupied fifth and sixth positions in the race, Cleveland +leading their rivals of Pittsburgh by 13 points. On the same date +Philadelphia was in third place, but the "Phillies" fell off to fifth +position by the end of the month. In victories won during June Brooklyn +led with 18 games won out of 23 played, Baltimore being second with 20 +victories and 6 defeats, and Boston third with 18 games won to 8 +lost. On June 8th Washington had pushed Louisville into the last ditch, +and also led Chicago; but the "Colts" got ahead of the "Senators" by the +end of the month. On June 30th Baltimore held the lead in the pennant +race with the percentage figures of .712 to Louisville's .255, a +difference of 457 points, only one Western club being in the first +division at the end of the month. + +Here is the record of the June campaign, showing which club led in won +games during the month. + +THE JUNE RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn 18 5 28 .789 Philadelphia 11 12 23 .478 +Baltimore 20 6 26 .769 Cleveland 9 13 22 .409 +Boston 18 8 26 .692 St. Louis 10 15 25 .406 +New York 15 8 23 .686 Washington 9 15 24 .375 +Pittsburgh 13 13 26 .500 Chicago 8 17 25 .320 +Cincinnati 12 13 25 .480 Louisville 4 22 26 .154 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that out of the twelve clubs but four won more games +than they lost, the Louisvilles ending the month's play with a record of +but 4 games won out of 26 played, the poorest record of any single month +of the season. + + + +THE JULY CAMPAIGN. + +The July campaign opened with the Baltimore and Boston clubs as apparent +fixtures for the two leading positions, the "Orioles" leading the +champions on July 5th by seven points only, viz., .679 to .672. On the 2d +of July New York was sixth and Brooklyn third in the race. By July 5th, +however, the "Giants" had jumped into third place, and Brooklyn had +fallen back to sixth position. On the same date Baltimore, Boston and +New York occupied the three leading positions, and though three more +months of the season still remained, the other nine clubs were even then +virtually out of the race, the only other point of interest left in the +championship contest being that of the fight for the last three places +in the first division, Pittsburgh being at that time the only Western +club out of the second division. Of course, such a one-sided condition +of things in the pennant race led to a falling off in the interest in +the championship contests, especially out West, where the clubs of that +section lost patronage greatly, four of the six Western clubs being +virtually out of the race as early as May, as far as winning the pennant +was concerned. During July there were only two points of interest in the +race outside of the fight for first place between the three leaders, +viz., the struggle between the Brooklyn and Philadelphia clubs for +fourth place in the race, and that between the Cleveland and Pittsburgh +clubs to retain a place in the first division. Cleveland lost its +position in the first division the first week in July, Pittsburgh on +July 2d being in fourth place. By the 6th of that month the "Phillies" +had overtaken them, and by the 9th the Pittsburghs were down to sixth +place, the Clevelands then heading the second division. The "Pirates" +then rallied and got ahead of Brooklyn, the latter being driven into the +second division by July 17th, Cleveland rallying and getting among the +six leaders again by the 18th of July, after which date they remained in +that division to the close of the season, A feature of the July campaign +among the six tail-end clubs was the close fight between Washington and +Louisville on the edge of the last ditch. First one club would cross +the goal line and make a touch-down--as the foot ball men have it--and +then the other, Louisville being in eleventh place at the end of the +month, while the "Senators" rolled about in the last ditch. When the +July campaign ended Boston was in the van with the percentage figures of +.659, Baltimore being second with .618, and New York third with .613. It +looked at that time pretty sure for Boston. + +Here is the record of the month's play, showing which club won the most +games during July: + +THE JULY RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +New York 18 7 25 .720 Philadelphia 12 14 26 .462 +Boston 16 9 25 .640 Baltimore 10 14 24 .417 +Cleveland 18 11 29 .621 Pittsburgh 10 16 26 .385 +Chicago 16 10 26 .615 St. Louis 10 17 27 .370 +Cincinnati 16 11 27 .593 Brooklyn 9 16 25 .360 +Louisville 13 15 28 .464 Washington 8 16 24 .331 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +But five clubs out of the twelve won more games than they lost during +the July campaign, but there was a little improvement shown in the +difference of percentage points between the leader and tail-ender, the +figures being .363. The Baltimores made the poorest record in July for a +month's campaign of any they made during the season; while New York made +the best show of any one of their four months' campaigns up to the close +of July. Chicago also made their best monthly record in July, likewise +Cincinnati and Louisville. + + + +THE AUGUST CAMPAIGN. + +Baltimore rallied in fine style in August, that club winning 22 out of +29 games that month, while New York won 20 out of 28; but Boston won +only 15 out of 25, Philadelphia pulling up with 19 out of 29. Chicago +also won a majority of their August games, these being the only clubs of +the twelve which won more games during the month than they lost. When +the August campaign opened the first division clubs included Boston, +Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, the "Phillies" +being in the second division; but the latter soon took Brooklyn's place +and sent them to seventh place in the race. But before the first week +of the month had ended, Brooklyn replaced Pittsburgh in the first +division. The "Pirates," however rallied and drove their Eastern +opponents back again; Brooklyn ending the month in sixth place, and +after that the "Pirates" remained at the head of the second division to +the finish. The 31st of August saw the first division clubs fixed for +the season, as far as first and sixth places in the race were concerned, +the interesting point in the month's campaign being the struggle between +the New York and Boston clubs for second place and that between Brooklyn +and Philadelphia for fourth position. There was but one Western club in +the first division at the end of August, the other five staying in the +second division to the finish, a result that was ruinous to the +financial interests of the Western clubs, and to a large extent to the +clubs of the East, all of which clubs played to "small houses" out West, +especially at Louisville, the cranks of "Breckinridgeville" being +disgusted with their local club team during the last three months of the +season. + +Here is the record of the August campaign, showing each club's victories +and defeats for August; + +THE AUGUST RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +----------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 22 7 29 .759 Washington 13 14 27 .481 +New York 20 8 28 .714 St. Louis 9 13 22 .409 +Philadelphia 19 10 29 .655 Cleveland 9 15 24 .375 +Boston 15 10 25 .600 Pittsburgh 8 16 24 .333 +Chicago 15 12 27 .556 Cincinnati 7 19 26 .269 +Brooklyn 14 14 28 .500 Louisville 5 18 23 .217 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that August was a bad month for the Boston champions, +while it was the very reverse for the Chicago "Colts," the latter making +their best monthly record in August. The difference in percentage +points between the leader and the tail-ender at the close of the August +campaign was 355 points, the best of the season to that date. Still the +figures showed a comparatively poor race, several of the minor league +races being more evenly contested. Cleveland and Pittsburgh were behind +Washington in percentage of victories during the August campaign, the +latter making their best monthly record in August, thereby escaping +their old place in the last ditch. + + + +THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN. + +Baltimore virtually had the pennant in their hands the first week of the +September campaign, the only point of interest in the race left at that +time being the struggle for second place between New York and Boston; +all of the other clubs had long been practically out of the race, a +result which involved considerable loss for the majority of the twelve +League clubs. This state of things in the major league pennant race is +the result of the selfish policy of a minority in trying to monopolize +the cream of the playing element in the League ranks without regard to +the saving clause of the League organization, the principle of "_One for +all and all for one_," the very essence of the plan of running the +League on true business principles. + +During September the Brooklyn club tried their best to oust the +"Phillies" out of fourth place, while the Clevelands worked hard to take +Brooklyn's position in fifth place, but both clubs failed in their +projects. Up to September 6th the "Giants" tried in vain to send the +Bostons down to third place, but it was not until the 7th of September +that they were able to oust the champions out of second place in the +race, and when they did so they kept them out to the finish, the +champions failing to rally after they had lost the position. It was a +close fight, however, as on September 10th New York led Boston in +percentage of victories by only 3 points, viz., .655 to .652, Baltimore +leading at that date with .684. By September 19th, however, the Bostons +had got down to .631, and New York's figures were .667, with "the +country safe." Boston's lowest score in percentage figures for the month +was reached on September 25th, when they touched .623. By that time the +places in the first division were all settled, and all of those in the +second division also, except Cincinnati and St. Louis. On September 29th +Cincinnati led St. Louis by the percentage figures of .424 to .415, but +two victories by St. Louis over Washington, against a drawn game by +Cincinnati with Cleveland on the 30th, gave St. Louis the lead by .424 +to .419, and Comiskey's "Reds" had to finish in tenth position, beaten +in the race by Von der Abe's "Browns," a galling fact for the Cincinnati +cranks. + +Here is the month's record of victories and defeats in September: + +THE SEPTEMBER RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 20 3 23 .870 Philadelphia 13 12 25 .520 +New York 20 6 26 .769 St. Louis 11 13 24 .458 +Boston 14 11 25 .560 Cincinnati 10 16 26 .385 +Cleveland 13 11 24 .542 Chicago 9 17 26 .346 +Brooklyn 14 12 26 .538 Washington 8 16 24 .333 +Pittsburgh 12 11 23 .522 Louisville 5 21 26 .192 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The appended summary shows the progress of each club from the opening to +the close of the season, as also in what month each club made its best +and worst record during the championship campaign: + + + + +SUMMARY OF VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + T + S h + e e + p + A t F + A u e i + p J J g m n + r M u u u b i + i a n l s e s + l y e y t r h +Clubs. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 5 3 12 6 20 6 10 14 22 7 20 3 89 39 +New York 3 5 13 11 15 8 18 7 20 8 20 6 88 44 +Boston 6 2 14 8 18 8 16 9 15 10 14 11 83 49 +Philadelphia 6 3 12 7 11 12 12 14 19 10 13 12 71 56 +Brooklyn 3 5 12 11 18 5 9 16 14 14 14 12 70 61 +Cleveland 6 2 13 7 9 13 18 11 9 15 13 11 68 61 +Pittsburgh 4 4 18 5 13 13 10 16 8 16 12 11 65 65 +Chicago 1 8 9 12 8 17 16 10 15 12 9 17 57 75 +St. Louis 6 2 9 16 10 15 10 17 9 13 11 13 56 76 +Cincinnati 4 4 7 13 12 13 16 11 7 19 10 16 54 75 +Washington 2 7 4 19 9 15 8 16 13 14 8 16 45 87 +Louisville 4 5 6 14 4 22 13 15 5 18 5 21 36 94 +Totals 50 50 129 129 147 147 156 156 156 156 149 149 782 782 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +MONTHLY RECORD OF PERCENTAGE. + +The following table shows the monthly record of percentage of victories +in the campaign from April to September. + +---------------------------------------------- +1894. S + e + p + A t + A u e + p J J g m + r M u u u b + i a n l s e +Clubs. l y e y t r +--------------------------------------------- +Baltimore .625 .654 .712 .618 .657 .695 +New York .375 .500 .564 .613 .639 .667 +Boston .750 .645 .667 .659 .645 .629 +Philadelphia .667 .643 .569 .526 .562 .559 +Brooklyn .375 .500 .623 .545 .533 .534 +Cleveland .750 .679 .549 .575 .529 .527 +Pittsburgh .500 .710 .614 .531 .491 .500 +Chicago .111 .333 .327 .430 .458 .432 +St. Louis .750 .455 .431 .412 .411 .421 +Cincinnati .500 .393 .434 .488 .434 .419 +Washington .222 .188 .281 .296 .343 .341 +Louisville .444 .345 .255 .325 .302 .277 +--------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that in percentage figures of each month's play, Boston, +Cleveland and St. Louis were tied in April. In May, Pittsburgh, +Cleveland and Baltimore led. In June, Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn +were in the van. In July, the three leaders were Boston, Baltimore and +New York. In August, also, the same three were nearest the goal, and +September saw Baltimore carrying off the pennant, followed by New York +and Boston. + + + +THE CAMPAIGN RECORD OF 1894. + +We introduce in the GUIDE for 1895 a new and important record, which +shows, at a glance almost, the total score of each championship game +_won_, _lost_ and _drawn_ from April 19th to September 30th, inclusive, +and also gives the names of the pitchers who were credited with pitching +in a victory, or charged with pitching in a defeat. The record of each +month's campaign, too, is given, with the position in the pennant race +each of the twelve clubs occupied at the close of each month's campaign +of the six comprising the championship season. This record in full will +be found to be the most complete table of the statistics of the League +season yet published in the GUIDE series, and especially valuable as a +reference record. + + + +THE APRIL RECORD. + +The League championship season of 1894 began on April 19th and ended on +September 30th, the April campaign opening at Boston, Baltimore, +Washington and St. Louis on the 19th, at Cincinnati and Louisville on +the 20th, and at Philadelphia and Brooklyn on the 21st, while the +opening games at New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago were not played until +the 24th, 25th and 28th of April respectively, and not at Cleveland +until May 3d. Fifty games were played in April, the twelve clubs of the +two divisions of the League being engaged in playing their respective +home-and-home series. Here is the complete record of the April campaign, +showing the pitchers of each side and the total score of each contest of +the month: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +April + 19 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Stivetts Kennedy 13-2 + 19 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore McMahon Rusie 8-3 + 19 Washington vs. Philadelphi Washington Esper Weyhing 4-2 + 19 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Breitenstein Killen 11-3 + 20 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Mullane Clark 12-6 + 20 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Washington Taylor Stephens 9-8 + 20 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Parrott Hutchinson 10-6 + 20 Louisville vs. Cleveland Louisville Menafee Young 10-3 + 21 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Nichols Stein 3-0 + 21 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Inks Westervelt 4-3 + 21 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Philadelphia Carsey Esper 10-2 + 21 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Chamberlain Abbey 8-0 + 21 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Cuppy Hemming 5-1 + 21 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Gumbert Gleason 7-2 + 22 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Dwyer McGill 5-4 + 22 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Clarkson Kilroy 3-2 + 23 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Lovett Daub 7-4 + 23 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Washington Weyhing Stockdale 8-4 + 23 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Breitenstein Ehret 4-3 + 24 Baltimore vs. Boston Baltimore McMahon Stivetts 15-3 + 24 Washington vs. New York Washington Petty Rusie 6-3 + 24 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Carsey Korwan 22-5 + 24 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Parrott 1-0 + 24 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Menafee Nicol 7-3 + 24 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago A. Clarkson McGill 9-5 + 25 New York vs. Washington Washington German Maul 14-5 + 25 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Stein Taylor 8-2 + 25 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Nichols Mullane 6-3 + 25 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cuppy Chamberlain 12-6 + 25 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Louisville Gumbert Hemming 2-1 + 25 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Hawley Hutchinson 13-3 + 26 New York vs. Washington Washington Meekin Stockdale 7-5 + 26 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Weyhing Sharrott 13-3 + 26 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Staley Brown 13-7 + 26 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Clarkson Cross 12-4 + 26 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Louisville Killen Kilroy 3-1 + 26 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Gleason Abbey 10-4 + 27 No games scheduled ----------- ---- + 28 New York vs. Baltimore New York Rusie McMahon 9-6 + 28 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Stein Petty 10-9 + 28 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Carsey Stivetts 14-3 + 28 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Breitenstein Young 7-1 + 28 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Parrott Terry 10-5 + 28 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville McGill Menafee 2-1 + 29 Cleveland vs. St Louis St. Louis Cuppy A. Clarkson 5-2 + 29 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Hemming McGill 8-3 + 30 Baltimore vs. New York New York Mullane German 10-6 + 30 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Gastright Mercer 15-10 + 30 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Weyhing[1] 6-5 + 30 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Nicol Chamberlain 15-6 + 30 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Stratton McGill 8-2 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The record showing the total victories and defeats scored by each of the +twelve clubs during the April campaign is as follows. The names are +given in the order of the percentage of victories scored in the pennant +race: + +APRIL PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + V V + i P i P + c D e c D e + t e P r t e P r + o f l o f l + r e a c r e a c + i a y e i a y e + e t e n e t e n +CLUBS s s d t CLUBS s s d t +------------------------------------------------------ +Boston 6 2 8 .750 Cincinnati 4 4 8 .500 +Cleveland 6 2 8 .750 Louisville 4 5 9 .444 +St. Louis 6 2 8 .750 New York 3 5 8 .375 +Philadelphia 6 3 9 .667 Brooklyn 3 5 8 .375 +Baltimore 5 3 8 .625 Washington 2 7 9 .222 +Pittsburgh 4 4 8 .500 Chicago 1 8 9 .111 + +Fifty games were played from April 19th to April 30th, inclusive. +None were drawn or forfeited. +------------------------------------------------------ + +The first month of the championship campaign, short as it was, was +marked by the largest attendance for the month of April known in the +history of the League, an aggregate of 188,509 people patronizing the +twenty-five games played in the East and 82,719 for the twenty-five +played in the West. The largest aggregate attendance on a single day was +45,332 on April 21st, on which date 40,324 people patronized the three +games played at Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and 5,008 the +three games played at Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville. Though three +Western clubs occupied positions in the first division--Cleveland and +St. Louis tieing Boston for first place--the attendance in the West, as +will be seen above, did not compare with that at the three games in the +East, the terribly hard times out West greatly affecting everything in +the amusement line in the Western League club cities. + +Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis started off well in the pennant race in +April, these three clubs ending the April campaign tied for first place; +with the "Phillies" a good fourth, Baltimore fifth, and Pittsburgh and +Cincinnati tied for sixth position, Louisville being eighth, with New +York and Brooklyn tied for ninth place, and Washington on the edge of +the last ditch, the Chicago "Colts" being last on the list, they having +won but one game out of nine played during the opening month of the +season. During April the clubs of the two sections took part in their +first home-and-home series, this series of games lasting into May. + + + +THE MAY CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The following is the complete record of the campaign of May, which +proved to be a very interesting one: + +THE MAY RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +May 1 New York vs. Baltimore New York Meekin McMahon 7-4 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Sharrott Stephens[3] 2-1 + " 1 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Lovett Carsey 7-3 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Killen Parrott 7-6 + " 1 Cleveland vs. St. Louis St. Louis Clarkson Gleason 7-0 + " 2 Washington vs. Boston Washington Maul Stivetts 6-4 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Brown Stein 8-2 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Taylor Rusie 7-5 + " 3 Boston vs. Washington Washington Nichols Esper 10-8 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Weyh'g Westervelt 7-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Brookyln Baltimore Mullane Gastright 8-3 + " 3 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Gumbert Breit'nst'n 6-2 + " 3 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Young Menafee 7-2 + " 4 Boston vs. Washington Washington Stivetts Stephens 15-5 + " 4 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Rusie Haddock 6-4 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore McMahon Sharrott 12-8 + " 4 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Cuppy Hemming 8-4 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Nicol A. Clarkson 10-9 + " 4 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago McGill Dwyer 6-3 + " 5 New York vs. Boston New York Westervelt Lovett 5-2 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Daub Carsey 4-3 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Brown Mercer 9-2 + " 5 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Killen Hawley 6-5 + " 6 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Chicago Chamberlain Camp 6-6 + " 7 Boston vs. New York New York Nichols Rusie 1-0 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Weyhing Gastright 7-5 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Mullane Maul 17-0 + " 7 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Parrott Gumbert 17-6 + " 7 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Breitenst'n Stratton 8-6 + " 7 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Young McGill 7-1 + " 8 New York vs. Boston New York Meekin Stivetts 16-7 + " 8 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Haddock Daub 18-5 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Inks Petty 11-5 + " 8 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Cuppy Camp 18-3 + " 8 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Hawley Menafee 5-4 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Ehret Dwyer 6-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Boston Brooklyn Kennedy Lovett 7-3 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington McMahon Stockdale 12-6 + " 9 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Gumbert Chambl'n 11-3 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Clarkson McGill 4-1 + " 9 Louisville vs. St. Louis Louisville Hemming Gleason 6-3 + " 10 New York vs. Washington New York Rusie Mercer 6-2 + " 10 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Nichols Stein 7-1 + " 10 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Baltimore Taylor Mullane 9-3 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Young Killen 2-1 + " 10 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Parrott Hawley 18-9 + " 11 New York vs. Washington Washington Westervelt Petty 5-4 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Baltimore Carsey Horner 12-7 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Ehret Cuppy 7-6 + " 11 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Griffith Stratton 4-2 + " 12 New York vs. Washington New York Meekin Stockdale 5-2 + " 12 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Kennedy Stivetts 8-2 + " 12 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Brown Callahan 8-3 + " 12 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Killen Clarkson 8-5 +" 12 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Parrott Breitenstein 5-0 + " 12 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Hutchinson Hemming 6-5 + " 13 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago McGill Kilroy 14-12 + " 13 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Dwyer Gleason 7-3 + " 14 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Carsey Rusie[2] 5-4 + " 14 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Gastright Mercer 14-7 + " 14 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston McMahon Nichols 16-5 + " 14 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Gumbert Abbey 6-3 + " 14 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Parrott Whitrock 12-7 + " 14 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Young Breitenstein 7-3 + " 15 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston Stopped by fire(3in) 3-3 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Taylor Westervelt 10-4 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Stein Petty 16-7 + " 15 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Cuppy A. Clarkson 7-0 + " 15 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Griffith Ehret 6-2 + " 16 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Lovett Mullane 10-8 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Haddock Meekin 10-1 + " 16 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Daub Mercer[1] 3-2 + " 16 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Killen McGill 2-0 + " 16 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Clarkson Gleason 5-0 + " 16 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Hemming Dwyer 9-7 + " 17 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Kennedy 6-4 + " 17 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Carsey 4-3 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Hawke Petty 10-2 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Stein German 16-7 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Taylor Stivetts[1] 5-4 + " 19 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Daub[1] 3-3 + " 19 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Haddock Staley 8-7 + " 19 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore McMahon Mercer 7-5 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Breitenstein Parrott 5-2 + " 19 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Young Griffith 9-5 + " 20 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Hawley Chamberlain[1] 4-3 + " 20 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Dwyer A. Clarkson 7-1 + " 21 Boston vs. New York Boston Nichols Westervelt 3-0 + " 21 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Killen McGill 11-10 + " 21 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cleveland Parrott Young 2-1 + " 22 Boston vs. New York Boston Lovett Rusie 3-2 + " 22 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Griffith Ehret 7-6 + " 22 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Gleason Kilroy 6-4 + " 23 New York vs. Boston Boston Meekin Staley 12-4 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Baltimore Kennedy Mullane 5-1 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Gumbert Hutchinson[3] 10-9 + " 23 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Hawley 4-3 + " 24 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Young 6-5 + " 24 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Louisville Menafee Parrott 6-0 + " 24 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Hutchinson Breit'st'n 3-1 + " 25 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Kennedy 12-6 + " 25 Boston vs. Washington Boston Nichols Maul 10-2 + " 25 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Cleveland Clarkson Killen 5-2 + " 26 New York vs. Brooklyn New York Meekin Stein 8-7 + " 26 Boston vs. Washington Boston Lovett Mercer 10-8 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Inks Taylor 5-5 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Cuppy[3] 12-3 + " 26 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Breitenstein Griffith 9-8 +" 26 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Louisville Knell Parrott 5-2 + " 27 St. Louis vs. Chicago St. Louis Hawley McGill 3-2 + " 27 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Hemming Dwyer 6-5 + " 28 Boston vs. Washington Boston Staley Petty 18-12 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 4-2 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Killen Stratton 11-6 + " 29 New York vs. Cleveland New York Meekin Young 2-0 + " 29 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Philadelphia Taylor Hutchinson 14-7 + " 29 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Mercer Hemming 12-2 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Breit'stein Kennedy 9-8 + " 29 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Pittsburgh Ehret McMahon 3-2 + " 30 New York vs. Cleveland New York Rusie Cuppy 2-1 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Stein A. Clarkson 6-2 + " 30 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Petty Knell 7-3 + " 30 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Lovett Parrott 13-10 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia McGill Haddock 12-4 + " 30 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Chamberlain 20-11 + " 30 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Maul Kilroy 14-9 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Daub Hawley 5-2 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Griffith Weyhing 12-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. New York New York Clarkson German[2] 3-2 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Mullane Dwyer 7-1 + " 31 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Kennedy Terry 5-3 + " 31 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Washington Killen Esper 15-4 + " 31 St. Louis vs. New York New York Breit'stein West'velt 6-2 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +During the May campaign the first home-and-home series was completed, +and the first West vs. East series commenced. + +The record showing the relative positions of the twelve clubs up to the +close of the May campaign, as also the number of games won and lost by +each club during May, is as follows: + + + +THE MAY PENNANT RACE RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh 22 9 31 .710 Brooklyn 15 15 30 .500 +Cleveland 19 9 28 .679 St. Louis 15 18 33 .455 +Baltimore 17 9 26 .651 Cincinnati 11 17 28 .393 +Boston 20 11 31 .645 Louisville 10 19 29 .345 +Philadelphia 18 10 28 .643 Chicago 10 20 30 .333 +New York 16 16 32 .500 Washington 6 26 32 .188 + +Three games were drawn during May; one was forfeited; +one protested; and one stopped by fire. +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +During May the Pittsburghs pulled up to the head of the first division, +with the percentage figures of .710, Cleveland being second with .679, +and Baltimore third with .654; Boston, Philadelphia and New York +following in order--Brooklyn being tied with New York for sixth +place. Baltimore had pulled up ahead of Boston, while Philadelphia fell +off, as did St. Louis and Cincinnati, both of the latter clubs retiring +to the second division, while Washington allowed the April tail-enders +to push them into the last ditch, and it was not until August 23d that +they got out of it. + + + +THE JUNE CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The month's record of the June campaign shows that several important +changes were made in the relative positions of the majority of the +twelve clubs in the race, the record being as follows: + +THE JUNE RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +June 1 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Washington Mercer Gumbert 10-5 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Hawke Chambl'n 9-8 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Gastright Griffith 5-0 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Taylor Menafee[3] 10-3 + " 1 Cleveland vs. Boston Boston Young Stivetts 22-8 + " 1 St. Louis vs. New York New York A. Clarkson Rusie 5-1 + " 2 St. Louis vs. New York New York Hawley Meekin 2-2 + " 2 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Nichols Clarkson 11-10 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Weyhing Hemming 11-0 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore McMahon Parrott 13-6 + " 2 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Washington Maul Ehret 11-6 + " 2 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Stein Abbey 1-0 + " 3 No games scheduled + " 4 Cincinnati vs. New York New York Dwyer German 8-4 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Boston Killen Staley 7-4 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Breitenstein Taylor 3-2 + " 4 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Petty Cuppy 8-5 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hawke McGill 12-4 + " 4 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Daub Knell 18-4 + " 5 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Meekin Chamberl'n 10-6 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Kennedy Menafee 5-4 + " 5 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Nichols Gumbert 7-3 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore McMahon Hutchinson[1] 8-5 + " 5 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Young Mercer 9-6 + " 5 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Hawley Weyhing 7-3 + " 6 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Boston Colcolough Lampe 27-11 + " 7 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Gumbert Gastright 13-13 + " 7 New York vs. Chicago New York Westervelt Terry 8-7 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Clarkson 6-0 + " 7 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Nichols Breitenstein 18-7 + " 7 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Maul Parrott 8-8 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Inks Hemming 7-4 + " 8 New York vs. Chicago New York Rusie McGill 3-0 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Ehret 2-1 + " 8 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Stivetts A.Clarkson 12-6 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Hawke Stratton 14-2 + " 8 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Esper Dwyer 9-6 + " 8 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Young Weyhing 4-1 + " 9 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Nichols Breitenstein 12-8 + " 9 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Fischer 9-1 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore McMahon Menafee 7-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Daub Killen 14-5 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Washington Chamberlain Petty 8-3 + " 9 Chicago vs. New York New York Hutchinson Meekin 10-9 + " 10 No games scheduled. + " 11 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 8-3 + " 11 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Stivetts Terry 15-14 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Weyhing Killen 7-4 + " 11 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Stein Dwyer 12-11 + " 11 St. Louis vs. Washington Washington A. Clarkson Maul[2] 3-2 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Baltimore Young Brown 9-7 + " 12 New York vs. Louisville New York Meekin Knell 4-1 + " 12 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Taylor Ehret 17-1 + " 12 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Nichols McGill 12-9 + " 12 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Mercer Breitenstein 4-3 + " 12 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Chamberlain Gastright 5-3 + " 13 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 7-5 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Daub Parrott 11-5 + " 13 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore McMahon Clarkson 9-2 + " 13 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Esper Gleason 12-3 + " 13 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Griffith Lovett 6-2 + " 13 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Nicol Carsey 8-6 + " 14 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Weyhing Dwyer 5-2 + " 14 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Staley Knell 9-6 + " 14 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Mullane Br'tenst'n[2] 7-6 + " 14 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Young Kennedy 5-4 + " 14 Pittsburgh vs. New York New York Killen Clark 10-4 + " 14 Chicago vs. Washington Washington McGill Sullivan[2] 12-11 + " 15 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Gumbert 9-2 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Stein Lyster 9-8 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Callahan Chamberlain 21-8 + " 15 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Hawke A. Clarkson 17-3 + " 15 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Maul Abbey 6-4 + " 15 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Stivetts Hemming 15-10 + " 16 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Rusie Ehret 8-5 + " 16 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Kennedy Fischer 11-7 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Carsey Pfann 19-9 + " 16 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore McMahon Breitenstein 12-5 + " 16 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Lovett Stratton 16-10 + " 16 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Griffith Esper 11-5 + " 17 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati A.Clarkson Tannehill 9-6 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Weyhing Meekin 4-1 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Stein Mercer 10-6 + " 18 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Stivetts Mullane 24-7 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston McMahon Nichols 9-7 + " 18 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Colcolough Knell 9-8 + " 18 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Killen Menafee 11-1 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Young McGill 11-3 + " 18 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Dwyer Breitenstein 8-4 + " 19 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Kennedy Maul 11-9 + " 19 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston Hawke Staley 13-8 + " 19 Chicago vs. Cleveland Cleveland Terry Knaus 5-2 + " 19 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Easton 9-4 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Chamb'lain Hawley 3-2 + " 20 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Clark Carsey 6-4 + " 20 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Rusie Callahan 14-6 + " 20 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Stivetts McMahon 13-12 + " 20 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Esper Daub 16-12 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 7-6 + " 20 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Clarkson Griffith 7-3 + " 20 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Breitenstein Blank 4-2 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. New York Brooklyn Kennedy Germar 16-1 + " 21 Boston vs. Washington Boston Nichols Mau 10-7 + " 21 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Mullane Weyhing 9-5 + " 21 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Terry Ehrel 10-7 + " 21 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Knell Dwyer 5-4 + " 22 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Stein Rusie 7-0 + " 22 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Inks Burris 18-14 + " 22 Washington vs. Boston Washington Mercer Staley 26-12 + " 22 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Killen Griffith 11-4 + " 22 Cleveland vs. St. Louis St. Louis Young A. Clarkson 6-3 + " 23 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Kennedy 10-8 + " 23 Boston vs. Washington Washington Stivetts Esper 12-5 + " 23 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore McMahon Lukens 18-11 + " 23 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Breitenst'n Griffith 14-8 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Colcol'gh Hutchinson 9-4 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Chamberlain Stratt'n 5-1 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Tannehill Menafee 8-8 + " 24 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Dwyer Hemming 7-5 + " 24 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Hawley Clarkson 14-10 + " 24 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago Hawke Terry 11-10 + " 25 St. Louis vs. New York St. Louis A.Clarkson Rusie 3-2 + " 25 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Killen Esper 6-1 + " 25 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Hutchinson Mullane 15-8 + " 25 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Nichols Knell 9-1 + " 26 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Meekin Breitenstein 4-3 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago McMahon McGill 14-6 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Ehret Sullivan 6-5 + " 27 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Westervelt Hawley 11-0 + " 27 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Stein Young 10-7 + " 27 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Daub Clarkson 5-2 + " 27 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Stivetts Menafee 13-3 + " 27 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Griffith Hawke 13-4 + " 27 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Mercer 11-4 + " 27 Cincinnati vs.Philadelphia Cincinnati Parrott Weyhing 7-3 + " 28 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Rusie Terry 6-5 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Kennedy Killen 11-7 + " 28 Boston vs. St. Louis St. Louis Nichols A.Clarkson[1] 12-11 + " 28 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Cleveland Cuppy Mullane 18-11 + " 28 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Louisville Hemming Carsey[1] 11-9 + " 28 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Chamberlain Maul 6-4 + " 29 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 14-8 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Stein Ehret 7-5 + " 29 Boston vs. St. Louis St. Louis Staley Breitenstein 13-4 + " 29 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland McMahon Griffith 9-6 + " 29 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Louisville Knell Lukens 12-5 + " 29 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Dwyer Sullivan 6-4 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Inks Young 5-3 + " 30 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Weyhing Menafee 13-6 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Gumbert Kennedy 10-6 + " 30 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Parrott Mercer 12-0 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis A. Clarkson Lovett 10-9 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE JUNE PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 37 15 52 .712 Cleveland 28 23 51 .549 +Boston 38 19 57 .667 Cincinnati 23 30 53 .434 +Brooklyn 33 20 53 .623 St. Louis 25 33 58 .431 +Pittsburgh 35 22 57 .614 Chicago 18 37 55 .327 +Philadelphia 29 22 51 .569 Washington 16 41 57 .281 +New York 31 24 55 .564 Louisville 14 41 55 .255 + +No games were drawn, forfeited or protested. +------------------------------------------------------- + +The Baltimore club retained the leading position in the race at the +close of the June campaign with the percentage figures of .712, the +tail-end club's percentage figures being .255, a difference in +percentage points of .457, thereby showing a poorly contested race even +at that early period of the season. Boston was in second position, with +Brooklyn third, this month's figures being the culmination of the +Brooklyn team's success. Pittsburgh was fourth, that being the only +Western club in the first division, although so early in the race, the +"Phillies" and the "Giants" being respectively fifth and +sixth. Cleveland headed the second division at the close of the month, +followed by Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington, Louisville +being still occupants of the last ditch. + + + +THE JULY CAMPAIGN RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +July 1 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Cincinnati Chamberlain Daub 9-7 + " 1 Louisville vs. Baltimore Louisville Hemming Hawke 6-0 + " 1 Washington vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Breitenstein 4-2 + " 1 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy Griffith 10-9 + " 2 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Griffith 6-4 + " 2 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Nichols Ehret 7-2 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Chicago Carsey Stratton 17-15 + " 3 No games scheduled. + " 4 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Meekin Cuppy 4-3 + " 4 New York vs. Cleveland. Chicago. Weyhing McGill 12-11 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Louisville. Louisville McMahon Knell 3-2 + " 4 Louisville vs. Baltimore. Louisville Hemming Inks 11-1 + " 4 Washington vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Sullivan Hawley 10-5 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Washington. St. Louis. A.Clarkson Mercer 15-8 + " 5 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Westervelt Menafee 4-3 + " 5 Boston vs. Cleveland. Cleveland. Staley Clarkson 22-7 + " 5 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Carsey Colcolough 4-3 + " 5 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn. St. Louis. Hawley Daub 13-12 + " 5 Cincinnati vs. Baltimore. Cincinnati. Dwyer Hawke 20-6 + " 5 Chicago vs. Washington. Chicago. Stratton Maul 13-10 + " 6 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Rusie Hemming 10-6 + " 6 Boston vs. Cleveland. Boston. Stivetts Cuppy 19-6 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Haddock Killen 13-7 + " 7 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Meekin Knell 14-6 + " 7 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Kennedy Breitenst'n 10-5 + " 7 Boston vs. Cleveland. Cleveland. Nichols Young 16-10 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Weyhing Ehret 12-0 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Inks Parrott 11-2 + " 7 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Abbey Sullivan 9-7 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Stein A.Clarkson 12-5 + " 8 Washington vs. Chicago. Chicago. Esper Griffith 9-8 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. McMahon Chamberlain 14-4 + " 9 New York vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Rusie Parrott 13-8 + " 9 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Callahan Hawley 11-10 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Brown Killen 14-10 + " 9 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Wadsw'th Kennedy 20-8 + " 9 Chicago vs. Boston. Chicago. Stratton Staley 18-11 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Cuppy Esper 16-15 + " 10 Cincinnati vs. New York. Cincinnati. Dwyer Meekin 7-3 + " 10 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Menafee Daub 13-7 + " 10 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore. Pittsburgh. Ehret McMahon 19-9 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Young Esper 23-4 + " 10 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia. St. Louis. Breitenst'n Haddock 17-8 + " 10 Boston vs. Chicago. Chicago. Stivetts McGill 12-3 + " 11 Cincinnati vs. New York. Cincinnati. Parrott Westervelt 6-5 + " 11 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Hemming Stein 7-3 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore. Pittsburgh. Gumbert Inks 8-6 + " 11 Chicago vs. Boston. Chicago. Griffith Nichols 13-1 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Griffith Mercer[1] 15-10 + " 11 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia. St. Louis. A.Clarkson Weyhing 13-12 + " 12 New York vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Rusie Killen 9-6 + " 12 Boston vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Stivetts Dwyer 6-4 + " 12 Chicago vs. Brooklyn. Chicago. Stratton Kennedy 11-6 + " 12 Louisville vs. Washington. Louisville. Knell Sullivan 7-5 + " 12 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia. Cleveland. Cuppy Carsey 20-10 + " 13 Pittsburgh vs. New York. Pittsburgh. Ehret Westervelt 10-4 + " 13 St. Louis vs. Baltimore. St. Louis. Breitenstein Hawke 11-10 + " 13 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Young Callahan 16-8 + " 13 Boston vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Staley Parrott 22-7 + " 14 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Meekin Gumbert 9-5 + " 14 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Inks Hawley 7-3 + " 14 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Stein Abbey[1] 8-8 + " 14 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Cross Nichols 14-12 + " 14 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Griffith Weyhing 14-7 + " 14 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Wadsworth Esper 5-3 + " 15 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Terry Gastright 10-7 + " 15 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis McMahon A.Cl'kson[2] 9-8 + " 15 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Menafee Mercer 11-8 + " 15 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cincinnati Dwyer Cuppy 17-8 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Harper Stivitts 9-2 + " 16 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Br't'nst'n Colcol'gh 11-7 + " 16 Louisville vs. Chicago Chicago Hemming Griffith 11-10 + " 16 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Parrott 9-1 + " 17 New York vs. Washington New York Rusie Maul 7-2 + " 17 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Taylor Staley[4] 12-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Gleason Kennedy 13-4 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Griffin Flynn 16-7 + " 17 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Ehret Mason 5-4 + " 17 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Stratton Knell 8-5 + " 18 New York vs. Washington New York Meekin Mercer 5-4 + " 18 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Weyhing 6-5 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Hawke Underwood 6-2 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Chamberlain 9-4 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Hawley Gumbert 3-2 + " 18 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Terry Wadsworth 8-4 + " 19 New York vs. Washington New York German Sullivan 13-12 + " 19 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stein Inks 10-8 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Dwyer Colcolough 8-6 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Chicago St. Louis Breitenstein Abbey 7-1 + " 20 Boston vs. New York Boston Stivetts Rusie 12-1 + " 20 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Kennedy Taylor 8-2 + " 20 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Hawke Petty 12-8 + " 20 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chamberlain Ehret 7-6 + " 20 Louisville vs. Cleveland Louisville Menafee Mullane 7-4 + " 21 Boston vs. New York Boston Nichols Meekin 14-3 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Underwood Herper 8-7 + " 21 Washington vs. Baltimore Baltimore Maul Gleason 14-3 + " 21 Chicago vs. St. Louis St. Louis Stratton Hawley[1]16-11 + " 21 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Cuppy Hemming 2-0 + " 21 Cleveland vs. Louisvile Louisville Young Knell 9-1 + " 21 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cross Gumbert 12-4 + " 22 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Dwyer Wadsworth 4-0 + " 22 Chicago vs. St. Louis St. Louis Griffith A.Clarkson 11-9 + " 23 Boston vs. New York Boston Staley German 9-5 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Stein Taylor 7-3 + " 23 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Weyhing Daub 12-4 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Chamberlain Menafee 9-8 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Killen Stratton 14-6 + " 24 New York vs. Baltimore New York Rusie McMahon 1-0 + " 24 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Mullane Breitenst'n 12-9 + " 24 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Cuppy Hawley 4-2 + " 24 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Parrott Hemming 4-3 + " 24 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Hutchinson Ehret 18-11 + " 25 New York vs. Baltimore New York Meekin Gleason 7-2 + " 25 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Kennedy Stivetts 8-7 + " 25 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Nichols Underwood 12-6 + " 25 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Mercer Fanning 16-6 + " 25 Philadelphia vs. Washington Washington Carsey Sullivan 9-6 + " 25 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Young Breitenstein 12-3 + " 25 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Griffith Colcolough 24-6 + " 26 New York vs. Baltimore New York German Hawke 16-4 + " 26 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Stein Staley 15-9 + " 26 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Maul Taylor 5-4 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Mullane 9-3 + " 27 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Harper Rusle 13-5 + " 27 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Mercer Kennedy 8-2 + " 27 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stivetts McMahon 7-4 + " 27 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Cleveland Cuppy Nicol 9-6 + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Dwyer Stratton 14-12 + " 27 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Hawley Wadsworth 6-4 + " 28 New York vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Meekin Carsey[3] 12-11 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Underwood Sullivan 9-5 + " 28 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Staley Gleason 8-4 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Young 8-0 + " 28 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Cross Griffith 19-13 + " 28 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Mason 8-4 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Breitenst'n Menafee 13-2 + " 29 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Knell Hawley 9-2 + " 29 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Griffith Parrott 16-9 + " 30 New York vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia German Taylor 13-7 + " 30 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Maul Daub 10-6 + " 30 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stivetts Hawke 5-2 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Gumbert Cross 8-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Cuppy Wadsworth 14-5 + " 30 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Stratton Hawley 8-4 + " 31 New York vs. Boston New York Rusie Nichols 4-3 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Harper Kennedy 13-6 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore McMahon Mercer 11-3 + " 31 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Hutchinson Breitenst'n 8-1 + " 31 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Mullane Hemming[2] 12-10 + " 31 Louisville vs. Cleveland Cleveland Menafee Young 12-4 + " 31 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Nicol Dwyer[2] 11-10 + +[Footnote 1: Ten Innings] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Thirteen innings.] +[Footnote 4: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Only one game was drawn in July. + + +THE JULY PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +------------------------------------------------------- +Boston 54 28 82 .659 Philadelphia 40 36 76 .526 +Baltimore 47 29 76 .618 Cincinnati 39 41 80 .488 +New York 49 31 80 .613 Chicago 34 45 79 .430 +Cleveland 46 34 80 .575 St. Louis 35 60 85 .412 +Brooklyn 42 35 77 .545 Louisville 27 56 83 .325 +Pittsburgh 43 38 81 .531 Washington 24 57 81 .296 +------------------------------------------------------- + +By the end of July the Boston club had ousted Baltimore out of first +place, and the calculation now was that Boston would ultimately win. New +York had pulled up to third place this month, and from this time out +these three clubs monopolized the three leading positions in the race, +no other club from now on being regarded as in the race, as far as the +winning of the pennant was concerned. On the 31st of July two Western +clubs occupied positions in the first division--Cleveland being fourth +and Pittsburgh sixth--the Brooklyn club leading the "Pirates" by a few +points only. The "Phillies" had been forced back into the second +division, and Louisville had pushed the Washingtons into the last ditch, +the difference in percentage points between the Boston and Washington +clubs--the leader and tail-ender--being 355 points. + +Now came the trying month of August, and with it came the customary +falling off in patronage, largely due to the one-sided character of the +pennant race, the chief interest in the contest for the championship now +lying in the struggle for the lead between Baltimore, New York, and +Boston, the "Bean Eaters" still leading at the end of July, followed by +Baltimore and New York. + + +[Illustration: Brooklyn Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Cleveland Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Pittsburgh Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: A.C. Anson, Chicago Base Ball Club. + The only "Colt" Who Had a picture Taken.] + + + +THE AUGUST CAMPAIGN RECORD + +The following is the record of the August campaign, which led to a +material change in the relative positions of the twelve clubs by the +close of the month: + +THE AUGUST RECORD +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Aug. 1 New York vs. Boston New York Meekin Staley[2] 5-4 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Carsey Stein 6-5 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Gleason Stein 6-4 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Inks Stockdale 11-4 + " 1 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago McGill Hawley 26-8 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Colcolugh Parrot 15-5 + " 2 Boston vs. New York New York Nichols German 13-13 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Fanning Underwood 9-8 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Hawke Maul 10-9 + " 2 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Breitenstein Ehret 7-4 + " 2 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cleveland Cuppy Chamberlain 9-4 + " 2 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville Hutchinson Knell 4-3 + " 3 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Westervelt Daub 17-3 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. New York Brooklyn Kennedy Clarke 7-6 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Philadelphia Taylor Esper 14-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia McMahon Weyhing 16-3 + " 3 Washington vs. Boston Boston Mercer Nichols 8-4 + " 3 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cleveland Young Cross 11-5 + " 3 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hawley Gumbert[2] 8-6 + " 3 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Forfeited; no game 9-0 + " 4 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Stein 16-8 + " 4 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Stein 9-* + " 4 Boston vs. Washington Boston Stivetts Sullivan 11-5 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Gleason Carsey 19-12 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Colcol'h Br'tenst'n 11-5 + " 4 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cleveland Parrott Cuppy 8-5 + " 4 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville Griffith Hemming 10-4 + " 5 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Griffith Dwyer 8-1 + " 5 Lousiville vs. St. Louis Lousiville Wadsworth A.Clarkson 5-2 + " 6 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Kennedy Westervelt 21-8 + " 6 Boston vs. Washington Boston Staley Maul 15-7 + " 6 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Stratton Cross 12-9 + " 6 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Eghret Young 11-6 + " 6 Louisville vs. St. Louis Louisville Menafee Hawley 3-1 + " 7 New York vs. Washington Washington Rusie Mercer 16-8 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn McMahon Daub 26-5 + " 7 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Brooklyn Stein Inks 18-8 + " 7 Boston vs. Philadelphia Boston Nichols Carsey 19-8 + " 7 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Cuppy Colcolough 10-9 + " 7 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Hutchinson Fischer[1]13-11 + " 7 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Breitenstein Knell 11-2 + " 8 Washington vs. New York Washington Sullivan Meekin 12-10 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Broooklyn Brooklyn Gleason Kennedy 4-1 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Esper Summerville 13-5 + " 8 Philadelphia vs. Boston Boston Harper Staley 18-10 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Ehret Perry 10-3 + " 8 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Chicago Dwyer McGill 14-11 + " 9 New York vs. Washington Washington Meekin Maul 7-3 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Brooklyn Stein Hawke 11-7 + " 9 Boston vs. Philadelphia Boston Hodson Taylor 11-2 + " 9 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Gumbert 5-4 + " 9 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Dwyer McGill 14-11 + " 10 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Gleason Rusie 12-9 + " 10 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Nichols Kennedy 12-6 + " 10 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Mercer Carsey 4-1 + " 10 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Ehret Wadsworth 9-6 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Young Hutchinson 2-1 + " 11 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore McMahon Westervelt 20-1 + " 11 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Lucis Stivetts 11-10 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Taylor Sullivan 10-7 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Weyhing Maul 16-4 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 3-2 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy Stratton 11-9 + " 11 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Fischer Hawley 7-6 + " 12 Chicago vs. Cleveland Chicago Griffith Petty 16-5 + " 12 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Breitenstein Parrott 12-5 + " 13 New York vs. Baltimore Baltimore Meekin Hawke 5-1 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Boston Brooklyn Stein Hodson 13-5 + " 13 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hutchinson Ehret 17-14 + " 14 New York vs. St. Louis New York Rusie A.Clarkson 5-4 + " 14 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Nichols Gumbert 22-5 + " 14 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Gleason Dwyer[1] 6-5 + " 14 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Stratton Kennedy 5-1 + +THE AUGUST RECORD--_Continued._ + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Aug 14 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Young Mercer[1] 1-0 + " 14 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Knell Carsey 13-7 + " 15 St. Louis vs. New York New York Breitenstein German 4-3 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Daub Hutchinson 9-5 + " 15 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Stivetts Ehret[2] 6-5 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Taylor Hemming 14-4 + " 15 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore McMahon Fischer 8-2 + " 15 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Stockdale Cuppy 7-6 + " 16 New York vs. St. Louis New York Meekin Hawley 13-3 + " 16 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Staley Menafee 6-4 + " 16 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Hawke Parrott 15-6 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Weyhing Nicol 17-8 + " 16 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Maul Young 6-2 + " 16 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Griffith Lucid 3-1 + " 17 New York vs. St. Louis New York Rusie A.Clarkson 7-6 + " 17 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Carsey Wadsworth 29-4 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Cuppy Mercer 9-8 + " 18 Chicago vs. New York New York Stratton German 6-4 + " 18 Chicago vs. New York New York Terry Meekin[1] 5-5 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Breitenstein Stein 4-0 + " 18 Cincinnati vs. Boston Boston Dwyer Nichols 19-6 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Gleason Ehret 17-2 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Sullivan 11-6 + " 18 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Stockdale Hemming 6-4 + " 19 No Games Scheduled + " 20 New York vs. Chicago New York Rusie Griffith 11-3 + " 20 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Kennedy A.Clarkson 20-4 + " 20 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Harper Young 16-1 + " 20 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Maul Knell 8-7 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Baltimore Menafee Esper 7-5 + " 21 New York vs. Chicago New York German Hutchinson 13-11 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Lucid Breitenstein 20-11 + " 21 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Staley Fischer 18-3 + " 21 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Parrott 28-8 + " 21 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Baltimore Hawke Gumbert 17-11 + " 21 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Carsey Cuppy 12-6 + " 21 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Mercer Wadsworth 15-9 + " 22 New York vs. Chicago New York Meekin Hutchinson 8-5 + " 22 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Fournier 8-7 + " 22 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Philadelphia Taylor Inks 3-2 + " 23 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 8-4 + " 23 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Stivetts Young 12-10 + " 23 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Harper Menafee 9-4 + " 23 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Stockdale Terry 14-3 + " 23 St. Louis vs. Baltimore Baltimore Hawley Gleason 10-6 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Dwyer Stein 13-2 + " 24 New York vs. Louisville New York German Knell 20-4 + " 24 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Kennedy Fischer 15-9 + " 24 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore McMahon Breitenst'n 5-2 + " 24 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carsey Ehret 14-7 + " 24 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Hodson Cuppy 14-4 + " 24 Cleveland vs. Boston Boston Cuppy Staley 10-8 + " 24 Chicago vs. Washington Washington Griffith Mercer 10-5 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville New York Meekin Nicol 18-6 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Wadsworth 5-1 + " 25 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Daub Dwyer 5-3 + " 25 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Hawke A.Clarkson 4-3 + " 25 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Hodson Sullivan 8-3 + " 25 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Taylor Gumbert 13-6 + " 25 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Mercer Stratton 9-4 + " 26 No game scheduled + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Whitrock Fanning 19-9 + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Fournier Harper 9-8 + " 27 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Gleason Hutchinson 12-3 + " 28 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Young 5-1 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Menafee 8-2 + " 28 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Philadelphia Taylor Terry 16-6 + " 28 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore McMahon Hemming 8-2 + " 28 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Maul Dwyer 9-7 + " 28 St. Louis vs. Boston Boston Hawley Nichols 9-5 + " 29 New York vs. Cleveland New York Meekin Cuppy 6-4 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Stein Ehret 11-7 + " 29 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Hawke Wadsworth 8-6 + " 29 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Stivetts A.Clarkson 14-4 + " 29 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Mercer Fournier 9-5 + " 29 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Griffith Carsey 13-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. New York New York Sullivan Clarke 13-4 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Boston Boston Hawley Hodson 7-3 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Hutchinson Harper 15-11 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Gleason Knell 9-8 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Gumbert 19-11 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Menafee Daub 9-1 + " 30 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Stockdale Fischer 8-6 + " 31 New York vs. Boston New York Rusie Nichols 5-1 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Esper Young 5-1 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Taylor Maul 10-8 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Weyhing Wynne 11-5 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings] + +Two games were drawn in August. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Baltimore, Boston and New York led the first division clubs in the +pennant race up to August 31st, with the respective percentage figures +of .657, .645 and .639, followed by Philadelphia with .562, Brooklyn +with .533 and Cleveland with .529, only one Western club being left in +the first division, something hitherto unprecedented in League pennant +races. Pittsburgh led the second division clubs with the percentage +figures of .491 only, that club having fallen off badly in August, with +Chicago a good second, followed by Cincinnati, St. Louis, Washington and +Louisville, the "Senators" having driven the "Colonels" into the last +ditch, the Louisville figures being .302. + +Here is the pennant race record up to the close of the August campaign: + +AUGUST RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 69 36 105 .657 Pittsburgh 52 54 106 .491 +Boston 69 38 107 .645 Chicago 49 58 107 .458 +New York 69 39 108 .639 Cincinnati 46 60 106 .434 +Philadelphia 59 46 105 .562 St. Louis 44 63 107 .411 +Brooklyn 56 49 105 .533 Washington 37 71 108 .343 +Cleveland 55 49 104 .529 Louisville 32 74 106 .302 +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +By the close of the August campaign the Baltimore club had regained the +position in the van, and afterward they were not headed. Then began an +exciting struggle between the Boston champions and the "Giants" for +second place, but it was not until September 6th that the "Giants" led +the "Champions," and then only by the percentage figures of .652 to +.646. Baltimore leading at that date with but .676, so it will be seen +that the fight between those three was nip and tuck after the end of +August. At that time the "Phillies," the Brooklyns and the Clevelands +were struggling equally hard for fourth place, the "Phillies" leading, +with Brooklyn fifth and Cleveland sixth. By this time Washington had +comfortably buried the Louisvilles in the last ditch, and no +resurrection followed. + + + +THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The feature of the last monthly campaign of the championship season was +the fight for second place between Boston and New York. When the +campaign began Baltimore led with the percentage figures of .667, and it +was an exceedingly close fight between the "Champions" and "Giants," the +former leading the latter by the percentage figures of .645 to .643 on +September 3d. The "Phillies," Brooklyns and Clevelands were the next +three in the first division, all three being in the five hundreds in +percentage points. + +Here is the month's record: + +THE SEPTEMBER RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Sept 1 New York vs. Cincinnati New York German Whitrock 8-6 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Stein Hemming 6-5 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Kennedy Wadsworth 20-7 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Gleason Cuppy 5-2 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Carsey Hawley 19-9 + " 1 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mercer Menafee 11-4 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Ehret Mercer 15-6 + " 1 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Terry Stivetts 15-6 + " 1 Cincinnati vs. New York New York Dwyer Meekin 8-6 + " 1 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Breitenst'n Fanning 8-6 + " 2 No games scheduled + " 3 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Meekin Fournier 16-2 + " 3 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Rusie Dwyer 6-4 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Lucid Knell 6-4 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Daub Inks 9-3 + " 3 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Staley Griffith 5-4 + " 3 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Nichols Hutchinson 11-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Esper Sullivan 13-2 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Hawke Young 10-3 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Weyhing Breitenst'n 8-1 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Jones Hawley 6-4 + " 3 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Maul 22-1 + " 4 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Menafee 14-13 + " 4 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Cuppy Stein 8-0 + " 4 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Stivetts Knell 20-11 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hemming Terry 9-3 + " 4 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Taylor Whitrock 6-2 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Washington Washington Breitenst'n Haddock 10-7 + " 5 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Rusie Ehret 4-0 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Kennedy Young 2-1 + " 5 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Nichols Wadsworth 7-6 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Gleason Hutchinson 12-3 + " 5 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Carsey Dwyer 15-6 + " 5 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington St'kdale A.Cl'kson[1] 7-4 + " 6 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Gumbert 6-5 + " 6 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hawke Griffith 14-6 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Weyhing Fischer 14-7 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Taylor Whitrock 16-2 + " 6 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Mercer Breitenstein 12-2 + " 6 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Sullivan Lucid 13-2 + " 6 Louisville vs. Boston Boston Inks Staley 15-10 + " 7 No games scheduled + " 8 Boston vs. Chicago Chicago Nichols Hutchinson 3-1 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Gleason Knell 6-3 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Stein Hawley 6-1 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Menafee Weyhing 13-7 + " 8 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Dwyer Haddock 14-9 + " 9 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn St. Louis Br'tsenst'n Kennedy 7-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Kennedy Hawley 11-7 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Hemming Wadsworth 9-4 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy McGill 9-5 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Whitrock Mercer 4-1 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Fisher Stockdale 7-6 + " 10 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Sullivan 13-4 + " 10 Boston vs. Chicago Chicago Stivetts Terry 25-8 + " 10 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Esper Inks 15-6 + " 11 Cleveland vs. New York Cleveland Young Meekin 13-3 + " 11 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Meekin Cuppy 9-1 + " 11 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Hutchinson Staley 17-2 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Colcolough Taylor 9-7 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Ehret Johnson 9-8 + " 12 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Stein McGill 12-8 + " 12 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Carsey Knell 5-3 + " 12 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Gleason Dwyer 16-2 + " 12 Cleveland vs. Boston Cleveland Sullivan Stivetts 9-8 + " 12 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Haddock 9-6 + " 13 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Rusie Hawley 7-3 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Kennedy Hutchinson 8-3 + " 13 Boston vs Cleveland Cleveland Nichols Cuppy 11-4 + " 13 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Weyhing Wadsworth 5-2 + " 13 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mercer Menafee 11-6 + " 14 St. Louis vs. New York St. Louis A.Clarkson Meekin 1-0 + " 15 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Rusie Breitenstein 7-2 + " 15 Boston vs. Cleveland Cleveland Stivetts Wallace 7-2 + " 15 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Hutchinson Lucid 10-3 + " 15 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Stockdale 11-6 + " 16 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Gleason Dwyer 14-3 + " 16 Cincinnati vs. Baltimore Cincinnati Parrott Hawke 4-3 + " 16 Washington vs. Louisville Louisville Mercer Inks 7-6 + " 16 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Griffith Stein 13-5 + " 17 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 5-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Menafee 10-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Esper Ehret 4-1 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Cleveland Sullivan Kennedy 12-6 + " 17 St. Louis vs Boston St. Louis Hawley Nichols 6-5 + " 17 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Knell Haddock 7-6 + " 18 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Rusie Terry 4-3 + " 18 New York vs Chicago Chicago Meekin Griffith 9-6 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Cleveland Young Daub 9-3 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Lucid Cuppy 7-1 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Gleason Colcolough 15-8 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Taylor Fischer 10-4 + " 18 Washington vs. Louisville Louisville Mercer Wadsworth 9-4 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis Br'tenst'n Stivetts 5-1 + " 19 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 4-3 + " 19 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Carsey Whitrock 12-11 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Cincinnati Parrott Weyhing 8-3 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis Hawley Stivetts 5-4 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. New York Pittsburgh Menafee Rusie 10-3 + " 20 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Nichols Inks 4-3 + " 20 Cleveland vs. Washington Cleveland Wallace Boyd 14-8 + " 20 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Chicago Abbey Johnson 20-4 + " 21 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Meekin Ehret[2] 4-4 + " 21 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Staley Knell 13-6 + " 21 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Breitestein 8-4 + " 21 Washington vs. Cleveland Cleveland Mullarky Young 4-3 + " 21 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Chicago Hutchinson Taylor 11-5 + " 22 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Rusie Colcolough 6-2 + " 22 Pittsburgh vs. New York Pittsburgh Ehret German 4-1 + " 22 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Stein Fischer 11-6 + " 22 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Chicago Carsey Abbey 9-6 + " 22 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Hawley 6-4 + " 22 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Stivetts Wadsworth 3-2 + " 22 Louisville vs. Boston Louisville Inks 6-4 + " 22 Cleveland vs. Washington Cleveland Sullivan Anderson 6-5 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Kennedy Whitrock 10-9 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Cincinnati Parrott Daub 3-2 + " 23 Washington vs. Chicago Chicago Mullarky Terry 6-5 + " 23 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Griffith Boyd 11-5 + " 23 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Breitenstein 10-4 + " 24 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Meekin Knell 8-7 + " 24 Boston vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Stivetts Fischer 7-4 + " 24 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Cleveland Cuppy Gleason 12-7 + " 24 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Menafee Stein 10-4 + " 24 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Hutchinson Stockdle 17-5 + " 24 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis St. Louis Johnson A.Clarkson 21-1 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Rusie Wadsworth 15-3 + " 25 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Esper Young 14-9 + " 25 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Parrott Nichols 9-7 + " 25 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Whitrock Hodson 5-1 + " 25 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia St. Louis Hawley Figgemeir 14-7 + " 25 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Jordan Kennedy 10-7 + " 26 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Meekin Inks 9-5 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Hemming Cuppy 7-6 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Colcolo'h Kennedy 9-8 + " 26 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia St. Louis Breitestein Johnson 12-6 + " 27 New York vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Clark Fischer 11-4 + " 27 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Stivetts Ehret 8-1 + " 27 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Young Weyhing 26-4 + " 28 New York vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati German Whitrock 9-8 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Pittsburgh Gumbert Nichols 15-9 + " 28 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Wallace Carsey 8-6 + " 29 Cincinnati vs. New York Cincinnati Parrott Meekin 7-6 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Hawley Anderson 6-4 + " 29 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Hutchinson Gleason 5-4 + " 29 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Sullivan Taylor 11-3 + " 29 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hodson Menafee 6-5 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Louisville Stein Knell 11-4 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago Esper Terry 20-9 + " 30 Louisville vs. Brooklyn Louisville Wadsworth Daub 10-8 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Louisville Stein Inks 12-4 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Br'tenst'n Mullarky 14-2 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Hawley Boyd 10-4 + " 30 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cuppy Dwyer 16-16 + +[Footnote 1: Protested.] +[Footnote 2: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE PITCHING OF 1894. + +The pitching of 1894 in the National League arena was in advance of that +of 1893, but it has yet to reach the point of perfect work in the +box. Somehow or other, managers of teams cannot get it out of their +heads that great speed is the principal factor of success in pitching, +when the fact is that speed is but an aid to success, secondary in value +to that of strategic skill in delivering the ball to the bat. + +The experience of the past season in connection with the limit of speed +in pitching presents some valuable suggestions which team managers will +do well to bear in mind this year. Some years ago, the swift +pitching--which had then about reached the highest point of +speed--proved to be so costly in its wear and fear upon the catchers +that clubs had to engage a corps of reserve catchers, in order to go +through a season's campaign with any degree of success. Afterward, +however, the introduction of the protective "mitts" led to some relief +being afforded the catchers who had been called upon to face the swift +pitching of the "cyclone" pitchers of the period. The seasons of 1893 +and 1894 were marked by some exhibitions of swift pitching unequaled in +the annals of the game, and yet it was not effective in placing the team +which held the cyclone pitchers in the lead. If the speed of the ball is +too great for catchers to handle, even with the protection the breast +pads, masks and the padded gloves of the period afford, why then it is +worse than useless. It was skilful, strategic pitching which helped to +win the pennant in 1894, and not "cyclone" pitching. Speed is all very +well as an important accessory, but without the best of catching to +support it, and thorough command of the ball to give it full effect, it +is more costly than otherwise. + +The Pitching Percentages for 1894. + + + +THE CHAMPION BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. + +The complete record of the pitching percentages of victories pitched in, +shows that Baltimore's full season's team of pitchers had a general +percentage of victories pitched in of .695 by the eight pitchers who +occupied the box during the season's campaign. This record excelled the +percentage figures of New York's team of five pitchers by 31 points, and +that of Boston's seven pitchers by 66 points, the respective percentage +figures being, .695, .664 and .629. These figures show the relative +strength of the three battery teams, as far as the record of percentage +can show them. A better criterion of pitching skill would be, of course, +at command, were the scoring rules giving the data of runs earned off +the pitching revised properly; but as they were not in 1894, we have to +take the next best data at command, that being the percentage of +victories pitched in. Taking the records of the first three pitchers +named in the Baltimore "battery" team record, as a whole, we do not +hesitate to award to McMahon the position of leading pitcher of the club +for 1894. Brown led McMahon in percentage of victories against the five +Eastern teams, but the former was last on the list against the six +Western teams, McMahon's percentage figures against the Western batsmen +being .812 against Brown's .500. Against the Eastern teams +Brown's figures were .750 to McMahon's .706. But McMahon pitched in 17 +games against the Eastern batsmen, to Brown's 4 games only, and that +fact counts to McMahon's advantage. Esper stood second in percentage +figures against the Western batsmen with the percentage of .889 in 9 +games to McMahon's .812 in 16 games. Gleason stood third against the +Eastern teams with .625 to McMahon's .706; but against the West, Gleason +was fourth, with the percentage of .769 to McMahon's .812. Hawke did +service against the West with .688 to .556 against the East. Inks and +Mullane stood even at .667 against the West, but Inks led Mullane by +.511 to .500 against the East, Horner only pitched in one game. Here is +a full record of the eight pitchers of the Baltimore team of 1894, +showing what each pitcher did against the Eastern and Western batsmen +separately, in victories and defeats against each club, and in +percentage of victories pitched in against the batsmen of each +section. It is a valuable record, if only in its showing what each +pitcher did in the way of victories, against each club of each division. + + +THE BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i i o + W N a B s l t S n u + o e d r h P e t C t c i P +BALTIMORE n w B e o i e v s h . i s e + / o l o n T r e b i L n v T r +vs. L Y s p k g o c l u c o n i o c + o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e + s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n +Pitchers t k n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brown W 0 0 1 1 1 3 .750 Hemming 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 1.000 + L 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +McMahon W 2 3 2 2 3 12 .706 Esper 3 1 1 2 0 1 8 .889 + L 3 2 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 +Gleason W 1 0 1 2 1 5 .625 McMahon 2 0 2 3 3 3 13 .811 + L 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 +Inks W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .571 Gleason 1 2 2 3 0 2 10 .769 + L 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 +Hawke W 0 1 0 1 3 5 .556 Hawke 1 1 3 2 2 2 11 .688 + L 2 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 +Mullane W 2 0 1 1 1 5 .500 Inks 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 .667 + L 0 3 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 +Esper W 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 Mullane 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 .667 + L 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 +Horner W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Brown 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 + L 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen by the above table that, while Brown did not pitch in a +single victory against the two clubs standing next to Baltimore in the +race, McMahon pitched in five victories; and yet Brown's percentage +figures exceeded McMahon's by .750 to .706 against the five clubs as a +whole, owing to McMahon's pitching in five defeats, against Brown's +single defeats against the New York and Boston batsmen. Hemming's record +is A No. 1, as far as he pitched, but he did not pitch in a single game +against the Eastern teams, to the extent of a full record of innings +pitched in. + +Here is the record for the whole season, showing the total percentage: + +THE BALTIMORE PITCHERS' FULL RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------- + Per cent. of +Pitchers. Victories. Defeats. Games Pitched. Victories. +----------------------------------------------------------- +Hemming 5 0 5 1.000 +Esper 9 2 11 .818 +McMahon 25 8 33 .758 +Gleason 15 6 21 .714 +Brown 4 2 6 .667 +Hawke 16 9 25 .640 +Inks 8 5 13 .615 +Mullane 7 6 13 .538 +Horner 0 1 1 .000 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +These tables include all victories and defeats of the season, whether +counted or thrown out. It will be seen that only three pitchers pitched +in a majority of the games played. + + + +THE NEW YORK CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The New York club, in 1894, went through the season's campaign with the +fewest pitchers in their team of any of the twelve clubs. Moreover, +their "battery" teams of the season, as a whole, surpassed those of any +of the club's previous batteries since the club was organized. Led by +Meekin and Farrell--the champion "battery" of 1894--followed by pitchers +Rusie, Westervelt, German and Clarke, with catchers Wilson and Doyle, +the club presented battery strength sufficient to have carried the team +to the goal, but for sundry drawbacks they met with during the early +part of the championship campaign, especially during April and May. And +handicapped as they were, they managed to close the season in second +place, after brilliant rallying work during the last three months of the +campaign, when their pitchers were well backed up by better team-work +than they had at command up to July. + +In giving the record of the work done by the club pitchers, we have +deemed it essential to divide the tables up into sections, showing the +work done in the box against both the Eastern and Western teams +separately, as well as the table showing the aggregate figures of the +individual percentages of victories pitched in. Thus it will be seen in +the appended table, that while Meekin's pitching was more successful +against the batsmen of the Eastern teams, Rusie excelled Meekin in +downing the batsmen of the Western teams, by a percentage of victories +of .889 against .778 for Meekin. But it should be remembered that in +pitching against the batsmen of the three leading teams in the race +opposed to them, Meekin pitched in 7 victories out of 11 games, while +Rusie only pitched in 6 victories out of 14 games. Against the three +most successful of the Western teams, too, Meekin pitched in 13 +victories against Rusie's 12. Taking the season's figures as a whole, +Meekin led Rusie by the percentage figures of .783 to .735, quite a +difference in favor of Meekin. German led Westervelt against the Eastern +teams, but the latter led against the Western batsmen, and also had the +best percentage figures, in the aggregate of the season, by .498 to +German's .471; Clark being in the last ditch in all three +tables. Westervelt was a new man in the field compared to German, but he +is very likely to excel his last year's record in 1895. The best +individual records in victories pitched in by the two leaders, were +Rusie's 6 to 0 against Louisville, and Meekin's 3 to 0 against +Baltimore. German's best was 2 to 0 against Washington, and Westervelt's +was 1 to 0 against Baltimore; Clarke's best being 1 to 0 against +Philadelphia. + +Here are the records of the pitchers of the team against the five +Eastern and the six Western teams for 1894: + +THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + W a a B s l t S n u + o l d r h P e t C t c i P +NEW YORK n t B e o i e v s h . i s e + / i o l o n T r e b i L n v T r +vs. L m s p k g o c l u c o n i o c + o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e + s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n +Pitchers t e n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Meekin W 3 3 1 3 4 14 .778 Russie 4 4 4 4 2 6 24 .889 + L 0 1 2 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 +Rusie W 2 2 2 3 3 12 .545 Meekin 4 4 5 2 2 5 22 .783 + L 2 3 3 1 1 10 1 0 1 1 3 0 6 +German W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .500 Westervelt 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 .571 + L 1 1 0 2 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 +Westervelt W 0 1 0 1 1 3 .333 German 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 .471 + L 2 1 2 1 0 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 +Clarke W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .333 Clarke 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .333 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE SUMMARY. + +The summary giving the full totals of the season's record entire is +appended: + +------------------------------------------------------------ + Games Per cent. of +PITCHERS Victories Defeats Pitched Victories +------------------------------------------------------------ +Meekin 36 10 46 .783 +Rusie 36 13 49 .735 +Westervelt 7 9 16 .498 +German 8 9 17 .471 +Clarke 2 4 6 .333 +------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +THE BOSTON CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +While the Boston team of 1893 went through the season of that year with +virtually but four pitchers to do their box work--Quarles and Coyle +pitching in but three games in 1893--the batteries of the club for 1894 +included seven pitchers, two of the seven each pitching in but single +games, Nichols, Stivetts and Staley doing the brunt of the work of the +past season. Nichols did his best work against the five Eastern teams, +he being most effective against Philadelphia and Brooklyn, neither of +which clubs won a game with him in the box against them. He also took +both Cleveland and Louisville into camp without their being able to win +a single game off his pitching, the only team to strike even figures in +games against his pitching being the Cincinnatis--3 to 3, Baltimore +winning 2 out of 3 with Nichols opposed to them, and New York 2 out of +5, St. Louis also getting the same figures. Beyond question, Nichols led +the Boston pitching record of 1894, he ranking in strategic skill with +the best in the League. Stivetts excelled even Nichols against the +Western batsmen by a percentage of .763 to Nichols' .692; but against +the stronger Eastern teams Nichols led Stivetts by the percentage +figures of .756 to .417, an advantage more than off-setting the Western +figures of the two pitchers. Lovett and Hodson both excelled Stivetts +against the Eastern teams, by .714 and .500, respectively, against +Stivetts' .417; but against the Western teams, Stivetts led by .763 to +Hodson's .600 and Lovett's .500. Staley was very ineffective against the +batsmen of both sections. Lampe pitched in but one game, and that one a +defeat by Pittsburgh; Stephens pitching, too, in but one game but it was +a victory over Washington. Here are the sectional records for the season, +together with the column giving the totals of the season: + + +THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t S n u n d + o l e d r h P e t C t c i P d P +BOSTON n t w e o i e v s h . i s e e + / i l o n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y p k g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o h l t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r i y o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k a n n l t d h o s i e l t l t +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Stephens W 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Nichols W 1 3 4 4 3 15 .756 3 3 3 3 3 3 18 .692 33 .717 + L 2 2 0 0 1 5 0 2 1 2 3 0 8 12 +Stivetts W 4 1 0 1 2 8 .471 3 3 3 2 2 4 18 .763 26 .650 + L 1 1 3 3 1 9 2 0 1 2 0 0 5 14 +Lovett W 1 1 1 1 1 5 .714 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .500 7 .636 + L 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 +Hodson W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .500 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 .600 4 .571 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 +Staley W 2 1 0 0 2 5 .385 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 .371 13 .481 + L 1 2 3 1 1 8 1 1 2 0 0 2 6 14 +Lampe W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .006 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +Under the Philadelphia club's management of 1893 but three pitchers were +in the box in over 20 games each; and but two others in 10 games and +over, seven pitchers being employed during that season. In 1894, the +blunder was committed of experimenting with no less than _thirteen_ +pitchers with the result of finding it difficult to reach fourth place +at the end of the race; while the club, after being in second place in +April, fell down to the second division in July. But for this error of +judgment, the team might have ended among the three leaders. Of those +who pitched in over 10 games, Taylor took a decided lead by a total +percentage of .706 to Weyhing's .548 and Carsey's .533. Of those who +pitched in less than 10 games and over 5, Harper led with .667 to +Haddock's .571. None of the other pitchers reached average +figures--.500--except Jones, who only pitched in one game, which he won +against St. Louis, while four of the thirteen did not pitch in a single +victory. Experimenting with thirteen pitchers was a costly mistake in +the management, and should not be repeated. It is bad enough to try too +many changes in the _in_ and _out_ field teams, but worse in +battery-team-experiments of this kind. Harper led in percentage of +victories with .800 against the Eastern club batsmen, while Taylor led +against those of the West with .728. The failures of the season were +Fanning, Callahan, Johnson, Turner, Burns, Figgemeir and Lukens, the +former being the only pitcher of the seven who pitched in a single +victory against the Eastern batsmen. + +Here is the record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + G + G r + W P C L r a + B a C i i o a n + W a N B s l t S n u n d + o l e r h P e t C t c i P d P +PHILADELPHIA n t w B o i e v s h . i s e e + / i o o n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s k g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t l t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o y o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n n n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Jones W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Taylor W 3 2 2 0 3 10 .625 4 2 2 0 3 3 14 .778 24 .706 + L 0 1 1 3 1 6 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 10 +Harper W 0 1 2 1 0 4 .800 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 .500 6 .667 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 +Haddock W 0 1 1 1 0 3 .750 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 4 .571 + L 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 +Weyhing W 0 2 0 3 3 8 .615 0 2 1 1 2 3 9 .500 17 .548 + L 2 0 2 0 1 5 3 1 1 2 2 0 9 14 +Carsey W 1 1 1 2 2 7 .467 0 2 2 1 2 2 9 .600 16 .533 + L 1 2 3 1 1 8 2 1 1 0 0 2 6 14 +Callahan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 .667 2 .400 + L 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 +Fanning W 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 +Johnson W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .250 1 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Turner W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 +Burns W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1* 1 +Figgemeir W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Lukens W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +[Footnote *: Should add up to 0. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The Brooklyn club experimented with nine pitchers in 1894, of which but +three were able to exceed the average in percentage of victories. Of the +three, Stein took the lead with the total percentage figures of .650 +against Kennedy's .545, Daub being third with but .406 to his credit, +all the others pitching in less than 10 games. No less than four of the +nine failed to pitch in a single victory. Lucid did good work in the few +games he pitched in, his victory over Boston being noteworthy. But he +pitched in as many defeats against the Western teams as he did in +victories. Four of the nine were worthless for skilful, strategic +pitching. + +Here is the club's total record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a s l t S n u n d + o l e d h P e t C t c i P d P +BROOKLYN n t w B e i e v s h . i s e e + / i o l n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Stein W 3 2 2 2 3 12 .632 2 2 2 3 2 3 14 .667 26 .650 + L 1 3 2 1 0 7 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 14 +Lucid W 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 .500 4 .571 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 3 +Kennedy W 1 3 3 1 1 9 .500 2 4 2 3 2 2 15 .577 24 .545 + L 2 3 2 1 1 9 2 3 2 2 1 1 11 20 +Gastright W 0 0 0 0 2 2 .500 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .333 3 .429 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 +Daub W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .222 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 .500 10 .406 + L 1 1 1 2 2 7 2 1 0 1 2 2 8 15 +Underwood W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .400 + L 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +G. Sharrott W 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .333 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Sommerville W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Korwan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The Cleveland club's management made as great a mistake in 1894 as that +of the Philadelphia club in experimenting with too many pitchers. They +tried but six pitchers in 1892, when they won the championship of the +second half of the divided season of that year, and in 1893 put eight in +the box. But last year they engaged no less than thirteen pitchers to +experiment with, and from third place in 1893 with eight pitchers, they +ended in sixth position in 1894 with thirteen. Of those who pitched in +over 20 games, Cuppy led with the percentage figures of .568, Young +being second with .543. Of those who pitched in over 10 games and less +than 20, Sullivan led with .600, followed by John Clarkson with .533. Of +those who pitched in less than 10 games, but one reached average figures +in percentage, Menafee pitching in only one game, a victory over +Brooklyn, and Mullane in but 3, of which 2 were victories over St. Louis +and Louisville. Cuppy did fine box work against the five Western clubs +opposed to him, but he was excelled by Young against the Eastern +batsmen. Five of the thirteen failed to pitch in a single victory. + +Here is the record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a i i o a n + W a N a B s t S n u n d + o l e d r h P t C t c i P d P +CLEVELAND n t w B e o i e s h . i s e e + / i o l o n T r b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Menafee W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 1 0 0 1 .000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1[*] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Mullane W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 2 .667 2 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +Sullivan W 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 .600 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 6 .600 + L 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Cuppy W 2 0 1 1 1 2 7 .368 2 3 3 2 4 14 .778 21 .568 + L 2 4 3 0 1 2 12 2 0 0 2 0 4 16 +Young W 1 1 1 3 2 3 11 .440 1 4 3 4 2 14 .667 25 .543 + L 4 3 2 1 2 2 14 3 0 1 1 2 7 21 +J. Clarkson W 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .167 1 2 2 1 1 7 .778 8 .533 + L 1 0 2 1 1 0 5 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 +Wallace W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .667 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .500 + L 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +Griffith W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .500 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 2 .500 + L 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 +Lyster W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Whitrock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Knauss W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 +Fischer W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Petty W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 +[Footnote *: Total should be 0. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +Of the nine pitchers employed by the Pittsburgh club in 1894 only three +pitched in 20 games and over, and of this trio Killen led in percentage +figures with .583, against Gumbert's .563 and Ehret's .389. The latter's +blunders, outside of his actual box work, damaged him in his field +support and in loss of local favor, otherwise he would have probably led +in the season's record against the Eastern clubs. Gumbert led Killen by +.471 to .364 in percentage figures, Killen being the most effective +against the Western teams. Of those who pitched in 10 games and less +than 20, Colcolough did the best work, with average percentage figures +against the batsmen of both sections, with an even .500 in percentage +figures against both, Menafee being second against both with .333 +each. Of those who pitched in 5 games and less than 10, Nicol took the +lead with the total figures of .667. Terry was a failure in Pittsburgh, +but did well in Chicago. Easton was the last ditch pitcher, not winning +a game. Ehret's record against Cleveland was the best of the season--not +a single lost game out of the series he pitched in. Jordan won his +single game. + +Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W C L r a + B l a C i o a n + W a N a B s l S n u n d + o l e d r h P e C t c i P d P +PITTSBURGH n t w B e o i e v h . i s e e + / i o l o n T r e i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Jordan W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Nicol W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 1 2 0 3 .600 4 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 +Killen W 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 .364 1 4 1 1 3 10 .769 14 .583 + L 1 1 1 2 2 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 3 10 +Gumbert W 1 0 1 1 1 4 8 .471 0 2 2 2 4 10 .667 18 .563 + L 1 3 2 1 1 1 9 0 0 2 2 1 5 14 +Colcolough W 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 .500 0 1 1 1 1 4 .500 7 .500 + L 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 4 7 +Ehret W 2 2 1 1 0 2 8 .364 7 0 1 1 1 10 .556 18 .389 + L 2 2 3 3 3 1 14 0 5 2 1 0 8 22 +Menafee W 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 4 .333 + L 1 1 2 1 1 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 +Terry W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Easton W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Chicago club, in 1894, placed only seven pitchers in the box, of +which but three pitched in 20 games and over, and but two in not less +than 10 games and not less than 20. Of the three former, Griffith led +with a percentage of victories pitched in of .645 to Stratton's .643 and +Hutchinson's .471, McGill being fourth with but .240. Of those who +pitched in not less than 5 games, besides the above pitchers, Abbey led +with .333, Terry's figures being .294, the Eastern batsmen punishing him +badly. Camp pitched in but one game, and that a defeat. + +Here is the club record of the pitching: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t S n u n d + o l e d r h P e t t c i P d P +CHICAGO n t w B e o i e v s . i s e e + / i o l o n T r e b L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Griffith W 1 0 2 2 2 3 10 .625 1 3 1 3 2 10 .667 20 .645 + L 1 2 1 0 1 1 6 2 1 0 1 1 5 11 +Stratton W 0 1 1 0 2 1 5 .714 0 0 2 1 1 4 .571 9 .643 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 5 +Hutchinson W 2 1 1 2 1 2 9 .409 0 2 2 1 2 7 .583 16 .471 + L 3 5 2 1 2 0 13 1 2 1 1 0 5 18 +Abbey W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .333 + L 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 4 +Terry W 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 .143 1 1 0 0 1 3 1.000 5 .294 + L 3 3 2 1 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 +McGill W 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 .222 0 0 1 1 2 4 .250 6 .240 + L 2 1 2 1 1 0 7 4 2 2 2 2 12 19 +Camp W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S RECORD. + +The St. Louis club tried seven pitchers in 1894, and but one reached the +percentage average of .500 and over, and that one was Breitenstein, who +had .519; Hawley being second with .419, and A. Clarkson third with +.360, Gleason making but little effort in the St. Louis box, though he +did better in that of Baltimore, his percentage being but .250 in the +St. Louis team. Clark, Sullivan and Mason were failures, not one of them +pitching in a single victory. Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t n u n d + o l e d r h P e t C c i P d P +ST. LOUIS n t w B e o i e v s h i s e e + / i o l o n T r e b i n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Breitenstein W 1 2 1 4 3 2 13 .448 2 4 2 3 3 14 .609 27 .519 + L 5 2 8 1 2 3 16 3 2 2 2 0 9 25 +Hawley W 1 0 4 2 1 2 10 .417 1 2 2 1 2 8 .421 18 .419 + L 2 3 3 3 3 0 14 1 1 3 3 3 11 25 +A. Clarkson W 0 3 1 1 0 2 7 .438 0 0 1 1 0 2 .222 9 .360 + L 3 2 0 0 3 1 9 3 1 1 1 1 7 16 +Gleason W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 2 .286 2 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 5 6 +Clark W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Sullivan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Clark W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S RECORD. + +It may be said of the Cincinnati club's management in 1894, that in the +multiplicity of pitchers there is much danger, or words to that +effect. Twelve pitchers were tried (including one who pitched in two +innings) with a field support of no less than eleven players, exclusive +of the pitchers who took part at times in both infield and outfield +positions, together with four catchers, an aggregate of 27 _players_ to +occupy but _nine_ positions in the game. Could blundering management go +further? Under such circumstances is it any wonder that team-work was +impossible, while cliques of disappointed players still further weakened +the nine in nearly every game, the ultimate result being ninth place in +the race, with the added discredit of being beaten out in the race by +their old rivals, the St. Louis "Browns." But three of the twelve +pitchers took part in 20 games and over, and but one in 10 games and +less than 20, and three out of the twelve failed to win a single +game. Parrott did the most effective work against the Eastern batsmen, +and he and Dwyer were tied against the Western batsmen, but two of the +twelve pitching in more victories than defeats. The experience of the +Cincinnati "battery" teams should teach managers a lesson for 1895 in +indulging in experiments with too many pitchers. + +Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P L r a + B l a C i o a n + W a N a B s l t S u n d + o l e d r h P e t C t i P d P +CINCINNATI n t w B e o i e v s h . s e e + / i o l o n T r e b i L v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c o i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a u l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g i l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o s e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Tannehill W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 1 .500 1 .500 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Dwyer W 1 3 1 0 1 2 8 .400 1 1 3 3 2 10 .588 18 .486 + L 4 1 1 2 2 2 12 0 2 2 0 3 7 19 +Parrott W 1 2 1 2 2 2 9 .500 2 2 1 2 2 9 .474 18 .486 + L 3 1 3 0 1 1 9 2 2 2 2 2 10 19 +Chamberlain W 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 .500 0 1 1 1 2 5 .455 10 .476 + L 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 3 2 0 1 0 6 11 +Cross W 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1.000 0 1 1 0 0 2 .333 3 .429 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 4 +Whitrock W 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 .375 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 3 .375 + L 0 2 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 +Fournier W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .250 + L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Fischer W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .100 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 2 .167 + L 1 1 2 2 2 1 9 0 0 1 0 0 1 10 +Blank W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Flynn W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1[*] +Pfann W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 + +[Footnote *: Grand Total should be 2. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Washington club was weakened in the same manner as the Cincinnati +club, by experimenting with too many pitchers, they using a round dozen +in the box during their campaign in 1894. Of the twelve, but one +exceeded the percentage average of .500. Of those who pitched in 20 +games and over there were but two, Maul leading with .423, and Mercer +following with .410. Of those who pitched in 10 games and under 20, +Esper led Stockdale and Petty, by .400 to .357 and .273, respectively. +Sullivan was a bad failure, as he only pitched in 2 victories out of 12 +games. No less than five of the twelve pitchers failed to pitch in a +single victory, not even against the Western teams. Under such +circumstances the wonder is that Washington escaped the last ditch. Here +is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i P C L r a + B l C i i o a n + W a N a B l t S n u n d + o l e d r P e t C t c i P d P +WASHINGTON n t w B e o e v s h . i s e e + / i o l o T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Mullarsky W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 .667 2 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Maul W 1 0 1 1 1 4 .267 1 1 1 0 2 2 7 .636 11 .423 + L 2 3 3 2 1 11 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 15 +Mercer W 0 0 2 2 1 5 .294 0 3 1 2 1 4 11 .500 16 .410 + L 4 3 1 0 4 12 4 2 1 1 2 1 11 23 +Esper W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .400 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 .400 6 .400 + L 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 6 9 +Stockdale W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 .625 5 .357 + L 2 2 0 1 0 5 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 9 +Petty W 0 1 0 0 0 1 .125 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .667 3 .273 + L 3 1 1 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 +Sullivan W 0 1 0 0 0 1 .167 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .167 2 .167 + L 0 1 1 2 1 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 5 10 +Wynne W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Anderson W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 +Stephens W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Boyd W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Haddock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 4 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Louisville club had nine pitchers in position during 1894, of which +but four pitched in 20 games and over, and but one in 10 games and less +than 20, Knell pitching in less than 20 games, with the percentage of +.241, and Stratton in less than 10, with .143, the latter doing far +better afterwards in the Chicago team. Hemming's .355 was the best +record, Menafee being second with .348, both pitching in over twenty +games. + +Hemming's percentage in the Louisville team was but .355, which, +compared with his record of 1.000 in the Baltimore team, made his total +percentage .615, showing quite a difference between his support in the +Louisvilles and that in the Baltimores. + +Hemming, Menafee and Inks were the most successful against the strong +teams of the Eastern division. Whitrock, Sullivan and Kilroy were +unsuccessful opponents. Here is the record: + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C r a + B l a C i i a n + W a N a B s l t S n n d + o l e d r h P e t C t c P d P +LOUISVILLE n t w B e o i e v s h . i e e + / i o l o n T r e b i L n T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c o n o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a u a t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g i t a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o s i l t l t +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Hemming W 2 0 0 1 1 0 4 .250 0 2 2 3 0 7 .429 11 .355 + L 2 4 1 2 1 2 12 3 1 2 0 2 8 20 +Menafee W 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .286 3 1 0 1 1 6 .375 8 .348 + L 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 1 4 1 2 2 10 15 +Inks W 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .250 + L 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 +Knell W 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 .190 0 0 0 1 2 3 .375 7 .241 + L 3 4 4 1 3 2 17 1 1 2 1 0 5 22 +Wadsworth W 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 .200 0 0 0 1 0 1 .167 4 .190 + L 2 2 2 2 2 2 12 1 1 1 1 1 5 17 +Stratton W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 0 1 .167 1 .143 + L 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 +Whitrock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +Sullivan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Kilroy W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 4 5 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +Interesting Pitching Records. + + +No pitching records under the scoring rules of 1894 admitted of any data +being made up from which a true criterion of the skill of the pitchers +could be arrived at; nor can there be until the rules give the figures +of "innings pitched in" and base hits made off each inning each pitcher +pitched in. There is scarcely a game in which two pitchers do not enter +the box to pitch, at least in one or two innings; but the scoring rules +do not give the figures of innings pitched in, or how many base hits +were made off each pitcher, and the result is that the total base hits +scored in the game cannot be divided up between the pitchers +correctly. A pitcher goes into the box at the outset of the game, and in +one or two innings he is badly punished. Then a substitute follows him, +and in the succeeding innings not a third of the base hits made off the +first pitcher are recorded against the substitute, and yet not a record +to show this is to be had off the data the scoring rules admit of. Here +is the pitching score which should be used in the summary of each game: + +[_Copy of Yale-Princeton score of June 16, 1894_.] + +PITCHING SCORE. +--------------------------------------------------------- + CARTER. BRADLEY. ALTMAN. +Innings pitched in by 9 6 2 +Base hits off 9 5 7 +Runs earned off 3 2 3 +Bases on balls by 4 2 1 +Wild pitches by 0 1 1 +Hit batsmen by 0 1 1 +Struck out by 8 3 0 +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Umpire--Emslie. Time of game--2 hours 5 minutes. + + +Not an official record, giving the data of work done in the box by the +League pitchers, furnishes any correct figures by which to judge the +good or bad work done in the box each season. We give below a series of +records which give a somewhat better idea of each pitcher's box work +than the official averages can give under the pitching rules in vogue up +to 1895. The first table gives a full, but not complete, record of the +League pitching of 1894 by those pitchers whose percentage of victories +pitched in are not less than .500. Those whose record was under .500 and +not less than .400 included the following: Inks, .478; Stratton, .476; +German, .471; Maul, .470; Hutchinson, .467; Parrott, .459; Ehret, .436; +Daub, .423; Mercer, .421; Hawley, .413, and Westervelt, .412. Of those +whose percentages were under .400 and not less than .300 were the +following: Stockdale, .375; Menafee, .351; Sullivan, .348; J. Clarkson, +.308. These were followed by McGill, .291; Terry, 278; Knell, .200, and +Wadsworth, .190. The official pitching averages, from which these +figures are taken, give no record of the pitchers who pitched in less +than 15 games during 1894, and those who pitched in 10 games and less +than 15 included pitchers having better percentages than some of those +recorded above. + +Here is a record taken from the figures of the official tables, which +presents data from which a pretty fair estimate of a pitcher's ability +can be arrived at; though it is, of course, not a really correct +criterion of his box work, as it does not contain the record of the runs +earned off his pitching solely by base hits, which cannot be obtained +under the existing scoring rules: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P B + e a + r s + c e + e + G n h + a t i + m t B S + e o s a a + s f s c S + o e r t R + P V P f s S i o u + i i i f t f l n + t c t o r i e s + c t c P n u c n F A B A + h o h i c e S i v a v + e r e t B k B c e e t e + d i d c a H a o l r t r + e h l O i s r d a i a + i s I i l u t e e i g n g + n n n s t s s d n e g e +PITCHERS. CLUBS. . . g . . . . . g . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Meekin New York 47 .790 253 147 127 1 4 26 .798 .281 +McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 269 109 55 8 1 17 .869 .286 +Rusie New York 49 .734 253 189 204 2 4 20 .867 .275 +Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 381 85 79 0 3 21 .796 .331 +Nichols Boston 45 .711 291 108 98 2 1 40 .856 .282 +Stivetts Boston 39 .692 306 100 73 3 4 56 .813 .336 +Hawke Baltimore 23 .652 311 58 50 5 2 12 .887 .301 +Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 280 162 72 4 3 31 .785 .260 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 320 73 60 1 1 18 .909 .303 +Gleason Baltimore 29 .586 312 59 39 4 1 24 .841 .342 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 303 83 57 1 1 14 .909 .256 +Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 298 119 63 1 4 28 .916 .253 +Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 314 95 40 1 3 31 .831 .277 +Breitenstein St. Louis 49 .551 280 162 138 9 3 27 .902 .229 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 324 101 79 7 1 9 .845 .168 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 302 134 101 0 5 22 .771 .300 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 354 59 19 1 1 19 .844 .214 +Young Cleveland 47 .532 293 100 100 0 4 24 .902 .213 +Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 309 78 57 3 1 10 .729 .304 +Staley Boston 25 .520 344 55 29 2 0 12 .744 .238 +Esper Baltimore 26 .500 339 59 36 0 0 16 .929 .239 +Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 317 97 49 0 0 32 .902 .269 +Hemming Baltimore 40 .500 295 140 75 0 2 23 .893 .256 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +Here are the records, showing the batting and fielding averages +of the nine pitchers who excelled in each record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + F A B A + i v a v + G e e G t e + a l r a t r + m d a m i a + e i g e n g + s n e s g e + PITCHERS CLUBS . g . PITCHERS CLUBS . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Stratton Chicago 21 .931 1. Stratton Chicago 33 .350 +2. Esper Baltimore 26 .929 2. Nicol Louisville 28 .348 +3. Cuppy Cleveland 37 .916 3. Mullane Cleveland 18 .343 +4. Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .909 4. Gleason Baltimore 31 .341 +5. Killen Pittsburgh 24 .909 5. Inks Baltimore 24 .337 +6. Menafee Pittsburgh 37 .904 6. Stivetts Boston 57 .336 +7. Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .902 7. Taylor Philadelphia 34 .331 +8. Young Cleveland 47 .902 8. Parrott Cincinnati 59 .329 +9. Breitenstein St. Louis 49 .902 9. Terry Chicago 25 .325 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +According to the above figures Stratton was the best fielding pitcher, +and Breitenstein the poorest; Stratton also excelling in base hit +averages, while in that record Terry was the tail-ender. The nine +pitchers who excelled in total stolen bases were as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +PITCHERS. CLUBS. Games. Stolen Bases. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Parrott Cincinnati 59 5 +2. Stivetts Boston 57 4 +3. Terry Chicago 25 3 +4. Stratton Chicago 33 3 +5. Taylor Philadelphia 34 3 +6. Mullane Cleveland 18 2 +7. Nicol Louisville 28 2 +8. Inks Baltimore 24 1 +9. Gleason Baltimore 31 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +In the foregoing two tables pitchers are included who did not reach a +percentage of victories pitched in of .500; the list of these including +Inks, Stratton, German, Hutchinson, Mullane, Parrott, Maul, Ehret, Daub, +Mercer, Hawley and Westervelt, whose percentage figures were less than +.500 and not lower than .400. Of those whose percentage figures did not +reach .400 and were not lower than .300, were Stockdale, Menafee, +Sullivan and A. Clarkson; while those who were less than .300 and not +lower than .200, were McGill, Terry and Knell; Wadsworth being the +tail-ender in percentage figures with .190. + +The above tables present quite an interesting pitching problem, the +puzzle being to find out which of the above pitchers did the best work +in the box in every respect, not only in pitching, but by his batting, +fielding and base running. In percentage of victories pitched in, Meekin +took the lead. In the number of batsmen struck out, Rusie excelled. In +fewest bases on balls, Staley had the lowest figures. In base hit +averages, Stivetts led; while in total sacrifice hits, Breitenstein bore +off the palm. In total runs scored, Stivetts had the largest total. In +stolen bases, Kennedy was the most successful, and yet he only stole 5 +in 42 games. + +Now the problem is, Which pitcher did the best average work in his +position? and we leave that for our readers to solve. + +It is alleged that the reason pitchers do so little in stealing bases is +that they are too fatigued in their pitching in each inning to do much +in the active work of base running, both duties trying a player's nerves +considerably. For this reason it would be a good plan, in the order of +batting, to have a sure hitter follow each pitcher, so as to help bat +him round. + + + +Hints to the Pitchers of 1895. + + +We are glad to record the fact that scientific pitching is advancing in +the League arena. Its progress, hitherto, has been slow and only step by +step, but it is making headway, and during 1894 the science of strategic +pitching made greater progress than ever before. The effective blow +given to "cyclone" pitching by the new pitching rules, which went into +effect in 1893, while it did not materially affect the strategic class +of pitchers--some of whom the new rules actually benefited--obliged the +class of pitchers who depend solely upon their dangerous speed for +success, to adopt strategic tactics to a more or less extent; and this +is why a few of the old "cyclone" pitchers--as they are +called--succeeded better than they anticipated under the change made in +the rules in 1893, which had placed them farther from the batsman than +in 1892. + +It may be said, in connection with the pitching of 1894, that one thing +noticeable in the "box" work of that season was that the brainy class of +men in the position began to pay more attention to the advice of the +theorists of the game than before; and thereby they learned to realize +the fact that _strategic skill, and that equally important attribute, +thorough control of temper_, together with the avoidance of the +senseless _kicking habit_ in vogue, had more to do with success in their +position than they had previously been aware. Those of the pitching +fraternity who read up on the subject of skill in pitching, were told +that the primary elements of strategic work in the "box" included: +"First, to deceive the eye of the batsman in regard to the character of +the delivery of the ball, as to its being fast or slow. Second, to +deceive his judgment in reference to the direction of the ball when +pitched to him, as to its being high or low, or where he wants +it. Third, to watch the batsman closely so as to know just when he is +temporarily 'out of form' for making a good hit; and Fourth, to tempt +him with a ball which will be likely to go high from his bat to the +outfield and be caught." + +Then again they were told that "another very effective point in +strategic pitching, is a thoroughly disguised change of pace in +delivery. This is difficult of attainment, and as a general rule it can +only be played with effect on the careless class of batsmen. Let it be +borne in mind that the pitcher who cannot control his temper is as unfit +for his position as is a quick-tempered billiard player to excel as a +winner in professional contests. Quick temper is the mortal foe of cool +judgment, and it plays the mischief with that nervy condition so +necessary in the development of skilful strategy. The pitcher must of +necessity be subject to annoyances well calculated to try a man's +temper, especially when his best efforts in pitching are rendered +useless by the blunders of incompetent fielders, but under such trying +circumstances his triumph is all the greater if he can pluck victory out +of the fire of such opposition, _by the thorough control of his +temper_." This is something only a minority of League pitchers did in +1894. + + + +SUMMARY RECORD. + + +The leading pitcher of each of the twelve clubs against the six clubs of +each section, in percentage of victories pitched in, by those who +occupied the box in 10 games and over, is given in the following table: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +BALTIMORE. + AGAINST THE EASTERN CLUBS. AGAINST THE WESTERN CLUBS + Percent. of Percent. of +Pitchers. Victories. Pitchers. Victories +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +McMahon .706 McMahon .811 + +NEW YORK. +Meelin .778 Rusie .889 + +BOSTON. +Nichols .756 Stivetts .763 + +PHILADELPHIA. +Taylor .625 Taylor .778 + +BROOKLYN. +Stein .692 Stein .650 + +CLEVELAND. +Sullivan .600 Cuppy .778 + +PITTSBURGH. +Gumbert .471 Killen .769 + +CHICAGO. +Griffith .625 Griffith .667 + +ST. LOUIS. +Breitenstein .448 Breitenstein .609 + +CINCINNATI. +Parrott .500 Dwyer .588 + +WASHINGTON. +Mercer .294 Maul .636 + +LOUISVILLE. +Hemming .250 Hemming .429 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that Rusie leads all the pitchers against the Western +teams and Meekin all against the Eastern teams, Rusie having the highest +individual percentage of victories against a single section. + +There can be no really reliable criterion of a pitcher's skill, as judged +by the data of his averages, until the figures of runs earned off the +pitching solely by base hits, and not by base hits and stolen bases, and +the errors they lead to combined, as is the case under the defective +scoring rules in existence in 1894. To call a run scored by a +combination of base hits and stolen bases is unjust to the pitcher, +while judging his pitching by the percentage of victories pitched is +only less faulty; but the latter is the better criterion of skill than +that of earned runs, as calculated on the basis of the rules of 1894. + + + +THE OFFICIAL AVERAGES FOR 1894. + +The official averages for 1894, as prepared by Secretary Young, of the +National League, from data furnished him under the regulation scoring +rules of each year, have always been more or less defective as far as +affording a reliable criterion of play in each department of the game +was concerned, and necessarily so, owing to the faulty scoring rules in +existence up to 1895. The batting averages are more than useless, as +they fail to show the only reliable criterion of play there is, and that +is, _the percentage of runners forwarded around the bases by base hits._ +The pitching averages are similarly useless, as they fail to give the +correct data for judging the percentage of runs earned off the pitching +on the basis of runs scored by base hits, and by nothing else; the +figures of earned runs, under the present defective rules, including +runs earned by a combination of base hits and stolen bases, together +with such fielding errors as base stealing leads to, a class of errors +aside from regular fielding errors. Glancing at the record of the +so-called leading batsmen since 1888, we find that the data on which the +averages are made out grew more defective each year up to 1893, when +they were improved a little. Below will be found the several headings of +the season's averages, together with the name of the so-called leading +batsman of each year, during the past seven years, beginning with 1888 +and ending with 1894. + +SEASON OF 1888. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Anson +CLUB. Chicago +Games Played. 134 +Times at Bat. 515 +Runs Scored. 101 +Ave. Per Game. 0.75 +First Base Hits. 177 +Percentage. .343 +Total Bases. 52 +Ave. Per Game. 1.88 +Bases Stolen. 28 +Ave. Per Game. 0.20 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1889. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Brouthers +CLUB. Boston +Games. 126 +Per cent. of +Base Hits. .373 +Stolen Bases. 22 +Sacrifice Hits. 31 +No. of Runs. 105 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1890. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Glasscock +CLUB. New York +Position. S. S. +Games. 124 +P. c. base hits +to times at bat. .336 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1891. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Hamilton +CLUB. Philadelphia +Games Played. 133 +Runs Scored. 42 +Per cent. .338 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1892. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Childs +CLUB. Cleveland +Games Played. 144 +Times at Bat. 552 +Runs Scored. 135 +Base Hits. 185 +Per cent. .335 +Total Bases. 233 +Sacrifice Hits. 14 +Stolen Bases. 31 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1893. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Stenzel +CLUB. Pittsburgh +Games Played. 51 +Times at Bat. 198 +Runs Scored. 56 +Base Hits. 81 +Per cent. .409 +Total Bases. 113 +Sacrifice Hits. 12 +Stolen Bases. 13 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1894. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Duffy +CLUB. Boston +Games Played. 124 +Times at Bat. 539 +Runs Scored. 160 +Base Hits. 236 +Per cent. .438 +Total Bases. 372 +Sacrifice Hits. 10 +Stolen Bases. 49 +------------------------------ + +Every record of the above tables is made up to encourage the mere record +batsman, the team-worker at the bat having no show given him whatever, +as there is not a figure in the averages--with the probable exception +of the "sacrifice hit" column--to show his percentage of runners +forwarded by his base hits, this being the sole criterion of effective +batting. What is wanted is a record made up in this form: + +BATSMAN. +CLUB. +Games. +Per cent. per Game Runners + Forwarded by Base Hits. +Per cent. of Base Hits to + Times at Bat. +Per cent. of Sacrifice Hits per + Game. +Per cent. of Runs per Game. +Per cent. of Bases Taken on + Balls. +Per cent. of Outs on Strikes. +Per cent. of Chances Given + for Catches. + + +The above record shows how the batsman excelled in forwarding runners by +his hits, together with his percentage of base hits, sacrifice hits, +runs scored, percentage of times he gave chances for outs on catches--a +record which shows the batsman's weakness in batting--percentage of outs +on strikes, and of the times he took his base on balls. The figures +showing total bases is only of more advantage to record batsmen than to +team-workers at the bat, and if left out would cause the "fungo" hitting +class of batsmen to strive to do more teamwork at the bat than they do +now. Another column might be added showing the percentage of runners +forwarded by extra base hits. + +As regards the pitching averages they are equally unreliable in +affording a criterion of excellence of play in the box. How is it +possible to tell how effective a pitcher is by the figures of earned +runs as recorded under the scoring rules in vogue up to 1895? A batsman, +for instance, gets to first base by a fly ball which dropped between two +fielders running to catch the ball, a so-called base hit is scored--the +hit really giving an easy chance for a catch. This is followed by two +steals, sending the runner to third, and a single base hit sends him +home, and by the combined play an earned run off the pitching is +unjustly earned. Another instance of this kind is shown when the first +batsman is given a life by a dropped fly ball; the second is given +another life by a muffed ball from an infield hit, and the third man at +the bat is given a life by a wild throw to first base; after which three +batsmen make safe hits, and before the side is put out, three runs are +scored as earned, though the side should have been put out had the +pitcher's field support been up to even ordinary mark, the fact being +that not a single run was really earned off the pitching, yet three +earned runs are scored against the pitcher under the scoring rules "up +to date." Other instances of the uselessness of the existing method of +making out the League averages could be readily cited, but these amply +suffice, we think. + +One thing against improvement in the scoring rules is: first, the fact +that the magnates have the power to revise the amendments made by the +Committee on Rules. Another is the failure, as a rule, to appoint that +committee so as to secure an efficient working committee. But even when +this is done their good work is knocked in the head by the majority vote +of the magnates at the spring meeting. The vote should be made unanimous +in changing any rule favorably reported by the Committee. + +Here are the complete official averages for 1894, as prepared by +Secretary Young, after revision of averages published last fall: + + + +Batting Record + +OF PLAYERS WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN FIFTEEN OR MORE +CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES--SEASON OF 1894. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Duffy Boston 124 539 160 236 .438 372 10 49 +Turner Philadelphia 77 347 94 147 .423 187 8 12 +Thompson Philadelphia 102 458 115 185 .403 314 8 29 +Delehanty Philadelphia 114 497 149 199 .400 283 5 29 +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 559 196 223 .398 289 7 99 +Anson Chicago 83 347 87 137 .394 188 7 17 +Kelley Baltimore 129 509 167 199 .391 304 19 45 +Cross Philadelphia 120 543 128 211 .388 290 16 28 +Tenny Boston 24 80 21 31 .387 43 2 7 +Holliday Cincinnati 122 519 125 199 .383 297 4 39 +Brodie Baltimore 129 574 132 212 .369 269 24 50 +Doyle New York 105 425 94 157 .369 216 4 48 +Keeler Baltimore 128 593 164 218 .367 305 16 30 +Griffin Brooklyn 106 405 123 148 .365 209 5 48 +Childs Cleveland 117 476 144 174 .365 227 4 20 +Grady Philadelphia 50 187 45 68 .363 100 2 3 +Dahlen Chicago 121 508 150 184 .362 289 10 49 +Ryan Chicago 108 481 133 173 .359 233 8 12 +Burns Brooklyn 126 513 107 184 .358 261 9 29 +Burkett Cleveland 124 518 134 185 .357 267 10 32 +McKean Cleveland 130 561 115 199 .354 281 11 32 +Smith Pittsburgh 125 497 129 175 .352 267 10 37 +Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 523 148 184 .351 303 5 60 +Earle Brooklyn and Louisville 33 114 23 40 .350 47 4 5 +Stratton Chicago and Louisville 33 134 39 47 .350 77 0 8 +McCarthy Boston 126 536 118 187 .349 266 9 40 +Nicol Louisville 28 112 12 39 .348 53 1 2 +Robinson Baltimore 106 420 71 146 .348 182 11 13 +Davis New York 124 492 124 170 .345 267 9 37 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brouthers Baltimore 123 528 137 182 .344 287 18 40 +Joyce Washington 98 357 103 124 .344 230 5 23 +Beckley Pittsburgh 132 534 122 184 .344 284 22 20 +Clements Philadelphia 47 172 26 59 .343 85 3 04 +Mullane Baltimore and Cleveland 18 67 3 23 .343 27 1 2 +Gleason Baltimore and St. Louis 31 111 24 38 .342 55 4 1 +Miller St. Louis 125 480 93 164 .341 223 8 20 +Lowe Boston 133 615 585 210 .341 323 9 25 +McGraw Baltimore 123 515 115 175 .340 221 14 77 +Daly Brooklyn 123 494 135 167 .338 237 4 53 +Inks Baltimore and Louisville 24 89 12 27 .337 30 1 1 +Sullivan Washington & Philadelphia 93 374 72 126 .337 166 7 15 +Connaughton Boston 38 166 38 56 .337 76 1 2 +Bannon Boston 127 496 130 167 .336 257 6 42 +Stivetts Boston 57 244 56 82 .336 133 3 4 +Treadway Brooklyn 122 482 124 162 .336 254 12 29 +Sugden Pittsburgh 39 141 24 47 .333 70 6 3 +VanHaltren New York 139 531 110 177 .333 231 13 44 +Jennings Baltimore 128 505 136 168 .332 246 18 36 +Taylor Philadelphia 34 145 21 48 .331 63 0 3 +Wilmot Chicago 135 606 137 201 .331 294 14 76 +LaChance Brooklyn 65 258 47 85 .329 129 3 25 +Wilson New York 45 179 37 59 .329 77 2 9 +Parrott Cincinnati 59 228 50 75 .329 126 1 5 +Tucker Boston 122 503 112 165 .328 212 2 19 +Hallman Philadelphia 119 519 111 170 .327 207 22 27 +Hassamer Washington 116 493 106 161 .326 243 10 15 +Lange Chicago 112 447 87 145 .324 119 4 71 +Long Boston 103 475 136 154 .324 240 8 25 +Terry Chicago 25 96 19 31 .323 39 0 3 +Hutchinson Chicago 34 133 28 43 .323 64 2 1 +McPhee Cincinnati 128 481 113 154 .320 230 6 31 +Shock Brooklyn 63 237 46 76 .320 94 8 18 +O'Connor Cleveland 80 324 67 105 .320 146 4 13 +Abbey Washington 129 521 95 166 .318 243 13 30 +Kittredge Chicago 50 167 36 53 .317 65 5 2 +Twineham St. Louis 31 127 22 40 .314 50 1 2 +Connor New York and St. Louis 121 462 93 145 .313 253 6 15 +Latham Cincinnati 130 532 132 167 .313 233 11 62 +Hoy Cincinnati 128 506 118 158 .312 241 11 30 +Hartman Pittsburgh 49 186 41 58 .311 82 8 12 +Lyons Pittsburgh 72 254 51 79 .311 113 11 17 +Foutz Brooklyn 73 296 41 92 .310 126 8 16 +Decker Chicago 89 391 76 121 .309 177 2 22 +Vaughn Cincinnati 67 275 48 85 .309 145 2 6 +Selbach Washington 96 372 70 115 .309 188 3 23 +Stockdale Washington 19 75 9 23 .306 25 1 2 +Donovan Pittsburgh 133 575 146 176 .306 230 26 51 +Reitz Baltimore 109 450 86 138 .306 226 7 18 +Ely St. Louis 127 508 85 155 .305 237 13 23 +O. Tebeau Cleveland 119 501 79 153 .305 200 9 27 +McGuire Washington 102 427 67 130 .304 176 4 11 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Chamberlain Cincinnati 20 69 10 21 .304 36 3 1 +Ward Washington 89 343 85 104 .303 130 5 36 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 33 112 18 34 .303 52 1 1 +Corcoran Brooklyn 129 573 124 173 .302 251 10 33 +Irwin Chicago 130 503 85 152 .302 220 4 34 +Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 527 88 159 .301 217 20 20 +Anderson Brooklyn 16 63 13 19 .301 29 1 7 +Bonner Baltimore 27 113 26 34 .301 46 2 11 +Hawke Baltimore 25 93 12 28 .301 37 5 2 +German New York 19 60 8 18 .300 19 2 1 +Merritt Boston and Cincinnati 66 243 38 73 .300 100 1 5 +Shindle Brooklyn 117 476 96 143 .300 201 17 18 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 160 22 48 .300 61 6 5 +Burke New York 138 575 124 172 .299 225 10 47 +Cooley St. Louis 52 207 35 62 .299 71 6 8 +Kinslow Brooklyn 61 221 38 66 .298 91 2 6 +McAleer Cleveland 64 251 36 75 .298 99 5 17 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 420 66 125 .297 182 15 33 +Flaherty Louisville 38 149 15 44 .295 55 1 2 +Dungan Louisville and Chicago 18 71 11 20 .295 23 1 3 +Mercer Washington 43 163 29 48 .294 61 1 10 +Nash Boston 132 510 132 150 .294 212 3 19 +Canavan Cincinnati 100 362 81 106 .293 201 5 15 +Lake Louisville 16 41 8 12 .292 18 0 2 +Cartwright Washington 132 509 86 149 .292 238 3 35 +Boyle Philadelphia 116 512 103 150 .291 203 18 22 +Grimm Louisville 107 413 65 120 .290 182 8 14 +Smith Louisville 39 135 27 39 .288 56 1 13 +Blake Cleveland 73 300 51 86 .286 113 10 1 +McMahon Baltimore 34 129 17 37 .286 46 8 1 +Shugart Pittsburgh 133 533 103 152 .285 236 13 23 +Knell Louisville 31 119 10 34 .285 47 1 2 +Zimmer Cleveland 88 340 55 97 .285 141 2 15 +Fuller New York 95 378 82 107 .283 138 0 34 +Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 332 47 94 .283 123 13 20 +Nichols Boston 45 170 40 48 .282 64 2 1 +Tiernan New York 112 429 87 121 .282 184 6 26 +Farrell New York 112 404 50 114 .282 175 3 10 +Meekin New York 48 174 26 49 .281 80 1 4 +Ganzel Boston 65 266 52 74 .278 98 4 1 +Carsey Philadelphia 32 126 31 35 .277 40 1 3 +Rusie New York 49 185 20 51 .275 74 2 4 +Shiebeck Pittsburgh & Washington 75 294 69 81 .275 102 1 19 +Clark Louisville 76 316 55 87 .275 132 1 24 +Peitz St. Louis 100 364 62 100 .274 159 7 17 +Quinn St. Louis 106 411 58 113 .274 142 13 26 +Denny Louisville 60 222 26 61 .274 87 6 10 +Hawley St. Louis 48 161 16 44 .273 68 5 1 +Reilly Philadelphia 36 132 21 37 .272 42 1 6 +O'Rourke Louisville & St. Louis 80 316 60 86 .272 106 6 11 +McGarr Cleveland 127 522 94 142 .272 185 5 34 +Murphy New York 73 284 65 77 .271 89 2 25 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Ryan Boston 49 203 39 55 .271 87 1 4 +Virtue Cleveland 23 85 15 23 .270 80 2 1 +Clarke Baltimore 27 100 18 27 .270 40 3 1 +Dwyer Cincinnati 49 171 32 46 .269 72 0 0 +Schriver Chicago 94 356 56 96 .269 123 5 9 +Dailey Brooklyn 65 230 39 62 .269 89 6 4 +Murphy Cincinnati 76 265 42 71 .268 89 6 5 +Dowd St. Louis 123 524 92 141 .267 185 9 34 +McCarthy Cincinnati 40 168 29 45 .267 60 4 3 +Smith Cincinnati 128 492 73 131 .266 207 3 12 +G. Tebeau Washington and Cleveland 105 398 77 106 .266 147 11 34 +Twitchell Louisville 51 211 28 56 .265 86 9 9 +Comiskey Cincinnati 59 230 26 61 .265 73 4 9 +Hogan St. Louis 29 103 11 27 .262 37 3 7 +Ward New York 136 552 99 145 .262 168 20 41 +Stein Brooklyn 41 142 31 37 .260 59 4 3 +Mack Pittsburgh 63 229 32 59 .257 70 14 9 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 82 14 21 .256 26 1 1 +Hemming Louisville and Baltimore 38 152 23 39 .256 67 0 2 +Richardson Louisville 116 427 50 109 .255 134 4 11 +Ewing Cleveland 53 212 32 54 .255 82 2 19 +Allen Philadelphia 40 154 27 39 .253 60 3 5 +Cuppy Cleveland 41 134 28 34 .253 47 1 4 +Buckley St. Louis & Philadelphia 67 251 24 64 .251 87 18 0 +Brown Louisville 130 542 123 136 .251 213 14 74 +Weaver Louisville & Pittsburgh 90 355 35 89 .250 119 12 9 +Frank St. Louis 80 321 53 89 .246 130 12 12 +Parrott Chicago 126 532 83 130 .244 175 9 34 +Griffith Chicago 41 139 29 34 .244 44 0 6 +Wadsworth Louisville 23 74 9 18 .243 25 1 0 +Esper Washington and Baltimore 25 96 16 23 .239 35 0 0 +Staley Boston 25 88 12 21 .238 31 2 0 +Wittrock Cincinnati 18 64 8 15 .234 17 0 0 +Gilbert Brooklyn and Louisville 34 133 14 31 .233 39 1 3 +Maul Washington 35 120 23 28 .233 42 1 1 +Radford Washington 93 330 61 77 .233 101 6 26 +Breitenstein St. Louis 53 179 27 41 .229 53 9 3 +McGill Chicago 23 83 11 19 .229 24 1 1 +Sullivan Washington and Cleveland 26 101 10 23 .228 33 0 0 +Daub Brooklyn 28 97 13 22 .226 26 4 1 +Dugdale Washington 33 129 15 28 .217 38 0 6 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 19 70 10 15 .214 21 1 1 +Young Cleveland 48 183 24 40 .213 61 0 4 +Motz Cincinnati 18 68 8 14 .205 19 0 1 +Clarkson Cleveland 16 54 7 11 .204 14 4 0 +Menafee Louisville & Pittsburgh 37 125 12 25 .200 31 10 4 +Lutenburg Louisville 70 255 44 49 .192 66 3 10 +Clarkson St. Louis 26 85 11 16 .188 16 0 1 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 133 6 23 .172 30 10 0 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 119 9 20 .168 26 7 1 +Westervelt New York 18 59 9 9 .152 11 2 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +[Illustration: Cincinnati Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: St. Louis Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Washington Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: The League's Leading Players, 1894.] + + +Fielding Record, 1894. +------------------------ + +FIRST BASEMEN. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. 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Tebeau Washington, Cleveland 16 161 2 9 172 .948 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SECOND BASEMEN. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Reitz Baltimore 100 252 344 21 627 .966 + 2 Quinn St. Louis 106 344 342 33 719 .954 + 3 McPhee Cincinnati 128 391 449 53 893 .940 + 4 Pfeffer Louisville 89 264 283 35 582 .939 + 5 Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 308 462 52 822 .936 + 6 Hallman Philadelphia 119 314 342 47 703 .933 + 7 Lowe Boston 132 354 411 57 822 .930 + 8 Parrott Chicago 125 291 384 52 727 .928 + 9 Childs Cleveland 117 308 380 56 744 .924 + 10 Ward New York 136 332 455 67 854 .921 + 11 Grimm Louisville 24 59 75 12 146 .918 + 12 Ward Washington 79 175 237 40 452 .911 + 13 Bonner Baltimore 24 57 54 10 121 .909 + 14 Daly Brooklyn 128 320 358 74 752 .901 + 15 Radford Washington 21 62 60 14 136 .897 + 16 Miller St. Louis 18 31 49 11 91 .879 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THIRD BASEMEN. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. 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CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Nash Boston 132 199 271 34 504 .932 + 2 McGarr Cleveland 127 171 246 35 452 .922 + 3 Cross Philadelphia 100 177 240 40 457 .91* + 4 Davis New York 124 154 251 40 445 .916 + 5 Dahlen Chicago 55 95 127 23 245 .906 + 6 Lyons Pittsburgh 72 120 158 30 308 .902 + 7 Peitz St. Louis 43 61 69 15 145 .896 + 8 McGarr Baltimore 117 130 246 44 420 .895 + 9 Shindle Brooklyn 117 190 232 50 472 .894 + 10 Reilly Philadelphia 27 35 55 12 102 .882 + 11 Flaherty Louisville 38 43 75 16 134 .880 + 12 Hartman Pittsburgh 49 65 96 23 184 .875 + 13 Hassamer Washington 30 64 79 21 164 .872 + 14 Latham Cincinnati 129 163 256 64 483 .867 + 15 Denny Louisville 60 84 124 32 240 .866 + 16 Joyce Washington 98 151 184 52 387 .865 + 17 Miller St. Louis 52 71 97 33 201 .835 + 18 Irwin Chicago 68 90 125 43 258 .833 + 19 Gilbert Brooklyn and Louisville 31 56 61 24 141 .829 + 20 O'Rourke Louisville, Wash., St.L. 21 30 39 15 84 .821 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SHORT STOPS. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. 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CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 195 300 35 530 .934 + 2 Jennings Baltimore 128 307 497 62 866 .928 + 3 Richardson Louisville 107 236 363 50 649 .923 + 4 Smith Cincinnati 128 234 523 72 829 .913 + 4 Corcoran Brooklyn 129 282 446 69 797 .913 + 5 McKean Cleveland 130 278 401 66 745 .911 + 6 Allen Philadelphia 40 93 130 23 246 .907 + 7 Connaughton Boston 32 60 105 18 183 .901 + 8 Ely St. Louis 127 279 444 82 805 .898 + 9 Dahlen Chicago 66 191 257 52 500 .896 + 10 Long Boston 99 223 371 71 665 .893 + 11 Sullivan Washington and Phila. 83 199 232 52 483 .892 + 11 Irwin Chicago 62 122 219 41 382 .892 + 12 Murphy New York 48 112 148 34 294 .884 + 13 Shiebeck Pittsburgh and Wash. 62 130 230 48 408 .882 + 14 Fuller New York 91 211 309 71 591 .879 + 15 Pfeffer Louisville 15 30 63 13 106 .877 + 16 Radford Washington 47 127 184 53 364 .851 + 17 Selbach Washington 18 52 52 23 127 .818 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +OUTFIELDERS +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. 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CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Dungan Louisville and Chicago 18 30 3 1 34 .970 + 2 Griffin Brooklyn 106 298 13 12 323 .963 + 3 Hamilton Philadelphia 131 363 16 15 394 .961 + 3 Thompson Philadelphia 102 163 11 7 181 .961 + 4 Weaver Louisville and Pitts. 35 59 8 3 70 .957 + 5 McAleer Cleveland 64 173 10 9 192 .953 + 6 Kelley Baltimore 129 274 19 15 308 .951 + 7 Brodie Baltimore 129 311 11 19 341 .944 + 8 Shock Brooklyn 34 89 11 6 106 .943 + 9 Burns Brooklyn 126 212 16 14 242 .942 + 10 Hogan St. Louis 29 43 5 3 51 .941 + 11 Blake Cleveland 73 122 17 9 148 .939 + 11 O'Connor Cleveland 31 85 8 6 99 .939 + 12 Delehanty Philadelphia 85 224 21 16 261 .938 + 13 Smith Pittsburgh 125 271 18 20 309 .935 + 14 Tiernan New York 112 170 11 13 194 .933 + 15 Donovan Pittsburgh 133 267 24 21 312 .932 +16 Dowd St. Louis 115 201 16 16 233 .931 + 17 Keeler Baltimore 127 220 27 19 266 .928 + 18 Radford Washington 22 30 8 3 41 .927 + 19 Ewing Cleveland 52 91 7 8 106 .924 + 19 Selbach Washington 76 153 7 13 173 .924 + 20 Duffy Boston 123 313 23 28 364 .923 + 21 Burke New York 138 269 16 23 308 .922 + 22 Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 317 22 30 369 .918 + 22 Canavan Cincinnati 94 191 10 18 219 .918 + 23 Holliday Cincinnati 121 247 26 25 298 .916 + 24 Brown Louisville 130 327 23 33 383 .914 + 24 McCarthy Cincinnati 25 46 7 5 58 .914 + 25 Burkett Cleveland 124 242 18 24 284 .912 + 26 VanHaltren New York 139 309 28 33 370 .911 + 26 Shugart St. Louis 119 276 23 27 326 .911 + 27 Abbey Washington 129 341 26 36 403 .910 + 27 Hassamer Washington 68 102 10 11 123 .910 + 28 Turner Philadelphia 77 143 7 15 165 .909 + 29 McCarthy Boston 124 286 30 32 348 .908 + 30 Smith Louisville 39 64 2 7 73 .904 + 30 Ryan Chicago 108 222 23 26 271 .904 + 31 Lange Chicago 110 278 30 33 341 .903 + 32 Twitchell Louisville 51 104 14 13 131 .900 + 33 Hoy Cincinnati 128 322 27 41 390 .895 + 34 Treadway Brooklyn 122 274 20 36 330 .891 + 35 Clark Louisville 76 166 14 23 203 .886 + 36 Frank St. Louis 77 159 11 23 193 .880 + 37 G. 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CLUB. . . . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + 1 Zimmer Cleveland 88 285 107 16 13 421 .931 + 2 Clements Philadelphia 47 182 38 11 7 238 .924 + 3 Buckley Philadelphia, St. Louis 66 249 72 18 12 351 .914 + 3 Robinson Baltimore 106 364 96 24 19 503 .914 + 4 Mack Pittsburgh 63 274 59 22 15 370 .900 + 5 Merritt Boston, Pitts., Cinn 61 177 72 16 13 278 .895 + 6 Schriver Chicago 86 294 93 34 13 434 .891 + 7 Grimm Louisville 75 262 104 29 16 411 .890 + 8 Miller St. Louis 39 138 36 12 10 196 .887 + Murphy Cincinnati 74 197 69 29 5 300 .887 + Farrell New York 103 470 138 41 36 685 .887 + 9 Kittredge Chicago 50 209 40 20 13 282 .883 + 10 Vaughn Cincinnati 41 155 43 19 8 225 .880 + Dailey Brooklyn 58 217 62 21 17 317 .880 + 11 Ganzel Boston 55 188 57 24 10 279 .878 + 12 Sugden Pittsburgh 30 104 28 12 7 151 .874 + 13 Earle Brooklyn and Lousiville 31 89 42 6 13 150 .873 + 14 Twineham St. Louis 31 147 35 9 18 209 .870 + 15 O'Connor Cleveland 42 160 37 12 20 229 .860 + 16 McGuire Washington 102 288 116 39 28 471 .857 + 17 Clarke Baltimore 22 86 21 10 8 125 .856 + Ryan Boston 49 166 49 18 18 251 .856 + 18 Peitz St. Louis 38 153 52 13 11 229 .851 + 19 Tenny Boston 18 55 18 11 3 87 .839 + 20 Wilson New York 32 119 22 20 9 170 .829 + 21 Weaver Louisville and Pitts. 30 88 27 11 15 141 .815 + 22 Kinslow Brooklyn 61 114 47 19 23 203 .793 + 23 Grady Philadelphia 38 101 30 21 20 172 .761 + 24 Dugdale Washington 30 75 38 20 10 143 .720 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +PITCHERS' RECORD, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER--1894. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Heading abbreviations used in this table: + G Games Played + %W Percent games won excluding tie games + RS Runs scored average per game + RE Runs earned, average per game + %BH Percent of base hits off pitcher + BoB Bases given on balls + SO No. struck out + %FC Percent fielding chances accepted + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pitcher. 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G %W RS RE %BH BoB SO %FC +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Breitenst'n St. Louis 49 .551 6.32 3.06 .280 162 138 .902 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 9.13 4.87 .354 59 19 .844 +Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 7.13 3.24 .298 119 63 .916 +Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 7.93 3.84 .314 95 40 .831 +Clarkson St. Louis 26 .308 8.11 4.19 .318 102 42 .794 +Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 7.45 3.70 .309 78 57 .729 +Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 7.3 4.13 .317 97 47 .902 +Daub Brooklyn 26 .423 7.89 3.70 .306 71 33 .694 +Esper Wash. and Balti. 26 .500 8.3 4.88 .339 59 36 .929 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 .436 7.05 4.17 .306 111 91 .808 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 7.23 4.87 .326 73 60 .909 +Griffith Chicago 32 .656 6.46 3.59 .300 79 67 .901 +German New York 17 .471 7.82 3.53 .288 48 15 .842 +Gleason St.L. and Balti. 29 .586 6.00 3.45 .312 59 39 .841 +Hemming Louis. and Balti. 40 .500 6.02 2.85 .295 140 75 .893 +Hawke Baltimore 23 .562 7.17 4.08 .311 58 50 .887 +Hutchinson Chicago 30 .467 7.47 3.33 .314 125 60 .716 +Hawley St. Louis 47 .413 7.04 3.72 .303 121 117 .708 +Inks Balti. and Louis. 24 .478 7.96 4.04 .337 75 37 .846 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 6.25 3.87 .303 83 57 .909 +Knell Louisville 30 .200 8.46 3.60 .329 97 65 .693 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 7.55 4.21 .302 134 101 .771 +Menafee Louis. and Pitts. 37 .351 6.59 3.67 .309 85 78 .904 +Mercer Washington 38 .421 7.18 4.09 .303 105 57 .852 +Meekin New York 47 .790 4.91 2.38 .253 147 127 .798 +Maul Washington 24 .458 8.08 4.08 .307 60 31 .785 +Mullane Balt. and Cleve. 17 .470 8.17 4.17 .297 80 44 .740 +McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 5.51 3.00 .269 109 55 .869 +McGill Chicago 24 .291 8.12 3.83 .321 98 55 .846 +Nichols Boston 46 .711 6.78 3.56 .291 108 98 .856 +Parrott Cincinnati 37 .459 7.24 3.94 .307 120 61 .824 +Rusie New York 49 .734 4.73 2.12 .253 189 204 .867 +Stratton Louis. & Chicago 21 .476 9.43 5.24 .366 52 29 .931 +Stockdale Washington 16 .375 7.60 3.60 .353 39 8 .825 +Stivetts Boston 39 .692 7.49 3.43 .306 100 73 .913 +Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 6.26 3.05 .280 162 72 .785 +Staley Boston 25 .520 8.88 5.72 .344 55 29 .744 +Sullivan Wash. and Cleve. 23 .348 8.26 3.74 .320 97 28 .714 +Terry Chicago 19 .278 9.73 4.00 .334 91 43 .782 +Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 5.30 2.76 .281 85 79 .796 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 6.72 3.49 .324 101 79 .845 +Wadsworth Louisville 21 .190 9.38 4.66 .360 97 58 .703 +Westervelt New York 18 .412 7.39 3.83 .297 62 28 .654 +Young Cleveland 47 .532 5.83 3.17 .293 100 100 .902 + +Tie games--Cuppy, 1; Dwyer, 1; Daub, 1; Ehret, 1; Gumbert, 1; Hawley, 1; +Inks, 1; Meekin, 4; Nichols, 1; Stein, 1; Terry, 1; Taylor 1; Westervelt,1. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +The Batting of 1894. + + +THE TEAM-WORK AT THE BAT. + +It goes to the credit of the leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 +that the first three clubs did better team-work at the bat, and more of +it, than any previous trio of the kind known in the annals of the +League. In fact, competent managers and captains of teams have learned +in recent years, by costly experiment, that one of the most potent +factors in winning pennants is the method of handling the ash known as +good _team-work at the bat_ the very essence of which is devoting all +the batsmen's efforts to _forwarding runners by base hits_, and not by +each player's going to the bat simply to build up a high record of base +hits without regard to forwarding runners on bases. Suppose the first +baseman in a game to take his position at the bat makes a two or +three-bagger at the outset. Of course the object of the batsman who +succeeds him would be to send the runner home the best way he can, +either by a base hit or a sacrifice hit. In striving to do this, the +very worst plan, is to try solely for a home run hit, as it only +succeeds once in thirty or forty times, and not that against skilful, +strategic pitching. Time and again were batsmen, last season, left on +third base after opening the innings with a three-bagger, owing to the +stupid work of the succeeding batsmen in trying to "line 'em out for a +homer," instead of doing real team-work at the bat. Of course, good +"sacrifice hitting" is part and parcel of team-work at the bat, but +this kind of hitting was not done to any special extent last season by a +majority of the League batsmen. + + + +SACRIFICE HITTING. + +There is one thing about the point of play in batting known, as +"sacrifice hitting" which is not as thoroughly understood as it should +be. A majority of batsmen seem to be of the impression that when they +are called upon to forward a base runner by a "sacrifice hit," all they +have to do is to go to the bat and have themselves put out, so that the +base runner at first base may be able to reach second base on the play +which puts the batsmen out. This is a very erroneous idea of the true +intent of a sacrifice hit. No skilful batsmen ever goes to the bat +purposely to hit the ball so as to have himself put out; that would be a +very silly move. On the contrary, he takes his bat in hand every time, +with the primary object of _making a base hit_ if he possibly can; but +in trying for this strongest point in batting, he proposes, to make the +desired hit in such a way that if he fails to make the base hit he will +at least hit the ball in that direction in the field which will oblige +the fielders to throw him out at first base. With this object in view he +will always strive for a safe hit to _right field_, especially by means +of a hard "bounder" in that direction, so as to force the second baseman +to run to right short to field the ball, in which case the runner at +first base will be able to steal to second on the hit in nine cases out +of ten. Another good effort for a sacrifice hit is to _bunt_ the ball so +that it may roll towards third base, out of reach of the baseman or +pitcher. A third sacrifice hit is that of a long high ball to the +outfield, which admits of a chance for a catch, but so far out in the +field that the runner will have an opportunity to steal a base on the +catch. This latter point won't work, of course, when two men are out; +moreover, it should be the last point aimed at. + +A great deal of bosh has been written--mostly by the admirers of "fungo" +hitting--about sacrifice hitting being something that should not be in +the game, just as these fungo-hitting-advocates try to write down _bunt_ +hitting--the most difficult place hit known to the game. This class of +writers think that the very acme of batting skill is the home run hit, a +hit which any muscular novice in batting on amateur fields can +accomplish without difficulty, and where more home runs are made in a +single season than in two seasons by the best managed professional +teams. The effort to make home runs leads to more chances for catches by +outfielders in one game than there are home runs made in fifty. The +exhaustion which follows a home run hit, with its sprinting run of 120 +yards at full speed, is entirely lost sight of by the class of patrons +of the game who favor home runs. One season, a few years ago, the +tail-end team of the League excelled all its rivals in scoring home +runs, while the pennant-winning team took the honors and the prize +solely on account of its excellence in team-work at the bat. The mere +record of the best averages in scoring base hits in batting seems to be +regarded by the majority of "cranks" in base ball as the only sound +criterion of good batting. This is one of the fallacies of the game, as +such a record is unreliable. The only true criterion of good batting is +the record which shows the players who excel in the batting which +forwards runners; and this record the existing scoring rules, up to +1895, did not admit of, the champion batsman being regarded as the one +who excels in his base-hit average, without regard to the runners his +base hits forwarded. For instance, one batsman in a game will make three +three-baggers, and forward but a single runner by his three hits, while +another batsman by a single base hit, a good "bunt" hit and a telling +"sacrifice hit," will forward _four runners_; and yet by the existing +scoring rules the record batsman carries off all the honors in the +score, and the team-worker at the bat does not get the slightest credit +for the effective batting he has done. + + +SACRIFICE HIT RECORD. + +The following is the record of the players in the League teams of 1894 +who led in sacrifice hits last season. The names are given in the order +of bases stolen, as recorded in the official average tables made up by +Mr. Young. The percentage figures would, of course, materially change +the order. + +----------------------------------------------- + Sacrifice +PLAYERS. CLUBS. Games. Hits. +----------------------------------------------- +Donovan Pittsburgh 129 24 +Brodie Baltimore 129 24 +Beckley Pittsburgh 132 22 +Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 20 +Ward New York 136 20 +Kelley Baltimore 129 19 +Buckley Philadelphia 67 18 +Boyle Philadelphia 116 18 +Brouthers Baltimore 123 18 +Jennings Baltimore 128 18 +Shindle Brooklyn 117 17 +Cross Philadelphia 120 16 +Keeler Baltimore 128 16 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 15 +Mack Pittsburgh 63 14 +McGraw Baltimore 123 14 +Brown Louisville 130 14 +Wilmot Chicago 135 14 +Shugart St. Louis 33 13 +Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 13 +Quinn St. Louis 106 13 +Ely St. Louis 127 13 +Abbey Washington 129 13 +Van Haltren New York 139 13 +Frank St. Louis 80 12 +Weaver Pittsburgh 90 12 +Tredway Brooklyn 122 12 +Lyons Pittsburgh 72 11 +G. Tebeau Cleveland 105 11 +Robinson Baltimore 106 11 +Hay Cincinnati 128 11 +Latham Cincinnati 130 11 +McKean Cleveland 130 11 +Menafee Pittsburgh 37 10 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 10 +Blake Cleveland 73 10 +Hassamer Washington 116 10 +Dahlen Chicago 121 10 +Duffy Boston 124 10 +Burkett Cleveland 124 10 +E. Smith Pittsburgh 125 10 +Corcoran Brooklyn 129 10 +Burke New York 138 10 +---------------------------------------------- + +According to the above table Pittsburgh led with a total of 146 +sacrifice hits, Baltimore being next with 120, followed by Philadelphia +with 52, New York 43, Cleveland 42, Brooklyn 39, St. Louis 38, +Louisville 29, Chicago 24, Washington 23, Cincinnati 22 and Boston 10. + +A record connected with the batting of each season is that showing the +number of victories and defeats, marked by single and double figure +scores. This data shows, to a considerable extent, how the pitching +stands in relation to the batting, as to whether the one or the other +dominates too much in the efforts of the rulemakers to equal the powers +of attack and defence. If the pitching has the best of it than we have +a predominance of the undesirable class of pitchers' games, in which the +minority of the fielders only bear the brunt of the contest. On the +other hand, if the batting rules the roost, then we have too much of the +old slugging style of play, in which the outfielders are mostly brought +into play, and but little chance to see skilful base running or splendid +infielding is afforded. Here are some records which show what was done +in 1894 in this respect: + +The three leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 scored a total of +198 single figure games to 194 double figure games. The record in +detail being as follows: + +SINGLE FIGURE. +------------------------------------------- +Baltimore single figure victories 40 +Baltimore single figure defeats 18 +New York single figure victories 59 +New York single figure defeats 25 +Boston single figure victories 34 +Boston single figure defeats 22 + --- +Totals 198 +------------------------------------------- + +DOUBLE FIGURE. +------------------------------------------- +Baltimore double figure victories 49 +Baltimore double figure defeats 21 +New York double figure victories 29 +New York double figure defeats 19 +Boston double figure victories 49 +Boston double figure defeats 27 + --- +Totals 194 +------------------------------------------- + +This record includes games counted out or forfeited. + +The full record of the twelve clubs in single and double figure +victories and defeats in 1894 is appended. + + +RECORD OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE FIGURE GAMES. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + SINGLE FIGURE. DOUBLE FIGURE. +CLUBS. Victories. Defeats. Totals. Victories. Defeats. Totals. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 40 18 58 49 21 70 +New York 59 25 84 29 19 48 +Boston 34 22 56 49 27 76 +Philadelphia 28 22 50 43 30 73 +Brooklyn 34 27 61 36 35 71 +Cleveland 39 36 75 29 25 54 +Pittsburgh 35 35 70 30 20 50 +Chicago 20 40 60 38 35 73 +St. Louis 35 45 80 21 31 52 +Cincinnati 36 37 73 20 38 58 +Washington 28 34 62 17 53 70 +Louisville 24 61 85 12 34 46 +Totals 412 402 814 373 368 741 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Boston club, which was third in the race, is +first in scoring the most total double figures in their contests, the +"Phillies" being second and the Chicagos third. In total single figure +scores New York takes a decided lead, while the Louisville club is +second and St. Louis third. In single figure victories, however, New +York is first, Baltimore second and Cleveland third; while in double +figure victories Baltimore and Boston are tied and Philadelphia is +third. The totals of 814 single figure games against 741 double figure +contests shows that the pitching is not yet overpowered by the batting, +though the use of the big mitts in infield work had much to do with the +scoring of single figure games. As far as these records show, it would +appear that the New York team really did the best batting of the +season. + + + +The Batting Averages. + + +We give below a record, taken from the official averages of the League, +giving the batting figure, which shows the base hit percentage and the +total sacrifice hits of those who have played in a majority of the +scheduled games of the season of 1894, the limit being not less than 70 +games. The names of the clubs are given in pennant-race order, beginning +with Baltimore and ending with Louisville. The record is not of much +account, except in the showing of the comparative base hit and sacrifice +hit batting, the larger total of the latter giving the palm in case of a +tie in the base hit averages. It also shows, as far as sacrifice hit +figures can show, which batsman did the best team-work batting. But the +one thing wanting in the record of batting averages is the data showing +the runners forwarded by base hits, and until the scoring rules give +such data there can be no correct data useful as a criterion of skilful +batting. Another record needed in the score summary of each game is that +of the number of chances given for catches off the bat, thus showing the +carelessness of the batting in the averaged number of chances for +catches offered off the bat. + +Here, is the record above referred to: + +An Analysis of the Batting Averages. +-------------------------------------- + +BALTIMORE CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Kelly 129 .391 19 +Brodie 129 .369 24 +Keeler 128 .367 16 +Robinson 106 .348 11 +Brouthers 123 .344 18 +McGraw 123 .340 14 +Jennings 128 .332 18 +Reitz 109 .306 7 +----------------------------------------------------- + +NEW YORK CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Doyle 105 .369 4 +Davis 124 .345 9 +Van Haltren 139 .333 13 +Burke 138 .299 10 +Fuller 95 .282 0 +Tiernan 112 .282 6 +Farrell 112 .282 3 +Murphy 73 .271 2 +Ward 136 .262 20 +----------------------------------------------------- + +BOSTON CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Duffy 124 .438 10 +McCarthy 126 .349 9 +Lowe 133 .341 9 +Bannon 127 .336 6 +Tucker 122 .328 2 +Long 103 .324 8 +Nash 132 .294 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + +PHILADELPHIA CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Turner 77 .423 8 +Thompson 102 .403 8 +Delahanty 114 .400 5 +Hamilton 131 .398 7 +Cross 128 .388 16 +Hallman 119 .327 22 +Boyle 116 .291 18 +----------------------------------------------------- + +BROOKLYN CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Griffin 106 .365 5 +Burns 126 .358 9 +Daly 123 .338 4 +Treadway 122 .336 12 +Foutz 73 .310 8 +Corcoran 129 .302 10 +Shindle 117 .300 17 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CLEVELAND CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Childs 117 .365 4 +Burkett 124 .357 10 +McKean 130 .354 11 +O'Connor 80 .330 4 +O. Tebeau 119 .305 9 +Blake 73 .286 10 +Zimmer 88 .285 2 +McGarr 127 .272 5 +G. Tebeau 105 .266 11 +----------------------------------------------------- + +PITTSBURGH CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +E. Smith 125 .352 10 +Stenzel 131 .351 5 +Beckley 132 .344 22 +Lyons 72 .311 11 +Donovan 133 .306 26 +Bierbauer 131 .301 20 +Shugart 133 .285 13 +Glasscock 86 .283 13 +Shiebeck 75 .275 1 +Weaver 90 .250 12 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CHICAGO CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Anson 83 .394 7 +Dahlen 121 .362 10 +Ryan 108 .359 8 +Wilmot 105 .331 14 +Lange 112 .324 4 +Decker 89 .310 2 +Irwin 130 .302 4 +Schriver 94 .269 5 +Parrott 126 .244 9 +----------------------------------------------------- + +ST. LOUIS CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Miller 125 .341 8 +Ely 127 .305 13 +Peitz 100 .274 7 +Quinn 106 .274 13 +Dowd 123 .267 9 +Frank 80 .246 12 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CINCINNATI CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Holliday 122 .383 4 +McPhee 128 .320 6 +Latham 130 .313 11 +Hoy 128 .312 11 +Canavan 100 .293 5 +Murphy 76 .268 6 +G. Smith 128 .266 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + +WASHINGTON CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Joyce 98 .344 5 +Hassamer 116 .326 10 +Abbey 129 .318 13 +Selbach 96 .309 3 +McGuire 102 .304 4 +F. Ward 89 .303 5 +Cartwright 132 .292 3 +Radford 93 .233 1 +----------------------------------------------------- + +LOUISVILLE CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Pfeffer 104 .297 15 +Grimm 107 .290 8 +Clark 76 .275 1 +Richardson 116 .255 4 +Brown 130 .251 14 +Lutenburg 70 .192 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + + +The record of the twelve clubs in the League pennant race of 1894 in the +total number of sacrifice hits is as follows: + +---------------------------------------------------------------- + Sacrifice +BATSMEN. CLUBS. Games. Hits. +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Donovan Pittsburgh 133 26 +Brodie Baltimore 129 24 +Cross Philadelphia 128 16 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 15 +Wilmot Chicago 135 14 +Quinn St. Louis 106 13 +Abbey Washington 129 13 +Van Haltren New York 139 13 +Tredway Brooklyn 122 12 +Hoy Cincinnati 128 11 +G. Tebeau Cleveland 105 11 +Duffy Boston 124 10 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The first nine in base hit averages were as follows: +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + Percent, of Sacrifice + BATSMEN. CLUBS. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Duffy Boston 124 .438 10 +Turner Philadelphia 77 .423 8 +Thompson Philadelphia 102 .403 8 +Delahanty Philadelphia 114 .400 5 +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 .398 7 +Anson Chicago 88 .394 7 +Kelly Baltimore 129 .391 19 +Cross Philadelphia 128 .388 6 +Holliday Cincinnati 122 .383 4 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +BASE RUNNING. + +It should be borne in mind by the rulemakers of the League, and +especially by the magnates who pass upon the work done by the Rules +Committee, that base running has come to be as much of an art in the +game as is skilful, strategic pitching or team-work in batting. +Especially has skill in stealing bases become a potent factor +in winning games, and year after year is it increasing in popular favor +as one of the most attractive features of the game. Every manager of the +period should realize the important fact, that, however strong his team +may be in its "battery" department, or in the excellence of the field +support given the pitchers, it is lacking in one essential element of +strength if it be not up to the mark in base stealing by its +players. Effective pitching and sharp fielding are, of course, very +necessary to success in winning games, as also skilful batting, +especially of the strategic kind. While it is a difficult task to get to +first base safely in the face of a steady and effective fire from the +opposing "battery," backed up by good support from the field, it is +still more difficult when the first base is safely reached to secure the +other bases by good base stealing. The fact is, a greater degree of +intelligence is required in the player who would excel in base running +than is needed either in fielding or in batting. Any soft-brained +heavy-weight can occasionally hit a ball for a home run, but it requires +a shrewd, intelligent player, with his wits about him, to make a +successful base runner. Indeed, base running is the most difficult work +a player has to do in the game. To cover infield positions properly, a +degree of intelligence in the player is required, which the majority do +not as a general rule possess; but to excel in base running such mental +qualifications are required as only a small minority are found to +possess. Presence of mind, prompt action on the spur of the moment; +quickness of perception, and coolness and nerve are among the requisites +of a successful base runner. Players habitually accustomed to hesitate +to do this, that or the other, in attending to the varied points of a +game, can never become good base runners. There is so little time +allowed to judge of the situation that prompt action becomes a necessity +with the base runner. He must "hurry up" all the time. Then, too, he +must be daring in taking risks, while at the same time avoiding +recklessness in his running. + +Due consideration had not been given by the League magnates, up to 1895, +to the importance of having more definite rules governing the base +running in the game, the rules applicable to balks in pitching, as +affecting the base running, having been at no time as clear and definite +as they should be; nor have the existing rules bearing upon base running +been strictly observed by the majority of the umpires each year; +especially was this the case in 1892, when the observance of the balk +rule was very lax indeed. The difficulty in framing a proper rule for +the purpose is, to properly define the difference between a palpable +_fielding_ error, which enables a base to be run on the error, and an +error plainly induced by the very effort made to steal a base. No base +can be credited to a base runner as having been stolen which is the +result of a dropped fly ball, a wild throw to a base player, or a +palpable muff in fielding a batted ball. But in view of the difficulties +surrounding base stealing, it is not going out of the way to credit a +base as stolen when the effort of the runner, in taking ground and +getting a start to steal, leads to a passed ball, a failure to throw to +a base quick enough, or a failure on the part of a base player to put +the ball on the runner quick enough. Of course these are, to a certain +extent, errors on the part of the fielders, but they are not of the +class of _palpable errors_ as wild throws, dropped fly balls, and +failures to pick up batted balls, or to hold well thrown balls, are. The +other errors are consequent upon the effort on the part of the runner to +steal a base, and as such should be included as part and parcel of a +credited stolen base. + +#The Base Running of 1894.# + +The base running records of the past three years, under the rules of the +great major league, present a very interesting set of tables, whereby +one can judge of the good work done in this direction pretty +fairly. Below we give the full record of each season in stolen bases +from 1892 to 1894, inclusive, showing the totals of stolen bases by each +club each season, together with the aggregate of stolen bases for the +three years. We give the names of the twelve clubs in the order in which +they lead in stolen bases at the end of the three years of base running. +Here is the full record in question: + +RECORD OF TOTAL STOLEN BASES FOR 1892, 1893 AND 1894. +--------------------------------------------------- + CLUBS. 1892. 1893. 1894. TOTALS. +--------------------------------------------------- +1. New York 281 401 294 976 +2. Brooklyn 408 247 266 921 +3. Baltimore 197 261 320 778 +4. Chicago 216 237 324 777 +5. Cleveland 288 242 228 758 +6. Boston 337 174 230 741 +7. Pittsburgh 211 245 247 703 +8. Philadelphia 217 174 266 657 +9. Cincinnati 241 204 205 650 +10. Washington 250 142 209 601 +11. Louisville 228 174 198 600 +12. St. Louis 196 196 150 542 +--------------------------------------------------- +Totals 3070 2697 2937 8704 +--------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen by the above record that the best base running, in the +aggregate of the three years' play, was made in 1892, the three leading +clubs in stolen bases that year being Brooklyn, Boston and Cleveland. In +1893 the three leaders in base running were New York, Baltimore and +Brooklyn, and the three leaders of the past season were Chicago, +Baltimore and Brooklyn, Philadelphia being tied with Brooklyn. The +tail-end clubs in stolen base records during the three years were +St. Louis in 1892, Washington in 1893 and St. Louis in 1894. In the +aggregate of the three years, New York stands first, Brooklyn second and +Baltimore third, St. Louis being a bad tail-ender in these total +figures. It is a noteworthy fact that when Brooklyn led in base running +Ward was captain, while when New York led the next year, Ward was +captain, too, New York jumping from .281 in 1892, when Ward was in +Brooklyn, to .401 in 1893, when he went to the New York club, Brooklyn +that year falling off from .408 to .247. Baltimore, too, made a big jump +in base running after Hanlon became manager, the jump being from .197 in +1892 to .320 in 1894. + +The highest totals of stolen bases in any one year was in 1892, there +being quite a falling off in 1893; while in 1894 a considerable +improvement was shown, the average for the three years being 2,901 for +the twelve clubs. + +Last season the Baltimore club's team, under Hanlon's control, excelled +all the other Eastern teams in stealing bases, Philadelphia being +second, New York third and Boston fourth in this respect, the +Baltimore's quartette of leading base stealers scoring a total of 212 +bases to Philadelphia's 185, New York's 180 and Boston's 156. The three +teams of the Western clubs which excelled in base running last season +were Chicago, with a total of 324; Pittsburgh, with 247, and Cleveland, +with 228. + +Had the umpires properly interpreted the balk rules in 1894, probably +the total of stolen bases for that year would have got up among the +twelve hundreds at least. This year they should be made to do it. + + +THE STOLEN BASE RECORD OF 1894. + +The record of stolen bases for 1894, showing the best nine base stealers +of each club is as appended. The names of clubs are given in pennant +race order, and of players in the order of percentage of stolen bases +per game. + + +THE RECORD OF THE FIRST DIVISION CLUBS. +---------------------------------------- + +BALTIMORE +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +McGraw 123 77 .636 +Bonner 27 11 .407 +Brodie 129 50 .388 +Kelley 129 45 .350 +Brouthers 126 40 .317 +Jennings 128 36 .281 +Keeler 128 30 .235 +Reitz 109 18 .165 +Robinson 106 9 .123 + +Totals 1005 820 .318 +---------------------------------------- + +NEW YORK +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Doyle 105 48 .457 +Fuller 95 34 .358 +Burke 138 47 .340 +Van Halt'n 139 44 .315 +Ward 136 41 .306 +Davis 124 37 .298 +Tiernan 112 24 .214 +German 19 4 .211 +Wilson 45 9 .200 + +Totals 1006 294 .292 +---------------------------------------- + +BOSTON +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Duffy 124 49 .395 +Bannon 127 42 .331 +McCarthy 126 40 .317 +Tierney 24 7 .292 +Long 103 25 .243 +Lowe 133 25 .188 +Tucker 122 19 .156 +Nash 132 19 .144 +Stivetts . 57 4 .070 + +Totals 948 230 .253 +---------------------------------------- + +PHILADELPHIA. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Hamilton 131 99 .756 +Thompson 102 29 .284 +Delahanty 104 29 .279 +Cross 120 28 .233 +Hallman 119 26 .218 +Boyle 116 22 .190 +Reilly 36 6 .167 +Sullivan 93 15 .161 +Turner 77 12 .157 + +Totals 898 266 .296 +---------------------------------------- + +BROOKLYN. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Griffin 106 48 .453 +Daly 123 53 .431 +LaChance 65 25 .385 +Shock 63 18 .286 +Corcoran 129 33 .256 +Burns 126 29 .230 +Foutz 73 16 .219 +Treadway 122 26 .213 +Shindle 117 18 .154 + +Totals 924 266 .288 +---------------------------------------- + +CLEVELAND. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Ewing 53 19 .385 +G. Tebeau 105 34 .324 +McGarr 127 34 .269 +McAleer 64 17 .266 +Burkett 124 32 .258 +McKean 130 32 .246 +Childs 117 20 .171 +O'Connor 80 13 .163 +O. Tebeau 109 27 .155 + +Totals 909 228 .251 +---------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Baltimore club's nine excel the other five +clubs in the percentage of stolen bases, Philadelphia being second and +New York third; the other three following in order in percentage figures +as follows: Brooklyn, Boston and Cleveland. In total stolen bases by the +individual player, Hamilton leads with 99--the champion stolen-base +record of the season--McGraw being second and Duffy third, followed by +Griffin, Doyle and Ewing. + + +THE SECOND DIVISION LEADERS. +---------------------------- + +PITTSBURGH. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Stenzel 131 60 .450 +Hartman 44 17 .386 +E. Smith 125 37 .296 +Shiebeck 75 19 .244 +Donovan 131 31 .236 +Glasscock 86 20 .233 +Shugart 133 23 .172 +Bierbaur 131 20 .153 +Beckley 132 20 .152 + +Totals 987 247 .250 +---------------------------------------- + +CHICAGO. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Lange 112 71 .634 +Wilmot 135 76 .563 +Dableu 121 49 .415 +Parrott 126 34 .370 +Irwin 130 34 .262 +Decker 89 22 .247 +Anson 83 17 .205 +Ryan 108 12 .111 +Schriver 94 9 .096 + +Totals 998 324 .325 +---------------------------------------- + +ST. LOUIS. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Dowd 123 34 .276 +Hogan 29 7 .248 +Ely 127 23 .181 +Pietz 100 17 .170 +Miller 125 20 .160 +Cooley 52 8 .154 +Quinn 106 26 .151 +Frank 80 12 .150 +Breitenstein 53 3 .057 + +Totals 795 150 .189 +---------------------------------------- + +CINCINNATI +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Latham 130 62 .477 +Holliday 122 39 .320 +McPhee 128 31 .242 +Hay 128 30 .235 +M. Murphy 76 5 .192 +Canavan 160 15 .150 +Vaughn 67 6 .097 +G. Smith 128 12 .094 +Merritt 66 5 .079 + +Totals 945 205 .217 +---------------------------------------- + +WASHINGTON +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Ward 89 36 .401 +Cartwright 132 35 .269 +Radford 106 26 .245 +Seebach 96 23 .240 +Joyce 98 23 .235 +Mercer 43 10 .233 +Abbey 129 30 .233 +Hassamer 116 15 .129 +McGuire 102 11 .108 + +Totals 911 209 .229 +---------------------------------------- + +LOUISVILLE +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Brown 130 74 .569 +Smith 39 13 .333 +Pfeffer 104 33 .317 +Clark 76 24 .316 +Twitchell 51 9 .176 +Denny 60 10 .167 +Lutenberg 70 10 .143 +Grim 107 14 .131 +Richardson 116 11 .095 + +Totals 753 198 .263 +---------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the leaders of the six second division clubs +aggregated a total of 337 bases, of which Brown is credited with 74, +Lange with 71, and Latham with 62. In percentages, however, Lange led +with .634, Brown being second with .569, and Latham third with .477, +Stenzel, Ward (of Washington) and Dowd following in order. In total +percentages, the Chicago nine led "by a large majority," Louisville +being second and Pittsburgh third, Washington beating both Cincinnati +and St. Louis, the latter club making a very poor show in base running +figures in 1894. + +THE LEADING BASE STEALERS OF EACH CLUB. + +The following record shows the leader of each club in percentage of +stolen bases, the names being given in the order of percentage figures: + +--------------------------------------------------- + Total Per cent. + Stolen of Stolen +Players. Clubs. Games. Bases. Bases. +--------------------------------------------------- +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 99 .756 +McGraw Baltimore 123 77 .636 +Lange Chicago 112 71 .626 +Brown Louisville 130 74 .569 +Latham Cincinnati 130 62 .477 +Doyle New York 105 48 .457 +Griffin Brooklyn 106 48 .453 +Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 60 .450 +Duffy Boston 124 49 .395 +Ewing Cleveland 53 19 .385 +F. Ward Washington 89 36 .306 +Dowd St. Louis 123 34 .276 +--------------------------------------------------- + +The record of the base runners of the twelve League clubs who have a +record of 10 stolen bases and less than 20 each for 1894 is as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------- +PLAYERS. CLUBS. Games. Stolen Bases. +--------------------------------------------------- + 1. Ewing Cleveland 53 19 + 2. Shiebeck Pittsburgh 75 19 + 3. Tucker Boston 122 19 + 4. Nash Boston 132 19 + 5. Shock Brooklyn 63 18 + 6. Reitz Baltimore 109 18 + 7. Shindle Brooklyn 117 18 + 8. McAleer Cleveland 64 17 + 9. Lyons Pittsburgh 72 17 +10. Anson Chicago 83 17 +11. Pietz St. Louis 100 17 +12. Foutz Brooklyn 73 16 +13. Zimmer Cleveland 88 15 +14. Sullivan Philadelphia. 93 15 +15. Canavan Cincinnati 100 15 +16. Hassamer Washington 116 15 +17. Grimm Louisville 107 14 +18. Smith Louisville 39 13 +19. O'Connor Cleveland 80 13 +20. Robinson Baltimore 106 13 +21. Hartman Pittsburgh 49 12 +22. Frank St. Louis 80 12 +23. Turner Philadelphia. 77 12 +24. Ryan Chicago 108 12 +25. G. Smith Cincinnati 128 12 +26. Bonner Baltimore 27 11 +27. McGuire Washington 102 11 +28. Richardson Louisville 116 11 +29. Mercer Washington 43 10 +30. Denny Louisville 70 10 +31. Lutenberg Louisville 70 10 +32. O'Rourke St. Louis 80 10 +33. Farrell New York 112 10 +--------------------------------------------------- + +Those who did not steal a single base were pitchers Esper, +Dwyer, J. Clarkson, Ehret, Staley, Whitrock, McGill, +Wadsworth and catcher Buckley. + + + +THE FIELDING OF 1894. + +Season after season finds the fielding in base ball better attended to +than any other department of the game; and it is fortunate for the +business end of professional ball playing that it is so, as skilful +fielding is decidedly the most attractive feature of our national +game. Next to fielding comes base running, and lastly batting. The +reason that so much more skill is shown in the fielding department than +in that of batting, is due to the fact that more attention is giving to +fielding than to batting. Regular training in team-work batting is +practically unknown in the professional arena; while practice in +fielding is given every attention. No game is played now-a-days without +an hour being devoted to preliminary practice in fielding, while +efficient batting is unknown except in the college arena, the +professionals ignoring team-work batting practice in nearly every +club. Hence the superiority fielding has attained over the batting. Go +on any amateur field and watch a game in progress, and you can readily +see the inferiority in fielding exhibited in comparison with that shown +on the professional fields. It is not so in the batting, however. The +reason is that amateurs have not the time to devote to the practice +required to excel in fielding; but they can bat out three-baggers and +home-runs as easily as the record batsmen do in the professional fields; +it is different, however, in the case of doing team-work at the bat, +owing to their not having time for the necessary practice. + +Some splendid fielding was done in 1894, but as a whole it was not +superior to that of 1893, or even to that of 1892. One reason for this +was the introduction of the catcher's "big mitt" in the infield +work--something that should not have been allowed. It was due to this +fact that the batting scores were not larger the past season than they +were in 1893, the big mitt on the hands of infielders enabling them to +stop hard hit "bounders" and "daisy cutters" which, but for the use of +the mitts, would have been clean earned base hits. This gave the +infielders an opportunity to materially lessen the base hit record. By a +mistaken calculation, the pitchers were charged with doing less +effective work, single figure games being in a majority last season. + +In contrast to the attractions of fine fielding, the average batting of +the period is decidedly behindhand. What sight on a ball field is +prettier to the good judge of the fine points of the game, than to see a +hard hit "bounder" well stopped and accurately thrown from back of third +base over to first base in time to cut off a rapid runner? or to see a +splendidly judged fly ball held after a long run; or a hot "liner" +caught on the jump by an infielder; or a beautiful triple play made from +the infield; or a good double play from a neat catch, followed by a +fine, long throw-in from the outfield? All these attractive features of +sharp fielding all can enjoy and appreciate. But in the batting +department too little team-work at the bat--that is, skilful scientific +handling of the bat in the form of _place_ hitting, to forward +runners--is done to gratify good judges, the mere novices regarding +over-the-fence hits for a home run as the very acme of "splendid +batting," though they are invariably chance hits, and only made off poor +pitching as a rule. Then, too, how the "groundlings," as Hamlet called +them, enjoy "fungo" hitting, that is high balls hit in the air flying to +the outfield, this style of hitting giving fifty chances for catches to +every single home run. Time and again will one hear a "bleacher" remark, +"I don't care if the ball was caught, it was a good hit," as if any hit +could be a good one which gave an easy chance for a catch. When a +"fungo" hitter takes his bat in hand all he thinks of is to "line 'em +out, Tommy," in response to the calls from the "bleaching boards;" and +when the ball goes up in the air to outfield a shout bursts forth from +the crowd, only to be suddenly stopped as the ball is easily caught at +deep outfield by an outfielder placed there purposely for the catch by +the pitcher's skilful pitching for catches. Contrast this method of +batting to that of place hitting which yields a safe tap to short +outfield, ensuring an earned base; or the skilful "bunt" hit made at a +time when the fielders are expecting a "line-'em-out" hit; or a +sacrifice hit, following a good effort for a base hit to right field, +which should mark all attempts to forward runners, especially when on +third base. Of course there are skilful outfield hits made in team-work, +but they are confined to hot, low liners, giving no chance for a catch, +or hard hit "daisy cutters," which yield two or three bases; but every +ball hit in the air to outfield shows weak batting, and this style of +hitting it is which gives so many chances for catches in a game. It +will be readily seen how inferior the "bleaching-board" style of batting +is to team-work at the bat, and how much more attractive fielding is in +contrast to the popular "fungo" hitting method, of which there was +altogether too much in the League ranks last season to make the batting +compare with the fielding, as an attractive feature of the game. + + + +Single Figure Games. + +There is a great difference between first-class single figure games, +marked by batting against skilful, strategic pitching, backed up by +splendid in and outfield support, and the class of contests known as +"pitchers' games." The former are contests in which runners reaching +second and even third base by good hits are cut off from scoring runs by +superior pitching and fielding, and this class of games comprises the +model contests of each season. On the other hand, the "pitchers' games," +which yield single figure scores, are tedious and wearisome to the best +judges of the game, from the fact that the brunt of the work falls on +the "battery" team and one or two infielders, all the attractions of +base running and of sharp fielding being sacrificed at the cost of +seeing batsman after batsman retired on called strikes, arising from the +intimidating speed of the pitching, this requiring the batsman to devote +his whole energies to defending himself from the severe and often fatal +injuries following his being hit by the pitched ball. Fortunately, the +change in the distance between the pitcher and batsman has decreased the +opportunity for this class of unattractive games. But it will not do to +go over to the other side and by too much weakening of the box work give +the "line-'em-out" class of "fungo" hitters a chance to revel in +over-the-fence hits, and give the batsman undue preponderance in the +effort to equalize the powers of the attack and defense in the +game. Single figure games should outnumber double figure contests to +make the game attractive for the scientific play exhibited, but not in +the line of being the result of "cyclone" pitching. + + +The Umpiring of 1894. + +The umpiring of 1894, despite of the new rules adopted early in the year +governing the position, was no improvement over that of 1893; in fact, +in several instances it was worse. The explicitly worded rule, +prohibiting umpires from allowing any player, except the captain, to +dispute a single decision of the umpire, was allowed to be openly +violated by nearly every umpire on the staff. Then, too, as a rule, +they, the majority, lacked the nerve and the courage of their +convictions too much to keep in check the blackguardism displayed by a +small minority of the players of the League teams of 1894; some of the +umpires also displayed a degree of temper at times which sadly marred +their judgment. That they all endeavored to do their duty impartially, +goes without saying, but no umpire is fit for his position who cannot +_thoroughly control his temper_. There was one instance shown of the +folly of condoning the offence of drinking, which should not have been +allowed; a drunken umpire is worse than a drunken player, for no one +will respect his decisions. None such should be allowed on the League +staff under any circumstances; moreover, no umpire connected with the +low-lived prize-fighting business should be allowed on the League staff, +no matter what his ability may be in other respects. When it becomes a +necessity to have to engage pugilists as umpires to control hoodlum +players, then will professional ball playing cease to be worthy of +public patronage. + +One great drawback to the successful umpiring which was expected to +follow the revision of the rules made in March, 1894, was the +countenancing of the abuse of umpires by the magnates of the clubs +themselves. When presidents and directors of clubs fail to rebuke the +faults of their club managers in allowing incompetent or hot-headed +captains to set their players bad examples in this respect, they have no +right to find fault with the poor umpiring which follows. + +In the recent past, the rule on the League ball fields--and minor +leagues copy all that the major league does--has been that, from the +time the umpire takes up his position behind the bat, from the beginning +to the end of a game, he finds both the contesting teams regarding him +as a common enemy, the losing side invariably blaming him as the primary +cause of their losing the game. + +Then, too, in addition to the contesting teams as his foes, there are +the majority of the crowd of spectators to be added to the list, the +rougher element of the assemblage, the latter of whom regard the umpire +as an especial target for abuse in every instance in which the home team +is defeated. Last on the list of the umpire's opponents are the betting +class of reporters, who take delight in pitching into him whenever his +decisions--no matter how impartially he acts--go against their pet club +or the one they bet on. + +It is a fact not to be disputed, that those of the crowd of spectators +at a ball game, who are so ready to condemn umpires for alleged +partiality in their work, or for a supposed lack of judgment in +rendering their decisions, never give a moment's thought to the +difficulties of the position he occupies, or to the arduous nature of +the work he is called upon to perform. There he stands, close behind the +catcher and batsman, where he is required to judge whether the +swiftly-thrown ball from the pitcher, with its erratic "curves" and +"shoots," darts in over the home base, or within the legal range of the +bat. The startling fact is never considered that several umpires have +been killed outright while occupying this dangerous position. Neither +does any one reflect for a moment that the umpire occupies this perilous +position while regarded as a common enemy by both of the contesting +teams, and as a legitimate object for insulting abuse from the partisan +portion of the crowd of spectators. In fact, the umpire stands there as +the one defenseless man against thousands of pitiless foes. The wonder +is that half the umpires in the arena are as successful in the discharge +of their arduous duties as they are, and the still greater wonder is +that any self-respecting man can be induced to occupy a position which +is becoming year after year more objectionable. There can be no +successful umpiring accomplished in the position, no matter how perfect +the code of rules governing the umpiring may apparently be, as long as +that nuisance of the ball field, the professional "kicker," is allowed +to have his way. In view of the express rules which are in the code, +prohibiting the disputing of a single decision made by the umpire, it is +astonishing that the umpires themselves, not to mention club managers +and field captains, are so derelict in their duty in not enforcing the +letter of the law of the code in this respect. + +Let the magnates remember, when they say to each other this year--as +they did at the close of the season of 1894--that "this hoodlumism in +professional ball playing must be stopped," that _it is themselves who +are to blame_ for the blackguardism exhibited in the League arena in +1894. It is the failure of presidents and directors of League clubs to +do their duty which is the real cause of such umpiring as we had in +1894. Club managers of teams, as a rule, do what they know the club +presidents or directors quietly approve of or countenance, hence the +latitude given to the hoodlum tactics of the rough element in each team. +Don't blame umpires from meekly following the example club presidents +and directors afford their team managers and captains. + + + + +Editorial Comments + + +ON THE OCCURRENCES, EVENTS AND NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS OF 1894 IN THE BASE +BALL ARENA. + +Here is a list of the rules governing the movements of the pitcher, in +delivering the ball to the bat, which we saw violated repeatedly during +1894, without any protests from any of the umpires who acted in the +games we reported. First-- + +Not a pitcher had his foot in contact with the rubber plate last season, +all of them invariably placing their back foot a few inches in front of +the plate. Not one pitcher in ten, after feigning to throw to a base, +resumed his position, as required by the rule, after making the +feint. Not one in ten held the ball "firmly in front of his body," as +the rule requires. Not one in ten faced the batsman, as required by Rule +30. As for the balk rule it was as openly violated last season almost as +it was in 1893. Time and again was Section 29, Rule 32, violated as was +Section 3 all the time, as not one had his foot in position as the rule +requires, and yet not an umpire fined a single pitcher for the violation +of the rules in question, that we saw. + +What the pitching rules should be made to foster is, first--_thorough +command of the ball_, with the consequent accuracy of aim in delivery; +secondly--the substitution of _skilful strategy_ in delivery in the +place of mere intimidating speed; thirdly--the avoidance of the wear and +tear of an extremely swift delivery of the ball; fourthly--the +prevention of obstacles to successful base running, in the way of +allowing too many balk movements in preventing stolen bases. These +desirable objects were almost impossible of attainment under the +badly-worded rules in existence in 1894. + +In regard to the wearing of the catcher's "big mitt" by infielders in +1894, it is worthy of note that that first-class utility man of the +Philadelphia team, "Lave" Cross, while wearing a catcher's mitt as third +baseman--a large one at that, too--used it to such advantage that it was +next to impossible for a ball hit to his position to get by him. At +times it was simply laughable to see him stop ground hits. To wear such +gloves is making a travesty of skilful infield work in stopping hard +hit, bounding or ground balls. But with the speedy batting of the hard +ball now in use, the stopping of hard hit balls in the infield becomes +dangerous to the fingers without the aid of small gloves. But no such +glove as the catcher's mitt should be allowed to be used save by the +catchers or first basemen. In this position the "mitt" in question is a +necessity in view of the great speed of the pitcher's delivery and the +extremely wild, swift throwing from the field positions to first +base. It should be borne in mind that in the days when gloves were not +worn, when the pitching was far less swift than now, even then broken +and split fingers marked nearly every contest, and behind the bat four +catchers were needed where one or two will now suffice. + +A Washington scribe, in commenting on Manager Schmelz's work in 1894, +said: "Schmelz is a base ball man from the crown of his head to the +soles of his feet, and we have been taught to believe here that when he +says he will do a thing he comes pretty near fulfilling his +prediction. If the team gets a fairly good start at the beginning of +this season he is just as like as not to let several teams chase him +under the wire in September next. A lack of team-work and a most +deplorable weakness at short, second and third throughout the past +season lost the team many a game." + +To this latter list may be added, incompetent captaining of the team by +the noted kicker, Joyce. + +The Boston correspondent of the St. Louis Sporting News, in one of his +letters of last winter, sent the following interesting account of an +interview had between Manager Selee, of the Bostons, and a business man +he met on a train last October. The B.M. asked the manager "whether +ball-players, as a class, were a disreputable set of men, who made a +practice of spending their money foolishly, and of saying and doing +things on the ball field that were decidedly objectionable; also if, in +consequence, the interest in the game had not to a very large degree +been on the wane for a number of years past? He said he had read in the +papers of a number of acts that had led him to believe that such was the +case, and that, while formerly he had been an attendant at the games, +that latterly he had lost his desire in that respect, though he still +had an interest in all that is published about the game and the +ball-players." Mr. Selee at once attempted to show the gentleman where +his opinion was at fault, and an interesting conversation was carried on +until the train reached Boston, the gentleman severely criticising the +players and the Boston manager defending them. + +The correspondent, in commenting on this, wrote as follows: "This +incident opens anew a topic that has created considerable discussion for +several years, and which was brought most forcibly to the public eye by +a number of cases that occurred during the season of 1894, namely: Has +the rough, rowdy, disreputable, hoodlum element increased or decreased +in the professional arena in the past five or ten years?" Further on he +adds: "Any intelligent, unprejudiced student of the game cannot but +reach the conclusion that in recent years the excessive drinkers, the +foul-mouthed talkers, in short, the worst element in the professional +ranks, has been gradually weeded out, until the evil has been reduced to +almost a minimum, while the intelligence, manliness and exemplary habits +of the players have increased correspondingly; where, even five years +ago, a ball team could be found where a majority of its players were of +the drinking, gambling, disreputable class, to-day can be seen the +results of a great and gratifying reform in the personnel of the teams, +brought about largely by the efforts of the management, who have had +their eyes opened to the trend of public opinion, and have gradually +gotten rid of this unpopular element, and secured in their places +players of a far different plane of morals." Judging from reports of +contests in the League arena in 1894, the reformation above referred to +has been far too slow in its progress for the good of the game. Witness +the novelty in League annals of men fighting each other or striking +umpires on the field, the use of vile language in abuse of umpires, and +the many instances of "dirty" ball playing recorded against the majority +of the League club teams of the past season. "The time was," says the +same writer, "when a ball player's skill was the primary recommendation +for an engagement, his moral qualifications being of a secondary +consideration. To-day, however, while playing skill is, of course, one +of the leading qualities that an applicant for honors on the diamond +field must possess, it does not fill the whole bill by any means. His +habits, his influence among his fellow players, his general reputation +with the public, are also taken into consideration more than before, and +if he can pass muster in all these respects he is eligible for +engagement in all well managed teams." + +In commenting on the existing situation of the professional branch of +our grand national game, Mr. Wm. H. Bell, the Kansas correspondent of +the St. Louis Sporting News, says: "The growth and development of our +national game as been wonderful. Its success has been unparalleled in +the world's history of athletic sports, and stands to-day a living +monument to the courage, energy and perseverance of the American +people. When we pause a moment in our contemplation of the brilliant +future of our game and turn a glance back over the past, and try to +realize that less than one generation has lived since the birth of base +ball, and our fathers guided its first feeble steps, even we Americans, +familiar with progress unequaled in the history of the world, are forced +to marvel at the rapid growth of this athletic sport." Further on, on +the same topic, Mr. Bell says very truly: "While base ball has advanced +with great strides, its growth has been normal and healthy. Its success +is not the result of a boom, giving it a fictitious value, its +prosperity is not as an inflated balloon that will collapse when torn by +the knife of adversity. It is but a creation of man, and while its life +has been one of unequaled prosperity it has suffered, as do all things +of this earth. One factor has ever been potent in its success and that +is honesty. The honesty of the game has always been its motto, and +though often assailed has still remained intact. This, alone, has gained +for baseball a foothold in the hearts of the American people that +nothing can dislodge. Americans are known the world over as lovers of +fair and honest sport, and to base ball they have given their unswerving +allegiance." Here is a merited compliment to the National League from +the same able pen: "Our national game was never so firmly established in +the hearts of the people as at the present time. It is safe in the hands +of true and tried men, who are devoting their lives to its success. It +is dominated and controlled by that grand old organization, the National +League, which for twenty years has been the great exponent of the game, +and has done more to advance the game than any other factor. The League +has, during its life, stood on one platform, "honesty and purity in base +ball," and has always retained the confidence and respect of the +people. It has elevated the game until to-day base ball stands on a firm +foundation of popular approval unequaled by any other athletic +sport. While the game has advanced with marvelous rapidity it has +experienced short periods of depression and stagnation during its career +of thirty years. It has had enemies who have sought to pervert it for +their own uses. It has been all but torn asunder by civil war. But each +time it has bravely met the issue and in the end triumphed. It is just +now recovering from the effects of a civil war which all but destroyed +it. The rapidity with which it has recovered has been wonderful and is +to me a greater proof of prosperity and success than any success that +could come to it while enjoying a long period of peace." We regret not +having space to quote more at length from Mr. Bell's very able article +published in the Sporting News of January 12th last. + + * * * * * + +The Following Paragraph, Published In The New York Clipper Of February +5, 1895, Tells A Quiet Little Story Well Worthy Of Record In The Guide: +"A.G. Spalding, Of The Chicago Club, Was Asked How So Much Stock Of The +New York Club Came To Be Owned By Outside Parties, And He Said: 'well, I +Will Tell You. During The Troublous Brotherhood Times Of 1890, Along In +July, I Think, I Was Suddenly Summoned To New York. I Went Direct To +Mr. Abell's House, By Request, Entirely Oblivious Of The Object Of The +Sudden Call, And There Met Soden Of Boston, Reach Of Philadelphia, Byrne +Of Brooklyn, Brush Of Indianapolis, And One Or Two Others. There We +Received The Pleasant Information From John B. Day That The New York +Club Was Financially At The End Of Its Rope, And Must Have Immediate +Assistance. Imagine Our Surprise When We Were Told That The Club Must +Have $80,000 At Once To Carry It Through The Season, Or The New York +Club Must Give Up Its End Of The Fight. When We Had Collected Our +Senses Sufficiently To Speak, It Was The General Opinion That If The New +York Club Failed At That Stage Of The Game, The Fight With The +Brotherhood Was Lost, And The Future Of The Old National League Was, To +Say The Least, Uncertain; So It Was Finally Decided That We Must Save +The New York Club At All Hazards, And Before We Separated That Night I +Agreed To Provide $20,000, Soden And Brush Came Forward With Similar +Amounts, And The Balance Was Taken By Reach, Abell And One Or Two +Others, As I Remember. It Was Pretty Costly, But That Prompt Act Saved +The National League, And, By Saving It, The Future Of Professional Base +Ball In This Country Was, In My Opinion, Also Saved. This Will Explain +How I First Became Interested In The New York Club, And, As A Result, +Find Myself Criticised For Ever Being Permitted To Hold Any Of The +Stock. Of This $20,000 Stock Alloted To Chicago, Anson Took And Paid +Cash For $5,000, Another Chicago Gentleman Took $5,000, My Brother +Walter $5,000 And Myself $5,000. Afterward I Sold Or Practically Gave My +Stock To My Brother, And I Think He Picked Up Some More While He Was A +Director Of The Club. That Brotherhood Fight Was A Great Fight, And One +That Will Probably Never Be Duplicated. The Real Inside History Of That +Struggle, And Its Final Settlement, Was Never Written, But If It Ever +Is, It Will Prove Quite Interesting, As Well As Quite A Surprise To The +Base Ball Men Of That Day. But Why Talk In This Strain Any Longer. You +Know I Am Out Of Active Base Ball, And These Reminiscences Simply +Emphasize The Fact That I Ought To Be Out Of It, For I Am Getting Too +Old.'" + +What A Commentary On The Selfish Greed Of The Overpaid Star Players Of +The "Out-For-The-Stuff" Class Of The Professional Fraternity +Mr. Spalding's Account Of One Costly Result Of The Players' Revolt Of +1890 The Above Story Presents. It Also Tells The True Story Of How The +Above-Named Magnates Of The Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn And +Indianapolis Clubs Of 1890 Came To Be Financially Interested In The New +York Club, Not For Profit, But To Save The Disruption Of The League. + + * * * * * + +The veteran Comiskey thus explains the difference in one special +respect, between a seasoned player and a _colt_--and he is one who ought +to know, you know. He said, in an interview: "No one appreciates the +superiority of hustling, aggressive youngsters over the old standbys of +the diamond more than I do. A seasoned player, as a rule, develops into +a mechanical player who is always watching his averages and keeping tab +on himself. While he may be too loyal to shirk, he will not take a +chance which he is not compelled to. Especially is this true in running +bases. How many of these old players will slide or go into a bag when +they are blocked off? Very few. On the other hand, a young player +appreciates that he has to make a reputation, while the old player, who +has one to protect, is in the business for a livelihood and nothing +else. Popular applause has lost its favor for him, and, while it is not +unwelcome, it does not stimulate him to renewed exertions as it did when +he began his career. It is entirely different with the man who is trying +to establish himself in the major league. An ambitious young player +thinks that the game depends upon him, and is dead sure that every crank +agrees with him. Give him a good send-off in the papers, or let his +manager commend him for a creditable piece of work, and he will break +his neck in his efforts to deserve another installment to-morrow. The +public demands snappy ball, and the young players are the only ones who +can serve up that article." + +In his remarks, Comiskey furthermore said: "The good effect of a +manager's or captain's praise of a 'colt' is surprising. Both of these +officials of the League clubs, almost without exception, are apt to be +silent as the grave when a player makes a good point or a fine stop or +catch; but the moment he fails to make an almost impossible play then +comes the ill-natured snarl or the rutty growl. Harry Wright stands out +alone as the only manager or captain to encourage a player with praise." + + * * * * * + +A Philadelphia scribe, in commenting on the rowdy ball playing of 1894 +in the League ranks, says: "We could fill pages with evidence of the +rowdyism indulged in by the majority of the League teams during the +season of 1894, and that, too, if we were only to confine ourselves to +the local reports of the season at Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, +Baltimore, and half a dozen other cities." As the Cleveland Leader had +it, in commenting upon one of the Baltimore-Cleveland games: + +"I say it with reluctance--for I have always admired Ned Hanlon's +pluck--that the national game never received so severe a set-back as it +did during the last Baltimore series here. The effort to spike players, +the constant flow of profanity and vulgarity, the incessant and idiotic +abuse of an umpire, all combined to make the Baltimore club--that local +people have been led to believe was made of a crowd of earnest, honest +players--thoroughly despised and detested. In ten years' experience in +scoring games in Cleveland I have never heard such a torrent of +vulgarity, profanity and brutal, senseless abuse heaped upon an umpire +as Lynch stood from the Baltimore players upon the field here." + +Similar charges against visiting teams were made by the Pittsburgh +people against the Cleveland team; by the Philadelphia scribes against +the Bostons, etc. In fact, proof, and plenty of it, was easily +attainable from the reports from every League city during 1894, to a +more or less extent. + +The question apropos to this comment is, "What are you going to do about +it" in 1895, Messrs. Magnates? + + * * * * * + +John Rowe, the veteran player, who was one of the "Big Four," +transferred from the Buffalo club to the Detroit club, in the fall of +1885, is a firm believer in Southern trips during the preliminary +season, to get the players in condition for a championship season. In +speaking on that subject, he said: "The year the Detroits won the +National League pennant we went South, and before the regular season +opened that team had played over 40 games. In consequence we were in +the acme of condition, and some of the teams nearly lost their breath +when they tackled us for the first time. The men could hit like fiends, +and field fast and perfect. There were no cases of 'charley horse' in +our team, and as for 'glass arms,' they were not included in our +outfit. It is a great thing, I tell you, and the managers who take their +men into a warm climate are doing a sensible act. According to my idea +the plan is to first practice until the players become limbered up, say +for a week or so, before attempting to play a game. Then get in as many +games as possible, without overdoing it, until the regular schedule +begins, In the exhibition games the experiments can be tried out, and +the men will gradually learn to play together, which means much to a +club. Of course, there is more or less luck in base ball, but at the +same time luck can't win alone all the time. Team-work and an agreeable +manager count a long ways toward winning a pennant." We would add to the +last line, that the absence of drinking and hoodlumism in the ranks is +equally a necessity. + + * * * * * + +In the arena of minor leagues, in professional baseball, outside of the +sectional leagues, like those of the Western, Eastern, Southern, New +England and other like leagues, there is no class of minor leagues which +is so much fostered as individual State leagues. Trio or duo State +leagues should be avoided except in very exceptional cases. In the +organization of the various minor leagues in existence, one special +point has been too much neglected, and that is the importance of making +the league's pennant race specially attractive by the attractive +character of the honors to be won. Sectional leagues, made up of +well-arranged circuits, present as good attractions in their +championship honors at stake as that of the great major league, and next +to these come the pennant races of State leagues. But what special +object, in this respect, is there to strike for in the championships of +trio or duo State leagues? None whatever. They are mere gate-money +organizations, lacking all of the attractive features of sectional and +State league pennant races. State leagues also possess the advantage of +not interfering with the interests of the sectional leagues which +include State clubs. Take any State in which professional base ball +flourishes, and in the State there will be found two classes of +professional clubs, viz., the one strong class, which exist in the +larger cities of the State, and the weaker class which represents the +smaller towns. The sectional leagues, of course, seek to attach the +former to their circuits, leaving the latter eligible for State league +circuits. + + * * * * * + +For many years past columns of space in papers making base ball a +specialty have been occupied with long arrays of figures giving the +averages of the players in the batting and fielding departments of the +game. To such an extent has this feature of the annual statistics of the +game been carried that the records based upon these averages have come +to be regarded by the players as the primary object in view during each +season's work in the field. As a result of this system those club +directors and managers who have never fully examined into the merits of +the subject, and who are not, therefore, aware of the fact that, as +criterions of the most skilful play in each department, these averages +are comparatively useless, have been led into the costly error of making +their selections for their teams each season upon the basis of the +figures of the players' averages, and hence the customary announcement +made at the beginning of each season that "our team has the best batting +average of the season." It is about time that the fallacy of this +average business should be shown up in its true light and that the +existing system of making out averages should be so changed as to make +it some sort of a test of a player's skill in his home position, which +it certainly is not now. The worst of this average business as it +prevails now is that it is a powerful incentive for every player to make +"playing for a record" his principal object in his season's work, and +that all-important duty, "playing for the side," a matter of secondary +consideration. + + * * * * * + +The cranks' title of "Giants," given years ago to the New York club's +team, has become a misnomer. The team most entitled to it in 1894 was +that of the Chicago club, no other club team making such a show of +heavyweight players last season as did Anson's real "Giants," as will be +seen by the appended record. Look at the figures of their biggest men: + +-------------------------------------------- + Height Weight + Feet Inches lbs. +-------------------------------------------- +Schriver, catcher 5 10 185 +Camp, pitcher 6 160 +Anson, first base 6 1 202 +L. Camp, second base 6 165 +Parrott, third base 5 11 160 +Clayton, short stop 6 1 180 +Decker, left field 6 1 180 +Lange, centre field 6 1 180 +Dungan, right field 5 11 180 + ---- ------ ---- + Average 6 173 +-------------------------------------------- + +How does Murphy, Fuller, Burke, Ward _et al_ stand in weight and size +compared to the above "Giants"? + + * * * * * + +Here is something worthy of note by club managers who begin to get their +teams together each spring, which we clipped from the St. Louis Sporting +News of last December. The editor of the News said: "The player that is +on the upward path is the man for success. He is playing for something +far more than the salary he gets. He is looking forward to a place in +the foremost ranks of the nation's ball players. Consequently he proves +to be a hard worker at all times. He tries to land his club in the top +notch, and his record, for the part he took, stands out as a +recommendation to all the world. On the other hand, the older player, +who has made his record and is going down again, has lost all his +ambition. He can put no life into the club, his ginger has been expended +in the days gone by, and the people look upon him as a back number. He +sticks to the profession generally for a livelihood. He wants to play +so as to hold his place, but he has lost the powers that he once had, +and cannot do what he would like to accomplish. The old-timers had +better get a hump on themselves this year, else will the youngsters +drive them out of the business." + + * * * * * + +The well-known base ball writer, Mr. Pringle, was right when he said: +"It is useless to get new rules until existing ones have been rigidly +enforced and tested." It is an undeniable fact that the umpires of 1894, +almost without exception, failed to properly enforce the rules governing +the umpire's duties. In this regard Mr. Pringle said: "The rules +relating to the duties of umpires are all right. They have power to stop +all rowdy conduct on the field, but the trouble has been the lack of +nerve on the part of umpires to enforce the rules." This, and the fact +that the presidents and directors of clubs who governed the managers and +captains of teams, were largely to blame in the matter for not backing +up the umpires as they should have done. The latter have arduous duties +enough to discharge as it is without their finding obstacles in their +way in the partisan actions of club officials who control club managers +and captains. When this class supports the umpires against the club +teams it will be time enough to lay the whole onus of hoodlumism in the +ranks on the umpires--not until then. + + * * * * * + +A Philadelphia scribe hits the nail on the head when, in commenting on +the existing abuses of kicking and dirty ball playing in the League +arena, he says: "If the club owners would take the initiative in +enforcing decorum upon their players, upon pain of fine or suspension, +instead of shifting the burden and onus upon the umpire, the problem of +order at ball games would be solved at once. But the majority of +magnates and managers, while openly, hypocritically, deploring dirty ball +playing, secretly wink at it and rather enjoy it, especially if their +particular club secures advantages from it. The players all know this, +and so do the umpires; hence the former presume upon it, while the +latter weaken in their intent and desire to strictly enforce the +rules. When the duty of preserving order on the field and decorum among +the players is devolved upon the clubs, who represent direct authority, +power and responsibility, instead of irresponsible umpires, then, and +not till then will the evils complained of cease, or at least be +mitigated." + + +Al Wright, the base ball editor of the New York Clipper, in its issue of +February 15, 1895, had this noteworthy paragraph in its columns: "Frank +C. Bancroft, the business manager of the Cincinnati club, in speaking +about the equalization of the players of the major league teams, said: +'I am not a firm believer in the prevalent practice of selling the best +men in a weak or tail-end team to one of the leading clubs, and register +a vigorous kick against it. My plan is that the National League shall +pass a rule forbidding the sale of a player from a club in the second +division, to a club in the first division. I think this would, in a +measure, prevent some of the hustling to dispose of a clever man for the +sake of the cash that is in the trade. There is certainly some good +arguments in the idea, and not one against it. The clubs of the second +division have been too willing to dispose of their best men for a decent +cash consideration, and the damage that has been done to the game is +incalculable.'" + + +A young Brooklyn writer, in commenting on the threatened war on the +reserve rule which Messrs. Richter, Pfeffer, Buckenberger and Barnie +were active in promoting, said: "Since the National League and American +Association amalgamated at Indianapolis in 1892 the League has not been +a glorious success." The reply to this is a statement of fact which +contradicts the above assertion very flatly. The reorganized National +League started its new career in the spring of 1892 with an +indebtedness, resulting from the base ball war of 1891, of over +$150,000. At the close of the season of 1892 it had partially redeemed +its heavy indebtedness, and by the close of the season of 1893 it had +paid the debt off in full, and it closed the season of 1894 with a +majority of its clubs having a surplus in their treasuries, and that, +too, despite the hardest kind of times of financial depression. If this +is not a glorious success, pray what is? + + +A Pittsburgh scribe, in commenting on the dead failure of the scheme to +organize a new American Association, one object of which was to levy war +upon the now permanently established rule of the National Agreement +clubs, very pointedly said last winter that "such a scheme would be +folly of the maddest kind. There is not a good reason, theoretical or +practical, sentimental or otherwise, in support of it. The success of +base ball, to a very great extent, depends on public sentiment, and we +have seen what a base ball war did to that sentiment four years +ago. There is one solid basis for all base ball organizations, and that +is the reserve rule. The proposed organization ignores this fundamental +and necessary principle, and consequently can only be compared to that +foolish man who built a house on sand." + + +During the decade of the eighties the League's code of rules had this +special clause in it: + +"Any player who shall be in any way interested in any bet or wager on +the game in which he takes part, either as a player, umpire, or scorer, +shall be suspended from legal service as a member of any professional +Association club for the season during which he shall have violated this +rule." + +The question is, Why was this important and much-needed rule taken from +the code? + +No player can play ball as he should do who is personally interested in +any bet on the content he is engaged in; that is a fact too true to be +contradicted. Independent of this fact, too. Experience has plainly +shown that the step of betting on a game he plays in is but a short one +from accepting bribes to lose a game. The rule should long ago have been +replaced in the code. + + +The Cleveland Leader says: "The patrons of the game have begun to +realize the true inwardness of scientific batting, as shown in the +securing of single bases by well-timed place hits, safe taps of +swiftly-pitched balls to short outfield, and skilful efforts in +sacrifice hitting and bunting, every such hit forwarding a run or +sending a run in. Of course, to occupants of the bleaching boards, as a +rule, the great attraction is the long hit for a home run, which is made +at the cost of a 120-yards sprint, and at the loss of all chances for +skilful fielding. But to the best judges of scientific batting the safe +tap of the swiftly pitched ball, the well-judged bunt or the effort to +make a safe hit to right field, which, if it fails, at least yields a +sacrifice hit, is far more attractive than the old rut of slugging for +home runs and making fungo hits to the outfielders." + +There is something to fight for in the winning of a State league's +championship honors, while there is little or nothing at stake in a trio +or duo State league. Suppose each State had a four or six club circuit, +and at the close of its season, each August or September, what a paying +series of October games could be arranged in the Southern section of the +country in October for a grand championship series for the prize of +leading all the State leagues of the country for the honors of the +champion pennant of State league organizations? By all means let State +leagues be organized, until every State in the Union--North, South, East +and West--has its representative State league. + +The fickle nature of base ball "rooters" was conspicuously shown at the +Polo Grounds in 1894. At the end of the June campaign, when the New York +"Giants" stood sixth in the race, Ward's stock among the local "cranks" +and "rooters," stood below par; at the close of the July campaign, +however, that same stock was at a premium; and yet it was the same John +M. Ward at the head of the "Giants." In May there were "none so poor to +do him reverence." In August, John was carried off the field a hero. Of +such are the "cranks" and "rooters." + +A Toronto paper says: "Spalding Brothers will present to the champion +club of all regularly organized base ball leagues, junior or senior, in +Canada, a valuable flag, 11x28, pennant shaped, made of serviceable +white bunting, red lettered, and valued at $20. The flags will be +forwarded, duty free, immediately after the season closes. Each league +must consist of four or more clubs, and each club must play not less +than 12 championship games." This is a good plan to encourage the game +on foreign soil. It has worked well in England and Australia, too. + +Among the magnates of the League who could be seen at nearly all of the +home games of the twelve clubs during the past season were the Boston +triumvirate, Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings; the irrepressible +Charley Byrne, of Brooklyn; the handsome Vonderhorst, of Baltimore; the +smiling Eddie Talcott, of New York; the noted "Philadelphia lawyer" +Rogers, of Philadelphia; the "Boss Manager" Von der Ahe, of St. Louis; +the energetic Kerr, of Pittsburgh, and Al Spalding's successor, +President Hart, of Chicago. + +The Louisville team was a strong one as regards its individual players. +But it lacked harmony in its ranks and suffered from cliques. With two +ex-captains in its team, besides the one who ran it, but little else +could be expected. Ambitious ex-captains are obstacles in the way of +successful management of a team. One regular captain should be the rule, +with an acknowledged lieutenant--a pair like Comiskey and Latham, who +worked the old St. Louis "Browns" up to being four-time winners of +pennant honors. + +It is a noteworthy fact that Anson has been manager and captain of the +Chicago club's teams since 1877, and from that year to this he has taken +his team to the goal of the championship five years of the six the club +won the pennant, A.G. Spalding being the manager in 1876, the first year +the club won the honors. Fifteen successive years of management in one +club beats the League's records in that respect. + + +[Illustration: P. T. POWERS, President Eastern League.] +[Illustration: Yale Team, '94.][Illustration: Harvard Team, '94.] +[Illustration: University of Pennsylvania Team, '94.] +[Illustration: Princeton Team, '94.] + + + +#EASTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE.# +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Clubs. At Toronto. At Buffalo. At Rochester. + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + ................ May 29, 30, 30 June 6, 7, 8 +Toronto ................ June 17, 18, 19 July 6, 8 + ................ July 15, 16 Aug. 14, 15, 16 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 24, 24 ................ June 1, 3, 4 +Buffalo May 31, July 1,2 ................ July 9, 10 + Sept. 11, 12, 14 ................ Aug 17, 19, 20 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 10, 11, 12 June 13, 14, 15 ................ +Rochester July 12, 13 July 4, 4 ................ + Aug. 24, 26, 27 Aug 21, 22, 23 ................ +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 13, 14, 15 June 10, 11, 12 May 29, 30, 30 +Syracuse July 9, 10 July 12, 13 July 1, 2 + Aug. 21, 22, 23 Aug 24, 26, 27 Sept. 10, 11, 15 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Wilkes- May 16, 17, 18 May 13, 14, 15 May 23, 25, 27 + Barre July 26, 27 July 24, 25 July 20, 22 + Sept. 3, 4, 5 Sept. 6, 7, 9 Aug 28, 29, 30 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 13, 14, 15 May 16, 17, 18 May 20, 21, 22 +Scranton July 24, 25 July 26, 27 July 18, 19 + Aug. 31, Sep. 2,2 Aug. 28, 29, 30 Sept. 6, 7, 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Spring- May 20, 21, 22 May 23, 25, 27 May 13, 14, 15 + field July 20, 22 July 18, 19 July 26, 27 + Aug. 28, 29, 30 Aug. 31, Sep.2, 2 Sept. 3, 4, 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Provi- May 23, 25, 27 May 20, 21, 22 May 16, 17, 18 + dence July 18, 19 July 20, 22 July 24, 25 + Sept. 6, 7, 9 Sept. 3, 4, 5 A'g 31, Sep. 2, 2 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Clubs. At Syracuse. At Wilkes-Barre. At Scranton. + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 1, 3, 4 May 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 +Toronto July 4, 4 June 21, 22 June 24, 25 + Aug. 17, 19, 20 Aug. 10, 12, 13 Aug. 7, 8, 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 May 6, 7, 8 +Buffalo July 6, 8 June 24, 25 June 21, 22 + Aug. 14, 15, 16 Aug 7, 8, 9 Aug 10, 12, 13 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 17, 18, 19 Apr. 29, 30, May 1 May 2, 3, 4 +Rochester July 15, 16 June 28, 29 June 26, 27 + Sept. 12, 13, 14 July 30, 31 Ag. 1 Aug 2, 3, 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + ................ May 2, 3, 4 Apr. 29, 30, May 1 +Syracuse ................ June 26, 27 June 28, 29 + ................ Aug 2, 3, 5 July 30, 31 Ag. 1 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Wilkes- May 20, 21, 22 ................ July 1, 3, 4 + Barre July 18, 19 ................ July 4, 4 + Aug. 31, Sep. 2,2 ................ Aug 14, 15, 16 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 23, 25, 27 May 29, 30, 30 ................ +Scranton July 20, 22 July 1, 2 ................ + Sept. 3, 4, 5 Aug. 17, 19, 20 ................ +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Spring- May 16, 17, 18 June 6, 7, 8 June 10, 11, 12 + field July 24, 25 July 15, 16 July 12, 13 + Sept. 6, 7, 9 Sept. 13, 14, 15 Sept. 10, 11, 12 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Provi- May 13, 14, 15 June 10, 11, 12 June 6, 7, 8 + dence July 26, 27 July 12, 13 July 15, 16 + Aug. 28, 29, 30 Sept. 10, 11, 12 Sept. 13, 14, 15 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------ + +Clubs. At Springfield. At Providence. + +------------------------------------------------ + Apr 29, 30, May 1 May 2, 3, 4 +Toronto June 28, 29 June 26, 27 + Aug. 2, 3, 5 July. 30, 31 Ag.1 +------------------------------------------------ + May 2, 3, 4 Ap. 29, 30, May 1 +Buffalo June 26, 27 June 28, 29 + July. 30, 31 Ag.1 Aug. 2, 3, 5 +------------------------------------------------ + May 9, 10, 11 May 6, 7, 8 +Rochester June 24, 25 June 21, 22 + Aug 10, 12, 13 Aug 7, 8, 9 +------------------------------------------------ + May 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 +Syracuse June 21, 22 June 24, 25 + Aug 7, 8, 9 Aug 10, 12, 13 +------------------------------------------------ +Wilkes- June 17, 18 19 June 13, 14, 15 + Barre July 6, 8 July 9, 10 + Aug. 21, 22, 23 Aug. 24, 26, 27 +------------------------------------------------ + June 13, 14, 15 June 17, 18 19 +Scranton July 9, 10 July 6, 8 + Aug. 24, 26, 27 Aug. 21, 22, 23 +------------------------------------------------ +Spring- ................ May 29, 30, 30 + field ................ July 4, 4 + ................ Aug. 17, 18, 20 +------------------------------------------------ +Provi- June 1, 3, 4 ................ + dence July 1, 2 ................ + Aug. 14, 15, 16 ................ +------------------------------------------------ + + + +#THE EASTERN LEAGUE.# + +The cities composing the Eastern League circuit are Toronto, Canada; +Buffalo, N.Y.; Rochester, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Providence, R.I.; +Springfield, Mass.; Scranton,, Pa., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. + +The officers are; P.T. Powers, President, Secretary and Treasurer; +headquarters, A.G. Spalding & Bros., 126 Nassau St., New York. + +Board of Directors: James Franklin, Buffalo; George N. Kuntzsch, +Syracuse; William H. Draper, Providence, and E.F. Bogert, Wilkes-Barre. + +The base ball magnates of the Eastern League held their annual schedule +meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel March 13th. + +These delegates were present: President P.T. Powers, James Franklin and +Charles H. Morton, Buffalo ; E.A. Johnson and John M. Battey, +Providence; Charles F. Leimgruber and J.C. Chapman, Rochester; William +Barnie, Scranton; I.E. Sanborn and Thomas E. Burns, Springfield; George +N. Kuntzsch, Syracuse; William Stark and Charles Maddock, Toronto; +E.F. Bogert, L.W. Long and Dan Shannon, Wilkes-Barre. + +The League has a great staff of umpires for this season, as will be seen +from the following list appointed at the meeting: Tim C. Hurst, of +Ashland, Pa.; Herman Doescher, of Binghamton; John H. Gaffney, of +Worcester, and Charles N. Snyder, of Washington. It was voted to +increase the staff to five, and President Powers will sign another +umpire. He will also keep a number of reserve men in readiness to fill +in as substitutes in place of local men, as formerly. + +The constitution was subjected to a few minor changes, the most +important being the change of date for the payment of the guarantee to +finish the season ($250 per club) from May 1st to April 15th. + +John Depinet, of Erie, and Lawrence T. Fassett, of Albany, were elected +honorary members of the League, with all privileges of games, etc. + +The Eastern League adopted the Spalding League Ball as the Official Ball +for 1895, and it will be used in all League games. + + + +#The Eastern League Averages.# + + +THE RECORDS MADE BY EACH PLAYER IN BATTING AND FIELDING ACCORDING TO +OFFICIAL FIGURES--THE AVERAGES OF THE CLUBS. + +Sheehan of Springfield leads the entire batting list with the fat +percentage of .416. Patchen of Scranton was second with .392, and Mulvey +of Allentown-Yonkers was third, .391. All three of these are ahead of +Drauby's record, .379, which led the Eastern League the previous +year. Rudderham led the pitchers in fielding his position. + +The club averages are significant. They show that the Providence +champions turned up third in batting, and led the list in fielding. Thus +they deserved to win, for the Springfields, second in batting, are third +in fielding, tied with Troy; and Buffalo, first in batting, comes sixth +in fielding. Scranton and Yonkers see-saw on the tail end. Wilkes-Barre +is below the centre of the heap in both fielding and batting. In fact, +the sum up of club averages in stick work and field work indicates that +the clubs finished about as they deserved. The figures will give +opportunity for a couple of hours study. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 2 + s n + t d P + A e + G t B B r + a R a a c + m B u s s e + e a n e e n + s t s s s t +NO. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Sheehan Springfield 32 144 31 60 2 .415 + 2 Parchen Scranton 32 135 15 53 5 .392 + 3 Mulvey Yonkers 22 92 13 36 2 .391 + 4 Kelley Yonkers 15 61 11 23 2 .377 + 5 P. Sweeney Yonkers 21 86 21 33 3 .372 + 6 Knight Wilkes-Barre and Providence 113 493 108 183 34 .371 + 7 Bassett Providence 109 484 125 178 32 .367 + 8 Smith Buffalo 24 96 14 35 3 .364 + Rafter Binghamton and Syracuse 43 184 31 67 14 .364 + 10 Minnehan Syracuse 115 504 95 182 11 .361 + 11 O'Brien Binghamton 15 61 9 22 0 .360 + 12 Griffin Buffalo and Syracuse 106 465 103 167 14 .359 + 13 Raymond Binghamton 22 92 23 33 4 .358 + 14 Vickery Buffalo and Springfield 54 199 47 70 8 .356 + 15 Shearon Erie 103 145 108 158 23 .355 + 16 Dowse Binghamton, Buffalo, and 88 355 76 126 5 .354 + Troy + 17 Power Binghamton and Syracuse 79 328 72 116 15 .353 + 18 Collins Buffalo 125 562 126 198 18 .352 + 19 Drauby Buffalo 97 436 126 153 12 .350 + 20 Shannon Wilkes-Barre 77 347 77 121 21 .348 + 21 Nadeau Springfield 110 469 128 162 30 .345 + 22 Field Erie 109 436 71 150 16 .344 + Sweeney Binghamton 27 116 21 40 0 .344 + 24 Campfield Wilkes-Barre 29 94 20 32 1 .340 + Dixon Providence 80 320 58 109 33 .340 + 26 Rogers Providence 112 492 97 167 37 .339 + 27 Lytle Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton 101 479 115 162 39 .338 + Carr Binghamton 15 71 13 24 2 .338 + 29 Weddige Buffalo 21 86 19 29 1 .337 + Wood Yonkers 22 86 21 29 2 .337 + 31 Lynch Springfield 110 469 127 158 44 .336 + Kilroy Syracuse 30 98 22 33 8 .336 + Clymer Buffalo 121 523 97 176 36 .336 + 34 Lyons Providence 108 511 131 171 37 .334 + Johnson Troy and Scranton 111 463 221 155 14 .334 + Bottenus Springfield 110 440 111 147 22 .334 + Betts Wilkes-Barre 107 463 114 155 21 .334 + 38 Gillen Wilkes-Barre 106 417 89 139 17 .333 + Nicholson Erie 105 453 115 151 71 .333 + 40 Lewee Buffalo 71 262 56 87 3 .332 + 41 Breckenridge Troy and Springfield 113 440 98 146 11 .331 + Lally Erie 108 458 78 152 8 .331 + 43 O'Brien Buffalo 60 276 77 91 14 .329 + Payne Syracuse and Binghamton 52 197 37 65 5 .329 + 45 Cahill Scranton and Troy 91 402 73 132 26 .328 + 46 Scheffler Troy and Springfield 111 459 138 150 29 .326 + 47 Friel Binghamton, Scranton, & 60 251 58 81 17 .322 + Springfield + Pickett Troy 71 304 54 98 12 .322 + Hoffer Buffalo 76 282 63 91 5 .322 + 50 Lezotte Wilkes-Barre 78 336 73 108 8 .321 + 51 Shannon Springfield 109 493 115 158 15 .320 + 52 Gore Binghamton 48 191 46 61 5 .319 + 53 Boyd Buffalo 82 339 76 105 10 .318 + 54 Berger Erie 67 255 50 80 3 .313 + " Urquhart Buffalo 101 402 80 126 7 .313 + 56 Bausewein Syracuse 44 146 8 45 4 .308 + " Demont Buffalo, Bingh'ton & Scranton 36 146 31 45 4 .308 + " Burns Springfield 36 146 27 45 7 .308 + 59 Daly Buffalo 82 336 82 103 7 .306 + 60 Hoover Syracuse and Scranton 83 344 74 105 21 .305 + 61 Warner Wilkes-Barre 97 387 71 118 17 .304 + 62 Barnett Binghamton and Syracuse 42 132 23 40 2 .303 + " Hanrahan Binghamton and Syracuse 54 221 36 67 4 .303 + 64 J. Hess Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 78 348 72 105 8 .301 + 65 T. Hess Syracuse 98 381 64 114 6 .299 + 66 Gunson Erie 64 261 40 78 2 .298 + 67 Whitehead Binghamton and Scranton 30 131 28 39 8 .297 + 68 Welch Syracuse 108 422 111 125 81 .296 + " Eagan Syracuse 111 435 97 129 30 .296 + 70 Cross Syracuse 69 247 62 73 34 .295 + " Duryea Binghamton and Yonkers 53 190 24 56 6 .295 + " Heine Binghamton and Buffalo 50 203 35 60 8 .295 + 73 Simon Troy and Syracuse 114 485 123 143 22 .294 + " Faatz Syracuse 25 102 15 30 0 .294 + 75 Donnelly Troy and Springfield 83 361 91 104 15 .288 + " Wilson Syracuse 27 104 18 30 1 .288 + " Pettit Providence and Wilkes-Barre 78 368 65 106 12 .288 + 78 Conley Syracuse 62 247 30 71 9 .287 + " Brown Wilkes-Barre 54 233 28 67 2 .287 + 80 Keenan Wilkes-Barre 47 175 24 50 1 .286 + 81 Gruber Troy and Springfield 45 151 33 40 0 .284 + 82 Stearns Wilkes-Barre and Buffalo 76 307 76 37 14 .283 + " Lehane Scranton and Springfield 99 386 67 110 5 .283 + 84 Stricker Providence 108 436 88 123 52 .282 + " Cooney Providence 98 422 68 119 28 .282 + 86 Delaney Binghamton and Scranton 51 188 35 53 6 .281 + 87 Mack Binghamton 66 272 62 76 10 .278 + 88 Van Dyke Erie 108 434 66 120 36 .276 + 89 Leahy Springfield 101 423 96 116 30 .274 + 90 Bott Buffalo 18 66 11 13 2 .272 + 91 Healy Erie 37 137 21 37 0 .270 + 92 McGinness Erie 27 89 11 24 1 .269 + 93 Smith Erie 108 432 102 115 19 .266 + 94 Murray Providence 109 430 80 112 68 .260 + 95 Murphy Troy 29 116 11 30 1 .258 + " Johnson Buffalo 51 213 31 55 13 .258 + 97 Rogers Scranton 21 82 10 21 1 .256 + 98 Kuehne Erie 106 427 64 109 13 .255 + 99 McCauley Providence 53 197 33 50 27 .253 +100 Phelan Scranton 26 103 20 26 8 .252 +101 Wise Yonkers 20 80 14 20 7 .250 + " Dolan Binghamton and Springfield 25 84 12 21 0 .250 +103 Egan Providence 35 105 25 26 9 .247 +104 McMahon Wilkes-Barre 99 393 43 97 4 .246 +105 Lovett Providence 16 62 7 15 0 .241 +106 Donovan Scranton, Troy and Yonkers 34 121 12 29 4 .289 +107 Sullivan Providence 40 155 23 37 10 .238 +108 Smith Troy and Scranton 108 421 67 97 1 .230 +108 Coughlin Springfield 49 178 26 41 1 .230 +110 Messitt Springfield 82 112 20 25 2 .228 +111 Meekin Troy and Wilkes-Barre 39 135 28 30 4 .222 +112 Fisher Buffalo 17 60 5 18 3 .216 +112 W. Sweeney Yonkers 20 74 7 16 2 .216 +114 Costello Yonkers 22 86 9 18 1 .209 +115 Marshall Binghamton 17 62 10 19 0 .206 +116 Quarles Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 35 127 16 26 2 .204 +117 Blackburn Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 18 66 9 13 0 .196 +118 Kilroy Yonkers 17 64 10 12 4 .187 +119 Connors Binghamton 19 75 12 14 1 .186 +120 Lang Binghamton 16 59 19 11 7 .183 +121 Herndon Erie 47 189 21 29 1 .182 +122 Lohbeck Binghamton 42 160 20 29 7 .181 +123 Phillips Troy 15 59 8 10 1 .169 +124 Rudderham Providence 30 105 7 17 2 .161 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +PITCHERS' FIELDING AVERAGES. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Rudderham Providence 30 9 46 1 .982 + 2 Lovett Providence 16 7 38 1 .975 + 3 Bausewein Syracuse 41 14 60 3 .960 + 4 Sullivan Providence 39 8 72 4 .952 + 5 Campfield Wilkes-Barre 29 8 49 3 .949 + 6 Hoffer Buffalo 57 39 92 8 .942 + 6 Vickery Buffalo and Springfield 52 26 122 9 .942 + 6 Bott Buffalo 18 3 46 3 .942 + 9 Keenan Wilkes-Barre 38 29 64 6 .939 + 10 McGinnis Erie 27 6 52 4 .935 + 11 Gruber Troy and Springfield 45 7 77 7 .931 + 12 Duryea Binghamton and Yonkers 40 36 65 9 .918 + 13 Blackburn Scranton and Wilkes-Barre 17 8 25 3 .916 + 14 Coughlin Springfield 45 19 79 9 .915 + 15 Meekin Troy and Wilkes-Barre 39 29 63 9 .910 + 16 Donovan Troy, Scranton and Yonkers 34 14 55 7 .907 + 17 Fisher Buffalo 17 6 23 3 .906 + 18 Fagan Providence 20 9 65 8 .902 + 19 Herndon Erie 46 23 61 10 .896 + 20 Marshall Binghamton 13 3 23 3 .896 + 21 Quarles Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 33 13 64 9 .895 + 22 Dolan Binghamton and Springfield 25 4 34 5 .886 + 23 Healy Erie 34 14 63 16 .885 + 24 Delaney Binghamton and Scranton 50 21 80 12 .884 + 25 Kilroy Syracuse 27 20 56 10 .883 + 26 Barnett Binghamton and Syracuse 42 4 86 12 .852 + 27 Payne Syracuse and Binghamton 18 9 19 10 .736 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CATCHERS' AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Lohbeck Binghamton 42 138 30 6 .965 + 2 Gunson Erie 54 157 46 8 .962 + 3 Berger Erie 58 180 45 9 .961 + 4 Dixon Providence 63 241 48 12 .960 + 5 Cahill Troy and Scranton 51 161 51 11 .950 + 6 Urquhart Buffalo 83 321 74 22 .947 + 7 Warner Wilkes-Barre 97 317 71 22 .946 + 8 Wilson Syracuse 20 71 26 6 .941 + 9 Leahy Springfield 95 321 76 25 .940 + 10 Murphy Troy 24 83 10 6 .939 + 11 Hess Syracuse 89 253 54 22 .933 + 12 McCauley Providence 53 136 47 23 .913 + 13 Boyd Buffalo 61 226 37 28 .903 + 14 Rafter Binghamton and Syracuse 43 128 40 20 .893 + 15 Patchen Scranton 32 114 20 17 .887 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SHORT STOP AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Demont Binghamton and Buffalo 29 68 117 23 .898 + 1 Shannon Springfield 109 245 454 90 .898 + 3 Cooney Providence 98 148 331 55 .897 + 4 Smith Erie 106 205 429 75 .894 + 5 W. Sweeney Yonkers 20 40 78 14 .893 + 6 Lewee Buffalo 71 146 269 50 .892 + 6 Smith Troy and Scranton 108 139 332 57 .892 + 8 Cross Syracuse 69 172 275 60 .881 + 9 Hanrahan Syracuse and Binghamton 54 65 166 35 .870 + 10 McMahon Wilkes-Barre 99 218 402 98 .863 + 11 Johnson Buffalo 49 70 144 39 .845 + 12 Lang Binghamton 16 20 52 14 .837 + 13 Heine Binghamton and Buffalo 35 75 103 35 .835 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +FIRST BASE AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Brown Wilkes-Barre 54 578 30 10 .983 + 2 Breckenridge Troy and Springfield 113 1133 37 22 .981 + 2 Field Erie 109 1092 56 22 .981 + 2 Kelly Yonkers 12 96 11 2 .981 + 5 Lehane Springfield and Scranton 98 938 64 20 .980 + 6 Rogers Providence 109 970 42 25 .975 + 7 Power Binghamton and Syracuse 79 728 37 20 .974 + 8 Drauby Buffalo 46 455 21 14 .971 + 8 Faatz Syracuse 25 235 4 7 .971 + 10 Conley Syracuse 62 569 15 19 .968 + 11 Stearns Buffalo and Wilkes-Barre 76 774 24 30 .945 + 12 Sweeney Binghamton 23 215 9 15 .937 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SECOND BASE AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Stricker Providence 108 341 308 30 .955 + 2 Wise Yonkers 20 76 79 8 .950 + 3 Lynch Springfield 20 70 59 7 .948 + 3 Pickett Troy 71 241 197 24 .948 + 5 Eagan Syracuse 111 364 362 40 .947 + 6 Clymer Buffalo 54 159 171 21 .940 + 7 Nicholson Erie 105 321 300 42 .937 + 8 Cahill Troy and Scranton 28 75 78 11 .932 + 9 Burns Springfield 36 104 82 14 .930 + 10 O'Brien Buffalo 60 192 162 28 .926 + 10 Mack Binghamton 66 185 206 31 .926 + 12 Smith Buffalo 13 36 31 7 .905 + 13 Shannon Wilkes-Barre 77 168 221 41 .904 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THIRD BASE AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Bassett Providence 109 183 290 46 .911 + 2 Kuehne Erie 106 154 265 41 .910 + 3 Minnehan Syracuse 111 165 251 45 .902 + 4 Donnelly Troy and Springfield 83 123 207 36 .901 + 5 Whitehead Binghamton and Scranton 30 43 61 13 .888 + 6 Smith Troy 16 14 41 7 .887 + 6 Lynch Springfield 87 203 223 54 .887 + 8 Dowse Buffalo, Troy and Binghamton 67 97 146 36 .870 + 9 Mulvey Yonkers 22 35 44 12 .858 + 10 Gillen Wilkes-Barre 106 127 216 67 .836 + 11 O'Brien Binghamton 15 20 15 9 .818 + 12 Phelan Scranton 29 19 31 12 .806 + 13 Raymond Binghamton 22 24 42 17 .795 + 14 Weddige Buffalo 14 16 20 11 .765 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +FIELDERS' AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Clymer Buffalo 61 152 11 4 .976 + 2 Drauby Buffalo 37 67 5 5 .960 + 2 Welch Syracuse 108 225 19 10 .960 + 4 Lyons Providence 108 294 27 14 .956 + 4 Gore Binghamton 48 99 10 5 .956 + 6 Simon Syracuse and Troy 114 265 15 13 .955 + 7 Scheffler Troy and Springfield 112 175 23 12 .942 + 8 Hoffer Buffalo 19 45 3 3 .941 + 9 Collins Buffalo 125 299 34 21 .940 + 10 Wood Yonkers 22 42 3 3 .937 + 11 Griffin Buffalo and Syracuse 106 178 13 13 .936 + 12 Lally Erie 108 239 17 18 .934 + 13 Knight Wilkes-Barre and Providence 113 307 13 24 .930 + 14 Van Dyke Erie 108 219 23 20 .923 + 15 Johnson Troy and Scranton 111 312 24 31 .915 + 16 Betts Wilkes-Barre 107 302 23 31 .912 + 17 Shearon Erie 103 163 21 18 .910 + 18 Payne Binghamton and Syracuse 47 58 9 7 .905 + 19 Bottenus Springfield 110 267 6 31 .898 + 20 Daly Buffalo 82 137 17 18 .895 + 21 Murray Providence 108 144 26 21 .890 + 22 Lezotte Wilkes-Barre 63 112 7 15 .888 + 22 Carr Binghamton 15 32 2 4 .888 + 24 Connors Binghamton 19 37 2 5 .886 + 25 Hess Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 74 136 8 20 .878 + 26 Nadeau Springfield 85 187 17 30 .871 + 27 Lytle Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton 87 196 34 36 .864 + 28 Hoover Syracuse and Scranton 83 152 12 27 .858 + 29 Friel Spr'gf'ld, Binham'n, Scranton 60 96 5 11 .857 + 30 Pettit Providence and Wilkes-Barre 57 98 5 12 .830 + 31 Rogers Scranton 18 32 2 7 .829 + 32 P. Sweeney Yonkers 17 34 4 8 .825 + 33 Costello Yonkers 13 28 2 7 .810 + 34 Sheehan Springfield 32 36 6 7 .728 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CLUB BATTING AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------- + A B S P + t a t e + s o B r + B R e H l a C + a u i e s e + t n t n e n + s s s s t + No. CLUB. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------- + 1 Buffalo 4630 1022 1500 154 .323 + 2 Springfield 4004 942 1268 184 .316 + 3 Providence 4210 842 1306 365 .310 + 4 Syracuse 4092 814 1260 186 .307 + 5 Binghamton 3018 585 919 128 .304 + 6 Wilkesbarre 3949 773 1196 136 .302 + 6 Erie 4018 751 1214 194 .302 + 8 Troy 2775 588 821 97 .295 + 9 Scranton 1269 200 372 154 .293 + 10 Yonkers 735 118 220 28 .288 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CLUB FIELDING AVERAGES. +------------------------------------------------------------- + P + P A e + u s E r + t s r + i r C + O s o e + u t r n + t s s t +No. CLUB. . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Providence 2825 1357 257 .942 + 2 Erie 2776 1399 281 .936 + 3 Troy 1968 940 194 .934 + 3 Springfield 2779 1286 285 .934 + 5 Syracuse 2754 1380 310 .930 + 6 Buffalo 3011 1442 369 .923 + 7 Wilkes-Barre 2457 1191 354 .918 + 8 Binghamton 1916 967 276 .916 + 9 Yonkers 410 263 68 .902 +10 Scranton 794 357 138 .892 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +#The Presidents of the National League.# + +This is the twentieth year of the existence of the National League, and +in all that time but four members of the League have occupied the +presidential chair, viz., Morgan G. Bulkeley, ex-Governor of +Connecticut; the last W.A. Hulbert; A.G. Mills, the leading spirit of +the great New York Athletic Club, and N.E. Young, the present +highly-esteemed and worthy President of the League. Mr. Bulkeley served +during 1876; Mr. Hulbert from 1876 to his death in 1882; Mr. Mills from +that date up to 1884, when business requirements led to his resignation, +and Mr. Young since then. From the organization of the National League +in 1876 to the day of his death, Mr. Hulbert was the great moving +spirit in the reforms in the government of the professional clubs of the +country, which marked the period from 1876 to the eighties. It was his +influence, largely, which led to the war upon the "crookedness" which +marked the early years of professional base ball history, in which pool +gambling was the potent factor. It took years of cohesive and even +arbitrary legislation to eliminate the poison of the pool rooms from the +professional system, but success was finally achieved, and to the late +President Hulbert and his able coadjutors in the League does the credit +of this success belong. During the League regime, under President Mills, +the great union safety compact, known as the National Agreement, sprang +into existence, and its author--Mr. Mills--at this day has reason to be +proud of the good work he did for professional ball playing, and for the +benefit of the game at large, in the perfecting of this bond of union +between the reputable clubs of the professional fraternity. The wisdom +of the measure, as a protection against the abuses of "revolving" and +"contract breaking," has been very strikingly shown by court decisions +which oblige professional clubs to depend entirely upon base ball law, +and not the common law, for the preservation of their club rights in +contracting with players for their services on the field. Since +Mr. Mills left the League arena he has done most efficient service in +conserving the best interests of the New York Athletic Club and those of +the clubs of the Amateur Athletic Union at large. + +The great master of League records, and the whilom Secretary of the +League since its organization, Mr. Young, is known throughout the entire +base ball world, alike for the integrity of his character, the geniality +of his disposition and the marked industry and persevering application +which has characterized the discharge of his onerous official duties. + +It is well known that "Old Nick" is frequently alluded to in daily life +as the arch-fiend of the world; but the Old Nick of the base ball arena +presents a character the very opposite in every respect of his devilish +namesake--the one being the spirit of evil, and the other the spirit of +honor and good nature. Long may he live to honor the position and +uphold the reformation in the base ball world which his predecessors so +creditably originated and supported. + +Mr. Young is a native of Amsterdam, N.Y. He was but a mere boy at the +outbreak of the war between the States, but he was game to the core and +among the first from his home country to enlist in the Union +service. Just before the war he appeared as an athletic young fellow +with muscles that would have done credit to one as large again as he +was. He was looked on as the best cricket player in the section of the +country in which he lived, playing frequently on elevens which had +besides himself George and Harry Wright as members. You should hear Nick +relate anecdotes of his career as a cricketer. At the close of the war +Mr. Young made Washington his residence, and securing a position in the +Second Auditor's Department, being an excellent accountant, he has +occupied his position through several administrations. From cricket he +became interested in the national game of base ball, and eventually, in +connection with Mr. A.G. Mills, he started the old Olympic club of +Washington, and then it was that he took the field again. In 1871 he +was elected Secretary of the old "National Association of Base Ball +Players"--not of clubs, but of players--and in 1884, he succeeded Mr. +Mills as President of the National League, which organization succeeded +the National Association, which had become rotten. + +[Illustration: CORRECT DIAGRAM OF A BALL FIELD. +NOTE. For Specifications see Rules from No. 2 to No. 13.] + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE PLAYING RULES +OF +PROFESSIONAL +BASE * BALL * CLUBS + + +As adopted by the National League and American +Association of Professional Base +Ball Clubs. + + +THE BALL GROUND. + +RULE 1. The Ground must be an inclosed field, sufficient in size to +enable each player to play in his position as required by these Rules. + +RULE 2. To lay off the lines governing the positions and play off the +Game known as _Base Ball_, proceed as follows: + +From a point, A, within the grounds, project a right line out into the +field, and at a point, B, 154 feet from point A, lay off lines BC and BD +at right angles to the line AB; then with B as centre and 63.63945 feet +as radius, describe arcs cutting the lines BA at F and BC at G; BD at H +; and BE at I. Draw lines FG, GE, EH and HF, and said lines will be the +containing lines of the Diamond or Infield. + +THE CATCHER'S LINES. + +RULE 3. With F as centre and 90 feet radius, an arc cutting line FA at +L, and draw lines LM and LO at right angles to FA; and continue same out +from FA not less than 90 feet. + +THE FOUL LINE. + +RULE 4. From the intersection point, F, continue the straight lines FG +and FH until they intersect with the lines LM and LI, and then from the +points G and H in the opposite direction until they reach the boundary +lines of the grounds. + +THE PLAYERS' LINES. + +RULE 5. With F as centre and 50 feet radius, describe arcs cutting lines +FO and EM at P and Q, then with F as centre again and 75 feet radius +describe arcs cutting FG and FH at R and S; then from the points P Q R +and S draw lines at right angles to the lines FO, FM, FG, and FH, and +continue same until they intersect at the points T W and W. + +THE CAPTAIN AND COACHERS' LINE. + +RULE 6. With R and S as centres and 15 feet radius, describe arcs +cutting lines RW and ST at X and Y, and from the points X and Y draw +lines parallel with lines FH and FG, and continue same out to the +boundary lines of the ground. + +THE THREE FOOT LINE. + +RULE 7. With F as centre and 45 feet radius, describe an arc cutting +line FG at 1, and from 1 out to the distance of 3 feet draw a line at +right angles to FG, and marked point 2; then from point 2, draw a line +parallel with the line FG to a point 3 feet beyond the point G, and +marked 3; then from the point 3 draw a line at right angles to line 2, +3, back to and intersecting with line FG, and from thence back along +line GF to point 1. + +THE PITCHER'S PLATE. + +RULE 8. With point F as centre and 60.5 feet as radius, describe an arc +cutting the line FB at a point 4, and draw a line 5, 6, passing through +point 4 and extending 12 inches on either side of line FB; then with +line 5, 6, as a side, describe a parallelogram 24 inches by 6 inches. + +THE BASES. + +RULE 9. Within the angle F, describe a square the sides of which shall +be 12 inches, two of its sides lying upon the lines FG and FH, and +within the angles G and H describe squares the side of which shall be 15 +inches, the two outer sides of said square lying upon the lines FG and +GI and FH and HI, and at the angle E describe a square whose side shall +be 15 inches and so described that its sides shall be parallel with GI +and IH and its centre immediately over the angular point E. + +THE BATSMAN'S LINE. + +RULE 10. On either side of the line AFB describe two parallelograms 6 +feet long and 4 feet wide (marked 8 and 9), their length being parallel +with the line AFB, their distance apart being 6 inches, added to each +end of the length of the diagonal of the square within the angle F, and +the centre of their length being upon said diagonal. + +RULE 11. The Home Base at F and the Pitcher's Plate at 4 must be of +whitened rubber and so fixed in the ground as to be even with the +surface. + +RULE 12. The First Base at G, the Second Base at E, and the Third Base +at H, must be of white canvas bags, filled with soft material, and +securely fastened in their positions described in Rule 9. + +RULE 13. The lines described in Rules 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 must be +marked with lime, chalk, or other suitable material, so as to be +distinctly seen by the Umpire. + + +THE BALL. + +RULE 14. The Ball.[A] [Footnote A: The Spalding League Ball has been +adopted by the National League for the past sixteen years, and is used +in all League contests. + +For junior clubs (clubs composed of boys under 16 years of age) we +recommend them to use the Spalding Boys' League Ball, and that games +played by junior clubs with this ball will count as legal games the same +as if played with the Official League Ball.] + +SECTION 1. Must not weigh less than five nor more than five and +one-quarter ounces avoirdupois, and measure not less than nine nor more +than nine and one-quarter inches in circumference. The Spalding League +Ball, or the Reach American Association Ball, must be used in all games +played under these rules. + +SECTION. 2. For each championship game two balls shall be furnished by +the Home Club to the Umpire for use. When the ball in play is batted to +foul ground, out of sight of the Umpire, the other ball shall be +immediately brought into play. As often as one of the two in use shall +be lost a new one must be substituted, so that the Umpire shall at all +times after the game begins have two balls for use. The moment the +Umpire delivers an alternate ball to the pitcher it comes into play, and +shall not be exchanged until it, in turn, passes out of sight to foul +ground. + +SECTION. 3. In all games the ball or balls played with shall be +furnished by the Home Club, and the last ball in play becomes the +property of the winning club. Each ball to be used in championship games +shall be examined, measured and weighed by the Secretary of the +Association, inclosed in a paper box and sealed with the seal of the +Secretary, which seal shall not be broken except by the Umpire in the +presence of the Captains of the two contesting nines after play has been +called. + +SECTION. 4. Should the ball become out of shape, or cut or ripped so as +to expose the interior, or in any way so injured as to be, in the +opinion of the Umpire, unfit for fair use, he shall, upon appeal by +either Captain, at once put the alternate ball into play and call for a +new one. + + +THE BAT. + +RULE 15. The Bat. + +Must be made entirely of hard wood, except that the handle may be wound +with twine, or a granulated substance applied, not to exceed eighteen +inches from the end. + +It must be round, not exceed two and three-quarter inches in diameter in +the thickest part, and must not exceed forty-two inches in length. + + +THE PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS. + +RULE 16. The players of each club in a game shall be nine in number, one +of whom shall act as Captain, and in no case shall less than nine men be +allowed to play on each side. + +RULE 17. The players' positions shall be such as may be assigned them by +their Captain, except that the pitcher must take the position as defined +in Rules 8 and 29. + +RULE 18. Players in uniform shall not be permitted to occupy seats among +the spectators. + +RULE 19. SECTION 1. Every club shall adopt uniforms for its players, but +no player shall attach anything to the sole or heel of his shoes other +than the ordinary base ball shoe plate. + +SECTION. 2. The catcher and first baseman are permitted to wear a glove +or mitt of any size, shape or weight. All other players are restricted +to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces, and +measuring in circumference around the palm of the hand not over fourteen +inches. + + +PLAYERS' BENCHES. + +RULE 20. The Players' Benches must be furnished by the Home Club, and +placed upon a portion of the ground outside of, and not nearer than +twenty-five feet to, the players' lines. One such bench must be for the +exclusive use of the visiting club, and one for the exclusive use of the +home club, and the players of the competing teams shall be required to +occupy their respective benches while not engaged in active play. + + +THE GAME. + +RULE 21. SECTION 1. Every Championship game must be commenced not later +than two hours before sunset. + +SECTION. 2. A Game shall consist of nine innings to each contesting +nine, except that + +(a) If the side first at bat scores less runs in nine innings than the +other side has scored in eight innings, the game shall then terminate. + +(b) If the side last at bat in the ninth innings scores the winning run +before the third man is out, the game shall terminate. + +A TIE GAME. + +RULE 22. If the score be a tie at the end of nine innings, play shall be +continued until one side has scored more runs than the other in an equal +number of innings, provided that if the side last at bat scores the +winning run before the third man is out the game shall terminate. A DRAWN +GAME. + +RULE 23. A Drawn Game shall be declared by the Umpire when he terminates +a game on account of darkness or rain, after five equal innings have +been played, if the score at the time is equal on the last even innings +played; but (exception) if the side that went second to bat is then at +the bat, and has scored the same number of runs as the other side, the +Umpire shall declare the game drawn without regard to the score of the +last equal innings. + +A CALLED GAME. + +RULE 24. If the Umpire calls "Game" on account of darkness or rain at +any time after five innings have been completed, the score shall be that +of the last equal innings played, unless the side second at bat shall +have scored one or more runs than the side first at bat, in which case +the score of the game shall be the total number of runs made. + +A FORFEITED GAME. + +RULE 25. A forfeited game shall be declared by the Umpire in favor of +the club not in fault, at the request of such club, in the following +cases: + +SECTION 1. If the nine of a club fail to appear upon a field, or being +upon the field, fail to begin the game within five minutes after the +Umpire has called "Play," at the hour appointed for the beginning of the +game, unless such delay in appearing or in commencing the game be +unavoidable. + +SECTION. 2. If, after the game has begun, one side refuses or fails to +continue playing, unless such game has been suspended or terminated by +the Umpire. + +SECTION. 3. If, after play has been suspended by the Umpire, one side +fails to resume playing within _one minute_ after the Umpire has called +"Play." + +SECTION. 4. If a team resorts to dilatory practice to delay the game. + +SECTION. 5. If, in the opinion of the Umpire, any one of these rules is +willfully violated. + +SECTION. 6. If, after ordering the removal of a player as authorized by +Rule 59, Sec. 5, said order is not obeyed within one minute. + +SECTION. 7. In case the Umpire declares a game forfeited, he shall +transmit a written notice thereof to the President of the Association +within twenty-four hours thereafter. + +NO GAME. + +RULE 26. "No Game" shall be declared by the Umpire if he shall terminate +play on account of rain or darkness, before five innings on each side +are completed, except in a case when the game is called, and the club +second at bat shall have more runs at the end of its fourth innings than +the club first at bat has made in its five innings, then the Umpire +shall award the game to the club having made the greatest number of +runs, and it shall be a game and be so counted in the Championship +record. + + +SUBSTITUTES. + +RULE 27. SECTION 1. In every championship game each team shall be +required to have present on the field, in uniform, one or more +substitute players. + +SECTION. 2. Any such player may be substituted at any time by either +club, but no player thereby retired shall thereafter participate in the +game. + +SECTION. 3. The Base Runner shall not have a substitute run for him +except by consent of the Captains of the contesting teams. + + +CHOICE OF INNINGS--CONDITION OF GROUND. + +RULE 28. The choice of innings shall be given to the Captain of the Home +Club, who shall also be the sole judge of the fitness of the ground for +beginning a game after rain. + + +THE PITCHER'S POSITION. + +RULE 29. The Pitcher shall take his position facing the Batsman +with both feet square on the ground, and in front of the Pitcher's +plate, but in the act of delivering the ball one foot must be in contact +with the pitcher's plate, defined in Rule 8. He shall not raise either +foot, unless in the act of delivering the ball, nor make more than one +step in such delivery. He shall hold the ball, before the delivery, +fairly in front of his body, and in sight of the Umpire. When the +Pitcher feigns to throw the ball to a base he must resume the above +position and pause momentarily before delivering the ball to the bat. + + +THE DELIVERY OF THE BALL--FAIR AND UNFAIR BALLS. + +RULE 30. A Fair Ball is a ball delivered by the Pitcher while standing +in his position, and facing the Batsman, the ball so delivered to pass +over the Home Base, not lower than the Batsman's knee, nor higher than +his shoulder. + +RULE 31. An Unfair Ball is a ball delivered by the Pitcher, as in Rule +30, except that the ball does not pass over the Home Base, or does pass +over the Home Base above the Batsman's shoulder or below the knee. + + +BALKING. + +RULE 32. A Balk shall be: + +SECTION 1. Any motion made by the Pitcher to deliver the ball to the bat +without delivering it. + +SECTION. 2. The holding of the ball by the Pitcher so long as to delay +the game unnecessarily. + +SECTION. 3. Any motion in delivering the ball to the bat by the Pitcher +while not in the position defined in Rule 29. + + +DEAD BALLS. + +RULE 33. A Dead Ball is a ball delivered to the bat by the Pitcher that +touches any part of the Batsman's person or clothing while standing in +his position without being struck at; or any part of the Umpire's person +or clothing, while on foul ground, without first passing the Catcher. + +RULE 34. In case of a Foul Strike, Foul Hit ball not legally caught out, +Dead Ball, or Base Runner put out for being struck by a fair hit ball, +the ball shall not be considered in play until it is held by the Pitcher +standing in his position, and the Umpire shall have called play. + + +BLOCK BALLS. + +RULE 35. SECTION 1. A Block is a batted or thrown ball that is touched, +stopped or handled by any person not engaged in the game. + +SECTION. 2. Whenever a Block occurs the Umpire shall declare it, and +Base Runners may run the bases without being put out until the ball has +been returned to and held by the pitcher standing in his position. + +SECTION. 3. In the case of a Block, if the person not engaged in the +game should retain possession of the ball, or throw or kick it beyond +the reach of the Fielders, the Umpire should call "Time," and require +each Base Runner to stop at the last base touched by him until the ball +be returned to the pitcher standing in his position, and the Umpire +shall have called play. + + +THE BATSMAN'S POSITION--ORDER OF BATTING. + +RULE 36. The Batsmen must take their positions within the Batsmen's +Lines, as defined in Rule 10, in the order in which they are named in +the batting order, which batting order must be submitted by the Captains +of the opposing teams to the Umpire before the game, and this batting +order must be followed except in the case of a substitute player, in +which case the substitute must take the place of the original player in +the batting order. After the first inning the first striker in each +inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man who +has completed his turn--time at bat--in the preceding inning. + +RULE 37. SECTION 1. When their side goes to the bat the players must +immediately return to the players' bench, as defined in Rule 20, and +remain there until the side is put out, except when batsmen or base +runners; provided, that the Captain and one assistant only may occupy +the space between the Players' Lines and the Captain's Lines, to coach +base runners. + +SECTION. 2. No player of the side "at bat," except when batsman, shall +occupy any portion of the space within the Catcher's Lines, as defined +in Rule 3. The triangular space behind the Home Base is reserved for the +exclusive use of Umpire, Catcher and Batsman, and the Umpire must +prohibit any player of the side "at bat" from crossing the same at any +time while the ball is in the hands of, or passing between the Pitcher +and Catcher, while standing in their positions. + +SECTION. 3. The players of the side "at bat" must occupy the portion of +the field allotted them, but must speedily vacate any portion thereof +that may be in the way of the ball, or any Fielder attempting to catch +or field it. + + +THE BATTING RULES. + +RULE 38. A Fair Hit is a ball batted by the Batsman, standing in his +position, that first touches any part of the person of a player or +umpire or falls within the foul lines, that (whether it first touches +Foul or Fair Ground) bounds or rolls within the Foul Lines, between Home +and First, or Home and Third Bases, without interference by a player. + +RULE 39. A Foul Hit is a ball batted by the Batsman, standing in his +position, that first touches the ground, any part of the person of a +player, or any object behind either of the Foul Lines, or that strikes +the person of such Batsman, while standing in his position, or batted by +the Batsman, standing in his position, that (whether it first touches +Foul or Fair Ground) bounds or rolls outside the Foul Lines, between +Home and First or Home and Third Bases, without interference by a +player: _Provided_, that a Foul Hit ball not rising above the Batsman's +head, and caught by the Catcher playing within ten feet of the Home +Base, shall be termed a Foul Tip. + +RULE 40. A bunt hit is a deliberate attempt on the part of the Batsman +to hit a ball slowly within the infield so that it cannot be fielded by +any infielder in time to retire the batsman. + + +BALLS BATTED OUTSIDE THE GROUNDS. + +RULE 41. When a batted ball passes outside the grounds, the Umpire shall +decide it Fair should it disappear within, or Foul should it disappear +outside of, the range of the Foul Lines, and Rules 38 and 39 are to be +construed accordingly. + +RULE 42. A Fair batted ball that goes over the fence shall entitle the +batsman to a home run, except that should it go over the fence at a less +distance than two hundred and thirty-five feet from the Home Base, when +he shall be entitled to two bases only, and a distinctive line shall be +marked on the fence at this point. + + +STRIKES. + +RULE 43. A strike is: + +SECTION 1. A ball struck at by the Batsman without its touching his bat; +or + +SECTION. 2. A Fair Ball legally delivered by the Pitcher, but not struck +at by the Batsman. + +SECTION. 3. Any obvious attempt to make a Foul Hit. + +SECTION. 4. A Foul Hit, other than a Foul Tip, made by the Batsman while +attempting a bunt hit, as defined in Rule 40, that falls or rolls upon +foul ground between Home Base and First Base or Home Base and Third +Base. + +SECTION. 5. A ball struck at, if the ball touches any part of the +Batsman's person. + +SECTION. 6. A ball tipped by the Batsman and caught by the catcher +within the 10-foot lines. + +RULE 44. A Foul Strike is a ball batted by the Batsman when any part of +his person is upon ground outside the lines of the Batsman's position. + + +THE BATSMAN IS OUT. + +RULE 45. The Batsman is out: + +SECTION 1. If he fails to take his position at the bat in his order of +batting, unless the error be discovered and the proper Batsman takes his +position before a time "at bat" recorded; and in such case the balls and +strikes called must be counted in the time "at bat" of the proper +Batsman, and only the proper Batsman shall be declared out: _Provided_, +this rule shall not take effect unless _the out_ is declared before the +ball is delivered to the succeeding Batsman, and no runs shall be scored +or bases run, and further, no outs shall be counted other than that of +the proper Batsman. + +SECTION. 2. If he fails to take his position within one minute after the +Umpire has called for the Batsman. + +SECTION. 3. If he makes a Foul Hit other than a Foul Tip, as defined in +Rule 39, and the ball be momentarily held by a Fielder before touching +the ground, provided it be not caught in a Fielder's hat or cap, or +touch some object other than a Fielder, before being caught. + +SECTION. 4. If he makes a Foul Strike. + +SECTION. 5. If he attempts to hinder the Catcher from fielding or +throwing the ball by stepping outside the lines of his position, or +otherwise obstructing or interfering with the player. + +SECTION. 6. If, while the First Base be occupied by a base runner, three +strikes be called on him by the Umpire, except when two men are already +out. + +SECTION. 7. If, after two strikes have been called, the Batsman +obviously attempts to make a foul hit, as in Rule 43, Section 3. + +SECTION. 8. If, while attempting a third strike, the ball touches any +part of the Batsman's person, in which case base runners occupying bases +shall return, as prescribed in Rule 49, Section 5. + +SECTION. 9. If he hits a fly ball that can be handled by an infielder +while first and second bases are occupied, or first, second and third, +with only one out. + +SECTION. 10. If the third strike is called in accordance with Section 4, +Rule 43, in such case the Umpire shall, as soon as the ball is hit, +declare infield or outfield hit. + + + +BASE RUNNING RULES. + + +WHEN THE BATSMAN BECOMES A BASE RUNNER. + +RULE 46. The Batsman becomes a Base Runner: + +SECTION 1. Instantly after he makes a Fair Hit. + +SECTION. 2. Instantly after four balls have been called by the Umpire. + +SECTION. 3. Instantly after three strikes have been decided by the +Umpire. + +SECTION. 4. If, while he be a Batsman, without making any attempt to +strike, his person--excepting hands or forearm, which makes it a dead +ball--or clothing be hit by a ball from the Pitcher; unless, in the +opinion of the Umpire, he intentionally permits himself to be so hit. + +SECTION. 5. Instantly after an illegal delivery of a ball by the +Pitcher. + + +BASES TO BE TOUCHED. + +RULE 47. The Base Runner must touch each base in regular order, viz., +First, Second, Third and Home Bases, and when obliged to return (except +on a foul hit) must retouch the base or bases in reverse order. He shall +only be considered as holding a base after touching it, and shall then +be entitled to hold such base until he has legally touched the next base +in order, or has been legally forced to vacate it for a succeeding Base +Runner. + + +ENTITLED TO BASES. + +RULE 48. The Base Runner shall be entitled, without being put out, to +take the base in the following cases: + +SECTION 1. If, while he was Batsman, the Umpire called four balls. + +SECTION. 2. If the Umpire awards a succeeding batsman a base on four +balls, or for being hit with a pitched ball, or in case of an illegal +delivery--as in Rule 46, Section 5--and the Base Runner is thereby +forced to vacate the base held by him. + +SECTION. 3. If the Umpire calls a "balk." SECTION. 4. If a ball, +delivered by the Pitcher, pass the Catcher and touch the Umpire, or any +fence or building within ninety feet of the Home Base. + +SECTION. 5. If, upon a fair hit, the ball strikes the person or clothing +of the Umpire on fair ground. + +SECTION. 6. If he be prevented from making a base by the obstruction of +an adversary. + +SECTION. 7. If the Fielder stop or catch a batted ball with his hat or +any part of his dress. + + +RETURNING TO BASES. + +RULE 49. The Base Runner shall return to his base, and shall be entitled +to so return without being put out: + +SECTION 1. If the Umpire declares a Foul Tip (as defined in Rule 39), or +any other Foul Hit not legally caught by a fielder. + +SECTION. 2. If the Umpire declares a Foul Strike. + +SECTION. 3. If the Umpire declares a Dead Ball, unless it be also the +fourth Unfair Ball and he be thereby forced to take the next base, as +provided in Rule 48, Section 2. + +SECTION. 4. If the person or clothing of the Umpire interferes with the +Catcher, or he is struck by a ball thrown by the Catcher to intercept a +Base Runner. + +SECTION. 5. The Base Runner shall return to his base, if, while +attempting a strike, the ball touches any part of the Batsman's person. + + +WHEN BASE RUNNERS ARE OUT. + +RULE 50. The Base Runner is out: + +SECTION 1. If, after three strikes have been declared against him while +Batsman, and the Catcher fail to catch the third strike ball, he plainly +attempts to hinder the Catcher from fielding the ball. + +SECTION. 2. If, having made a Fair Hit while Batsman, such fair hit ball +be momentarily held by a Fielder, before touching the ground, or any +object other than a Fielder: _Provided_, it be not, caught in a +Fielder's hat or cap. + +SECTION. 3. If, when the Umpire has declared three strikes on him, while +Batsman, the third strike ball be momentarily held by a Fielder before +touching the ground: _Provided_, it be not caught in a Fielder's hat or +cap, or touch some object other than a Fielder, before being caught. + +SECTION. 4. If, after Three Strikes or a Fair Hit, he be touched with +the ball in the hand of a Fielder _before_ he shall have touched First +Base. + +SECTION. 5. If, after Three Strikes or a Fair Hit, the ball be securely +held by a Fielder, while touching First Base with any part of his +person, _before_ such Base Runner touches First Base. + +SECTION. 6. If, in running the last half of the distance from Home Base +to First Base, while the ball is being fielded to First Base, he runs +outside the three-foot lines, as defined in Rule 7, unless to avoid a +Fielder attempting to field a Batted Ball. + +SECTION. 7. If, in running from First to Second Base, from Second to +Third Base, or from Third to Home Base, he runs more than three feet +from a direct line between such bases, to avoid being touched by the +ball in the hands of a Fielder; but in case a Fielder be occupying the +Base Runner's proper path, in attempting to field a batted ball, then +the Base Runner shall run out of the path, and behind said Fielder, and +shall not be declared out for so doing. + +SECTION. 8. If he fails to avoid a Fielder attempting to field a batted +ball, in the manner described in Sections 6 and 7 of this Rule; or if he +in any way obstructs a Fielder attempting to field a batted ball, or +intentionally interferes with a thrown ball: _Provided_, that if two or +more Fielders attempt to field a batted ball, and the Base Runner comes +in contact with one or more of them, the Umpire shall determine which +Fielder is entitled to the benefit of this rule, and shall not decide +the Base Runner out for coming in contact with any other fielder. + +SECTION. 9. If, at any time while the ball is in play, he be touched by +the ball in the hands of a Fielder, unless some part of his person is +touching a base he is entitled to occupy: _Provided_, the ball be held +by the Fielder after touching him; but (exception as to First Base), in +running to First Base he may overrun said base, without being put out +for being off said base, after first touching it, provided he returns at +once and retouches the base, after which he may be put out as at any +other base. If, in overrunning First Base, he also attempts to run to +Second Base, or, after passing the base he turns to his left from the +foul line, he shall forfeit such exemption from being put out. + +SECTION. 10. If, when a Fair or Foul Hit ball (other than a foul tip as +referred to in Rule 39) is legally caught by a Fielder, such ball is +legally held by a Fielder on the base occupied by the Base Runner when +such ball was struck (or the Base Runner be touches with the ball in the +hands of a Fielder), before he retouches said base after such Fair or +Foul Hit ball was so caught: _Provided_, that the Base Runner shall not +be out in such case, if, after the ball was legally caught as above, it +be delivered to the bat by the Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on +said base, or touches the Base Runner with it; but if the Base Runner in +attempting to reach a base, detaches it before being touched or forced +out, he shall be declared safe. + +SECTION. 11. If, when a Batsman becomes a Base Runner, the First Base, +or the First and Second Bases, or the First, Second and Third Bases, be +occupied, any Base Runner so occupying a base shall cease to be entitled +to hold it, until any following Base Runner is put out, and may be put +out at the next base or by being touched by the ball in the hands of a +Fielder in the same manner as in running to First Base, at any time +before any following Base Runner is put out. + +SECTION. 12. If a Fair Hit ball strike him _before touching the +Fielder_, and in such case no base shall be run unless forced by the +Batsman becoming a base runner, and no run shall be scored; or any other +Base Runner put out. + +SECTION. 13. If, when running to a base or forced to return to a base, +he fail to touch the intervening base or bases, if any, in the order +prescribed in Rule 47, he may be put out at the base he fails to touch, +or being touched by the ball in the hands of a Fielder, in the same +manner as in running to First Base; _Provided_, that the Base Runner +shall not be out in such case if the ball be delivered to the bat by the +Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on said base or touches the Base +Runner with it. + +SECTION. 14. If, when the Umpire calls "Play," after any suspension of a +game, he fails to return to and touch the base he occupied when "Time" +was called before touching the next base: _Provided_, the Base Runner +shall not be out in such case if the ball be delivered to the bat by the +Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on said base or touches the Base +Runner with it. + + +WHEN BATSMAN OR BASE RUNNER IS OUT. + +RULE 51. The Umpire shall declare the Batsman or Base Runner out, +without waiting for an appeal for such decision, in all cases where such +player is put out in accordance with these rules, except as provided in +Rule 50, Sections 10 and 14. + + +COACHING RULES. + +RULE 52. The coachers shall be restricted to coaching the Base Runner +only, and shall not be allowed to address any remarks except to the Base +Runner, and then only in words of necessary direction; and shall not use +language which will in any manner refer to or reflect upon a player of +the opposing club, the Umpire or the spectators, and not more than two +coachers, who may be one player participating in the game and, any other +player under contract to it, in the uniform of either club, shall be +allowed at any one time. To enforce the above, the Captain of the +opposite side may call the attention of the Umpire to the offence, and +upon a repetition of the same, the offending player shall be debarred +from further participation in the game and shall leave the playing field +forthwith. + + +THE SCORING OF RUNS. + +RULE 53. One run shall be scored every time a Base Runner, after having +legally touched the first three bases, shall touch the Home Base before +three men are put out by (exception). If the third man is forced out, or +is put out before reaching First Base, a run shall not be scored. + +THE UMPIRE. + +RULE 54. The Umpire shall not be changed during the progress of a game, +except for reason of illness or injury. + + +HIS POWERS AND JURISDICTION. + +RULE 55. SECTION 1. The Umpire is master of the Field from the +commencement to the termination of the game, and is entitled to the +respect of the spectators, and any person offering any insult or +indignity to him must be promptly ejected from the grounds. + +SECTION. 2. He must be invariably addressed by the players as +Mr. Umpire; and he must compel the players to observe the provisions of +all the Playing Rules, and he is hereby invested with authority to order +any player to do or omit to do any act as he may deem necessary, to give +force and effect to any and all such provisions. + + +SPECIAL DUTIES. + +RULE 56. The Umpire's duties shall be as follows: + +SECTION 1. The Umpire is the sole and absolute judge of play. In no +instance shall any person, except the Captain of the competing teams, be +allowed to address him or question his decisions, and they can only +question him on an interpretation of the Rules. No Manager or any other +officer of either club shall be permitted to go on the field or address +the Umpire, under a penalty of a forfeiture of a game. + +SECTION. 2. Before the commencement of a Game, the Umpire shall see that +the rules governing all the materials of the Game are strictly +observed. He shall ask the Captain of the Home Club whether there are +any special ground rules to be enforced, and if there are, he shall see +that they are duly enforced, provided they do not conflict with any of +these rules. + +SECTION. 3. The Umpire must keep the contesting nines playing constantly +from the commencement of the game to its termination, allowing such +delays only as are rendered unavoidable by accident, injury or rain. He +must, until the completion of the game, require the players of each side +to promptly take their positions in the field as soon as the third man +is put out, and must require the first striker of the opposite side to +be in his position at the bat as soon as the fielders are in their +places. + +SECTION. 4. The Umpire shall count and call every "Unfair Ball" +delivered by the Pitcher, and every "Dead Ball," if also an unfair ball, +as a "Ball," and he shall count and call every "Strike." Neither a +"Ball" nor a "Strike" shall be counted or called until the ball has +passed the Home Base. He shall also declare every "Dead Ball," "Block," +"Foul Hit," "Foul Strike," and "Balk," "Infield" or "Outfield Hit," as +prescribed in Rule 45, Section 9. + +CALLING "PLAY" AND "TIME." + +RULE 57. The Umpire must call "Play" promptly at the hour designated by +the Home Club, and on the call of "Play" the game must immediately +begin. When he calls "Time" play shall be suspended until he calls +"Play" again, and during the interim no player shall be put out, base be +run or run be scored. The Umpire shall suspend play only for an accident +to himself or a player (but in case of accident to a Fielder "Time" +shall not be called until the ball be returned to and held by the +Pitcher, standing in his position), or in case rain falls so heavily +that the spectators are compelled, by the severity of the storm, to seek +shelter, in which case he shall note the time of suspension, and should +such rain continue to fall thirty minutes thereafter, he shall terminate +the game; or to enforce order in case of annoyance from spectators. + +RULE 58. The Umpire is only allowed, by the Rules, to call "Time" in +case of an accident to himself or a player, a "Block" as referred to in +Rule 35, Section 3, or in case of rain, as defined by the rule. + + +INFLICTING FINES. + +RULE 59. The Umpire is empowered to inflict lines of not less than +$25.00, nor more than $100.00, for the first offence, on players during +the progress of a game, as follows: + +SECTION 1. For vulgar, indecent or other improper conduct or language. + +SECTION. 2. For the Captain or Coacher willfully failing to remain +within the legal bounds of his position, except upon an appeal by the +captain from the Umpire's decision upon a misinterpretation of the +rules. + +SECTION. 3. For the disobedience by a player of any other of his orders, +or for any other violation of these rules. + +SECTION. 4. Immediately upon notification by the Umpire that a fine has +been imposed upon any Manager, Captain or player, the Secretary shall +forthwith notify the person so fined, and also the club of which he is a +member, and in the event of the failure of the person so fined to pay to +the Secretary the amount of said fine within five days of notice, he +shall be debarred from participation in any championship game until such +fine is paid. + +SECTION. 5. The Umpire may remove a player from the playing field for a +violation of Section 1 of this rule, in addition to a fine, but under no +circumstances shall he remove a player for a violation of Section 2 of +this Rule, unless upon a repetition of the offence prescribed therein. + + +FIELD RULES. + +RULE 66. No club shall allow open betting or pool-selling upon its +ground, nor in any building owned or occupied by it. + +RULE 61. No person shall be allowed upon any part of the field during +the progress of the game in addition to the players in uniform, the +Manager on each side and the Umpire; except such officers of the law as +may be present in uniform, and such officials of the Home Club as may be +necessary to preserve the peace. + +RULE 62. No Umpire, Manager, Captain or player shall address the +spectators during the progress of a game, except in case of necessary +explanation. + +RULE 63. Every Club shall furnish sufficient police force upon its own +grounds to preserve order, and in the event of a crowd entering the +field during the progress of a game, and interfering with the play in +any manner, the Visiting Club may refuse to play further until the field +be cleared. If the ground be not cleared within fifteen minutes +thereafter, the Visiting Club may claim, and shall be entitled to, the +game by a score of nine runs to none (no matter what number of innings +have been played). + + +GENERAL DEFINITIONS. + +RULE 64. "Play" is the order of the Umpire to begin the game, or to +resume play after its suspension. + +RULE 65. "Time" is the order of the Umpire to suspend play. Such +suspension must not extend beyond the day of the game. + +RULE 66. "Game" is the announcement by the Umpire that the game is +terminated. + +RULE 67. An "Inning" is the term at bat of the nine players representing +a Club in a game, and is completed when three of such players have been +put out, as provided in these rules. + +RULE 68. A "Time at Bat" is the term at bat of a Batsman. It begins +when he takes his position, and continues until he is put out or becomes +a base runner; except when, because of being hit by a pitched ball, or +in case of an illegal delivery by the Pitcher, or in case of a sacrifice +hit purposely made to the infield which, not being a base hit, advances +a base runner without resulting in a put out, except to the Batsman, as +in Rule 45. + +RULE 69. "Legal" or "Legally" signifies as required by these Rules. + + +SCORING. + +RULE 70. In order to promote uniformity in scoring championship games +the following instructions, suggestions and definitions are made for the +benefit of scorers, and they are required to make all scores in +accordance therewith. + + +BATTING. + +SECTION 1. The first item in the tabulated score, after the player's +name and position, shall be the number of times he has been at bat +during game. The time or times when the player has been sent to base by +being hit by a pitched ball, by the Pitcher's illegal delivery, or by a +base on balls, shall not be included in this column. + +SECTION. 2. In the second column should be set down the runs made by +each player. + +SECTION. 3. In the third column should be placed the first base hits +made by each player. A base hit should be scored in the following cases: + +When the ball from the bat strikes the ground within the foul lines, and +out of reach of the Fielders. + +When a hit ball is partially or wholly stopped by a Fielder in motion, +but such player cannot recover himself in time to handle the ball before +the striker reaches First Base. + +When a hit ball is hit so sharply to an infielder that he cannot handle +it in time to put out the Batsman. In case of doubt over this class of +hits, score a base hit, and exempt the Fielder from the charge of an +error. + +When a ball is hit so slowly toward a Fielder that he cannot handle it +in time to put out the Batsman. + +That in all cases where a Base Runner is retired by being hit by a +batted ball, the Batsman should be credited with a base hit. + +When a batted ball hits the person or clothing of the Umpire, as defined +in Rule 48, Section 5. + +SECTION. 4. In the fourth column shall be placed Sacrifice Hits, which +shall be credited to the Batsman, who, when no one is out, or when but +one man is out, advances a Runner a base by a bunt sacrifice hit, which +results in putting out the Batsman, or would so result if the ball were +handled without error. + + +FIELDING. + +SECTION. 5. The number of opponents put out by each player shall be set +down in the fifth column. Where a Batsman is given out by the Umpire for +a foul strike, or where the Batsman fails to bat in proper order, the +put out shall be scored to the Catcher. + +SECTION. 6. The number of times the player assists shall be set down in +the sixth column. An assist should be given to each player who handles +the ball in assisting a run out or other play of the kind. + +An assist should be given to a player who makes a play in time to put a +Runner out, even if the player who could complete the play fails, +through no fault of the player assisting. + +And generally an assist should be given to each player who handles or +assists in any manner in handling the ball from the time it leaves the +bat until it reaches the player who makes the put out, or in case of a +thrown ball, to each player who throws or handles it cleanly, and in +such a way that a put out results, or would result if no error were made +by the receiver. + +ERRORS. + +SECTION. 7. An error shall be given in the seventh column for each +misplay which allows the striker or base runner to make one or more +bases when perfect play would have insured his being put out, except +that "wild pitches," "base on balls," bases on the Batsman being struck +by a "pitched ball," or in case of illegal pitched balls, balks and +passed balls, shall not be included in said column. In scoring errors of +batted balls see Section 3 of this Rule. + +SECTION. 8. Stolen Bases shall be scored as follows: + +Any attempt to steal a base must go to the credit of the Base Runner, +whether the ball is thrown wild or muffed by the fielder, but any +manifest error is to be charged to the fielder making the same. If the +Base Runner advances another base he shall not be credited with a stolen +base, and the fielder allowing the advancement is also to be charged +with an error. If the Base Runner makes a start and a battery error is +made, the runner secures the credit of a stolen base, and the battery +error is scored against the player making it. Should a Base Runner +overrun a base and then be put out, he shall receive the credit for the +stolen base. If a Base Runner advances a base on a fly out, or gains two +bases on a single base hit, or an infield out, or attempted out, he +shall be credited with a stolen base, provided there is a possible +chance and a palpable attempt made to retire him. + + +EARNED RUNS. + +SECTION. 9. An earned run shall be scored every time the player reaches +the home base unaided by errors before chances have been offered to +retire the side. + + +THE SUMMARY. + +RULE 71. The Summary shall contain: + +SECTION 1. The number of earned runs made by each side. + +SECTION. 2. The number of two-base hits made by each player. + +SECTION. 3. The number of three-base hits made by each player. + +SECTION. 4. The number of home runs made by each player. + +SECTION. 5. The number of bases stolen by each player. + +SECTION. 6. The number of double and triple plays made by each side, and +the names of the players assisting in the same. + +SECTION. 7. The number of men given bases on called balls by each +Pitcher. + +SECTION. 8. The number of men given bases from being hit by pitched +balls. + +SECTION. 9. The number of men struck out. + +SECTION. 10. The number of passed balls by each Catcher. + +SECTION. 11. The number of wild pitches by each Pitcher. + +SECTION. 12. The time of Game. + +SECTION. 13. The name of the Umpire. + + + +INDEX TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. + + + RULE. +The Ground, 1 +The Field, 2 +Catcher's Lines, 3 +Foul Lines, 4 +Players' Lines, 5 +The Captain's and Coachers' Lines, 6 +Three-foot Line, 7 +Pitcher's Plate, 8 +The Bases, 9 +Batsman's Lines, 10 +The Home Base, 11 +First, Second and Third Bases, 12 +Lines must be Marked, 13 +The Ball, 14 + Weight and Size, (1) 14 + Number Balls Furnished, (2) 14 + Furnished by Home Club, (3) 14 + Replaced if Injured, (4) 14 +The Bat, 15 + Material of (1) 15 + Shape of (2) 15 + + +THE PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS. + +Number of Players in Game, 16 +Players' Positions, 17 +Players not to Sit with Spectators, 18 +Club Uniforms, (1) 19 + Gloves, (2) 19 +Players' Benches, 20 + + +THE GAME. + +Time of Championship Game, (1) 21 +Number of Innings, (2) 21 +Termination of Game, (a) 21 +The Winning Run, (b) 21 +A Tie Game, 22 +A Drawn Game, 23 +A Called Game, 24 +A Forfeited Game, 25 + Failure of the Nine to Appear, (1) 25 + Refusal of One Side to Play, (2) 25 + Failure to Resume Playing, (3) 25 + If a Team Resorts to Dilatory Practice, (4) 25 + Wilful Violation, (5) 25 + Disobeying Order to Remove Player, (6) 25 + Written Notice to President, (7) 25 +No Game, 26 +Substitutes, 27 + + RULE. + One or more substitute players, (1) 27 + Extra Player, (2) 27 + Base Runner, (3) 27 +Choice of Innings--Condition of Grounds, 28 +The Pitcher's Position, 29 +Delivery of the Ball--Fair Ball, 30 +Unfair Ball, 31 +Balking, 32 + Motion to Deceive, (1) 32 + Delay by Holding, (2) 32 + Pitcher Outside of Lines, (3) 32 +A Dead Ball, 33 +A Foul Strike, 34 +Block Balls, 35 + Stopped by Person not in Game, (1) 35 + Ball Returned, (2) 35 + Base Runner must Stop, (3) 35 +The Batsman's Position--Order of Batting, 36 + Where Players must Remain, (1) 37 + Space Reserved for Umpire, (2) 37 + Space Allotted Players "at Bat," (3) 37 +Batting Rules--Fair Hit, 38 +Foul Hit, 39 +Bunt Hit, 40 +Batted Ball Outside Grounds, 41 +A Fair Batted Ball, 42 +Strikes, 43 + Ball Struck at by Batsman, (1) 43 + Fair Ball Delivered by Pitcher, (2) 43 + Attempt to Make Foul Hit, (3) 43 + Foul Hit while Attempting a Bunt Hit, (4) 43 + Ball Struck at after Touching Batsman's Person, (5) 43 + Ball Tipped by Batsman, (6) 43 +A Foul Strike, 44 +The Batsman is Out, 45 + Failing to Take Position at Bat in Order, (1) 45 + Failure to Take Position within One Minute after + being called, (2) 45 + If He Makes a Foul Hit, (3) 45 + If He Makes a Foul Strike, (4) 45 + Attempt to Hinder Catcher, (5) 45 + Three Strikes Called by Umpire, (6) 45 + Attempt to Make a Foul Hit After Two Strikes + have been Called, (7) 45 + If Ball Hits Him While Making Third Strike, (8) 45 + If He Hits a Fly Ball that can be Handled by + Infielder while First Base Occupied with Only + One Out, (9) 45 + If Third Strike is Called, (10) 45 + + +BASE RUNNING RULES. + RULE. +The Batsman Becomes a Base Runner, 46 + After a Fair Hit, (1) 46 + After Four Balls are Called, (2) 46 + After Three Strikes are Declared, (3) 46 + If Hit by Ball While at Bat, (4) 46 + After Illegal Delivery of Ball, (5) 46 +Bases to be Touched, 47 +Entitled to Bases, 48 + If Umpire Call Four Balls, (1) 48 + If Umpire Award Succeeding Batsman Base, (2) 48 + If Umpire Calls Balk, (3) 48 + If Pitcher's Ball Passes Catcher, (4) 48 + Ball Strikes Umpire, (5) 48 + Prevented from Making Base, (6) 48 + Fielder Stops Ball, (7) 48 +Returning to Bases, 49 + If Foul Tip, (1) 49 + If Foul Strike, (2) 49 + If Dead Ball, (3) 49 + + If Person of Umpire Interferes with Catcher, (4) 49 + If the Ball Touches the Batsman's Person, (5) 49 +Base Runner Out, 50 + Attempt to Hinder Catcher from Fielding Ball, (1) 50 + If Fielder Hold Fair Hit Ball, (2) 50 + Third Strike Ball Held by Fielder, (3) 50 + Touched with Ball After Three Strikes, (4) 50 + Touching First Base, (5) 50 + Running from Home Base to First Base, (6) 50 + Running from First to Second Base, (7) 50 + Failure to Avoid Fielder, (8) 50 + Touched by Ball While in Play, (9) 50 + Fair or Foul Hit Caught by Fielder, (10) 50 + Batsman Becomes a Base Runner, (11) 50 + Touched by Hit Ball Before Touching Fielder, (12) 50 + Running to Base, (13) 50 + Umpire Calls Play, (14) 50 +When Batsman or Base Runner is Out, 51 +Coaching Rules, 52 +Scoring of Runs, 53 + + +THE UMPIRE. + +The Umpire 54 + When Master of the Field, (1) 55 + Must Compel Observance of Playing Rules, (2) 55 +Special Duties, 56 + Is Sole Judge of Play, (1) 56 + Shall See Rules Observed before Commencing + Game, (2) 56 + + RULE. + Must Keep Contesting Nines Playing, (3) 56 + Must Count and Call Balls, (4) 56 +Umpire Must Call Play, 57 +Umpire Allowed to Call Time, 58 +Umpire is Empowered to Inflict Fines, 59 + For Indecent Language, (1) 59 + Wilful Failure of Captain to Remain within + Bounds, (2) 59 + Disobedience of a Player, (3) 59 + Shall Notify Captain, (4) 59 + Repetition of Offences, (5) 59 + + +FIELD RULES. + +No Club Shall Allow Open Betting, 60 +Who Shall be Allowed in the Field, 61 +Audience Shall Not be Addressed, 62 +Every Club shall Furnish Police Force, 63 + + +GENERAL DEFINITIONS. + +Play, 64 +Time, 65 +Game, 66 +An Inning, 67 +A Time at Bat, 68 +Legal, 69 +Scoring, 70 + Batting, (1) 70 + Runs Made, (2) 70 + Base Hits, (3) 70 + Sacrifice Hits, (4) 70 + Fielding, (5) 70 + Assists, (6) 70 + Errors, (7) 70 + Stolen Bases, (8) 70 + Earned Runs, (9) 70 +The Summary, 71 + Number of Earned Runs, (1) 71 + Number of Two Base Hits, (2) 71 + Number of Three Base Hits, (3) 71 + Number of Home Runs, (4) 71 + Number of Stolen Bases, (5) 71 + Number of Double and Triple Plays, (6) 71 + Bases on Called Balls, (7) 71 + Bases From being Hit, (8) 71 + Men Struck Out, (9) 71 + Passed Balls, (10) 71 + Wild Pitches, (11) 71 + Time of Game, (12) 71 + Name of Umpire, (13) 71 + + +[Illustration: The Famous Red Stockings of 1869.] +[Illustration: Rock Island-Moline. Champions of the Western Assn, '94.] +[Illustration: Sioux City Base Ball Club. Champs of Western League, '94.] +[Illustration: Petersburg Base Ball Club. Champs of Virginia League, '94.] + + + +#Rules Appendix.# + +We have very little to comment upon this year in regard to the +amendments made to the playing rules of the game, alike by the special +committee appointed to revise them, or by the committee of the whole who +do the final work of revision. No improvement in this branch of League +legislative work, too, may be looked for until a regular and permanent +committee of rules be appointed, with President Young as its continuous +chairman, aided by the chief of the umpire staff, Harry Wright, and one +member of the League, a member like Mr. Byrne, who has done more since +he has been in the League to really improve the game than any other of +the several members of the rules committee since 1891. Moreover, the +report sent in by this proposed permanent committee of rules should not +be changed by the committee of the whole at the spring meetings except +by a two-thirds vote. As it is now, the whole business would likely be +spoiled by the final revision made by a simple majority vote. + +The changes made by the committee of 1894, in several instances did not +improve the game at all. The amendment made to the bat rule, which +removed the restrictions as to size, was absurd. The League did well to +throw it out. The gain in the diameter of the bat, though small, will +have its effect on the batting. A quarter of an inch is not much, but it +will tell. The abolition of the "mitt," except for catchers and first +basemen, was a good move, as was the introduction of a penalty for the +failure of umpires to prevent "kicking." One change introduces a new +experiment, and that is the call of a strike on every foul tip caught on +the fly. The calls of strikes will be more numerous than ever, viz., the +regular strikes, the strikes on foul bunts and on foul tips. + +As to the change made in the pitcher's plate, nothing was gained by it. +The pitcher will still violate the rule requiring him to have his foot +in contact with the rubber plate, as he did last year. He cannot get a +firm foothold by placing his foot on the rubber. What was wanted was a +hollow, oblong square, 12x36 inches, in which the pitcher could have +obtained a good, firm foothold within the box, and not as now, outside +of it, as he now has to, to secure a good standpoint for his pivot foot +outside of the box. + +Not a single change was made in the badly-worded scoring rules, and in +consequence the same old premium for record batting is offered to every +"fungo" hitter in the ranks. Each member of the committee still walks in +the same old rut in this respect. + +One of the best changes was the following: Rule 59 reads now so that +players using "vulgar, indecent, or other improper language" shall be +fined $25 and $100, instead of $5 and $25. In Rule 59, Section 4 was +stricken out and the following substituted: "Upon notification from an +umpire that a fine has been imposed upon any manager, captain or player, +the secretary shall forthwith notify the person so fined, and also the +club of which he is a member, and in the event of the failure of the +person so fined to pay the amount within five days, he shall be debarred +from participating in any championship game until such fine is paid." + +The committee still retained that problem in mathematics contained in +the first rule, a description of how to lay out a field which would +puzzle a Yale quarterback. + +The change made in Rule 45, Section 1, is a good one. Only the batsman +who has failed to bat in his proper turn can be declared out, not those +who have batted out of turn in consequence of the former's error. + +It will now cost a kicker $25 at least, for indulging in his "hustling" +tactics. + +That was a much-needed resolution adopted by the League forbidding any +club from paying a single fine inflicted on a player. + + + +NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE. + + +SEASON OF 1895. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Boston. Brooklyn. New York. Philadelphia. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston July Apr. June 29 + 3, 4, 4 24, 25, 26 July 1, 2 + Sept. Sept. Aug. + 23, 24, 25 11, 12, 14 16, 17, 19 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn June Apr. July 30, 31 + 19, 20, 21 18, 20, 22 Aug. 1 + Aug. Aug. Sept. + 6, 7, 8 2, 5, 17 27, 28, 30 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York June June 29 May + 22, 24, 25 July 1, 2 2, 3, 4 + Sept. Aug. Aug. + 19, 20, 21 3, 16, 19 13, 14, 15 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia June June Apr. + 26, 27, 28 22, 24, 25 27, 29, 30 + Aug. Aug. Sept. + 2, 3, 5 9, 10, 12 16, 17, 18 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore July 30, 31 May July June + Aug. 1 1, 2, 4 3, 4, 4 19, 20, 21 + Sept. Sept. Sept. Aug. + 16, 17, 18 19, 20, 21 27, 28, 30 6, 7, 8 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington April 19 June June July + May 2, 4 26, 27, 28 19, 20, 21 4, 4 + Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. + 9, 10, 12 13, 14, 15 6, 7, 8 14, 19, 20, 21 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Baltimore. Washington. Pittsburgh. Cleveland. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston Apr. Apr. May May + 27, 29, 30 20, 22, 23 23, 24, 25 13, 14, 15 + Aug. Sept. July July + 13, 14, 15 27, 28, 30 6, 8, 9 25, 26, 27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn Apr. Apr. May May + 24, 25, 26 27, 29, 30 6, 7, 8 20, 21, 22 + Sept. Sept. July July + 11, 12, 14 16, 17, 18 10, 11, 13 18, 19, 20 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York June July 30, 31 May May + 26, 27, 28 Aug. 1 16, 17, 18 23, 24, 25 + Aug. Sept. July July + 9, 10, 12 23, 24, 25 25, 26, 27 10, 11, 13 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia Apr. Apr. May May + 18, 20, 22 24, 25, 26 13, 14, 15 16, 17, 18 + Sept. July 3 July July + 23, 24, 25 Sept. 11, 12 18, 19, 20 6, 8, 9 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore June 24, 25 May May + July 1 9, 10, 11 6, 7, 8 + Aug. July July + 2, 5, 16 22, 23, 24 15, 16, 17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington June 22, 29 May May + July 2 20, 21, 22 9, 10, 11 + Aug. Sept. July + 3, 17, 23 7, 7, 9 22, 23, 24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Cincinnati. Louisville. Chicago. St. Louis. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston May May May May + 20, 21, 22 16, 17, 18 9, 10, 11 6, 7, 8 + July July July July + 15, 16, 17 10, 11, 13 18, 19, 20 22, 23, 24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn May May May May + 9, 10, 11 23, 25, 26 16, 18, 19 12, 13, 14 + July July July July + 6, 7, 8 14, 15, 16 21, 22, 23 26, 27, 28 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York May May May May + 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11 13, 14, 15 20, 21, 22 + July July July July + 22, 23, 24 18, 19, 20 6, 8, 9 15, 16, 17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia May May May May + 23, 24, 25 6, 7, 8 20, 21, 22 9, 10, 11 + July July July July + 25, 26, 27 22, 23, 24 15, 16, 17 11, 12, 13 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore May May May May + 12, 13, 14 20, 21, 22 23, 25, 26 16, 18, 19 + July July July July + 18, 20, 21 25, 27, 28 11, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington May May May May + 16, 18, 19 12, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 24, 25, 26 + July July July July + 10, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 25, 27, 28 19, 20, 21 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Boston. Brooklyn. New York Philadelphia +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh. Jun 5,6,7 Jun 1,4,10 June 3,8,11 Jun15,17,18 + Aug.24,26,27 Aug. 20,22 Aug. 21 Aug. 31 + Sept. 5 Sept. 4,6 Sept. 2,3 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cleveland. Jun 15,17,18 May 30,30 May 28 Jun 8,10,11 + Aug.28,29,30 June 13 June 12,14 Aug24,26,27 + Aug. 31 Sept.2,2,5 + Sept. 4,6 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cincinnati. June 1,3,4 June 5,7,17 June 6,15,18 May28,30,30 + Aug. 31, Aug. 29 Aug. 28,30 Aug20,21,22 + Sept. 2,2 Sept. 7,10 Sept. 9 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Louisville. June 8,10,11 June 6,15,18 June 5,7,17 Jun12,13,14 + Aug.20,21,22 Aug.26,28,30 Aug. 24,27,29 Sept. 7,7,9 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Chicago. Jun 12,13,14 May 28 May 30,30 June 1,3,4 + Sept. 4,5,6 June 8,11 June 10 Aug28,29,30 + Sept. 2,2,9 Aug. 31 + Sept. 7,10 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +St. Louis. May 28,30,30 Jun 3,12,14 June 1,4,13 June 5,6,7 + Sept. 7,9,10 Aug. 21,24,27 Aug. 20,22,26 Sept. 4,5,6 + Sept. 2,2 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Baltimore. Washington. Pittsburgh Cleveland +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh. June 12,13,14 May 28,30,30 . . . . . July 1,2,3 + Aug. 28,29,30 July 16,17 . . . . . Aug. 1,2,3 + Aug. 19 . . . . . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cleveland. June 1,3,4 June 5,6,7 July 4,4,5 . . . . . + Sept. 7,9,10 Aug. 20,21,22 Sept.19,20,21 . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cincinnati. June 8,10,11 June 12,13,14 May 1,2,4 Aug. 15,16,17 + Aug. 24,26,27 Sept. 4,5,6 Sept.11,12,14 Sept.16,17,18 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Louisville. May 28,30,30 June 1,3,4 June 19,20,22 June 24,25,26 + Sept. 4,5,6 Aug. 31 Aug. 8,9,10 Aug. 5,6,7 + Sept. 2,3 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Chicago. June 5,6,7 June 15,17,18 July 29,30,31 June 27,28,29 + Aug. 20,21,22 Aug. 24,26,27 Sept.16,17,18 Sept.23,24,25 + + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +St. Louis. June 15,17,18 June 8,10,11 June 27,28,29 May 1,2,4 + Aug. 31 Aug. 28,29,30 Aug. 5,6,7 Aug. 12,13,14 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +CLUBS. In In In In + Cincinnati Louisville Chicago St. Louis +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Pittsburgh. Apr. 23,24,25 Apr. 18,19,20 June 24,25,26 Apr 26,27,29 + Aug. 12,13,14 Sept.23,25,25 Aug. 15,16,17 Sept. 26,27,28 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Cleveland. Apr. 18,20,21 Apr. 27,28,29 June 20,22,23 April 23,24,25 + May 26 Sept.26,28,29 Aug. 8,9,10 Sept. 12,14,15 + July 28 + Aug. 18 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Cincinnati. . . . . . July 1,2,3 July 4,4,5 June 20, 22,23 + . . . . . Aug. 1,3 Aug. 5,6,7 Sept. 23,24,25 + . . . . . Sept. 22 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Louisville. June 27,29,30 . . . . . May 2,4,5 July 4,4,5 + Aug. 4 . . . . . Sept.12,14,15 Aug. 16,17,18 + Sept. 19,21 . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Chicago. Apr. 27,28,29 Apr. 23,24,25 . . . . . April 18,20,21 + Sept.26,28,29 Aug. 11,12,13 . . . . . Sept. 20,21,23 + . . . . . + . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +St. Louis. May 5 July 29,30,31 June 30 . . . . . + June 24,25 Sept.16,17,18 July 1,2 . . . . . + Aug. 8,10,11 Aug. 1,3,4 . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. + +The readers of the OFFICIAL GUIDE will receive with pleasure the +innovation of this year, which for the first time, presents to them +twenty-one pages of half-tone portraits of all the leading clubs and +players of America. + +Old-timers will appreciate the picture of the famous Red Stockings of +'69. + +Herewith we present a key. The individual players in each group are +numbered to correspond with the numbers in the following list: + + +BALTIMORE BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Ed Hanlon; 2, H.R. Von der Horst; 3, H.H. Von der Horst; 4, W. +Brodie; 5, George Hemming; 6, W. Robinson; 7, D. Brouthers; 8, +J. McMahon; 9, W. Clark; 10, W. Brown; 11, Charles Esper; 12, J. Kelly; +13, H. Reitz; 14, "Kid" Gleason; 15, F. Bonner; 16, J. McGraw; 17, +H. Jennings; 18, W. Keeler; 19, W.V. Hawke. + + +NEW YORK BASE BALL CLUB, '94. (Photograph copyrighted by Prince, New +York and Washington.) + +1, Park A. Wilson; 2, Charles A. Farrell; 3, George Van Haltren; 4, +Roger Connor; 5, Jouett Meekin; 6, Huyler Westervelt; 7, Amos Rusie; 8, +W.H. Clark; 9, Lester German; 10, John J. Doyle; 11, John Ward; 12, +M. Tiernan; 13, Geo. S. Davis; 14, W.B. Fuller; 15, James Stafford; 16, +W.H. Murphy. + + +PHILADELPHIA BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Callahan; 2, Allen; 3, Delehanty; 4, Boyle; 5, Thompson; 6, Taylor; +7, Hamilton; 8, Reilly; 9, Clements; 10, Weyhing; 11, Hallman; 12, +Irwin; 13, Carsey; 14, Haddock; 15, Hartman; 16, Sharrott; 17, Turner; +18, Grady. + + +BROOKLYN BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, G. Tredway; 2, M.G. Griffin; 3, T.P. Burns; 4, P. Gilbert; 5, Wm. +Shindle; 6, T.W. Corcoran; 7, T.P. Daly; 8, T.F. Kinslow; 9, D.L. Foutz +(Manager); 10, C.F. Dailey; 11, G. Lachance; 13, G. Q. Shoch; 13, +William Kennedy; 14, D.W. Daub; 15, G.O. Sharrott; 16, E.F. Stein. + + +CLEVELAND BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Tebeau; 2, O'Connor; 3, Young; 4, Burkett; 5, Ewing; 6, McAleer; 7, +McGarr; 8, Childs; 9, McKean; 10, Dewald; 11, Virtue; 12, Clarkson; 13, +Cuppy; 14, Fisher; 15, Zimmer. + + +PITTSBURGH BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Shiebeck; 2, Bierbauer; 3, Stigden; 4, Mack; 5, Beckley; 6, Smith; 7, +Lukens; 8, Lyons; 9, Colcolough; 10, Donovan; 11, Killen; 12, +Buckenberger; 13, Ehret; 14, Stenzel; 15, Glasscock; 16, Gumbert; 17, +Nicol. + + +CINCINNATI BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Chas. Comiskey; 2, Frank Dwyer; 3, Elton Chamberlain; 4, Geo. Cross; +5, Thos. Parrott; 6, Morgan Murphy; 7, Harry Vaughn; 8, Frank Motz; 9, +John McPhee; 10, Arlie Latham; 11, Geo. Smith; 12, Jas. Holliday; 13, +Wm. Hoyt; 14, John McCarthy; 15, Jas. Canavan. + +ST. LOUIS BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, A.G. Cooley; 3, A. Twineham; 3, T. Dowd; 4, Thomas Hannigan; 5, +M.F. Hogan; 6, T. Breitenstein; 7, Harry Staley; 8, Roger Connor; 9, Tom +Brown; 10, C.H. Peitz; 11, J.H. McDougal; 12. F. Ely. + + +WASHINGTON BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Charles Petty; 2, Sam Wise; 3, Joe Mulvey; 4, Wm. Hassamer; 5, +W. Black; 6, Charles Esper; 7, Ed Cartwright; 8, Wm. Joyce; 9, Geo. +Tebeau; 10, Geo. Stephens; 11, Jas. McGuire; 12, G.H. Schmelz; 13, Otis +Stockdale; 14, Jos. Sullivan; 15, Frank Ward; 16, Al Selbach; 17, John +Egan, 18, John McMahon; 19, Paul Radford; 20, D.E. Dugdale; 21, +W.B. Mercer. + + +SIOUX CITY BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, E. Cunningham; 2, A. Stewart; 3, H. Howe; 4, Chas. Marr; 5, W.F. +Hart; 6, F. Parvin; 7, Chas. Jones; 8. W.H. Watkins (Manager); 9, J. +Walsh; 10, Geo. H. Hogreiver; 11, F. Genins; 12, A. Twineham; 13, +F. Kraus; 14, J. Newell. + + +ROCK ISLAND-MOLINE BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1. Al Mauck; 2, Belden Hill; 3, W.F. Kreig; 4, Paddy Lynch; 5. Wm. +Zeis; 6, Harry Sage (Manager); 7, Harry Burrell; 8, J.A. Andrews; 9, Joe +Cantillon (Captain); 10, Dan Sweeney. + + +PETERSBURG BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Jno. Farrell; 2, H.F. Keefer; 3, J. McJannes; 4. R. Fender; 5, John +Foreman; 6, Mike Trost; 7, Geo. Kelly; 8, R. Stafford; 9, L.W. Smith; +10, Bert Myers; 11, Stewart Sanford; 12, Ed Leach; 13, S.T. Honeycutt. + + +YALE TEAM, '94. + +1, J.B. Speer; 2, C.H. George; 3, F. Murphy; 4, F. Rustin; 5, H.M. +Keator; 6, A.A. Bigelow; 7, G.B. Case; 8, M.J. Warner; 9, W.F. Carter; +10, J.R. Quinby; 11, T.S. Arbuthnot; 12, F.B. Stephenson; 13, +G.O. Redington; 14, E.R. Trudeau; 15, J.C. Greenway. + + +HARVARD TEAM, '94. + +1, C.J. Paine; 2, E.W. Ames; 3, J.H. Williams; 4, J. Wiggins; 5, P.W. +Whittemore; 6, B. Cook, Jr.; 7, A. Winslow; 8, A.A. Highlands; 9, F.M. +Carthy; 10, J. Corbett; 11, R. Paine; 12, R. Stevenson; 13, J.J. Hayes; +14, D.D. Scannell; 15, H. Dickinson; 16, W.J. O'Malley. + + +PRINCETON TEAM, '94. + +1. Payne; 2, Bradley; 3, King; 4, Brooks; 5, Trenchard; 6, Otto; 7, +Forsythe; 8, Gunster; 9, W.D. Ward; 10, Mackenzie (Captain); 11, +P. Ward; 12, Lindsay; 13, Small; 14, Altman; 15, Williams. + + +UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TEAM, '94. + +1, Blair; 2, Brown; 3, Sinclair; 4, Stokes; 5, Dickson; 6, Blakely; 7, +Reese; 8, Hollister; 9, Higgins; 10, Mintzner; 11, Coogan; 12, Thomas; +13, Gelbert; 14, Goeckel. + + +THE FAMOUS RED STOCKINGS. + +1, Charles Gould, First Base; 2, Charles Sweasey, Second Base; 3, Asa +Brainard, Pitcher; 4, Cal McVey, Right Field; 5, Harry Wright, Centre +Field (Capt.); 6, George Wright, Short Stop; 7, "Dug" Allison, Catcher; +8, Fred Waterman, Third Base; 9, Andy Leonard, Left Field. + + + + +#A Compliment to the Editor of The Guide.# + +At the annual meeting of the National League, held at the Fifth Avenue +Hotel, New York, on Nov. 15, 1894, on a motion made by C.H. Byrne, +president of the Brooklyn club, Henry Chadwick, the veteran base ball +writer, and editor of the League GUIDE since 1881, was, by a unanimous +vote, made an honorary member of that body. This honor has been +conferred upon but four other persons in the history of the League, +namely: A.G. Mills, of New York, ex-President of the League; +A.G. Spalding, of Chicago; George W. Howe, of Cleveland, and John +B. Day, of New York. In presenting Mr. Chadwick's name Mr. Byrne spoke +enthusiastically of the effective work the veteran had done for years in +popularizing base ball, and called attention to the fact that +Mr. Chadwick was the recognized authority in all matters pertaining to +base ball, and to him more than any other individual living is due the +credit for the present almost perfect code of rules governing the game. + +The League subsequently appointed a committee, consisting of President +N.E. Young, C.H. Byrne, of Brooklyn, and A.J. Reach, of Philadelphia, to +prepare a proper address to Mr. Chadwick, and to have same engrossed and +framed for presentation. The result of their official duty was an +exceptionally handsome piece of engrossing, set in a gilt frame. A +pastel portrait of Mr. Chadwick is in the centre of a decorative scroll +on which is the following testimonial: + + + + The +NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION + of +PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS OF THE UNITED STATES + to + HENRY CHADWICK. + +At a regular annual meeting of the National League and American +Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs, held in New York City, +November 15, 1894, all twelve clubs being present, + + MR. HENRY CHADWICK, + of Brooklyn, N. Y., +was by a unanimous vote elected an + HONORARY MEMBER + of this body. + +In conferring this membership this organization pays the highest tribute +in its power to one who, during a number of years almost as great as is +usually alloted to man to live, has unselfishly devoted his time, his +talents and his energies, by voice and pen, to establish BASE BALL as +the NATIONAL GAME of America. + +At all times and in all places he has diligently worked for its +DEVELOPMENT, and battled for its INTEGRITY, its HONESTY and the PURITY +of its methods. + +He has been an unflinching foe of those within the ranks who permitted +any stigma to attach to it and a gallant defender against any attack +from without, touching its good name and fame. Always a devoted friend +of the honest ball player, he has been a never-failing advocate of the +rights of and the respect due the umpire. His advice and good offices +most frequently sought have ever been readily given, and to the benefit +and advantage of all. + +We pay this tribute with pleasure and deference to + + HENRY CHADWICK, + +the father of base ball, who now in the full of his years and after a +long life of usefulness to his fellow man, still lives to see the +fruition of his fondest hopes, and base ball, which he has fostered and +upheld, pleaded for and battled for, now established forevermore as our +national game. + +The National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball +Clubs, Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, +Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago. + +N.E. YOUNG, +C.H. BYRNE, +A.J. 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Made +in three models, "A," "B" and +"C," and in lengths, 33, 34 +and 35 inches, thus giving +sufficient variety in the +lengths, weights and balance +to suit the tastes +of all players. Each +bat is put up in a +separate bag, and +model and length +stamped on the +outside as +shown on +cut + +From +Season to +Season our +line of bats +have shown +improvement +in every essential +and vital quality, +material and finish. + +[Illustration] + + * * * * * + +#The Spalding League Bat#.--Highest +Quality. In three models, +A, B and C, and lengths 33, 34 +and 35 inches. Each bat in separate +bag and quality guaranteed. + +Each, $1.00 + +#The Spalding Boys' Model#.--Highest +Quality. In three reduced models, +A, B and C, and lengths 30 and 32 inches. +Each bat in separate bag and quality guaranteed. + +Each, $1.00 + +OUR +COMPLETE +CATALOGUE +OF + +Base Ball, Lawn Tennis and Miscellaneous +Athletic and Sporting Goods + +MAILED +FREE +TO ANY +ADDRESS + +A. G. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 + +Author: Various + +Editor: Henry Chadwick + +Posting Date: November 5, 2011 [EBook #9916] +Release Date: February, 2006 +First Posted: October 31, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPALDING'S BASEBALL GUIDE *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Thomas Hutchinson and PG +Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: Some portions of the original text were illegible; +these portions are noted with an asterisk (*).] + +[Title page] +[Illustration: + + + +SPALDING'S + +SPECIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY + +BASE BALL + +GUIDE + +1895] + + + + + + + +[Advertisement] +The Leader for 1895 +is +The Spalding Bicycle. + +ITS NAME IS ITS GUARANTEE. + +_The name stands for the Highest Grade in Athletic Goods throughout the +world, and now stands for THE HIGHEST-GRADE BICYCLE MADE._ + +THE SPALDING BICYCLE ... +DURING THE YEAR 1894 MADE A PHENOMENAL RECORD + +A. H. Barnett on the Spalding Bicycle won the Great Irvington-Milburn +Road Race ... Monte Scott, of the Crescent Wheelman, on the Spalding +Bicycle made new world's road records for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 miles, +and ... Fred Titus at Springfield, on September 13th rode 27 miles, 1489 +yards in one hour, making a world's record, and making records from 7 to +27 miles. + +Watch the Spalding Team for '95--SANGER-TITUS-CABANNE. + +A.G. SPALDING & BROS. +NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA + +*AT CHICOPEE + + + +[Illustration: Albert G. Spalding.] + +BASE BALL GUIDE +AND +OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK FOR 1895. + + * * * * * + +A Complete Hand Book Of The National Game +Of Base Ball, + +Containing The +Full Official League Records +For 1894, + + +Together With + +The New Code Of Playing Rules As Revised By The +Committee Of Rules. + +Attached To Which Are Explanatory Notes, Giving A +Correct Interpretation Of The New Rules. + + * * * * * + +A Prominent Feature Of The +Guide For 1895 +Is The New Championship Record; Added To Which Are +The Complete Pitching Records Of 1894 And +Special Chapters On The +Fielding And Base Running +Of 1894, + + +Together With + +Interesting Records Of The Most Noteworthy Contests, Incidents +And Occurrences Of The Eventful Season Of 1894, Occurring +In The College Arenas As Well As In +That Of The Professional Clubs. + + * * * * * + +Edited By +Henry Chadwick. + +Published By +American Sports Publishing Company, +241 Broadway, New York + + + + +PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. + +The official handbook of America's national game--SPALDING'S BASE BALL +GUIDE--which was first issued in 1876, has grown in size, importance and +popular favor year by year, until it has become the great standard +statistical and reference annual of the game throughout the base ball +world; and it is now recognized as the established base ball manual of +the entire professional fraternity, as well as the authorized _Guide +Book_ of the great National League, which is the controlling +governmental organization of the professional clubs of the United +States. + +The _Guide_ of 1895 not only records the doings of the twelve clubs of +the National League for the past season, with all the official +statistics, but it gives space to the championship campaigns of 1894, +not only of the Minor Professional Leagues of the country, but also of +those of the College clubs and of the leading organizations of the +amateur class--the majority class of the entire base ball world--and in +this respect the _Guide_ has no equal, the book of 1895 being +exceptionally full of the most interesting chapters of the leading +events of the diamond fields of the past year, and for the first time +contains many fine half-tone illustrations of all the leading clubs and +players, making it the largest and most complete Guide ever issued. + +Copies of the _Guide_ will be mailed to any address upon receipt of +twelve cents each. Trade orders supplied through the News Companies, or +direct from the Publishers, + +American Sports Publishing Company, +241 Broadway, New York. + + + +The _Guide_, as hitherto, is issued under the entire editorial control +of the veteran writer on sports, Mr. Henry Chadwick, popularly known as +"The Father of Base Ball." + +The great size of the _Guide_ precludes the possibility of including the +game record of the League campaign, as also other records of League +legislation, etc., and these will be found in the "Official League +Book," which contains only official League matter, as furnished by +Secretary Young, including the League Constitution in full. + + + + +PREFACE. + +SPALDING'S BASE BALL GUIDE for 1895 is the twentieth annual edition of +the work issued under the auspices of the National League. It is also +the fifteenth annual edition published under the editorship of Mr. Henry +Chadwick, he having first entered upon his editorial duties on the GUIDE +in 1881. Moreover, it is the fourth annual edition issued under the +government of the existing major League, which League was the result of +the reconstruction measures adopted during the winter of 1891-92; and +this latest issue of SPALDING'S LEAGUE GUIDE in several respects, if not +in all, surpasses all of its predecessors. New features are presented +in its pages this year which are of special interest; the most +noteworthy being the new record of every game played in the League +championship series---won, lost or drawn---from April 19 to September +30, 1894, inclusive; the names of the opposing pitchers in each game; +being a record never before published in any base ball manual, this +alone making the GUIDE of 1895 a model book of reference for the whole +base ball fraternity. Added to this are not only the full statistics of +the League season of 1894, but also special articles on the latest +scientific points of play developed in the professional arena; together +with editorial comments on the leading events of the past season---now +regarded as one of the interesting features of the book---and the scores +of the model games of 1894, etc. A new chapter is "The Reference Guide," +devoted to statistics valuable as references. In addition to which is +the new code of rules which went into effect in April, 1895, and the +editorial explanatory appendix, revised by President Young of the +League; the whole making the GUIDE the model base ball manual of the +period, the book being of special value, alike to the amateur class of +the base ball fraternity, as to the class of professional exemplars of +the game. + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY, +241 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. + + * * * * * + +WASHINGTON, D. C, March, 1895. + +By authority vested in me, I do hereby certify that Messrs. +A. G. Spalding & Bros, have been granted the _exclusive_ right +to publish the "OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK" for 1895. + +N. E. YOUNG, +Secretary of the National League and American Association of Professional +Base Ball Clubs. + +[Illustration A.G. Mills; N.E. Young; Wahulbert--The Three Presidents] +[Illustration: Baltimore Base Ball Club. Champions of 1894.] +[Illustration] +[Illustration: New York Base Ball Club, '94.] + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + +The decade of the nineties in League history bids fair to surpass, in +exciting events, that of every preceding series of years known in the +annals of professional base ball. The decade in question began with the +players' revolt in 1890 and was followed up by the secession of the old +American Association, a fatal movement, which ended in the death of that +organization in the winter of 1891-92; the reorganization of the +National League resulting in the absorption of the best half of the old +Association clubs and the beginning of the experiment of governing the +whole professional fraternity by one _major League_ instead of by a +dual government as before; this one powerful League being itself +controlled by the laws of the "_National Agreement_." The cost of the +amalgamation of the four American Association clubs with the National +League, together with the financial losses incurred by the revolutionary +period of 1890 and 1891--losses, by the way, which the players did not +participate in, the clubs alone being the sufferers--left a heavy burden +of debt to handicap the reconstructed National League in its efforts to +recover the public confidence in professional ball playing lost by the +malcontents of 1890 and 1891. But, nevertheless, the seasons of 1892 +and 1893 saw the heavy indebtedness removed from the League's shoulders; +and in 1894 the flourishing financial times of 1888 and 1889 were, in a +measure, renewed, and for the first time since the Brotherhood revolt of +1890, the professional base ball business in 1894 became a paying +investment. + +It will scarcely be believed that, in the face of the financial losses +incurred during the revolutionary period of 1890 and 1891, that the +closing part of the season of 1894 saw another attempt made to renew the +troubles of 1891, by an effort made to resuscitate the defunct American +Association under the banner of "_Death to the League's reserve rule_," +together with that of a joint attempt made to revive the old Brotherhood +plan of rival League clubs in the larger base ball cities of the Union. +This revolutionary effort, made by one of the promoters of the revolt of +1890, aided by two dismissed managers and a disgruntled star player +itching for notoriety at any cost, led the magnates of the National +League to adopt repressive measures calculated to put an end to any +future revolutionary efforts of the kind, by severely punishing any +League club manager or player who should prove recreant in fealty to the +laws of the National Agreement, or who should join in any attempt to +organize any base ball association opposed to the reserve rule, which +rule over ten years' experience had proved to be the fundamental law and +corner-stone of the professional base ball business. Without such a +repressive law it was evident that the League would be subject to +periodical attempts on the part of unscrupulous managers or players to +war upon the reserve rule for blackmail purposes. The necessity for some +such law was made evident by the recent efforts made to organize a new +American Association on the basis of not only warring upon the reserve +rule but of trespassing on the territorial rights of existing League +clubs. + + + +#The League Manifesto of 1894.# + +The finale to the annual meeting of 1894 was the issuing of a manifesto +by the National League, which was called forth by an effort at treachery +in the League ranks which required prompt action for its +repression. This manifesto was issued without regard to efforts to +organize a new American Association, any opposition of the kind to the +National Agreement clubs, with the major League at its head, being +looked upon as futile, owing to the character of the men alleged to be +at the head of the movement; the main incentive of the League magnates +being to publicly announce what the penalty of treachery to National +Agreement interests would be in the future. The manifesto in question +was the work of a special committee appointed by the National League at +its annual meeting in November, 1894, which consisted of Messrs. Chas. +H. Byrne, H. R, Von der Horst, James A. Hart and John T. Brush. + +The following is the statement drawn up by the committee, and referred +to the National Board for adoption: + +TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL ASSOCIATIONS: + +From the year 1876, when base ball was established in this country on a +substantial and responsible basis by the disbandment of the so-called +National Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs and the +organization of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +down to the present time, the duty has been imposed upon some body or +organization to uphold and enforce the objects for which base ball was +established, to wit: + +First--To perpetuate base ball as the national game of the United +States, and to surround it with such safeguards as to warrant for the +future absolute public confidence in its integrity and methods. + +Second--To protect and promote the mutual interests of professional base +ball clubs and professional base ball players. + +The National League formed in 1876 found a difficult task before it in +undertaking to carry out the objects above referred to. Interest in base +ball was at a low ebb. Gamblers were in possession. The game was without +discipline, organization or legitimate control. The sport was conducted +with dishonest methods and for dishonest purposes, and had neither the +respect nor confidence of the press or public. Heroic methods were +absolutely necessary. At a meeting of the National League, held in +Cleveland December 5, 1877, the League directors unanimously ratified +the action of the Louisville club in expelling from the professional +ranks James A. Devlin, W. H. Craver, A. H. Nichols and G. W. Hall "for +conduct in contravention to the object of the League." + +These men had been charged with and convicted of willfully selling a +game of base ball. At first the action of the League in taking such an +extreme course was strongly denounced. The League, however, foresaw that +any condonation of fraud or crookedness meant death to the national game +and remained firm in its position. Public opinion soon turned, and +to-day it is universally conceded that the course then taken did more to +establish the honesty and integrity of base ball than any action taken +or legislation since enacted. From that day to this no charge of +crookedness or dishonesty has been made against a professional ball +player. Repeated attempts have been made to reinstate these men or those +of them now living, but their expulsion was final and irrevocable. + +That the League was earnest in its efforts to purify the game was +further demonstrated by its action taken at a special meeting held at +the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., on June 24, 1882, when Richard +Higham, a League umpire, was, upon charges preferred by the Detroit +club, expelled for "crooked" work as an umpire. From that day to this no +such charge has ever been made against an official umpire. The rapid +increase in the compensation of ball players soon opened up another +avenue of trouble for the League, which needed and received prompt +attention. This was flagrant and open dissipation in the ranks at home +and abroad. While this was confined comparatively to a few men, the +innocent suffered largely from it, and the National League was brought +into disrepute. Heroic measures were again adopted, and several players +were indefinitely suspended, with excellent effect. It is safe to say +that to-day there is less dissipation and drunkenness in the ranks of +professional ball players in proportion to their number than in any +other organized or unorganized body in this country identified with +outdoor sports. + +The success achieved by the National League in its efforts to develop +base ball as the national game became apparent in its rapid growth in +popular favor, and the establishment of clubs and associations +throughout the various States. It became evident soon that something +must be done to foster and protect the rights and interests of these +various bodies, and "that there was a recognized need of some central +power in base ball to govern all associations, by an equitable code of +general laws, to put the game on a prosperous and lasting basis." + +To accomplish this purpose a meeting was held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, +New York, February 17, 1883, at which delegates were present +representing the National League, the American Association, and the +Northwestern League. At that meeting the so-called Tripartite Agreement +was drawn up and agreed to, which substantially was an offensive and +defensive alliance, embodying a mutual respect of all contracts and +other obligations, and all rights of the parties to the agreement to +territorial rights, players under contract or held under reserve. + +The adoption of the tripartite agreement opened a new era in base ball, +and it was so readily recognized as being a step in the line of progress +that when the committee which drew up the agreement was called together +in New York city in October, 1883, they decided to call the instrument +they had framed the National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +the purpose being to open the door to all clubs, leagues and +associations desiring to live under the conditions, rules and +regulations of the agreement. Immediately several leagues and +associations applied for the protection assured the, and readily pledged +themselves to abide by the requirements designated in the agreement. + +The action of the committee in framing the new national agreement was +subsequently ratified by the signatures of the Presidents of the parties +thereto, viz.: + +The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, A. G. Mills, +President, November 22, 1883. + +The American Association of Base Ball Clubs, H. D. McKnight, President, +December 13, 1883. + +The Northwestern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, Elias Mather, +President, January 10, 1884. + +The Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, William C. Sedden, +President, February 19, 1884. + +The fundamental principle of the national agreement as originally drawn, +and which is now in operation, is a respect for territorial +rights. This, in fact, is the corner stone of the structure. + +It contemplates and provides for the organization of cities into leagues +or associations, with one club, and one only, in each city, and a +contest between the respective cities for championship honors. The +interest which base ball arouses in any city is based absolutely on +local pride. The essence of value to a championship is entirely to the +city to which the victorious club belongs. + +Experience has demonstrated that whenever and wherever territorial +rights have been invaded and rival clubs established, the element of +local pride is absent and interest in both destroyed. It is this which +makes a respect for territorial rights a principle which we must uphold. + +It is true, nevertheless, and we so declare that we will gladly welcome +and shall encourage the formation of leagues and associations who desire +to operate under the national agreement, and consent to abide by the +fundamental principles of that document. + +Reference has been made above to the difficulties and the obstacles +which at times have presented themselves and which have been by severe +but just methods removed. + +To-day the future of base ball is confronted by a new condition, a +condition which in every particular is as harmful and in many respects +far more dangerous than open dishonesty or flagrant dissipation. That +is, treachery within the lines. To-day, and for months past we have had +men identified with professional base ball who for years have been the +beneficiaries of the game, have received liberal compensation for the +work they have done, earned their livelihood entirely and absolutely +from the opportunities afforded them by clubs and organizations +operating under the national agreement, and we find and now know that +these men, during this time, have persistently been identifying +themselves with schemes and combinations the objects and sole purposes +of which are to weaken and perhaps destroy the splendid fabric of our +national game, which it has taken years of effort, anxiety and large +outlay of capital to construct. + +To-day we have the confidence of the public and the press of the country +in the methods and the integrity of base ball in larger measure than at +any prior period in the history of our national game. It devolves upon +us to continue to deserve and retain this confidence. We must endeavor +to do it. + +The interests of clubs and professional ball players are identical. One +cannot succeed without the other. Success means mutual benefit. The +moment any suspicion attaches to base ball, public confidence lost or +even chilled, the occupation of the ball player is gone. We must all +stand or fall together. There is no middle ground. We stand by the +fundamental law, our national agreement, which guarantees protection to +players as well as to clubs, or we destroy it. One road leads to the +perpetuation of the national game, the other to its decline. There +should be no place, no standing room in base ball for any anarchistic +element which never aids in building up but is ever ready to destroy. + +The time has come when some action should be taken to place this element +without the pale of our ranks. The National Board, operating under the +national agreement, was created to protect and guard the interests of +all players, clubs and associations identified with the agreement. Any +attempt to encroach upon that, to nullify or affect any of its +provisions, is of direct and material concern to all alike. + +The obligations of contracts, the right of reserve, and the territorial +rights of clubs, associations and leagues must be upheld, and shall be, +at any cost. + +It is a matter of public rumor and is also a fact which has come to our +knowledge that men identified with clubs, members of the national +agreement, have been co-operating in the formation of clubs or +organizations whose purpose is to conflict with the national +agreement. In view of this knowledge, the National League and American +Association of Professional Clubs in convention assembled respectfully +suggests to and requests the National Board to declare A. C. +Buckenberger, William Barnie and Fred Pfeffer ineligible to be +employed either as manager or player or in any capacity whatever, by any +club or organization operating under the national agreement, and they be +forthwith suspended. Such suspension to remain in force until such time +as they or either of them can satisfy the National Board that they have +in no way been engaged directly or indirectly in the organization of any +club, league or association formed or to be formed in conflict with the +principles of the national agreement. And in the event of their failure +to relieve themselves from this suspension within such time as your +Board may direct, they shall be expelled and forever debarred from any +connection with clubs or organizations identified with the National +Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs. + +We furthermore request that your Board take like action in the case of +any player, manager, umpire or club official who in the future +identifies himself with a similar movement. + +C. H. BYRNE, +J. T. BRUSH, +JAMES A. HART, +H. R. VON DER HORST, +N. E. YOUNG. + +The above address was submitted to the National League at its annual +meeting, fully discussed and unanimously adopted. + + + +Appended is the decision of the National Board: + +To all National Agreement Clubs, Leagues, and Associations: + +At a meeting of the National Board of Professional Base Ball Clubs, held +in New York city November 16, 1894, a communication was received from +the National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball +Clubs, in convention assembled, requesting this Board to take action in +the case of certain individuals heretofore identified with clubs +operating under the national agreement who have been charged with +treachery to their employers and the organizations with which they have +been identified. The request, so presented, was supplemented by an +appeal from the executive officers of the Eastern League of Base Ball +Clubs and the Western League of Base Ball Clubs to take such action as +was proper to protect said leagues in the rights assured them under the +national agreement. + +After mature consideration, and governed absolutely by a desire to +comply with the letter and spirit of the requests made to this Board, +and having reasonable and substantial evidence upon which to base our +action. + +This Board has decided to announce, and it does declare that A. C, +Buckenberger, William Barnie and Fred Pfeffer are ineligible to be +employed either as manager, player or in any other capacity by any club +or organization identified with the national agreement, and said persons +are hereby declared suspended. + +This Board further declares that such suspension shall remain in force +up to and including December 31, 1894, and in the event of the failure +of the above named persons, or either of them, on or before the above +named date, to show to this Board that he or they have been in no +manner, directly or indirectly, engaged in any attempt to promote the +organization of clubs, leagues or associations antagonistic to the +national agreement, they shall be expelled and forever debarred from any +connection with clubs or organized bodies operating under the national +agreement. + +N.E. YOUNG, +A.H. SODEN, +C.H. BYRNE, + + + +The foregoing action was partially caused by the following +communication: + +NEW YORK, November 15, 1894. +TO THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL +BASE BALL CLUBS. + +_Gentlemen_: We the representatives of the undersigned leagues, +operating under the National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +respectfully submit the following: Your body is the recognized major +base ball organization of the country, and have sole right to elect the +National Board and control all bodies identified with the agreement. + +It has been made known to us, and we have good and substantial reasons +for believing that such knowledge is correct, that a new organization of +base ball clubs is contemplated, which, of necessity, must operate +without the pale of the national agreement. It appears also that it is +the purpose of the new association, if it materializes, to attempt to +take from our respective organizations and clubs players now held by us +under the right of reservation accorded us by the national agreement. We +therefore request that you, as a body, take some action to protect us, +so far as possible, against all outside organizations. We trust you will +give this immediate attention, and we await your action. + +Respectfully, + +B.B. JOHNSON, Sec. Western League, P.B.B.C. +P.T. POWERS, Pres. Eastern League. + + + + * * * * * + +#The Base Ball Season of 1894.# + +To professional base ball, as governed by the existing National League, +is mainly due the great popularity our national game has achieved within +the past twenty years. Of course the amateur class of the fraternity +greatly outnumber the professionals; but the game could never have +reached its present point of excellence in field work but for the time +and attention the professional clubs were enabled to devote to its +thorough development from the year of Harry Wright's famous "Red +Stocking" nine of Cincinnati, in 1869, to the existing period of model +professional ball playing. In the first place, the amateur clubs could +never have given the game the time and labor required for its evolution +which the professional clubs were enabled to do; and, moreover, not one +club in a thousand could have spared the money required to fit up and +keep in serviceable condition such finely equipped ball grounds as those +now owned by the leading professional clubs of the National League. To +these facts, too, are to be added the statement that to the National +League's government of the professional class of the fraternity is due +the lasting credit of sustaining the integrity of play in the game up to +the highest standard; so much so, indeed, that it has reached the point +of surpassing, in this most important respect, every other sport in +vogue in which professional exemplars are employed. Take it for all in +all, no season since the inauguration of the National League in 1876, has +approached that of 1894 in the number of clubs which took part in the +season's games, both in the amateur as well as the professional arena; +and certainly no previous season ever saw the professional clubs of the +country so well patronized as they were in 1894. Moreover, it was the +most brilliant and successful season in every respect known in the +annals of the college clubs of the country. In fact, there was but one +drawback to the creditable success of the entire championship campaigns +of 1894, and that was the unwonted degree of "hoodlumism" which +disgraced the season in the professional arena, and this, we regret to +say, was painfully conspicuous among the players of the National League +clubs, this organization having been noted, prior to its absorption of +the old American Association element in its ranks in 1892, for the +reputable character of its annual struggles for championship honors. One +result of the rowdy ball playing indulged in by a minority of each club +team in the League was a decided falling off in the attendance of the +best class of patrons of the professional clubs. + +Much of the "_Hoodlumism_"--a technical term applicable to the use of +_blackguard language; low cunning tricks_, unworthy of manly players; +_brutal assaults_ on umpire and players; that nuisance of our ball +fields, "kicking," and the dishonorable methods comprised in the term +"_dirty ball playing_"---indulged in in 1894 was largely due to the +advocacy of the method of the so-called "_aggressive policy_," which +countenanced rowdy ball playing as part and parcel of the work in +winning games. The most energetic, lively and exciting method of playing +a game of ball can mark a professional club contest without its being +disgraced by a single act of rowdyism--such as that of spiking or +willfully colliding with a base runner; bellowing like a wild bull at +the pitcher, as in the so-called coaching of 1893 and 1894; or that of +"kicking" against the decisions of the umpire to hide faulty captaincy +or blundering fielding. Nothing of this "hoodlumism" marked the play of +the four-time winners of the League pennant from 1872 to 1875, +inclusive, viz., the old, gentlemanly Boston Red Stockings of the early +seventies, under the leadership of that most competent of all managers, +Harry Wright. Yet, despite of this old time fact, if club managers do +not adopt the rough's method of playing the game, as illustrated in the +League arena in 1894, advocated by the class of newspaper managers of +local clubs, the scribes in question go for the local team officials for +not having a team with "plenty of ginger" in their work and for their +not being governed by "a hustling manager." Is it any wonder, under such +circumstances, that the League season of 1894 was characterized by +"hoodlumism?" + +But little advance was made in the way of effective team management in +the League in 1894. About a third of the twelve teams of the League only +were controlled by competent team managers, while at least another third +were wretchedly managed, and the other third were not above the average +in management. Two of the old drawbacks to the successful running of +teams by professional clubs conspicuous in 1892 and 1893 marked the team +management of 1894, viz., the employment of drinking players and the +condoning of their costly offenses, and the interference of club +presidents and directors in the work of the regular manager of the club +team. There is a class of club officials in the League who, for the life +of them, cannot keep from interfering with the club's legitimate manager +in his running of the team. Some of them have the cool effrontery of +stating that "the manager of our team is never interfered with in any +way." One costly result of this club official interference is, that +needed discipline of the players is out of the question, and in its +absence cliqueism in the ranks of the team sets in--one set of players +siding with the manager, and another with the real "boss of the team," +with the costly penalty of discord in the ranks. It is all nonsense for +a club to place a manager in the position with a merely nominal control +of the players and then to hold him responsible for the non-success of +the team in winning games. Under such a condition of things, the club +manager might sign a team of costly star players and yet find himself +surpassed in the pennant race by a rival manager, who, with _entire +control of his team_, and that team composed of so-called "second-class +players" or ambitious "colts," working in thorough harmony together, and +"playing for the side" all the time and not for a record, as so many of +the star players do, would deservedly carry off the season's honors. + +Since the reconstructed National League began its new life, blundering +management of teams has characterized the running of a majority of its +twelve clubs, and it will continue to do so while the system of engaging +players for their records merely and not for their ability in doing team +work and in playing harmoniously together, is continued. Especially, +too, is the plan of engaging players whose daily habits of life are at +war with their ability to do first-class work in the field. Year after +year are drinking offenses condoned by the club officials who run the +club, and old time drunkards re-engaged for the coming season, while +steady, sober players are left out in the cold. Besides this blunder, +there is that of engaging half worn out stars in the place of rising +young players ambitious of distinguishing themselves in the League +arena. This mistake in team management was as conspicuous in 1894 as it +was in 1893. + +A feature of the professional base ball season of 1894 was the almost +phenomenal success of the clubs--alike of the minor leagues as of the +great major league itself--in battling against the serious drawback of +the "hard times" of the year, which prevailed throughout the entire +season. Experience shows that in the sports in vogue which have innate +attractions for public patronage in times of great financial +difficulties in the commercial centres of the union, the national game +stands conspicuous; and the past season in this respect presented a most +notable record, no such crowds of spectators ever having been seen at +the leading contests of the season as in 1894. + +Another feature of the past season was the interest taken in the college +club contests of the spring and early summer campaign, the leading club +teams giving a superior exhibition of team work play in the field to +that of 1893. In fact, the national game flourished as a whole +throughout the entire country in 1894 as it never had done before in the +history of the game. + + + +#The League Championship Campaign of 1894.# + +The struggle for the League's championship pennant in 1894 was the most +noteworthy one on record in one particular respect, and that was in the +exciting struggle by the three leaders of the first division for the +championship, which struggle began on June 20th with the Baltimores +first and Boston second, and was continued on that line until New York +became one of the trio on July 5th, after which date these three clubs +occupied the position of first three in the race to the finish, the +other nine clubs not being "in it" after July 5th. In all other respects +the race for the pennant of 1894 was far from being up to the standard +that should characterize the League's championship season, no less than +three of the minor league pennant races being more evenly contested than +was that of the great major league. From the following record of the +difference in percentage points each season between the leader and tail +ender it will be seen that in no less than seven of the seasons from +1881 to 1894, inclusive, were the pennant races of past seasons superior +in this respect to that of 1894, that of 1891 being the smallest in +difference of points on record. + +Here is the record in question: + +------------------------------------------------------------- + POINTS OF POINTS OF POINTS OF +YEARS. DIFFERENCE. | YEARS. DIFFERENCE. | YEARS. DIFFERENCE. +------------------------------------------------------------- +1881 277 | 1886 493 | 1890 499 +1882 441 | 1887 333 | 1891 223 +1883 570 | 1888 303 | 1892 367 +1884 400 | 1889 328 | 1893 359 +1885 442 | | 1894 418 +------------------------------------------------------------- + +Judging by the percentage figures of the twelve clubs, recorded at the +end of each month's campaign of the season, the race was a one-sided one +almost from the start, the Baltimore and Boston clubs being in the +leading positions from the very outset of the race, the remaining ten +clubs fighting for third place from April 19th to June 20th, when New +York took the lead of the other nine, joining Baltimore and Boston in +the struggle for the leading position. + +A League pennant race--or that of a minor league, for that matter--to be +up to the regulation standard, should at least show a difference in +percentage figures varying, on the average, not far from 250 points; a +model race, in these figures, not exceeding 200 points. But this +standard has not been reached in League records for fifteen years, the +best being over 223 points. Then, too, comes the record of the occupancy +of the several positions of the two divisions, this, to a certain +extent, showing the character of the pennant race of the season. In this +regard, an evenly contested race should show a weekly change of position +in each division, for one thing, and also a change from first division +to second division at least once a month. A model race should see the +first three positions changed weekly, the first six places at least +fortnightly, and the tail end positions once a month at farthest. But +what does the figures of the pennant race of the League for 1894 show? +Let us glance at the; records of the occupancy of the first and second +divisions in last year's pennant race. From the 22d of April to the +close of the season, the Baltimore and Boston clubs were never out of +the ranks of the first division clubs; nor were the Chicago, Washington +and Louisville clubs ever out of those of the second division. This +alone was a one-sided condition of affairs in the race. From May 1st to +July 17th the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubs occupied positions in +the first division, and the Cleveland club was in the first division +from April 22d to June 27th and from July 17th to the finish, while New +York was in the same division from June 29th to the close and Brooklyn +from August 27th to the end of the season. On the other hand, Chicago, +St. Louis and Cincinnati, together with Washington and Louisville, were +practically out of the race from May to September. + +The April campaign finished with St. Louis, Cleveland and Boston tied +for first place in the race, with Philadelphia, Baltimore and Cincinnati +following. Boston and Baltimore's occupancy of fourth and fifth places +being the lowest each occupied during the entire season's campaign, +while Cincinnati's position, tied for that of first in the race on April +20th, was the highest that club reached from April 19th to September +30th; St. Louis, as tied for first place, together with Louisville on +April 20th, was the highest these three clubs reached. Baltimore was +the first to reach the leading place in the race, that club being first, +with the percentage figures of 1.000, on April 24th; St. Louis occupying +the lead on April 28th; Cleveland on May 2d, that club occupying the +leading place from that date to May 28th, when Pittsburgh jumped into +first place for a short time. Boston occupied the lead for the first +time on April 26th. The nearest New York got to the leading position was +on April 19th, when the club was tied for first place with Boston, +St. Louis and Washington. The highest position the "Phillies" reached in +the pennant campaign was second place, which they occupied on May +23d. Brooklyn's highest position was reached on June 22d, when that club +occupied third place. Chicago's highest was eighth place, and the only +clubs which stood in the last ditch were Chicago, up to May 10th; +Washington, from May to August 15th, and afterwards Louisville up to the +finish of the season. + +For the first time in the annals of the League, but one western club +occupied a position in the first division as early in the season as July +2d, when the Pittsburgh club stood fourth in the race, following +Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn, being followed by Philadelphia and New +York, Cleveland at that date being in the second division. On July 17th +Cleveland replaced Brooklyn in the first division, and remained there to +the finish of the race. Pittsburgh was driven into the ranks of the +second division on August 21st, and failed to get back again. Baltimore +had the pennant virtually in hand in August, and New York drove Boston +out of the second place on September 6th, the percentage figures of the +three leaders on that day showing Baltimore to be in the van with .676, +New York .652, and Boston .646; with the "Phillies" fourth, the +Brooklyns fifth and the Clevelands sixth, these relative positions not +afterwards being changed. Neither were those of the clubs in the second +division at that date, except in the case of the Cincinnati and +St. Louis clubs, the team under the Boss Manager, Chris Von der Ahe +beating the Brush-Comiskey combination team of Cincinnati out the very +last day of the race, greatly to the disgust of the Cincinnati cranks. + +A great disappointment to the Louisville cranks, whose pet club started +the season with a picked team of star players, containing three +ex-captains of League teams, in Pfeffer, D. Richardson and Tom +Brown--was the sad falling off of that club from the position of being +tied for first place with Baltimore and Boston in April, to a permanent +place in the last ditch in August, a result which relieved Manager +Schmelz considerably, as up to August 22nd Washington had occupied the +tail end position in the race from July 9th to August 23d. Similar bad +management of a club team had retired Pittsburgh from second position, +on June 8th, to seventh place, on July 2d, and it was only through a +wise change of managers that the club was able to retain the lead in the +second division to the end of the campaign. + +An incident of the campaign of 1894 was the disastrous start in the race +made by the Chicago club, which occupied the tail end position in the +race at the close of the April campaign and remained in the last ditch +up to May 11th, after which the club gradually passed the Washington, +Louisville, Cincinnati and St, Louis teams, finally occupying eighth +position the last of September. The pennant race of 1894, as a whole, +was a decided failure as far as an evenly contested race was concerned, +the only exception in the way of an exciting struggle for the lead being +that between the three leaders from July 5th to September 30th, this +being the one redeeming feature of the League championship campaign of +1894. + + + +#The Contests for the Pennant in 1894.# + +Not since 1890 has a new candidate for League championship been +successful in winning the pennant, but in 1894 another club was added to +the list of League pennant winners, the interest in the annual races, of +course, being thereby proportionately increased. In 1876, when the +League was organized, Chicago was the first city to win League +championship honors, and in 1877 Boston entered the arena of pennant +winners. Next came Providence in 1879, after which a whole decade of +League seasons passed without a new pennant winner being added to the +above two, Detroit winning in 1887 for the first time. Next came New +York in 1888, followed by Brooklyn in 1890, and now Baltimore has +entered the contest arena of champion clubs, that city winning the +honors in 1894. During the intervals of this period of nineteen years of +League championship campaigns the Boston and Chicago clubs won the +majority of pennant races; Boston carrying off the flag during the +seasons of 1877, 1878, 1883, 1891, 1892 and 1893, and Chicago winning in +1876, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885 and 1886, this latter club being the only +one to win the pennant in three successive years, from 1876 to 1890 +inclusive, the Bostons not being three time winners until the seasons of +1891, 1892 and 1893. That club, however, is the only one to win the +championship in four successive seasons--outside of the League--since +the professional championship was inaugurated in 1871, the Bostons +afterwards winning in 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875. There are now in the +League eight clubs out of the twelve which have yet to win a single +pennant race, viz., the Philadelphia and Washington clubs of the Eastern +divisions, and all six of the Western clubs. There are also but four +clubs now in the League which have never reached higher than second +position since the League was organized, viz., Louisville, 1877--that +club's earned title to first place having been lost by the crookedness +of four of its team of that year--Cincinnati in 1878, Philadelphia in +1887 and Pittsburgh in 1893, while there are two clubs now in the League +which have never reached higher than third place, viz., St. Louis in +1876, and Cleveland in 1880 and 1893. The only aspirant for a position +in League pennant races higher than fourth place at the close of the +season now in the League is the Washington club; so there is plenty of +room to win honors in 1895 if only in getting in among the six leaders +by October next. + + + +#The Three Leading Clubs in the Pennant Race of 1894.# + + +It is about time that the record of the championship campaigns of each +year should be divided up, in order that the leading minority of the +competing teams may be awarded the additional credit due them for +obtaining positions of special distinction during each season; +beginning, of course, with the winner of the pennant, and followed by +the occupants of _second_ and _third_ positions with the three other +clubs of the first division ranking in due order. By thus extending the +list of honorary positions in the race an additional incentive for +making extra efforts toward the close of the race is given to each one +of the twelve clubs of the League at large. Thus, in the early part of +the championship campaign, if two or three clubs find themselves +hopelessly contending for the pennant itself, there will still be left +over those of the other two honorary places in the race, viz., _second_ +and _third_ positions, to compete for; and failing to achieve success to +that extent, there will be one or other of the last three places in the +_first division_ to strive for. This opens the door to win other +creditable places in the season's race to be fought for by the six clubs +of the second division, instead of their losing heart in the contest, +simply because, by the end of the May or June campaign, they are left +without a chance of winning the pennant. It would seem to be, from this +view of the case, an object of special interest for the League to award +a series of honorary prizes to the players of each team attaining one or +other of the three leading positions in the race of each year, in the +proportion, we will say, of $3,000 for the first place, $2,000 for +second and $1,000 for third. In the future the GUIDE will give special +prominence, in its statistical records, to the clubs attaining second +and third positions; in the race, leaving a less detailed record to the +other nine clubs entering the campaign for championship honors, this +change beginning with the GUIDE of 1895. We now present first in order +the complete record of the Baltimore champions of 1894: + + + +#The Campaigns of the Three Leaders and of the First Division Clubs for +1894.# + +An interesting statistical chapter of the GUIDE of 1895 includes the +comparative tables of the three leaders in the pennant race of 1894, +viz., those of the Baltimore, New York and Boston clubs, the struggle +between these three clubs being a decidedly attractive feature of the +past season's championship campaign. The season opened on April 19th, +and the close of the first day's play saw the Boston and New York clubs +tied for first place, with Baltimore tied with four other clubs for +second place, only eight of the twelve clubs playing on that day. By the +end of the first month's campaign, on April 30th, Boston had dropped to +third position; Baltimore to fifth place and New York down to ninth in +the race. On May 31st, the close of the second month's campaign, +Baltimore led Boston, being then in third position, and Boston in +fourth, New York having pulled up to sixth place. On June 2d Baltimore +jumped to first place, with Boston fifth and New York seventh. By June +9th the Bostons had got up to second place, but New York was still in +the second division, Baltimore, of course, still leading in the race on +that date. At the end of the third month of the season's campaign, on +June 30th, Baltimore held the lead, with the percentage of victories of +.712, with Boston second, having .667 in percentage figures, while New +York had got back into the first division again with the figures of +.564. On July 5th the "Giants" had worked up to third place, preceded by +Baltimore and Boston, each with the percentage figures respectively of +.679, .672 and .593, it being a close fight at this time between +Baltimore and Boston, while New York was close behind. From July 5th to +the finish these three clubs occupied the three leading positions in the +race, the others being virtually "not in it," as far as winning the +pennant was concerned. This fact alone made the pennant race of 1894 a +very one-sided one, as nearly three months of the season's games +remained to be played. At the end of the July campaign the record showed +Boston in the van, with the percentage figures of .659, to Baltimore's +.618 and New York's .613, Boston having taken the lead from Baltimore on +July 24th, It was just about this time that Boston stock on the racing +market was above par, it being fully expected at this time that the best +the Baltimores would be likely to accomplish would be to retain second +place, while New Yorkers were sanguine at this period of the contest +that the "Giants" would soon lead Baltimore. The Boston champions +retained first position up to July 30th, while New York tried in vain to +push Baltimore out of second place. By, the close of the August campaign +the Baltimores, by a brilliant rally, had replaced Boston in the lead, +the record on August 31st showing Baltimore in the van with the +percentage figures of .657, followed by Boston with .645, and New York +close to the champions with .639. Now came a grand fight for second +place on the part of New York, the Bostons, from this time to the finish +failing to make the accustomed final rally which their friends had +anticipated. On September 6th New York ousted Boston out of second +place, at which date Baltimore led with the percentage figures of .676, +followed by New York with .652, Boston's figures being .646; the rest of +the clubs in the first division at that time being in the five hundreds +only in percentage figures. Boston got down to .632 on September 19th, +New York being then credited with .667 and Baltimore "way up" with +.692. It was now Baltimore's race and New York was regarded as a fixture +for second position, there being a difference in percentage points +between Baltimore and Boston of no less, than 62 points on September +22d; New York then being behind Baltimore 39 points and ahead of Boston +24 points; in fact, a week before the finish, on September 30th, the +positions of the three leaders were fixtures, the only interest left +remaining being the struggle between Philadelphia, Brooklyn and +Cleveland for fourth place. As before remarked, the chief interest in +the September campaign was the expectation on the part of the majority +of the patrons of the game that the Bostons would rally towards the +finish and that the Baltimores would fall off during the last week or +two; instead, however, it was the Boston champions who failed to play up +to their old mark, while it was the Baltimores who did the rallying, and +in fine style, too, under the leadership of the champion manager of the +campaign of 1894. + + + +#The New Champions of 1894.# + + +The Baltimore Club's Career. + +We have the pleasure of greeting a new champion club in the League arena +in the GUIDE of 1895, viz., the Baltimore club, and it is therefore a +point of interest to give a brief resume of its career from the time it +entered the defunct American Association in 1882 to the date of its +being taken into the reconstructed National League in 1892. The +Baltimore club's career in the late American Association was one thing; +that of its progress since the club was taken into the National League +is altogether quite a different matter. From 1882, the year of the +organizing of the old American Association, up to the period of its +secession from the National Agreement ranks in 1891, the Baltimore club +occupied the position of being the occupant of the "last ditch" in the +Association's pennant races for no less than four years, viz., in 1882, +1883, 1885 and 1886. In 1884, when twelve clubs were in the Association +race of that year, the highest the Baltimore club reached was sixth +position. In 1888, 1889 and 1890, the club got no higher than fifth +place in the three races of those years; while the nearest it could get +to first place during the decade of the eighties was in 1887, when it +ended in third place, being led by St. Louis and Cincinnati. During all +that period William Barnie was the club's manager. In 1892 he was +superseded by Manager Hanlon; and from that date to the close of the +past season, the club began to get out of its previous "slough of +despond," induced by its repeated failures to win a pennant race. + +Here is the club's record while in the American Association, from 1882 +to 1890, inclusive, showing the positions occupied in the several +pennant races of that period: + +------------------------------------------------------ + NUMBER OF CLUBS +YEAR. POSITION. IN THE RACE. +------------------------------------------------------ +1882 Sixth (last ditch) Six. +1883 Eighth " Eight. +1884 Sixth. Twelve. +1885 Eighth (last ditch) Eight. +1886 Eighth " Eight. +1887 Third. Eight. +1888 Fifth. Eight. +1889 Fifth. Eight. +1890 Fifth. Eight. +------------------------------------------------------ + +In 1891 the Cincinnati club was ahead of the Baltimores when the former +was transferred to Milwaukee, after which the "Reds" broke badly, and +the Baltimores were thus enabled to get into third place. The wretched +management of the Association during the year was costly in +demoralization to every club in the race. Up to the date of the +Cincinnati transfer, that club stood with a percentage of .619, to +Baltimore's .526. During the season of 1892 the Baltimore club occupied +an experimental position in the race of that year, Manager Hanlon not +joining the club in 1892 until too late to get a good team +together. They began the campaign of 1893 low down in the race record, +but they finally pulled up among the six leaders, beating out Brooklyn +in the race by 10 games to 2, as well as St. Louis, Louisville and +Cleveland; but they were so badly beaten by Boston-2 games to 10-and by +Pittsburgh--1 game to 11-that they finished in eighth place only. That +season's experience enabled Manager Hanlon to prepare for 1894 with a +better chance of success than he had had since he took the club in hand, +and the effect of the improved management was made apparent before the +May campaign of 1894 had ended, his team closing that month one among +the three leaders. From that position the club was not afterwards +removed, the team first heading the Bostons and finally taking the lead +in the race, the New Yorks coming in second, ahead of the previous +three-time champion club of Boston. + + +THE BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. + +Under the heading of "The Three Leaders in the Race," will be found the +record of the monthly campaigns of the Baltimores and the progress made +by Hanlon's team from the start to the finish in the race of 1894. We +now give the detailed record of the season's campaign of the Baltimores +in full. + +Here is the record of the club's victories, defeats, games played and +drawn, and the percentage of victories made against each individual +club, as well as the grand percentage against all of the eleven opposed +to the Baltimores: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Total Total +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 6 4 6 8 11 35 9 6 9 10 10 10 54 89 +Defeats 6 8 4 4 1 23 8 4 2 2 2 2 16 39 +Games played 12 12 10 12 12 58 12 10 12 12 12 12 70 128 +Drawn games 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Per cent. of + Victories .500.333.400.667.917 .603 .750.600.750.833.833.833 .771 .695 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the "Orioles," under Hanlon, did the pennant +winning business up in style in 1894. Of the six Eastern clubs in the +race, they tied the New York "Giants," had the best of the unfinished +series with the "Phillies," took the Brooklyns into camp without +difficulty, had almost a walkover with the Washingtons, and found the +Boston champions the only club that got the best of them in the five +series played against their Eastern adversaries, their percentage of +victories against the Bostons being only .333, while their figures +against the Washingtons were as high as .917. Against their six Western +opponents, the Baltimores almost wiped out the St. Louis, Cincinnati +and Louisville teams, each of these clubs winning but two games out of +the twelve played with the "Orioles," while the best each of the +Cleveland and Chicago teams could do was to win three of the twelve, the +Pittsburgh "Pirates" being the only Western team to trouble them, their +series with that club being unfinished, with a credit of but four +victories to Pittsburgh's six. Only one game was drawn, and that with +the "Phillies." + +The additional details of the record follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 7 +Series lost 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series tied 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series + unfinished 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" + victories 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +"Chicago" + defeats 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +Won by 1 run 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 3 2 2 9 11 +Lost by 1 run 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 7 +Single figure + victories 2 1 2 4 3 12 6 1 2 7 5 7 28 40 +Single figure + defeats 5 3 2 1 0 11 1 3 1 0 1 1 7 18 +Double figure + victories 4 3 4 4 8 23 3 5 8 3 5 2 26 49 +Double figure + defeats 1 5 2 3 1 12 2 1 2 2 1 1 9 21 +Home victories 5 1 4 5 5 20 6 4 7 8 6 6 37 57 +Home defeats 1 4 2 2 1 10 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 13 +Victories abroad 1 2 3 3 6 15 3 2 2 2 4 4 17 32 +Defeats abroad 5 4 2 2 0 13 2 3 3 1 2 2 13 26 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Baltimores "shut out" but one Eastern team and +not a single Western opponent, while they themselves were "Chicagoed" +once by each, viz., by New York and Louisville, the tail ender's "shut +out" being annoying. Only two of their contests with the Eastern teams +were won by a single run, but they won three games against the Eastern +teams by one run. They lost seven games by a single run, three of them +in the East and four against Western adversaries. No less than forty of +their games were won by single figure scores, viz., 12 against Eastern +teams and 28 against Western opponents. They lost a total of but 18 +single figure games. Their double figure victories were no less than 49, +against but 21 double figure defeats. They won 57 home victories against +32 abroad, the defeats being 18 at home to 26 abroad. Take it all in +all, the Baltimores did splendid work in the box, the field and at the +bat, the only drawback to their creditable season's campaign being too +much kicking and rowdy ball playing, in the latter of which McGraw was +the principal offender. + +#The Records of the New York and Boston Clubs of 1894.# + +The New York club's team entered the campaign of 1894 decidedly +handicapped. The club had excellent material at command wherewith to +make up a strong team; but the manager had great difficulty at first in +getting it into team work condition, he being hampered by the +interference of the class of scribe managers of League cities who are +very confident of their ability to run a club team better, on paper, +than the actual manager can on the field. Then, too, a minority of these +journalists seem to delight in getting up sensations which lead to +discord in the ranks of a team; as they have their pet players on the +teams, as well as those they have a special grudge against; moreover, +the directors of the club were at times, in the early part of the +season, not in accord with the manager in his methods of selecting +players, and in appointing them to special positions. Finally the +experience of April and May taught the club officials that if much more +of the interference racket was continued, the result would be a +permanent place in the second division, inasmuch as on May 24th, the +club stood no higher than eighth place, with but little likelihood at +that time of getting any higher. By June, however, an improved condition +of affairs in running the team was manifested; the scribe managers were +ignored, the manager was given more control of the team, and by the +close of the June campaign the New York club was in the first division, +and by the end of July were among the three leaders, where they remained +until the end of the race. + +The club was fortunate in being able to make its team unusually strong +in its battery players. The very profitable and liberal investment made +by Director Wheeler, in the purchase of the release of Meekin and +Farrell, was a potent factor in enabling the club to reach the high +position it did, both of these model players, in their respective +positions, proving to be a great accession to the strength of the club's +team. Another valuable acquisition to their team was that noted college +player, young Murphy, he proving to be the most valuable utility man in +the club, and an equal of Ward in team-work batting. By the closing +month of the campaign the team had been trained up to the point of +working together in more harmony, besides doing better team-work in +their batting than any previous players of the club had ever before +exhibited. Moreover, the team, during 1894, manifested greater rallying +power at the finish in a game than ever before, they fully equaling the +Bostons in this respect; in fact, this past season they excelled the +champions in securing the lead in the latter part of a contest, a very +important factor in winning pennants. THE NEW YORK CLUB'S RECORD. + +The record of the club for 1894 giving the victories and defeats scored, +with the total of games played, and the percentage of victories against +each club is as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 6 6 5 7 10 34 9 8 11 7 7 12 54 +Defeats 6 6 7 5 10 26 3 4 1 5 5 0 18 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .500 .500 .417 .583 .833 .567 .750 .667 .917 .583 .583 1.00 .750 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The above record shows that the "Giants" defeated Brooklyn and +Washington in the Eastern series of games, and tied with Boston and +Baltimore, they losing to the "Phillies" only. Against the Western clubs +they won every series, excelling both Baltimore and Boston in this +latter respect, as the Baltimores failed to get the best of the +Pittsburghs, and the Bostons were tied with the St. Louis. Then, too, +the "Giants" excelled the other two leading clubs in shutting out +Louisville in no less than thirteen successive games, one game being +thrown out. In addition they took Anson's "Colts" into camp in eleven +out of twelve games, and defeated the Washingtons in ten games out of +the twelve of the series. + +The record of the series of games won, lost, tied and unfinished, +together with that of the "Chicago" victories and defeats, and the +single and double figure games of the New York and Boston clubs is as +follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 8 +Series lost 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series tied 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Series + unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" + victories 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 5 +"Chicago" + defeats 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 +Single figure + victories 5 4 2 3 7 21 7 7 8 5 4 7 38 59 +Single figure + defeats 2 4 4 2 1 13 1 1 0 5 5 0 12 25 +Double figure + victories 1 2 3 4 3 13 2 1 3 2 3 5 16 29 +Double figure + defeats 4 2 3 3 1 13 2 3 1 0 0 0 6 19 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The foregoing table shows that the New York club won eight out of the +eleven series, they losing but one--that with Philadelphia -and tieing +two, one with Baltimore and one with Boston. In "Chicago" games they won +five and lost four, and in single figure games they won 59 and lost but +25, while in double figure games they won 29 only and lost but 19. + + +THE BOSTON CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Boston club, in 1894, after being League pennant winners three years +in succession, was obliged to fall back to third place in the past +year's pennant race, after a hard fight for first place in the race from +April to September, that club standing in first place on April 26th and +also on the 29th of August, they varying their position but little +during that period. Hitherto, in the races of 1891, '92 and '93, the +Bostons were noted for their rallying powers, not only in the latter +part of a game, but especially in the closing month of each season. It +will be remembered, that in 1892, though they had to succumb to +Cleveland in the last part of the divided campaign of that year, they +rallied handsomely and easily won the championship in the world's series +of that year. This year, however, they went back on their record badly, +in failing to attend to the rallying business in the last month of the +campaign, the result being that they not only lost the pennant, but had +to submit to being forced into third place in the race. The question as +to "why this was thusly" is not easy to answer. It may be said, for one +thing, that the loss of the valuable services of the veteran Bennett, +was one drawback to their success, and the failure of a majority of +their pitchers, another; their only really successful "battery" team +being Nichols and Ganzel. Then, too, they lost ground in playing, as +well as in popularity, by the kicking and noisy coaching profanities of +a minority of their team; that kind of "hustling" in a team having +become played out as a winning factor in the game in 1894. It must not +be forgotten, however, that the Boston club, in 1894, encountered +stronger teams in New York and Baltimore than ever before; moreover, +they were troubled considerably by the strong opposition of the +St. Louis club's team, the only club to score three straight victories +from them during the season. That the club had the material to do better +than they did, goes without saying; it was a failure in its running that +did the business, chiefly. + +Here is the record of the victories, defeats, games played, and +percentage of victories against each club for the past season of 1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e + Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 8 6 6 6 9 35 9 8 7 6 8 10 48 +Defeats 4 6 6 6 3 25 3 4 5 6 4 2 24 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .667 .500 .500 .500 .250 .583 .250 .667 .583 .500 .667 .833 .667 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The Bostons, in 1894, took the Baltimore and Washington teams into camp +without difficulty, but the best they could do against New York, +Philadelphia and Brooklyn, was to tie each series. Against the Western +clubs, it will be seen, the only club that troubled them was the +St. Louis Browns. Four series tied out of the eleven they played was an +unusual record for the ex-champions. In victories, they did better +against the West than against the East, by 48 victories to 35; in +defeats, however, the result was more even, viz., 25 to 24. + +The following is the club's record of series won, lost, tied and +unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and defeats, and the +single and double figure victories and defeats scored by the club in +1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 7 +Series lost 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series tied 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Single figure victories 4 4 4 3 0 15 2 7 2 0 3 5 19 34 +Single figure defeats 1 4 1 3 2 11 1 1 1 5 2 1 11 22 +Double figure victories 4 2 2 3 9 20 7 1 5 6 5 5 29 49 +Double figure defeats 3 2 5 3 1 14 2 3 4 1 2 1 13 27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The club won but seven of the eleven series played in 1894, though they +did not lose a series, no less than four being tied. In "Chicago" games +they won but 3, but did not lose a single game by a "shut out." By way +of comparison, we give below the records of the same three clubs in +1893, when the three leaders in the race were Boston. Pittsburgh and +Cleveland, and the three leaders of the Eastern teams were Boston, +Philadelphia and New York, the Baltimores that year being eighth +only. Singularly enough, all three clubs did better against their +Eastern confreres in 1893 than against the Western clubs. + +Here are the three club records of 1893 + + +RECORDS OF 1893. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 10 8 8 8 7 41 7 4 8 10 6 10 45 +Defeats 2 4 4 4 5 19 5 6 3 2 6 2 24 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 10 11 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .853 .667 .667 .667 .583 .680 .583 .400 .727 .833 .500 .833 .652 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 8 4 7 6 7 32 6 4 5 8 6 7 36 +Defeats 4 8 5 6 5 28 6 8 7 4 6 5 36 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .667 .333 .583 .500 .583 .533 .500 .333 .417 .667 .500 .417 .500 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 2 5 10 7 28 8 1 5 9 4 5 32 +Defeats 8 10 7 2 5 32 4 11 7 3 8 5 38 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 10 70 +Per cent. of + Victories .383 .167 .417 .833 .583 .467 .667 .083 .417 .750 .333 .560 .475 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +To show what the new rivals--the New York and Baltimore clubs--did in +the two past seasons combined, we give the figures of the double records +of 1893 and 1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 14 10 12 13 17 66 15 12 16 13 15 19 90 +Defeats 10 14 12 11 7 51 9 12 8 11 9 5 54 +Games played 24 24 24 24 24 120 24 24 24 24 24 24 144 +Per cent. of + Victories .383 .417 .500 .542 .708 .550 .625 .500 .667 .542 .625 .792 .625 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 10 6 11 18 18 63 17 7 14 14 18 15 85 +Defeats 14 18 11 6 6 55 7 15 10 10 5 7 54 +Games played 24 24 22 24 24 118 24 22 24 24 23 22 139 +Per cent. of + Victories .417 .250 .500 .750 .534 .708 .708 .318 .583 .583 .783 .682 .612 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +In this combined record New York leads Baltimore, the poor season's work +of 1893 by the Baltimores more than offsetting the honors they won in +1894. + + + +#The Campaigns of the Other Nine Clubs of 1894.# + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +At the end of the first day's contests, on April 19th, four clubs were +tied for first place as victors, and four others were tied next in order +as losers, the third four of the twelve clubs of the League not playing +until the 20th of April. At the end of the first week's play in the +April campaign the "Phillies" stood fourth in the race, they being +headed by Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis, respectively, and followed by +Baltimore and Cincinnati, all of which six clubs were in the first +division, the Pittsburgh, New York, Louisville, Washington, Brooklyn and +Chicago following in order in the second division; the difference in +percentage figures between the leader and tail ender being 833 points, +as the Chicago team had not then won a single game out of six played, +and the Brooklyns but one, while the "Phillies" had won 5 out of 7, they +starting off well, Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis having won 5 out of 6 +played. By the end of the April campaign the "Phillies" stood in fourth +place, being led by St. Louis, Cleveland and Boston, the other first +division clubs being Baltimore and Cincinnati. During the May campaign +the "Phillies" fluctuated between fifth place on May 9th up to second +position on May 16th, finally finishing the May campaign a poor fifth on +May 31st, with Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore and Boston in advance of +them, and New York close at their heels. In June the "Phillies" began to +do a little better, and by June 18th, they had pulled up to second +place, with Baltimore in the van and Boston close behind the "Quakers." +Then once more they fell back in the race, the close of the June +campaign seeing them in fifth place, and in the rear of Baltimore, +Boston, Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, with New York within a few points of +them. During July this "up-hill and down-dale" method of racing was +continued until July 23d, when they were driven into the ranks of the +second division clubs, they occupying seventh place on that date, the +end of the July campaign seeing the team in seventh place, with a +percentage of victories of .526, Boston, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, +Brooklyn and Pittsburgh being the six first division clubs. During the +August campaign the "Phillies" got back into the first division ranks, +and on the 21st of that month were in fourth place, which position they +retained to the end of that month's campaign. They tried in vain to get +higher, but could not do so, and on the last day of the season they +stood a bad fourth, the next club above them leading them by 75 points +in percentage figures, and by eleven games. + +The following is the Philadelphia club's record of victories and defeats +scored, with the total number of games played, and the percentage of +victories against each club, and also the record of the series won, +lost, tied and unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and +defeats, and the single and double figure victories and defeats scored +by the club during 1894: + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S RECORD. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + W P C L + B a C i S i o + a N B s l t t n u + l e r h e t C . c i +PHILADELPHIA t w B o i v s h i s + i o o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s k g l u c o n i + o o t l t a r a u a l + r r o y o n g g i t l + e k n n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 7 6 7 8 32 5 8 5 5 8 8 39 +Defeats 6 5 6 5 4 26 7 4 7 7 2 3 30 +Games played 10 12 12 12 12 58 12 12 12 12 10 11 69 +Per cent. of + Victories .400 .583 .500 .583 .667 .552 .417 .667 .417 .417 .800 .727 .585 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + + W P C L + B a C i S i o + a N B s l t t n u + l e r h e t C . c i +PHILADELPHIA t w B o i v s h i s + i o o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s k g l u c o n i + o o t l t a r a u a l + r r o y o n g g i t l + e k n n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 6 +Series lost 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series unfinished 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Single figure victories 2 4 3 3 3 15 3 3 1 2 2 2 13 28 +Single figure defeats 2 2 5 5 3 12 2 3 0 3 3 0 10 22 +Double figure victories 2 3 3 4 5 17 2 5 4 3 6 6 26 43 +Double figure defeats 4 3 1 0 1 8 5 1 7 4 2 3 22 30 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The above table shows that the Philadelphia team in their games with +their Eastern opponents had but little difficulty in defeating the +Washingtons, besides getting the best of both New York and Brooklyn in +the race. But they lost to Baltimore and tied with Boston. With the +Western teams they did not do so well, as they only won three out of the +six series, they winning easily with Cincinnati by 8 to 2 in won games, +while they had but little difficulty with Louisville and Pittsburgh. +They lost with Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis by 5 to 7 each in won +games. + + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Brooklyn club opened the season's campaign on April 19th, and at the +close of the first day's play, stood tied with Baltimore, Philadelphia +and Pittsburgh for fifth place, they standing as low as eleventh +position on April 23d. During the May campaign they made but little +headway in the race, as, up to May 22d they had got no higher than +seventh place. After that they got into the first division for a few +days, but at the end of the May campaign they were tied with New York +for sixth place; Pittsburgh, on May 31st, being in the van, with +Cleveland and Baltimore second and third, Pittsburgh's percentage +figures being .710 at this date; the "Orioles" being followed by Boston +and Philadelphia. The Brooklyns began the June campaign by leading New +York and taking up a position in the first division, occupying sixth +place, next to Boston, then in fifth position. By June 19th they had +reached fourth place, and they closed their June campaign in third +position, Baltimore leading, with Boston second. During the early part +of July the Brooklyns fell back to sixth place, and the "Giants" jumped +into third position. On July 31st the Brooklyns stood fifth only, and +they began falling lower the first week in August, and on the fourth of +that month were back in the second division ranks, and after that date +"the subsequent proceedings interested them no more," as far as the +three leading positions were concerned. They remained in seventh place +up to August 21st when they got back into the first division, and on +August 31st they were in fifth place. During September there was a close +fight between Cleveland and Brooklyn for that position, but finally the +Brooklyns retained it at the finish by the percentage figures of .534 to +.527, a lead of but seven points. The Brooklyn team made but a poor +record against their Eastern team rivals in 1894, but were more +successful against the Western clubs. They won but one series in the +East, and that was against the tail-end Washingtons, Baltimore, New York +and Philadelphia beating them out in the race, while they tied the +Bostons. Against the Western clubs they won in three series; tied with +two others, and had the series with Cleveland, but they only won four +series out of the eleven. + +The following tables show the Brooklyn club's record of victories and +defeats scored, with the total number of games played and the percentage +of victories against each club; also, the record of the series won, +lost, tied and unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and +defeats, and the single and double figure victories and defeats scored +by the club during the season of 1894: + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S RECORD. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a s l t t n u + l e d h e t C . c i +BROOKLYN t w B e i v s h i s + i o l n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s p g l u c o n i + o o t h t a r a u a l + r r o i o n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 5 6 5 9 29 6 7 6 8 6 8 41 +Defeats 8 7 6 7 3 31 5 5 6 4 6 4 30 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 11 12 12 12 12 12 71 +Per cent. of + Victories .388 .417 .500 .452 .750 .483 .545 .583 .500 .667 .509 .667 .577 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a s l t t n u + l e d h e t C . c i +BROOKLYN t w B e i v s h i s + i o l n e b i L n v + vs. m Y s p g l u c o n i + o o t h t a r a u a l + r r o i o n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 4 +Series lost 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 +"Chicago" victories 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 +Single figure victories 1 2 3 5 3 14 4 3 5 3 1 4 20 34 +Single figure defeats 3 3 4 3 1 14 2 2 2 3 3 1 13 27 +Double figure victories 3 3 3 0 6 15 2 4 1 5 5 4 21 36 +Double figure defeats 5 4 2 4 2 17 3 3 4 1 3 3 18 35 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Cleveland club did not begin their opening campaign until April +20th, and then in the ranks of the second division; but they soon, +jumped to the front, and by the end of the April campaign they stood a +tie for first place with Boston and St. Louis, with the percentage +figures of .750 each. They opened the May campaign by pushing Boston out +of first place, and they retained the leading position from May 2d to +the 28th, they reaching the high percentage of .867 on May 10th--the +highest of the season. On Decoration Day Pittsburgh went to the front, +with the percentage of .700 to Cleveland's .692, and they retained that +position to the close of the May campaign. During June the Clevelands +fell off, and by the 21st of that month they had got down to fifth place +in the race, and by the end of the June campaign had been driven into +the ranks of the second division, they then occupying seventh place with +a percentage of .549; Pittsburgh, on June 30th, being the only Western +team in the first division. This fact alone showed a one-sided race up +to that date. + +The Clevelands did not get back into the first division until July 17th, +and after that they never left it. During August they battled well for +third place, but could get no higher than fourth position, where they +stood up to August 21st, when they began to fall off, and on August 31st +they were down to sixth place. This position they were forced to keep +all through September up to the finish of the race. + +The Cleveland team managed to win two of their series with the Eastern +clubs, viz., with Washington and Philadelphia, but were badly whipped by +the three leaders; they managed, however, to make a close fight of it +with their old antagonists of Brooklyn, the latter winning the series by +a single game only. + +With their Western rivals the Clevelands won every series but one, viz., +that with the Pittsburgh club, thereby winning the _championship of the +West for_ 1894, as Boston did the championship of the East. Then, too, +the Clevelands were the only Western club remaining in the first +division at the close of the season; so they had some consolation in the +race in excelling their Western rivals, all of whom they beat out in the +race, even if they failed to win the pennant or to get among the three +leaders in the race. Moreover, they excelled all the Western teams in +team work in the field and at the bat, as they did the Brooklyns and +Washingtons of the Eastern division. + +Here is their record: + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a i S i o + a N a B s t t n u + l e d r h t C . c i +CLEVELAND t w B e o i s h i s + i o l o n b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g u c o n i + o o t h l t r a u a l + r r o i y o g g i t l + e k n a n n h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 3 3 3 7 5 8 29 4 10 9 8 8 39 +Defeats 9 9 9 5 6 4 42 8 2 3 3 3 19 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 11 12 71 12 12 12 11 11 58 +Per cent. of + Victories .250 .250 .250 .583 .455 .667 .408 .333 .883 .750 .727 .727 .672 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a i S i o + a N a B s t t n u + l e d r h t C . c i +CLEVELAND t w B e o i s h i s + i o l o n b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g u c o n i + o o t h l t r a u a l + r r o i y o g g i t l + e k n a n n h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 +Series lost 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 1 5 7 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 +Single figure victories 1 1 1 2 3 4 12 3 7 7 4 6 27 39 +Single figure defeats 6 7 2 3 4 4 26 5 1 1 2 1 10 36 +Double figure victories 2 2 2 5 2 4 17 1 3 2 4 2 12 29 +Double figure defeats 3 2 7 2 2 0 16 3 1 2 1 2 9 25 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +#The Second Division Clubs.# + + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Pittsburgh club opened the April campaign in the ranks of the second +division, the end of the month seeing the team in seventh place, three +other Western teams leading them on April 30th. During May they got into +the first division, and May 21st they were among the three leaders, with +Cleveland and Baltimore first and second in the race. At the end of the +May campaign they had rallied as well, and had pulled up to first place, +with the percentage figures of .710 to Cleveland's .679 and Baltimore's +.654, Boston, Philadelphia and New York being the next three. In June, +the Pittsburghs fell off in the race, and by the 11th of that month they +were down to fifth place, then pulled up again after touching sixth +position, and on June 30th stood fourth, they then being headed by +Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn, with Philadelphia and New York in their +rear. In July they fell off badly, and on the 20th of that month they +had been driven out of the first division. At the end of the July +campaign they stood sixth in the race. They got a step higher the early +part of August, but the end of that month's campaign saw the club once +more in the ranks of the second division, and they struggled in vain to +get out of the company of the six tail-enders, the end of the race +seeing the club in seventh place with the percentage figures of .500, +Cleveland leading them by 27 points. + +The record of the Pittsburgh club for 1894 giving the victories and +defeats scored, with a total of games played and the percentage of +victories against each club; also, the record of the series of games +won, lost, tied or unfinished, together with that of the "Chicago" +victories and defeats, and the single and double figure games scored by +the club, is as follows: + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W C L + B l a C S i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e C . c i +PITTSBURGH t w B e o i v h i s + i o l o n e i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l c o n i + o o t h l t a a u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 4 4 4 5 8 29 8 6 6 7 9 36 +Defeats 6 8 8 8 7 4 41 4 6 6 5 3 24 +Games played 10 12 12 12 12 12 70 12 12 12 12 12 60 +Per cent. of + Victories .400 .333 .333 .333 .417 .667 .414 .667 .500 .500 .500 .583 .600 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W C L + B l a C S i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e C . c i +PITTSBURGH t w B e o i v h i s + i o l o n e i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l c o n i + o o t h l t a a u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 +Series lost 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 . 0 0 0 0 0 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 1 1 0 0 2 2 +Series unfinished 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 . 0 0 0 0 0 1 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 . 0 0 0 0 2 2 +Single figure victories 3 1 1 3 2 3 13 5 3 4 3 7 22 35 +Single figure defeats 1 7 7 3 3 0 21 3 2 4 2 3 14 35 +Double figure victories 1 3 3 1 3 5 16 3 3 2 4 2 14 30 +Double figure defeats 5 1 1 5 4 4 20 1 4 2 3 0 10 20 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The "Pirates," it will be seen, were very unsuccessful against the +Eastern teams, the Washingtons being the only club they could win a +series from. Against their Western rivals, however, they did not lose a +series, defeating Cleveland, Cincinnati and Louisville, and tieing with +Chicago and St. Louis. The very club they wanted most to defeat they +captured, viz., the Clevelands; that, and the fact that they led the +second division clubs being the only consolation they had. + + + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +Never before in the history of the Chicago club had any of its teams +ever started a pennant race so badly as did the Chicago "Colts" in +1894. They finished the April campaign with the unenviable record of +eight defeats out of nine games played, they then being a bad tail-ender +in the race, with the poor percentage figures of .111 only. They +remained in the last ditch up to May 10th, by which date they had won +but two games out of thirteen played, the result being costly to the +club in poor gate receipts. The next day they pushed the Washingtons +into the last ditch--their home place for years--and by May 14th had got +up to tenth position. But the end of May saw the "Colts" no higher in +the race record than eleventh place, just on the ragged edge of the last +ditch. By the end of the June campaign they had pulled up a little, they +were standing in tenth place on June 30th; there they remained until the +last day of the July campaign, when they managed to get into ninth +place. During August they rallied for the first time in the race, and by +the end of that month's campaign they stood eighth. But they could not +get higher in the race, and they had to be content with eighth position +at the end of the season, their poor record including that of being the +only club of the twelve which had not, at one time or another, occupied +a place in the ranks of the first division clubs. It was the worst +season's record known in the history of the Chicago club. + +Here is the club record: + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t . c i +CHICAGO t w B e o i v s i s + i o l o n e b L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u o n i + o o t h l t a r u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d h s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 3 1 5 7 6 7 29 2 6 6 6 8 28 +Defeats 9 11 7 5 6 5 43 10 6 6 6 4 32 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 60 +Per cent. of + Victories .250 .083 .417 .583 .500 .583 .403 .375 .500 .500 .500 .667 .467 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t . c i +CHICAGO t w B e o i v s i s + i o l o n e b L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u o n i + o o t h l t a r u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d h s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 +Series lost 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .. 1 1 1 0 3 4 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 5 +Single figure victories 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 1 2 3 2 6 14 20 +Single figure defeats 2 8 2 1 5 4 22 6 3 4 2 3 18 40 +Double figure victories 2 1 4 7 4 6 24 1 4 3 4 2 14 38 +Double figure defeats 7 3 5 4 1 1 21 4 3 2 4 1 14 35 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The Chicago "Colts" won two series against the Eastern teams, viz., +those with the Washingtons and the Philadelphias, and they had a tie +series with Brooklyn and a close fight with Boston; but the New Yorks +whipped them the worst any club had ever before succeeded in doing in a +season's series, as the "Giants" won eleven out of twelve games; the +Baltimores, too, had an easy task in winning against the +"Colts". Against their Western rivals, however, they lost but one +series, viz., that with Cleveland; but they only won one series--that +with Louisville--they tieing Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati. + + + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The St. Louis club opened the April campaign among the leaders, and put +up their stock to a premium, by ending the month's record tied with +Boston and Cleveland for first place, each with a percentage of .750, +the club's special rival--Comiskey's Cincinnati "Reds"--ending the April +campaign tied with Baltimore for fifth place. After this April spurt in +the race, however, the "Browns" began to fall back in their record +during May, and by the 7th of that month were down to sixth position, +and on May 14th they had to give way to Cincinnati, they then falling +back into the second division ranks; and on the 17th of May they were +down to ninth place, and then the best they could do during the last +week of the May campaign was to end eighth in the race on May +31st. During June they tried to get back into the first division, but +they failed to reach higher than seventh position. During July they got +lower down in the ranks of the second division, and they ended that +month's campaign as low as tenth place, and they were kept there until +the very last day of the season, when two victories over the +Washingtons, with a tie game between Cincinnati and Cleveland, enabled +the "Browns" to win the consolation prize, viz., leading Cincinnati at +the finish, by the percentage figures of .424 to .419, the St. Louis +team ending in ninth place and the Cincinnatis in tenth position. + +The record of the St. Louis club for 1894 giving the victories and +defeats scored, with the total of games played and the percentage of +victories against each club; also, the record of the series of games +won, lost, tied and unfinished, together with that of the "Chicago" +victories and defeats and the single and double figure victories and +defeats scored by the club, is as follows: + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e t C c i +ST .LOUIS t w B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c n i + o o t h l t a r a a l + r r o i y o n g g t l + e k n a n n d h o i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 5 6 7 4 6 30 3 6 6 5 6 26 +Defeats 10 7 6 5 8 6 42 9 6 6 7 6 34 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 12 12 12 12 12 69 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .417 .500 .583 .333 .500 .417 .250 .500 .500 .417 .500 .433 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e t C c i +ST. LOUIS t w B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c n i + o o t h l t a r a a l + r r o i y o n g g t l + e k n a n n d h o i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 +Series lost 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 5 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 3 5 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 4 5 +Single figure victories 0 5 5 3 3 2 18 1 4 4 4 4 17 35 +Single figure defeats 7 5 0 2 3 3 20 7 4 3 5 6 25 45 +Double figure victories 2 0 1 4 1 4 12 2 2 2 1 2 9 21 +Double figure defeats 3 2 6 3 5 3 22 2 2 3 2 0 9 31 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The St. Louis "Browns" did well in winning one of their Eastern +series--that with Philadelphia--and tieing with Boston and +Washington. But the Baltimores gave them a bad whipping, and the +Brooklyns and "Phillies" took them into camp easily. Against their +Western adversaries, however, they failed to win a single series; but +they only lost one--that with Cleveland--as they tied with Pittsburgh, +Chicago and Louisville. + + + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Cincinnati club did not begin their opening campaign until April +20th, and during that month's short campaign they occupied third place +on April 24th, and retained their position among the leaders to the end +of the month. In May, however, they fell back into the ranks of the +second division clubs, and remained there until May 16th, when they +occupied sixth place in the first division. By the end of that month, +however, they had been pushed back to ninth position. There they +remained during the whole of the June campaign. During July they +improved their position by getting into eighth position, where they +stood on July 31st. August's campaign did not improve their standing; on +the contrary, they fell back into ninth place, where they stood on +August 31st. During September they were almost anchored in that +position, but on the very last day of the race they let their old +rivals, the "Browns," beat them out, and Comiskey had to finish tenth in +the race, and then he said he'd had enough, and he concluded to "go +West," where he will remain for 1895. + +Here is the Cincinnati club's record: + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P L + B l a C i o + a N a B s l t S u + l e d r h e t C t i +CINCINNATI t w B e o i v s h . s + i o l o n e b i L v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o i + o o t h l t a r a u l + r r o i y o n g g i l + e k n a n n d h o s e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 5 4 2 6 7 26 3 5 6 7 7 28 +Defeats 10 7 8 8 6 5 44 8 7 6 5 5 31 +Games played 12 12 12 10 12 12 70 11 12 12 12 12 59 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .417 .338 .200 .500 .583 .371 .273 .417 .500 .583 .588 .475 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P L + B l a C i o + a N a B s l t S u + l e d r h e t C t i +CINCINNATI t w B e o i v s h . s + i o l o n e b i L v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o i + o o t h l t a r a u l + r r o i y o n g g i l + e k n a n n d h o s e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 7 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 +Single figure victories 1 5 2 3 3 5 19 2 2 2 5 6 17 36 +Single figure defeats 4 4 3 2 1 5 19 4 3 2 4 5 18 37 +Double figure victories 1 0 2 1 3 2 9 1 3 4 2 1 11 20 +Double figure defeats 6 3 5 6 5 0 25 4 4 4 1 0 13 38 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The season of 1894 was made noteworthy in the annals of the Washington +club, owing to their being able to pay off their six years' mortgage on +the last ditch, and transferred it to the Louisville club. The +"Senators" opened the season in a very lively style, inasmuch as they +stood a tie for first place at the end of the first day of the campaign, +and had the credit of winning their first games with the "Phillies," the +New York and Boston clubs. After this dash at the start they settled +down among the second division clubs for the season, resigned to +everything but the fate of again being tail-enders. Chicago kept them +out until May, when the "Senators" fell into their old quarters, the +tail-end place, where they remained until August 23d, when, to the great +joy of Manager Schmelz, they had a wrestle with Louisville and threw the +"Colonels" into the last ditch. + +Here is their record: + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i P C L + B l C i S i o + a N a B l t t n u + l e d r e t C . c i +WASHINGTON t w B e o v s h i s + i o l o e b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k l u c o n i + o o t h l a r a u a l + r r o i y n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 1 2 3 4 3 13 4 4 5 6 5 8 32 +Defeats 11 10 9 8 9 47 8 8 7 6 7 4 40 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .083 .167 .250 .333 .250 .217 .333 .333 .417 .500 .147 .667 .444 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS + P + h + i P C L + B l C i S i o + a N a B l t t n u + l e d r e t C . c i +WASHINGTON t w B e o v s h i s + i o l o e b i L n v + vs. m Y s p k l u c o n i + o o t h l a r a u a l + r r o i y n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 0 1 0 4 9 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" defeats 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 +Single figure victories 0 1 2 3 1 7 4 0 4 3 5 5 21 28 +Single figure defeats 3 7 0 3 3 16 4 3 1 2 5 3 18 34 +Double figure victories 1 1 1 1 2 6 0 4 1 3 0 3 11 17 +Double figure defeats 8 3 9 5 6 31 4 5 6 4 2 1 22 53 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The "Senators" won but one series in the whole campaign, and that was +with the Louisvilles. They managed to tie with the St. Louis "Browns," +but all the rest knocked them out--the Baltimores by 11 to 1. + + + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Louisville club started in the race with better prospects than they +had for years past, they being tied for first place on April 20th, but +they only remained in the first division a few days, after which they +took up their home position among the tail-enders, which they occupied +from April 30th to September 30th, never once getting back to the ranks +of the first division. Gradually, during the May campaign they worked +their way down towards the last ditch, they having a close fight for the +ditch with Washington during June. But July saw them rolled into the +tail-end position, and there they remained until the ending of the +championship campaign. The Louisvilles had the consolation of tieing the +the St. Louis "Browns" in their series, and of "Chicagoing" the Boston +champions, and also in defeating them in another game by 11 to 1. Here +is their record: + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C + B l a C i i + a N a B s l t S n + l e d r h e t C t c +LOUISVILLE t w B e o i v s h . i + i o l o n e b i L n +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o n + o o t h l t a r a u a + r r o i y o n g g i t + e k n a n n d h o s i + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 0 2 3 4 4 15 3 3 4 6 5 21 +Defeats 10 12 10 8 8 8 56 8 9 8 6 7 38 +Games played 12 12 12 11 12 12 71 11 12 12 12 12 59 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .000 .167 .273 .333 .333 .211 .273 .250 .333 .500 .417 .356 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C + B l a C i i + a N a B s l t S n + l e d r h e t C t c +LOUISVILLE t w B e o i v s h . i + i o l o n e b i L n +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o n + o o t h l t a r a u a + r r o i y o n g g i t + e k n a n n d h o s i Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 0 1 4 10 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" victories 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 +Single figure victories 1 0 1 0 1 3 6 1 3 3 6 5 18 24 +Single figure defeats 8 8 5 2 4 5 32 6 7 6 4 6 29 61 +Double figure victories 1 0 1 3 3 1 9 2 0 1 0 0 3 12 +Double figure defeats 2 5 5 6 4 3 25 2 2 2 2 1 9 34 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The nearest the Louisvilles came to a series victory was in their series +with the St. Louis club, which they tied; all the others they lost, they +being "shut out" by the "Giants," with which club they lost thirteen +successive games, one of which was thrown out. The Club Management of +1894. + +The management of the twelve League clubs in 1894 was, in but few +instances, in advance of that of 1893; and in a minority of cases it was +worse. The experience of the past season in the management of club +teams, points out the indisputable fact that the majority of managers +are blind to the folly of condoning drinking offences in the ranks, for +one thing, and equally ignorant of the damaging effects, in lessening +the reputable patronage of their grounds, of countenancing that phase of +"hoodlumism" in teams known as "kicking against the decisions of +umpires." Despite of the costly experience of the past five years in the +countenancing of drunkards in the League ranks, we see, this season of +1895, club teams including players notorious for their old drunken +habits. Why managers cannot perceive the folly of re-engaging such men +is a mystery. No matter what their skill at the bat or in the field may +be, their drinking habits, with the demoralizing effect on the teams at +large which follows, more than offset the advantage of their alleged +ability in the field. Despite this obvious fact, however, club +officials--either presidents, directors or managers--still blunder on in +having these drunkards on their teams, even after condoning their +offences time and again, on the promise of reform, which in no single +instance has ever taken place that I am aware of. But surpassing this +folly, is that of engaging ugly and vicious tempered players for their +teams, who are simply demoralizing agents in any team on which they are +engaged. These ill-tempered fellows are not only death to necessary +discipline, but they are sure to find occasions to form cliques in a +team, which war against the best interests of the club at large, and are +obnoxious in the extreme to the pennant winning rule of _playing for the +side_, a rule as important to the success of a club team in a pennant +race, as the reserve rule is to the life of the professional club +business at large. Bad management of clubs involves a variety of +blunders, not only in the running of the team without regard to business +principles--sadly neglected by a majority of the League clubs in +1894--but especially in the making up of teams in the spring months, in +which one blunder is conspicuous, viz., that of selecting players for +each team without regard to their ability to play in _harmony together_, +but solely by the records made in the unreliable table of averages of +the past season, in which everything in the way of scoring figures tends +to aid the mere record player and throws obstacles in the way of team +work players' records. Another managerial blunder is shown in the +gathering together of a long list of signed players, with the view of +selecting a strong team of a dozen players from the crowd for the +serious work of the campaign. For instance, in the makeup of many of the +League teams of 1894, the blunder of getting together six or eight +pitchers and occupying the whole of the early part of the season's +campaign in experiments with them was positive folly. It has never paid +in a single instance. It was, in fact, death to the success of at least +four League teams last season, Cincinnati in particular. Many of last +year's team managers failed to realize the important fact that in +testing the merits of pitchers in the spring season they need to be +given a fair trial, and not dismiss them after the hasty judgment of +their ability of a few games of trial. Pitchers need to be thoroughly +tested before they are released, after engagement, and this testing +process cannot at the shortest be done in less than a month's trial. No +pitcher can do his best while in doubt all the while as to the result of +a single day's play on his engagement. Five pitchers are amply +sufficient to begin a season with, and at most three catchers. But one +of the greatest and most costly blunders in team management made in 1894 +was that of encouraging "hoodlumism" by the countenancing of blackguard +kicking, in defiance of the laws of the game, which presidents and +directors, as well as managers and captains, were alike guilty of to a +more or less extent. The rules of the game positively prohibit any +player of a nine on the field from disputing any decision of the umpire +except the captain, and he only in certain exceptional cases, and yet +not only did captains of teams allow this rule to be violated in every +game of the season, but they were openly countenanced in it by not only +their managers, but in many cases by club presidents and +directors. Under such circumstances is it any wonder that the season of +1894 stands on record as being marked by more disgraceful kicking, rowdy +play, blackguard language and brutal play than that of any season since +the League was organized? And all this was the result of a neglect of +business principles in club management, and in the blunders in managing +teams committed by incompetent managers and captains--an arraignment of +the National League which we hope never to have to record again. + + + +THE MONTHLY CAMPAIGNS. + + +THE APRIL CAMPAIGN. + +The short April campaign of 1894 began on April 19th, on which date +eight of the twelve clubs opened the season; New York losing at +Baltimore, Brooklyn at Boston, Philadelphia at Washington, and +Pittsburgh at St. Louis, rain preventing the games scheduled for +Louisville and Cincinnati. On the 20th Chicago opened at Cincinnati with +a defeat, as did Cleveland at Louisville. By the end of the month's +campaign, on April 30th, the games played left the Boston, Cleveland and +St. Louis clubs tied for first place in the month's record, with +Philadelphia fourth, Baltimore fifth, and Pittsburgh sixth the second +division clubs being headed by Cincinnati--tied with Pittsburgh for +sixth place--and followed by Louisville, New York and Brooklyn tied for +ninth position, Washington and Chicago, the latter club being a bad +tail-ender with a record of eight defeats out of nine games played. + +Here is the complete record of the thirteen days' campaign of the +opening month of the season, fifty victories and as many defeats having +been recorded: + +THE APRIL RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------- +Boston 6 2 8 .750 Cincinnati 4 4 8 .500 +Cleveland 6 2 8 .750 Louisville 4 5 9 .444 +St. Louis 6 2 8 .750 New York 3 5 8 .375 +Philadelphia 6 3 9 .667 Brooklyn 3 5 8 .375 +Baltimore 5 3 8 .625 Washington 2 7 9 .174 +Pittsburgh 4 4 8 .500 Chicago 1 8 9 .111 +-------------------------------------------------- + +It had been confidently expected that Boston would be in the lead and +Cleveland not far off; but that St. Louis should be tied with both for +the lead was a surprise. Philadelphia was in its anticipated place, but +Baltimore was lower than the club officials had looked for, as also New +York, while the fact that the tail-ender of 1893 led the Chicago "Colts" +of 1894 was a disagreeable ending of the month's play for the Chicago +cranks. + + + +THE MAY CAMPAIGN. + +The May campaign changed the relative positions of the twelve clubs +materially. By May 31st, Pittsburgh had pulled up to the leading +position, having won 18 out of 23 games; and while Cleveland had held +its position fairly well, Baltimore had done better than Boston, and New +York had won more games than Brooklyn. Chicago, too, had rallied, while +St. Louis had fallen off badly, as also Cincinnati and Louisville; the +Washingtons winning but 4 games out of 23, that club ending the second +month's campaign a bad tail-ender in the figures of May. Here is the +record for May: + +THE MAY RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh 18 5 28 .783 Brooklyn 12 11 23 .522 +Cleveland 13 7 20 .684 Chicago 9 12 21 .429 +Baltimore 12 6 18 .667 St. Louis 9 16 25 .360 +Boston 14 8 22 .636 Cincinnati 7 13 20 .350 +Philadelphia 12 7 19 .632 Louisville 6 14 20 .300 +New York 13 11 24 .542 Washington 4 19 23 .174 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The monthly record differs in its percentage figures from the pennant +race record, as the latter gives the totals of the games played from +April 19th, while the former gives the totals of each month's games +only. A hundred and twenty-nine games, resulting in victories, were +played in May, with, of course, the same number of defeats. Seven of the +twelve clubs won more games than they lost. + + + +THE JUNE CAMPAIGN. + +The June campaign opened with Cleveland in the van in pennant race +percentages, the other clubs in the first division being the Pittsburgh, +Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn clubs in order; New York +leading the second division, followed by St. Louis, Cincinnati, +Louisville, Chicago and Washington; the leader in the race having a +percentage of .690, and the tail-ender .212, a difference in percentage +figures of 478 points, showing a poorly contested race thus far. Only +two Western clubs by this time remained in the first division, viz., +Cleveland and Pittsburgh; New York and Washington being the two Eastern +clubs in the second division. Baltimore overtook and passed Cleveland in +the first week of the June campaign, and closed the month in the +lead. Boston, too, rallied and pulled up in the race from fifth place on +June 4th to second position by June 11th, and remained there to the end +of the month. Brooklyn also took a jump from sixth place on June 18th to +third position on June 29th; New York not getting out of the second +division until the last of the month. In the meantime the two Western +teams of Cleveland and Pittsburgh began to lose ground, and by the 21st +of June they occupied fifth and sixth positions in the race, Cleveland +leading their rivals of Pittsburgh by 13 points. On the same date +Philadelphia was in third place, but the "Phillies" fell off to fifth +position by the end of the month. In victories won during June Brooklyn +led with 18 games won out of 23 played, Baltimore being second with 20 +victories and 6 defeats, and Boston third with 18 games won to 8 +lost. On June 8th Washington had pushed Louisville into the last ditch, +and also led Chicago; but the "Colts" got ahead of the "Senators" by the +end of the month. On June 30th Baltimore held the lead in the pennant +race with the percentage figures of .712 to Louisville's .255, a +difference of 457 points, only one Western club being in the first +division at the end of the month. + +Here is the record of the June campaign, showing which club led in won +games during the month. + +THE JUNE RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn 18 5 28 .789 Philadelphia 11 12 23 .478 +Baltimore 20 6 26 .769 Cleveland 9 13 22 .409 +Boston 18 8 26 .692 St. Louis 10 15 25 .406 +New York 15 8 23 .686 Washington 9 15 24 .375 +Pittsburgh 13 13 26 .500 Chicago 8 17 25 .320 +Cincinnati 12 13 25 .480 Louisville 4 22 26 .154 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that out of the twelve clubs but four won more games +than they lost, the Louisvilles ending the month's play with a record of +but 4 games won out of 26 played, the poorest record of any single month +of the season. + + + +THE JULY CAMPAIGN. + +The July campaign opened with the Baltimore and Boston clubs as apparent +fixtures for the two leading positions, the "Orioles" leading the +champions on July 5th by seven points only, viz., .679 to .672. On the 2d +of July New York was sixth and Brooklyn third in the race. By July 5th, +however, the "Giants" had jumped into third place, and Brooklyn had +fallen back to sixth position. On the same date Baltimore, Boston and +New York occupied the three leading positions, and though three more +months of the season still remained, the other nine clubs were even then +virtually out of the race, the only other point of interest left in the +championship contest being that of the fight for the last three places +in the first division, Pittsburgh being at that time the only Western +club out of the second division. Of course, such a one-sided condition +of things in the pennant race led to a falling off in the interest in +the championship contests, especially out West, where the clubs of that +section lost patronage greatly, four of the six Western clubs being +virtually out of the race as early as May, as far as winning the pennant +was concerned. During July there were only two points of interest in the +race outside of the fight for first place between the three leaders, +viz., the struggle between the Brooklyn and Philadelphia clubs for +fourth place in the race, and that between the Cleveland and Pittsburgh +clubs to retain a place in the first division. Cleveland lost its +position in the first division the first week in July, Pittsburgh on +July 2d being in fourth place. By the 6th of that month the "Phillies" +had overtaken them, and by the 9th the Pittsburghs were down to sixth +place, the Clevelands then heading the second division. The "Pirates" +then rallied and got ahead of Brooklyn, the latter being driven into the +second division by July 17th, Cleveland rallying and getting among the +six leaders again by the 18th of July, after which date they remained in +that division to the close of the season, A feature of the July campaign +among the six tail-end clubs was the close fight between Washington and +Louisville on the edge of the last ditch. First one club would cross +the goal line and make a touch-down--as the foot ball men have it--and +then the other, Louisville being in eleventh place at the end of the +month, while the "Senators" rolled about in the last ditch. When the +July campaign ended Boston was in the van with the percentage figures of +.659, Baltimore being second with .618, and New York third with .613. It +looked at that time pretty sure for Boston. + +Here is the record of the month's play, showing which club won the most +games during July: + +THE JULY RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +New York 18 7 25 .720 Philadelphia 12 14 26 .462 +Boston 16 9 25 .640 Baltimore 10 14 24 .417 +Cleveland 18 11 29 .621 Pittsburgh 10 16 26 .385 +Chicago 16 10 26 .615 St. Louis 10 17 27 .370 +Cincinnati 16 11 27 .593 Brooklyn 9 16 25 .360 +Louisville 13 15 28 .464 Washington 8 16 24 .331 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +But five clubs out of the twelve won more games than they lost during +the July campaign, but there was a little improvement shown in the +difference of percentage points between the leader and tail-ender, the +figures being .363. The Baltimores made the poorest record in July for a +month's campaign of any they made during the season; while New York made +the best show of any one of their four months' campaigns up to the close +of July. Chicago also made their best monthly record in July, likewise +Cincinnati and Louisville. + + + +THE AUGUST CAMPAIGN. + +Baltimore rallied in fine style in August, that club winning 22 out of +29 games that month, while New York won 20 out of 28; but Boston won +only 15 out of 25, Philadelphia pulling up with 19 out of 29. Chicago +also won a majority of their August games, these being the only clubs of +the twelve which won more games during the month than they lost. When +the August campaign opened the first division clubs included Boston, +Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, the "Phillies" +being in the second division; but the latter soon took Brooklyn's place +and sent them to seventh place in the race. But before the first week +of the month had ended, Brooklyn replaced Pittsburgh in the first +division. The "Pirates," however rallied and drove their Eastern +opponents back again; Brooklyn ending the month in sixth place, and +after that the "Pirates" remained at the head of the second division to +the finish. The 31st of August saw the first division clubs fixed for +the season, as far as first and sixth places in the race were concerned, +the interesting point in the month's campaign being the struggle between +the New York and Boston clubs for second place and that between Brooklyn +and Philadelphia for fourth position. There was but one Western club in +the first division at the end of August, the other five staying in the +second division to the finish, a result that was ruinous to the +financial interests of the Western clubs, and to a large extent to the +clubs of the East, all of which clubs played to "small houses" out West, +especially at Louisville, the cranks of "Breckinridgeville" being +disgusted with their local club team during the last three months of the +season. + +Here is the record of the August campaign, showing each club's victories +and defeats for August; + +THE AUGUST RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +----------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 22 7 29 .759 Washington 13 14 27 .481 +New York 20 8 28 .714 St. Louis 9 13 22 .409 +Philadelphia 19 10 29 .655 Cleveland 9 15 24 .375 +Boston 15 10 25 .600 Pittsburgh 8 16 24 .333 +Chicago 15 12 27 .556 Cincinnati 7 19 26 .269 +Brooklyn 14 14 28 .500 Louisville 5 18 23 .217 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that August was a bad month for the Boston champions, +while it was the very reverse for the Chicago "Colts," the latter making +their best monthly record in August. The difference in percentage +points between the leader and the tail-ender at the close of the August +campaign was 355 points, the best of the season to that date. Still the +figures showed a comparatively poor race, several of the minor league +races being more evenly contested. Cleveland and Pittsburgh were behind +Washington in percentage of victories during the August campaign, the +latter making their best monthly record in August, thereby escaping +their old place in the last ditch. + + + +THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN. + +Baltimore virtually had the pennant in their hands the first week of the +September campaign, the only point of interest in the race left at that +time being the struggle for second place between New York and Boston; +all of the other clubs had long been practically out of the race, a +result which involved considerable loss for the majority of the twelve +League clubs. This state of things in the major league pennant race is +the result of the selfish policy of a minority in trying to monopolize +the cream of the playing element in the League ranks without regard to +the saving clause of the League organization, the principle of "_One for +all and all for one_," the very essence of the plan of running the +League on true business principles. + +During September the Brooklyn club tried their best to oust the +"Phillies" out of fourth place, while the Clevelands worked hard to take +Brooklyn's position in fifth place, but both clubs failed in their +projects. Up to September 6th the "Giants" tried in vain to send the +Bostons down to third place, but it was not until the 7th of September +that they were able to oust the champions out of second place in the +race, and when they did so they kept them out to the finish, the +champions failing to rally after they had lost the position. It was a +close fight, however, as on September 10th New York led Boston in +percentage of victories by only 3 points, viz., .655 to .652, Baltimore +leading at that date with .684. By September 19th, however, the Bostons +had got down to .631, and New York's figures were .667, with "the +country safe." Boston's lowest score in percentage figures for the month +was reached on September 25th, when they touched .623. By that time the +places in the first division were all settled, and all of those in the +second division also, except Cincinnati and St. Louis. On September 29th +Cincinnati led St. Louis by the percentage figures of .424 to .415, but +two victories by St. Louis over Washington, against a drawn game by +Cincinnati with Cleveland on the 30th, gave St. Louis the lead by .424 +to .419, and Comiskey's "Reds" had to finish in tenth position, beaten +in the race by Von der Abe's "Browns," a galling fact for the Cincinnati +cranks. + +Here is the month's record of victories and defeats in September: + +THE SEPTEMBER RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 20 3 23 .870 Philadelphia 13 12 25 .520 +New York 20 6 26 .769 St. Louis 11 13 24 .458 +Boston 14 11 25 .560 Cincinnati 10 16 26 .385 +Cleveland 13 11 24 .542 Chicago 9 17 26 .346 +Brooklyn 14 12 26 .538 Washington 8 16 24 .333 +Pittsburgh 12 11 23 .522 Louisville 5 21 26 .192 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The appended summary shows the progress of each club from the opening to +the close of the season, as also in what month each club made its best +and worst record during the championship campaign: + + + + +SUMMARY OF VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + T + S h + e e + p + A t F + A u e i + p J J g m n + r M u u u b i + i a n l s e s + l y e y t r h +Clubs. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 5 3 12 6 20 6 10 14 22 7 20 3 89 39 +New York 3 5 13 11 15 8 18 7 20 8 20 6 88 44 +Boston 6 2 14 8 18 8 16 9 15 10 14 11 83 49 +Philadelphia 6 3 12 7 11 12 12 14 19 10 13 12 71 56 +Brooklyn 3 5 12 11 18 5 9 16 14 14 14 12 70 61 +Cleveland 6 2 13 7 9 13 18 11 9 15 13 11 68 61 +Pittsburgh 4 4 18 5 13 13 10 16 8 16 12 11 65 65 +Chicago 1 8 9 12 8 17 16 10 15 12 9 17 57 75 +St. Louis 6 2 9 16 10 15 10 17 9 13 11 13 56 76 +Cincinnati 4 4 7 13 12 13 16 11 7 19 10 16 54 75 +Washington 2 7 4 19 9 15 8 16 13 14 8 16 45 87 +Louisville 4 5 6 14 4 22 13 15 5 18 5 21 36 94 +Totals 50 50 129 129 147 147 156 156 156 156 149 149 782 782 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +MONTHLY RECORD OF PERCENTAGE. + +The following table shows the monthly record of percentage of victories +in the campaign from April to September. + +---------------------------------------------- +1894. S + e + p + A t + A u e + p J J g m + r M u u u b + i a n l s e +Clubs. l y e y t r +--------------------------------------------- +Baltimore .625 .654 .712 .618 .657 .695 +New York .375 .500 .564 .613 .639 .667 +Boston .750 .645 .667 .659 .645 .629 +Philadelphia .667 .643 .569 .526 .562 .559 +Brooklyn .375 .500 .623 .545 .533 .534 +Cleveland .750 .679 .549 .575 .529 .527 +Pittsburgh .500 .710 .614 .531 .491 .500 +Chicago .111 .333 .327 .430 .458 .432 +St. Louis .750 .455 .431 .412 .411 .421 +Cincinnati .500 .393 .434 .488 .434 .419 +Washington .222 .188 .281 .296 .343 .341 +Louisville .444 .345 .255 .325 .302 .277 +--------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that in percentage figures of each month's play, Boston, +Cleveland and St. Louis were tied in April. In May, Pittsburgh, +Cleveland and Baltimore led. In June, Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn +were in the van. In July, the three leaders were Boston, Baltimore and +New York. In August, also, the same three were nearest the goal, and +September saw Baltimore carrying off the pennant, followed by New York +and Boston. + + + +THE CAMPAIGN RECORD OF 1894. + +We introduce in the GUIDE for 1895 a new and important record, which +shows, at a glance almost, the total score of each championship game +_won_, _lost_ and _drawn_ from April 19th to September 30th, inclusive, +and also gives the names of the pitchers who were credited with pitching +in a victory, or charged with pitching in a defeat. The record of each +month's campaign, too, is given, with the position in the pennant race +each of the twelve clubs occupied at the close of each month's campaign +of the six comprising the championship season. This record in full will +be found to be the most complete table of the statistics of the League +season yet published in the GUIDE series, and especially valuable as a +reference record. + + + +THE APRIL RECORD. + +The League championship season of 1894 began on April 19th and ended on +September 30th, the April campaign opening at Boston, Baltimore, +Washington and St. Louis on the 19th, at Cincinnati and Louisville on +the 20th, and at Philadelphia and Brooklyn on the 21st, while the +opening games at New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago were not played until +the 24th, 25th and 28th of April respectively, and not at Cleveland +until May 3d. Fifty games were played in April, the twelve clubs of the +two divisions of the League being engaged in playing their respective +home-and-home series. Here is the complete record of the April campaign, +showing the pitchers of each side and the total score of each contest of +the month: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +April + 19 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Stivetts Kennedy 13-2 + 19 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore McMahon Rusie 8-3 + 19 Washington vs. Philadelphi Washington Esper Weyhing 4-2 + 19 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Breitenstein Killen 11-3 + 20 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Mullane Clark 12-6 + 20 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Washington Taylor Stephens 9-8 + 20 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Parrott Hutchinson 10-6 + 20 Louisville vs. Cleveland Louisville Menafee Young 10-3 + 21 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Nichols Stein 3-0 + 21 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Inks Westervelt 4-3 + 21 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Philadelphia Carsey Esper 10-2 + 21 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Chamberlain Abbey 8-0 + 21 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Cuppy Hemming 5-1 + 21 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Gumbert Gleason 7-2 + 22 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Dwyer McGill 5-4 + 22 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Clarkson Kilroy 3-2 + 23 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Lovett Daub 7-4 + 23 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Washington Weyhing Stockdale 8-4 + 23 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Breitenstein Ehret 4-3 + 24 Baltimore vs. Boston Baltimore McMahon Stivetts 15-3 + 24 Washington vs. New York Washington Petty Rusie 6-3 + 24 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Carsey Korwan 22-5 + 24 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Parrott 1-0 + 24 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Menafee Nicol 7-3 + 24 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago A. Clarkson McGill 9-5 + 25 New York vs. Washington Washington German Maul 14-5 + 25 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Stein Taylor 8-2 + 25 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Nichols Mullane 6-3 + 25 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cuppy Chamberlain 12-6 + 25 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Louisville Gumbert Hemming 2-1 + 25 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Hawley Hutchinson 13-3 + 26 New York vs. Washington Washington Meekin Stockdale 7-5 + 26 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Weyhing Sharrott 13-3 + 26 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Staley Brown 13-7 + 26 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Clarkson Cross 12-4 + 26 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Louisville Killen Kilroy 3-1 + 26 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Gleason Abbey 10-4 + 27 No games scheduled ----------- ---- + 28 New York vs. Baltimore New York Rusie McMahon 9-6 + 28 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Stein Petty 10-9 + 28 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Carsey Stivetts 14-3 + 28 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Breitenstein Young 7-1 + 28 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Parrott Terry 10-5 + 28 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville McGill Menafee 2-1 + 29 Cleveland vs. St Louis St. Louis Cuppy A. Clarkson 5-2 + 29 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Hemming McGill 8-3 + 30 Baltimore vs. New York New York Mullane German 10-6 + 30 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Gastright Mercer 15-10 + 30 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Weyhing[1] 6-5 + 30 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Nicol Chamberlain 15-6 + 30 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Stratton McGill 8-2 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The record showing the total victories and defeats scored by each of the +twelve clubs during the April campaign is as follows. The names are +given in the order of the percentage of victories scored in the pennant +race: + +APRIL PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + V V + i P i P + c D e c D e + t e P r t e P r + o f l o f l + r e a c r e a c + i a y e i a y e + e t e n e t e n +CLUBS s s d t CLUBS s s d t +------------------------------------------------------ +Boston 6 2 8 .750 Cincinnati 4 4 8 .500 +Cleveland 6 2 8 .750 Louisville 4 5 9 .444 +St. Louis 6 2 8 .750 New York 3 5 8 .375 +Philadelphia 6 3 9 .667 Brooklyn 3 5 8 .375 +Baltimore 5 3 8 .625 Washington 2 7 9 .222 +Pittsburgh 4 4 8 .500 Chicago 1 8 9 .111 + +Fifty games were played from April 19th to April 30th, inclusive. +None were drawn or forfeited. +------------------------------------------------------ + +The first month of the championship campaign, short as it was, was +marked by the largest attendance for the month of April known in the +history of the League, an aggregate of 188,509 people patronizing the +twenty-five games played in the East and 82,719 for the twenty-five +played in the West. The largest aggregate attendance on a single day was +45,332 on April 21st, on which date 40,324 people patronized the three +games played at Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and 5,008 the +three games played at Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville. Though three +Western clubs occupied positions in the first division--Cleveland and +St. Louis tieing Boston for first place--the attendance in the West, as +will be seen above, did not compare with that at the three games in the +East, the terribly hard times out West greatly affecting everything in +the amusement line in the Western League club cities. + +Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis started off well in the pennant race in +April, these three clubs ending the April campaign tied for first place; +with the "Phillies" a good fourth, Baltimore fifth, and Pittsburgh and +Cincinnati tied for sixth position, Louisville being eighth, with New +York and Brooklyn tied for ninth place, and Washington on the edge of +the last ditch, the Chicago "Colts" being last on the list, they having +won but one game out of nine played during the opening month of the +season. During April the clubs of the two sections took part in their +first home-and-home series, this series of games lasting into May. + + + +THE MAY CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The following is the complete record of the campaign of May, which +proved to be a very interesting one: + +THE MAY RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +May 1 New York vs. Baltimore New York Meekin McMahon 7-4 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Sharrott Stephens[3] 2-1 + " 1 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Lovett Carsey 7-3 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Killen Parrott 7-6 + " 1 Cleveland vs. St. Louis St. Louis Clarkson Gleason 7-0 + " 2 Washington vs. Boston Washington Maul Stivetts 6-4 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Brown Stein 8-2 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Taylor Rusie 7-5 + " 3 Boston vs. Washington Washington Nichols Esper 10-8 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Weyh'g Westervelt 7-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Brookyln Baltimore Mullane Gastright 8-3 + " 3 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Gumbert Breit'nst'n 6-2 + " 3 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Young Menafee 7-2 + " 4 Boston vs. Washington Washington Stivetts Stephens 15-5 + " 4 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Rusie Haddock 6-4 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore McMahon Sharrott 12-8 + " 4 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Cuppy Hemming 8-4 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Nicol A. Clarkson 10-9 + " 4 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago McGill Dwyer 6-3 + " 5 New York vs. Boston New York Westervelt Lovett 5-2 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Daub Carsey 4-3 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Brown Mercer 9-2 + " 5 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Killen Hawley 6-5 + " 6 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Chicago Chamberlain Camp 6-6 + " 7 Boston vs. New York New York Nichols Rusie 1-0 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Weyhing Gastright 7-5 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Mullane Maul 17-0 + " 7 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Parrott Gumbert 17-6 + " 7 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Breitenst'n Stratton 8-6 + " 7 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Young McGill 7-1 + " 8 New York vs. Boston New York Meekin Stivetts 16-7 + " 8 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Haddock Daub 18-5 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Inks Petty 11-5 + " 8 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Cuppy Camp 18-3 + " 8 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Hawley Menafee 5-4 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Ehret Dwyer 6-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Boston Brooklyn Kennedy Lovett 7-3 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington McMahon Stockdale 12-6 + " 9 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Gumbert Chambl'n 11-3 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Clarkson McGill 4-1 + " 9 Louisville vs. St. Louis Louisville Hemming Gleason 6-3 + " 10 New York vs. Washington New York Rusie Mercer 6-2 + " 10 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Nichols Stein 7-1 + " 10 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Baltimore Taylor Mullane 9-3 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Young Killen 2-1 + " 10 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Parrott Hawley 18-9 + " 11 New York vs. Washington Washington Westervelt Petty 5-4 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Baltimore Carsey Horner 12-7 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Ehret Cuppy 7-6 + " 11 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Griffith Stratton 4-2 + " 12 New York vs. Washington New York Meekin Stockdale 5-2 + " 12 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Kennedy Stivetts 8-2 + " 12 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Brown Callahan 8-3 + " 12 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Killen Clarkson 8-5 +" 12 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Parrott Breitenstein 5-0 + " 12 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Hutchinson Hemming 6-5 + " 13 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago McGill Kilroy 14-12 + " 13 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Dwyer Gleason 7-3 + " 14 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Carsey Rusie[2] 5-4 + " 14 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Gastright Mercer 14-7 + " 14 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston McMahon Nichols 16-5 + " 14 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Gumbert Abbey 6-3 + " 14 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Parrott Whitrock 12-7 + " 14 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Young Breitenstein 7-3 + " 15 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston Stopped by fire(3in) 3-3 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Taylor Westervelt 10-4 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Stein Petty 16-7 + " 15 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Cuppy A. Clarkson 7-0 + " 15 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Griffith Ehret 6-2 + " 16 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Lovett Mullane 10-8 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Haddock Meekin 10-1 + " 16 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Daub Mercer[1] 3-2 + " 16 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Killen McGill 2-0 + " 16 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Clarkson Gleason 5-0 + " 16 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Hemming Dwyer 9-7 + " 17 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Kennedy 6-4 + " 17 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Carsey 4-3 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Hawke Petty 10-2 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Stein German 16-7 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Taylor Stivetts[1] 5-4 + " 19 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Daub[1] 3-3 + " 19 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Haddock Staley 8-7 + " 19 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore McMahon Mercer 7-5 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Breitenstein Parrott 5-2 + " 19 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Young Griffith 9-5 + " 20 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Hawley Chamberlain[1] 4-3 + " 20 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Dwyer A. Clarkson 7-1 + " 21 Boston vs. New York Boston Nichols Westervelt 3-0 + " 21 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Killen McGill 11-10 + " 21 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cleveland Parrott Young 2-1 + " 22 Boston vs. New York Boston Lovett Rusie 3-2 + " 22 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Griffith Ehret 7-6 + " 22 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Gleason Kilroy 6-4 + " 23 New York vs. Boston Boston Meekin Staley 12-4 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Baltimore Kennedy Mullane 5-1 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Gumbert Hutchinson[3] 10-9 + " 23 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Hawley 4-3 + " 24 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Young 6-5 + " 24 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Louisville Menafee Parrott 6-0 + " 24 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Hutchinson Breit'st'n 3-1 + " 25 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Kennedy 12-6 + " 25 Boston vs. Washington Boston Nichols Maul 10-2 + " 25 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Cleveland Clarkson Killen 5-2 + " 26 New York vs. Brooklyn New York Meekin Stein 8-7 + " 26 Boston vs. Washington Boston Lovett Mercer 10-8 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Inks Taylor 5-5 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Cuppy[3] 12-3 + " 26 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Breitenstein Griffith 9-8 +" 26 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Louisville Knell Parrott 5-2 + " 27 St. Louis vs. Chicago St. Louis Hawley McGill 3-2 + " 27 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Hemming Dwyer 6-5 + " 28 Boston vs. Washington Boston Staley Petty 18-12 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 4-2 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Killen Stratton 11-6 + " 29 New York vs. Cleveland New York Meekin Young 2-0 + " 29 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Philadelphia Taylor Hutchinson 14-7 + " 29 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Mercer Hemming 12-2 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Breit'stein Kennedy 9-8 + " 29 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Pittsburgh Ehret McMahon 3-2 + " 30 New York vs. Cleveland New York Rusie Cuppy 2-1 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Stein A. Clarkson 6-2 + " 30 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Petty Knell 7-3 + " 30 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Lovett Parrott 13-10 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia McGill Haddock 12-4 + " 30 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Chamberlain 20-11 + " 30 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Maul Kilroy 14-9 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Daub Hawley 5-2 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Griffith Weyhing 12-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. New York New York Clarkson German[2] 3-2 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Mullane Dwyer 7-1 + " 31 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Kennedy Terry 5-3 + " 31 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Washington Killen Esper 15-4 + " 31 St. Louis vs. New York New York Breit'stein West'velt 6-2 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +During the May campaign the first home-and-home series was completed, +and the first West vs. East series commenced. + +The record showing the relative positions of the twelve clubs up to the +close of the May campaign, as also the number of games won and lost by +each club during May, is as follows: + + + +THE MAY PENNANT RACE RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh 22 9 31 .710 Brooklyn 15 15 30 .500 +Cleveland 19 9 28 .679 St. Louis 15 18 33 .455 +Baltimore 17 9 26 .651 Cincinnati 11 17 28 .393 +Boston 20 11 31 .645 Louisville 10 19 29 .345 +Philadelphia 18 10 28 .643 Chicago 10 20 30 .333 +New York 16 16 32 .500 Washington 6 26 32 .188 + +Three games were drawn during May; one was forfeited; +one protested; and one stopped by fire. +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +During May the Pittsburghs pulled up to the head of the first division, +with the percentage figures of .710, Cleveland being second with .679, +and Baltimore third with .654; Boston, Philadelphia and New York +following in order--Brooklyn being tied with New York for sixth +place. Baltimore had pulled up ahead of Boston, while Philadelphia fell +off, as did St. Louis and Cincinnati, both of the latter clubs retiring +to the second division, while Washington allowed the April tail-enders +to push them into the last ditch, and it was not until August 23d that +they got out of it. + + + +THE JUNE CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The month's record of the June campaign shows that several important +changes were made in the relative positions of the majority of the +twelve clubs in the race, the record being as follows: + +THE JUNE RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +June 1 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Washington Mercer Gumbert 10-5 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Hawke Chambl'n 9-8 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Gastright Griffith 5-0 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Taylor Menafee[3] 10-3 + " 1 Cleveland vs. Boston Boston Young Stivetts 22-8 + " 1 St. Louis vs. New York New York A. Clarkson Rusie 5-1 + " 2 St. Louis vs. New York New York Hawley Meekin 2-2 + " 2 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Nichols Clarkson 11-10 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Weyhing Hemming 11-0 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore McMahon Parrott 13-6 + " 2 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Washington Maul Ehret 11-6 + " 2 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Stein Abbey 1-0 + " 3 No games scheduled + " 4 Cincinnati vs. New York New York Dwyer German 8-4 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Boston Killen Staley 7-4 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Breitenstein Taylor 3-2 + " 4 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Petty Cuppy 8-5 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hawke McGill 12-4 + " 4 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Daub Knell 18-4 + " 5 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Meekin Chamberl'n 10-6 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Kennedy Menafee 5-4 + " 5 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Nichols Gumbert 7-3 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore McMahon Hutchinson[1] 8-5 + " 5 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Young Mercer 9-6 + " 5 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Hawley Weyhing 7-3 + " 6 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Boston Colcolough Lampe 27-11 + " 7 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Gumbert Gastright 13-13 + " 7 New York vs. Chicago New York Westervelt Terry 8-7 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Clarkson 6-0 + " 7 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Nichols Breitenstein 18-7 + " 7 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Maul Parrott 8-8 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Inks Hemming 7-4 + " 8 New York vs. Chicago New York Rusie McGill 3-0 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Ehret 2-1 + " 8 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Stivetts A.Clarkson 12-6 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Hawke Stratton 14-2 + " 8 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Esper Dwyer 9-6 + " 8 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Young Weyhing 4-1 + " 9 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Nichols Breitenstein 12-8 + " 9 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Fischer 9-1 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore McMahon Menafee 7-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Daub Killen 14-5 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Washington Chamberlain Petty 8-3 + " 9 Chicago vs. New York New York Hutchinson Meekin 10-9 + " 10 No games scheduled. + " 11 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 8-3 + " 11 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Stivetts Terry 15-14 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Weyhing Killen 7-4 + " 11 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Stein Dwyer 12-11 + " 11 St. Louis vs. Washington Washington A. Clarkson Maul[2] 3-2 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Baltimore Young Brown 9-7 + " 12 New York vs. Louisville New York Meekin Knell 4-1 + " 12 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Taylor Ehret 17-1 + " 12 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Nichols McGill 12-9 + " 12 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Mercer Breitenstein 4-3 + " 12 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Chamberlain Gastright 5-3 + " 13 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 7-5 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Daub Parrott 11-5 + " 13 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore McMahon Clarkson 9-2 + " 13 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Esper Gleason 12-3 + " 13 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Griffith Lovett 6-2 + " 13 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Nicol Carsey 8-6 + " 14 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Weyhing Dwyer 5-2 + " 14 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Staley Knell 9-6 + " 14 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Mullane Br'tenst'n[2] 7-6 + " 14 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Young Kennedy 5-4 + " 14 Pittsburgh vs. New York New York Killen Clark 10-4 + " 14 Chicago vs. Washington Washington McGill Sullivan[2] 12-11 + " 15 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Gumbert 9-2 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Stein Lyster 9-8 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Callahan Chamberlain 21-8 + " 15 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Hawke A. Clarkson 17-3 + " 15 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Maul Abbey 6-4 + " 15 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Stivetts Hemming 15-10 + " 16 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Rusie Ehret 8-5 + " 16 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Kennedy Fischer 11-7 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Carsey Pfann 19-9 + " 16 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore McMahon Breitenstein 12-5 + " 16 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Lovett Stratton 16-10 + " 16 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Griffith Esper 11-5 + " 17 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati A.Clarkson Tannehill 9-6 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Weyhing Meekin 4-1 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Stein Mercer 10-6 + " 18 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Stivetts Mullane 24-7 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston McMahon Nichols 9-7 + " 18 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Colcolough Knell 9-8 + " 18 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Killen Menafee 11-1 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Young McGill 11-3 + " 18 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Dwyer Breitenstein 8-4 + " 19 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Kennedy Maul 11-9 + " 19 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston Hawke Staley 13-8 + " 19 Chicago vs. Cleveland Cleveland Terry Knaus 5-2 + " 19 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Easton 9-4 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Chamb'lain Hawley 3-2 + " 20 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Clark Carsey 6-4 + " 20 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Rusie Callahan 14-6 + " 20 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Stivetts McMahon 13-12 + " 20 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Esper Daub 16-12 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 7-6 + " 20 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Clarkson Griffith 7-3 + " 20 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Breitenstein Blank 4-2 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. New York Brooklyn Kennedy Germar 16-1 + " 21 Boston vs. Washington Boston Nichols Mau 10-7 + " 21 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Mullane Weyhing 9-5 + " 21 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Terry Ehrel 10-7 + " 21 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Knell Dwyer 5-4 + " 22 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Stein Rusie 7-0 + " 22 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Inks Burris 18-14 + " 22 Washington vs. Boston Washington Mercer Staley 26-12 + " 22 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Killen Griffith 11-4 + " 22 Cleveland vs. St. Louis St. Louis Young A. Clarkson 6-3 + " 23 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Kennedy 10-8 + " 23 Boston vs. Washington Washington Stivetts Esper 12-5 + " 23 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore McMahon Lukens 18-11 + " 23 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Breitenst'n Griffith 14-8 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Colcol'gh Hutchinson 9-4 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Chamberlain Stratt'n 5-1 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Tannehill Menafee 8-8 + " 24 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Dwyer Hemming 7-5 + " 24 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Hawley Clarkson 14-10 + " 24 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago Hawke Terry 11-10 + " 25 St. Louis vs. New York St. Louis A.Clarkson Rusie 3-2 + " 25 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Killen Esper 6-1 + " 25 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Hutchinson Mullane 15-8 + " 25 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Nichols Knell 9-1 + " 26 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Meekin Breitenstein 4-3 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago McMahon McGill 14-6 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Ehret Sullivan 6-5 + " 27 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Westervelt Hawley 11-0 + " 27 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Stein Young 10-7 + " 27 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Daub Clarkson 5-2 + " 27 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Stivetts Menafee 13-3 + " 27 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Griffith Hawke 13-4 + " 27 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Mercer 11-4 + " 27 Cincinnati vs.Philadelphia Cincinnati Parrott Weyhing 7-3 + " 28 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Rusie Terry 6-5 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Kennedy Killen 11-7 + " 28 Boston vs. St. Louis St. Louis Nichols A.Clarkson[1] 12-11 + " 28 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Cleveland Cuppy Mullane 18-11 + " 28 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Louisville Hemming Carsey[1] 11-9 + " 28 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Chamberlain Maul 6-4 + " 29 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 14-8 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Stein Ehret 7-5 + " 29 Boston vs. St. Louis St. Louis Staley Breitenstein 13-4 + " 29 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland McMahon Griffith 9-6 + " 29 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Louisville Knell Lukens 12-5 + " 29 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Dwyer Sullivan 6-4 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Inks Young 5-3 + " 30 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Weyhing Menafee 13-6 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Gumbert Kennedy 10-6 + " 30 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Parrott Mercer 12-0 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis A. Clarkson Lovett 10-9 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE JUNE PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 37 15 52 .712 Cleveland 28 23 51 .549 +Boston 38 19 57 .667 Cincinnati 23 30 53 .434 +Brooklyn 33 20 53 .623 St. Louis 25 33 58 .431 +Pittsburgh 35 22 57 .614 Chicago 18 37 55 .327 +Philadelphia 29 22 51 .569 Washington 16 41 57 .281 +New York 31 24 55 .564 Louisville 14 41 55 .255 + +No games were drawn, forfeited or protested. +------------------------------------------------------- + +The Baltimore club retained the leading position in the race at the +close of the June campaign with the percentage figures of .712, the +tail-end club's percentage figures being .255, a difference in +percentage points of .457, thereby showing a poorly contested race even +at that early period of the season. Boston was in second position, with +Brooklyn third, this month's figures being the culmination of the +Brooklyn team's success. Pittsburgh was fourth, that being the only +Western club in the first division, although so early in the race, the +"Phillies" and the "Giants" being respectively fifth and +sixth. Cleveland headed the second division at the close of the month, +followed by Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington, Louisville +being still occupants of the last ditch. + + + +THE JULY CAMPAIGN RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +July 1 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Cincinnati Chamberlain Daub 9-7 + " 1 Louisville vs. Baltimore Louisville Hemming Hawke 6-0 + " 1 Washington vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Breitenstein 4-2 + " 1 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy Griffith 10-9 + " 2 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Griffith 6-4 + " 2 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Nichols Ehret 7-2 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Chicago Carsey Stratton 17-15 + " 3 No games scheduled. + " 4 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Meekin Cuppy 4-3 + " 4 New York vs. Cleveland. Chicago. Weyhing McGill 12-11 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Louisville. Louisville McMahon Knell 3-2 + " 4 Louisville vs. Baltimore. Louisville Hemming Inks 11-1 + " 4 Washington vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Sullivan Hawley 10-5 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Washington. St. Louis. A.Clarkson Mercer 15-8 + " 5 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Westervelt Menafee 4-3 + " 5 Boston vs. Cleveland. Cleveland. Staley Clarkson 22-7 + " 5 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Carsey Colcolough 4-3 + " 5 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn. St. Louis. Hawley Daub 13-12 + " 5 Cincinnati vs. Baltimore. Cincinnati. Dwyer Hawke 20-6 + " 5 Chicago vs. Washington. Chicago. Stratton Maul 13-10 + " 6 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Rusie Hemming 10-6 + " 6 Boston vs. Cleveland. Boston. Stivetts Cuppy 19-6 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Haddock Killen 13-7 + " 7 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Meekin Knell 14-6 + " 7 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Kennedy Breitenst'n 10-5 + " 7 Boston vs. Cleveland. Cleveland. Nichols Young 16-10 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Weyhing Ehret 12-0 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Inks Parrott 11-2 + " 7 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Abbey Sullivan 9-7 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Stein A.Clarkson 12-5 + " 8 Washington vs. Chicago. Chicago. Esper Griffith 9-8 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. McMahon Chamberlain 14-4 + " 9 New York vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Rusie Parrott 13-8 + " 9 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Callahan Hawley 11-10 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Brown Killen 14-10 + " 9 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Wadsw'th Kennedy 20-8 + " 9 Chicago vs. Boston. Chicago. Stratton Staley 18-11 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Cuppy Esper 16-15 + " 10 Cincinnati vs. New York. Cincinnati. Dwyer Meekin 7-3 + " 10 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Menafee Daub 13-7 + " 10 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore. Pittsburgh. Ehret McMahon 19-9 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Young Esper 23-4 + " 10 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia. St. Louis. Breitenst'n Haddock 17-8 + " 10 Boston vs. Chicago. Chicago. Stivetts McGill 12-3 + " 11 Cincinnati vs. New York. Cincinnati. Parrott Westervelt 6-5 + " 11 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Hemming Stein 7-3 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore. Pittsburgh. Gumbert Inks 8-6 + " 11 Chicago vs. Boston. Chicago. Griffith Nichols 13-1 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Griffith Mercer[1] 15-10 + " 11 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia. St. Louis. A.Clarkson Weyhing 13-12 + " 12 New York vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Rusie Killen 9-6 + " 12 Boston vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Stivetts Dwyer 6-4 + " 12 Chicago vs. Brooklyn. Chicago. Stratton Kennedy 11-6 + " 12 Louisville vs. Washington. Louisville. Knell Sullivan 7-5 + " 12 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia. Cleveland. Cuppy Carsey 20-10 + " 13 Pittsburgh vs. New York. Pittsburgh. Ehret Westervelt 10-4 + " 13 St. Louis vs. Baltimore. St. Louis. Breitenstein Hawke 11-10 + " 13 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Young Callahan 16-8 + " 13 Boston vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Staley Parrott 22-7 + " 14 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Meekin Gumbert 9-5 + " 14 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Inks Hawley 7-3 + " 14 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Stein Abbey[1] 8-8 + " 14 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Cross Nichols 14-12 + " 14 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Griffith Weyhing 14-7 + " 14 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Wadsworth Esper 5-3 + " 15 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Terry Gastright 10-7 + " 15 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis McMahon A.Cl'kson[2] 9-8 + " 15 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Menafee Mercer 11-8 + " 15 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cincinnati Dwyer Cuppy 17-8 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Harper Stivitts 9-2 + " 16 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Br't'nst'n Colcol'gh 11-7 + " 16 Louisville vs. Chicago Chicago Hemming Griffith 11-10 + " 16 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Parrott 9-1 + " 17 New York vs. Washington New York Rusie Maul 7-2 + " 17 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Taylor Staley[4] 12-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Gleason Kennedy 13-4 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Griffin Flynn 16-7 + " 17 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Ehret Mason 5-4 + " 17 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Stratton Knell 8-5 + " 18 New York vs. Washington New York Meekin Mercer 5-4 + " 18 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Weyhing 6-5 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Hawke Underwood 6-2 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Chamberlain 9-4 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Hawley Gumbert 3-2 + " 18 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Terry Wadsworth 8-4 + " 19 New York vs. Washington New York German Sullivan 13-12 + " 19 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stein Inks 10-8 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Dwyer Colcolough 8-6 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Chicago St. Louis Breitenstein Abbey 7-1 + " 20 Boston vs. New York Boston Stivetts Rusie 12-1 + " 20 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Kennedy Taylor 8-2 + " 20 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Hawke Petty 12-8 + " 20 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chamberlain Ehret 7-6 + " 20 Louisville vs. Cleveland Louisville Menafee Mullane 7-4 + " 21 Boston vs. New York Boston Nichols Meekin 14-3 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Underwood Herper 8-7 + " 21 Washington vs. Baltimore Baltimore Maul Gleason 14-3 + " 21 Chicago vs. St. Louis St. Louis Stratton Hawley[1]16-11 + " 21 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Cuppy Hemming 2-0 + " 21 Cleveland vs. Louisvile Louisville Young Knell 9-1 + " 21 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cross Gumbert 12-4 + " 22 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Dwyer Wadsworth 4-0 + " 22 Chicago vs. St. Louis St. Louis Griffith A.Clarkson 11-9 + " 23 Boston vs. New York Boston Staley German 9-5 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Stein Taylor 7-3 + " 23 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Weyhing Daub 12-4 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Chamberlain Menafee 9-8 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Killen Stratton 14-6 + " 24 New York vs. Baltimore New York Rusie McMahon 1-0 + " 24 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Mullane Breitenst'n 12-9 + " 24 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Cuppy Hawley 4-2 + " 24 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Parrott Hemming 4-3 + " 24 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Hutchinson Ehret 18-11 + " 25 New York vs. Baltimore New York Meekin Gleason 7-2 + " 25 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Kennedy Stivetts 8-7 + " 25 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Nichols Underwood 12-6 + " 25 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Mercer Fanning 16-6 + " 25 Philadelphia vs. Washington Washington Carsey Sullivan 9-6 + " 25 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Young Breitenstein 12-3 + " 25 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Griffith Colcolough 24-6 + " 26 New York vs. Baltimore New York German Hawke 16-4 + " 26 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Stein Staley 15-9 + " 26 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Maul Taylor 5-4 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Mullane 9-3 + " 27 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Harper Rusle 13-5 + " 27 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Mercer Kennedy 8-2 + " 27 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stivetts McMahon 7-4 + " 27 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Cleveland Cuppy Nicol 9-6 + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Dwyer Stratton 14-12 + " 27 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Hawley Wadsworth 6-4 + " 28 New York vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Meekin Carsey[3] 12-11 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Underwood Sullivan 9-5 + " 28 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Staley Gleason 8-4 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Young 8-0 + " 28 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Cross Griffith 19-13 + " 28 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Mason 8-4 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Breitenst'n Menafee 13-2 + " 29 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Knell Hawley 9-2 + " 29 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Griffith Parrott 16-9 + " 30 New York vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia German Taylor 13-7 + " 30 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Maul Daub 10-6 + " 30 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stivetts Hawke 5-2 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Gumbert Cross 8-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Cuppy Wadsworth 14-5 + " 30 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Stratton Hawley 8-4 + " 31 New York vs. Boston New York Rusie Nichols 4-3 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Harper Kennedy 13-6 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore McMahon Mercer 11-3 + " 31 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Hutchinson Breitenst'n 8-1 + " 31 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Mullane Hemming[2] 12-10 + " 31 Louisville vs. Cleveland Cleveland Menafee Young 12-4 + " 31 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Nicol Dwyer[2] 11-10 + +[Footnote 1: Ten Innings] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Thirteen innings.] +[Footnote 4: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Only one game was drawn in July. + + +THE JULY PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +------------------------------------------------------- +Boston 54 28 82 .659 Philadelphia 40 36 76 .526 +Baltimore 47 29 76 .618 Cincinnati 39 41 80 .488 +New York 49 31 80 .613 Chicago 34 45 79 .430 +Cleveland 46 34 80 .575 St. Louis 35 60 85 .412 +Brooklyn 42 35 77 .545 Louisville 27 56 83 .325 +Pittsburgh 43 38 81 .531 Washington 24 57 81 .296 +------------------------------------------------------- + +By the end of July the Boston club had ousted Baltimore out of first +place, and the calculation now was that Boston would ultimately win. New +York had pulled up to third place this month, and from this time out +these three clubs monopolized the three leading positions in the race, +no other club from now on being regarded as in the race, as far as the +winning of the pennant was concerned. On the 31st of July two Western +clubs occupied positions in the first division--Cleveland being fourth +and Pittsburgh sixth--the Brooklyn club leading the "Pirates" by a few +points only. The "Phillies" had been forced back into the second +division, and Louisville had pushed the Washingtons into the last ditch, +the difference in percentage points between the Boston and Washington +clubs--the leader and tail-ender--being 355 points. + +Now came the trying month of August, and with it came the customary +falling off in patronage, largely due to the one-sided character of the +pennant race, the chief interest in the contest for the championship now +lying in the struggle for the lead between Baltimore, New York, and +Boston, the "Bean Eaters" still leading at the end of July, followed by +Baltimore and New York. + + +[Illustration: Brooklyn Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Cleveland Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Pittsburgh Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: A.C. Anson, Chicago Base Ball Club. + The only "Colt" Who Had a picture Taken.] + + + +THE AUGUST CAMPAIGN RECORD + +The following is the record of the August campaign, which led to a +material change in the relative positions of the twelve clubs by the +close of the month: + +THE AUGUST RECORD +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Aug. 1 New York vs. Boston New York Meekin Staley[2] 5-4 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Carsey Stein 6-5 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Gleason Stein 6-4 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Inks Stockdale 11-4 + " 1 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago McGill Hawley 26-8 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Colcolugh Parrot 15-5 + " 2 Boston vs. New York New York Nichols German 13-13 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Fanning Underwood 9-8 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Hawke Maul 10-9 + " 2 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Breitenstein Ehret 7-4 + " 2 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cleveland Cuppy Chamberlain 9-4 + " 2 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville Hutchinson Knell 4-3 + " 3 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Westervelt Daub 17-3 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. New York Brooklyn Kennedy Clarke 7-6 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Philadelphia Taylor Esper 14-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia McMahon Weyhing 16-3 + " 3 Washington vs. Boston Boston Mercer Nichols 8-4 + " 3 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cleveland Young Cross 11-5 + " 3 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hawley Gumbert[2] 8-6 + " 3 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Forfeited; no game 9-0 + " 4 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Stein 16-8 + " 4 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Stein 9-* + " 4 Boston vs. Washington Boston Stivetts Sullivan 11-5 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Gleason Carsey 19-12 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Colcol'h Br'tenst'n 11-5 + " 4 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cleveland Parrott Cuppy 8-5 + " 4 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville Griffith Hemming 10-4 + " 5 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Griffith Dwyer 8-1 + " 5 Lousiville vs. St. Louis Lousiville Wadsworth A.Clarkson 5-2 + " 6 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Kennedy Westervelt 21-8 + " 6 Boston vs. Washington Boston Staley Maul 15-7 + " 6 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Stratton Cross 12-9 + " 6 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Eghret Young 11-6 + " 6 Louisville vs. St. Louis Louisville Menafee Hawley 3-1 + " 7 New York vs. Washington Washington Rusie Mercer 16-8 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn McMahon Daub 26-5 + " 7 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Brooklyn Stein Inks 18-8 + " 7 Boston vs. Philadelphia Boston Nichols Carsey 19-8 + " 7 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Cuppy Colcolough 10-9 + " 7 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Hutchinson Fischer[1]13-11 + " 7 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Breitenstein Knell 11-2 + " 8 Washington vs. New York Washington Sullivan Meekin 12-10 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Broooklyn Brooklyn Gleason Kennedy 4-1 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Esper Summerville 13-5 + " 8 Philadelphia vs. Boston Boston Harper Staley 18-10 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Ehret Perry 10-3 + " 8 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Chicago Dwyer McGill 14-11 + " 9 New York vs. Washington Washington Meekin Maul 7-3 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Brooklyn Stein Hawke 11-7 + " 9 Boston vs. Philadelphia Boston Hodson Taylor 11-2 + " 9 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Gumbert 5-4 + " 9 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Dwyer McGill 14-11 + " 10 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Gleason Rusie 12-9 + " 10 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Nichols Kennedy 12-6 + " 10 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Mercer Carsey 4-1 + " 10 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Ehret Wadsworth 9-6 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Young Hutchinson 2-1 + " 11 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore McMahon Westervelt 20-1 + " 11 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Lucis Stivetts 11-10 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Taylor Sullivan 10-7 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Weyhing Maul 16-4 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 3-2 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy Stratton 11-9 + " 11 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Fischer Hawley 7-6 + " 12 Chicago vs. Cleveland Chicago Griffith Petty 16-5 + " 12 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Breitenstein Parrott 12-5 + " 13 New York vs. Baltimore Baltimore Meekin Hawke 5-1 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Boston Brooklyn Stein Hodson 13-5 + " 13 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hutchinson Ehret 17-14 + " 14 New York vs. St. Louis New York Rusie A.Clarkson 5-4 + " 14 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Nichols Gumbert 22-5 + " 14 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Gleason Dwyer[1] 6-5 + " 14 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Stratton Kennedy 5-1 + +THE AUGUST RECORD--_Continued._ + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Aug 14 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Young Mercer[1] 1-0 + " 14 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Knell Carsey 13-7 + " 15 St. Louis vs. New York New York Breitenstein German 4-3 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Daub Hutchinson 9-5 + " 15 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Stivetts Ehret[2] 6-5 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Taylor Hemming 14-4 + " 15 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore McMahon Fischer 8-2 + " 15 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Stockdale Cuppy 7-6 + " 16 New York vs. St. Louis New York Meekin Hawley 13-3 + " 16 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Staley Menafee 6-4 + " 16 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Hawke Parrott 15-6 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Weyhing Nicol 17-8 + " 16 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Maul Young 6-2 + " 16 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Griffith Lucid 3-1 + " 17 New York vs. St. Louis New York Rusie A.Clarkson 7-6 + " 17 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Carsey Wadsworth 29-4 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Cuppy Mercer 9-8 + " 18 Chicago vs. New York New York Stratton German 6-4 + " 18 Chicago vs. New York New York Terry Meekin[1] 5-5 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Breitenstein Stein 4-0 + " 18 Cincinnati vs. Boston Boston Dwyer Nichols 19-6 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Gleason Ehret 17-2 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Sullivan 11-6 + " 18 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Stockdale Hemming 6-4 + " 19 No Games Scheduled + " 20 New York vs. Chicago New York Rusie Griffith 11-3 + " 20 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Kennedy A.Clarkson 20-4 + " 20 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Harper Young 16-1 + " 20 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Maul Knell 8-7 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Baltimore Menafee Esper 7-5 + " 21 New York vs. Chicago New York German Hutchinson 13-11 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Lucid Breitenstein 20-11 + " 21 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Staley Fischer 18-3 + " 21 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Parrott 28-8 + " 21 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Baltimore Hawke Gumbert 17-11 + " 21 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Carsey Cuppy 12-6 + " 21 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Mercer Wadsworth 15-9 + " 22 New York vs. Chicago New York Meekin Hutchinson 8-5 + " 22 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Fournier 8-7 + " 22 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Philadelphia Taylor Inks 3-2 + " 23 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 8-4 + " 23 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Stivetts Young 12-10 + " 23 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Harper Menafee 9-4 + " 23 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Stockdale Terry 14-3 + " 23 St. Louis vs. Baltimore Baltimore Hawley Gleason 10-6 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Dwyer Stein 13-2 + " 24 New York vs. Louisville New York German Knell 20-4 + " 24 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Kennedy Fischer 15-9 + " 24 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore McMahon Breitenst'n 5-2 + " 24 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carsey Ehret 14-7 + " 24 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Hodson Cuppy 14-4 + " 24 Cleveland vs. Boston Boston Cuppy Staley 10-8 + " 24 Chicago vs. Washington Washington Griffith Mercer 10-5 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville New York Meekin Nicol 18-6 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Wadsworth 5-1 + " 25 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Daub Dwyer 5-3 + " 25 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Hawke A.Clarkson 4-3 + " 25 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Hodson Sullivan 8-3 + " 25 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Taylor Gumbert 13-6 + " 25 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Mercer Stratton 9-4 + " 26 No game scheduled + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Whitrock Fanning 19-9 + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Fournier Harper 9-8 + " 27 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Gleason Hutchinson 12-3 + " 28 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Young 5-1 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Menafee 8-2 + " 28 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Philadelphia Taylor Terry 16-6 + " 28 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore McMahon Hemming 8-2 + " 28 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Maul Dwyer 9-7 + " 28 St. Louis vs. Boston Boston Hawley Nichols 9-5 + " 29 New York vs. Cleveland New York Meekin Cuppy 6-4 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Stein Ehret 11-7 + " 29 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Hawke Wadsworth 8-6 + " 29 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Stivetts A.Clarkson 14-4 + " 29 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Mercer Fournier 9-5 + " 29 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Griffith Carsey 13-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. New York New York Sullivan Clarke 13-4 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Boston Boston Hawley Hodson 7-3 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Hutchinson Harper 15-11 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Gleason Knell 9-8 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Gumbert 19-11 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Menafee Daub 9-1 + " 30 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Stockdale Fischer 8-6 + " 31 New York vs. Boston New York Rusie Nichols 5-1 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Esper Young 5-1 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Taylor Maul 10-8 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Weyhing Wynne 11-5 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings] + +Two games were drawn in August. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Baltimore, Boston and New York led the first division clubs in the +pennant race up to August 31st, with the respective percentage figures +of .657, .645 and .639, followed by Philadelphia with .562, Brooklyn +with .533 and Cleveland with .529, only one Western club being left in +the first division, something hitherto unprecedented in League pennant +races. Pittsburgh led the second division clubs with the percentage +figures of .491 only, that club having fallen off badly in August, with +Chicago a good second, followed by Cincinnati, St. Louis, Washington and +Louisville, the "Senators" having driven the "Colonels" into the last +ditch, the Louisville figures being .302. + +Here is the pennant race record up to the close of the August campaign: + +AUGUST RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 69 36 105 .657 Pittsburgh 52 54 106 .491 +Boston 69 38 107 .645 Chicago 49 58 107 .458 +New York 69 39 108 .639 Cincinnati 46 60 106 .434 +Philadelphia 59 46 105 .562 St. Louis 44 63 107 .411 +Brooklyn 56 49 105 .533 Washington 37 71 108 .343 +Cleveland 55 49 104 .529 Louisville 32 74 106 .302 +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +By the close of the August campaign the Baltimore club had regained the +position in the van, and afterward they were not headed. Then began an +exciting struggle between the Boston champions and the "Giants" for +second place, but it was not until September 6th that the "Giants" led +the "Champions," and then only by the percentage figures of .652 to +.646. Baltimore leading at that date with but .676, so it will be seen +that the fight between those three was nip and tuck after the end of +August. At that time the "Phillies," the Brooklyns and the Clevelands +were struggling equally hard for fourth place, the "Phillies" leading, +with Brooklyn fifth and Cleveland sixth. By this time Washington had +comfortably buried the Louisvilles in the last ditch, and no +resurrection followed. + + + +THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The feature of the last monthly campaign of the championship season was +the fight for second place between Boston and New York. When the +campaign began Baltimore led with the percentage figures of .667, and it +was an exceedingly close fight between the "Champions" and "Giants," the +former leading the latter by the percentage figures of .645 to .643 on +September 3d. The "Phillies," Brooklyns and Clevelands were the next +three in the first division, all three being in the five hundreds in +percentage points. + +Here is the month's record: + +THE SEPTEMBER RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Sept 1 New York vs. Cincinnati New York German Whitrock 8-6 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Stein Hemming 6-5 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Kennedy Wadsworth 20-7 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Gleason Cuppy 5-2 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Carsey Hawley 19-9 + " 1 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mercer Menafee 11-4 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Ehret Mercer 15-6 + " 1 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Terry Stivetts 15-6 + " 1 Cincinnati vs. New York New York Dwyer Meekin 8-6 + " 1 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Breitenst'n Fanning 8-6 + " 2 No games scheduled + " 3 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Meekin Fournier 16-2 + " 3 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Rusie Dwyer 6-4 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Lucid Knell 6-4 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Daub Inks 9-3 + " 3 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Staley Griffith 5-4 + " 3 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Nichols Hutchinson 11-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Esper Sullivan 13-2 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Hawke Young 10-3 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Weyhing Breitenst'n 8-1 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Jones Hawley 6-4 + " 3 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Maul 22-1 + " 4 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Menafee 14-13 + " 4 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Cuppy Stein 8-0 + " 4 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Stivetts Knell 20-11 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hemming Terry 9-3 + " 4 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Taylor Whitrock 6-2 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Washington Washington Breitenst'n Haddock 10-7 + " 5 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Rusie Ehret 4-0 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Kennedy Young 2-1 + " 5 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Nichols Wadsworth 7-6 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Gleason Hutchinson 12-3 + " 5 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Carsey Dwyer 15-6 + " 5 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington St'kdale A.Cl'kson[1] 7-4 + " 6 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Gumbert 6-5 + " 6 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hawke Griffith 14-6 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Weyhing Fischer 14-7 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Taylor Whitrock 16-2 + " 6 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Mercer Breitenstein 12-2 + " 6 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Sullivan Lucid 13-2 + " 6 Louisville vs. Boston Boston Inks Staley 15-10 + " 7 No games scheduled + " 8 Boston vs. Chicago Chicago Nichols Hutchinson 3-1 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Gleason Knell 6-3 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Stein Hawley 6-1 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Menafee Weyhing 13-7 + " 8 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Dwyer Haddock 14-9 + " 9 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn St. Louis Br'tsenst'n Kennedy 7-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Kennedy Hawley 11-7 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Hemming Wadsworth 9-4 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy McGill 9-5 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Whitrock Mercer 4-1 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Fisher Stockdale 7-6 + " 10 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Sullivan 13-4 + " 10 Boston vs. Chicago Chicago Stivetts Terry 25-8 + " 10 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Esper Inks 15-6 + " 11 Cleveland vs. New York Cleveland Young Meekin 13-3 + " 11 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Meekin Cuppy 9-1 + " 11 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Hutchinson Staley 17-2 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Colcolough Taylor 9-7 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Ehret Johnson 9-8 + " 12 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Stein McGill 12-8 + " 12 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Carsey Knell 5-3 + " 12 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Gleason Dwyer 16-2 + " 12 Cleveland vs. Boston Cleveland Sullivan Stivetts 9-8 + " 12 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Haddock 9-6 + " 13 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Rusie Hawley 7-3 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Kennedy Hutchinson 8-3 + " 13 Boston vs Cleveland Cleveland Nichols Cuppy 11-4 + " 13 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Weyhing Wadsworth 5-2 + " 13 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mercer Menafee 11-6 + " 14 St. Louis vs. New York St. Louis A.Clarkson Meekin 1-0 + " 15 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Rusie Breitenstein 7-2 + " 15 Boston vs. Cleveland Cleveland Stivetts Wallace 7-2 + " 15 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Hutchinson Lucid 10-3 + " 15 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Stockdale 11-6 + " 16 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Gleason Dwyer 14-3 + " 16 Cincinnati vs. Baltimore Cincinnati Parrott Hawke 4-3 + " 16 Washington vs. Louisville Louisville Mercer Inks 7-6 + " 16 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Griffith Stein 13-5 + " 17 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 5-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Menafee 10-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Esper Ehret 4-1 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Cleveland Sullivan Kennedy 12-6 + " 17 St. Louis vs Boston St. Louis Hawley Nichols 6-5 + " 17 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Knell Haddock 7-6 + " 18 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Rusie Terry 4-3 + " 18 New York vs Chicago Chicago Meekin Griffith 9-6 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Cleveland Young Daub 9-3 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Lucid Cuppy 7-1 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Gleason Colcolough 15-8 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Taylor Fischer 10-4 + " 18 Washington vs. Louisville Louisville Mercer Wadsworth 9-4 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis Br'tenst'n Stivetts 5-1 + " 19 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 4-3 + " 19 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Carsey Whitrock 12-11 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Cincinnati Parrott Weyhing 8-3 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis Hawley Stivetts 5-4 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. New York Pittsburgh Menafee Rusie 10-3 + " 20 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Nichols Inks 4-3 + " 20 Cleveland vs. Washington Cleveland Wallace Boyd 14-8 + " 20 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Chicago Abbey Johnson 20-4 + " 21 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Meekin Ehret[2] 4-4 + " 21 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Staley Knell 13-6 + " 21 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Breitestein 8-4 + " 21 Washington vs. Cleveland Cleveland Mullarky Young 4-3 + " 21 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Chicago Hutchinson Taylor 11-5 + " 22 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Rusie Colcolough 6-2 + " 22 Pittsburgh vs. New York Pittsburgh Ehret German 4-1 + " 22 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Stein Fischer 11-6 + " 22 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Chicago Carsey Abbey 9-6 + " 22 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Hawley 6-4 + " 22 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Stivetts Wadsworth 3-2 + " 22 Louisville vs. Boston Louisville Inks 6-4 + " 22 Cleveland vs. Washington Cleveland Sullivan Anderson 6-5 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Kennedy Whitrock 10-9 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Cincinnati Parrott Daub 3-2 + " 23 Washington vs. Chicago Chicago Mullarky Terry 6-5 + " 23 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Griffith Boyd 11-5 + " 23 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Breitenstein 10-4 + " 24 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Meekin Knell 8-7 + " 24 Boston vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Stivetts Fischer 7-4 + " 24 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Cleveland Cuppy Gleason 12-7 + " 24 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Menafee Stein 10-4 + " 24 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Hutchinson Stockdle 17-5 + " 24 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis St. Louis Johnson A.Clarkson 21-1 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Rusie Wadsworth 15-3 + " 25 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Esper Young 14-9 + " 25 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Parrott Nichols 9-7 + " 25 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Whitrock Hodson 5-1 + " 25 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia St. Louis Hawley Figgemeir 14-7 + " 25 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Jordan Kennedy 10-7 + " 26 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Meekin Inks 9-5 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Hemming Cuppy 7-6 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Colcolo'h Kennedy 9-8 + " 26 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia St. Louis Breitestein Johnson 12-6 + " 27 New York vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Clark Fischer 11-4 + " 27 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Stivetts Ehret 8-1 + " 27 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Young Weyhing 26-4 + " 28 New York vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati German Whitrock 9-8 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Pittsburgh Gumbert Nichols 15-9 + " 28 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Wallace Carsey 8-6 + " 29 Cincinnati vs. New York Cincinnati Parrott Meekin 7-6 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Hawley Anderson 6-4 + " 29 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Hutchinson Gleason 5-4 + " 29 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Sullivan Taylor 11-3 + " 29 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hodson Menafee 6-5 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Louisville Stein Knell 11-4 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago Esper Terry 20-9 + " 30 Louisville vs. Brooklyn Louisville Wadsworth Daub 10-8 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Louisville Stein Inks 12-4 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Br'tenst'n Mullarky 14-2 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Hawley Boyd 10-4 + " 30 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cuppy Dwyer 16-16 + +[Footnote 1: Protested.] +[Footnote 2: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE PITCHING OF 1894. + +The pitching of 1894 in the National League arena was in advance of that +of 1893, but it has yet to reach the point of perfect work in the +box. Somehow or other, managers of teams cannot get it out of their +heads that great speed is the principal factor of success in pitching, +when the fact is that speed is but an aid to success, secondary in value +to that of strategic skill in delivering the ball to the bat. + +The experience of the past season in connection with the limit of speed +in pitching presents some valuable suggestions which team managers will +do well to bear in mind this year. Some years ago, the swift +pitching--which had then about reached the highest point of +speed--proved to be so costly in its wear and fear upon the catchers +that clubs had to engage a corps of reserve catchers, in order to go +through a season's campaign with any degree of success. Afterward, +however, the introduction of the protective "mitts" led to some relief +being afforded the catchers who had been called upon to face the swift +pitching of the "cyclone" pitchers of the period. The seasons of 1893 +and 1894 were marked by some exhibitions of swift pitching unequaled in +the annals of the game, and yet it was not effective in placing the team +which held the cyclone pitchers in the lead. If the speed of the ball is +too great for catchers to handle, even with the protection the breast +pads, masks and the padded gloves of the period afford, why then it is +worse than useless. It was skilful, strategic pitching which helped to +win the pennant in 1894, and not "cyclone" pitching. Speed is all very +well as an important accessory, but without the best of catching to +support it, and thorough command of the ball to give it full effect, it +is more costly than otherwise. + +The Pitching Percentages for 1894. + + + +THE CHAMPION BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. + +The complete record of the pitching percentages of victories pitched in, +shows that Baltimore's full season's team of pitchers had a general +percentage of victories pitched in of .695 by the eight pitchers who +occupied the box during the season's campaign. This record excelled the +percentage figures of New York's team of five pitchers by 31 points, and +that of Boston's seven pitchers by 66 points, the respective percentage +figures being, .695, .664 and .629. These figures show the relative +strength of the three battery teams, as far as the record of percentage +can show them. A better criterion of pitching skill would be, of course, +at command, were the scoring rules giving the data of runs earned off +the pitching revised properly; but as they were not in 1894, we have to +take the next best data at command, that being the percentage of +victories pitched in. Taking the records of the first three pitchers +named in the Baltimore "battery" team record, as a whole, we do not +hesitate to award to McMahon the position of leading pitcher of the club +for 1894. Brown led McMahon in percentage of victories against the five +Eastern teams, but the former was last on the list against the six +Western teams, McMahon's percentage figures against the Western batsmen +being .812 against Brown's .500. Against the Eastern teams +Brown's figures were .750 to McMahon's .706. But McMahon pitched in 17 +games against the Eastern batsmen, to Brown's 4 games only, and that +fact counts to McMahon's advantage. Esper stood second in percentage +figures against the Western batsmen with the percentage of .889 in 9 +games to McMahon's .812 in 16 games. Gleason stood third against the +Eastern teams with .625 to McMahon's .706; but against the West, Gleason +was fourth, with the percentage of .769 to McMahon's .812. Hawke did +service against the West with .688 to .556 against the East. Inks and +Mullane stood even at .667 against the West, but Inks led Mullane by +.511 to .500 against the East, Horner only pitched in one game. Here is +a full record of the eight pitchers of the Baltimore team of 1894, +showing what each pitcher did against the Eastern and Western batsmen +separately, in victories and defeats against each club, and in +percentage of victories pitched in against the batsmen of each +section. It is a valuable record, if only in its showing what each +pitcher did in the way of victories, against each club of each division. + + +THE BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i i o + W N a B s l t S n u + o e d r h P e t C t c i P +BALTIMORE n w B e o i e v s h . i s e + / o l o n T r e b i L n v T r +vs. L Y s p k g o c l u c o n i o c + o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e + s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n +Pitchers t k n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brown W 0 0 1 1 1 3 .750 Hemming 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 1.000 + L 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +McMahon W 2 3 2 2 3 12 .706 Esper 3 1 1 2 0 1 8 .889 + L 3 2 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 +Gleason W 1 0 1 2 1 5 .625 McMahon 2 0 2 3 3 3 13 .811 + L 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 +Inks W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .571 Gleason 1 2 2 3 0 2 10 .769 + L 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 +Hawke W 0 1 0 1 3 5 .556 Hawke 1 1 3 2 2 2 11 .688 + L 2 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 +Mullane W 2 0 1 1 1 5 .500 Inks 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 .667 + L 0 3 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 +Esper W 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 Mullane 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 .667 + L 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 +Horner W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Brown 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 + L 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen by the above table that, while Brown did not pitch in a +single victory against the two clubs standing next to Baltimore in the +race, McMahon pitched in five victories; and yet Brown's percentage +figures exceeded McMahon's by .750 to .706 against the five clubs as a +whole, owing to McMahon's pitching in five defeats, against Brown's +single defeats against the New York and Boston batsmen. Hemming's record +is A No. 1, as far as he pitched, but he did not pitch in a single game +against the Eastern teams, to the extent of a full record of innings +pitched in. + +Here is the record for the whole season, showing the total percentage: + +THE BALTIMORE PITCHERS' FULL RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------- + Per cent. of +Pitchers. Victories. Defeats. Games Pitched. Victories. +----------------------------------------------------------- +Hemming 5 0 5 1.000 +Esper 9 2 11 .818 +McMahon 25 8 33 .758 +Gleason 15 6 21 .714 +Brown 4 2 6 .667 +Hawke 16 9 25 .640 +Inks 8 5 13 .615 +Mullane 7 6 13 .538 +Horner 0 1 1 .000 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +These tables include all victories and defeats of the season, whether +counted or thrown out. It will be seen that only three pitchers pitched +in a majority of the games played. + + + +THE NEW YORK CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The New York club, in 1894, went through the season's campaign with the +fewest pitchers in their team of any of the twelve clubs. Moreover, +their "battery" teams of the season, as a whole, surpassed those of any +of the club's previous batteries since the club was organized. Led by +Meekin and Farrell--the champion "battery" of 1894--followed by pitchers +Rusie, Westervelt, German and Clarke, with catchers Wilson and Doyle, +the club presented battery strength sufficient to have carried the team +to the goal, but for sundry drawbacks they met with during the early +part of the championship campaign, especially during April and May. And +handicapped as they were, they managed to close the season in second +place, after brilliant rallying work during the last three months of the +campaign, when their pitchers were well backed up by better team-work +than they had at command up to July. + +In giving the record of the work done by the club pitchers, we have +deemed it essential to divide the tables up into sections, showing the +work done in the box against both the Eastern and Western teams +separately, as well as the table showing the aggregate figures of the +individual percentages of victories pitched in. Thus it will be seen in +the appended table, that while Meekin's pitching was more successful +against the batsmen of the Eastern teams, Rusie excelled Meekin in +downing the batsmen of the Western teams, by a percentage of victories +of .889 against .778 for Meekin. But it should be remembered that in +pitching against the batsmen of the three leading teams in the race +opposed to them, Meekin pitched in 7 victories out of 11 games, while +Rusie only pitched in 6 victories out of 14 games. Against the three +most successful of the Western teams, too, Meekin pitched in 13 +victories against Rusie's 12. Taking the season's figures as a whole, +Meekin led Rusie by the percentage figures of .783 to .735, quite a +difference in favor of Meekin. German led Westervelt against the Eastern +teams, but the latter led against the Western batsmen, and also had the +best percentage figures, in the aggregate of the season, by .498 to +German's .471; Clark being in the last ditch in all three +tables. Westervelt was a new man in the field compared to German, but he +is very likely to excel his last year's record in 1895. The best +individual records in victories pitched in by the two leaders, were +Rusie's 6 to 0 against Louisville, and Meekin's 3 to 0 against +Baltimore. German's best was 2 to 0 against Washington, and Westervelt's +was 1 to 0 against Baltimore; Clarke's best being 1 to 0 against +Philadelphia. + +Here are the records of the pitchers of the team against the five +Eastern and the six Western teams for 1894: + +THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + W a a B s l t S n u + o l d r h P e t C t c i P +NEW YORK n t B e o i e v s h . i s e + / i o l o n T r e b i L n v T r +vs. L m s p k g o c l u c o n i o c + o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e + s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n +Pitchers t e n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Meekin W 3 3 1 3 4 14 .778 Russie 4 4 4 4 2 6 24 .889 + L 0 1 2 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 +Rusie W 2 2 2 3 3 12 .545 Meekin 4 4 5 2 2 5 22 .783 + L 2 3 3 1 1 10 1 0 1 1 3 0 6 +German W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .500 Westervelt 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 .571 + L 1 1 0 2 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 +Westervelt W 0 1 0 1 1 3 .333 German 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 .471 + L 2 1 2 1 0 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 +Clarke W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .333 Clarke 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .333 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE SUMMARY. + +The summary giving the full totals of the season's record entire is +appended: + +------------------------------------------------------------ + Games Per cent. of +PITCHERS Victories Defeats Pitched Victories +------------------------------------------------------------ +Meekin 36 10 46 .783 +Rusie 36 13 49 .735 +Westervelt 7 9 16 .498 +German 8 9 17 .471 +Clarke 2 4 6 .333 +------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +THE BOSTON CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +While the Boston team of 1893 went through the season of that year with +virtually but four pitchers to do their box work--Quarles and Coyle +pitching in but three games in 1893--the batteries of the club for 1894 +included seven pitchers, two of the seven each pitching in but single +games, Nichols, Stivetts and Staley doing the brunt of the work of the +past season. Nichols did his best work against the five Eastern teams, +he being most effective against Philadelphia and Brooklyn, neither of +which clubs won a game with him in the box against them. He also took +both Cleveland and Louisville into camp without their being able to win +a single game off his pitching, the only team to strike even figures in +games against his pitching being the Cincinnatis--3 to 3, Baltimore +winning 2 out of 3 with Nichols opposed to them, and New York 2 out of +5, St. Louis also getting the same figures. Beyond question, Nichols led +the Boston pitching record of 1894, he ranking in strategic skill with +the best in the League. Stivetts excelled even Nichols against the +Western batsmen by a percentage of .763 to Nichols' .692; but against +the stronger Eastern teams Nichols led Stivetts by the percentage +figures of .756 to .417, an advantage more than off-setting the Western +figures of the two pitchers. Lovett and Hodson both excelled Stivetts +against the Eastern teams, by .714 and .500, respectively, against +Stivetts' .417; but against the Western teams, Stivetts led by .763 to +Hodson's .600 and Lovett's .500. Staley was very ineffective against the +batsmen of both sections. Lampe pitched in but one game, and that one a +defeat by Pittsburgh; Stephens pitching, too, in but one game but it was +a victory over Washington. Here are the sectional records for the season, +together with the column giving the totals of the season: + + +THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t S n u n d + o l e d r h P e t C t c i P d P +BOSTON n t w e o i e v s h . i s e e + / i l o n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y p k g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o h l t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r i y o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k a n n l t d h o s i e l t l t +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Stephens W 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Nichols W 1 3 4 4 3 15 .756 3 3 3 3 3 3 18 .692 33 .717 + L 2 2 0 0 1 5 0 2 1 2 3 0 8 12 +Stivetts W 4 1 0 1 2 8 .471 3 3 3 2 2 4 18 .763 26 .650 + L 1 1 3 3 1 9 2 0 1 2 0 0 5 14 +Lovett W 1 1 1 1 1 5 .714 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .500 7 .636 + L 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 +Hodson W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .500 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 .600 4 .571 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 +Staley W 2 1 0 0 2 5 .385 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 .371 13 .481 + L 1 2 3 1 1 8 1 1 2 0 0 2 6 14 +Lampe W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .006 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +Under the Philadelphia club's management of 1893 but three pitchers were +in the box in over 20 games each; and but two others in 10 games and +over, seven pitchers being employed during that season. In 1894, the +blunder was committed of experimenting with no less than _thirteen_ +pitchers with the result of finding it difficult to reach fourth place +at the end of the race; while the club, after being in second place in +April, fell down to the second division in July. But for this error of +judgment, the team might have ended among the three leaders. Of those +who pitched in over 10 games, Taylor took a decided lead by a total +percentage of .706 to Weyhing's .548 and Carsey's .533. Of those who +pitched in less than 10 games and over 5, Harper led with .667 to +Haddock's .571. None of the other pitchers reached average +figures--.500--except Jones, who only pitched in one game, which he won +against St. Louis, while four of the thirteen did not pitch in a single +victory. Experimenting with thirteen pitchers was a costly mistake in +the management, and should not be repeated. It is bad enough to try too +many changes in the _in_ and _out_ field teams, but worse in +battery-team-experiments of this kind. Harper led in percentage of +victories with .800 against the Eastern club batsmen, while Taylor led +against those of the West with .728. The failures of the season were +Fanning, Callahan, Johnson, Turner, Burns, Figgemeir and Lukens, the +former being the only pitcher of the seven who pitched in a single +victory against the Eastern batsmen. + +Here is the record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + G + G r + W P C L r a + B a C i i o a n + W a N B s l t S n u n d + o l e r h P e t C t c i P d P +PHILADELPHIA n t w B o i e v s h . i s e e + / i o o n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s k g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t l t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o y o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n n n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Jones W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Taylor W 3 2 2 0 3 10 .625 4 2 2 0 3 3 14 .778 24 .706 + L 0 1 1 3 1 6 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 10 +Harper W 0 1 2 1 0 4 .800 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 .500 6 .667 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 +Haddock W 0 1 1 1 0 3 .750 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 4 .571 + L 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 +Weyhing W 0 2 0 3 3 8 .615 0 2 1 1 2 3 9 .500 17 .548 + L 2 0 2 0 1 5 3 1 1 2 2 0 9 14 +Carsey W 1 1 1 2 2 7 .467 0 2 2 1 2 2 9 .600 16 .533 + L 1 2 3 1 1 8 2 1 1 0 0 2 6 14 +Callahan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 .667 2 .400 + L 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 +Fanning W 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 +Johnson W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .250 1 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Turner W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 +Burns W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1* 1 +Figgemeir W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Lukens W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +[Footnote *: Should add up to 0. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The Brooklyn club experimented with nine pitchers in 1894, of which but +three were able to exceed the average in percentage of victories. Of the +three, Stein took the lead with the total percentage figures of .650 +against Kennedy's .545, Daub being third with but .406 to his credit, +all the others pitching in less than 10 games. No less than four of the +nine failed to pitch in a single victory. Lucid did good work in the few +games he pitched in, his victory over Boston being noteworthy. But he +pitched in as many defeats against the Western teams as he did in +victories. Four of the nine were worthless for skilful, strategic +pitching. + +Here is the club's total record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a s l t S n u n d + o l e d h P e t C t c i P d P +BROOKLYN n t w B e i e v s h . i s e e + / i o l n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Stein W 3 2 2 2 3 12 .632 2 2 2 3 2 3 14 .667 26 .650 + L 1 3 2 1 0 7 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 14 +Lucid W 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 .500 4 .571 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 3 +Kennedy W 1 3 3 1 1 9 .500 2 4 2 3 2 2 15 .577 24 .545 + L 2 3 2 1 1 9 2 3 2 2 1 1 11 20 +Gastright W 0 0 0 0 2 2 .500 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .333 3 .429 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 +Daub W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .222 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 .500 10 .406 + L 1 1 1 2 2 7 2 1 0 1 2 2 8 15 +Underwood W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .400 + L 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +G. Sharrott W 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .333 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Sommerville W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Korwan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The Cleveland club's management made as great a mistake in 1894 as that +of the Philadelphia club in experimenting with too many pitchers. They +tried but six pitchers in 1892, when they won the championship of the +second half of the divided season of that year, and in 1893 put eight in +the box. But last year they engaged no less than thirteen pitchers to +experiment with, and from third place in 1893 with eight pitchers, they +ended in sixth position in 1894 with thirteen. Of those who pitched in +over 20 games, Cuppy led with the percentage figures of .568, Young +being second with .543. Of those who pitched in over 10 games and less +than 20, Sullivan led with .600, followed by John Clarkson with .533. Of +those who pitched in less than 10 games, but one reached average figures +in percentage, Menafee pitching in only one game, a victory over +Brooklyn, and Mullane in but 3, of which 2 were victories over St. Louis +and Louisville. Cuppy did fine box work against the five Western clubs +opposed to him, but he was excelled by Young against the Eastern +batsmen. Five of the thirteen failed to pitch in a single victory. + +Here is the record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a i i o a n + W a N a B s t S n u n d + o l e d r h P t C t c i P d P +CLEVELAND n t w B e o i e s h . i s e e + / i o l o n T r b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Menafee W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 1 0 0 1 .000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1[*] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Mullane W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 2 .667 2 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +Sullivan W 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 .600 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 6 .600 + L 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Cuppy W 2 0 1 1 1 2 7 .368 2 3 3 2 4 14 .778 21 .568 + L 2 4 3 0 1 2 12 2 0 0 2 0 4 16 +Young W 1 1 1 3 2 3 11 .440 1 4 3 4 2 14 .667 25 .543 + L 4 3 2 1 2 2 14 3 0 1 1 2 7 21 +J. Clarkson W 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .167 1 2 2 1 1 7 .778 8 .533 + L 1 0 2 1 1 0 5 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 +Wallace W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .667 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .500 + L 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +Griffith W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .500 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 2 .500 + L 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 +Lyster W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Whitrock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Knauss W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 +Fischer W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Petty W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 +[Footnote *: Total should be 0. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +Of the nine pitchers employed by the Pittsburgh club in 1894 only three +pitched in 20 games and over, and of this trio Killen led in percentage +figures with .583, against Gumbert's .563 and Ehret's .389. The latter's +blunders, outside of his actual box work, damaged him in his field +support and in loss of local favor, otherwise he would have probably led +in the season's record against the Eastern clubs. Gumbert led Killen by +.471 to .364 in percentage figures, Killen being the most effective +against the Western teams. Of those who pitched in 10 games and less +than 20, Colcolough did the best work, with average percentage figures +against the batsmen of both sections, with an even .500 in percentage +figures against both, Menafee being second against both with .333 +each. Of those who pitched in 5 games and less than 10, Nicol took the +lead with the total figures of .667. Terry was a failure in Pittsburgh, +but did well in Chicago. Easton was the last ditch pitcher, not winning +a game. Ehret's record against Cleveland was the best of the season--not +a single lost game out of the series he pitched in. Jordan won his +single game. + +Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W C L r a + B l a C i o a n + W a N a B s l S n u n d + o l e d r h P e C t c i P d P +PITTSBURGH n t w B e o i e v h . i s e e + / i o l o n T r e i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Jordan W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Nicol W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 1 2 0 3 .600 4 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 +Killen W 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 .364 1 4 1 1 3 10 .769 14 .583 + L 1 1 1 2 2 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 3 10 +Gumbert W 1 0 1 1 1 4 8 .471 0 2 2 2 4 10 .667 18 .563 + L 1 3 2 1 1 1 9 0 0 2 2 1 5 14 +Colcolough W 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 .500 0 1 1 1 1 4 .500 7 .500 + L 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 4 7 +Ehret W 2 2 1 1 0 2 8 .364 7 0 1 1 1 10 .556 18 .389 + L 2 2 3 3 3 1 14 0 5 2 1 0 8 22 +Menafee W 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 4 .333 + L 1 1 2 1 1 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 +Terry W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Easton W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Chicago club, in 1894, placed only seven pitchers in the box, of +which but three pitched in 20 games and over, and but two in not less +than 10 games and not less than 20. Of the three former, Griffith led +with a percentage of victories pitched in of .645 to Stratton's .643 and +Hutchinson's .471, McGill being fourth with but .240. Of those who +pitched in not less than 5 games, besides the above pitchers, Abbey led +with .333, Terry's figures being .294, the Eastern batsmen punishing him +badly. Camp pitched in but one game, and that a defeat. + +Here is the club record of the pitching: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t S n u n d + o l e d r h P e t t c i P d P +CHICAGO n t w B e o i e v s . i s e e + / i o l o n T r e b L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Griffith W 1 0 2 2 2 3 10 .625 1 3 1 3 2 10 .667 20 .645 + L 1 2 1 0 1 1 6 2 1 0 1 1 5 11 +Stratton W 0 1 1 0 2 1 5 .714 0 0 2 1 1 4 .571 9 .643 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 5 +Hutchinson W 2 1 1 2 1 2 9 .409 0 2 2 1 2 7 .583 16 .471 + L 3 5 2 1 2 0 13 1 2 1 1 0 5 18 +Abbey W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .333 + L 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 4 +Terry W 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 .143 1 1 0 0 1 3 1.000 5 .294 + L 3 3 2 1 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 +McGill W 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 .222 0 0 1 1 2 4 .250 6 .240 + L 2 1 2 1 1 0 7 4 2 2 2 2 12 19 +Camp W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S RECORD. + +The St. Louis club tried seven pitchers in 1894, and but one reached the +percentage average of .500 and over, and that one was Breitenstein, who +had .519; Hawley being second with .419, and A. Clarkson third with +.360, Gleason making but little effort in the St. Louis box, though he +did better in that of Baltimore, his percentage being but .250 in the +St. Louis team. Clark, Sullivan and Mason were failures, not one of them +pitching in a single victory. Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t n u n d + o l e d r h P e t C c i P d P +ST. LOUIS n t w B e o i e v s h i s e e + / i o l o n T r e b i n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Breitenstein W 1 2 1 4 3 2 13 .448 2 4 2 3 3 14 .609 27 .519 + L 5 2 8 1 2 3 16 3 2 2 2 0 9 25 +Hawley W 1 0 4 2 1 2 10 .417 1 2 2 1 2 8 .421 18 .419 + L 2 3 3 3 3 0 14 1 1 3 3 3 11 25 +A. Clarkson W 0 3 1 1 0 2 7 .438 0 0 1 1 0 2 .222 9 .360 + L 3 2 0 0 3 1 9 3 1 1 1 1 7 16 +Gleason W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 2 .286 2 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 5 6 +Clark W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Sullivan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Clark W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S RECORD. + +It may be said of the Cincinnati club's management in 1894, that in the +multiplicity of pitchers there is much danger, or words to that +effect. Twelve pitchers were tried (including one who pitched in two +innings) with a field support of no less than eleven players, exclusive +of the pitchers who took part at times in both infield and outfield +positions, together with four catchers, an aggregate of 27 _players_ to +occupy but _nine_ positions in the game. Could blundering management go +further? Under such circumstances is it any wonder that team-work was +impossible, while cliques of disappointed players still further weakened +the nine in nearly every game, the ultimate result being ninth place in +the race, with the added discredit of being beaten out in the race by +their old rivals, the St. Louis "Browns." But three of the twelve +pitchers took part in 20 games and over, and but one in 10 games and +less than 20, and three out of the twelve failed to win a single +game. Parrott did the most effective work against the Eastern batsmen, +and he and Dwyer were tied against the Western batsmen, but two of the +twelve pitching in more victories than defeats. The experience of the +Cincinnati "battery" teams should teach managers a lesson for 1895 in +indulging in experiments with too many pitchers. + +Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P L r a + B l a C i o a n + W a N a B s l t S u n d + o l e d r h P e t C t i P d P +CINCINNATI n t w B e o i e v s h . s e e + / i o l o n T r e b i L v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c o i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a u l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g i l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o s e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Tannehill W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 1 .500 1 .500 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Dwyer W 1 3 1 0 1 2 8 .400 1 1 3 3 2 10 .588 18 .486 + L 4 1 1 2 2 2 12 0 2 2 0 3 7 19 +Parrott W 1 2 1 2 2 2 9 .500 2 2 1 2 2 9 .474 18 .486 + L 3 1 3 0 1 1 9 2 2 2 2 2 10 19 +Chamberlain W 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 .500 0 1 1 1 2 5 .455 10 .476 + L 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 3 2 0 1 0 6 11 +Cross W 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1.000 0 1 1 0 0 2 .333 3 .429 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 4 +Whitrock W 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 .375 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 3 .375 + L 0 2 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 +Fournier W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .250 + L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Fischer W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .100 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 2 .167 + L 1 1 2 2 2 1 9 0 0 1 0 0 1 10 +Blank W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Flynn W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1[*] +Pfann W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 + +[Footnote *: Grand Total should be 2. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Washington club was weakened in the same manner as the Cincinnati +club, by experimenting with too many pitchers, they using a round dozen +in the box during their campaign in 1894. Of the twelve, but one +exceeded the percentage average of .500. Of those who pitched in 20 +games and over there were but two, Maul leading with .423, and Mercer +following with .410. Of those who pitched in 10 games and under 20, +Esper led Stockdale and Petty, by .400 to .357 and .273, respectively. +Sullivan was a bad failure, as he only pitched in 2 victories out of 12 +games. No less than five of the twelve pitchers failed to pitch in a +single victory, not even against the Western teams. Under such +circumstances the wonder is that Washington escaped the last ditch. Here +is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i P C L r a + B l C i i o a n + W a N a B l t S n u n d + o l e d r P e t C t c i P d P +WASHINGTON n t w B e o e v s h . i s e e + / i o l o T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Mullarsky W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 .667 2 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Maul W 1 0 1 1 1 4 .267 1 1 1 0 2 2 7 .636 11 .423 + L 2 3 3 2 1 11 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 15 +Mercer W 0 0 2 2 1 5 .294 0 3 1 2 1 4 11 .500 16 .410 + L 4 3 1 0 4 12 4 2 1 1 2 1 11 23 +Esper W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .400 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 .400 6 .400 + L 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 6 9 +Stockdale W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 .625 5 .357 + L 2 2 0 1 0 5 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 9 +Petty W 0 1 0 0 0 1 .125 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .667 3 .273 + L 3 1 1 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 +Sullivan W 0 1 0 0 0 1 .167 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .167 2 .167 + L 0 1 1 2 1 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 5 10 +Wynne W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Anderson W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 +Stephens W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Boyd W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Haddock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 4 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Louisville club had nine pitchers in position during 1894, of which +but four pitched in 20 games and over, and but one in 10 games and less +than 20, Knell pitching in less than 20 games, with the percentage of +.241, and Stratton in less than 10, with .143, the latter doing far +better afterwards in the Chicago team. Hemming's .355 was the best +record, Menafee being second with .348, both pitching in over twenty +games. + +Hemming's percentage in the Louisville team was but .355, which, +compared with his record of 1.000 in the Baltimore team, made his total +percentage .615, showing quite a difference between his support in the +Louisvilles and that in the Baltimores. + +Hemming, Menafee and Inks were the most successful against the strong +teams of the Eastern division. Whitrock, Sullivan and Kilroy were +unsuccessful opponents. Here is the record: + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C r a + B l a C i i a n + W a N a B s l t S n n d + o l e d r h P e t C t c P d P +LOUISVILLE n t w B e o i e v s h . i e e + / i o l o n T r e b i L n T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c o n o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a u a t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g i t a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o s i l t l t +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Hemming W 2 0 0 1 1 0 4 .250 0 2 2 3 0 7 .429 11 .355 + L 2 4 1 2 1 2 12 3 1 2 0 2 8 20 +Menafee W 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .286 3 1 0 1 1 6 .375 8 .348 + L 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 1 4 1 2 2 10 15 +Inks W 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .250 + L 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 +Knell W 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 .190 0 0 0 1 2 3 .375 7 .241 + L 3 4 4 1 3 2 17 1 1 2 1 0 5 22 +Wadsworth W 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 .200 0 0 0 1 0 1 .167 4 .190 + L 2 2 2 2 2 2 12 1 1 1 1 1 5 17 +Stratton W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 0 1 .167 1 .143 + L 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 +Whitrock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +Sullivan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Kilroy W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 4 5 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +Interesting Pitching Records. + + +No pitching records under the scoring rules of 1894 admitted of any data +being made up from which a true criterion of the skill of the pitchers +could be arrived at; nor can there be until the rules give the figures +of "innings pitched in" and base hits made off each inning each pitcher +pitched in. There is scarcely a game in which two pitchers do not enter +the box to pitch, at least in one or two innings; but the scoring rules +do not give the figures of innings pitched in, or how many base hits +were made off each pitcher, and the result is that the total base hits +scored in the game cannot be divided up between the pitchers +correctly. A pitcher goes into the box at the outset of the game, and in +one or two innings he is badly punished. Then a substitute follows him, +and in the succeeding innings not a third of the base hits made off the +first pitcher are recorded against the substitute, and yet not a record +to show this is to be had off the data the scoring rules admit of. Here +is the pitching score which should be used in the summary of each game: + +[_Copy of Yale-Princeton score of June 16, 1894_.] + +PITCHING SCORE. +--------------------------------------------------------- + CARTER. BRADLEY. ALTMAN. +Innings pitched in by 9 6 2 +Base hits off 9 5 7 +Runs earned off 3 2 3 +Bases on balls by 4 2 1 +Wild pitches by 0 1 1 +Hit batsmen by 0 1 1 +Struck out by 8 3 0 +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Umpire--Emslie. Time of game--2 hours 5 minutes. + + +Not an official record, giving the data of work done in the box by the +League pitchers, furnishes any correct figures by which to judge the +good or bad work done in the box each season. We give below a series of +records which give a somewhat better idea of each pitcher's box work +than the official averages can give under the pitching rules in vogue up +to 1895. The first table gives a full, but not complete, record of the +League pitching of 1894 by those pitchers whose percentage of victories +pitched in are not less than .500. Those whose record was under .500 and +not less than .400 included the following: Inks, .478; Stratton, .476; +German, .471; Maul, .470; Hutchinson, .467; Parrott, .459; Ehret, .436; +Daub, .423; Mercer, .421; Hawley, .413, and Westervelt, .412. Of those +whose percentages were under .400 and not less than .300 were the +following: Stockdale, .375; Menafee, .351; Sullivan, .348; J. Clarkson, +.308. These were followed by McGill, .291; Terry, 278; Knell, .200, and +Wadsworth, .190. The official pitching averages, from which these +figures are taken, give no record of the pitchers who pitched in less +than 15 games during 1894, and those who pitched in 10 games and less +than 15 included pitchers having better percentages than some of those +recorded above. + +Here is a record taken from the figures of the official tables, which +presents data from which a pretty fair estimate of a pitcher's ability +can be arrived at; though it is, of course, not a really correct +criterion of his box work, as it does not contain the record of the runs +earned off his pitching solely by base hits, which cannot be obtained +under the existing scoring rules: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P B + e a + r s + c e + e + G n h + a t i + m t B S + e o s a a + s f s c S + o e r t R + P V P f s S i o u + i i i f t f l n + t c t o r i e s + c t c P n u c n F A B A + h o h i c e S i v a v + e r e t B k B c e e t e + d i d c a H a o l r t r + e h l O i s r d a i a + i s I i l u t e e i g n g + n n n s t s s d n e g e +PITCHERS. CLUBS. . . g . . . . . g . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Meekin New York 47 .790 253 147 127 1 4 26 .798 .281 +McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 269 109 55 8 1 17 .869 .286 +Rusie New York 49 .734 253 189 204 2 4 20 .867 .275 +Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 381 85 79 0 3 21 .796 .331 +Nichols Boston 45 .711 291 108 98 2 1 40 .856 .282 +Stivetts Boston 39 .692 306 100 73 3 4 56 .813 .336 +Hawke Baltimore 23 .652 311 58 50 5 2 12 .887 .301 +Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 280 162 72 4 3 31 .785 .260 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 320 73 60 1 1 18 .909 .303 +Gleason Baltimore 29 .586 312 59 39 4 1 24 .841 .342 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 303 83 57 1 1 14 .909 .256 +Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 298 119 63 1 4 28 .916 .253 +Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 314 95 40 1 3 31 .831 .277 +Breitenstein St. Louis 49 .551 280 162 138 9 3 27 .902 .229 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 324 101 79 7 1 9 .845 .168 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 302 134 101 0 5 22 .771 .300 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 354 59 19 1 1 19 .844 .214 +Young Cleveland 47 .532 293 100 100 0 4 24 .902 .213 +Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 309 78 57 3 1 10 .729 .304 +Staley Boston 25 .520 344 55 29 2 0 12 .744 .238 +Esper Baltimore 26 .500 339 59 36 0 0 16 .929 .239 +Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 317 97 49 0 0 32 .902 .269 +Hemming Baltimore 40 .500 295 140 75 0 2 23 .893 .256 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +Here are the records, showing the batting and fielding averages +of the nine pitchers who excelled in each record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + F A B A + i v a v + G e e G t e + a l r a t r + m d a m i a + e i g e n g + s n e s g e + PITCHERS CLUBS . g . PITCHERS CLUBS . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Stratton Chicago 21 .931 1. Stratton Chicago 33 .350 +2. Esper Baltimore 26 .929 2. Nicol Louisville 28 .348 +3. Cuppy Cleveland 37 .916 3. Mullane Cleveland 18 .343 +4. Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .909 4. Gleason Baltimore 31 .341 +5. Killen Pittsburgh 24 .909 5. Inks Baltimore 24 .337 +6. Menafee Pittsburgh 37 .904 6. Stivetts Boston 57 .336 +7. Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .902 7. Taylor Philadelphia 34 .331 +8. Young Cleveland 47 .902 8. Parrott Cincinnati 59 .329 +9. Breitenstein St. Louis 49 .902 9. Terry Chicago 25 .325 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +According to the above figures Stratton was the best fielding pitcher, +and Breitenstein the poorest; Stratton also excelling in base hit +averages, while in that record Terry was the tail-ender. The nine +pitchers who excelled in total stolen bases were as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +PITCHERS. CLUBS. Games. Stolen Bases. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Parrott Cincinnati 59 5 +2. Stivetts Boston 57 4 +3. Terry Chicago 25 3 +4. Stratton Chicago 33 3 +5. Taylor Philadelphia 34 3 +6. Mullane Cleveland 18 2 +7. Nicol Louisville 28 2 +8. Inks Baltimore 24 1 +9. Gleason Baltimore 31 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +In the foregoing two tables pitchers are included who did not reach a +percentage of victories pitched in of .500; the list of these including +Inks, Stratton, German, Hutchinson, Mullane, Parrott, Maul, Ehret, Daub, +Mercer, Hawley and Westervelt, whose percentage figures were less than +.500 and not lower than .400. Of those whose percentage figures did not +reach .400 and were not lower than .300, were Stockdale, Menafee, +Sullivan and A. Clarkson; while those who were less than .300 and not +lower than .200, were McGill, Terry and Knell; Wadsworth being the +tail-ender in percentage figures with .190. + +The above tables present quite an interesting pitching problem, the +puzzle being to find out which of the above pitchers did the best work +in the box in every respect, not only in pitching, but by his batting, +fielding and base running. In percentage of victories pitched in, Meekin +took the lead. In the number of batsmen struck out, Rusie excelled. In +fewest bases on balls, Staley had the lowest figures. In base hit +averages, Stivetts led; while in total sacrifice hits, Breitenstein bore +off the palm. In total runs scored, Stivetts had the largest total. In +stolen bases, Kennedy was the most successful, and yet he only stole 5 +in 42 games. + +Now the problem is, Which pitcher did the best average work in his +position? and we leave that for our readers to solve. + +It is alleged that the reason pitchers do so little in stealing bases is +that they are too fatigued in their pitching in each inning to do much +in the active work of base running, both duties trying a player's nerves +considerably. For this reason it would be a good plan, in the order of +batting, to have a sure hitter follow each pitcher, so as to help bat +him round. + + + +Hints to the Pitchers of 1895. + + +We are glad to record the fact that scientific pitching is advancing in +the League arena. Its progress, hitherto, has been slow and only step by +step, but it is making headway, and during 1894 the science of strategic +pitching made greater progress than ever before. The effective blow +given to "cyclone" pitching by the new pitching rules, which went into +effect in 1893, while it did not materially affect the strategic class +of pitchers--some of whom the new rules actually benefited--obliged the +class of pitchers who depend solely upon their dangerous speed for +success, to adopt strategic tactics to a more or less extent; and this +is why a few of the old "cyclone" pitchers--as they are +called--succeeded better than they anticipated under the change made in +the rules in 1893, which had placed them farther from the batsman than +in 1892. + +It may be said, in connection with the pitching of 1894, that one thing +noticeable in the "box" work of that season was that the brainy class of +men in the position began to pay more attention to the advice of the +theorists of the game than before; and thereby they learned to realize +the fact that _strategic skill, and that equally important attribute, +thorough control of temper_, together with the avoidance of the +senseless _kicking habit_ in vogue, had more to do with success in their +position than they had previously been aware. Those of the pitching +fraternity who read up on the subject of skill in pitching, were told +that the primary elements of strategic work in the "box" included: +"First, to deceive the eye of the batsman in regard to the character of +the delivery of the ball, as to its being fast or slow. Second, to +deceive his judgment in reference to the direction of the ball when +pitched to him, as to its being high or low, or where he wants +it. Third, to watch the batsman closely so as to know just when he is +temporarily 'out of form' for making a good hit; and Fourth, to tempt +him with a ball which will be likely to go high from his bat to the +outfield and be caught." + +Then again they were told that "another very effective point in +strategic pitching, is a thoroughly disguised change of pace in +delivery. This is difficult of attainment, and as a general rule it can +only be played with effect on the careless class of batsmen. Let it be +borne in mind that the pitcher who cannot control his temper is as unfit +for his position as is a quick-tempered billiard player to excel as a +winner in professional contests. Quick temper is the mortal foe of cool +judgment, and it plays the mischief with that nervy condition so +necessary in the development of skilful strategy. The pitcher must of +necessity be subject to annoyances well calculated to try a man's +temper, especially when his best efforts in pitching are rendered +useless by the blunders of incompetent fielders, but under such trying +circumstances his triumph is all the greater if he can pluck victory out +of the fire of such opposition, _by the thorough control of his +temper_." This is something only a minority of League pitchers did in +1894. + + + +SUMMARY RECORD. + + +The leading pitcher of each of the twelve clubs against the six clubs of +each section, in percentage of victories pitched in, by those who +occupied the box in 10 games and over, is given in the following table: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +BALTIMORE. + AGAINST THE EASTERN CLUBS. AGAINST THE WESTERN CLUBS + Percent. of Percent. of +Pitchers. Victories. Pitchers. Victories +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +McMahon .706 McMahon .811 + +NEW YORK. +Meelin .778 Rusie .889 + +BOSTON. +Nichols .756 Stivetts .763 + +PHILADELPHIA. +Taylor .625 Taylor .778 + +BROOKLYN. +Stein .692 Stein .650 + +CLEVELAND. +Sullivan .600 Cuppy .778 + +PITTSBURGH. +Gumbert .471 Killen .769 + +CHICAGO. +Griffith .625 Griffith .667 + +ST. LOUIS. +Breitenstein .448 Breitenstein .609 + +CINCINNATI. +Parrott .500 Dwyer .588 + +WASHINGTON. +Mercer .294 Maul .636 + +LOUISVILLE. +Hemming .250 Hemming .429 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that Rusie leads all the pitchers against the Western +teams and Meekin all against the Eastern teams, Rusie having the highest +individual percentage of victories against a single section. + +There can be no really reliable criterion of a pitcher's skill, as judged +by the data of his averages, until the figures of runs earned off the +pitching solely by base hits, and not by base hits and stolen bases, and +the errors they lead to combined, as is the case under the defective +scoring rules in existence in 1894. To call a run scored by a +combination of base hits and stolen bases is unjust to the pitcher, +while judging his pitching by the percentage of victories pitched is +only less faulty; but the latter is the better criterion of skill than +that of earned runs, as calculated on the basis of the rules of 1894. + + + +THE OFFICIAL AVERAGES FOR 1894. + +The official averages for 1894, as prepared by Secretary Young, of the +National League, from data furnished him under the regulation scoring +rules of each year, have always been more or less defective as far as +affording a reliable criterion of play in each department of the game +was concerned, and necessarily so, owing to the faulty scoring rules in +existence up to 1895. The batting averages are more than useless, as +they fail to show the only reliable criterion of play there is, and that +is, _the percentage of runners forwarded around the bases by base hits._ +The pitching averages are similarly useless, as they fail to give the +correct data for judging the percentage of runs earned off the pitching +on the basis of runs scored by base hits, and by nothing else; the +figures of earned runs, under the present defective rules, including +runs earned by a combination of base hits and stolen bases, together +with such fielding errors as base stealing leads to, a class of errors +aside from regular fielding errors. Glancing at the record of the +so-called leading batsmen since 1888, we find that the data on which the +averages are made out grew more defective each year up to 1893, when +they were improved a little. Below will be found the several headings of +the season's averages, together with the name of the so-called leading +batsman of each year, during the past seven years, beginning with 1888 +and ending with 1894. + +SEASON OF 1888. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Anson +CLUB. Chicago +Games Played. 134 +Times at Bat. 515 +Runs Scored. 101 +Ave. Per Game. 0.75 +First Base Hits. 177 +Percentage. .343 +Total Bases. 52 +Ave. Per Game. 1.88 +Bases Stolen. 28 +Ave. Per Game. 0.20 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1889. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Brouthers +CLUB. Boston +Games. 126 +Per cent. of +Base Hits. .373 +Stolen Bases. 22 +Sacrifice Hits. 31 +No. of Runs. 105 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1890. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Glasscock +CLUB. New York +Position. S. S. +Games. 124 +P. c. base hits +to times at bat. .336 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1891. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Hamilton +CLUB. Philadelphia +Games Played. 133 +Runs Scored. 42 +Per cent. .338 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1892. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Childs +CLUB. Cleveland +Games Played. 144 +Times at Bat. 552 +Runs Scored. 135 +Base Hits. 185 +Per cent. .335 +Total Bases. 233 +Sacrifice Hits. 14 +Stolen Bases. 31 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1893. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Stenzel +CLUB. Pittsburgh +Games Played. 51 +Times at Bat. 198 +Runs Scored. 56 +Base Hits. 81 +Per cent. .409 +Total Bases. 113 +Sacrifice Hits. 12 +Stolen Bases. 13 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1894. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Duffy +CLUB. Boston +Games Played. 124 +Times at Bat. 539 +Runs Scored. 160 +Base Hits. 236 +Per cent. .438 +Total Bases. 372 +Sacrifice Hits. 10 +Stolen Bases. 49 +------------------------------ + +Every record of the above tables is made up to encourage the mere record +batsman, the team-worker at the bat having no show given him whatever, +as there is not a figure in the averages--with the probable exception +of the "sacrifice hit" column--to show his percentage of runners +forwarded by his base hits, this being the sole criterion of effective +batting. What is wanted is a record made up in this form: + +BATSMAN. +CLUB. +Games. +Per cent. per Game Runners + Forwarded by Base Hits. +Per cent. of Base Hits to + Times at Bat. +Per cent. of Sacrifice Hits per + Game. +Per cent. of Runs per Game. +Per cent. of Bases Taken on + Balls. +Per cent. of Outs on Strikes. +Per cent. of Chances Given + for Catches. + + +The above record shows how the batsman excelled in forwarding runners by +his hits, together with his percentage of base hits, sacrifice hits, +runs scored, percentage of times he gave chances for outs on catches--a +record which shows the batsman's weakness in batting--percentage of outs +on strikes, and of the times he took his base on balls. The figures +showing total bases is only of more advantage to record batsmen than to +team-workers at the bat, and if left out would cause the "fungo" hitting +class of batsmen to strive to do more teamwork at the bat than they do +now. Another column might be added showing the percentage of runners +forwarded by extra base hits. + +As regards the pitching averages they are equally unreliable in +affording a criterion of excellence of play in the box. How is it +possible to tell how effective a pitcher is by the figures of earned +runs as recorded under the scoring rules in vogue up to 1895? A batsman, +for instance, gets to first base by a fly ball which dropped between two +fielders running to catch the ball, a so-called base hit is scored--the +hit really giving an easy chance for a catch. This is followed by two +steals, sending the runner to third, and a single base hit sends him +home, and by the combined play an earned run off the pitching is +unjustly earned. Another instance of this kind is shown when the first +batsman is given a life by a dropped fly ball; the second is given +another life by a muffed ball from an infield hit, and the third man at +the bat is given a life by a wild throw to first base; after which three +batsmen make safe hits, and before the side is put out, three runs are +scored as earned, though the side should have been put out had the +pitcher's field support been up to even ordinary mark, the fact being +that not a single run was really earned off the pitching, yet three +earned runs are scored against the pitcher under the scoring rules "up +to date." Other instances of the uselessness of the existing method of +making out the League averages could be readily cited, but these amply +suffice, we think. + +One thing against improvement in the scoring rules is: first, the fact +that the magnates have the power to revise the amendments made by the +Committee on Rules. Another is the failure, as a rule, to appoint that +committee so as to secure an efficient working committee. But even when +this is done their good work is knocked in the head by the majority vote +of the magnates at the spring meeting. The vote should be made unanimous +in changing any rule favorably reported by the Committee. + +Here are the complete official averages for 1894, as prepared by +Secretary Young, after revision of averages published last fall: + + + +Batting Record + +OF PLAYERS WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN FIFTEEN OR MORE +CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES--SEASON OF 1894. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Duffy Boston 124 539 160 236 .438 372 10 49 +Turner Philadelphia 77 347 94 147 .423 187 8 12 +Thompson Philadelphia 102 458 115 185 .403 314 8 29 +Delehanty Philadelphia 114 497 149 199 .400 283 5 29 +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 559 196 223 .398 289 7 99 +Anson Chicago 83 347 87 137 .394 188 7 17 +Kelley Baltimore 129 509 167 199 .391 304 19 45 +Cross Philadelphia 120 543 128 211 .388 290 16 28 +Tenny Boston 24 80 21 31 .387 43 2 7 +Holliday Cincinnati 122 519 125 199 .383 297 4 39 +Brodie Baltimore 129 574 132 212 .369 269 24 50 +Doyle New York 105 425 94 157 .369 216 4 48 +Keeler Baltimore 128 593 164 218 .367 305 16 30 +Griffin Brooklyn 106 405 123 148 .365 209 5 48 +Childs Cleveland 117 476 144 174 .365 227 4 20 +Grady Philadelphia 50 187 45 68 .363 100 2 3 +Dahlen Chicago 121 508 150 184 .362 289 10 49 +Ryan Chicago 108 481 133 173 .359 233 8 12 +Burns Brooklyn 126 513 107 184 .358 261 9 29 +Burkett Cleveland 124 518 134 185 .357 267 10 32 +McKean Cleveland 130 561 115 199 .354 281 11 32 +Smith Pittsburgh 125 497 129 175 .352 267 10 37 +Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 523 148 184 .351 303 5 60 +Earle Brooklyn and Louisville 33 114 23 40 .350 47 4 5 +Stratton Chicago and Louisville 33 134 39 47 .350 77 0 8 +McCarthy Boston 126 536 118 187 .349 266 9 40 +Nicol Louisville 28 112 12 39 .348 53 1 2 +Robinson Baltimore 106 420 71 146 .348 182 11 13 +Davis New York 124 492 124 170 .345 267 9 37 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brouthers Baltimore 123 528 137 182 .344 287 18 40 +Joyce Washington 98 357 103 124 .344 230 5 23 +Beckley Pittsburgh 132 534 122 184 .344 284 22 20 +Clements Philadelphia 47 172 26 59 .343 85 3 04 +Mullane Baltimore and Cleveland 18 67 3 23 .343 27 1 2 +Gleason Baltimore and St. Louis 31 111 24 38 .342 55 4 1 +Miller St. Louis 125 480 93 164 .341 223 8 20 +Lowe Boston 133 615 585 210 .341 323 9 25 +McGraw Baltimore 123 515 115 175 .340 221 14 77 +Daly Brooklyn 123 494 135 167 .338 237 4 53 +Inks Baltimore and Louisville 24 89 12 27 .337 30 1 1 +Sullivan Washington & Philadelphia 93 374 72 126 .337 166 7 15 +Connaughton Boston 38 166 38 56 .337 76 1 2 +Bannon Boston 127 496 130 167 .336 257 6 42 +Stivetts Boston 57 244 56 82 .336 133 3 4 +Treadway Brooklyn 122 482 124 162 .336 254 12 29 +Sugden Pittsburgh 39 141 24 47 .333 70 6 3 +VanHaltren New York 139 531 110 177 .333 231 13 44 +Jennings Baltimore 128 505 136 168 .332 246 18 36 +Taylor Philadelphia 34 145 21 48 .331 63 0 3 +Wilmot Chicago 135 606 137 201 .331 294 14 76 +LaChance Brooklyn 65 258 47 85 .329 129 3 25 +Wilson New York 45 179 37 59 .329 77 2 9 +Parrott Cincinnati 59 228 50 75 .329 126 1 5 +Tucker Boston 122 503 112 165 .328 212 2 19 +Hallman Philadelphia 119 519 111 170 .327 207 22 27 +Hassamer Washington 116 493 106 161 .326 243 10 15 +Lange Chicago 112 447 87 145 .324 119 4 71 +Long Boston 103 475 136 154 .324 240 8 25 +Terry Chicago 25 96 19 31 .323 39 0 3 +Hutchinson Chicago 34 133 28 43 .323 64 2 1 +McPhee Cincinnati 128 481 113 154 .320 230 6 31 +Shock Brooklyn 63 237 46 76 .320 94 8 18 +O'Connor Cleveland 80 324 67 105 .320 146 4 13 +Abbey Washington 129 521 95 166 .318 243 13 30 +Kittredge Chicago 50 167 36 53 .317 65 5 2 +Twineham St. Louis 31 127 22 40 .314 50 1 2 +Connor New York and St. Louis 121 462 93 145 .313 253 6 15 +Latham Cincinnati 130 532 132 167 .313 233 11 62 +Hoy Cincinnati 128 506 118 158 .312 241 11 30 +Hartman Pittsburgh 49 186 41 58 .311 82 8 12 +Lyons Pittsburgh 72 254 51 79 .311 113 11 17 +Foutz Brooklyn 73 296 41 92 .310 126 8 16 +Decker Chicago 89 391 76 121 .309 177 2 22 +Vaughn Cincinnati 67 275 48 85 .309 145 2 6 +Selbach Washington 96 372 70 115 .309 188 3 23 +Stockdale Washington 19 75 9 23 .306 25 1 2 +Donovan Pittsburgh 133 575 146 176 .306 230 26 51 +Reitz Baltimore 109 450 86 138 .306 226 7 18 +Ely St. Louis 127 508 85 155 .305 237 13 23 +O. Tebeau Cleveland 119 501 79 153 .305 200 9 27 +McGuire Washington 102 427 67 130 .304 176 4 11 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Chamberlain Cincinnati 20 69 10 21 .304 36 3 1 +Ward Washington 89 343 85 104 .303 130 5 36 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 33 112 18 34 .303 52 1 1 +Corcoran Brooklyn 129 573 124 173 .302 251 10 33 +Irwin Chicago 130 503 85 152 .302 220 4 34 +Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 527 88 159 .301 217 20 20 +Anderson Brooklyn 16 63 13 19 .301 29 1 7 +Bonner Baltimore 27 113 26 34 .301 46 2 11 +Hawke Baltimore 25 93 12 28 .301 37 5 2 +German New York 19 60 8 18 .300 19 2 1 +Merritt Boston and Cincinnati 66 243 38 73 .300 100 1 5 +Shindle Brooklyn 117 476 96 143 .300 201 17 18 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 160 22 48 .300 61 6 5 +Burke New York 138 575 124 172 .299 225 10 47 +Cooley St. Louis 52 207 35 62 .299 71 6 8 +Kinslow Brooklyn 61 221 38 66 .298 91 2 6 +McAleer Cleveland 64 251 36 75 .298 99 5 17 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 420 66 125 .297 182 15 33 +Flaherty Louisville 38 149 15 44 .295 55 1 2 +Dungan Louisville and Chicago 18 71 11 20 .295 23 1 3 +Mercer Washington 43 163 29 48 .294 61 1 10 +Nash Boston 132 510 132 150 .294 212 3 19 +Canavan Cincinnati 100 362 81 106 .293 201 5 15 +Lake Louisville 16 41 8 12 .292 18 0 2 +Cartwright Washington 132 509 86 149 .292 238 3 35 +Boyle Philadelphia 116 512 103 150 .291 203 18 22 +Grimm Louisville 107 413 65 120 .290 182 8 14 +Smith Louisville 39 135 27 39 .288 56 1 13 +Blake Cleveland 73 300 51 86 .286 113 10 1 +McMahon Baltimore 34 129 17 37 .286 46 8 1 +Shugart Pittsburgh 133 533 103 152 .285 236 13 23 +Knell Louisville 31 119 10 34 .285 47 1 2 +Zimmer Cleveland 88 340 55 97 .285 141 2 15 +Fuller New York 95 378 82 107 .283 138 0 34 +Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 332 47 94 .283 123 13 20 +Nichols Boston 45 170 40 48 .282 64 2 1 +Tiernan New York 112 429 87 121 .282 184 6 26 +Farrell New York 112 404 50 114 .282 175 3 10 +Meekin New York 48 174 26 49 .281 80 1 4 +Ganzel Boston 65 266 52 74 .278 98 4 1 +Carsey Philadelphia 32 126 31 35 .277 40 1 3 +Rusie New York 49 185 20 51 .275 74 2 4 +Shiebeck Pittsburgh & Washington 75 294 69 81 .275 102 1 19 +Clark Louisville 76 316 55 87 .275 132 1 24 +Peitz St. Louis 100 364 62 100 .274 159 7 17 +Quinn St. Louis 106 411 58 113 .274 142 13 26 +Denny Louisville 60 222 26 61 .274 87 6 10 +Hawley St. Louis 48 161 16 44 .273 68 5 1 +Reilly Philadelphia 36 132 21 37 .272 42 1 6 +O'Rourke Louisville & St. Louis 80 316 60 86 .272 106 6 11 +McGarr Cleveland 127 522 94 142 .272 185 5 34 +Murphy New York 73 284 65 77 .271 89 2 25 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Ryan Boston 49 203 39 55 .271 87 1 4 +Virtue Cleveland 23 85 15 23 .270 80 2 1 +Clarke Baltimore 27 100 18 27 .270 40 3 1 +Dwyer Cincinnati 49 171 32 46 .269 72 0 0 +Schriver Chicago 94 356 56 96 .269 123 5 9 +Dailey Brooklyn 65 230 39 62 .269 89 6 4 +Murphy Cincinnati 76 265 42 71 .268 89 6 5 +Dowd St. Louis 123 524 92 141 .267 185 9 34 +McCarthy Cincinnati 40 168 29 45 .267 60 4 3 +Smith Cincinnati 128 492 73 131 .266 207 3 12 +G. Tebeau Washington and Cleveland 105 398 77 106 .266 147 11 34 +Twitchell Louisville 51 211 28 56 .265 86 9 9 +Comiskey Cincinnati 59 230 26 61 .265 73 4 9 +Hogan St. Louis 29 103 11 27 .262 37 3 7 +Ward New York 136 552 99 145 .262 168 20 41 +Stein Brooklyn 41 142 31 37 .260 59 4 3 +Mack Pittsburgh 63 229 32 59 .257 70 14 9 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 82 14 21 .256 26 1 1 +Hemming Louisville and Baltimore 38 152 23 39 .256 67 0 2 +Richardson Louisville 116 427 50 109 .255 134 4 11 +Ewing Cleveland 53 212 32 54 .255 82 2 19 +Allen Philadelphia 40 154 27 39 .253 60 3 5 +Cuppy Cleveland 41 134 28 34 .253 47 1 4 +Buckley St. Louis & Philadelphia 67 251 24 64 .251 87 18 0 +Brown Louisville 130 542 123 136 .251 213 14 74 +Weaver Louisville & Pittsburgh 90 355 35 89 .250 119 12 9 +Frank St. Louis 80 321 53 89 .246 130 12 12 +Parrott Chicago 126 532 83 130 .244 175 9 34 +Griffith Chicago 41 139 29 34 .244 44 0 6 +Wadsworth Louisville 23 74 9 18 .243 25 1 0 +Esper Washington and Baltimore 25 96 16 23 .239 35 0 0 +Staley Boston 25 88 12 21 .238 31 2 0 +Wittrock Cincinnati 18 64 8 15 .234 17 0 0 +Gilbert Brooklyn and Louisville 34 133 14 31 .233 39 1 3 +Maul Washington 35 120 23 28 .233 42 1 1 +Radford Washington 93 330 61 77 .233 101 6 26 +Breitenstein St. Louis 53 179 27 41 .229 53 9 3 +McGill Chicago 23 83 11 19 .229 24 1 1 +Sullivan Washington and Cleveland 26 101 10 23 .228 33 0 0 +Daub Brooklyn 28 97 13 22 .226 26 4 1 +Dugdale Washington 33 129 15 28 .217 38 0 6 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 19 70 10 15 .214 21 1 1 +Young Cleveland 48 183 24 40 .213 61 0 4 +Motz Cincinnati 18 68 8 14 .205 19 0 1 +Clarkson Cleveland 16 54 7 11 .204 14 4 0 +Menafee Louisville & Pittsburgh 37 125 12 25 .200 31 10 4 +Lutenburg Louisville 70 255 44 49 .192 66 3 10 +Clarkson St. Louis 26 85 11 16 .188 16 0 1 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 133 6 23 .172 30 10 0 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 119 9 20 .168 26 7 1 +Westervelt New York 18 59 9 9 .152 11 2 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +[Illustration: Cincinnati Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: St. Louis Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Washington Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: The League's Leading Players, 1894.] + + +Fielding Record, 1894. +------------------------ + +FIRST BASEMEN. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Motz Cincinnati 18 185 18 1 204 .995 + 2 Anson Chicago 83 748 45 9 802 .988 + 3 Tucker Boston 122 1114 70 19 1203 .984 + 4 O. Tebeau Cleveland 107 1025 47 18 1090 .983 + 5 Boyle Philadelphia 116 983 64 20 1067 .981 + 6 Vaughn Cincinnati 19 186 11 4 201 .980 + Cartright Washington 132 1227 72 36 1335 .980 + 7 Foutz Brooklyn 73 659 36 15 710 .979 + 8 Beckley Pittsburgh 132 1236 82 31 1349 .977 + La Chance Brooklyn 56 503 13 12 528 .977 + 9 Connor New York and St. Louis 120 1084 81 28 1193 .976 + Decker Chicago 48 433 16 11 460 .976 + 10 Lutenburg Louisville 68 595 34 16 645 .975 + Brouthers Baltimore 123 1180 65 31 1276 .975 + 11 Comiskey Cincinnati 59 558 26 16 600 .973 + O'Rourke Louisville, Wash., St. L. 30 270 22 8 300 .973 + 12 Doyle New York 99 987 60 33 1080 .969 + McCarthy Cincinnati 15 146 13 5 164 .969 + 13 G. Tebeau Washington, Cleveland 16 161 2 9 172 .948 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SECOND BASEMEN. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Reitz Baltimore 100 252 344 21 627 .966 + 2 Quinn St. Louis 106 344 342 33 719 .954 + 3 McPhee Cincinnati 128 391 449 53 893 .940 + 4 Pfeffer Louisville 89 264 283 35 582 .939 + 5 Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 308 462 52 822 .936 + 6 Hallman Philadelphia 119 314 342 47 703 .933 + 7 Lowe Boston 132 354 411 57 822 .930 + 8 Parrott Chicago 125 291 384 52 727 .928 + 9 Childs Cleveland 117 308 380 56 744 .924 + 10 Ward New York 136 332 455 67 854 .921 + 11 Grimm Louisville 24 59 75 12 146 .918 + 12 Ward Washington 79 175 237 40 452 .911 + 13 Bonner Baltimore 24 57 54 10 121 .909 + 14 Daly Brooklyn 128 320 358 74 752 .901 + 15 Radford Washington 21 62 60 14 136 .897 + 16 Miller St. Louis 18 31 49 11 91 .879 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THIRD BASEMEN. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Nash Boston 132 199 271 34 504 .932 + 2 McGarr Cleveland 127 171 246 35 452 .922 + 3 Cross Philadelphia 100 177 240 40 457 .91* + 4 Davis New York 124 154 251 40 445 .916 + 5 Dahlen Chicago 55 95 127 23 245 .906 + 6 Lyons Pittsburgh 72 120 158 30 308 .902 + 7 Peitz St. Louis 43 61 69 15 145 .896 + 8 McGarr Baltimore 117 130 246 44 420 .895 + 9 Shindle Brooklyn 117 190 232 50 472 .894 + 10 Reilly Philadelphia 27 35 55 12 102 .882 + 11 Flaherty Louisville 38 43 75 16 134 .880 + 12 Hartman Pittsburgh 49 65 96 23 184 .875 + 13 Hassamer Washington 30 64 79 21 164 .872 + 14 Latham Cincinnati 129 163 256 64 483 .867 + 15 Denny Louisville 60 84 124 32 240 .866 + 16 Joyce Washington 98 151 184 52 387 .865 + 17 Miller St. Louis 52 71 97 33 201 .835 + 18 Irwin Chicago 68 90 125 43 258 .833 + 19 Gilbert Brooklyn and Louisville 31 56 61 24 141 .829 + 20 O'Rourke Louisville, Wash., St.L. 21 30 39 15 84 .821 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SHORT STOPS. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 195 300 35 530 .934 + 2 Jennings Baltimore 128 307 497 62 866 .928 + 3 Richardson Louisville 107 236 363 50 649 .923 + 4 Smith Cincinnati 128 234 523 72 829 .913 + 4 Corcoran Brooklyn 129 282 446 69 797 .913 + 5 McKean Cleveland 130 278 401 66 745 .911 + 6 Allen Philadelphia 40 93 130 23 246 .907 + 7 Connaughton Boston 32 60 105 18 183 .901 + 8 Ely St. Louis 127 279 444 82 805 .898 + 9 Dahlen Chicago 66 191 257 52 500 .896 + 10 Long Boston 99 223 371 71 665 .893 + 11 Sullivan Washington and Phila. 83 199 232 52 483 .892 + 11 Irwin Chicago 62 122 219 41 382 .892 + 12 Murphy New York 48 112 148 34 294 .884 + 13 Shiebeck Pittsburgh and Wash. 62 130 230 48 408 .882 + 14 Fuller New York 91 211 309 71 591 .879 + 15 Pfeffer Louisville 15 30 63 13 106 .877 + 16 Radford Washington 47 127 184 53 364 .851 + 17 Selbach Washington 18 52 52 23 127 .818 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +OUTFIELDERS +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Dungan Louisville and Chicago 18 30 3 1 34 .970 + 2 Griffin Brooklyn 106 298 13 12 323 .963 + 3 Hamilton Philadelphia 131 363 16 15 394 .961 + 3 Thompson Philadelphia 102 163 11 7 181 .961 + 4 Weaver Louisville and Pitts. 35 59 8 3 70 .957 + 5 McAleer Cleveland 64 173 10 9 192 .953 + 6 Kelley Baltimore 129 274 19 15 308 .951 + 7 Brodie Baltimore 129 311 11 19 341 .944 + 8 Shock Brooklyn 34 89 11 6 106 .943 + 9 Burns Brooklyn 126 212 16 14 242 .942 + 10 Hogan St. Louis 29 43 5 3 51 .941 + 11 Blake Cleveland 73 122 17 9 148 .939 + 11 O'Connor Cleveland 31 85 8 6 99 .939 + 12 Delehanty Philadelphia 85 224 21 16 261 .938 + 13 Smith Pittsburgh 125 271 18 20 309 .935 + 14 Tiernan New York 112 170 11 13 194 .933 + 15 Donovan Pittsburgh 133 267 24 21 312 .932 +16 Dowd St. Louis 115 201 16 16 233 .931 + 17 Keeler Baltimore 127 220 27 19 266 .928 + 18 Radford Washington 22 30 8 3 41 .927 + 19 Ewing Cleveland 52 91 7 8 106 .924 + 19 Selbach Washington 76 153 7 13 173 .924 + 20 Duffy Boston 123 313 23 28 364 .923 + 21 Burke New York 138 269 16 23 308 .922 + 22 Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 317 22 30 369 .918 + 22 Canavan Cincinnati 94 191 10 18 219 .918 + 23 Holliday Cincinnati 121 247 26 25 298 .916 + 24 Brown Louisville 130 327 23 33 383 .914 + 24 McCarthy Cincinnati 25 46 7 5 58 .914 + 25 Burkett Cleveland 124 242 18 24 284 .912 + 26 VanHaltren New York 139 309 28 33 370 .911 + 26 Shugart St. Louis 119 276 23 27 326 .911 + 27 Abbey Washington 129 341 26 36 403 .910 + 27 Hassamer Washington 68 102 10 11 123 .910 + 28 Turner Philadelphia 77 143 7 15 165 .909 + 29 McCarthy Boston 124 286 30 32 348 .908 + 30 Smith Louisville 39 64 2 7 73 .904 + 30 Ryan Chicago 108 222 23 26 271 .904 + 31 Lange Chicago 110 278 30 33 341 .903 + 32 Twitchell Louisville 51 104 14 13 131 .900 + 33 Hoy Cincinnati 128 322 27 41 390 .895 + 34 Treadway Brooklyn 122 274 20 36 330 .891 + 35 Clark Louisville 76 166 14 23 203 .886 + 36 Frank St. Louis 77 159 11 23 193 .880 + 37 G. Tebeau Wash'n and Cleveland 87 182 8 26 216 .879 + 38 Murphy New York 20 32 3 5 40 .875 + 38 Virtue Cleveland 20 38 4 6 48 .875 + 39 Bannon Boston 127 243 42 41 326 .874 + 40 Wilmont Chicago 135 262 17 46 325 .858 + 41 O'Rourke Louisville, Wash., St.L. 18 34 2 6 42 .857 + 42 Decker Chicago 30 55 9 11 75 .853 + 43 Cooley St. Louis 38 73 1 14 88 .840 + 44 Nicol Louisville 26 33 3 7 43 .837 + 45 Anderson Brooklyn 15 21 0 6 27 .777 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +CATCHERS' AVERAGES. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + P P T + u A a o C P + t s E s t h e + G s r s B a a r + a O i r e a l n c + m u s o d l c e + e t t r l e n + s s s s s s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + 1 Zimmer Cleveland 88 285 107 16 13 421 .931 + 2 Clements Philadelphia 47 182 38 11 7 238 .924 + 3 Buckley Philadelphia, St. Louis 66 249 72 18 12 351 .914 + 3 Robinson Baltimore 106 364 96 24 19 503 .914 + 4 Mack Pittsburgh 63 274 59 22 15 370 .900 + 5 Merritt Boston, Pitts., Cinn 61 177 72 16 13 278 .895 + 6 Schriver Chicago 86 294 93 34 13 434 .891 + 7 Grimm Louisville 75 262 104 29 16 411 .890 + 8 Miller St. Louis 39 138 36 12 10 196 .887 + Murphy Cincinnati 74 197 69 29 5 300 .887 + Farrell New York 103 470 138 41 36 685 .887 + 9 Kittredge Chicago 50 209 40 20 13 282 .883 + 10 Vaughn Cincinnati 41 155 43 19 8 225 .880 + Dailey Brooklyn 58 217 62 21 17 317 .880 + 11 Ganzel Boston 55 188 57 24 10 279 .878 + 12 Sugden Pittsburgh 30 104 28 12 7 151 .874 + 13 Earle Brooklyn and Lousiville 31 89 42 6 13 150 .873 + 14 Twineham St. Louis 31 147 35 9 18 209 .870 + 15 O'Connor Cleveland 42 160 37 12 20 229 .860 + 16 McGuire Washington 102 288 116 39 28 471 .857 + 17 Clarke Baltimore 22 86 21 10 8 125 .856 + Ryan Boston 49 166 49 18 18 251 .856 + 18 Peitz St. Louis 38 153 52 13 11 229 .851 + 19 Tenny Boston 18 55 18 11 3 87 .839 + 20 Wilson New York 32 119 22 20 9 170 .829 + 21 Weaver Louisville and Pitts. 30 88 27 11 15 141 .815 + 22 Kinslow Brooklyn 61 114 47 19 23 203 .793 + 23 Grady Philadelphia 38 101 30 21 20 172 .761 + 24 Dugdale Washington 30 75 38 20 10 143 .720 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +PITCHERS' RECORD, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER--1894. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Heading abbreviations used in this table: + G Games Played + %W Percent games won excluding tie games + RS Runs scored average per game + RE Runs earned, average per game + %BH Percent of base hits off pitcher + BoB Bases given on balls + SO No. struck out + %FC Percent fielding chances accepted + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pitcher. Club. G %W RS RE %BH BoB SO %FC +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Breitenst'n St. Louis 49 .551 6.32 3.06 .280 162 138 .902 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 9.13 4.87 .354 59 19 .844 +Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 7.13 3.24 .298 119 63 .916 +Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 7.93 3.84 .314 95 40 .831 +Clarkson St. Louis 26 .308 8.11 4.19 .318 102 42 .794 +Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 7.45 3.70 .309 78 57 .729 +Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 7.3 4.13 .317 97 47 .902 +Daub Brooklyn 26 .423 7.89 3.70 .306 71 33 .694 +Esper Wash. and Balti. 26 .500 8.3 4.88 .339 59 36 .929 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 .436 7.05 4.17 .306 111 91 .808 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 7.23 4.87 .326 73 60 .909 +Griffith Chicago 32 .656 6.46 3.59 .300 79 67 .901 +German New York 17 .471 7.82 3.53 .288 48 15 .842 +Gleason St.L. and Balti. 29 .586 6.00 3.45 .312 59 39 .841 +Hemming Louis. and Balti. 40 .500 6.02 2.85 .295 140 75 .893 +Hawke Baltimore 23 .562 7.17 4.08 .311 58 50 .887 +Hutchinson Chicago 30 .467 7.47 3.33 .314 125 60 .716 +Hawley St. Louis 47 .413 7.04 3.72 .303 121 117 .708 +Inks Balti. and Louis. 24 .478 7.96 4.04 .337 75 37 .846 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 6.25 3.87 .303 83 57 .909 +Knell Louisville 30 .200 8.46 3.60 .329 97 65 .693 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 7.55 4.21 .302 134 101 .771 +Menafee Louis. and Pitts. 37 .351 6.59 3.67 .309 85 78 .904 +Mercer Washington 38 .421 7.18 4.09 .303 105 57 .852 +Meekin New York 47 .790 4.91 2.38 .253 147 127 .798 +Maul Washington 24 .458 8.08 4.08 .307 60 31 .785 +Mullane Balt. and Cleve. 17 .470 8.17 4.17 .297 80 44 .740 +McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 5.51 3.00 .269 109 55 .869 +McGill Chicago 24 .291 8.12 3.83 .321 98 55 .846 +Nichols Boston 46 .711 6.78 3.56 .291 108 98 .856 +Parrott Cincinnati 37 .459 7.24 3.94 .307 120 61 .824 +Rusie New York 49 .734 4.73 2.12 .253 189 204 .867 +Stratton Louis. & Chicago 21 .476 9.43 5.24 .366 52 29 .931 +Stockdale Washington 16 .375 7.60 3.60 .353 39 8 .825 +Stivetts Boston 39 .692 7.49 3.43 .306 100 73 .913 +Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 6.26 3.05 .280 162 72 .785 +Staley Boston 25 .520 8.88 5.72 .344 55 29 .744 +Sullivan Wash. and Cleve. 23 .348 8.26 3.74 .320 97 28 .714 +Terry Chicago 19 .278 9.73 4.00 .334 91 43 .782 +Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 5.30 2.76 .281 85 79 .796 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 6.72 3.49 .324 101 79 .845 +Wadsworth Louisville 21 .190 9.38 4.66 .360 97 58 .703 +Westervelt New York 18 .412 7.39 3.83 .297 62 28 .654 +Young Cleveland 47 .532 5.83 3.17 .293 100 100 .902 + +Tie games--Cuppy, 1; Dwyer, 1; Daub, 1; Ehret, 1; Gumbert, 1; Hawley, 1; +Inks, 1; Meekin, 4; Nichols, 1; Stein, 1; Terry, 1; Taylor 1; Westervelt,1. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +The Batting of 1894. + + +THE TEAM-WORK AT THE BAT. + +It goes to the credit of the leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 +that the first three clubs did better team-work at the bat, and more of +it, than any previous trio of the kind known in the annals of the +League. In fact, competent managers and captains of teams have learned +in recent years, by costly experiment, that one of the most potent +factors in winning pennants is the method of handling the ash known as +good _team-work at the bat_ the very essence of which is devoting all +the batsmen's efforts to _forwarding runners by base hits_, and not by +each player's going to the bat simply to build up a high record of base +hits without regard to forwarding runners on bases. Suppose the first +baseman in a game to take his position at the bat makes a two or +three-bagger at the outset. Of course the object of the batsman who +succeeds him would be to send the runner home the best way he can, +either by a base hit or a sacrifice hit. In striving to do this, the +very worst plan, is to try solely for a home run hit, as it only +succeeds once in thirty or forty times, and not that against skilful, +strategic pitching. Time and again were batsmen, last season, left on +third base after opening the innings with a three-bagger, owing to the +stupid work of the succeeding batsmen in trying to "line 'em out for a +homer," instead of doing real team-work at the bat. Of course, good +"sacrifice hitting" is part and parcel of team-work at the bat, but +this kind of hitting was not done to any special extent last season by a +majority of the League batsmen. + + + +SACRIFICE HITTING. + +There is one thing about the point of play in batting known, as +"sacrifice hitting" which is not as thoroughly understood as it should +be. A majority of batsmen seem to be of the impression that when they +are called upon to forward a base runner by a "sacrifice hit," all they +have to do is to go to the bat and have themselves put out, so that the +base runner at first base may be able to reach second base on the play +which puts the batsmen out. This is a very erroneous idea of the true +intent of a sacrifice hit. No skilful batsmen ever goes to the bat +purposely to hit the ball so as to have himself put out; that would be a +very silly move. On the contrary, he takes his bat in hand every time, +with the primary object of _making a base hit_ if he possibly can; but +in trying for this strongest point in batting, he proposes, to make the +desired hit in such a way that if he fails to make the base hit he will +at least hit the ball in that direction in the field which will oblige +the fielders to throw him out at first base. With this object in view he +will always strive for a safe hit to _right field_, especially by means +of a hard "bounder" in that direction, so as to force the second baseman +to run to right short to field the ball, in which case the runner at +first base will be able to steal to second on the hit in nine cases out +of ten. Another good effort for a sacrifice hit is to _bunt_ the ball so +that it may roll towards third base, out of reach of the baseman or +pitcher. A third sacrifice hit is that of a long high ball to the +outfield, which admits of a chance for a catch, but so far out in the +field that the runner will have an opportunity to steal a base on the +catch. This latter point won't work, of course, when two men are out; +moreover, it should be the last point aimed at. + +A great deal of bosh has been written--mostly by the admirers of "fungo" +hitting--about sacrifice hitting being something that should not be in +the game, just as these fungo-hitting-advocates try to write down _bunt_ +hitting--the most difficult place hit known to the game. This class of +writers think that the very acme of batting skill is the home run hit, a +hit which any muscular novice in batting on amateur fields can +accomplish without difficulty, and where more home runs are made in a +single season than in two seasons by the best managed professional +teams. The effort to make home runs leads to more chances for catches by +outfielders in one game than there are home runs made in fifty. The +exhaustion which follows a home run hit, with its sprinting run of 120 +yards at full speed, is entirely lost sight of by the class of patrons +of the game who favor home runs. One season, a few years ago, the +tail-end team of the League excelled all its rivals in scoring home +runs, while the pennant-winning team took the honors and the prize +solely on account of its excellence in team-work at the bat. The mere +record of the best averages in scoring base hits in batting seems to be +regarded by the majority of "cranks" in base ball as the only sound +criterion of good batting. This is one of the fallacies of the game, as +such a record is unreliable. The only true criterion of good batting is +the record which shows the players who excel in the batting which +forwards runners; and this record the existing scoring rules, up to +1895, did not admit of, the champion batsman being regarded as the one +who excels in his base-hit average, without regard to the runners his +base hits forwarded. For instance, one batsman in a game will make three +three-baggers, and forward but a single runner by his three hits, while +another batsman by a single base hit, a good "bunt" hit and a telling +"sacrifice hit," will forward _four runners_; and yet by the existing +scoring rules the record batsman carries off all the honors in the +score, and the team-worker at the bat does not get the slightest credit +for the effective batting he has done. + + +SACRIFICE HIT RECORD. + +The following is the record of the players in the League teams of 1894 +who led in sacrifice hits last season. The names are given in the order +of bases stolen, as recorded in the official average tables made up by +Mr. Young. The percentage figures would, of course, materially change +the order. + +----------------------------------------------- + Sacrifice +PLAYERS. CLUBS. Games. Hits. +----------------------------------------------- +Donovan Pittsburgh 129 24 +Brodie Baltimore 129 24 +Beckley Pittsburgh 132 22 +Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 20 +Ward New York 136 20 +Kelley Baltimore 129 19 +Buckley Philadelphia 67 18 +Boyle Philadelphia 116 18 +Brouthers Baltimore 123 18 +Jennings Baltimore 128 18 +Shindle Brooklyn 117 17 +Cross Philadelphia 120 16 +Keeler Baltimore 128 16 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 15 +Mack Pittsburgh 63 14 +McGraw Baltimore 123 14 +Brown Louisville 130 14 +Wilmot Chicago 135 14 +Shugart St. Louis 33 13 +Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 13 +Quinn St. Louis 106 13 +Ely St. Louis 127 13 +Abbey Washington 129 13 +Van Haltren New York 139 13 +Frank St. Louis 80 12 +Weaver Pittsburgh 90 12 +Tredway Brooklyn 122 12 +Lyons Pittsburgh 72 11 +G. Tebeau Cleveland 105 11 +Robinson Baltimore 106 11 +Hay Cincinnati 128 11 +Latham Cincinnati 130 11 +McKean Cleveland 130 11 +Menafee Pittsburgh 37 10 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 10 +Blake Cleveland 73 10 +Hassamer Washington 116 10 +Dahlen Chicago 121 10 +Duffy Boston 124 10 +Burkett Cleveland 124 10 +E. Smith Pittsburgh 125 10 +Corcoran Brooklyn 129 10 +Burke New York 138 10 +---------------------------------------------- + +According to the above table Pittsburgh led with a total of 146 +sacrifice hits, Baltimore being next with 120, followed by Philadelphia +with 52, New York 43, Cleveland 42, Brooklyn 39, St. Louis 38, +Louisville 29, Chicago 24, Washington 23, Cincinnati 22 and Boston 10. + +A record connected with the batting of each season is that showing the +number of victories and defeats, marked by single and double figure +scores. This data shows, to a considerable extent, how the pitching +stands in relation to the batting, as to whether the one or the other +dominates too much in the efforts of the rulemakers to equal the powers +of attack and defence. If the pitching has the best of it than we have +a predominance of the undesirable class of pitchers' games, in which the +minority of the fielders only bear the brunt of the contest. On the +other hand, if the batting rules the roost, then we have too much of the +old slugging style of play, in which the outfielders are mostly brought +into play, and but little chance to see skilful base running or splendid +infielding is afforded. Here are some records which show what was done +in 1894 in this respect: + +The three leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 scored a total of +198 single figure games to 194 double figure games. The record in +detail being as follows: + +SINGLE FIGURE. +------------------------------------------- +Baltimore single figure victories 40 +Baltimore single figure defeats 18 +New York single figure victories 59 +New York single figure defeats 25 +Boston single figure victories 34 +Boston single figure defeats 22 + --- +Totals 198 +------------------------------------------- + +DOUBLE FIGURE. +------------------------------------------- +Baltimore double figure victories 49 +Baltimore double figure defeats 21 +New York double figure victories 29 +New York double figure defeats 19 +Boston double figure victories 49 +Boston double figure defeats 27 + --- +Totals 194 +------------------------------------------- + +This record includes games counted out or forfeited. + +The full record of the twelve clubs in single and double figure +victories and defeats in 1894 is appended. + + +RECORD OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE FIGURE GAMES. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + SINGLE FIGURE. DOUBLE FIGURE. +CLUBS. Victories. Defeats. Totals. Victories. Defeats. Totals. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 40 18 58 49 21 70 +New York 59 25 84 29 19 48 +Boston 34 22 56 49 27 76 +Philadelphia 28 22 50 43 30 73 +Brooklyn 34 27 61 36 35 71 +Cleveland 39 36 75 29 25 54 +Pittsburgh 35 35 70 30 20 50 +Chicago 20 40 60 38 35 73 +St. Louis 35 45 80 21 31 52 +Cincinnati 36 37 73 20 38 58 +Washington 28 34 62 17 53 70 +Louisville 24 61 85 12 34 46 +Totals 412 402 814 373 368 741 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Boston club, which was third in the race, is +first in scoring the most total double figures in their contests, the +"Phillies" being second and the Chicagos third. In total single figure +scores New York takes a decided lead, while the Louisville club is +second and St. Louis third. In single figure victories, however, New +York is first, Baltimore second and Cleveland third; while in double +figure victories Baltimore and Boston are tied and Philadelphia is +third. The totals of 814 single figure games against 741 double figure +contests shows that the pitching is not yet overpowered by the batting, +though the use of the big mitts in infield work had much to do with the +scoring of single figure games. As far as these records show, it would +appear that the New York team really did the best batting of the +season. + + + +The Batting Averages. + + +We give below a record, taken from the official averages of the League, +giving the batting figure, which shows the base hit percentage and the +total sacrifice hits of those who have played in a majority of the +scheduled games of the season of 1894, the limit being not less than 70 +games. The names of the clubs are given in pennant-race order, beginning +with Baltimore and ending with Louisville. The record is not of much +account, except in the showing of the comparative base hit and sacrifice +hit batting, the larger total of the latter giving the palm in case of a +tie in the base hit averages. It also shows, as far as sacrifice hit +figures can show, which batsman did the best team-work batting. But the +one thing wanting in the record of batting averages is the data showing +the runners forwarded by base hits, and until the scoring rules give +such data there can be no correct data useful as a criterion of skilful +batting. Another record needed in the score summary of each game is that +of the number of chances given for catches off the bat, thus showing the +carelessness of the batting in the averaged number of chances for +catches offered off the bat. + +Here, is the record above referred to: + +An Analysis of the Batting Averages. +-------------------------------------- + +BALTIMORE CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Kelly 129 .391 19 +Brodie 129 .369 24 +Keeler 128 .367 16 +Robinson 106 .348 11 +Brouthers 123 .344 18 +McGraw 123 .340 14 +Jennings 128 .332 18 +Reitz 109 .306 7 +----------------------------------------------------- + +NEW YORK CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Doyle 105 .369 4 +Davis 124 .345 9 +Van Haltren 139 .333 13 +Burke 138 .299 10 +Fuller 95 .282 0 +Tiernan 112 .282 6 +Farrell 112 .282 3 +Murphy 73 .271 2 +Ward 136 .262 20 +----------------------------------------------------- + +BOSTON CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Duffy 124 .438 10 +McCarthy 126 .349 9 +Lowe 133 .341 9 +Bannon 127 .336 6 +Tucker 122 .328 2 +Long 103 .324 8 +Nash 132 .294 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + +PHILADELPHIA CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Turner 77 .423 8 +Thompson 102 .403 8 +Delahanty 114 .400 5 +Hamilton 131 .398 7 +Cross 128 .388 16 +Hallman 119 .327 22 +Boyle 116 .291 18 +----------------------------------------------------- + +BROOKLYN CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Griffin 106 .365 5 +Burns 126 .358 9 +Daly 123 .338 4 +Treadway 122 .336 12 +Foutz 73 .310 8 +Corcoran 129 .302 10 +Shindle 117 .300 17 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CLEVELAND CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Childs 117 .365 4 +Burkett 124 .357 10 +McKean 130 .354 11 +O'Connor 80 .330 4 +O. Tebeau 119 .305 9 +Blake 73 .286 10 +Zimmer 88 .285 2 +McGarr 127 .272 5 +G. Tebeau 105 .266 11 +----------------------------------------------------- + +PITTSBURGH CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +E. Smith 125 .352 10 +Stenzel 131 .351 5 +Beckley 132 .344 22 +Lyons 72 .311 11 +Donovan 133 .306 26 +Bierbauer 131 .301 20 +Shugart 133 .285 13 +Glasscock 86 .283 13 +Shiebeck 75 .275 1 +Weaver 90 .250 12 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CHICAGO CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Anson 83 .394 7 +Dahlen 121 .362 10 +Ryan 108 .359 8 +Wilmot 105 .331 14 +Lange 112 .324 4 +Decker 89 .310 2 +Irwin 130 .302 4 +Schriver 94 .269 5 +Parrott 126 .244 9 +----------------------------------------------------- + +ST. LOUIS CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Miller 125 .341 8 +Ely 127 .305 13 +Peitz 100 .274 7 +Quinn 106 .274 13 +Dowd 123 .267 9 +Frank 80 .246 12 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CINCINNATI CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Holliday 122 .383 4 +McPhee 128 .320 6 +Latham 130 .313 11 +Hoy 128 .312 11 +Canavan 100 .293 5 +Murphy 76 .268 6 +G. Smith 128 .266 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + +WASHINGTON CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Joyce 98 .344 5 +Hassamer 116 .326 10 +Abbey 129 .318 13 +Selbach 96 .309 3 +McGuire 102 .304 4 +F. Ward 89 .303 5 +Cartwright 132 .292 3 +Radford 93 .233 1 +----------------------------------------------------- + +LOUISVILLE CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Pfeffer 104 .297 15 +Grimm 107 .290 8 +Clark 76 .275 1 +Richardson 116 .255 4 +Brown 130 .251 14 +Lutenburg 70 .192 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + + +The record of the twelve clubs in the League pennant race of 1894 in the +total number of sacrifice hits is as follows: + +---------------------------------------------------------------- + Sacrifice +BATSMEN. CLUBS. Games. Hits. +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Donovan Pittsburgh 133 26 +Brodie Baltimore 129 24 +Cross Philadelphia 128 16 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 15 +Wilmot Chicago 135 14 +Quinn St. Louis 106 13 +Abbey Washington 129 13 +Van Haltren New York 139 13 +Tredway Brooklyn 122 12 +Hoy Cincinnati 128 11 +G. Tebeau Cleveland 105 11 +Duffy Boston 124 10 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The first nine in base hit averages were as follows: +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + Percent, of Sacrifice + BATSMEN. CLUBS. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Duffy Boston 124 .438 10 +Turner Philadelphia 77 .423 8 +Thompson Philadelphia 102 .403 8 +Delahanty Philadelphia 114 .400 5 +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 .398 7 +Anson Chicago 88 .394 7 +Kelly Baltimore 129 .391 19 +Cross Philadelphia 128 .388 6 +Holliday Cincinnati 122 .383 4 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +BASE RUNNING. + +It should be borne in mind by the rulemakers of the League, and +especially by the magnates who pass upon the work done by the Rules +Committee, that base running has come to be as much of an art in the +game as is skilful, strategic pitching or team-work in batting. +Especially has skill in stealing bases become a potent factor +in winning games, and year after year is it increasing in popular favor +as one of the most attractive features of the game. Every manager of the +period should realize the important fact, that, however strong his team +may be in its "battery" department, or in the excellence of the field +support given the pitchers, it is lacking in one essential element of +strength if it be not up to the mark in base stealing by its +players. Effective pitching and sharp fielding are, of course, very +necessary to success in winning games, as also skilful batting, +especially of the strategic kind. While it is a difficult task to get to +first base safely in the face of a steady and effective fire from the +opposing "battery," backed up by good support from the field, it is +still more difficult when the first base is safely reached to secure the +other bases by good base stealing. The fact is, a greater degree of +intelligence is required in the player who would excel in base running +than is needed either in fielding or in batting. Any soft-brained +heavy-weight can occasionally hit a ball for a home run, but it requires +a shrewd, intelligent player, with his wits about him, to make a +successful base runner. Indeed, base running is the most difficult work +a player has to do in the game. To cover infield positions properly, a +degree of intelligence in the player is required, which the majority do +not as a general rule possess; but to excel in base running such mental +qualifications are required as only a small minority are found to +possess. Presence of mind, prompt action on the spur of the moment; +quickness of perception, and coolness and nerve are among the requisites +of a successful base runner. Players habitually accustomed to hesitate +to do this, that or the other, in attending to the varied points of a +game, can never become good base runners. There is so little time +allowed to judge of the situation that prompt action becomes a necessity +with the base runner. He must "hurry up" all the time. Then, too, he +must be daring in taking risks, while at the same time avoiding +recklessness in his running. + +Due consideration had not been given by the League magnates, up to 1895, +to the importance of having more definite rules governing the base +running in the game, the rules applicable to balks in pitching, as +affecting the base running, having been at no time as clear and definite +as they should be; nor have the existing rules bearing upon base running +been strictly observed by the majority of the umpires each year; +especially was this the case in 1892, when the observance of the balk +rule was very lax indeed. The difficulty in framing a proper rule for +the purpose is, to properly define the difference between a palpable +_fielding_ error, which enables a base to be run on the error, and an +error plainly induced by the very effort made to steal a base. No base +can be credited to a base runner as having been stolen which is the +result of a dropped fly ball, a wild throw to a base player, or a +palpable muff in fielding a batted ball. But in view of the difficulties +surrounding base stealing, it is not going out of the way to credit a +base as stolen when the effort of the runner, in taking ground and +getting a start to steal, leads to a passed ball, a failure to throw to +a base quick enough, or a failure on the part of a base player to put +the ball on the runner quick enough. Of course these are, to a certain +extent, errors on the part of the fielders, but they are not of the +class of _palpable errors_ as wild throws, dropped fly balls, and +failures to pick up batted balls, or to hold well thrown balls, are. The +other errors are consequent upon the effort on the part of the runner to +steal a base, and as such should be included as part and parcel of a +credited stolen base. + +#The Base Running of 1894.# + +The base running records of the past three years, under the rules of the +great major league, present a very interesting set of tables, whereby +one can judge of the good work done in this direction pretty +fairly. Below we give the full record of each season in stolen bases +from 1892 to 1894, inclusive, showing the totals of stolen bases by each +club each season, together with the aggregate of stolen bases for the +three years. We give the names of the twelve clubs in the order in which +they lead in stolen bases at the end of the three years of base running. +Here is the full record in question: + +RECORD OF TOTAL STOLEN BASES FOR 1892, 1893 AND 1894. +--------------------------------------------------- + CLUBS. 1892. 1893. 1894. TOTALS. +--------------------------------------------------- +1. New York 281 401 294 976 +2. Brooklyn 408 247 266 921 +3. Baltimore 197 261 320 778 +4. Chicago 216 237 324 777 +5. Cleveland 288 242 228 758 +6. Boston 337 174 230 741 +7. Pittsburgh 211 245 247 703 +8. Philadelphia 217 174 266 657 +9. Cincinnati 241 204 205 650 +10. Washington 250 142 209 601 +11. Louisville 228 174 198 600 +12. St. Louis 196 196 150 542 +--------------------------------------------------- +Totals 3070 2697 2937 8704 +--------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen by the above record that the best base running, in the +aggregate of the three years' play, was made in 1892, the three leading +clubs in stolen bases that year being Brooklyn, Boston and Cleveland. In +1893 the three leaders in base running were New York, Baltimore and +Brooklyn, and the three leaders of the past season were Chicago, +Baltimore and Brooklyn, Philadelphia being tied with Brooklyn. The +tail-end clubs in stolen base records during the three years were +St. Louis in 1892, Washington in 1893 and St. Louis in 1894. In the +aggregate of the three years, New York stands first, Brooklyn second and +Baltimore third, St. Louis being a bad tail-ender in these total +figures. It is a noteworthy fact that when Brooklyn led in base running +Ward was captain, while when New York led the next year, Ward was +captain, too, New York jumping from .281 in 1892, when Ward was in +Brooklyn, to .401 in 1893, when he went to the New York club, Brooklyn +that year falling off from .408 to .247. Baltimore, too, made a big jump +in base running after Hanlon became manager, the jump being from .197 in +1892 to .320 in 1894. + +The highest totals of stolen bases in any one year was in 1892, there +being quite a falling off in 1893; while in 1894 a considerable +improvement was shown, the average for the three years being 2,901 for +the twelve clubs. + +Last season the Baltimore club's team, under Hanlon's control, excelled +all the other Eastern teams in stealing bases, Philadelphia being +second, New York third and Boston fourth in this respect, the +Baltimore's quartette of leading base stealers scoring a total of 212 +bases to Philadelphia's 185, New York's 180 and Boston's 156. The three +teams of the Western clubs which excelled in base running last season +were Chicago, with a total of 324; Pittsburgh, with 247, and Cleveland, +with 228. + +Had the umpires properly interpreted the balk rules in 1894, probably +the total of stolen bases for that year would have got up among the +twelve hundreds at least. This year they should be made to do it. + + +THE STOLEN BASE RECORD OF 1894. + +The record of stolen bases for 1894, showing the best nine base stealers +of each club is as appended. The names of clubs are given in pennant +race order, and of players in the order of percentage of stolen bases +per game. + + +THE RECORD OF THE FIRST DIVISION CLUBS. +---------------------------------------- + +BALTIMORE +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +McGraw 123 77 .636 +Bonner 27 11 .407 +Brodie 129 50 .388 +Kelley 129 45 .350 +Brouthers 126 40 .317 +Jennings 128 36 .281 +Keeler 128 30 .235 +Reitz 109 18 .165 +Robinson 106 9 .123 + +Totals 1005 820 .318 +---------------------------------------- + +NEW YORK +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Doyle 105 48 .457 +Fuller 95 34 .358 +Burke 138 47 .340 +Van Halt'n 139 44 .315 +Ward 136 41 .306 +Davis 124 37 .298 +Tiernan 112 24 .214 +German 19 4 .211 +Wilson 45 9 .200 + +Totals 1006 294 .292 +---------------------------------------- + +BOSTON +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Duffy 124 49 .395 +Bannon 127 42 .331 +McCarthy 126 40 .317 +Tierney 24 7 .292 +Long 103 25 .243 +Lowe 133 25 .188 +Tucker 122 19 .156 +Nash 132 19 .144 +Stivetts . 57 4 .070 + +Totals 948 230 .253 +---------------------------------------- + +PHILADELPHIA. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Hamilton 131 99 .756 +Thompson 102 29 .284 +Delahanty 104 29 .279 +Cross 120 28 .233 +Hallman 119 26 .218 +Boyle 116 22 .190 +Reilly 36 6 .167 +Sullivan 93 15 .161 +Turner 77 12 .157 + +Totals 898 266 .296 +---------------------------------------- + +BROOKLYN. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Griffin 106 48 .453 +Daly 123 53 .431 +LaChance 65 25 .385 +Shock 63 18 .286 +Corcoran 129 33 .256 +Burns 126 29 .230 +Foutz 73 16 .219 +Treadway 122 26 .213 +Shindle 117 18 .154 + +Totals 924 266 .288 +---------------------------------------- + +CLEVELAND. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Ewing 53 19 .385 +G. Tebeau 105 34 .324 +McGarr 127 34 .269 +McAleer 64 17 .266 +Burkett 124 32 .258 +McKean 130 32 .246 +Childs 117 20 .171 +O'Connor 80 13 .163 +O. Tebeau 109 27 .155 + +Totals 909 228 .251 +---------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Baltimore club's nine excel the other five +clubs in the percentage of stolen bases, Philadelphia being second and +New York third; the other three following in order in percentage figures +as follows: Brooklyn, Boston and Cleveland. In total stolen bases by the +individual player, Hamilton leads with 99--the champion stolen-base +record of the season--McGraw being second and Duffy third, followed by +Griffin, Doyle and Ewing. + + +THE SECOND DIVISION LEADERS. +---------------------------- + +PITTSBURGH. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Stenzel 131 60 .450 +Hartman 44 17 .386 +E. Smith 125 37 .296 +Shiebeck 75 19 .244 +Donovan 131 31 .236 +Glasscock 86 20 .233 +Shugart 133 23 .172 +Bierbaur 131 20 .153 +Beckley 132 20 .152 + +Totals 987 247 .250 +---------------------------------------- + +CHICAGO. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Lange 112 71 .634 +Wilmot 135 76 .563 +Dableu 121 49 .415 +Parrott 126 34 .370 +Irwin 130 34 .262 +Decker 89 22 .247 +Anson 83 17 .205 +Ryan 108 12 .111 +Schriver 94 9 .096 + +Totals 998 324 .325 +---------------------------------------- + +ST. LOUIS. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Dowd 123 34 .276 +Hogan 29 7 .248 +Ely 127 23 .181 +Pietz 100 17 .170 +Miller 125 20 .160 +Cooley 52 8 .154 +Quinn 106 26 .151 +Frank 80 12 .150 +Breitenstein 53 3 .057 + +Totals 795 150 .189 +---------------------------------------- + +CINCINNATI +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Latham 130 62 .477 +Holliday 122 39 .320 +McPhee 128 31 .242 +Hay 128 30 .235 +M. Murphy 76 5 .192 +Canavan 160 15 .150 +Vaughn 67 6 .097 +G. Smith 128 12 .094 +Merritt 66 5 .079 + +Totals 945 205 .217 +---------------------------------------- + +WASHINGTON +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Ward 89 36 .401 +Cartwright 132 35 .269 +Radford 106 26 .245 +Seebach 96 23 .240 +Joyce 98 23 .235 +Mercer 43 10 .233 +Abbey 129 30 .233 +Hassamer 116 15 .129 +McGuire 102 11 .108 + +Totals 911 209 .229 +---------------------------------------- + +LOUISVILLE +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Brown 130 74 .569 +Smith 39 13 .333 +Pfeffer 104 33 .317 +Clark 76 24 .316 +Twitchell 51 9 .176 +Denny 60 10 .167 +Lutenberg 70 10 .143 +Grim 107 14 .131 +Richardson 116 11 .095 + +Totals 753 198 .263 +---------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the leaders of the six second division clubs +aggregated a total of 337 bases, of which Brown is credited with 74, +Lange with 71, and Latham with 62. In percentages, however, Lange led +with .634, Brown being second with .569, and Latham third with .477, +Stenzel, Ward (of Washington) and Dowd following in order. In total +percentages, the Chicago nine led "by a large majority," Louisville +being second and Pittsburgh third, Washington beating both Cincinnati +and St. Louis, the latter club making a very poor show in base running +figures in 1894. + +THE LEADING BASE STEALERS OF EACH CLUB. + +The following record shows the leader of each club in percentage of +stolen bases, the names being given in the order of percentage figures: + +--------------------------------------------------- + Total Per cent. + Stolen of Stolen +Players. Clubs. Games. Bases. Bases. +--------------------------------------------------- +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 99 .756 +McGraw Baltimore 123 77 .636 +Lange Chicago 112 71 .626 +Brown Louisville 130 74 .569 +Latham Cincinnati 130 62 .477 +Doyle New York 105 48 .457 +Griffin Brooklyn 106 48 .453 +Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 60 .450 +Duffy Boston 124 49 .395 +Ewing Cleveland 53 19 .385 +F. Ward Washington 89 36 .306 +Dowd St. Louis 123 34 .276 +--------------------------------------------------- + +The record of the base runners of the twelve League clubs who have a +record of 10 stolen bases and less than 20 each for 1894 is as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------- +PLAYERS. CLUBS. Games. Stolen Bases. +--------------------------------------------------- + 1. Ewing Cleveland 53 19 + 2. Shiebeck Pittsburgh 75 19 + 3. Tucker Boston 122 19 + 4. Nash Boston 132 19 + 5. Shock Brooklyn 63 18 + 6. Reitz Baltimore 109 18 + 7. Shindle Brooklyn 117 18 + 8. McAleer Cleveland 64 17 + 9. Lyons Pittsburgh 72 17 +10. Anson Chicago 83 17 +11. Pietz St. Louis 100 17 +12. Foutz Brooklyn 73 16 +13. Zimmer Cleveland 88 15 +14. Sullivan Philadelphia. 93 15 +15. Canavan Cincinnati 100 15 +16. Hassamer Washington 116 15 +17. Grimm Louisville 107 14 +18. Smith Louisville 39 13 +19. O'Connor Cleveland 80 13 +20. Robinson Baltimore 106 13 +21. Hartman Pittsburgh 49 12 +22. Frank St. Louis 80 12 +23. Turner Philadelphia. 77 12 +24. Ryan Chicago 108 12 +25. G. Smith Cincinnati 128 12 +26. Bonner Baltimore 27 11 +27. McGuire Washington 102 11 +28. Richardson Louisville 116 11 +29. Mercer Washington 43 10 +30. Denny Louisville 70 10 +31. Lutenberg Louisville 70 10 +32. O'Rourke St. Louis 80 10 +33. Farrell New York 112 10 +--------------------------------------------------- + +Those who did not steal a single base were pitchers Esper, +Dwyer, J. Clarkson, Ehret, Staley, Whitrock, McGill, +Wadsworth and catcher Buckley. + + + +THE FIELDING OF 1894. + +Season after season finds the fielding in base ball better attended to +than any other department of the game; and it is fortunate for the +business end of professional ball playing that it is so, as skilful +fielding is decidedly the most attractive feature of our national +game. Next to fielding comes base running, and lastly batting. The +reason that so much more skill is shown in the fielding department than +in that of batting, is due to the fact that more attention is giving to +fielding than to batting. Regular training in team-work batting is +practically unknown in the professional arena; while practice in +fielding is given every attention. No game is played now-a-days without +an hour being devoted to preliminary practice in fielding, while +efficient batting is unknown except in the college arena, the +professionals ignoring team-work batting practice in nearly every +club. Hence the superiority fielding has attained over the batting. Go +on any amateur field and watch a game in progress, and you can readily +see the inferiority in fielding exhibited in comparison with that shown +on the professional fields. It is not so in the batting, however. The +reason is that amateurs have not the time to devote to the practice +required to excel in fielding; but they can bat out three-baggers and +home-runs as easily as the record batsmen do in the professional fields; +it is different, however, in the case of doing team-work at the bat, +owing to their not having time for the necessary practice. + +Some splendid fielding was done in 1894, but as a whole it was not +superior to that of 1893, or even to that of 1892. One reason for this +was the introduction of the catcher's "big mitt" in the infield +work--something that should not have been allowed. It was due to this +fact that the batting scores were not larger the past season than they +were in 1893, the big mitt on the hands of infielders enabling them to +stop hard hit "bounders" and "daisy cutters" which, but for the use of +the mitts, would have been clean earned base hits. This gave the +infielders an opportunity to materially lessen the base hit record. By a +mistaken calculation, the pitchers were charged with doing less +effective work, single figure games being in a majority last season. + +In contrast to the attractions of fine fielding, the average batting of +the period is decidedly behindhand. What sight on a ball field is +prettier to the good judge of the fine points of the game, than to see a +hard hit "bounder" well stopped and accurately thrown from back of third +base over to first base in time to cut off a rapid runner? or to see a +splendidly judged fly ball held after a long run; or a hot "liner" +caught on the jump by an infielder; or a beautiful triple play made from +the infield; or a good double play from a neat catch, followed by a +fine, long throw-in from the outfield? All these attractive features of +sharp fielding all can enjoy and appreciate. But in the batting +department too little team-work at the bat--that is, skilful scientific +handling of the bat in the form of _place_ hitting, to forward +runners--is done to gratify good judges, the mere novices regarding +over-the-fence hits for a home run as the very acme of "splendid +batting," though they are invariably chance hits, and only made off poor +pitching as a rule. Then, too, how the "groundlings," as Hamlet called +them, enjoy "fungo" hitting, that is high balls hit in the air flying to +the outfield, this style of hitting giving fifty chances for catches to +every single home run. Time and again will one hear a "bleacher" remark, +"I don't care if the ball was caught, it was a good hit," as if any hit +could be a good one which gave an easy chance for a catch. When a +"fungo" hitter takes his bat in hand all he thinks of is to "line 'em +out, Tommy," in response to the calls from the "bleaching boards;" and +when the ball goes up in the air to outfield a shout bursts forth from +the crowd, only to be suddenly stopped as the ball is easily caught at +deep outfield by an outfielder placed there purposely for the catch by +the pitcher's skilful pitching for catches. Contrast this method of +batting to that of place hitting which yields a safe tap to short +outfield, ensuring an earned base; or the skilful "bunt" hit made at a +time when the fielders are expecting a "line-'em-out" hit; or a +sacrifice hit, following a good effort for a base hit to right field, +which should mark all attempts to forward runners, especially when on +third base. Of course there are skilful outfield hits made in team-work, +but they are confined to hot, low liners, giving no chance for a catch, +or hard hit "daisy cutters," which yield two or three bases; but every +ball hit in the air to outfield shows weak batting, and this style of +hitting it is which gives so many chances for catches in a game. It +will be readily seen how inferior the "bleaching-board" style of batting +is to team-work at the bat, and how much more attractive fielding is in +contrast to the popular "fungo" hitting method, of which there was +altogether too much in the League ranks last season to make the batting +compare with the fielding, as an attractive feature of the game. + + + +Single Figure Games. + +There is a great difference between first-class single figure games, +marked by batting against skilful, strategic pitching, backed up by +splendid in and outfield support, and the class of contests known as +"pitchers' games." The former are contests in which runners reaching +second and even third base by good hits are cut off from scoring runs by +superior pitching and fielding, and this class of games comprises the +model contests of each season. On the other hand, the "pitchers' games," +which yield single figure scores, are tedious and wearisome to the best +judges of the game, from the fact that the brunt of the work falls on +the "battery" team and one or two infielders, all the attractions of +base running and of sharp fielding being sacrificed at the cost of +seeing batsman after batsman retired on called strikes, arising from the +intimidating speed of the pitching, this requiring the batsman to devote +his whole energies to defending himself from the severe and often fatal +injuries following his being hit by the pitched ball. Fortunately, the +change in the distance between the pitcher and batsman has decreased the +opportunity for this class of unattractive games. But it will not do to +go over to the other side and by too much weakening of the box work give +the "line-'em-out" class of "fungo" hitters a chance to revel in +over-the-fence hits, and give the batsman undue preponderance in the +effort to equalize the powers of the attack and defense in the +game. Single figure games should outnumber double figure contests to +make the game attractive for the scientific play exhibited, but not in +the line of being the result of "cyclone" pitching. + + +The Umpiring of 1894. + +The umpiring of 1894, despite of the new rules adopted early in the year +governing the position, was no improvement over that of 1893; in fact, +in several instances it was worse. The explicitly worded rule, +prohibiting umpires from allowing any player, except the captain, to +dispute a single decision of the umpire, was allowed to be openly +violated by nearly every umpire on the staff. Then, too, as a rule, +they, the majority, lacked the nerve and the courage of their +convictions too much to keep in check the blackguardism displayed by a +small minority of the players of the League teams of 1894; some of the +umpires also displayed a degree of temper at times which sadly marred +their judgment. That they all endeavored to do their duty impartially, +goes without saying, but no umpire is fit for his position who cannot +_thoroughly control his temper_. There was one instance shown of the +folly of condoning the offence of drinking, which should not have been +allowed; a drunken umpire is worse than a drunken player, for no one +will respect his decisions. None such should be allowed on the League +staff under any circumstances; moreover, no umpire connected with the +low-lived prize-fighting business should be allowed on the League staff, +no matter what his ability may be in other respects. When it becomes a +necessity to have to engage pugilists as umpires to control hoodlum +players, then will professional ball playing cease to be worthy of +public patronage. + +One great drawback to the successful umpiring which was expected to +follow the revision of the rules made in March, 1894, was the +countenancing of the abuse of umpires by the magnates of the clubs +themselves. When presidents and directors of clubs fail to rebuke the +faults of their club managers in allowing incompetent or hot-headed +captains to set their players bad examples in this respect, they have no +right to find fault with the poor umpiring which follows. + +In the recent past, the rule on the League ball fields--and minor +leagues copy all that the major league does--has been that, from the +time the umpire takes up his position behind the bat, from the beginning +to the end of a game, he finds both the contesting teams regarding him +as a common enemy, the losing side invariably blaming him as the primary +cause of their losing the game. + +Then, too, in addition to the contesting teams as his foes, there are +the majority of the crowd of spectators to be added to the list, the +rougher element of the assemblage, the latter of whom regard the umpire +as an especial target for abuse in every instance in which the home team +is defeated. Last on the list of the umpire's opponents are the betting +class of reporters, who take delight in pitching into him whenever his +decisions--no matter how impartially he acts--go against their pet club +or the one they bet on. + +It is a fact not to be disputed, that those of the crowd of spectators +at a ball game, who are so ready to condemn umpires for alleged +partiality in their work, or for a supposed lack of judgment in +rendering their decisions, never give a moment's thought to the +difficulties of the position he occupies, or to the arduous nature of +the work he is called upon to perform. There he stands, close behind the +catcher and batsman, where he is required to judge whether the +swiftly-thrown ball from the pitcher, with its erratic "curves" and +"shoots," darts in over the home base, or within the legal range of the +bat. The startling fact is never considered that several umpires have +been killed outright while occupying this dangerous position. Neither +does any one reflect for a moment that the umpire occupies this perilous +position while regarded as a common enemy by both of the contesting +teams, and as a legitimate object for insulting abuse from the partisan +portion of the crowd of spectators. In fact, the umpire stands there as +the one defenseless man against thousands of pitiless foes. The wonder +is that half the umpires in the arena are as successful in the discharge +of their arduous duties as they are, and the still greater wonder is +that any self-respecting man can be induced to occupy a position which +is becoming year after year more objectionable. There can be no +successful umpiring accomplished in the position, no matter how perfect +the code of rules governing the umpiring may apparently be, as long as +that nuisance of the ball field, the professional "kicker," is allowed +to have his way. In view of the express rules which are in the code, +prohibiting the disputing of a single decision made by the umpire, it is +astonishing that the umpires themselves, not to mention club managers +and field captains, are so derelict in their duty in not enforcing the +letter of the law of the code in this respect. + +Let the magnates remember, when they say to each other this year--as +they did at the close of the season of 1894--that "this hoodlumism in +professional ball playing must be stopped," that _it is themselves who +are to blame_ for the blackguardism exhibited in the League arena in +1894. It is the failure of presidents and directors of League clubs to +do their duty which is the real cause of such umpiring as we had in +1894. Club managers of teams, as a rule, do what they know the club +presidents or directors quietly approve of or countenance, hence the +latitude given to the hoodlum tactics of the rough element in each team. +Don't blame umpires from meekly following the example club presidents +and directors afford their team managers and captains. + + + + +Editorial Comments + + +ON THE OCCURRENCES, EVENTS AND NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS OF 1894 IN THE BASE +BALL ARENA. + +Here is a list of the rules governing the movements of the pitcher, in +delivering the ball to the bat, which we saw violated repeatedly during +1894, without any protests from any of the umpires who acted in the +games we reported. First-- + +Not a pitcher had his foot in contact with the rubber plate last season, +all of them invariably placing their back foot a few inches in front of +the plate. Not one pitcher in ten, after feigning to throw to a base, +resumed his position, as required by the rule, after making the +feint. Not one in ten held the ball "firmly in front of his body," as +the rule requires. Not one in ten faced the batsman, as required by Rule +30. As for the balk rule it was as openly violated last season almost as +it was in 1893. Time and again was Section 29, Rule 32, violated as was +Section 3 all the time, as not one had his foot in position as the rule +requires, and yet not an umpire fined a single pitcher for the violation +of the rules in question, that we saw. + +What the pitching rules should be made to foster is, first--_thorough +command of the ball_, with the consequent accuracy of aim in delivery; +secondly--the substitution of _skilful strategy_ in delivery in the +place of mere intimidating speed; thirdly--the avoidance of the wear and +tear of an extremely swift delivery of the ball; fourthly--the +prevention of obstacles to successful base running, in the way of +allowing too many balk movements in preventing stolen bases. These +desirable objects were almost impossible of attainment under the +badly-worded rules in existence in 1894. + +In regard to the wearing of the catcher's "big mitt" by infielders in +1894, it is worthy of note that that first-class utility man of the +Philadelphia team, "Lave" Cross, while wearing a catcher's mitt as third +baseman--a large one at that, too--used it to such advantage that it was +next to impossible for a ball hit to his position to get by him. At +times it was simply laughable to see him stop ground hits. To wear such +gloves is making a travesty of skilful infield work in stopping hard +hit, bounding or ground balls. But with the speedy batting of the hard +ball now in use, the stopping of hard hit balls in the infield becomes +dangerous to the fingers without the aid of small gloves. But no such +glove as the catcher's mitt should be allowed to be used save by the +catchers or first basemen. In this position the "mitt" in question is a +necessity in view of the great speed of the pitcher's delivery and the +extremely wild, swift throwing from the field positions to first +base. It should be borne in mind that in the days when gloves were not +worn, when the pitching was far less swift than now, even then broken +and split fingers marked nearly every contest, and behind the bat four +catchers were needed where one or two will now suffice. + +A Washington scribe, in commenting on Manager Schmelz's work in 1894, +said: "Schmelz is a base ball man from the crown of his head to the +soles of his feet, and we have been taught to believe here that when he +says he will do a thing he comes pretty near fulfilling his +prediction. If the team gets a fairly good start at the beginning of +this season he is just as like as not to let several teams chase him +under the wire in September next. A lack of team-work and a most +deplorable weakness at short, second and third throughout the past +season lost the team many a game." + +To this latter list may be added, incompetent captaining of the team by +the noted kicker, Joyce. + +The Boston correspondent of the St. Louis Sporting News, in one of his +letters of last winter, sent the following interesting account of an +interview had between Manager Selee, of the Bostons, and a business man +he met on a train last October. The B.M. asked the manager "whether +ball-players, as a class, were a disreputable set of men, who made a +practice of spending their money foolishly, and of saying and doing +things on the ball field that were decidedly objectionable; also if, in +consequence, the interest in the game had not to a very large degree +been on the wane for a number of years past? He said he had read in the +papers of a number of acts that had led him to believe that such was the +case, and that, while formerly he had been an attendant at the games, +that latterly he had lost his desire in that respect, though he still +had an interest in all that is published about the game and the +ball-players." Mr. Selee at once attempted to show the gentleman where +his opinion was at fault, and an interesting conversation was carried on +until the train reached Boston, the gentleman severely criticising the +players and the Boston manager defending them. + +The correspondent, in commenting on this, wrote as follows: "This +incident opens anew a topic that has created considerable discussion for +several years, and which was brought most forcibly to the public eye by +a number of cases that occurred during the season of 1894, namely: Has +the rough, rowdy, disreputable, hoodlum element increased or decreased +in the professional arena in the past five or ten years?" Further on he +adds: "Any intelligent, unprejudiced student of the game cannot but +reach the conclusion that in recent years the excessive drinkers, the +foul-mouthed talkers, in short, the worst element in the professional +ranks, has been gradually weeded out, until the evil has been reduced to +almost a minimum, while the intelligence, manliness and exemplary habits +of the players have increased correspondingly; where, even five years +ago, a ball team could be found where a majority of its players were of +the drinking, gambling, disreputable class, to-day can be seen the +results of a great and gratifying reform in the personnel of the teams, +brought about largely by the efforts of the management, who have had +their eyes opened to the trend of public opinion, and have gradually +gotten rid of this unpopular element, and secured in their places +players of a far different plane of morals." Judging from reports of +contests in the League arena in 1894, the reformation above referred to +has been far too slow in its progress for the good of the game. Witness +the novelty in League annals of men fighting each other or striking +umpires on the field, the use of vile language in abuse of umpires, and +the many instances of "dirty" ball playing recorded against the majority +of the League club teams of the past season. "The time was," says the +same writer, "when a ball player's skill was the primary recommendation +for an engagement, his moral qualifications being of a secondary +consideration. To-day, however, while playing skill is, of course, one +of the leading qualities that an applicant for honors on the diamond +field must possess, it does not fill the whole bill by any means. His +habits, his influence among his fellow players, his general reputation +with the public, are also taken into consideration more than before, and +if he can pass muster in all these respects he is eligible for +engagement in all well managed teams." + +In commenting on the existing situation of the professional branch of +our grand national game, Mr. Wm. H. Bell, the Kansas correspondent of +the St. Louis Sporting News, says: "The growth and development of our +national game as been wonderful. Its success has been unparalleled in +the world's history of athletic sports, and stands to-day a living +monument to the courage, energy and perseverance of the American +people. When we pause a moment in our contemplation of the brilliant +future of our game and turn a glance back over the past, and try to +realize that less than one generation has lived since the birth of base +ball, and our fathers guided its first feeble steps, even we Americans, +familiar with progress unequaled in the history of the world, are forced +to marvel at the rapid growth of this athletic sport." Further on, on +the same topic, Mr. Bell says very truly: "While base ball has advanced +with great strides, its growth has been normal and healthy. Its success +is not the result of a boom, giving it a fictitious value, its +prosperity is not as an inflated balloon that will collapse when torn by +the knife of adversity. It is but a creation of man, and while its life +has been one of unequaled prosperity it has suffered, as do all things +of this earth. One factor has ever been potent in its success and that +is honesty. The honesty of the game has always been its motto, and +though often assailed has still remained intact. This, alone, has gained +for baseball a foothold in the hearts of the American people that +nothing can dislodge. Americans are known the world over as lovers of +fair and honest sport, and to base ball they have given their unswerving +allegiance." Here is a merited compliment to the National League from +the same able pen: "Our national game was never so firmly established in +the hearts of the people as at the present time. It is safe in the hands +of true and tried men, who are devoting their lives to its success. It +is dominated and controlled by that grand old organization, the National +League, which for twenty years has been the great exponent of the game, +and has done more to advance the game than any other factor. The League +has, during its life, stood on one platform, "honesty and purity in base +ball," and has always retained the confidence and respect of the +people. It has elevated the game until to-day base ball stands on a firm +foundation of popular approval unequaled by any other athletic +sport. While the game has advanced with marvelous rapidity it has +experienced short periods of depression and stagnation during its career +of thirty years. It has had enemies who have sought to pervert it for +their own uses. It has been all but torn asunder by civil war. But each +time it has bravely met the issue and in the end triumphed. It is just +now recovering from the effects of a civil war which all but destroyed +it. The rapidity with which it has recovered has been wonderful and is +to me a greater proof of prosperity and success than any success that +could come to it while enjoying a long period of peace." We regret not +having space to quote more at length from Mr. Bell's very able article +published in the Sporting News of January 12th last. + + * * * * * + +The Following Paragraph, Published In The New York Clipper Of February +5, 1895, Tells A Quiet Little Story Well Worthy Of Record In The Guide: +"A.G. Spalding, Of The Chicago Club, Was Asked How So Much Stock Of The +New York Club Came To Be Owned By Outside Parties, And He Said: 'well, I +Will Tell You. During The Troublous Brotherhood Times Of 1890, Along In +July, I Think, I Was Suddenly Summoned To New York. I Went Direct To +Mr. Abell's House, By Request, Entirely Oblivious Of The Object Of The +Sudden Call, And There Met Soden Of Boston, Reach Of Philadelphia, Byrne +Of Brooklyn, Brush Of Indianapolis, And One Or Two Others. There We +Received The Pleasant Information From John B. Day That The New York +Club Was Financially At The End Of Its Rope, And Must Have Immediate +Assistance. Imagine Our Surprise When We Were Told That The Club Must +Have $80,000 At Once To Carry It Through The Season, Or The New York +Club Must Give Up Its End Of The Fight. When We Had Collected Our +Senses Sufficiently To Speak, It Was The General Opinion That If The New +York Club Failed At That Stage Of The Game, The Fight With The +Brotherhood Was Lost, And The Future Of The Old National League Was, To +Say The Least, Uncertain; So It Was Finally Decided That We Must Save +The New York Club At All Hazards, And Before We Separated That Night I +Agreed To Provide $20,000, Soden And Brush Came Forward With Similar +Amounts, And The Balance Was Taken By Reach, Abell And One Or Two +Others, As I Remember. It Was Pretty Costly, But That Prompt Act Saved +The National League, And, By Saving It, The Future Of Professional Base +Ball In This Country Was, In My Opinion, Also Saved. This Will Explain +How I First Became Interested In The New York Club, And, As A Result, +Find Myself Criticised For Ever Being Permitted To Hold Any Of The +Stock. Of This $20,000 Stock Alloted To Chicago, Anson Took And Paid +Cash For $5,000, Another Chicago Gentleman Took $5,000, My Brother +Walter $5,000 And Myself $5,000. Afterward I Sold Or Practically Gave My +Stock To My Brother, And I Think He Picked Up Some More While He Was A +Director Of The Club. That Brotherhood Fight Was A Great Fight, And One +That Will Probably Never Be Duplicated. The Real Inside History Of That +Struggle, And Its Final Settlement, Was Never Written, But If It Ever +Is, It Will Prove Quite Interesting, As Well As Quite A Surprise To The +Base Ball Men Of That Day. But Why Talk In This Strain Any Longer. You +Know I Am Out Of Active Base Ball, And These Reminiscences Simply +Emphasize The Fact That I Ought To Be Out Of It, For I Am Getting Too +Old.'" + +What A Commentary On The Selfish Greed Of The Overpaid Star Players Of +The "Out-For-The-Stuff" Class Of The Professional Fraternity +Mr. Spalding's Account Of One Costly Result Of The Players' Revolt Of +1890 The Above Story Presents. It Also Tells The True Story Of How The +Above-Named Magnates Of The Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn And +Indianapolis Clubs Of 1890 Came To Be Financially Interested In The New +York Club, Not For Profit, But To Save The Disruption Of The League. + + * * * * * + +The veteran Comiskey thus explains the difference in one special +respect, between a seasoned player and a _colt_--and he is one who ought +to know, you know. He said, in an interview: "No one appreciates the +superiority of hustling, aggressive youngsters over the old standbys of +the diamond more than I do. A seasoned player, as a rule, develops into +a mechanical player who is always watching his averages and keeping tab +on himself. While he may be too loyal to shirk, he will not take a +chance which he is not compelled to. Especially is this true in running +bases. How many of these old players will slide or go into a bag when +they are blocked off? Very few. On the other hand, a young player +appreciates that he has to make a reputation, while the old player, who +has one to protect, is in the business for a livelihood and nothing +else. Popular applause has lost its favor for him, and, while it is not +unwelcome, it does not stimulate him to renewed exertions as it did when +he began his career. It is entirely different with the man who is trying +to establish himself in the major league. An ambitious young player +thinks that the game depends upon him, and is dead sure that every crank +agrees with him. Give him a good send-off in the papers, or let his +manager commend him for a creditable piece of work, and he will break +his neck in his efforts to deserve another installment to-morrow. The +public demands snappy ball, and the young players are the only ones who +can serve up that article." + +In his remarks, Comiskey furthermore said: "The good effect of a +manager's or captain's praise of a 'colt' is surprising. Both of these +officials of the League clubs, almost without exception, are apt to be +silent as the grave when a player makes a good point or a fine stop or +catch; but the moment he fails to make an almost impossible play then +comes the ill-natured snarl or the rutty growl. Harry Wright stands out +alone as the only manager or captain to encourage a player with praise." + + * * * * * + +A Philadelphia scribe, in commenting on the rowdy ball playing of 1894 +in the League ranks, says: "We could fill pages with evidence of the +rowdyism indulged in by the majority of the League teams during the +season of 1894, and that, too, if we were only to confine ourselves to +the local reports of the season at Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, +Baltimore, and half a dozen other cities." As the Cleveland Leader had +it, in commenting upon one of the Baltimore-Cleveland games: + +"I say it with reluctance--for I have always admired Ned Hanlon's +pluck--that the national game never received so severe a set-back as it +did during the last Baltimore series here. The effort to spike players, +the constant flow of profanity and vulgarity, the incessant and idiotic +abuse of an umpire, all combined to make the Baltimore club--that local +people have been led to believe was made of a crowd of earnest, honest +players--thoroughly despised and detested. In ten years' experience in +scoring games in Cleveland I have never heard such a torrent of +vulgarity, profanity and brutal, senseless abuse heaped upon an umpire +as Lynch stood from the Baltimore players upon the field here." + +Similar charges against visiting teams were made by the Pittsburgh +people against the Cleveland team; by the Philadelphia scribes against +the Bostons, etc. In fact, proof, and plenty of it, was easily +attainable from the reports from every League city during 1894, to a +more or less extent. + +The question apropos to this comment is, "What are you going to do about +it" in 1895, Messrs. Magnates? + + * * * * * + +John Rowe, the veteran player, who was one of the "Big Four," +transferred from the Buffalo club to the Detroit club, in the fall of +1885, is a firm believer in Southern trips during the preliminary +season, to get the players in condition for a championship season. In +speaking on that subject, he said: "The year the Detroits won the +National League pennant we went South, and before the regular season +opened that team had played over 40 games. In consequence we were in +the acme of condition, and some of the teams nearly lost their breath +when they tackled us for the first time. The men could hit like fiends, +and field fast and perfect. There were no cases of 'charley horse' in +our team, and as for 'glass arms,' they were not included in our +outfit. It is a great thing, I tell you, and the managers who take their +men into a warm climate are doing a sensible act. According to my idea +the plan is to first practice until the players become limbered up, say +for a week or so, before attempting to play a game. Then get in as many +games as possible, without overdoing it, until the regular schedule +begins, In the exhibition games the experiments can be tried out, and +the men will gradually learn to play together, which means much to a +club. Of course, there is more or less luck in base ball, but at the +same time luck can't win alone all the time. Team-work and an agreeable +manager count a long ways toward winning a pennant." We would add to the +last line, that the absence of drinking and hoodlumism in the ranks is +equally a necessity. + + * * * * * + +In the arena of minor leagues, in professional baseball, outside of the +sectional leagues, like those of the Western, Eastern, Southern, New +England and other like leagues, there is no class of minor leagues which +is so much fostered as individual State leagues. Trio or duo State +leagues should be avoided except in very exceptional cases. In the +organization of the various minor leagues in existence, one special +point has been too much neglected, and that is the importance of making +the league's pennant race specially attractive by the attractive +character of the honors to be won. Sectional leagues, made up of +well-arranged circuits, present as good attractions in their +championship honors at stake as that of the great major league, and next +to these come the pennant races of State leagues. But what special +object, in this respect, is there to strike for in the championships of +trio or duo State leagues? None whatever. They are mere gate-money +organizations, lacking all of the attractive features of sectional and +State league pennant races. State leagues also possess the advantage of +not interfering with the interests of the sectional leagues which +include State clubs. Take any State in which professional base ball +flourishes, and in the State there will be found two classes of +professional clubs, viz., the one strong class, which exist in the +larger cities of the State, and the weaker class which represents the +smaller towns. The sectional leagues, of course, seek to attach the +former to their circuits, leaving the latter eligible for State league +circuits. + + * * * * * + +For many years past columns of space in papers making base ball a +specialty have been occupied with long arrays of figures giving the +averages of the players in the batting and fielding departments of the +game. To such an extent has this feature of the annual statistics of the +game been carried that the records based upon these averages have come +to be regarded by the players as the primary object in view during each +season's work in the field. As a result of this system those club +directors and managers who have never fully examined into the merits of +the subject, and who are not, therefore, aware of the fact that, as +criterions of the most skilful play in each department, these averages +are comparatively useless, have been led into the costly error of making +their selections for their teams each season upon the basis of the +figures of the players' averages, and hence the customary announcement +made at the beginning of each season that "our team has the best batting +average of the season." It is about time that the fallacy of this +average business should be shown up in its true light and that the +existing system of making out averages should be so changed as to make +it some sort of a test of a player's skill in his home position, which +it certainly is not now. The worst of this average business as it +prevails now is that it is a powerful incentive for every player to make +"playing for a record" his principal object in his season's work, and +that all-important duty, "playing for the side," a matter of secondary +consideration. + + * * * * * + +The cranks' title of "Giants," given years ago to the New York club's +team, has become a misnomer. The team most entitled to it in 1894 was +that of the Chicago club, no other club team making such a show of +heavyweight players last season as did Anson's real "Giants," as will be +seen by the appended record. Look at the figures of their biggest men: + +-------------------------------------------- + Height Weight + Feet Inches lbs. +-------------------------------------------- +Schriver, catcher 5 10 185 +Camp, pitcher 6 160 +Anson, first base 6 1 202 +L. Camp, second base 6 165 +Parrott, third base 5 11 160 +Clayton, short stop 6 1 180 +Decker, left field 6 1 180 +Lange, centre field 6 1 180 +Dungan, right field 5 11 180 + ---- ------ ---- + Average 6 173 +-------------------------------------------- + +How does Murphy, Fuller, Burke, Ward _et al_ stand in weight and size +compared to the above "Giants"? + + * * * * * + +Here is something worthy of note by club managers who begin to get their +teams together each spring, which we clipped from the St. Louis Sporting +News of last December. The editor of the News said: "The player that is +on the upward path is the man for success. He is playing for something +far more than the salary he gets. He is looking forward to a place in +the foremost ranks of the nation's ball players. Consequently he proves +to be a hard worker at all times. He tries to land his club in the top +notch, and his record, for the part he took, stands out as a +recommendation to all the world. On the other hand, the older player, +who has made his record and is going down again, has lost all his +ambition. He can put no life into the club, his ginger has been expended +in the days gone by, and the people look upon him as a back number. He +sticks to the profession generally for a livelihood. He wants to play +so as to hold his place, but he has lost the powers that he once had, +and cannot do what he would like to accomplish. The old-timers had +better get a hump on themselves this year, else will the youngsters +drive them out of the business." + + * * * * * + +The well-known base ball writer, Mr. Pringle, was right when he said: +"It is useless to get new rules until existing ones have been rigidly +enforced and tested." It is an undeniable fact that the umpires of 1894, +almost without exception, failed to properly enforce the rules governing +the umpire's duties. In this regard Mr. Pringle said: "The rules +relating to the duties of umpires are all right. They have power to stop +all rowdy conduct on the field, but the trouble has been the lack of +nerve on the part of umpires to enforce the rules." This, and the fact +that the presidents and directors of clubs who governed the managers and +captains of teams, were largely to blame in the matter for not backing +up the umpires as they should have done. The latter have arduous duties +enough to discharge as it is without their finding obstacles in their +way in the partisan actions of club officials who control club managers +and captains. When this class supports the umpires against the club +teams it will be time enough to lay the whole onus of hoodlumism in the +ranks on the umpires--not until then. + + * * * * * + +A Philadelphia scribe hits the nail on the head when, in commenting on +the existing abuses of kicking and dirty ball playing in the League +arena, he says: "If the club owners would take the initiative in +enforcing decorum upon their players, upon pain of fine or suspension, +instead of shifting the burden and onus upon the umpire, the problem of +order at ball games would be solved at once. But the majority of +magnates and managers, while openly, hypocritically, deploring dirty ball +playing, secretly wink at it and rather enjoy it, especially if their +particular club secures advantages from it. The players all know this, +and so do the umpires; hence the former presume upon it, while the +latter weaken in their intent and desire to strictly enforce the +rules. When the duty of preserving order on the field and decorum among +the players is devolved upon the clubs, who represent direct authority, +power and responsibility, instead of irresponsible umpires, then, and +not till then will the evils complained of cease, or at least be +mitigated." + + +Al Wright, the base ball editor of the New York Clipper, in its issue of +February 15, 1895, had this noteworthy paragraph in its columns: "Frank +C. Bancroft, the business manager of the Cincinnati club, in speaking +about the equalization of the players of the major league teams, said: +'I am not a firm believer in the prevalent practice of selling the best +men in a weak or tail-end team to one of the leading clubs, and register +a vigorous kick against it. My plan is that the National League shall +pass a rule forbidding the sale of a player from a club in the second +division, to a club in the first division. I think this would, in a +measure, prevent some of the hustling to dispose of a clever man for the +sake of the cash that is in the trade. There is certainly some good +arguments in the idea, and not one against it. The clubs of the second +division have been too willing to dispose of their best men for a decent +cash consideration, and the damage that has been done to the game is +incalculable.'" + + +A young Brooklyn writer, in commenting on the threatened war on the +reserve rule which Messrs. Richter, Pfeffer, Buckenberger and Barnie +were active in promoting, said: "Since the National League and American +Association amalgamated at Indianapolis in 1892 the League has not been +a glorious success." The reply to this is a statement of fact which +contradicts the above assertion very flatly. The reorganized National +League started its new career in the spring of 1892 with an +indebtedness, resulting from the base ball war of 1891, of over +$150,000. At the close of the season of 1892 it had partially redeemed +its heavy indebtedness, and by the close of the season of 1893 it had +paid the debt off in full, and it closed the season of 1894 with a +majority of its clubs having a surplus in their treasuries, and that, +too, despite the hardest kind of times of financial depression. If this +is not a glorious success, pray what is? + + +A Pittsburgh scribe, in commenting on the dead failure of the scheme to +organize a new American Association, one object of which was to levy war +upon the now permanently established rule of the National Agreement +clubs, very pointedly said last winter that "such a scheme would be +folly of the maddest kind. There is not a good reason, theoretical or +practical, sentimental or otherwise, in support of it. The success of +base ball, to a very great extent, depends on public sentiment, and we +have seen what a base ball war did to that sentiment four years +ago. There is one solid basis for all base ball organizations, and that +is the reserve rule. The proposed organization ignores this fundamental +and necessary principle, and consequently can only be compared to that +foolish man who built a house on sand." + + +During the decade of the eighties the League's code of rules had this +special clause in it: + +"Any player who shall be in any way interested in any bet or wager on +the game in which he takes part, either as a player, umpire, or scorer, +shall be suspended from legal service as a member of any professional +Association club for the season during which he shall have violated this +rule." + +The question is, Why was this important and much-needed rule taken from +the code? + +No player can play ball as he should do who is personally interested in +any bet on the content he is engaged in; that is a fact too true to be +contradicted. Independent of this fact, too. Experience has plainly +shown that the step of betting on a game he plays in is but a short one +from accepting bribes to lose a game. The rule should long ago have been +replaced in the code. + + +The Cleveland Leader says: "The patrons of the game have begun to +realize the true inwardness of scientific batting, as shown in the +securing of single bases by well-timed place hits, safe taps of +swiftly-pitched balls to short outfield, and skilful efforts in +sacrifice hitting and bunting, every such hit forwarding a run or +sending a run in. Of course, to occupants of the bleaching boards, as a +rule, the great attraction is the long hit for a home run, which is made +at the cost of a 120-yards sprint, and at the loss of all chances for +skilful fielding. But to the best judges of scientific batting the safe +tap of the swiftly pitched ball, the well-judged bunt or the effort to +make a safe hit to right field, which, if it fails, at least yields a +sacrifice hit, is far more attractive than the old rut of slugging for +home runs and making fungo hits to the outfielders." + +There is something to fight for in the winning of a State league's +championship honors, while there is little or nothing at stake in a trio +or duo State league. Suppose each State had a four or six club circuit, +and at the close of its season, each August or September, what a paying +series of October games could be arranged in the Southern section of the +country in October for a grand championship series for the prize of +leading all the State leagues of the country for the honors of the +champion pennant of State league organizations? By all means let State +leagues be organized, until every State in the Union--North, South, East +and West--has its representative State league. + +The fickle nature of base ball "rooters" was conspicuously shown at the +Polo Grounds in 1894. At the end of the June campaign, when the New York +"Giants" stood sixth in the race, Ward's stock among the local "cranks" +and "rooters," stood below par; at the close of the July campaign, +however, that same stock was at a premium; and yet it was the same John +M. Ward at the head of the "Giants." In May there were "none so poor to +do him reverence." In August, John was carried off the field a hero. Of +such are the "cranks" and "rooters." + +A Toronto paper says: "Spalding Brothers will present to the champion +club of all regularly organized base ball leagues, junior or senior, in +Canada, a valuable flag, 11x28, pennant shaped, made of serviceable +white bunting, red lettered, and valued at $20. The flags will be +forwarded, duty free, immediately after the season closes. Each league +must consist of four or more clubs, and each club must play not less +than 12 championship games." This is a good plan to encourage the game +on foreign soil. It has worked well in England and Australia, too. + +Among the magnates of the League who could be seen at nearly all of the +home games of the twelve clubs during the past season were the Boston +triumvirate, Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings; the irrepressible +Charley Byrne, of Brooklyn; the handsome Vonderhorst, of Baltimore; the +smiling Eddie Talcott, of New York; the noted "Philadelphia lawyer" +Rogers, of Philadelphia; the "Boss Manager" Von der Ahe, of St. Louis; +the energetic Kerr, of Pittsburgh, and Al Spalding's successor, +President Hart, of Chicago. + +The Louisville team was a strong one as regards its individual players. +But it lacked harmony in its ranks and suffered from cliques. With two +ex-captains in its team, besides the one who ran it, but little else +could be expected. Ambitious ex-captains are obstacles in the way of +successful management of a team. One regular captain should be the rule, +with an acknowledged lieutenant--a pair like Comiskey and Latham, who +worked the old St. Louis "Browns" up to being four-time winners of +pennant honors. + +It is a noteworthy fact that Anson has been manager and captain of the +Chicago club's teams since 1877, and from that year to this he has taken +his team to the goal of the championship five years of the six the club +won the pennant, A.G. Spalding being the manager in 1876, the first year +the club won the honors. Fifteen successive years of management in one +club beats the League's records in that respect. + + +[Illustration: P. T. POWERS, President Eastern League.] +[Illustration: Yale Team, '94.][Illustration: Harvard Team, '94.] +[Illustration: University of Pennsylvania Team, '94.] +[Illustration: Princeton Team, '94.] + + + +#EASTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE.# +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Clubs. At Toronto. At Buffalo. At Rochester. + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + ................ May 29, 30, 30 June 6, 7, 8 +Toronto ................ June 17, 18, 19 July 6, 8 + ................ July 15, 16 Aug. 14, 15, 16 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 24, 24 ................ June 1, 3, 4 +Buffalo May 31, July 1,2 ................ July 9, 10 + Sept. 11, 12, 14 ................ Aug 17, 19, 20 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 10, 11, 12 June 13, 14, 15 ................ +Rochester July 12, 13 July 4, 4 ................ + Aug. 24, 26, 27 Aug 21, 22, 23 ................ +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 13, 14, 15 June 10, 11, 12 May 29, 30, 30 +Syracuse July 9, 10 July 12, 13 July 1, 2 + Aug. 21, 22, 23 Aug 24, 26, 27 Sept. 10, 11, 15 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Wilkes- May 16, 17, 18 May 13, 14, 15 May 23, 25, 27 + Barre July 26, 27 July 24, 25 July 20, 22 + Sept. 3, 4, 5 Sept. 6, 7, 9 Aug 28, 29, 30 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 13, 14, 15 May 16, 17, 18 May 20, 21, 22 +Scranton July 24, 25 July 26, 27 July 18, 19 + Aug. 31, Sep. 2,2 Aug. 28, 29, 30 Sept. 6, 7, 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Spring- May 20, 21, 22 May 23, 25, 27 May 13, 14, 15 + field July 20, 22 July 18, 19 July 26, 27 + Aug. 28, 29, 30 Aug. 31, Sep.2, 2 Sept. 3, 4, 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Provi- May 23, 25, 27 May 20, 21, 22 May 16, 17, 18 + dence July 18, 19 July 20, 22 July 24, 25 + Sept. 6, 7, 9 Sept. 3, 4, 5 A'g 31, Sep. 2, 2 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Clubs. At Syracuse. At Wilkes-Barre. At Scranton. + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 1, 3, 4 May 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 +Toronto July 4, 4 June 21, 22 June 24, 25 + Aug. 17, 19, 20 Aug. 10, 12, 13 Aug. 7, 8, 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 May 6, 7, 8 +Buffalo July 6, 8 June 24, 25 June 21, 22 + Aug. 14, 15, 16 Aug 7, 8, 9 Aug 10, 12, 13 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 17, 18, 19 Apr. 29, 30, May 1 May 2, 3, 4 +Rochester July 15, 16 June 28, 29 June 26, 27 + Sept. 12, 13, 14 July 30, 31 Ag. 1 Aug 2, 3, 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + ................ May 2, 3, 4 Apr. 29, 30, May 1 +Syracuse ................ June 26, 27 June 28, 29 + ................ Aug 2, 3, 5 July 30, 31 Ag. 1 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Wilkes- May 20, 21, 22 ................ July 1, 3, 4 + Barre July 18, 19 ................ July 4, 4 + Aug. 31, Sep. 2,2 ................ Aug 14, 15, 16 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 23, 25, 27 May 29, 30, 30 ................ +Scranton July 20, 22 July 1, 2 ................ + Sept. 3, 4, 5 Aug. 17, 19, 20 ................ +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Spring- May 16, 17, 18 June 6, 7, 8 June 10, 11, 12 + field July 24, 25 July 15, 16 July 12, 13 + Sept. 6, 7, 9 Sept. 13, 14, 15 Sept. 10, 11, 12 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Provi- May 13, 14, 15 June 10, 11, 12 June 6, 7, 8 + dence July 26, 27 July 12, 13 July 15, 16 + Aug. 28, 29, 30 Sept. 10, 11, 12 Sept. 13, 14, 15 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------ + +Clubs. At Springfield. At Providence. + +------------------------------------------------ + Apr 29, 30, May 1 May 2, 3, 4 +Toronto June 28, 29 June 26, 27 + Aug. 2, 3, 5 July. 30, 31 Ag.1 +------------------------------------------------ + May 2, 3, 4 Ap. 29, 30, May 1 +Buffalo June 26, 27 June 28, 29 + July. 30, 31 Ag.1 Aug. 2, 3, 5 +------------------------------------------------ + May 9, 10, 11 May 6, 7, 8 +Rochester June 24, 25 June 21, 22 + Aug 10, 12, 13 Aug 7, 8, 9 +------------------------------------------------ + May 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 +Syracuse June 21, 22 June 24, 25 + Aug 7, 8, 9 Aug 10, 12, 13 +------------------------------------------------ +Wilkes- June 17, 18 19 June 13, 14, 15 + Barre July 6, 8 July 9, 10 + Aug. 21, 22, 23 Aug. 24, 26, 27 +------------------------------------------------ + June 13, 14, 15 June 17, 18 19 +Scranton July 9, 10 July 6, 8 + Aug. 24, 26, 27 Aug. 21, 22, 23 +------------------------------------------------ +Spring- ................ May 29, 30, 30 + field ................ July 4, 4 + ................ Aug. 17, 18, 20 +------------------------------------------------ +Provi- June 1, 3, 4 ................ + dence July 1, 2 ................ + Aug. 14, 15, 16 ................ +------------------------------------------------ + + + +#THE EASTERN LEAGUE.# + +The cities composing the Eastern League circuit are Toronto, Canada; +Buffalo, N.Y.; Rochester, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Providence, R.I.; +Springfield, Mass.; Scranton,, Pa., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. + +The officers are; P.T. Powers, President, Secretary and Treasurer; +headquarters, A.G. Spalding & Bros., 126 Nassau St., New York. + +Board of Directors: James Franklin, Buffalo; George N. Kuntzsch, +Syracuse; William H. Draper, Providence, and E.F. Bogert, Wilkes-Barre. + +The base ball magnates of the Eastern League held their annual schedule +meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel March 13th. + +These delegates were present: President P.T. Powers, James Franklin and +Charles H. Morton, Buffalo ; E.A. Johnson and John M. Battey, +Providence; Charles F. Leimgruber and J.C. Chapman, Rochester; William +Barnie, Scranton; I.E. Sanborn and Thomas E. Burns, Springfield; George +N. Kuntzsch, Syracuse; William Stark and Charles Maddock, Toronto; +E.F. Bogert, L.W. Long and Dan Shannon, Wilkes-Barre. + +The League has a great staff of umpires for this season, as will be seen +from the following list appointed at the meeting: Tim C. Hurst, of +Ashland, Pa.; Herman Doescher, of Binghamton; John H. Gaffney, of +Worcester, and Charles N. Snyder, of Washington. It was voted to +increase the staff to five, and President Powers will sign another +umpire. He will also keep a number of reserve men in readiness to fill +in as substitutes in place of local men, as formerly. + +The constitution was subjected to a few minor changes, the most +important being the change of date for the payment of the guarantee to +finish the season ($250 per club) from May 1st to April 15th. + +John Depinet, of Erie, and Lawrence T. Fassett, of Albany, were elected +honorary members of the League, with all privileges of games, etc. + +The Eastern League adopted the Spalding League Ball as the Official Ball +for 1895, and it will be used in all League games. + + + +#The Eastern League Averages.# + + +THE RECORDS MADE BY EACH PLAYER IN BATTING AND FIELDING ACCORDING TO +OFFICIAL FIGURES--THE AVERAGES OF THE CLUBS. + +Sheehan of Springfield leads the entire batting list with the fat +percentage of .416. Patchen of Scranton was second with .392, and Mulvey +of Allentown-Yonkers was third, .391. All three of these are ahead of +Drauby's record, .379, which led the Eastern League the previous +year. Rudderham led the pitchers in fielding his position. + +The club averages are significant. They show that the Providence +champions turned up third in batting, and led the list in fielding. Thus +they deserved to win, for the Springfields, second in batting, are third +in fielding, tied with Troy; and Buffalo, first in batting, comes sixth +in fielding. Scranton and Yonkers see-saw on the tail end. Wilkes-Barre +is below the centre of the heap in both fielding and batting. In fact, +the sum up of club averages in stick work and field work indicates that +the clubs finished about as they deserved. The figures will give +opportunity for a couple of hours study. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 2 + s n + t d P + A e + G t B B r + a R a a c + m B u s s e + e a n e e n + s t s s s t +NO. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Sheehan Springfield 32 144 31 60 2 .415 + 2 Parchen Scranton 32 135 15 53 5 .392 + 3 Mulvey Yonkers 22 92 13 36 2 .391 + 4 Kelley Yonkers 15 61 11 23 2 .377 + 5 P. Sweeney Yonkers 21 86 21 33 3 .372 + 6 Knight Wilkes-Barre and Providence 113 493 108 183 34 .371 + 7 Bassett Providence 109 484 125 178 32 .367 + 8 Smith Buffalo 24 96 14 35 3 .364 + Rafter Binghamton and Syracuse 43 184 31 67 14 .364 + 10 Minnehan Syracuse 115 504 95 182 11 .361 + 11 O'Brien Binghamton 15 61 9 22 0 .360 + 12 Griffin Buffalo and Syracuse 106 465 103 167 14 .359 + 13 Raymond Binghamton 22 92 23 33 4 .358 + 14 Vickery Buffalo and Springfield 54 199 47 70 8 .356 + 15 Shearon Erie 103 145 108 158 23 .355 + 16 Dowse Binghamton, Buffalo, and 88 355 76 126 5 .354 + Troy + 17 Power Binghamton and Syracuse 79 328 72 116 15 .353 + 18 Collins Buffalo 125 562 126 198 18 .352 + 19 Drauby Buffalo 97 436 126 153 12 .350 + 20 Shannon Wilkes-Barre 77 347 77 121 21 .348 + 21 Nadeau Springfield 110 469 128 162 30 .345 + 22 Field Erie 109 436 71 150 16 .344 + Sweeney Binghamton 27 116 21 40 0 .344 + 24 Campfield Wilkes-Barre 29 94 20 32 1 .340 + Dixon Providence 80 320 58 109 33 .340 + 26 Rogers Providence 112 492 97 167 37 .339 + 27 Lytle Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton 101 479 115 162 39 .338 + Carr Binghamton 15 71 13 24 2 .338 + 29 Weddige Buffalo 21 86 19 29 1 .337 + Wood Yonkers 22 86 21 29 2 .337 + 31 Lynch Springfield 110 469 127 158 44 .336 + Kilroy Syracuse 30 98 22 33 8 .336 + Clymer Buffalo 121 523 97 176 36 .336 + 34 Lyons Providence 108 511 131 171 37 .334 + Johnson Troy and Scranton 111 463 221 155 14 .334 + Bottenus Springfield 110 440 111 147 22 .334 + Betts Wilkes-Barre 107 463 114 155 21 .334 + 38 Gillen Wilkes-Barre 106 417 89 139 17 .333 + Nicholson Erie 105 453 115 151 71 .333 + 40 Lewee Buffalo 71 262 56 87 3 .332 + 41 Breckenridge Troy and Springfield 113 440 98 146 11 .331 + Lally Erie 108 458 78 152 8 .331 + 43 O'Brien Buffalo 60 276 77 91 14 .329 + Payne Syracuse and Binghamton 52 197 37 65 5 .329 + 45 Cahill Scranton and Troy 91 402 73 132 26 .328 + 46 Scheffler Troy and Springfield 111 459 138 150 29 .326 + 47 Friel Binghamton, Scranton, & 60 251 58 81 17 .322 + Springfield + Pickett Troy 71 304 54 98 12 .322 + Hoffer Buffalo 76 282 63 91 5 .322 + 50 Lezotte Wilkes-Barre 78 336 73 108 8 .321 + 51 Shannon Springfield 109 493 115 158 15 .320 + 52 Gore Binghamton 48 191 46 61 5 .319 + 53 Boyd Buffalo 82 339 76 105 10 .318 + 54 Berger Erie 67 255 50 80 3 .313 + " Urquhart Buffalo 101 402 80 126 7 .313 + 56 Bausewein Syracuse 44 146 8 45 4 .308 + " Demont Buffalo, Bingh'ton & Scranton 36 146 31 45 4 .308 + " Burns Springfield 36 146 27 45 7 .308 + 59 Daly Buffalo 82 336 82 103 7 .306 + 60 Hoover Syracuse and Scranton 83 344 74 105 21 .305 + 61 Warner Wilkes-Barre 97 387 71 118 17 .304 + 62 Barnett Binghamton and Syracuse 42 132 23 40 2 .303 + " Hanrahan Binghamton and Syracuse 54 221 36 67 4 .303 + 64 J. Hess Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 78 348 72 105 8 .301 + 65 T. Hess Syracuse 98 381 64 114 6 .299 + 66 Gunson Erie 64 261 40 78 2 .298 + 67 Whitehead Binghamton and Scranton 30 131 28 39 8 .297 + 68 Welch Syracuse 108 422 111 125 81 .296 + " Eagan Syracuse 111 435 97 129 30 .296 + 70 Cross Syracuse 69 247 62 73 34 .295 + " Duryea Binghamton and Yonkers 53 190 24 56 6 .295 + " Heine Binghamton and Buffalo 50 203 35 60 8 .295 + 73 Simon Troy and Syracuse 114 485 123 143 22 .294 + " Faatz Syracuse 25 102 15 30 0 .294 + 75 Donnelly Troy and Springfield 83 361 91 104 15 .288 + " Wilson Syracuse 27 104 18 30 1 .288 + " Pettit Providence and Wilkes-Barre 78 368 65 106 12 .288 + 78 Conley Syracuse 62 247 30 71 9 .287 + " Brown Wilkes-Barre 54 233 28 67 2 .287 + 80 Keenan Wilkes-Barre 47 175 24 50 1 .286 + 81 Gruber Troy and Springfield 45 151 33 40 0 .284 + 82 Stearns Wilkes-Barre and Buffalo 76 307 76 37 14 .283 + " Lehane Scranton and Springfield 99 386 67 110 5 .283 + 84 Stricker Providence 108 436 88 123 52 .282 + " Cooney Providence 98 422 68 119 28 .282 + 86 Delaney Binghamton and Scranton 51 188 35 53 6 .281 + 87 Mack Binghamton 66 272 62 76 10 .278 + 88 Van Dyke Erie 108 434 66 120 36 .276 + 89 Leahy Springfield 101 423 96 116 30 .274 + 90 Bott Buffalo 18 66 11 13 2 .272 + 91 Healy Erie 37 137 21 37 0 .270 + 92 McGinness Erie 27 89 11 24 1 .269 + 93 Smith Erie 108 432 102 115 19 .266 + 94 Murray Providence 109 430 80 112 68 .260 + 95 Murphy Troy 29 116 11 30 1 .258 + " Johnson Buffalo 51 213 31 55 13 .258 + 97 Rogers Scranton 21 82 10 21 1 .256 + 98 Kuehne Erie 106 427 64 109 13 .255 + 99 McCauley Providence 53 197 33 50 27 .253 +100 Phelan Scranton 26 103 20 26 8 .252 +101 Wise Yonkers 20 80 14 20 7 .250 + " Dolan Binghamton and Springfield 25 84 12 21 0 .250 +103 Egan Providence 35 105 25 26 9 .247 +104 McMahon Wilkes-Barre 99 393 43 97 4 .246 +105 Lovett Providence 16 62 7 15 0 .241 +106 Donovan Scranton, Troy and Yonkers 34 121 12 29 4 .289 +107 Sullivan Providence 40 155 23 37 10 .238 +108 Smith Troy and Scranton 108 421 67 97 1 .230 +108 Coughlin Springfield 49 178 26 41 1 .230 +110 Messitt Springfield 82 112 20 25 2 .228 +111 Meekin Troy and Wilkes-Barre 39 135 28 30 4 .222 +112 Fisher Buffalo 17 60 5 18 3 .216 +112 W. Sweeney Yonkers 20 74 7 16 2 .216 +114 Costello Yonkers 22 86 9 18 1 .209 +115 Marshall Binghamton 17 62 10 19 0 .206 +116 Quarles Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 35 127 16 26 2 .204 +117 Blackburn Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 18 66 9 13 0 .196 +118 Kilroy Yonkers 17 64 10 12 4 .187 +119 Connors Binghamton 19 75 12 14 1 .186 +120 Lang Binghamton 16 59 19 11 7 .183 +121 Herndon Erie 47 189 21 29 1 .182 +122 Lohbeck Binghamton 42 160 20 29 7 .181 +123 Phillips Troy 15 59 8 10 1 .169 +124 Rudderham Providence 30 105 7 17 2 .161 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +PITCHERS' FIELDING AVERAGES. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Rudderham Providence 30 9 46 1 .982 + 2 Lovett Providence 16 7 38 1 .975 + 3 Bausewein Syracuse 41 14 60 3 .960 + 4 Sullivan Providence 39 8 72 4 .952 + 5 Campfield Wilkes-Barre 29 8 49 3 .949 + 6 Hoffer Buffalo 57 39 92 8 .942 + 6 Vickery Buffalo and Springfield 52 26 122 9 .942 + 6 Bott Buffalo 18 3 46 3 .942 + 9 Keenan Wilkes-Barre 38 29 64 6 .939 + 10 McGinnis Erie 27 6 52 4 .935 + 11 Gruber Troy and Springfield 45 7 77 7 .931 + 12 Duryea Binghamton and Yonkers 40 36 65 9 .918 + 13 Blackburn Scranton and Wilkes-Barre 17 8 25 3 .916 + 14 Coughlin Springfield 45 19 79 9 .915 + 15 Meekin Troy and Wilkes-Barre 39 29 63 9 .910 + 16 Donovan Troy, Scranton and Yonkers 34 14 55 7 .907 + 17 Fisher Buffalo 17 6 23 3 .906 + 18 Fagan Providence 20 9 65 8 .902 + 19 Herndon Erie 46 23 61 10 .896 + 20 Marshall Binghamton 13 3 23 3 .896 + 21 Quarles Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 33 13 64 9 .895 + 22 Dolan Binghamton and Springfield 25 4 34 5 .886 + 23 Healy Erie 34 14 63 16 .885 + 24 Delaney Binghamton and Scranton 50 21 80 12 .884 + 25 Kilroy Syracuse 27 20 56 10 .883 + 26 Barnett Binghamton and Syracuse 42 4 86 12 .852 + 27 Payne Syracuse and Binghamton 18 9 19 10 .736 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CATCHERS' AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Lohbeck Binghamton 42 138 30 6 .965 + 2 Gunson Erie 54 157 46 8 .962 + 3 Berger Erie 58 180 45 9 .961 + 4 Dixon Providence 63 241 48 12 .960 + 5 Cahill Troy and Scranton 51 161 51 11 .950 + 6 Urquhart Buffalo 83 321 74 22 .947 + 7 Warner Wilkes-Barre 97 317 71 22 .946 + 8 Wilson Syracuse 20 71 26 6 .941 + 9 Leahy Springfield 95 321 76 25 .940 + 10 Murphy Troy 24 83 10 6 .939 + 11 Hess Syracuse 89 253 54 22 .933 + 12 McCauley Providence 53 136 47 23 .913 + 13 Boyd Buffalo 61 226 37 28 .903 + 14 Rafter Binghamton and Syracuse 43 128 40 20 .893 + 15 Patchen Scranton 32 114 20 17 .887 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SHORT STOP AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Demont Binghamton and Buffalo 29 68 117 23 .898 + 1 Shannon Springfield 109 245 454 90 .898 + 3 Cooney Providence 98 148 331 55 .897 + 4 Smith Erie 106 205 429 75 .894 + 5 W. Sweeney Yonkers 20 40 78 14 .893 + 6 Lewee Buffalo 71 146 269 50 .892 + 6 Smith Troy and Scranton 108 139 332 57 .892 + 8 Cross Syracuse 69 172 275 60 .881 + 9 Hanrahan Syracuse and Binghamton 54 65 166 35 .870 + 10 McMahon Wilkes-Barre 99 218 402 98 .863 + 11 Johnson Buffalo 49 70 144 39 .845 + 12 Lang Binghamton 16 20 52 14 .837 + 13 Heine Binghamton and Buffalo 35 75 103 35 .835 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +FIRST BASE AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Brown Wilkes-Barre 54 578 30 10 .983 + 2 Breckenridge Troy and Springfield 113 1133 37 22 .981 + 2 Field Erie 109 1092 56 22 .981 + 2 Kelly Yonkers 12 96 11 2 .981 + 5 Lehane Springfield and Scranton 98 938 64 20 .980 + 6 Rogers Providence 109 970 42 25 .975 + 7 Power Binghamton and Syracuse 79 728 37 20 .974 + 8 Drauby Buffalo 46 455 21 14 .971 + 8 Faatz Syracuse 25 235 4 7 .971 + 10 Conley Syracuse 62 569 15 19 .968 + 11 Stearns Buffalo and Wilkes-Barre 76 774 24 30 .945 + 12 Sweeney Binghamton 23 215 9 15 .937 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SECOND BASE AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Stricker Providence 108 341 308 30 .955 + 2 Wise Yonkers 20 76 79 8 .950 + 3 Lynch Springfield 20 70 59 7 .948 + 3 Pickett Troy 71 241 197 24 .948 + 5 Eagan Syracuse 111 364 362 40 .947 + 6 Clymer Buffalo 54 159 171 21 .940 + 7 Nicholson Erie 105 321 300 42 .937 + 8 Cahill Troy and Scranton 28 75 78 11 .932 + 9 Burns Springfield 36 104 82 14 .930 + 10 O'Brien Buffalo 60 192 162 28 .926 + 10 Mack Binghamton 66 185 206 31 .926 + 12 Smith Buffalo 13 36 31 7 .905 + 13 Shannon Wilkes-Barre 77 168 221 41 .904 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THIRD BASE AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Bassett Providence 109 183 290 46 .911 + 2 Kuehne Erie 106 154 265 41 .910 + 3 Minnehan Syracuse 111 165 251 45 .902 + 4 Donnelly Troy and Springfield 83 123 207 36 .901 + 5 Whitehead Binghamton and Scranton 30 43 61 13 .888 + 6 Smith Troy 16 14 41 7 .887 + 6 Lynch Springfield 87 203 223 54 .887 + 8 Dowse Buffalo, Troy and Binghamton 67 97 146 36 .870 + 9 Mulvey Yonkers 22 35 44 12 .858 + 10 Gillen Wilkes-Barre 106 127 216 67 .836 + 11 O'Brien Binghamton 15 20 15 9 .818 + 12 Phelan Scranton 29 19 31 12 .806 + 13 Raymond Binghamton 22 24 42 17 .795 + 14 Weddige Buffalo 14 16 20 11 .765 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +FIELDERS' AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Clymer Buffalo 61 152 11 4 .976 + 2 Drauby Buffalo 37 67 5 5 .960 + 2 Welch Syracuse 108 225 19 10 .960 + 4 Lyons Providence 108 294 27 14 .956 + 4 Gore Binghamton 48 99 10 5 .956 + 6 Simon Syracuse and Troy 114 265 15 13 .955 + 7 Scheffler Troy and Springfield 112 175 23 12 .942 + 8 Hoffer Buffalo 19 45 3 3 .941 + 9 Collins Buffalo 125 299 34 21 .940 + 10 Wood Yonkers 22 42 3 3 .937 + 11 Griffin Buffalo and Syracuse 106 178 13 13 .936 + 12 Lally Erie 108 239 17 18 .934 + 13 Knight Wilkes-Barre and Providence 113 307 13 24 .930 + 14 Van Dyke Erie 108 219 23 20 .923 + 15 Johnson Troy and Scranton 111 312 24 31 .915 + 16 Betts Wilkes-Barre 107 302 23 31 .912 + 17 Shearon Erie 103 163 21 18 .910 + 18 Payne Binghamton and Syracuse 47 58 9 7 .905 + 19 Bottenus Springfield 110 267 6 31 .898 + 20 Daly Buffalo 82 137 17 18 .895 + 21 Murray Providence 108 144 26 21 .890 + 22 Lezotte Wilkes-Barre 63 112 7 15 .888 + 22 Carr Binghamton 15 32 2 4 .888 + 24 Connors Binghamton 19 37 2 5 .886 + 25 Hess Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 74 136 8 20 .878 + 26 Nadeau Springfield 85 187 17 30 .871 + 27 Lytle Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton 87 196 34 36 .864 + 28 Hoover Syracuse and Scranton 83 152 12 27 .858 + 29 Friel Spr'gf'ld, Binham'n, Scranton 60 96 5 11 .857 + 30 Pettit Providence and Wilkes-Barre 57 98 5 12 .830 + 31 Rogers Scranton 18 32 2 7 .829 + 32 P. Sweeney Yonkers 17 34 4 8 .825 + 33 Costello Yonkers 13 28 2 7 .810 + 34 Sheehan Springfield 32 36 6 7 .728 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CLUB BATTING AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------- + A B S P + t a t e + s o B r + B R e H l a C + a u i e s e + t n t n e n + s s s s t + No. CLUB. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------- + 1 Buffalo 4630 1022 1500 154 .323 + 2 Springfield 4004 942 1268 184 .316 + 3 Providence 4210 842 1306 365 .310 + 4 Syracuse 4092 814 1260 186 .307 + 5 Binghamton 3018 585 919 128 .304 + 6 Wilkesbarre 3949 773 1196 136 .302 + 6 Erie 4018 751 1214 194 .302 + 8 Troy 2775 588 821 97 .295 + 9 Scranton 1269 200 372 154 .293 + 10 Yonkers 735 118 220 28 .288 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CLUB FIELDING AVERAGES. +------------------------------------------------------------- + P + P A e + u s E r + t s r + i r C + O s o e + u t r n + t s s t +No. CLUB. . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Providence 2825 1357 257 .942 + 2 Erie 2776 1399 281 .936 + 3 Troy 1968 940 194 .934 + 3 Springfield 2779 1286 285 .934 + 5 Syracuse 2754 1380 310 .930 + 6 Buffalo 3011 1442 369 .923 + 7 Wilkes-Barre 2457 1191 354 .918 + 8 Binghamton 1916 967 276 .916 + 9 Yonkers 410 263 68 .902 +10 Scranton 794 357 138 .892 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +#The Presidents of the National League.# + +This is the twentieth year of the existence of the National League, and +in all that time but four members of the League have occupied the +presidential chair, viz., Morgan G. Bulkeley, ex-Governor of +Connecticut; the last W.A. Hulbert; A.G. Mills, the leading spirit of +the great New York Athletic Club, and N.E. Young, the present +highly-esteemed and worthy President of the League. Mr. Bulkeley served +during 1876; Mr. Hulbert from 1876 to his death in 1882; Mr. Mills from +that date up to 1884, when business requirements led to his resignation, +and Mr. Young since then. From the organization of the National League +in 1876 to the day of his death, Mr. Hulbert was the great moving +spirit in the reforms in the government of the professional clubs of the +country, which marked the period from 1876 to the eighties. It was his +influence, largely, which led to the war upon the "crookedness" which +marked the early years of professional base ball history, in which pool +gambling was the potent factor. It took years of cohesive and even +arbitrary legislation to eliminate the poison of the pool rooms from the +professional system, but success was finally achieved, and to the late +President Hulbert and his able coadjutors in the League does the credit +of this success belong. During the League regime, under President Mills, +the great union safety compact, known as the National Agreement, sprang +into existence, and its author--Mr. Mills--at this day has reason to be +proud of the good work he did for professional ball playing, and for the +benefit of the game at large, in the perfecting of this bond of union +between the reputable clubs of the professional fraternity. The wisdom +of the measure, as a protection against the abuses of "revolving" and +"contract breaking," has been very strikingly shown by court decisions +which oblige professional clubs to depend entirely upon base ball law, +and not the common law, for the preservation of their club rights in +contracting with players for their services on the field. Since +Mr. Mills left the League arena he has done most efficient service in +conserving the best interests of the New York Athletic Club and those of +the clubs of the Amateur Athletic Union at large. + +The great master of League records, and the whilom Secretary of the +League since its organization, Mr. Young, is known throughout the entire +base ball world, alike for the integrity of his character, the geniality +of his disposition and the marked industry and persevering application +which has characterized the discharge of his onerous official duties. + +It is well known that "Old Nick" is frequently alluded to in daily life +as the arch-fiend of the world; but the Old Nick of the base ball arena +presents a character the very opposite in every respect of his devilish +namesake--the one being the spirit of evil, and the other the spirit of +honor and good nature. Long may he live to honor the position and +uphold the reformation in the base ball world which his predecessors so +creditably originated and supported. + +Mr. Young is a native of Amsterdam, N.Y. He was but a mere boy at the +outbreak of the war between the States, but he was game to the core and +among the first from his home country to enlist in the Union +service. Just before the war he appeared as an athletic young fellow +with muscles that would have done credit to one as large again as he +was. He was looked on as the best cricket player in the section of the +country in which he lived, playing frequently on elevens which had +besides himself George and Harry Wright as members. You should hear Nick +relate anecdotes of his career as a cricketer. At the close of the war +Mr. Young made Washington his residence, and securing a position in the +Second Auditor's Department, being an excellent accountant, he has +occupied his position through several administrations. From cricket he +became interested in the national game of base ball, and eventually, in +connection with Mr. A.G. Mills, he started the old Olympic club of +Washington, and then it was that he took the field again. In 1871 he +was elected Secretary of the old "National Association of Base Ball +Players"--not of clubs, but of players--and in 1884, he succeeded Mr. +Mills as President of the National League, which organization succeeded +the National Association, which had become rotten. + +[Illustration: CORRECT DIAGRAM OF A BALL FIELD. +NOTE. For Specifications see Rules from No. 2 to No. 13.] + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE PLAYING RULES +OF +PROFESSIONAL +BASE * BALL * CLUBS + + +As adopted by the National League and American +Association of Professional Base +Ball Clubs. + + +THE BALL GROUND. + +RULE 1. The Ground must be an inclosed field, sufficient in size to +enable each player to play in his position as required by these Rules. + +RULE 2. To lay off the lines governing the positions and play off the +Game known as _Base Ball_, proceed as follows: + +From a point, A, within the grounds, project a right line out into the +field, and at a point, B, 154 feet from point A, lay off lines BC and BD +at right angles to the line AB; then with B as centre and 63.63945 feet +as radius, describe arcs cutting the lines BA at F and BC at G; BD at H +; and BE at I. Draw lines FG, GE, EH and HF, and said lines will be the +containing lines of the Diamond or Infield. + +THE CATCHER'S LINES. + +RULE 3. With F as centre and 90 feet radius, an arc cutting line FA at +L, and draw lines LM and LO at right angles to FA; and continue same out +from FA not less than 90 feet. + +THE FOUL LINE. + +RULE 4. From the intersection point, F, continue the straight lines FG +and FH until they intersect with the lines LM and LI, and then from the +points G and H in the opposite direction until they reach the boundary +lines of the grounds. + +THE PLAYERS' LINES. + +RULE 5. With F as centre and 50 feet radius, describe arcs cutting lines +FO and EM at P and Q, then with F as centre again and 75 feet radius +describe arcs cutting FG and FH at R and S; then from the points P Q R +and S draw lines at right angles to the lines FO, FM, FG, and FH, and +continue same until they intersect at the points T W and W. + +THE CAPTAIN AND COACHERS' LINE. + +RULE 6. With R and S as centres and 15 feet radius, describe arcs +cutting lines RW and ST at X and Y, and from the points X and Y draw +lines parallel with lines FH and FG, and continue same out to the +boundary lines of the ground. + +THE THREE FOOT LINE. + +RULE 7. With F as centre and 45 feet radius, describe an arc cutting +line FG at 1, and from 1 out to the distance of 3 feet draw a line at +right angles to FG, and marked point 2; then from point 2, draw a line +parallel with the line FG to a point 3 feet beyond the point G, and +marked 3; then from the point 3 draw a line at right angles to line 2, +3, back to and intersecting with line FG, and from thence back along +line GF to point 1. + +THE PITCHER'S PLATE. + +RULE 8. With point F as centre and 60.5 feet as radius, describe an arc +cutting the line FB at a point 4, and draw a line 5, 6, passing through +point 4 and extending 12 inches on either side of line FB; then with +line 5, 6, as a side, describe a parallelogram 24 inches by 6 inches. + +THE BASES. + +RULE 9. Within the angle F, describe a square the sides of which shall +be 12 inches, two of its sides lying upon the lines FG and FH, and +within the angles G and H describe squares the side of which shall be 15 +inches, the two outer sides of said square lying upon the lines FG and +GI and FH and HI, and at the angle E describe a square whose side shall +be 15 inches and so described that its sides shall be parallel with GI +and IH and its centre immediately over the angular point E. + +THE BATSMAN'S LINE. + +RULE 10. On either side of the line AFB describe two parallelograms 6 +feet long and 4 feet wide (marked 8 and 9), their length being parallel +with the line AFB, their distance apart being 6 inches, added to each +end of the length of the diagonal of the square within the angle F, and +the centre of their length being upon said diagonal. + +RULE 11. The Home Base at F and the Pitcher's Plate at 4 must be of +whitened rubber and so fixed in the ground as to be even with the +surface. + +RULE 12. The First Base at G, the Second Base at E, and the Third Base +at H, must be of white canvas bags, filled with soft material, and +securely fastened in their positions described in Rule 9. + +RULE 13. The lines described in Rules 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 must be +marked with lime, chalk, or other suitable material, so as to be +distinctly seen by the Umpire. + + +THE BALL. + +RULE 14. The Ball.[A] [Footnote A: The Spalding League Ball has been +adopted by the National League for the past sixteen years, and is used +in all League contests. + +For junior clubs (clubs composed of boys under 16 years of age) we +recommend them to use the Spalding Boys' League Ball, and that games +played by junior clubs with this ball will count as legal games the same +as if played with the Official League Ball.] + +SECTION 1. Must not weigh less than five nor more than five and +one-quarter ounces avoirdupois, and measure not less than nine nor more +than nine and one-quarter inches in circumference. The Spalding League +Ball, or the Reach American Association Ball, must be used in all games +played under these rules. + +SECTION. 2. For each championship game two balls shall be furnished by +the Home Club to the Umpire for use. When the ball in play is batted to +foul ground, out of sight of the Umpire, the other ball shall be +immediately brought into play. As often as one of the two in use shall +be lost a new one must be substituted, so that the Umpire shall at all +times after the game begins have two balls for use. The moment the +Umpire delivers an alternate ball to the pitcher it comes into play, and +shall not be exchanged until it, in turn, passes out of sight to foul +ground. + +SECTION. 3. In all games the ball or balls played with shall be +furnished by the Home Club, and the last ball in play becomes the +property of the winning club. Each ball to be used in championship games +shall be examined, measured and weighed by the Secretary of the +Association, inclosed in a paper box and sealed with the seal of the +Secretary, which seal shall not be broken except by the Umpire in the +presence of the Captains of the two contesting nines after play has been +called. + +SECTION. 4. Should the ball become out of shape, or cut or ripped so as +to expose the interior, or in any way so injured as to be, in the +opinion of the Umpire, unfit for fair use, he shall, upon appeal by +either Captain, at once put the alternate ball into play and call for a +new one. + + +THE BAT. + +RULE 15. The Bat. + +Must be made entirely of hard wood, except that the handle may be wound +with twine, or a granulated substance applied, not to exceed eighteen +inches from the end. + +It must be round, not exceed two and three-quarter inches in diameter in +the thickest part, and must not exceed forty-two inches in length. + + +THE PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS. + +RULE 16. The players of each club in a game shall be nine in number, one +of whom shall act as Captain, and in no case shall less than nine men be +allowed to play on each side. + +RULE 17. The players' positions shall be such as may be assigned them by +their Captain, except that the pitcher must take the position as defined +in Rules 8 and 29. + +RULE 18. Players in uniform shall not be permitted to occupy seats among +the spectators. + +RULE 19. SECTION 1. Every club shall adopt uniforms for its players, but +no player shall attach anything to the sole or heel of his shoes other +than the ordinary base ball shoe plate. + +SECTION. 2. The catcher and first baseman are permitted to wear a glove +or mitt of any size, shape or weight. All other players are restricted +to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces, and +measuring in circumference around the palm of the hand not over fourteen +inches. + + +PLAYERS' BENCHES. + +RULE 20. The Players' Benches must be furnished by the Home Club, and +placed upon a portion of the ground outside of, and not nearer than +twenty-five feet to, the players' lines. One such bench must be for the +exclusive use of the visiting club, and one for the exclusive use of the +home club, and the players of the competing teams shall be required to +occupy their respective benches while not engaged in active play. + + +THE GAME. + +RULE 21. SECTION 1. Every Championship game must be commenced not later +than two hours before sunset. + +SECTION. 2. A Game shall consist of nine innings to each contesting +nine, except that + +(a) If the side first at bat scores less runs in nine innings than the +other side has scored in eight innings, the game shall then terminate. + +(b) If the side last at bat in the ninth innings scores the winning run +before the third man is out, the game shall terminate. + +A TIE GAME. + +RULE 22. If the score be a tie at the end of nine innings, play shall be +continued until one side has scored more runs than the other in an equal +number of innings, provided that if the side last at bat scores the +winning run before the third man is out the game shall terminate. A DRAWN +GAME. + +RULE 23. A Drawn Game shall be declared by the Umpire when he terminates +a game on account of darkness or rain, after five equal innings have +been played, if the score at the time is equal on the last even innings +played; but (exception) if the side that went second to bat is then at +the bat, and has scored the same number of runs as the other side, the +Umpire shall declare the game drawn without regard to the score of the +last equal innings. + +A CALLED GAME. + +RULE 24. If the Umpire calls "Game" on account of darkness or rain at +any time after five innings have been completed, the score shall be that +of the last equal innings played, unless the side second at bat shall +have scored one or more runs than the side first at bat, in which case +the score of the game shall be the total number of runs made. + +A FORFEITED GAME. + +RULE 25. A forfeited game shall be declared by the Umpire in favor of +the club not in fault, at the request of such club, in the following +cases: + +SECTION 1. If the nine of a club fail to appear upon a field, or being +upon the field, fail to begin the game within five minutes after the +Umpire has called "Play," at the hour appointed for the beginning of the +game, unless such delay in appearing or in commencing the game be +unavoidable. + +SECTION. 2. If, after the game has begun, one side refuses or fails to +continue playing, unless such game has been suspended or terminated by +the Umpire. + +SECTION. 3. If, after play has been suspended by the Umpire, one side +fails to resume playing within _one minute_ after the Umpire has called +"Play." + +SECTION. 4. If a team resorts to dilatory practice to delay the game. + +SECTION. 5. If, in the opinion of the Umpire, any one of these rules is +willfully violated. + +SECTION. 6. If, after ordering the removal of a player as authorized by +Rule 59, Sec. 5, said order is not obeyed within one minute. + +SECTION. 7. In case the Umpire declares a game forfeited, he shall +transmit a written notice thereof to the President of the Association +within twenty-four hours thereafter. + +NO GAME. + +RULE 26. "No Game" shall be declared by the Umpire if he shall terminate +play on account of rain or darkness, before five innings on each side +are completed, except in a case when the game is called, and the club +second at bat shall have more runs at the end of its fourth innings than +the club first at bat has made in its five innings, then the Umpire +shall award the game to the club having made the greatest number of +runs, and it shall be a game and be so counted in the Championship +record. + + +SUBSTITUTES. + +RULE 27. SECTION 1. In every championship game each team shall be +required to have present on the field, in uniform, one or more +substitute players. + +SECTION. 2. Any such player may be substituted at any time by either +club, but no player thereby retired shall thereafter participate in the +game. + +SECTION. 3. The Base Runner shall not have a substitute run for him +except by consent of the Captains of the contesting teams. + + +CHOICE OF INNINGS--CONDITION OF GROUND. + +RULE 28. The choice of innings shall be given to the Captain of the Home +Club, who shall also be the sole judge of the fitness of the ground for +beginning a game after rain. + + +THE PITCHER'S POSITION. + +RULE 29. The Pitcher shall take his position facing the Batsman +with both feet square on the ground, and in front of the Pitcher's +plate, but in the act of delivering the ball one foot must be in contact +with the pitcher's plate, defined in Rule 8. He shall not raise either +foot, unless in the act of delivering the ball, nor make more than one +step in such delivery. He shall hold the ball, before the delivery, +fairly in front of his body, and in sight of the Umpire. When the +Pitcher feigns to throw the ball to a base he must resume the above +position and pause momentarily before delivering the ball to the bat. + + +THE DELIVERY OF THE BALL--FAIR AND UNFAIR BALLS. + +RULE 30. A Fair Ball is a ball delivered by the Pitcher while standing +in his position, and facing the Batsman, the ball so delivered to pass +over the Home Base, not lower than the Batsman's knee, nor higher than +his shoulder. + +RULE 31. An Unfair Ball is a ball delivered by the Pitcher, as in Rule +30, except that the ball does not pass over the Home Base, or does pass +over the Home Base above the Batsman's shoulder or below the knee. + + +BALKING. + +RULE 32. A Balk shall be: + +SECTION 1. Any motion made by the Pitcher to deliver the ball to the bat +without delivering it. + +SECTION. 2. The holding of the ball by the Pitcher so long as to delay +the game unnecessarily. + +SECTION. 3. Any motion in delivering the ball to the bat by the Pitcher +while not in the position defined in Rule 29. + + +DEAD BALLS. + +RULE 33. A Dead Ball is a ball delivered to the bat by the Pitcher that +touches any part of the Batsman's person or clothing while standing in +his position without being struck at; or any part of the Umpire's person +or clothing, while on foul ground, without first passing the Catcher. + +RULE 34. In case of a Foul Strike, Foul Hit ball not legally caught out, +Dead Ball, or Base Runner put out for being struck by a fair hit ball, +the ball shall not be considered in play until it is held by the Pitcher +standing in his position, and the Umpire shall have called play. + + +BLOCK BALLS. + +RULE 35. SECTION 1. A Block is a batted or thrown ball that is touched, +stopped or handled by any person not engaged in the game. + +SECTION. 2. Whenever a Block occurs the Umpire shall declare it, and +Base Runners may run the bases without being put out until the ball has +been returned to and held by the pitcher standing in his position. + +SECTION. 3. In the case of a Block, if the person not engaged in the +game should retain possession of the ball, or throw or kick it beyond +the reach of the Fielders, the Umpire should call "Time," and require +each Base Runner to stop at the last base touched by him until the ball +be returned to the pitcher standing in his position, and the Umpire +shall have called play. + + +THE BATSMAN'S POSITION--ORDER OF BATTING. + +RULE 36. The Batsmen must take their positions within the Batsmen's +Lines, as defined in Rule 10, in the order in which they are named in +the batting order, which batting order must be submitted by the Captains +of the opposing teams to the Umpire before the game, and this batting +order must be followed except in the case of a substitute player, in +which case the substitute must take the place of the original player in +the batting order. After the first inning the first striker in each +inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man who +has completed his turn--time at bat--in the preceding inning. + +RULE 37. SECTION 1. When their side goes to the bat the players must +immediately return to the players' bench, as defined in Rule 20, and +remain there until the side is put out, except when batsmen or base +runners; provided, that the Captain and one assistant only may occupy +the space between the Players' Lines and the Captain's Lines, to coach +base runners. + +SECTION. 2. No player of the side "at bat," except when batsman, shall +occupy any portion of the space within the Catcher's Lines, as defined +in Rule 3. The triangular space behind the Home Base is reserved for the +exclusive use of Umpire, Catcher and Batsman, and the Umpire must +prohibit any player of the side "at bat" from crossing the same at any +time while the ball is in the hands of, or passing between the Pitcher +and Catcher, while standing in their positions. + +SECTION. 3. The players of the side "at bat" must occupy the portion of +the field allotted them, but must speedily vacate any portion thereof +that may be in the way of the ball, or any Fielder attempting to catch +or field it. + + +THE BATTING RULES. + +RULE 38. A Fair Hit is a ball batted by the Batsman, standing in his +position, that first touches any part of the person of a player or +umpire or falls within the foul lines, that (whether it first touches +Foul or Fair Ground) bounds or rolls within the Foul Lines, between Home +and First, or Home and Third Bases, without interference by a player. + +RULE 39. A Foul Hit is a ball batted by the Batsman, standing in his +position, that first touches the ground, any part of the person of a +player, or any object behind either of the Foul Lines, or that strikes +the person of such Batsman, while standing in his position, or batted by +the Batsman, standing in his position, that (whether it first touches +Foul or Fair Ground) bounds or rolls outside the Foul Lines, between +Home and First or Home and Third Bases, without interference by a +player: _Provided_, that a Foul Hit ball not rising above the Batsman's +head, and caught by the Catcher playing within ten feet of the Home +Base, shall be termed a Foul Tip. + +RULE 40. A bunt hit is a deliberate attempt on the part of the Batsman +to hit a ball slowly within the infield so that it cannot be fielded by +any infielder in time to retire the batsman. + + +BALLS BATTED OUTSIDE THE GROUNDS. + +RULE 41. When a batted ball passes outside the grounds, the Umpire shall +decide it Fair should it disappear within, or Foul should it disappear +outside of, the range of the Foul Lines, and Rules 38 and 39 are to be +construed accordingly. + +RULE 42. A Fair batted ball that goes over the fence shall entitle the +batsman to a home run, except that should it go over the fence at a less +distance than two hundred and thirty-five feet from the Home Base, when +he shall be entitled to two bases only, and a distinctive line shall be +marked on the fence at this point. + + +STRIKES. + +RULE 43. A strike is: + +SECTION 1. A ball struck at by the Batsman without its touching his bat; +or + +SECTION. 2. A Fair Ball legally delivered by the Pitcher, but not struck +at by the Batsman. + +SECTION. 3. Any obvious attempt to make a Foul Hit. + +SECTION. 4. A Foul Hit, other than a Foul Tip, made by the Batsman while +attempting a bunt hit, as defined in Rule 40, that falls or rolls upon +foul ground between Home Base and First Base or Home Base and Third +Base. + +SECTION. 5. A ball struck at, if the ball touches any part of the +Batsman's person. + +SECTION. 6. A ball tipped by the Batsman and caught by the catcher +within the 10-foot lines. + +RULE 44. A Foul Strike is a ball batted by the Batsman when any part of +his person is upon ground outside the lines of the Batsman's position. + + +THE BATSMAN IS OUT. + +RULE 45. The Batsman is out: + +SECTION 1. If he fails to take his position at the bat in his order of +batting, unless the error be discovered and the proper Batsman takes his +position before a time "at bat" recorded; and in such case the balls and +strikes called must be counted in the time "at bat" of the proper +Batsman, and only the proper Batsman shall be declared out: _Provided_, +this rule shall not take effect unless _the out_ is declared before the +ball is delivered to the succeeding Batsman, and no runs shall be scored +or bases run, and further, no outs shall be counted other than that of +the proper Batsman. + +SECTION. 2. If he fails to take his position within one minute after the +Umpire has called for the Batsman. + +SECTION. 3. If he makes a Foul Hit other than a Foul Tip, as defined in +Rule 39, and the ball be momentarily held by a Fielder before touching +the ground, provided it be not caught in a Fielder's hat or cap, or +touch some object other than a Fielder, before being caught. + +SECTION. 4. If he makes a Foul Strike. + +SECTION. 5. If he attempts to hinder the Catcher from fielding or +throwing the ball by stepping outside the lines of his position, or +otherwise obstructing or interfering with the player. + +SECTION. 6. If, while the First Base be occupied by a base runner, three +strikes be called on him by the Umpire, except when two men are already +out. + +SECTION. 7. If, after two strikes have been called, the Batsman +obviously attempts to make a foul hit, as in Rule 43, Section 3. + +SECTION. 8. If, while attempting a third strike, the ball touches any +part of the Batsman's person, in which case base runners occupying bases +shall return, as prescribed in Rule 49, Section 5. + +SECTION. 9. If he hits a fly ball that can be handled by an infielder +while first and second bases are occupied, or first, second and third, +with only one out. + +SECTION. 10. If the third strike is called in accordance with Section 4, +Rule 43, in such case the Umpire shall, as soon as the ball is hit, +declare infield or outfield hit. + + + +BASE RUNNING RULES. + + +WHEN THE BATSMAN BECOMES A BASE RUNNER. + +RULE 46. The Batsman becomes a Base Runner: + +SECTION 1. Instantly after he makes a Fair Hit. + +SECTION. 2. Instantly after four balls have been called by the Umpire. + +SECTION. 3. Instantly after three strikes have been decided by the +Umpire. + +SECTION. 4. If, while he be a Batsman, without making any attempt to +strike, his person--excepting hands or forearm, which makes it a dead +ball--or clothing be hit by a ball from the Pitcher; unless, in the +opinion of the Umpire, he intentionally permits himself to be so hit. + +SECTION. 5. Instantly after an illegal delivery of a ball by the +Pitcher. + + +BASES TO BE TOUCHED. + +RULE 47. The Base Runner must touch each base in regular order, viz., +First, Second, Third and Home Bases, and when obliged to return (except +on a foul hit) must retouch the base or bases in reverse order. He shall +only be considered as holding a base after touching it, and shall then +be entitled to hold such base until he has legally touched the next base +in order, or has been legally forced to vacate it for a succeeding Base +Runner. + + +ENTITLED TO BASES. + +RULE 48. The Base Runner shall be entitled, without being put out, to +take the base in the following cases: + +SECTION 1. If, while he was Batsman, the Umpire called four balls. + +SECTION. 2. If the Umpire awards a succeeding batsman a base on four +balls, or for being hit with a pitched ball, or in case of an illegal +delivery--as in Rule 46, Section 5--and the Base Runner is thereby +forced to vacate the base held by him. + +SECTION. 3. If the Umpire calls a "balk." SECTION. 4. If a ball, +delivered by the Pitcher, pass the Catcher and touch the Umpire, or any +fence or building within ninety feet of the Home Base. + +SECTION. 5. If, upon a fair hit, the ball strikes the person or clothing +of the Umpire on fair ground. + +SECTION. 6. If he be prevented from making a base by the obstruction of +an adversary. + +SECTION. 7. If the Fielder stop or catch a batted ball with his hat or +any part of his dress. + + +RETURNING TO BASES. + +RULE 49. The Base Runner shall return to his base, and shall be entitled +to so return without being put out: + +SECTION 1. If the Umpire declares a Foul Tip (as defined in Rule 39), or +any other Foul Hit not legally caught by a fielder. + +SECTION. 2. If the Umpire declares a Foul Strike. + +SECTION. 3. If the Umpire declares a Dead Ball, unless it be also the +fourth Unfair Ball and he be thereby forced to take the next base, as +provided in Rule 48, Section 2. + +SECTION. 4. If the person or clothing of the Umpire interferes with the +Catcher, or he is struck by a ball thrown by the Catcher to intercept a +Base Runner. + +SECTION. 5. The Base Runner shall return to his base, if, while +attempting a strike, the ball touches any part of the Batsman's person. + + +WHEN BASE RUNNERS ARE OUT. + +RULE 50. The Base Runner is out: + +SECTION 1. If, after three strikes have been declared against him while +Batsman, and the Catcher fail to catch the third strike ball, he plainly +attempts to hinder the Catcher from fielding the ball. + +SECTION. 2. If, having made a Fair Hit while Batsman, such fair hit ball +be momentarily held by a Fielder, before touching the ground, or any +object other than a Fielder: _Provided_, it be not, caught in a +Fielder's hat or cap. + +SECTION. 3. If, when the Umpire has declared three strikes on him, while +Batsman, the third strike ball be momentarily held by a Fielder before +touching the ground: _Provided_, it be not caught in a Fielder's hat or +cap, or touch some object other than a Fielder, before being caught. + +SECTION. 4. If, after Three Strikes or a Fair Hit, he be touched with +the ball in the hand of a Fielder _before_ he shall have touched First +Base. + +SECTION. 5. If, after Three Strikes or a Fair Hit, the ball be securely +held by a Fielder, while touching First Base with any part of his +person, _before_ such Base Runner touches First Base. + +SECTION. 6. If, in running the last half of the distance from Home Base +to First Base, while the ball is being fielded to First Base, he runs +outside the three-foot lines, as defined in Rule 7, unless to avoid a +Fielder attempting to field a Batted Ball. + +SECTION. 7. If, in running from First to Second Base, from Second to +Third Base, or from Third to Home Base, he runs more than three feet +from a direct line between such bases, to avoid being touched by the +ball in the hands of a Fielder; but in case a Fielder be occupying the +Base Runner's proper path, in attempting to field a batted ball, then +the Base Runner shall run out of the path, and behind said Fielder, and +shall not be declared out for so doing. + +SECTION. 8. If he fails to avoid a Fielder attempting to field a batted +ball, in the manner described in Sections 6 and 7 of this Rule; or if he +in any way obstructs a Fielder attempting to field a batted ball, or +intentionally interferes with a thrown ball: _Provided_, that if two or +more Fielders attempt to field a batted ball, and the Base Runner comes +in contact with one or more of them, the Umpire shall determine which +Fielder is entitled to the benefit of this rule, and shall not decide +the Base Runner out for coming in contact with any other fielder. + +SECTION. 9. If, at any time while the ball is in play, he be touched by +the ball in the hands of a Fielder, unless some part of his person is +touching a base he is entitled to occupy: _Provided_, the ball be held +by the Fielder after touching him; but (exception as to First Base), in +running to First Base he may overrun said base, without being put out +for being off said base, after first touching it, provided he returns at +once and retouches the base, after which he may be put out as at any +other base. If, in overrunning First Base, he also attempts to run to +Second Base, or, after passing the base he turns to his left from the +foul line, he shall forfeit such exemption from being put out. + +SECTION. 10. If, when a Fair or Foul Hit ball (other than a foul tip as +referred to in Rule 39) is legally caught by a Fielder, such ball is +legally held by a Fielder on the base occupied by the Base Runner when +such ball was struck (or the Base Runner be touches with the ball in the +hands of a Fielder), before he retouches said base after such Fair or +Foul Hit ball was so caught: _Provided_, that the Base Runner shall not +be out in such case, if, after the ball was legally caught as above, it +be delivered to the bat by the Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on +said base, or touches the Base Runner with it; but if the Base Runner in +attempting to reach a base, detaches it before being touched or forced +out, he shall be declared safe. + +SECTION. 11. If, when a Batsman becomes a Base Runner, the First Base, +or the First and Second Bases, or the First, Second and Third Bases, be +occupied, any Base Runner so occupying a base shall cease to be entitled +to hold it, until any following Base Runner is put out, and may be put +out at the next base or by being touched by the ball in the hands of a +Fielder in the same manner as in running to First Base, at any time +before any following Base Runner is put out. + +SECTION. 12. If a Fair Hit ball strike him _before touching the +Fielder_, and in such case no base shall be run unless forced by the +Batsman becoming a base runner, and no run shall be scored; or any other +Base Runner put out. + +SECTION. 13. If, when running to a base or forced to return to a base, +he fail to touch the intervening base or bases, if any, in the order +prescribed in Rule 47, he may be put out at the base he fails to touch, +or being touched by the ball in the hands of a Fielder, in the same +manner as in running to First Base; _Provided_, that the Base Runner +shall not be out in such case if the ball be delivered to the bat by the +Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on said base or touches the Base +Runner with it. + +SECTION. 14. If, when the Umpire calls "Play," after any suspension of a +game, he fails to return to and touch the base he occupied when "Time" +was called before touching the next base: _Provided_, the Base Runner +shall not be out in such case if the ball be delivered to the bat by the +Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on said base or touches the Base +Runner with it. + + +WHEN BATSMAN OR BASE RUNNER IS OUT. + +RULE 51. The Umpire shall declare the Batsman or Base Runner out, +without waiting for an appeal for such decision, in all cases where such +player is put out in accordance with these rules, except as provided in +Rule 50, Sections 10 and 14. + + +COACHING RULES. + +RULE 52. The coachers shall be restricted to coaching the Base Runner +only, and shall not be allowed to address any remarks except to the Base +Runner, and then only in words of necessary direction; and shall not use +language which will in any manner refer to or reflect upon a player of +the opposing club, the Umpire or the spectators, and not more than two +coachers, who may be one player participating in the game and, any other +player under contract to it, in the uniform of either club, shall be +allowed at any one time. To enforce the above, the Captain of the +opposite side may call the attention of the Umpire to the offence, and +upon a repetition of the same, the offending player shall be debarred +from further participation in the game and shall leave the playing field +forthwith. + + +THE SCORING OF RUNS. + +RULE 53. One run shall be scored every time a Base Runner, after having +legally touched the first three bases, shall touch the Home Base before +three men are put out by (exception). If the third man is forced out, or +is put out before reaching First Base, a run shall not be scored. + +THE UMPIRE. + +RULE 54. The Umpire shall not be changed during the progress of a game, +except for reason of illness or injury. + + +HIS POWERS AND JURISDICTION. + +RULE 55. SECTION 1. The Umpire is master of the Field from the +commencement to the termination of the game, and is entitled to the +respect of the spectators, and any person offering any insult or +indignity to him must be promptly ejected from the grounds. + +SECTION. 2. He must be invariably addressed by the players as +Mr. Umpire; and he must compel the players to observe the provisions of +all the Playing Rules, and he is hereby invested with authority to order +any player to do or omit to do any act as he may deem necessary, to give +force and effect to any and all such provisions. + + +SPECIAL DUTIES. + +RULE 56. The Umpire's duties shall be as follows: + +SECTION 1. The Umpire is the sole and absolute judge of play. In no +instance shall any person, except the Captain of the competing teams, be +allowed to address him or question his decisions, and they can only +question him on an interpretation of the Rules. No Manager or any other +officer of either club shall be permitted to go on the field or address +the Umpire, under a penalty of a forfeiture of a game. + +SECTION. 2. Before the commencement of a Game, the Umpire shall see that +the rules governing all the materials of the Game are strictly +observed. He shall ask the Captain of the Home Club whether there are +any special ground rules to be enforced, and if there are, he shall see +that they are duly enforced, provided they do not conflict with any of +these rules. + +SECTION. 3. The Umpire must keep the contesting nines playing constantly +from the commencement of the game to its termination, allowing such +delays only as are rendered unavoidable by accident, injury or rain. He +must, until the completion of the game, require the players of each side +to promptly take their positions in the field as soon as the third man +is put out, and must require the first striker of the opposite side to +be in his position at the bat as soon as the fielders are in their +places. + +SECTION. 4. The Umpire shall count and call every "Unfair Ball" +delivered by the Pitcher, and every "Dead Ball," if also an unfair ball, +as a "Ball," and he shall count and call every "Strike." Neither a +"Ball" nor a "Strike" shall be counted or called until the ball has +passed the Home Base. He shall also declare every "Dead Ball," "Block," +"Foul Hit," "Foul Strike," and "Balk," "Infield" or "Outfield Hit," as +prescribed in Rule 45, Section 9. + +CALLING "PLAY" AND "TIME." + +RULE 57. The Umpire must call "Play" promptly at the hour designated by +the Home Club, and on the call of "Play" the game must immediately +begin. When he calls "Time" play shall be suspended until he calls +"Play" again, and during the interim no player shall be put out, base be +run or run be scored. The Umpire shall suspend play only for an accident +to himself or a player (but in case of accident to a Fielder "Time" +shall not be called until the ball be returned to and held by the +Pitcher, standing in his position), or in case rain falls so heavily +that the spectators are compelled, by the severity of the storm, to seek +shelter, in which case he shall note the time of suspension, and should +such rain continue to fall thirty minutes thereafter, he shall terminate +the game; or to enforce order in case of annoyance from spectators. + +RULE 58. The Umpire is only allowed, by the Rules, to call "Time" in +case of an accident to himself or a player, a "Block" as referred to in +Rule 35, Section 3, or in case of rain, as defined by the rule. + + +INFLICTING FINES. + +RULE 59. The Umpire is empowered to inflict lines of not less than +$25.00, nor more than $100.00, for the first offence, on players during +the progress of a game, as follows: + +SECTION 1. For vulgar, indecent or other improper conduct or language. + +SECTION. 2. For the Captain or Coacher willfully failing to remain +within the legal bounds of his position, except upon an appeal by the +captain from the Umpire's decision upon a misinterpretation of the +rules. + +SECTION. 3. For the disobedience by a player of any other of his orders, +or for any other violation of these rules. + +SECTION. 4. Immediately upon notification by the Umpire that a fine has +been imposed upon any Manager, Captain or player, the Secretary shall +forthwith notify the person so fined, and also the club of which he is a +member, and in the event of the failure of the person so fined to pay to +the Secretary the amount of said fine within five days of notice, he +shall be debarred from participation in any championship game until such +fine is paid. + +SECTION. 5. The Umpire may remove a player from the playing field for a +violation of Section 1 of this rule, in addition to a fine, but under no +circumstances shall he remove a player for a violation of Section 2 of +this Rule, unless upon a repetition of the offence prescribed therein. + + +FIELD RULES. + +RULE 66. No club shall allow open betting or pool-selling upon its +ground, nor in any building owned or occupied by it. + +RULE 61. No person shall be allowed upon any part of the field during +the progress of the game in addition to the players in uniform, the +Manager on each side and the Umpire; except such officers of the law as +may be present in uniform, and such officials of the Home Club as may be +necessary to preserve the peace. + +RULE 62. No Umpire, Manager, Captain or player shall address the +spectators during the progress of a game, except in case of necessary +explanation. + +RULE 63. Every Club shall furnish sufficient police force upon its own +grounds to preserve order, and in the event of a crowd entering the +field during the progress of a game, and interfering with the play in +any manner, the Visiting Club may refuse to play further until the field +be cleared. If the ground be not cleared within fifteen minutes +thereafter, the Visiting Club may claim, and shall be entitled to, the +game by a score of nine runs to none (no matter what number of innings +have been played). + + +GENERAL DEFINITIONS. + +RULE 64. "Play" is the order of the Umpire to begin the game, or to +resume play after its suspension. + +RULE 65. "Time" is the order of the Umpire to suspend play. Such +suspension must not extend beyond the day of the game. + +RULE 66. "Game" is the announcement by the Umpire that the game is +terminated. + +RULE 67. An "Inning" is the term at bat of the nine players representing +a Club in a game, and is completed when three of such players have been +put out, as provided in these rules. + +RULE 68. A "Time at Bat" is the term at bat of a Batsman. It begins +when he takes his position, and continues until he is put out or becomes +a base runner; except when, because of being hit by a pitched ball, or +in case of an illegal delivery by the Pitcher, or in case of a sacrifice +hit purposely made to the infield which, not being a base hit, advances +a base runner without resulting in a put out, except to the Batsman, as +in Rule 45. + +RULE 69. "Legal" or "Legally" signifies as required by these Rules. + + +SCORING. + +RULE 70. In order to promote uniformity in scoring championship games +the following instructions, suggestions and definitions are made for the +benefit of scorers, and they are required to make all scores in +accordance therewith. + + +BATTING. + +SECTION 1. The first item in the tabulated score, after the player's +name and position, shall be the number of times he has been at bat +during game. The time or times when the player has been sent to base by +being hit by a pitched ball, by the Pitcher's illegal delivery, or by a +base on balls, shall not be included in this column. + +SECTION. 2. In the second column should be set down the runs made by +each player. + +SECTION. 3. In the third column should be placed the first base hits +made by each player. A base hit should be scored in the following cases: + +When the ball from the bat strikes the ground within the foul lines, and +out of reach of the Fielders. + +When a hit ball is partially or wholly stopped by a Fielder in motion, +but such player cannot recover himself in time to handle the ball before +the striker reaches First Base. + +When a hit ball is hit so sharply to an infielder that he cannot handle +it in time to put out the Batsman. In case of doubt over this class of +hits, score a base hit, and exempt the Fielder from the charge of an +error. + +When a ball is hit so slowly toward a Fielder that he cannot handle it +in time to put out the Batsman. + +That in all cases where a Base Runner is retired by being hit by a +batted ball, the Batsman should be credited with a base hit. + +When a batted ball hits the person or clothing of the Umpire, as defined +in Rule 48, Section 5. + +SECTION. 4. In the fourth column shall be placed Sacrifice Hits, which +shall be credited to the Batsman, who, when no one is out, or when but +one man is out, advances a Runner a base by a bunt sacrifice hit, which +results in putting out the Batsman, or would so result if the ball were +handled without error. + + +FIELDING. + +SECTION. 5. The number of opponents put out by each player shall be set +down in the fifth column. Where a Batsman is given out by the Umpire for +a foul strike, or where the Batsman fails to bat in proper order, the +put out shall be scored to the Catcher. + +SECTION. 6. The number of times the player assists shall be set down in +the sixth column. An assist should be given to each player who handles +the ball in assisting a run out or other play of the kind. + +An assist should be given to a player who makes a play in time to put a +Runner out, even if the player who could complete the play fails, +through no fault of the player assisting. + +And generally an assist should be given to each player who handles or +assists in any manner in handling the ball from the time it leaves the +bat until it reaches the player who makes the put out, or in case of a +thrown ball, to each player who throws or handles it cleanly, and in +such a way that a put out results, or would result if no error were made +by the receiver. + +ERRORS. + +SECTION. 7. An error shall be given in the seventh column for each +misplay which allows the striker or base runner to make one or more +bases when perfect play would have insured his being put out, except +that "wild pitches," "base on balls," bases on the Batsman being struck +by a "pitched ball," or in case of illegal pitched balls, balks and +passed balls, shall not be included in said column. In scoring errors of +batted balls see Section 3 of this Rule. + +SECTION. 8. Stolen Bases shall be scored as follows: + +Any attempt to steal a base must go to the credit of the Base Runner, +whether the ball is thrown wild or muffed by the fielder, but any +manifest error is to be charged to the fielder making the same. If the +Base Runner advances another base he shall not be credited with a stolen +base, and the fielder allowing the advancement is also to be charged +with an error. If the Base Runner makes a start and a battery error is +made, the runner secures the credit of a stolen base, and the battery +error is scored against the player making it. Should a Base Runner +overrun a base and then be put out, he shall receive the credit for the +stolen base. If a Base Runner advances a base on a fly out, or gains two +bases on a single base hit, or an infield out, or attempted out, he +shall be credited with a stolen base, provided there is a possible +chance and a palpable attempt made to retire him. + + +EARNED RUNS. + +SECTION. 9. An earned run shall be scored every time the player reaches +the home base unaided by errors before chances have been offered to +retire the side. + + +THE SUMMARY. + +RULE 71. The Summary shall contain: + +SECTION 1. The number of earned runs made by each side. + +SECTION. 2. The number of two-base hits made by each player. + +SECTION. 3. The number of three-base hits made by each player. + +SECTION. 4. The number of home runs made by each player. + +SECTION. 5. The number of bases stolen by each player. + +SECTION. 6. The number of double and triple plays made by each side, and +the names of the players assisting in the same. + +SECTION. 7. The number of men given bases on called balls by each +Pitcher. + +SECTION. 8. The number of men given bases from being hit by pitched +balls. + +SECTION. 9. The number of men struck out. + +SECTION. 10. The number of passed balls by each Catcher. + +SECTION. 11. The number of wild pitches by each Pitcher. + +SECTION. 12. The time of Game. + +SECTION. 13. The name of the Umpire. + + + +INDEX TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. + + + RULE. +The Ground, 1 +The Field, 2 +Catcher's Lines, 3 +Foul Lines, 4 +Players' Lines, 5 +The Captain's and Coachers' Lines, 6 +Three-foot Line, 7 +Pitcher's Plate, 8 +The Bases, 9 +Batsman's Lines, 10 +The Home Base, 11 +First, Second and Third Bases, 12 +Lines must be Marked, 13 +The Ball, 14 + Weight and Size, (1) 14 + Number Balls Furnished, (2) 14 + Furnished by Home Club, (3) 14 + Replaced if Injured, (4) 14 +The Bat, 15 + Material of (1) 15 + Shape of (2) 15 + + +THE PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS. + +Number of Players in Game, 16 +Players' Positions, 17 +Players not to Sit with Spectators, 18 +Club Uniforms, (1) 19 + Gloves, (2) 19 +Players' Benches, 20 + + +THE GAME. + +Time of Championship Game, (1) 21 +Number of Innings, (2) 21 +Termination of Game, (a) 21 +The Winning Run, (b) 21 +A Tie Game, 22 +A Drawn Game, 23 +A Called Game, 24 +A Forfeited Game, 25 + Failure of the Nine to Appear, (1) 25 + Refusal of One Side to Play, (2) 25 + Failure to Resume Playing, (3) 25 + If a Team Resorts to Dilatory Practice, (4) 25 + Wilful Violation, (5) 25 + Disobeying Order to Remove Player, (6) 25 + Written Notice to President, (7) 25 +No Game, 26 +Substitutes, 27 + + RULE. + One or more substitute players, (1) 27 + Extra Player, (2) 27 + Base Runner, (3) 27 +Choice of Innings--Condition of Grounds, 28 +The Pitcher's Position, 29 +Delivery of the Ball--Fair Ball, 30 +Unfair Ball, 31 +Balking, 32 + Motion to Deceive, (1) 32 + Delay by Holding, (2) 32 + Pitcher Outside of Lines, (3) 32 +A Dead Ball, 33 +A Foul Strike, 34 +Block Balls, 35 + Stopped by Person not in Game, (1) 35 + Ball Returned, (2) 35 + Base Runner must Stop, (3) 35 +The Batsman's Position--Order of Batting, 36 + Where Players must Remain, (1) 37 + Space Reserved for Umpire, (2) 37 + Space Allotted Players "at Bat," (3) 37 +Batting Rules--Fair Hit, 38 +Foul Hit, 39 +Bunt Hit, 40 +Batted Ball Outside Grounds, 41 +A Fair Batted Ball, 42 +Strikes, 43 + Ball Struck at by Batsman, (1) 43 + Fair Ball Delivered by Pitcher, (2) 43 + Attempt to Make Foul Hit, (3) 43 + Foul Hit while Attempting a Bunt Hit, (4) 43 + Ball Struck at after Touching Batsman's Person, (5) 43 + Ball Tipped by Batsman, (6) 43 +A Foul Strike, 44 +The Batsman is Out, 45 + Failing to Take Position at Bat in Order, (1) 45 + Failure to Take Position within One Minute after + being called, (2) 45 + If He Makes a Foul Hit, (3) 45 + If He Makes a Foul Strike, (4) 45 + Attempt to Hinder Catcher, (5) 45 + Three Strikes Called by Umpire, (6) 45 + Attempt to Make a Foul Hit After Two Strikes + have been Called, (7) 45 + If Ball Hits Him While Making Third Strike, (8) 45 + If He Hits a Fly Ball that can be Handled by + Infielder while First Base Occupied with Only + One Out, (9) 45 + If Third Strike is Called, (10) 45 + + +BASE RUNNING RULES. + RULE. +The Batsman Becomes a Base Runner, 46 + After a Fair Hit, (1) 46 + After Four Balls are Called, (2) 46 + After Three Strikes are Declared, (3) 46 + If Hit by Ball While at Bat, (4) 46 + After Illegal Delivery of Ball, (5) 46 +Bases to be Touched, 47 +Entitled to Bases, 48 + If Umpire Call Four Balls, (1) 48 + If Umpire Award Succeeding Batsman Base, (2) 48 + If Umpire Calls Balk, (3) 48 + If Pitcher's Ball Passes Catcher, (4) 48 + Ball Strikes Umpire, (5) 48 + Prevented from Making Base, (6) 48 + Fielder Stops Ball, (7) 48 +Returning to Bases, 49 + If Foul Tip, (1) 49 + If Foul Strike, (2) 49 + If Dead Ball, (3) 49 + + If Person of Umpire Interferes with Catcher, (4) 49 + If the Ball Touches the Batsman's Person, (5) 49 +Base Runner Out, 50 + Attempt to Hinder Catcher from Fielding Ball, (1) 50 + If Fielder Hold Fair Hit Ball, (2) 50 + Third Strike Ball Held by Fielder, (3) 50 + Touched with Ball After Three Strikes, (4) 50 + Touching First Base, (5) 50 + Running from Home Base to First Base, (6) 50 + Running from First to Second Base, (7) 50 + Failure to Avoid Fielder, (8) 50 + Touched by Ball While in Play, (9) 50 + Fair or Foul Hit Caught by Fielder, (10) 50 + Batsman Becomes a Base Runner, (11) 50 + Touched by Hit Ball Before Touching Fielder, (12) 50 + Running to Base, (13) 50 + Umpire Calls Play, (14) 50 +When Batsman or Base Runner is Out, 51 +Coaching Rules, 52 +Scoring of Runs, 53 + + +THE UMPIRE. + +The Umpire 54 + When Master of the Field, (1) 55 + Must Compel Observance of Playing Rules, (2) 55 +Special Duties, 56 + Is Sole Judge of Play, (1) 56 + Shall See Rules Observed before Commencing + Game, (2) 56 + + RULE. + Must Keep Contesting Nines Playing, (3) 56 + Must Count and Call Balls, (4) 56 +Umpire Must Call Play, 57 +Umpire Allowed to Call Time, 58 +Umpire is Empowered to Inflict Fines, 59 + For Indecent Language, (1) 59 + Wilful Failure of Captain to Remain within + Bounds, (2) 59 + Disobedience of a Player, (3) 59 + Shall Notify Captain, (4) 59 + Repetition of Offences, (5) 59 + + +FIELD RULES. + +No Club Shall Allow Open Betting, 60 +Who Shall be Allowed in the Field, 61 +Audience Shall Not be Addressed, 62 +Every Club shall Furnish Police Force, 63 + + +GENERAL DEFINITIONS. + +Play, 64 +Time, 65 +Game, 66 +An Inning, 67 +A Time at Bat, 68 +Legal, 69 +Scoring, 70 + Batting, (1) 70 + Runs Made, (2) 70 + Base Hits, (3) 70 + Sacrifice Hits, (4) 70 + Fielding, (5) 70 + Assists, (6) 70 + Errors, (7) 70 + Stolen Bases, (8) 70 + Earned Runs, (9) 70 +The Summary, 71 + Number of Earned Runs, (1) 71 + Number of Two Base Hits, (2) 71 + Number of Three Base Hits, (3) 71 + Number of Home Runs, (4) 71 + Number of Stolen Bases, (5) 71 + Number of Double and Triple Plays, (6) 71 + Bases on Called Balls, (7) 71 + Bases From being Hit, (8) 71 + Men Struck Out, (9) 71 + Passed Balls, (10) 71 + Wild Pitches, (11) 71 + Time of Game, (12) 71 + Name of Umpire, (13) 71 + + +[Illustration: The Famous Red Stockings of 1869.] +[Illustration: Rock Island-Moline. Champions of the Western Assn, '94.] +[Illustration: Sioux City Base Ball Club. Champs of Western League, '94.] +[Illustration: Petersburg Base Ball Club. Champs of Virginia League, '94.] + + + +#Rules Appendix.# + +We have very little to comment upon this year in regard to the +amendments made to the playing rules of the game, alike by the special +committee appointed to revise them, or by the committee of the whole who +do the final work of revision. No improvement in this branch of League +legislative work, too, may be looked for until a regular and permanent +committee of rules be appointed, with President Young as its continuous +chairman, aided by the chief of the umpire staff, Harry Wright, and one +member of the League, a member like Mr. Byrne, who has done more since +he has been in the League to really improve the game than any other of +the several members of the rules committee since 1891. Moreover, the +report sent in by this proposed permanent committee of rules should not +be changed by the committee of the whole at the spring meetings except +by a two-thirds vote. As it is now, the whole business would likely be +spoiled by the final revision made by a simple majority vote. + +The changes made by the committee of 1894, in several instances did not +improve the game at all. The amendment made to the bat rule, which +removed the restrictions as to size, was absurd. The League did well to +throw it out. The gain in the diameter of the bat, though small, will +have its effect on the batting. A quarter of an inch is not much, but it +will tell. The abolition of the "mitt," except for catchers and first +basemen, was a good move, as was the introduction of a penalty for the +failure of umpires to prevent "kicking." One change introduces a new +experiment, and that is the call of a strike on every foul tip caught on +the fly. The calls of strikes will be more numerous than ever, viz., the +regular strikes, the strikes on foul bunts and on foul tips. + +As to the change made in the pitcher's plate, nothing was gained by it. +The pitcher will still violate the rule requiring him to have his foot +in contact with the rubber plate, as he did last year. He cannot get a +firm foothold by placing his foot on the rubber. What was wanted was a +hollow, oblong square, 12x36 inches, in which the pitcher could have +obtained a good, firm foothold within the box, and not as now, outside +of it, as he now has to, to secure a good standpoint for his pivot foot +outside of the box. + +Not a single change was made in the badly-worded scoring rules, and in +consequence the same old premium for record batting is offered to every +"fungo" hitter in the ranks. Each member of the committee still walks in +the same old rut in this respect. + +One of the best changes was the following: Rule 59 reads now so that +players using "vulgar, indecent, or other improper language" shall be +fined $25 and $100, instead of $5 and $25. In Rule 59, Section 4 was +stricken out and the following substituted: "Upon notification from an +umpire that a fine has been imposed upon any manager, captain or player, +the secretary shall forthwith notify the person so fined, and also the +club of which he is a member, and in the event of the failure of the +person so fined to pay the amount within five days, he shall be debarred +from participating in any championship game until such fine is paid." + +The committee still retained that problem in mathematics contained in +the first rule, a description of how to lay out a field which would +puzzle a Yale quarterback. + +The change made in Rule 45, Section 1, is a good one. Only the batsman +who has failed to bat in his proper turn can be declared out, not those +who have batted out of turn in consequence of the former's error. + +It will now cost a kicker $25 at least, for indulging in his "hustling" +tactics. + +That was a much-needed resolution adopted by the League forbidding any +club from paying a single fine inflicted on a player. + + + +NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE. + + +SEASON OF 1895. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Boston. Brooklyn. New York. Philadelphia. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston July Apr. June 29 + 3, 4, 4 24, 25, 26 July 1, 2 + Sept. Sept. Aug. + 23, 24, 25 11, 12, 14 16, 17, 19 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn June Apr. July 30, 31 + 19, 20, 21 18, 20, 22 Aug. 1 + Aug. Aug. Sept. + 6, 7, 8 2, 5, 17 27, 28, 30 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York June June 29 May + 22, 24, 25 July 1, 2 2, 3, 4 + Sept. Aug. Aug. + 19, 20, 21 3, 16, 19 13, 14, 15 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia June June Apr. + 26, 27, 28 22, 24, 25 27, 29, 30 + Aug. Aug. Sept. + 2, 3, 5 9, 10, 12 16, 17, 18 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore July 30, 31 May July June + Aug. 1 1, 2, 4 3, 4, 4 19, 20, 21 + Sept. Sept. Sept. Aug. + 16, 17, 18 19, 20, 21 27, 28, 30 6, 7, 8 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington April 19 June June July + May 2, 4 26, 27, 28 19, 20, 21 4, 4 + Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. + 9, 10, 12 13, 14, 15 6, 7, 8 14, 19, 20, 21 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Baltimore. Washington. Pittsburgh. Cleveland. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston Apr. Apr. May May + 27, 29, 30 20, 22, 23 23, 24, 25 13, 14, 15 + Aug. Sept. July July + 13, 14, 15 27, 28, 30 6, 8, 9 25, 26, 27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn Apr. Apr. May May + 24, 25, 26 27, 29, 30 6, 7, 8 20, 21, 22 + Sept. Sept. July July + 11, 12, 14 16, 17, 18 10, 11, 13 18, 19, 20 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York June July 30, 31 May May + 26, 27, 28 Aug. 1 16, 17, 18 23, 24, 25 + Aug. Sept. July July + 9, 10, 12 23, 24, 25 25, 26, 27 10, 11, 13 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia Apr. Apr. May May + 18, 20, 22 24, 25, 26 13, 14, 15 16, 17, 18 + Sept. July 3 July July + 23, 24, 25 Sept. 11, 12 18, 19, 20 6, 8, 9 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore June 24, 25 May May + July 1 9, 10, 11 6, 7, 8 + Aug. July July + 2, 5, 16 22, 23, 24 15, 16, 17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington June 22, 29 May May + July 2 20, 21, 22 9, 10, 11 + Aug. Sept. July + 3, 17, 23 7, 7, 9 22, 23, 24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Cincinnati. Louisville. Chicago. St. Louis. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston May May May May + 20, 21, 22 16, 17, 18 9, 10, 11 6, 7, 8 + July July July July + 15, 16, 17 10, 11, 13 18, 19, 20 22, 23, 24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn May May May May + 9, 10, 11 23, 25, 26 16, 18, 19 12, 13, 14 + July July July July + 6, 7, 8 14, 15, 16 21, 22, 23 26, 27, 28 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York May May May May + 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11 13, 14, 15 20, 21, 22 + July July July July + 22, 23, 24 18, 19, 20 6, 8, 9 15, 16, 17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia May May May May + 23, 24, 25 6, 7, 8 20, 21, 22 9, 10, 11 + July July July July + 25, 26, 27 22, 23, 24 15, 16, 17 11, 12, 13 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore May May May May + 12, 13, 14 20, 21, 22 23, 25, 26 16, 18, 19 + July July July July + 18, 20, 21 25, 27, 28 11, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington May May May May + 16, 18, 19 12, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 24, 25, 26 + July July July July + 10, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 25, 27, 28 19, 20, 21 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Boston. Brooklyn. New York Philadelphia +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh. Jun 5,6,7 Jun 1,4,10 June 3,8,11 Jun15,17,18 + Aug.24,26,27 Aug. 20,22 Aug. 21 Aug. 31 + Sept. 5 Sept. 4,6 Sept. 2,3 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cleveland. Jun 15,17,18 May 30,30 May 28 Jun 8,10,11 + Aug.28,29,30 June 13 June 12,14 Aug24,26,27 + Aug. 31 Sept.2,2,5 + Sept. 4,6 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cincinnati. June 1,3,4 June 5,7,17 June 6,15,18 May28,30,30 + Aug. 31, Aug. 29 Aug. 28,30 Aug20,21,22 + Sept. 2,2 Sept. 7,10 Sept. 9 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Louisville. June 8,10,11 June 6,15,18 June 5,7,17 Jun12,13,14 + Aug.20,21,22 Aug.26,28,30 Aug. 24,27,29 Sept. 7,7,9 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Chicago. Jun 12,13,14 May 28 May 30,30 June 1,3,4 + Sept. 4,5,6 June 8,11 June 10 Aug28,29,30 + Sept. 2,2,9 Aug. 31 + Sept. 7,10 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +St. Louis. May 28,30,30 Jun 3,12,14 June 1,4,13 June 5,6,7 + Sept. 7,9,10 Aug. 21,24,27 Aug. 20,22,26 Sept. 4,5,6 + Sept. 2,2 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Baltimore. Washington. Pittsburgh Cleveland +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh. June 12,13,14 May 28,30,30 . . . . . July 1,2,3 + Aug. 28,29,30 July 16,17 . . . . . Aug. 1,2,3 + Aug. 19 . . . . . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cleveland. June 1,3,4 June 5,6,7 July 4,4,5 . . . . . + Sept. 7,9,10 Aug. 20,21,22 Sept.19,20,21 . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cincinnati. June 8,10,11 June 12,13,14 May 1,2,4 Aug. 15,16,17 + Aug. 24,26,27 Sept. 4,5,6 Sept.11,12,14 Sept.16,17,18 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Louisville. May 28,30,30 June 1,3,4 June 19,20,22 June 24,25,26 + Sept. 4,5,6 Aug. 31 Aug. 8,9,10 Aug. 5,6,7 + Sept. 2,3 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Chicago. June 5,6,7 June 15,17,18 July 29,30,31 June 27,28,29 + Aug. 20,21,22 Aug. 24,26,27 Sept.16,17,18 Sept.23,24,25 + + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +St. Louis. June 15,17,18 June 8,10,11 June 27,28,29 May 1,2,4 + Aug. 31 Aug. 28,29,30 Aug. 5,6,7 Aug. 12,13,14 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +CLUBS. In In In In + Cincinnati Louisville Chicago St. Louis +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Pittsburgh. Apr. 23,24,25 Apr. 18,19,20 June 24,25,26 Apr 26,27,29 + Aug. 12,13,14 Sept.23,25,25 Aug. 15,16,17 Sept. 26,27,28 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Cleveland. Apr. 18,20,21 Apr. 27,28,29 June 20,22,23 April 23,24,25 + May 26 Sept.26,28,29 Aug. 8,9,10 Sept. 12,14,15 + July 28 + Aug. 18 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Cincinnati. . . . . . July 1,2,3 July 4,4,5 June 20, 22,23 + . . . . . Aug. 1,3 Aug. 5,6,7 Sept. 23,24,25 + . . . . . 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May 5 July 29,30,31 June 30 . . . . . + June 24,25 Sept.16,17,18 July 1,2 . . . . . + Aug. 8,10,11 Aug. 1,3,4 . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. + +The readers of the OFFICIAL GUIDE will receive with pleasure the +innovation of this year, which for the first time, presents to them +twenty-one pages of half-tone portraits of all the leading clubs and +players of America. + +Old-timers will appreciate the picture of the famous Red Stockings of +'69. + +Herewith we present a key. The individual players in each group are +numbered to correspond with the numbers in the following list: + + +BALTIMORE BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Ed Hanlon; 2, H.R. Von der Horst; 3, H.H. Von der Horst; 4, W. +Brodie; 5, George Hemming; 6, W. Robinson; 7, D. Brouthers; 8, +J. McMahon; 9, W. Clark; 10, W. Brown; 11, Charles Esper; 12, J. Kelly; +13, H. Reitz; 14, "Kid" Gleason; 15, F. Bonner; 16, J. McGraw; 17, +H. Jennings; 18, W. Keeler; 19, W.V. Hawke. + + +NEW YORK BASE BALL CLUB, '94. (Photograph copyrighted by Prince, New +York and Washington.) + +1, Park A. Wilson; 2, Charles A. Farrell; 3, George Van Haltren; 4, +Roger Connor; 5, Jouett Meekin; 6, Huyler Westervelt; 7, Amos Rusie; 8, +W.H. Clark; 9, Lester German; 10, John J. Doyle; 11, John Ward; 12, +M. Tiernan; 13, Geo. S. Davis; 14, W.B. Fuller; 15, James Stafford; 16, +W.H. Murphy. + + +PHILADELPHIA BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Callahan; 2, Allen; 3, Delehanty; 4, Boyle; 5, Thompson; 6, Taylor; +7, Hamilton; 8, Reilly; 9, Clements; 10, Weyhing; 11, Hallman; 12, +Irwin; 13, Carsey; 14, Haddock; 15, Hartman; 16, Sharrott; 17, Turner; +18, Grady. + + +BROOKLYN BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, G. Tredway; 2, M.G. Griffin; 3, T.P. Burns; 4, P. Gilbert; 5, Wm. +Shindle; 6, T.W. Corcoran; 7, T.P. Daly; 8, T.F. Kinslow; 9, D.L. Foutz +(Manager); 10, C.F. Dailey; 11, G. Lachance; 13, G. Q. Shoch; 13, +William Kennedy; 14, D.W. Daub; 15, G.O. Sharrott; 16, E.F. Stein. + + +CLEVELAND BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Tebeau; 2, O'Connor; 3, Young; 4, Burkett; 5, Ewing; 6, McAleer; 7, +McGarr; 8, Childs; 9, McKean; 10, Dewald; 11, Virtue; 12, Clarkson; 13, +Cuppy; 14, Fisher; 15, Zimmer. + + +PITTSBURGH BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Shiebeck; 2, Bierbauer; 3, Stigden; 4, Mack; 5, Beckley; 6, Smith; 7, +Lukens; 8, Lyons; 9, Colcolough; 10, Donovan; 11, Killen; 12, +Buckenberger; 13, Ehret; 14, Stenzel; 15, Glasscock; 16, Gumbert; 17, +Nicol. + + +CINCINNATI BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Chas. Comiskey; 2, Frank Dwyer; 3, Elton Chamberlain; 4, Geo. Cross; +5, Thos. Parrott; 6, Morgan Murphy; 7, Harry Vaughn; 8, Frank Motz; 9, +John McPhee; 10, Arlie Latham; 11, Geo. Smith; 12, Jas. Holliday; 13, +Wm. Hoyt; 14, John McCarthy; 15, Jas. Canavan. + +ST. LOUIS BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, A.G. Cooley; 3, A. Twineham; 3, T. Dowd; 4, Thomas Hannigan; 5, +M.F. Hogan; 6, T. Breitenstein; 7, Harry Staley; 8, Roger Connor; 9, Tom +Brown; 10, C.H. Peitz; 11, J.H. McDougal; 12. F. Ely. + + +WASHINGTON BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Charles Petty; 2, Sam Wise; 3, Joe Mulvey; 4, Wm. Hassamer; 5, +W. Black; 6, Charles Esper; 7, Ed Cartwright; 8, Wm. Joyce; 9, Geo. +Tebeau; 10, Geo. Stephens; 11, Jas. McGuire; 12, G.H. Schmelz; 13, Otis +Stockdale; 14, Jos. Sullivan; 15, Frank Ward; 16, Al Selbach; 17, John +Egan, 18, John McMahon; 19, Paul Radford; 20, D.E. Dugdale; 21, +W.B. Mercer. + + +SIOUX CITY BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, E. Cunningham; 2, A. Stewart; 3, H. Howe; 4, Chas. Marr; 5, W.F. +Hart; 6, F. Parvin; 7, Chas. Jones; 8. W.H. Watkins (Manager); 9, J. +Walsh; 10, Geo. H. Hogreiver; 11, F. Genins; 12, A. Twineham; 13, +F. Kraus; 14, J. Newell. + + +ROCK ISLAND-MOLINE BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1. Al Mauck; 2, Belden Hill; 3, W.F. Kreig; 4, Paddy Lynch; 5. Wm. +Zeis; 6, Harry Sage (Manager); 7, Harry Burrell; 8, J.A. Andrews; 9, Joe +Cantillon (Captain); 10, Dan Sweeney. + + +PETERSBURG BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Jno. Farrell; 2, H.F. Keefer; 3, J. McJannes; 4. R. Fender; 5, John +Foreman; 6, Mike Trost; 7, Geo. Kelly; 8, R. Stafford; 9, L.W. Smith; +10, Bert Myers; 11, Stewart Sanford; 12, Ed Leach; 13, S.T. Honeycutt. + + +YALE TEAM, '94. + +1, J.B. Speer; 2, C.H. George; 3, F. Murphy; 4, F. Rustin; 5, H.M. +Keator; 6, A.A. Bigelow; 7, G.B. Case; 8, M.J. Warner; 9, W.F. Carter; +10, J.R. Quinby; 11, T.S. Arbuthnot; 12, F.B. Stephenson; 13, +G.O. Redington; 14, E.R. Trudeau; 15, J.C. Greenway. + + +HARVARD TEAM, '94. + +1, C.J. Paine; 2, E.W. Ames; 3, J.H. Williams; 4, J. Wiggins; 5, P.W. +Whittemore; 6, B. Cook, Jr.; 7, A. Winslow; 8, A.A. Highlands; 9, F.M. +Carthy; 10, J. Corbett; 11, R. Paine; 12, R. Stevenson; 13, J.J. Hayes; +14, D.D. Scannell; 15, H. Dickinson; 16, W.J. O'Malley. + + +PRINCETON TEAM, '94. + +1. Payne; 2, Bradley; 3, King; 4, Brooks; 5, Trenchard; 6, Otto; 7, +Forsythe; 8, Gunster; 9, W.D. Ward; 10, Mackenzie (Captain); 11, +P. Ward; 12, Lindsay; 13, Small; 14, Altman; 15, Williams. + + +UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TEAM, '94. + +1, Blair; 2, Brown; 3, Sinclair; 4, Stokes; 5, Dickson; 6, Blakely; 7, +Reese; 8, Hollister; 9, Higgins; 10, Mintzner; 11, Coogan; 12, Thomas; +13, Gelbert; 14, Goeckel. + + +THE FAMOUS RED STOCKINGS. + +1, Charles Gould, First Base; 2, Charles Sweasey, Second Base; 3, Asa +Brainard, Pitcher; 4, Cal McVey, Right Field; 5, Harry Wright, Centre +Field (Capt.); 6, George Wright, Short Stop; 7, "Dug" Allison, Catcher; +8, Fred Waterman, Third Base; 9, Andy Leonard, Left Field. + + + + +#A Compliment to the Editor of The Guide.# + +At the annual meeting of the National League, held at the Fifth Avenue +Hotel, New York, on Nov. 15, 1894, on a motion made by C.H. Byrne, +president of the Brooklyn club, Henry Chadwick, the veteran base ball +writer, and editor of the League GUIDE since 1881, was, by a unanimous +vote, made an honorary member of that body. This honor has been +conferred upon but four other persons in the history of the League, +namely: A.G. Mills, of New York, ex-President of the League; +A.G. Spalding, of Chicago; George W. Howe, of Cleveland, and John +B. Day, of New York. In presenting Mr. Chadwick's name Mr. Byrne spoke +enthusiastically of the effective work the veteran had done for years in +popularizing base ball, and called attention to the fact that +Mr. Chadwick was the recognized authority in all matters pertaining to +base ball, and to him more than any other individual living is due the +credit for the present almost perfect code of rules governing the game. + +The League subsequently appointed a committee, consisting of President +N.E. Young, C.H. Byrne, of Brooklyn, and A.J. Reach, of Philadelphia, to +prepare a proper address to Mr. Chadwick, and to have same engrossed and +framed for presentation. The result of their official duty was an +exceptionally handsome piece of engrossing, set in a gilt frame. A +pastel portrait of Mr. Chadwick is in the centre of a decorative scroll +on which is the following testimonial: + + + + The +NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION + of +PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS OF THE UNITED STATES + to + HENRY CHADWICK. + +At a regular annual meeting of the National League and American +Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs, held in New York City, +November 15, 1894, all twelve clubs being present, + + MR. HENRY CHADWICK, + of Brooklyn, N. Y., +was by a unanimous vote elected an + HONORARY MEMBER + of this body. + +In conferring this membership this organization pays the highest tribute +in its power to one who, during a number of years almost as great as is +usually alloted to man to live, has unselfishly devoted his time, his +talents and his energies, by voice and pen, to establish BASE BALL as +the NATIONAL GAME of America. + +At all times and in all places he has diligently worked for its +DEVELOPMENT, and battled for its INTEGRITY, its HONESTY and the PURITY +of its methods. + +He has been an unflinching foe of those within the ranks who permitted +any stigma to attach to it and a gallant defender against any attack +from without, touching its good name and fame. Always a devoted friend +of the honest ball player, he has been a never-failing advocate of the +rights of and the respect due the umpire. His advice and good offices +most frequently sought have ever been readily given, and to the benefit +and advantage of all. + +We pay this tribute with pleasure and deference to + + HENRY CHADWICK, + +the father of base ball, who now in the full of his years and after a +long life of usefulness to his fellow man, still lives to see the +fruition of his fondest hopes, and base ball, which he has fostered and +upheld, pleaded for and battled for, now established forevermore as our +national game. + +The National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball +Clubs, Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, +Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago. + +N.E. YOUNG, +C.H. BYRNE, +A.J. 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H. Barnett on the Spalding Bicycle won the Great Irvington-Milburn +Road Race ... Monte Scott, of the Crescent Wheelman, on the Spalding +Bicycle made new world's road records for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 miles, +and ... Fred Titus at Springfield, on September 13th rode 27 miles, 1489 +yards in one hour, making a world's record, and making records from 7 to +27 miles. + +Watch the Spalding Team for '95--SANGER-TITUS-CABANNE. + +A.G. SPALDING & BROS. +NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA + +*AT CHICOPEE + + + +[Illustration: Albert G. Spalding.] + +BASE BALL GUIDE +AND +OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK FOR 1895. + + * * * * * + +A Complete Hand Book Of The National Game +Of Base Ball, + +Containing The +Full Official League Records +For 1894, + + +Together With + +The New Code Of Playing Rules As Revised By The +Committee Of Rules. + +Attached To Which Are Explanatory Notes, Giving A +Correct Interpretation Of The New Rules. + + * * * * * + +A Prominent Feature Of The +Guide For 1895 +Is The New Championship Record; Added To Which Are +The Complete Pitching Records Of 1894 And +Special Chapters On The +Fielding And Base Running +Of 1894, + + +Together With + +Interesting Records Of The Most Noteworthy Contests, Incidents +And Occurrences Of The Eventful Season Of 1894, Occurring +In The College Arenas As Well As In +That Of The Professional Clubs. + + * * * * * + +Edited By +Henry Chadwick. + +Published By +American Sports Publishing Company, +241 Broadway, New York + + + + +PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. + +The official handbook of America's national game--SPALDING'S BASE BALL +GUIDE--which was first issued in 1876, has grown in size, importance and +popular favor year by year, until it has become the great standard +statistical and reference annual of the game throughout the base ball +world; and it is now recognized as the established base ball manual of +the entire professional fraternity, as well as the authorized _Guide +Book_ of the great National League, which is the controlling +governmental organization of the professional clubs of the United +States. + +The _Guide_ of 1895 not only records the doings of the twelve clubs of +the National League for the past season, with all the official +statistics, but it gives space to the championship campaigns of 1894, +not only of the Minor Professional Leagues of the country, but also of +those of the College clubs and of the leading organizations of the +amateur class--the majority class of the entire base ball world--and in +this respect the _Guide_ has no equal, the book of 1895 being +exceptionally full of the most interesting chapters of the leading +events of the diamond fields of the past year, and for the first time +contains many fine half-tone illustrations of all the leading clubs and +players, making it the largest and most complete Guide ever issued. + +Copies of the _Guide_ will be mailed to any address upon receipt of +twelve cents each. Trade orders supplied through the News Companies, or +direct from the Publishers, + +American Sports Publishing Company, +241 Broadway, New York. + + + +The _Guide_, as hitherto, is issued under the entire editorial control +of the veteran writer on sports, Mr. Henry Chadwick, popularly known as +"The Father of Base Ball." + +The great size of the _Guide_ precludes the possibility of including the +game record of the League campaign, as also other records of League +legislation, etc., and these will be found in the "Official League +Book," which contains only official League matter, as furnished by +Secretary Young, including the League Constitution in full. + + + + +PREFACE. + +SPALDING'S BASE BALL GUIDE for 1895 is the twentieth annual edition of +the work issued under the auspices of the National League. It is also +the fifteenth annual edition published under the editorship of Mr. Henry +Chadwick, he having first entered upon his editorial duties on the GUIDE +in 1881. Moreover, it is the fourth annual edition issued under the +government of the existing major League, which League was the result of +the reconstruction measures adopted during the winter of 1891-92; and +this latest issue of SPALDING'S LEAGUE GUIDE in several respects, if not +in all, surpasses all of its predecessors. New features are presented +in its pages this year which are of special interest; the most +noteworthy being the new record of every game played in the League +championship series---won, lost or drawn---from April 19 to September +30, 1894, inclusive; the names of the opposing pitchers in each game; +being a record never before published in any base ball manual, this +alone making the GUIDE of 1895 a model book of reference for the whole +base ball fraternity. Added to this are not only the full statistics of +the League season of 1894, but also special articles on the latest +scientific points of play developed in the professional arena; together +with editorial comments on the leading events of the past season---now +regarded as one of the interesting features of the book---and the scores +of the model games of 1894, etc. A new chapter is "The Reference Guide," +devoted to statistics valuable as references. In addition to which is +the new code of rules which went into effect in April, 1895, and the +editorial explanatory appendix, revised by President Young of the +League; the whole making the GUIDE the model base ball manual of the +period, the book being of special value, alike to the amateur class of +the base ball fraternity, as to the class of professional exemplars of +the game. + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY, +241 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. + + * * * * * + +WASHINGTON, D. C, March, 1895. + +By authority vested in me, I do hereby certify that Messrs. +A. G. Spalding & Bros, have been granted the _exclusive_ right +to publish the "OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK" for 1895. + +N. E. YOUNG, +Secretary of the National League and American Association of Professional +Base Ball Clubs. + +[Illustration A.G. Mills; N.E. Young; Wahulbert--The Three Presidents] +[Illustration: Baltimore Base Ball Club. Champions of 1894.] +[Illustration] +[Illustration: New York Base Ball Club, '94.] + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + +The decade of the nineties in League history bids fair to surpass, in +exciting events, that of every preceding series of years known in the +annals of professional base ball. The decade in question began with the +players' revolt in 1890 and was followed up by the secession of the old +American Association, a fatal movement, which ended in the death of that +organization in the winter of 1891-92; the reorganization of the +National League resulting in the absorption of the best half of the old +Association clubs and the beginning of the experiment of governing the +whole professional fraternity by one _major League_ instead of by a +dual government as before; this one powerful League being itself +controlled by the laws of the "_National Agreement_." The cost of the +amalgamation of the four American Association clubs with the National +League, together with the financial losses incurred by the revolutionary +period of 1890 and 1891--losses, by the way, which the players did not +participate in, the clubs alone being the sufferers--left a heavy burden +of debt to handicap the reconstructed National League in its efforts to +recover the public confidence in professional ball playing lost by the +malcontents of 1890 and 1891. But, nevertheless, the seasons of 1892 +and 1893 saw the heavy indebtedness removed from the League's shoulders; +and in 1894 the flourishing financial times of 1888 and 1889 were, in a +measure, renewed, and for the first time since the Brotherhood revolt of +1890, the professional base ball business in 1894 became a paying +investment. + +It will scarcely be believed that, in the face of the financial losses +incurred during the revolutionary period of 1890 and 1891, that the +closing part of the season of 1894 saw another attempt made to renew the +troubles of 1891, by an effort made to resuscitate the defunct American +Association under the banner of "_Death to the League's reserve rule_," +together with that of a joint attempt made to revive the old Brotherhood +plan of rival League clubs in the larger base ball cities of the Union. +This revolutionary effort, made by one of the promoters of the revolt of +1890, aided by two dismissed managers and a disgruntled star player +itching for notoriety at any cost, led the magnates of the National +League to adopt repressive measures calculated to put an end to any +future revolutionary efforts of the kind, by severely punishing any +League club manager or player who should prove recreant in fealty to the +laws of the National Agreement, or who should join in any attempt to +organize any base ball association opposed to the reserve rule, which +rule over ten years' experience had proved to be the fundamental law and +corner-stone of the professional base ball business. Without such a +repressive law it was evident that the League would be subject to +periodical attempts on the part of unscrupulous managers or players to +war upon the reserve rule for blackmail purposes. The necessity for some +such law was made evident by the recent efforts made to organize a new +American Association on the basis of not only warring upon the reserve +rule but of trespassing on the territorial rights of existing League +clubs. + + + +#The League Manifesto of 1894.# + +The finale to the annual meeting of 1894 was the issuing of a manifesto +by the National League, which was called forth by an effort at treachery +in the League ranks which required prompt action for its +repression. This manifesto was issued without regard to efforts to +organize a new American Association, any opposition of the kind to the +National Agreement clubs, with the major League at its head, being +looked upon as futile, owing to the character of the men alleged to be +at the head of the movement; the main incentive of the League magnates +being to publicly announce what the penalty of treachery to National +Agreement interests would be in the future. The manifesto in question +was the work of a special committee appointed by the National League at +its annual meeting in November, 1894, which consisted of Messrs. Chas. +H. Byrne, H. R, Von der Horst, James A. Hart and John T. Brush. + +The following is the statement drawn up by the committee, and referred +to the National Board for adoption: + +TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL ASSOCIATIONS: + +From the year 1876, when base ball was established in this country on a +substantial and responsible basis by the disbandment of the so-called +National Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs and the +organization of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +down to the present time, the duty has been imposed upon some body or +organization to uphold and enforce the objects for which base ball was +established, to wit: + +First--To perpetuate base ball as the national game of the United +States, and to surround it with such safeguards as to warrant for the +future absolute public confidence in its integrity and methods. + +Second--To protect and promote the mutual interests of professional base +ball clubs and professional base ball players. + +The National League formed in 1876 found a difficult task before it in +undertaking to carry out the objects above referred to. Interest in base +ball was at a low ebb. Gamblers were in possession. The game was without +discipline, organization or legitimate control. The sport was conducted +with dishonest methods and for dishonest purposes, and had neither the +respect nor confidence of the press or public. Heroic methods were +absolutely necessary. At a meeting of the National League, held in +Cleveland December 5, 1877, the League directors unanimously ratified +the action of the Louisville club in expelling from the professional +ranks James A. Devlin, W. H. Craver, A. H. Nichols and G. W. Hall "for +conduct in contravention to the object of the League." + +These men had been charged with and convicted of willfully selling a +game of base ball. At first the action of the League in taking such an +extreme course was strongly denounced. The League, however, foresaw that +any condonation of fraud or crookedness meant death to the national game +and remained firm in its position. Public opinion soon turned, and +to-day it is universally conceded that the course then taken did more to +establish the honesty and integrity of base ball than any action taken +or legislation since enacted. From that day to this no charge of +crookedness or dishonesty has been made against a professional ball +player. Repeated attempts have been made to reinstate these men or those +of them now living, but their expulsion was final and irrevocable. + +That the League was earnest in its efforts to purify the game was +further demonstrated by its action taken at a special meeting held at +the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., on June 24, 1882, when Richard +Higham, a League umpire, was, upon charges preferred by the Detroit +club, expelled for "crooked" work as an umpire. From that day to this no +such charge has ever been made against an official umpire. The rapid +increase in the compensation of ball players soon opened up another +avenue of trouble for the League, which needed and received prompt +attention. This was flagrant and open dissipation in the ranks at home +and abroad. While this was confined comparatively to a few men, the +innocent suffered largely from it, and the National League was brought +into disrepute. Heroic measures were again adopted, and several players +were indefinitely suspended, with excellent effect. It is safe to say +that to-day there is less dissipation and drunkenness in the ranks of +professional ball players in proportion to their number than in any +other organized or unorganized body in this country identified with +outdoor sports. + +The success achieved by the National League in its efforts to develop +base ball as the national game became apparent in its rapid growth in +popular favor, and the establishment of clubs and associations +throughout the various States. It became evident soon that something +must be done to foster and protect the rights and interests of these +various bodies, and "that there was a recognized need of some central +power in base ball to govern all associations, by an equitable code of +general laws, to put the game on a prosperous and lasting basis." + +To accomplish this purpose a meeting was held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, +New York, February 17, 1883, at which delegates were present +representing the National League, the American Association, and the +Northwestern League. At that meeting the so-called Tripartite Agreement +was drawn up and agreed to, which substantially was an offensive and +defensive alliance, embodying a mutual respect of all contracts and +other obligations, and all rights of the parties to the agreement to +territorial rights, players under contract or held under reserve. + +The adoption of the tripartite agreement opened a new era in base ball, +and it was so readily recognized as being a step in the line of progress +that when the committee which drew up the agreement was called together +in New York city in October, 1883, they decided to call the instrument +they had framed the National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +the purpose being to open the door to all clubs, leagues and +associations desiring to live under the conditions, rules and +regulations of the agreement. Immediately several leagues and +associations applied for the protection assured the, and readily pledged +themselves to abide by the requirements designated in the agreement. + +The action of the committee in framing the new national agreement was +subsequently ratified by the signatures of the Presidents of the parties +thereto, viz.: + +The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, A. G. Mills, +President, November 22, 1883. + +The American Association of Base Ball Clubs, H. D. McKnight, President, +December 13, 1883. + +The Northwestern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, Elias Mather, +President, January 10, 1884. + +The Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, William C. Sedden, +President, February 19, 1884. + +The fundamental principle of the national agreement as originally drawn, +and which is now in operation, is a respect for territorial +rights. This, in fact, is the corner stone of the structure. + +It contemplates and provides for the organization of cities into leagues +or associations, with one club, and one only, in each city, and a +contest between the respective cities for championship honors. The +interest which base ball arouses in any city is based absolutely on +local pride. The essence of value to a championship is entirely to the +city to which the victorious club belongs. + +Experience has demonstrated that whenever and wherever territorial +rights have been invaded and rival clubs established, the element of +local pride is absent and interest in both destroyed. It is this which +makes a respect for territorial rights a principle which we must uphold. + +It is true, nevertheless, and we so declare that we will gladly welcome +and shall encourage the formation of leagues and associations who desire +to operate under the national agreement, and consent to abide by the +fundamental principles of that document. + +Reference has been made above to the difficulties and the obstacles +which at times have presented themselves and which have been by severe +but just methods removed. + +To-day the future of base ball is confronted by a new condition, a +condition which in every particular is as harmful and in many respects +far more dangerous than open dishonesty or flagrant dissipation. That +is, treachery within the lines. To-day, and for months past we have had +men identified with professional base ball who for years have been the +beneficiaries of the game, have received liberal compensation for the +work they have done, earned their livelihood entirely and absolutely +from the opportunities afforded them by clubs and organizations +operating under the national agreement, and we find and now know that +these men, during this time, have persistently been identifying +themselves with schemes and combinations the objects and sole purposes +of which are to weaken and perhaps destroy the splendid fabric of our +national game, which it has taken years of effort, anxiety and large +outlay of capital to construct. + +To-day we have the confidence of the public and the press of the country +in the methods and the integrity of base ball in larger measure than at +any prior period in the history of our national game. It devolves upon +us to continue to deserve and retain this confidence. We must endeavor +to do it. + +The interests of clubs and professional ball players are identical. One +cannot succeed without the other. Success means mutual benefit. The +moment any suspicion attaches to base ball, public confidence lost or +even chilled, the occupation of the ball player is gone. We must all +stand or fall together. There is no middle ground. We stand by the +fundamental law, our national agreement, which guarantees protection to +players as well as to clubs, or we destroy it. One road leads to the +perpetuation of the national game, the other to its decline. There +should be no place, no standing room in base ball for any anarchistic +element which never aids in building up but is ever ready to destroy. + +The time has come when some action should be taken to place this element +without the pale of our ranks. The National Board, operating under the +national agreement, was created to protect and guard the interests of +all players, clubs and associations identified with the agreement. Any +attempt to encroach upon that, to nullify or affect any of its +provisions, is of direct and material concern to all alike. + +The obligations of contracts, the right of reserve, and the territorial +rights of clubs, associations and leagues must be upheld, and shall be, +at any cost. + +It is a matter of public rumor and is also a fact which has come to our +knowledge that men identified with clubs, members of the national +agreement, have been co-operating in the formation of clubs or +organizations whose purpose is to conflict with the national +agreement. In view of this knowledge, the National League and American +Association of Professional Clubs in convention assembled respectfully +suggests to and requests the National Board to declare A. C. +Buckenberger, William Barnie and Fred Pfeffer ineligible to be +employed either as manager or player or in any capacity whatever, by any +club or organization operating under the national agreement, and they be +forthwith suspended. Such suspension to remain in force until such time +as they or either of them can satisfy the National Board that they have +in no way been engaged directly or indirectly in the organization of any +club, league or association formed or to be formed in conflict with the +principles of the national agreement. And in the event of their failure +to relieve themselves from this suspension within such time as your +Board may direct, they shall be expelled and forever debarred from any +connection with clubs or organizations identified with the National +Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs. + +We furthermore request that your Board take like action in the case of +any player, manager, umpire or club official who in the future +identifies himself with a similar movement. + +C. H. BYRNE, +J. T. BRUSH, +JAMES A. HART, +H. R. VON DER HORST, +N. E. YOUNG. + +The above address was submitted to the National League at its annual +meeting, fully discussed and unanimously adopted. + + + +Appended is the decision of the National Board: + +To all National Agreement Clubs, Leagues, and Associations: + +At a meeting of the National Board of Professional Base Ball Clubs, held +in New York city November 16, 1894, a communication was received from +the National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball +Clubs, in convention assembled, requesting this Board to take action in +the case of certain individuals heretofore identified with clubs +operating under the national agreement who have been charged with +treachery to their employers and the organizations with which they have +been identified. The request, so presented, was supplemented by an +appeal from the executive officers of the Eastern League of Base Ball +Clubs and the Western League of Base Ball Clubs to take such action as +was proper to protect said leagues in the rights assured them under the +national agreement. + +After mature consideration, and governed absolutely by a desire to +comply with the letter and spirit of the requests made to this Board, +and having reasonable and substantial evidence upon which to base our +action. + +This Board has decided to announce, and it does declare that A. C, +Buckenberger, William Barnie and Fred Pfeffer are ineligible to be +employed either as manager, player or in any other capacity by any club +or organization identified with the national agreement, and said persons +are hereby declared suspended. + +This Board further declares that such suspension shall remain in force +up to and including December 31, 1894, and in the event of the failure +of the above named persons, or either of them, on or before the above +named date, to show to this Board that he or they have been in no +manner, directly or indirectly, engaged in any attempt to promote the +organization of clubs, leagues or associations antagonistic to the +national agreement, they shall be expelled and forever debarred from any +connection with clubs or organized bodies operating under the national +agreement. + +N.E. YOUNG, +A.H. SODEN, +C.H. BYRNE, + + + +The foregoing action was partially caused by the following +communication: + +NEW YORK, November 15, 1894. +TO THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL +BASE BALL CLUBS. + +_Gentlemen_: We the representatives of the undersigned leagues, +operating under the National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs, +respectfully submit the following: Your body is the recognized major +base ball organization of the country, and have sole right to elect the +National Board and control all bodies identified with the agreement. + +It has been made known to us, and we have good and substantial reasons +for believing that such knowledge is correct, that a new organization of +base ball clubs is contemplated, which, of necessity, must operate +without the pale of the national agreement. It appears also that it is +the purpose of the new association, if it materializes, to attempt to +take from our respective organizations and clubs players now held by us +under the right of reservation accorded us by the national agreement. We +therefore request that you, as a body, take some action to protect us, +so far as possible, against all outside organizations. We trust you will +give this immediate attention, and we await your action. + +Respectfully, + +B.B. JOHNSON, Sec. Western League, P.B.B.C. +P.T. POWERS, Pres. Eastern League. + + + + * * * * * + +#The Base Ball Season of 1894.# + +To professional base ball, as governed by the existing National League, +is mainly due the great popularity our national game has achieved within +the past twenty years. Of course the amateur class of the fraternity +greatly outnumber the professionals; but the game could never have +reached its present point of excellence in field work but for the time +and attention the professional clubs were enabled to devote to its +thorough development from the year of Harry Wright's famous "Red +Stocking" nine of Cincinnati, in 1869, to the existing period of model +professional ball playing. In the first place, the amateur clubs could +never have given the game the time and labor required for its evolution +which the professional clubs were enabled to do; and, moreover, not one +club in a thousand could have spared the money required to fit up and +keep in serviceable condition such finely equipped ball grounds as those +now owned by the leading professional clubs of the National League. To +these facts, too, are to be added the statement that to the National +League's government of the professional class of the fraternity is due +the lasting credit of sustaining the integrity of play in the game up to +the highest standard; so much so, indeed, that it has reached the point +of surpassing, in this most important respect, every other sport in +vogue in which professional exemplars are employed. Take it for all in +all, no season since the inauguration of the National League in 1876, has +approached that of 1894 in the number of clubs which took part in the +season's games, both in the amateur as well as the professional arena; +and certainly no previous season ever saw the professional clubs of the +country so well patronized as they were in 1894. Moreover, it was the +most brilliant and successful season in every respect known in the +annals of the college clubs of the country. In fact, there was but one +drawback to the creditable success of the entire championship campaigns +of 1894, and that was the unwonted degree of "hoodlumism" which +disgraced the season in the professional arena, and this, we regret to +say, was painfully conspicuous among the players of the National League +clubs, this organization having been noted, prior to its absorption of +the old American Association element in its ranks in 1892, for the +reputable character of its annual struggles for championship honors. One +result of the rowdy ball playing indulged in by a minority of each club +team in the League was a decided falling off in the attendance of the +best class of patrons of the professional clubs. + +Much of the "_Hoodlumism_"--a technical term applicable to the use of +_blackguard language; low cunning tricks_, unworthy of manly players; +_brutal assaults_ on umpire and players; that nuisance of our ball +fields, "kicking," and the dishonorable methods comprised in the term +"_dirty ball playing_"---indulged in in 1894 was largely due to the +advocacy of the method of the so-called "_aggressive policy_," which +countenanced rowdy ball playing as part and parcel of the work in +winning games. The most energetic, lively and exciting method of playing +a game of ball can mark a professional club contest without its being +disgraced by a single act of rowdyism--such as that of spiking or +willfully colliding with a base runner; bellowing like a wild bull at +the pitcher, as in the so-called coaching of 1893 and 1894; or that of +"kicking" against the decisions of the umpire to hide faulty captaincy +or blundering fielding. Nothing of this "hoodlumism" marked the play of +the four-time winners of the League pennant from 1872 to 1875, +inclusive, viz., the old, gentlemanly Boston Red Stockings of the early +seventies, under the leadership of that most competent of all managers, +Harry Wright. Yet, despite of this old time fact, if club managers do +not adopt the rough's method of playing the game, as illustrated in the +League arena in 1894, advocated by the class of newspaper managers of +local clubs, the scribes in question go for the local team officials for +not having a team with "plenty of ginger" in their work and for their +not being governed by "a hustling manager." Is it any wonder, under such +circumstances, that the League season of 1894 was characterized by +"hoodlumism?" + +But little advance was made in the way of effective team management in +the League in 1894. About a third of the twelve teams of the League only +were controlled by competent team managers, while at least another third +were wretchedly managed, and the other third were not above the average +in management. Two of the old drawbacks to the successful running of +teams by professional clubs conspicuous in 1892 and 1893 marked the team +management of 1894, viz., the employment of drinking players and the +condoning of their costly offenses, and the interference of club +presidents and directors in the work of the regular manager of the club +team. There is a class of club officials in the League who, for the life +of them, cannot keep from interfering with the club's legitimate manager +in his running of the team. Some of them have the cool effrontery of +stating that "the manager of our team is never interfered with in any +way." One costly result of this club official interference is, that +needed discipline of the players is out of the question, and in its +absence cliqueism in the ranks of the team sets in--one set of players +siding with the manager, and another with the real "boss of the team," +with the costly penalty of discord in the ranks. It is all nonsense for +a club to place a manager in the position with a merely nominal control +of the players and then to hold him responsible for the non-success of +the team in winning games. Under such a condition of things, the club +manager might sign a team of costly star players and yet find himself +surpassed in the pennant race by a rival manager, who, with _entire +control of his team_, and that team composed of so-called "second-class +players" or ambitious "colts," working in thorough harmony together, and +"playing for the side" all the time and not for a record, as so many of +the star players do, would deservedly carry off the season's honors. + +Since the reconstructed National League began its new life, blundering +management of teams has characterized the running of a majority of its +twelve clubs, and it will continue to do so while the system of engaging +players for their records merely and not for their ability in doing team +work and in playing harmoniously together, is continued. Especially, +too, is the plan of engaging players whose daily habits of life are at +war with their ability to do first-class work in the field. Year after +year are drinking offenses condoned by the club officials who run the +club, and old time drunkards re-engaged for the coming season, while +steady, sober players are left out in the cold. Besides this blunder, +there is that of engaging half worn out stars in the place of rising +young players ambitious of distinguishing themselves in the League +arena. This mistake in team management was as conspicuous in 1894 as it +was in 1893. + +A feature of the professional base ball season of 1894 was the almost +phenomenal success of the clubs--alike of the minor leagues as of the +great major league itself--in battling against the serious drawback of +the "hard times" of the year, which prevailed throughout the entire +season. Experience shows that in the sports in vogue which have innate +attractions for public patronage in times of great financial +difficulties in the commercial centres of the union, the national game +stands conspicuous; and the past season in this respect presented a most +notable record, no such crowds of spectators ever having been seen at +the leading contests of the season as in 1894. + +Another feature of the past season was the interest taken in the college +club contests of the spring and early summer campaign, the leading club +teams giving a superior exhibition of team work play in the field to +that of 1893. In fact, the national game flourished as a whole +throughout the entire country in 1894 as it never had done before in the +history of the game. + + + +#The League Championship Campaign of 1894.# + +The struggle for the League's championship pennant in 1894 was the most +noteworthy one on record in one particular respect, and that was in the +exciting struggle by the three leaders of the first division for the +championship, which struggle began on June 20th with the Baltimores +first and Boston second, and was continued on that line until New York +became one of the trio on July 5th, after which date these three clubs +occupied the position of first three in the race to the finish, the +other nine clubs not being "in it" after July 5th. In all other respects +the race for the pennant of 1894 was far from being up to the standard +that should characterize the League's championship season, no less than +three of the minor league pennant races being more evenly contested than +was that of the great major league. From the following record of the +difference in percentage points each season between the leader and tail +ender it will be seen that in no less than seven of the seasons from +1881 to 1894, inclusive, were the pennant races of past seasons superior +in this respect to that of 1894, that of 1891 being the smallest in +difference of points on record. + +Here is the record in question: + +------------------------------------------------------------- + POINTS OF POINTS OF POINTS OF +YEARS. DIFFERENCE. | YEARS. DIFFERENCE. | YEARS. DIFFERENCE. +------------------------------------------------------------- +1881 277 | 1886 493 | 1890 499 +1882 441 | 1887 333 | 1891 223 +1883 570 | 1888 303 | 1892 367 +1884 400 | 1889 328 | 1893 359 +1885 442 | | 1894 418 +------------------------------------------------------------- + +Judging by the percentage figures of the twelve clubs, recorded at the +end of each month's campaign of the season, the race was a one-sided one +almost from the start, the Baltimore and Boston clubs being in the +leading positions from the very outset of the race, the remaining ten +clubs fighting for third place from April 19th to June 20th, when New +York took the lead of the other nine, joining Baltimore and Boston in +the struggle for the leading position. + +A League pennant race--or that of a minor league, for that matter--to be +up to the regulation standard, should at least show a difference in +percentage figures varying, on the average, not far from 250 points; a +model race, in these figures, not exceeding 200 points. But this +standard has not been reached in League records for fifteen years, the +best being over 223 points. Then, too, comes the record of the occupancy +of the several positions of the two divisions, this, to a certain +extent, showing the character of the pennant race of the season. In this +regard, an evenly contested race should show a weekly change of position +in each division, for one thing, and also a change from first division +to second division at least once a month. A model race should see the +first three positions changed weekly, the first six places at least +fortnightly, and the tail end positions once a month at farthest. But +what does the figures of the pennant race of the League for 1894 show? +Let us glance at the; records of the occupancy of the first and second +divisions in last year's pennant race. From the 22d of April to the +close of the season, the Baltimore and Boston clubs were never out of +the ranks of the first division clubs; nor were the Chicago, Washington +and Louisville clubs ever out of those of the second division. This +alone was a one-sided condition of affairs in the race. From May 1st to +July 17th the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubs occupied positions in +the first division, and the Cleveland club was in the first division +from April 22d to June 27th and from July 17th to the finish, while New +York was in the same division from June 29th to the close and Brooklyn +from August 27th to the end of the season. On the other hand, Chicago, +St. Louis and Cincinnati, together with Washington and Louisville, were +practically out of the race from May to September. + +The April campaign finished with St. Louis, Cleveland and Boston tied +for first place in the race, with Philadelphia, Baltimore and Cincinnati +following. Boston and Baltimore's occupancy of fourth and fifth places +being the lowest each occupied during the entire season's campaign, +while Cincinnati's position, tied for that of first in the race on April +20th, was the highest that club reached from April 19th to September +30th; St. Louis, as tied for first place, together with Louisville on +April 20th, was the highest these three clubs reached. Baltimore was +the first to reach the leading place in the race, that club being first, +with the percentage figures of 1.000, on April 24th; St. Louis occupying +the lead on April 28th; Cleveland on May 2d, that club occupying the +leading place from that date to May 28th, when Pittsburgh jumped into +first place for a short time. Boston occupied the lead for the first +time on April 26th. The nearest New York got to the leading position was +on April 19th, when the club was tied for first place with Boston, +St. Louis and Washington. The highest position the "Phillies" reached in +the pennant campaign was second place, which they occupied on May +23d. Brooklyn's highest position was reached on June 22d, when that club +occupied third place. Chicago's highest was eighth place, and the only +clubs which stood in the last ditch were Chicago, up to May 10th; +Washington, from May to August 15th, and afterwards Louisville up to the +finish of the season. + +For the first time in the annals of the League, but one western club +occupied a position in the first division as early in the season as July +2d, when the Pittsburgh club stood fourth in the race, following +Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn, being followed by Philadelphia and New +York, Cleveland at that date being in the second division. On July 17th +Cleveland replaced Brooklyn in the first division, and remained there to +the finish of the race. Pittsburgh was driven into the ranks of the +second division on August 21st, and failed to get back again. Baltimore +had the pennant virtually in hand in August, and New York drove Boston +out of the second place on September 6th, the percentage figures of the +three leaders on that day showing Baltimore to be in the van with .676, +New York .652, and Boston .646; with the "Phillies" fourth, the +Brooklyns fifth and the Clevelands sixth, these relative positions not +afterwards being changed. Neither were those of the clubs in the second +division at that date, except in the case of the Cincinnati and +St. Louis clubs, the team under the Boss Manager, Chris Von der Ahe +beating the Brush-Comiskey combination team of Cincinnati out the very +last day of the race, greatly to the disgust of the Cincinnati cranks. + +A great disappointment to the Louisville cranks, whose pet club started +the season with a picked team of star players, containing three +ex-captains of League teams, in Pfeffer, D. Richardson and Tom +Brown--was the sad falling off of that club from the position of being +tied for first place with Baltimore and Boston in April, to a permanent +place in the last ditch in August, a result which relieved Manager +Schmelz considerably, as up to August 22nd Washington had occupied the +tail end position in the race from July 9th to August 23d. Similar bad +management of a club team had retired Pittsburgh from second position, +on June 8th, to seventh place, on July 2d, and it was only through a +wise change of managers that the club was able to retain the lead in the +second division to the end of the campaign. + +An incident of the campaign of 1894 was the disastrous start in the race +made by the Chicago club, which occupied the tail end position in the +race at the close of the April campaign and remained in the last ditch +up to May 11th, after which the club gradually passed the Washington, +Louisville, Cincinnati and St, Louis teams, finally occupying eighth +position the last of September. The pennant race of 1894, as a whole, +was a decided failure as far as an evenly contested race was concerned, +the only exception in the way of an exciting struggle for the lead being +that between the three leaders from July 5th to September 30th, this +being the one redeeming feature of the League championship campaign of +1894. + + + +#The Contests for the Pennant in 1894.# + +Not since 1890 has a new candidate for League championship been +successful in winning the pennant, but in 1894 another club was added to +the list of League pennant winners, the interest in the annual races, of +course, being thereby proportionately increased. In 1876, when the +League was organized, Chicago was the first city to win League +championship honors, and in 1877 Boston entered the arena of pennant +winners. Next came Providence in 1879, after which a whole decade of +League seasons passed without a new pennant winner being added to the +above two, Detroit winning in 1887 for the first time. Next came New +York in 1888, followed by Brooklyn in 1890, and now Baltimore has +entered the contest arena of champion clubs, that city winning the +honors in 1894. During the intervals of this period of nineteen years of +League championship campaigns the Boston and Chicago clubs won the +majority of pennant races; Boston carrying off the flag during the +seasons of 1877, 1878, 1883, 1891, 1892 and 1893, and Chicago winning in +1876, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885 and 1886, this latter club being the only +one to win the pennant in three successive years, from 1876 to 1890 +inclusive, the Bostons not being three time winners until the seasons of +1891, 1892 and 1893. That club, however, is the only one to win the +championship in four successive seasons--outside of the League--since +the professional championship was inaugurated in 1871, the Bostons +afterwards winning in 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875. There are now in the +League eight clubs out of the twelve which have yet to win a single +pennant race, viz., the Philadelphia and Washington clubs of the Eastern +divisions, and all six of the Western clubs. There are also but four +clubs now in the League which have never reached higher than second +position since the League was organized, viz., Louisville, 1877--that +club's earned title to first place having been lost by the crookedness +of four of its team of that year--Cincinnati in 1878, Philadelphia in +1887 and Pittsburgh in 1893, while there are two clubs now in the League +which have never reached higher than third place, viz., St. Louis in +1876, and Cleveland in 1880 and 1893. The only aspirant for a position +in League pennant races higher than fourth place at the close of the +season now in the League is the Washington club; so there is plenty of +room to win honors in 1895 if only in getting in among the six leaders +by October next. + + + +#The Three Leading Clubs in the Pennant Race of 1894.# + + +It is about time that the record of the championship campaigns of each +year should be divided up, in order that the leading minority of the +competing teams may be awarded the additional credit due them for +obtaining positions of special distinction during each season; +beginning, of course, with the winner of the pennant, and followed by +the occupants of _second_ and _third_ positions with the three other +clubs of the first division ranking in due order. By thus extending the +list of honorary positions in the race an additional incentive for +making extra efforts toward the close of the race is given to each one +of the twelve clubs of the League at large. Thus, in the early part of +the championship campaign, if two or three clubs find themselves +hopelessly contending for the pennant itself, there will still be left +over those of the other two honorary places in the race, viz., _second_ +and _third_ positions, to compete for; and failing to achieve success to +that extent, there will be one or other of the last three places in the +_first division_ to strive for. This opens the door to win other +creditable places in the season's race to be fought for by the six clubs +of the second division, instead of their losing heart in the contest, +simply because, by the end of the May or June campaign, they are left +without a chance of winning the pennant. It would seem to be, from this +view of the case, an object of special interest for the League to award +a series of honorary prizes to the players of each team attaining one or +other of the three leading positions in the race of each year, in the +proportion, we will say, of $3,000 for the first place, $2,000 for +second and $1,000 for third. In the future the GUIDE will give special +prominence, in its statistical records, to the clubs attaining second +and third positions; in the race, leaving a less detailed record to the +other nine clubs entering the campaign for championship honors, this +change beginning with the GUIDE of 1895. We now present first in order +the complete record of the Baltimore champions of 1894: + + + +#The Campaigns of the Three Leaders and of the First Division Clubs for +1894.# + +An interesting statistical chapter of the GUIDE of 1895 includes the +comparative tables of the three leaders in the pennant race of 1894, +viz., those of the Baltimore, New York and Boston clubs, the struggle +between these three clubs being a decidedly attractive feature of the +past season's championship campaign. The season opened on April 19th, +and the close of the first day's play saw the Boston and New York clubs +tied for first place, with Baltimore tied with four other clubs for +second place, only eight of the twelve clubs playing on that day. By the +end of the first month's campaign, on April 30th, Boston had dropped to +third position; Baltimore to fifth place and New York down to ninth in +the race. On May 31st, the close of the second month's campaign, +Baltimore led Boston, being then in third position, and Boston in +fourth, New York having pulled up to sixth place. On June 2d Baltimore +jumped to first place, with Boston fifth and New York seventh. By June +9th the Bostons had got up to second place, but New York was still in +the second division, Baltimore, of course, still leading in the race on +that date. At the end of the third month of the season's campaign, on +June 30th, Baltimore held the lead, with the percentage of victories of +.712, with Boston second, having .667 in percentage figures, while New +York had got back into the first division again with the figures of +.564. On July 5th the "Giants" had worked up to third place, preceded by +Baltimore and Boston, each with the percentage figures respectively of +.679, .672 and .593, it being a close fight at this time between +Baltimore and Boston, while New York was close behind. From July 5th to +the finish these three clubs occupied the three leading positions in the +race, the others being virtually "not in it," as far as winning the +pennant was concerned. This fact alone made the pennant race of 1894 a +very one-sided one, as nearly three months of the season's games +remained to be played. At the end of the July campaign the record showed +Boston in the van, with the percentage figures of .659, to Baltimore's +.618 and New York's .613, Boston having taken the lead from Baltimore on +July 24th, It was just about this time that Boston stock on the racing +market was above par, it being fully expected at this time that the best +the Baltimores would be likely to accomplish would be to retain second +place, while New Yorkers were sanguine at this period of the contest +that the "Giants" would soon lead Baltimore. The Boston champions +retained first position up to July 30th, while New York tried in vain to +push Baltimore out of second place. By, the close of the August campaign +the Baltimores, by a brilliant rally, had replaced Boston in the lead, +the record on August 31st showing Baltimore in the van with the +percentage figures of .657, followed by Boston with .645, and New York +close to the champions with .639. Now came a grand fight for second +place on the part of New York, the Bostons, from this time to the finish +failing to make the accustomed final rally which their friends had +anticipated. On September 6th New York ousted Boston out of second +place, at which date Baltimore led with the percentage figures of .676, +followed by New York with .652, Boston's figures being .646; the rest of +the clubs in the first division at that time being in the five hundreds +only in percentage figures. Boston got down to .632 on September 19th, +New York being then credited with .667 and Baltimore "way up" with +.692. It was now Baltimore's race and New York was regarded as a fixture +for second position, there being a difference in percentage points +between Baltimore and Boston of no less, than 62 points on September +22d; New York then being behind Baltimore 39 points and ahead of Boston +24 points; in fact, a week before the finish, on September 30th, the +positions of the three leaders were fixtures, the only interest left +remaining being the struggle between Philadelphia, Brooklyn and +Cleveland for fourth place. As before remarked, the chief interest in +the September campaign was the expectation on the part of the majority +of the patrons of the game that the Bostons would rally towards the +finish and that the Baltimores would fall off during the last week or +two; instead, however, it was the Boston champions who failed to play up +to their old mark, while it was the Baltimores who did the rallying, and +in fine style, too, under the leadership of the champion manager of the +campaign of 1894. + + + +#The New Champions of 1894.# + + +The Baltimore Club's Career. + +We have the pleasure of greeting a new champion club in the League arena +in the GUIDE of 1895, viz., the Baltimore club, and it is therefore a +point of interest to give a brief resume of its career from the time it +entered the defunct American Association in 1882 to the date of its +being taken into the reconstructed National League in 1892. The +Baltimore club's career in the late American Association was one thing; +that of its progress since the club was taken into the National League +is altogether quite a different matter. From 1882, the year of the +organizing of the old American Association, up to the period of its +secession from the National Agreement ranks in 1891, the Baltimore club +occupied the position of being the occupant of the "last ditch" in the +Association's pennant races for no less than four years, viz., in 1882, +1883, 1885 and 1886. In 1884, when twelve clubs were in the Association +race of that year, the highest the Baltimore club reached was sixth +position. In 1888, 1889 and 1890, the club got no higher than fifth +place in the three races of those years; while the nearest it could get +to first place during the decade of the eighties was in 1887, when it +ended in third place, being led by St. Louis and Cincinnati. During all +that period William Barnie was the club's manager. In 1892 he was +superseded by Manager Hanlon; and from that date to the close of the +past season, the club began to get out of its previous "slough of +despond," induced by its repeated failures to win a pennant race. + +Here is the club's record while in the American Association, from 1882 +to 1890, inclusive, showing the positions occupied in the several +pennant races of that period: + +------------------------------------------------------ + NUMBER OF CLUBS +YEAR. POSITION. IN THE RACE. +------------------------------------------------------ +1882 Sixth (last ditch) Six. +1883 Eighth " Eight. +1884 Sixth. Twelve. +1885 Eighth (last ditch) Eight. +1886 Eighth " Eight. +1887 Third. Eight. +1888 Fifth. Eight. +1889 Fifth. Eight. +1890 Fifth. Eight. +------------------------------------------------------ + +In 1891 the Cincinnati club was ahead of the Baltimores when the former +was transferred to Milwaukee, after which the "Reds" broke badly, and +the Baltimores were thus enabled to get into third place. The wretched +management of the Association during the year was costly in +demoralization to every club in the race. Up to the date of the +Cincinnati transfer, that club stood with a percentage of .619, to +Baltimore's .526. During the season of 1892 the Baltimore club occupied +an experimental position in the race of that year, Manager Hanlon not +joining the club in 1892 until too late to get a good team +together. They began the campaign of 1893 low down in the race record, +but they finally pulled up among the six leaders, beating out Brooklyn +in the race by 10 games to 2, as well as St. Louis, Louisville and +Cleveland; but they were so badly beaten by Boston-2 games to 10-and by +Pittsburgh--1 game to 11-that they finished in eighth place only. That +season's experience enabled Manager Hanlon to prepare for 1894 with a +better chance of success than he had had since he took the club in hand, +and the effect of the improved management was made apparent before the +May campaign of 1894 had ended, his team closing that month one among +the three leaders. From that position the club was not afterwards +removed, the team first heading the Bostons and finally taking the lead +in the race, the New Yorks coming in second, ahead of the previous +three-time champion club of Boston. + + +THE BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. + +Under the heading of "The Three Leaders in the Race," will be found the +record of the monthly campaigns of the Baltimores and the progress made +by Hanlon's team from the start to the finish in the race of 1894. We +now give the detailed record of the season's campaign of the Baltimores +in full. + +Here is the record of the club's victories, defeats, games played and +drawn, and the percentage of victories made against each individual +club, as well as the grand percentage against all of the eleven opposed +to the Baltimores: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Total Total +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 6 4 6 8 11 35 9 6 9 10 10 10 54 89 +Defeats 6 8 4 4 1 23 8 4 2 2 2 2 16 39 +Games played 12 12 10 12 12 58 12 10 12 12 12 12 70 128 +Drawn games 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Per cent. of + Victories .500.333.400.667.917 .603 .750.600.750.833.833.833 .771 .695 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the "Orioles," under Hanlon, did the pennant +winning business up in style in 1894. Of the six Eastern clubs in the +race, they tied the New York "Giants," had the best of the unfinished +series with the "Phillies," took the Brooklyns into camp without +difficulty, had almost a walkover with the Washingtons, and found the +Boston champions the only club that got the best of them in the five +series played against their Eastern adversaries, their percentage of +victories against the Bostons being only .333, while their figures +against the Washingtons were as high as .917. Against their six Western +opponents, the Baltimores almost wiped out the St. Louis, Cincinnati +and Louisville teams, each of these clubs winning but two games out of +the twelve played with the "Orioles," while the best each of the +Cleveland and Chicago teams could do was to win three of the twelve, the +Pittsburgh "Pirates" being the only Western team to trouble them, their +series with that club being unfinished, with a credit of but four +victories to Pittsburgh's six. Only one game was drawn, and that with +the "Phillies." + +The additional details of the record follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 7 +Series lost 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series tied 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series + unfinished 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" + victories 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +"Chicago" + defeats 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +Won by 1 run 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 3 2 2 9 11 +Lost by 1 run 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 7 +Single figure + victories 2 1 2 4 3 12 6 1 2 7 5 7 28 40 +Single figure + defeats 5 3 2 1 0 11 1 3 1 0 1 1 7 18 +Double figure + victories 4 3 4 4 8 23 3 5 8 3 5 2 26 49 +Double figure + defeats 1 5 2 3 1 12 2 1 2 2 1 1 9 21 +Home victories 5 1 4 5 5 20 6 4 7 8 6 6 37 57 +Home defeats 1 4 2 2 1 10 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 13 +Victories abroad 1 2 3 3 6 15 3 2 2 2 4 4 17 32 +Defeats abroad 5 4 2 2 0 13 2 3 3 1 2 2 13 26 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Baltimores "shut out" but one Eastern team and +not a single Western opponent, while they themselves were "Chicagoed" +once by each, viz., by New York and Louisville, the tail ender's "shut +out" being annoying. Only two of their contests with the Eastern teams +were won by a single run, but they won three games against the Eastern +teams by one run. They lost seven games by a single run, three of them +in the East and four against Western adversaries. No less than forty of +their games were won by single figure scores, viz., 12 against Eastern +teams and 28 against Western opponents. They lost a total of but 18 +single figure games. Their double figure victories were no less than 49, +against but 21 double figure defeats. They won 57 home victories against +32 abroad, the defeats being 18 at home to 26 abroad. Take it all in +all, the Baltimores did splendid work in the box, the field and at the +bat, the only drawback to their creditable season's campaign being too +much kicking and rowdy ball playing, in the latter of which McGraw was +the principal offender. + +#The Records of the New York and Boston Clubs of 1894.# + +The New York club's team entered the campaign of 1894 decidedly +handicapped. The club had excellent material at command wherewith to +make up a strong team; but the manager had great difficulty at first in +getting it into team work condition, he being hampered by the +interference of the class of scribe managers of League cities who are +very confident of their ability to run a club team better, on paper, +than the actual manager can on the field. Then, too, a minority of these +journalists seem to delight in getting up sensations which lead to +discord in the ranks of a team; as they have their pet players on the +teams, as well as those they have a special grudge against; moreover, +the directors of the club were at times, in the early part of the +season, not in accord with the manager in his methods of selecting +players, and in appointing them to special positions. Finally the +experience of April and May taught the club officials that if much more +of the interference racket was continued, the result would be a +permanent place in the second division, inasmuch as on May 24th, the +club stood no higher than eighth place, with but little likelihood at +that time of getting any higher. By June, however, an improved condition +of affairs in running the team was manifested; the scribe managers were +ignored, the manager was given more control of the team, and by the +close of the June campaign the New York club was in the first division, +and by the end of July were among the three leaders, where they remained +until the end of the race. + +The club was fortunate in being able to make its team unusually strong +in its battery players. The very profitable and liberal investment made +by Director Wheeler, in the purchase of the release of Meekin and +Farrell, was a potent factor in enabling the club to reach the high +position it did, both of these model players, in their respective +positions, proving to be a great accession to the strength of the club's +team. Another valuable acquisition to their team was that noted college +player, young Murphy, he proving to be the most valuable utility man in +the club, and an equal of Ward in team-work batting. By the closing +month of the campaign the team had been trained up to the point of +working together in more harmony, besides doing better team-work in +their batting than any previous players of the club had ever before +exhibited. Moreover, the team, during 1894, manifested greater rallying +power at the finish in a game than ever before, they fully equaling the +Bostons in this respect; in fact, this past season they excelled the +champions in securing the lead in the latter part of a contest, a very +important factor in winning pennants. THE NEW YORK CLUB'S RECORD. + +The record of the club for 1894 giving the victories and defeats scored, +with the total of games played, and the percentage of victories against +each club is as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 6 6 5 7 10 34 9 8 11 7 7 12 54 +Defeats 6 6 7 5 10 26 3 4 1 5 5 0 18 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .500 .500 .417 .583 .833 .567 .750 .667 .917 .583 .583 1.00 .750 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The above record shows that the "Giants" defeated Brooklyn and +Washington in the Eastern series of games, and tied with Boston and +Baltimore, they losing to the "Phillies" only. Against the Western clubs +they won every series, excelling both Baltimore and Boston in this +latter respect, as the Baltimores failed to get the best of the +Pittsburghs, and the Bostons were tied with the St. Louis. Then, too, +the "Giants" excelled the other two leading clubs in shutting out +Louisville in no less than thirteen successive games, one game being +thrown out. In addition they took Anson's "Colts" into camp in eleven +out of twelve games, and defeated the Washingtons in ten games out of +the twelve of the series. + +The record of the series of games won, lost, tied and unfinished, +together with that of the "Chicago" victories and defeats, and the +single and double figure games of the New York and Boston clubs is as +follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 8 +Series lost 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series tied 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Series + unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" + victories 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 5 +"Chicago" + defeats 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 +Single figure + victories 5 4 2 3 7 21 7 7 8 5 4 7 38 59 +Single figure + defeats 2 4 4 2 1 13 1 1 0 5 5 0 12 25 +Double figure + victories 1 2 3 4 3 13 2 1 3 2 3 5 16 29 +Double figure + defeats 4 2 3 3 1 13 2 3 1 0 0 0 6 19 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The foregoing table shows that the New York club won eight out of the +eleven series, they losing but one--that with Philadelphia -and tieing +two, one with Baltimore and one with Boston. In "Chicago" games they won +five and lost four, and in single figure games they won 59 and lost but +25, while in double figure games they won 29 only and lost but 19. + + +THE BOSTON CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Boston club, in 1894, after being League pennant winners three years +in succession, was obliged to fall back to third place in the past +year's pennant race, after a hard fight for first place in the race from +April to September, that club standing in first place on April 26th and +also on the 29th of August, they varying their position but little +during that period. Hitherto, in the races of 1891, '92 and '93, the +Bostons were noted for their rallying powers, not only in the latter +part of a game, but especially in the closing month of each season. It +will be remembered, that in 1892, though they had to succumb to +Cleveland in the last part of the divided campaign of that year, they +rallied handsomely and easily won the championship in the world's series +of that year. This year, however, they went back on their record badly, +in failing to attend to the rallying business in the last month of the +campaign, the result being that they not only lost the pennant, but had +to submit to being forced into third place in the race. The question as +to "why this was thusly" is not easy to answer. It may be said, for one +thing, that the loss of the valuable services of the veteran Bennett, +was one drawback to their success, and the failure of a majority of +their pitchers, another; their only really successful "battery" team +being Nichols and Ganzel. Then, too, they lost ground in playing, as +well as in popularity, by the kicking and noisy coaching profanities of +a minority of their team; that kind of "hustling" in a team having +become played out as a winning factor in the game in 1894. It must not +be forgotten, however, that the Boston club, in 1894, encountered +stronger teams in New York and Baltimore than ever before; moreover, +they were troubled considerably by the strong opposition of the +St. Louis club's team, the only club to score three straight victories +from them during the season. That the club had the material to do better +than they did, goes without saying; it was a failure in its running that +did the business, chiefly. + +Here is the record of the victories, defeats, games played, and +percentage of victories against each club for the past season of 1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e + Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 8 6 6 6 9 35 9 8 7 6 8 10 48 +Defeats 4 6 6 6 3 25 3 4 5 6 4 2 24 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .667 .500 .500 .500 .250 .583 .250 .667 .583 .500 .667 .833 .667 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The Bostons, in 1894, took the Baltimore and Washington teams into camp +without difficulty, but the best they could do against New York, +Philadelphia and Brooklyn, was to tie each series. Against the Western +clubs, it will be seen, the only club that troubled them was the +St. Louis Browns. Four series tied out of the eleven they played was an +unusual record for the ex-champions. In victories, they did better +against the West than against the East, by 48 victories to 35; in +defeats, however, the result was more even, viz., 25 to 24. + +The following is the club's record of series won, lost, tied and +unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and defeats, and the +single and double figure victories and defeats scored by the club in +1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 7 +Series lost 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series tied 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Single figure victories 4 4 4 3 0 15 2 7 2 0 3 5 19 34 +Single figure defeats 1 4 1 3 2 11 1 1 1 5 2 1 11 22 +Double figure victories 4 2 2 3 9 20 7 1 5 6 5 5 29 49 +Double figure defeats 3 2 5 3 1 14 2 3 4 1 2 1 13 27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The club won but seven of the eleven series played in 1894, though they +did not lose a series, no less than four being tied. In "Chicago" games +they won but 3, but did not lose a single game by a "shut out." By way +of comparison, we give below the records of the same three clubs in +1893, when the three leaders in the race were Boston. Pittsburgh and +Cleveland, and the three leaders of the Eastern teams were Boston, +Philadelphia and New York, the Baltimores that year being eighth +only. Singularly enough, all three clubs did better against their +Eastern confreres in 1893 than against the Western clubs. + +Here are the three club records of 1893 + + +RECORDS OF 1893. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t C . c i +BOSTON t w e o i v s h i s + i l o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y p k g l u c o n i + o o h l t a r a u a l + r r i y o n g g i t l + e k a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 10 8 8 8 7 41 7 4 8 10 6 10 45 +Defeats 2 4 4 4 5 19 5 6 3 2 6 2 24 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 10 11 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .853 .667 .667 .667 .583 .680 .583 .400 .727 .833 .500 .833 .652 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 8 4 7 6 7 32 6 4 5 8 6 7 36 +Defeats 4 8 5 6 5 28 6 8 7 4 6 5 36 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .667 .333 .583 .500 .583 .533 .500 .333 .417 .667 .500 .417 .500 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 2 5 10 7 28 8 1 5 9 4 5 32 +Defeats 8 10 7 2 5 32 4 11 7 3 8 5 38 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 10 70 +Per cent. of + Victories .383 .167 .417 .833 .583 .467 .667 .083 .417 .750 .333 .560 .475 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +To show what the new rivals--the New York and Baltimore clubs--did in +the two past seasons combined, we give the figures of the double records +of 1893 and 1894: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a a B s l t t n u + l d r h e t C . c i +NEW YORK t B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i L n v +vs. m s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + e n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 14 10 12 13 17 66 15 12 16 13 15 19 90 +Defeats 10 14 12 11 7 51 9 12 8 11 9 5 54 +Games played 24 24 24 24 24 120 24 24 24 24 24 24 144 +Per cent. of + Victories .383 .417 .500 .542 .708 .550 .625 .500 .667 .542 .625 .792 .625 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i S i o + N a B s l t t n u + e d r h e t C . c i +BALTIMORE w B e o i v s h i s + o l o n e b i L n v +vs. Y s p k g l u c o n i + o t h l t a r a u a l + r o i y o n g g i t l + k n a n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 10 6 11 18 18 63 17 7 14 14 18 15 85 +Defeats 14 18 11 6 6 55 7 15 10 10 5 7 54 +Games played 24 24 22 24 24 118 24 22 24 24 23 22 139 +Per cent. of + Victories .417 .250 .500 .750 .534 .708 .708 .318 .583 .583 .783 .682 .612 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +In this combined record New York leads Baltimore, the poor season's work +of 1893 by the Baltimores more than offsetting the honors they won in +1894. + + + +#The Campaigns of the Other Nine Clubs of 1894.# + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +At the end of the first day's contests, on April 19th, four clubs were +tied for first place as victors, and four others were tied next in order +as losers, the third four of the twelve clubs of the League not playing +until the 20th of April. At the end of the first week's play in the +April campaign the "Phillies" stood fourth in the race, they being +headed by Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis, respectively, and followed by +Baltimore and Cincinnati, all of which six clubs were in the first +division, the Pittsburgh, New York, Louisville, Washington, Brooklyn and +Chicago following in order in the second division; the difference in +percentage figures between the leader and tail ender being 833 points, +as the Chicago team had not then won a single game out of six played, +and the Brooklyns but one, while the "Phillies" had won 5 out of 7, they +starting off well, Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis having won 5 out of 6 +played. By the end of the April campaign the "Phillies" stood in fourth +place, being led by St. Louis, Cleveland and Boston, the other first +division clubs being Baltimore and Cincinnati. During the May campaign +the "Phillies" fluctuated between fifth place on May 9th up to second +position on May 16th, finally finishing the May campaign a poor fifth on +May 31st, with Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore and Boston in advance of +them, and New York close at their heels. In June the "Phillies" began to +do a little better, and by June 18th, they had pulled up to second +place, with Baltimore in the van and Boston close behind the "Quakers." +Then once more they fell back in the race, the close of the June +campaign seeing them in fifth place, and in the rear of Baltimore, +Boston, Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, with New York within a few points of +them. During July this "up-hill and down-dale" method of racing was +continued until July 23d, when they were driven into the ranks of the +second division clubs, they occupying seventh place on that date, the +end of the July campaign seeing the team in seventh place, with a +percentage of victories of .526, Boston, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, +Brooklyn and Pittsburgh being the six first division clubs. During the +August campaign the "Phillies" got back into the first division ranks, +and on the 21st of that month were in fourth place, which position they +retained to the end of that month's campaign. They tried in vain to get +higher, but could not do so, and on the last day of the season they +stood a bad fourth, the next club above them leading them by 75 points +in percentage figures, and by eleven games. + +The following is the Philadelphia club's record of victories and defeats +scored, with the total number of games played, and the percentage of +victories against each club, and also the record of the series won, +lost, tied and unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and +defeats, and the single and double figure victories and defeats scored +by the club during 1894: + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S RECORD. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + W P C L + B a C i S i o + a N B s l t t n u + l e r h e t C . c i +PHILADELPHIA t w B o i v s h i s + i o o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s k g l u c o n i + o o t l t a r a u a l + r r o y o n g g i t l + e k n n n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 7 6 7 8 32 5 8 5 5 8 8 39 +Defeats 6 5 6 5 4 26 7 4 7 7 2 3 30 +Games played 10 12 12 12 12 58 12 12 12 12 10 11 69 +Per cent. of + Victories .400 .583 .500 .583 .667 .552 .417 .667 .417 .417 .800 .727 .585 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + + W P C L + B a C i S i o + a N B s l t t n u + l e r h e t C . c i +PHILADELPHIA t w B o i v s h i s + i o o n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s k g l u c o n i + o o t l t a r a u a l + r r o y o n g g i t l + e k n n n d h o s i e Grand + Totals Totals Totals +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 6 +Series lost 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Series unfinished 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Single figure victories 2 4 3 3 3 15 3 3 1 2 2 2 13 28 +Single figure defeats 2 2 5 5 3 12 2 3 0 3 3 0 10 22 +Double figure victories 2 3 3 4 5 17 2 5 4 3 6 6 26 43 +Double figure defeats 4 3 1 0 1 8 5 1 7 4 2 3 22 30 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The above table shows that the Philadelphia team in their games with +their Eastern opponents had but little difficulty in defeating the +Washingtons, besides getting the best of both New York and Brooklyn in +the race. But they lost to Baltimore and tied with Boston. With the +Western teams they did not do so well, as they only won three out of the +six series, they winning easily with Cincinnati by 8 to 2 in won games, +while they had but little difficulty with Louisville and Pittsburgh. +They lost with Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis by 5 to 7 each in won +games. + + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Brooklyn club opened the season's campaign on April 19th, and at the +close of the first day's play, stood tied with Baltimore, Philadelphia +and Pittsburgh for fifth place, they standing as low as eleventh +position on April 23d. During the May campaign they made but little +headway in the race, as, up to May 22d they had got no higher than +seventh place. After that they got into the first division for a few +days, but at the end of the May campaign they were tied with New York +for sixth place; Pittsburgh, on May 31st, being in the van, with +Cleveland and Baltimore second and third, Pittsburgh's percentage +figures being .710 at this date; the "Orioles" being followed by Boston +and Philadelphia. The Brooklyns began the June campaign by leading New +York and taking up a position in the first division, occupying sixth +place, next to Boston, then in fifth position. By June 19th they had +reached fourth place, and they closed their June campaign in third +position, Baltimore leading, with Boston second. During the early part +of July the Brooklyns fell back to sixth place, and the "Giants" jumped +into third position. On July 31st the Brooklyns stood fifth only, and +they began falling lower the first week in August, and on the fourth of +that month were back in the second division ranks, and after that date +"the subsequent proceedings interested them no more," as far as the +three leading positions were concerned. They remained in seventh place +up to August 21st when they got back into the first division, and on +August 31st they were in fifth place. During September there was a close +fight between Cleveland and Brooklyn for that position, but finally the +Brooklyns retained it at the finish by the percentage figures of .534 to +.527, a lead of but seven points. The Brooklyn team made but a poor +record against their Eastern team rivals in 1894, but were more +successful against the Western clubs. They won but one series in the +East, and that was against the tail-end Washingtons, Baltimore, New York +and Philadelphia beating them out in the race, while they tied the +Bostons. Against the Western clubs they won in three series; tied with +two others, and had the series with Cleveland, but they only won four +series out of the eleven. + +The following tables show the Brooklyn club's record of victories and +defeats scored, with the total number of games played and the percentage +of victories against each club; also, the record of the series won, +lost, tied and unfinished, together with the "Chicago" victories and +defeats, and the single and double figure victories and defeats scored +by the club during the season of 1894: + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S RECORD. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a s l t t n u + l e d h e t C . c i +BROOKLYN t w B e i v s h i s + i o l n e b i L n v +vs. m Y s p g l u c o n i + o o t h t a r a u a l + r r o i o n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 5 6 5 9 29 6 7 6 8 6 8 41 +Defeats 8 7 6 7 3 31 5 5 6 4 6 4 30 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 12 60 11 12 12 12 12 12 71 +Per cent. of + Victories .388 .417 .500 .452 .750 .483 .545 .583 .500 .667 .509 .667 .577 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a s l t t n u + l e d h e t C . c i +BROOKLYN t w B e i v s h i s + i o l n e b i L n v + vs. m Y s p g l u c o n i + o o t h t a r a u a l + r r o i o n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 4 +Series lost 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 +"Chicago" victories 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 3 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 +Single figure victories 1 2 3 5 3 14 4 3 5 3 1 4 20 34 +Single figure defeats 3 3 4 3 1 14 2 2 2 3 3 1 13 27 +Double figure victories 3 3 3 0 6 15 2 4 1 5 5 4 21 36 +Double figure defeats 5 4 2 4 2 17 3 3 4 1 3 3 18 35 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Cleveland club did not begin their opening campaign until April +20th, and then in the ranks of the second division; but they soon, +jumped to the front, and by the end of the April campaign they stood a +tie for first place with Boston and St. Louis, with the percentage +figures of .750 each. They opened the May campaign by pushing Boston out +of first place, and they retained the leading position from May 2d to +the 28th, they reaching the high percentage of .867 on May 10th--the +highest of the season. On Decoration Day Pittsburgh went to the front, +with the percentage of .700 to Cleveland's .692, and they retained that +position to the close of the May campaign. During June the Clevelands +fell off, and by the 21st of that month they had got down to fifth place +in the race, and by the end of the June campaign had been driven into +the ranks of the second division, they then occupying seventh place with +a percentage of .549; Pittsburgh, on June 30th, being the only Western +team in the first division. This fact alone showed a one-sided race up +to that date. + +The Clevelands did not get back into the first division until July 17th, +and after that they never left it. During August they battled well for +third place, but could get no higher than fourth position, where they +stood up to August 21st, when they began to fall off, and on August 31st +they were down to sixth place. This position they were forced to keep +all through September up to the finish of the race. + +The Cleveland team managed to win two of their series with the Eastern +clubs, viz., with Washington and Philadelphia, but were badly whipped by +the three leaders; they managed, however, to make a close fight of it +with their old antagonists of Brooklyn, the latter winning the series by +a single game only. + +With their Western rivals the Clevelands won every series but one, viz., +that with the Pittsburgh club, thereby winning the _championship of the +West for_ 1894, as Boston did the championship of the East. Then, too, +the Clevelands were the only Western club remaining in the first +division at the close of the season; so they had some consolation in the +race in excelling their Western rivals, all of whom they beat out in the +race, even if they failed to win the pennant or to get among the three +leaders in the race. Moreover, they excelled all the Western teams in +team work in the field and at the bat, as they did the Brooklyns and +Washingtons of the Eastern division. + +Here is their record: + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a i S i o + a N a B s t t n u + l e d r h t C . c i +CLEVELAND t w B e o i s h i s + i o l o n b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g u c o n i + o o t h l t r a u a l + r r o i y o g g i t l + e k n a n n h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 3 3 3 7 5 8 29 4 10 9 8 8 39 +Defeats 9 9 9 5 6 4 42 8 2 3 3 3 19 +Games Played 12 12 12 12 11 12 71 12 12 12 11 11 58 +Per cent. of + Victories .250 .250 .250 .583 .455 .667 .408 .333 .883 .750 .727 .727 .672 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a i S i o + a N a B s t t n u + l e d r h t C . c i +CLEVELAND t w B e o i s h i s + i o l o n b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g u c o n i + o o t h l t r a u a l + r r o i y o g g i t l + e k n a n n h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 +Series lost 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 1 5 7 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 +Single figure victories 1 1 1 2 3 4 12 3 7 7 4 6 27 39 +Single figure defeats 6 7 2 3 4 4 26 5 1 1 2 1 10 36 +Double figure victories 2 2 2 5 2 4 17 1 3 2 4 2 12 29 +Double figure defeats 3 2 7 2 2 0 16 3 1 2 1 2 9 25 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +#The Second Division Clubs.# + + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Pittsburgh club opened the April campaign in the ranks of the second +division, the end of the month seeing the team in seventh place, three +other Western teams leading them on April 30th. During May they got into +the first division, and May 21st they were among the three leaders, with +Cleveland and Baltimore first and second in the race. At the end of the +May campaign they had rallied as well, and had pulled up to first place, +with the percentage figures of .710 to Cleveland's .679 and Baltimore's +.654, Boston, Philadelphia and New York being the next three. In June, +the Pittsburghs fell off in the race, and by the 11th of that month they +were down to fifth place, then pulled up again after touching sixth +position, and on June 30th stood fourth, they then being headed by +Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn, with Philadelphia and New York in their +rear. In July they fell off badly, and on the 20th of that month they +had been driven out of the first division. At the end of the July +campaign they stood sixth in the race. They got a step higher the early +part of August, but the end of that month's campaign saw the club once +more in the ranks of the second division, and they struggled in vain to +get out of the company of the six tail-enders, the end of the race +seeing the club in seventh place with the percentage figures of .500, +Cleveland leading them by 27 points. + +The record of the Pittsburgh club for 1894 giving the victories and +defeats scored, with a total of games played and the percentage of +victories against each club; also, the record of the series of games +won, lost, tied or unfinished, together with that of the "Chicago" +victories and defeats, and the single and double figure games scored by +the club, is as follows: + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W C L + B l a C S i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e C . c i +PITTSBURGH t w B e o i v h i s + i o l o n e i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l c o n i + o o t h l t a a u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 4 4 4 4 5 8 29 8 6 6 7 9 36 +Defeats 6 8 8 8 7 4 41 4 6 6 5 3 24 +Games played 10 12 12 12 12 12 70 12 12 12 12 12 60 +Per cent. of + Victories .400 .333 .333 .333 .417 .667 .414 .667 .500 .500 .500 .583 .600 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W C L + B l a C S i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e C . c i +PITTSBURGH t w B e o i v h i s + i o l o n e i L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l c o n i + o o t h l t a a u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 +Series lost 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 . 0 0 0 0 0 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 1 1 0 0 2 2 +Series unfinished 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 . 0 0 0 0 0 1 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 . 0 0 0 0 2 2 +Single figure victories 3 1 1 3 2 3 13 5 3 4 3 7 22 35 +Single figure defeats 1 7 7 3 3 0 21 3 2 4 2 3 14 35 +Double figure victories 1 3 3 1 3 5 16 3 3 2 4 2 14 30 +Double figure defeats 5 1 1 5 4 4 20 1 4 2 3 0 10 20 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The "Pirates," it will be seen, were very unsuccessful against the +Eastern teams, the Washingtons being the only club they could win a +series from. Against their Western rivals, however, they did not lose a +series, defeating Cleveland, Cincinnati and Louisville, and tieing with +Chicago and St. Louis. The very club they wanted most to defeat they +captured, viz., the Clevelands; that, and the fact that they led the +second division clubs being the only consolation they had. + + + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +Never before in the history of the Chicago club had any of its teams +ever started a pennant race so badly as did the Chicago "Colts" in +1894. They finished the April campaign with the unenviable record of +eight defeats out of nine games played, they then being a bad tail-ender +in the race, with the poor percentage figures of .111 only. They +remained in the last ditch up to May 10th, by which date they had won +but two games out of thirteen played, the result being costly to the +club in poor gate receipts. The next day they pushed the Washingtons +into the last ditch--their home place for years--and by May 14th had got +up to tenth position. But the end of May saw the "Colts" no higher in +the race record than eleventh place, just on the ragged edge of the last +ditch. By the end of the June campaign they had pulled up a little, they +were standing in tenth place on June 30th; there they remained until the +last day of the July campaign, when they managed to get into ninth +place. During August they rallied for the first time in the race, and by +the end of that month's campaign they stood eighth. But they could not +get higher in the race, and they had to be content with eighth position +at the end of the season, their poor record including that of being the +only club of the twelve which had not, at one time or another, occupied +a place in the ranks of the first division clubs. It was the worst +season's record known in the history of the Chicago club. + +Here is the club record: + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t . c i +CHICAGO t w B e o i v s i s + i o l o n e b L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u o n i + o o t h l t a r u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d h s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 3 1 5 7 6 7 29 2 6 6 6 8 28 +Defeats 9 11 7 5 6 5 43 10 6 6 6 4 32 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 60 +Per cent. of + Victories .250 .083 .417 .583 .500 .583 .403 .375 .500 .500 .500 .667 .467 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i S i o + a N a B s l t t n u + l e d r h e t . c i +CHICAGO t w B e o i v s i s + i o l o n e b L n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u o n i + o o t h l t a r u a l + r r o i y o n g i t l + e k n a n n d h s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 +Series lost 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .. 1 1 1 0 3 4 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 5 +Single figure victories 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 1 2 3 2 6 14 20 +Single figure defeats 2 8 2 1 5 4 22 6 3 4 2 3 18 40 +Double figure victories 2 1 4 7 4 6 24 1 4 3 4 2 14 38 +Double figure defeats 7 3 5 4 1 1 21 4 3 2 4 1 14 35 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The Chicago "Colts" won two series against the Eastern teams, viz., +those with the Washingtons and the Philadelphias, and they had a tie +series with Brooklyn and a close fight with Boston; but the New Yorks +whipped them the worst any club had ever before succeeded in doing in a +season's series, as the "Giants" won eleven out of twelve games; the +Baltimores, too, had an easy task in winning against the +"Colts". Against their Western rivals, however, they lost but one +series, viz., that with Cleveland; but they only won one series--that +with Louisville--they tieing Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati. + + + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The St. Louis club opened the April campaign among the leaders, and put +up their stock to a premium, by ending the month's record tied with +Boston and Cleveland for first place, each with a percentage of .750, +the club's special rival--Comiskey's Cincinnati "Reds"--ending the April +campaign tied with Baltimore for fifth place. After this April spurt in +the race, however, the "Browns" began to fall back in their record +during May, and by the 7th of that month were down to sixth position, +and on May 14th they had to give way to Cincinnati, they then falling +back into the second division ranks; and on the 17th of May they were +down to ninth place, and then the best they could do during the last +week of the May campaign was to end eighth in the race on May +31st. During June they tried to get back into the first division, but +they failed to reach higher than seventh position. During July they got +lower down in the ranks of the second division, and they ended that +month's campaign as low as tenth place, and they were kept there until +the very last day of the season, when two victories over the +Washingtons, with a tie game between Cincinnati and Cleveland, enabled +the "Browns" to win the consolation prize, viz., leading Cincinnati at +the finish, by the percentage figures of .424 to .419, the St. Louis +team ending in ninth place and the Cincinnatis in tenth position. + +The record of the St. Louis club for 1894 giving the victories and +defeats scored, with the total of games played and the percentage of +victories against each club; also, the record of the series of games +won, lost, tied and unfinished, together with that of the "Chicago" +victories and defeats and the single and double figure victories and +defeats scored by the club, is as follows: + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e t C c i +ST .LOUIS t w B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c n i + o o t h l t a r a a l + r r o i y o n g g t l + e k n a n n d h o i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 5 6 7 4 6 30 3 6 6 5 6 26 +Defeats 10 7 6 5 8 6 42 9 6 6 7 6 34 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 12 12 12 12 12 69 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .417 .500 .583 .333 .500 .417 .250 .500 .500 .417 .500 .433 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + a N a B s l t n u + l e d r h e t C c i +ST. LOUIS t w B e o i v s h i s + i o l o n e b i n v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c n i + o o t h l t a r a a l + r r o i y o n g g t l + e k n a n n d h o i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 +Series lost 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 5 +Series tied 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 3 5 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 4 5 +Single figure victories 0 5 5 3 3 2 18 1 4 4 4 4 17 35 +Single figure defeats 7 5 0 2 3 3 20 7 4 3 5 6 25 45 +Double figure victories 2 0 1 4 1 4 12 2 2 2 1 2 9 21 +Double figure defeats 3 2 6 3 5 3 22 2 2 3 2 0 9 31 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The St. Louis "Browns" did well in winning one of their Eastern +series--that with Philadelphia--and tieing with Boston and +Washington. But the Baltimores gave them a bad whipping, and the +Brooklyns and "Phillies" took them into camp easily. Against their +Western adversaries, however, they failed to win a single series; but +they only lost one--that with Cleveland--as they tied with Pittsburgh, +Chicago and Louisville. + + + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Cincinnati club did not begin their opening campaign until April +20th, and during that month's short campaign they occupied third place +on April 24th, and retained their position among the leaders to the end +of the month. In May, however, they fell back into the ranks of the +second division clubs, and remained there until May 16th, when they +occupied sixth place in the first division. By the end of that month, +however, they had been pushed back to ninth position. There they +remained during the whole of the June campaign. During July they +improved their position by getting into eighth position, where they +stood on July 31st. August's campaign did not improve their standing; on +the contrary, they fell back into ninth place, where they stood on +August 31st. During September they were almost anchored in that +position, but on the very last day of the race they let their old +rivals, the "Browns," beat them out, and Comiskey had to finish tenth in +the race, and then he said he'd had enough, and he concluded to "go +West," where he will remain for 1895. + +Here is the Cincinnati club's record: + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P L + B l a C i o + a N a B s l t S u + l e d r h e t C t i +CINCINNATI t w B e o i v s h . s + i o l o n e b i L v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o i + o o t h l t a r a u l + r r o i y o n g g i l + e k n a n n d h o s e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 5 4 2 6 7 26 3 5 6 7 7 28 +Defeats 10 7 8 8 6 5 44 8 7 6 5 5 31 +Games played 12 12 12 10 12 12 70 11 12 12 12 12 59 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .417 .338 .200 .500 .583 .371 .273 .417 .500 .583 .588 .475 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P L + B l a C i o + a N a B s l t S u + l e d r h e t C t i +CINCINNATI t w B e o i v s h . s + i o l o n e b i L v +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o i + o o t h l t a r a u l + r r o i y o n g g i l + e k n a n n d h o s e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 7 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 +Single figure victories 1 5 2 3 3 5 19 2 2 2 5 6 17 36 +Single figure defeats 4 4 3 2 1 5 19 4 3 2 4 5 18 37 +Double figure victories 1 0 2 1 3 2 9 1 3 4 2 1 11 20 +Double figure defeats 6 3 5 6 5 0 25 4 4 4 1 0 13 38 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The season of 1894 was made noteworthy in the annals of the Washington +club, owing to their being able to pay off their six years' mortgage on +the last ditch, and transferred it to the Louisville club. The +"Senators" opened the season in a very lively style, inasmuch as they +stood a tie for first place at the end of the first day of the campaign, +and had the credit of winning their first games with the "Phillies," the +New York and Boston clubs. After this dash at the start they settled +down among the second division clubs for the season, resigned to +everything but the fate of again being tail-enders. Chicago kept them +out until May, when the "Senators" fell into their old quarters, the +tail-end place, where they remained until August 23d, when, to the great +joy of Manager Schmelz, they had a wrestle with Louisville and threw the +"Colonels" into the last ditch. + +Here is their record: + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i P C L + B l C i S i o + a N a B l t t n u + l e d r e t C . c i +WASHINGTON t w B e o v s h i s + i o l o e b i L n v +vs. m Y s p k l u c o n i + o o t h l a r a u a l + r r o i y n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 1 2 3 4 3 13 4 4 5 6 5 8 32 +Defeats 11 10 9 8 9 47 8 8 7 6 7 4 40 +Games played 12 12 12 12 12 60 12 12 12 12 12 12 72 +Per cent. of + Victories .083 .167 .250 .333 .250 .217 .333 .333 .417 .500 .147 .667 .444 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS + P + h + i P C L + B l C i S i o + a N a B l t t n u + l e d r e t C . c i +WASHINGTON t w B e o v s h i s + i o l o e b i L n v + vs. m Y s p k l u c o n i + o o t h l a r a u a l + r r o i y n g g i t l + e k n a n d h o s i e Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 0 1 0 4 9 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" victories 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +"Chicago" defeats 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 +Single figure victories 0 1 2 3 1 7 4 0 4 3 5 5 21 28 +Single figure defeats 3 7 0 3 3 16 4 3 1 2 5 3 18 34 +Double figure victories 1 1 1 1 2 6 0 4 1 3 0 3 11 17 +Double figure defeats 8 3 9 5 6 31 4 5 6 4 2 1 22 53 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The "Senators" won but one series in the whole campaign, and that was +with the Louisvilles. They managed to tie with the St. Louis "Browns," +but all the rest knocked them out--the Baltimores by 11 to 1. + + + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S CAMPAIGN. + +The Louisville club started in the race with better prospects than they +had for years past, they being tied for first place on April 20th, but +they only remained in the first division a few days, after which they +took up their home position among the tail-enders, which they occupied +from April 30th to September 30th, never once getting back to the ranks +of the first division. Gradually, during the May campaign they worked +their way down towards the last ditch, they having a close fight for the +ditch with Washington during June. But July saw them rolled into the +tail-end position, and there they remained until the ending of the +championship campaign. The Louisvilles had the consolation of tieing the +the St. Louis "Browns" in their series, and of "Chicagoing" the Boston +champions, and also in defeating them in another game by 11 to 1. Here +is their record: + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C + B l a C i i + a N a B s l t S n + l e d r h e t C t c +LOUISVILLE t w B e o i v s h . i + i o l o n e b i L n +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o n + o o t h l t a r a u a + r r o i y o n g g i t + e k n a n n d h o s i + Totals Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Victories 2 0 2 3 4 4 15 3 3 4 6 5 21 +Defeats 10 12 10 8 8 8 56 8 9 8 6 7 38 +Games played 12 12 12 11 12 12 71 11 12 12 12 12 59 +Per cent. of + Victories .167 .000 .167 .273 .333 .333 .211 .273 .250 .333 .500 .417 .356 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C + B l a C i i + a N a B s l t S n + l e d r h e t C t c +LOUISVILLE t w B e o i v s h . i + i o l o n e b i L n +vs. m Y s p k g l u c o n + o o t h l t a r a u a + r r o i y o n g g i t + e k n a n n d h o s i Grand + Total Total Total +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Series won 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Series lost 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 0 1 4 10 +Series tied 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Series unfinished 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 +"Chicago" victories 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +"Chicago" defeats 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 +Single figure victories 1 0 1 0 1 3 6 1 3 3 6 5 18 24 +Single figure defeats 8 8 5 2 4 5 32 6 7 6 4 6 29 61 +Double figure victories 1 0 1 3 3 1 9 2 0 1 0 0 3 12 +Double figure defeats 2 5 5 6 4 3 25 2 2 2 2 1 9 34 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The nearest the Louisvilles came to a series victory was in their series +with the St. Louis club, which they tied; all the others they lost, they +being "shut out" by the "Giants," with which club they lost thirteen +successive games, one of which was thrown out. The Club Management of +1894. + +The management of the twelve League clubs in 1894 was, in but few +instances, in advance of that of 1893; and in a minority of cases it was +worse. The experience of the past season in the management of club +teams, points out the indisputable fact that the majority of managers +are blind to the folly of condoning drinking offences in the ranks, for +one thing, and equally ignorant of the damaging effects, in lessening +the reputable patronage of their grounds, of countenancing that phase of +"hoodlumism" in teams known as "kicking against the decisions of +umpires." Despite of the costly experience of the past five years in the +countenancing of drunkards in the League ranks, we see, this season of +1895, club teams including players notorious for their old drunken +habits. Why managers cannot perceive the folly of re-engaging such men +is a mystery. No matter what their skill at the bat or in the field may +be, their drinking habits, with the demoralizing effect on the teams at +large which follows, more than offset the advantage of their alleged +ability in the field. Despite this obvious fact, however, club +officials--either presidents, directors or managers--still blunder on in +having these drunkards on their teams, even after condoning their +offences time and again, on the promise of reform, which in no single +instance has ever taken place that I am aware of. But surpassing this +folly, is that of engaging ugly and vicious tempered players for their +teams, who are simply demoralizing agents in any team on which they are +engaged. These ill-tempered fellows are not only death to necessary +discipline, but they are sure to find occasions to form cliques in a +team, which war against the best interests of the club at large, and are +obnoxious in the extreme to the pennant winning rule of _playing for the +side_, a rule as important to the success of a club team in a pennant +race, as the reserve rule is to the life of the professional club +business at large. Bad management of clubs involves a variety of +blunders, not only in the running of the team without regard to business +principles--sadly neglected by a majority of the League clubs in +1894--but especially in the making up of teams in the spring months, in +which one blunder is conspicuous, viz., that of selecting players for +each team without regard to their ability to play in _harmony together_, +but solely by the records made in the unreliable table of averages of +the past season, in which everything in the way of scoring figures tends +to aid the mere record player and throws obstacles in the way of team +work players' records. Another managerial blunder is shown in the +gathering together of a long list of signed players, with the view of +selecting a strong team of a dozen players from the crowd for the +serious work of the campaign. For instance, in the makeup of many of the +League teams of 1894, the blunder of getting together six or eight +pitchers and occupying the whole of the early part of the season's +campaign in experiments with them was positive folly. It has never paid +in a single instance. It was, in fact, death to the success of at least +four League teams last season, Cincinnati in particular. Many of last +year's team managers failed to realize the important fact that in +testing the merits of pitchers in the spring season they need to be +given a fair trial, and not dismiss them after the hasty judgment of +their ability of a few games of trial. Pitchers need to be thoroughly +tested before they are released, after engagement, and this testing +process cannot at the shortest be done in less than a month's trial. No +pitcher can do his best while in doubt all the while as to the result of +a single day's play on his engagement. Five pitchers are amply +sufficient to begin a season with, and at most three catchers. But one +of the greatest and most costly blunders in team management made in 1894 +was that of encouraging "hoodlumism" by the countenancing of blackguard +kicking, in defiance of the laws of the game, which presidents and +directors, as well as managers and captains, were alike guilty of to a +more or less extent. The rules of the game positively prohibit any +player of a nine on the field from disputing any decision of the umpire +except the captain, and he only in certain exceptional cases, and yet +not only did captains of teams allow this rule to be violated in every +game of the season, but they were openly countenanced in it by not only +their managers, but in many cases by club presidents and +directors. Under such circumstances is it any wonder that the season of +1894 stands on record as being marked by more disgraceful kicking, rowdy +play, blackguard language and brutal play than that of any season since +the League was organized? And all this was the result of a neglect of +business principles in club management, and in the blunders in managing +teams committed by incompetent managers and captains--an arraignment of +the National League which we hope never to have to record again. + + + +THE MONTHLY CAMPAIGNS. + + +THE APRIL CAMPAIGN. + +The short April campaign of 1894 began on April 19th, on which date +eight of the twelve clubs opened the season; New York losing at +Baltimore, Brooklyn at Boston, Philadelphia at Washington, and +Pittsburgh at St. Louis, rain preventing the games scheduled for +Louisville and Cincinnati. On the 20th Chicago opened at Cincinnati with +a defeat, as did Cleveland at Louisville. By the end of the month's +campaign, on April 30th, the games played left the Boston, Cleveland and +St. Louis clubs tied for first place in the month's record, with +Philadelphia fourth, Baltimore fifth, and Pittsburgh sixth the second +division clubs being headed by Cincinnati--tied with Pittsburgh for +sixth place--and followed by Louisville, New York and Brooklyn tied for +ninth position, Washington and Chicago, the latter club being a bad +tail-ender with a record of eight defeats out of nine games played. + +Here is the complete record of the thirteen days' campaign of the +opening month of the season, fifty victories and as many defeats having +been recorded: + +THE APRIL RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------- +Boston 6 2 8 .750 Cincinnati 4 4 8 .500 +Cleveland 6 2 8 .750 Louisville 4 5 9 .444 +St. Louis 6 2 8 .750 New York 3 5 8 .375 +Philadelphia 6 3 9 .667 Brooklyn 3 5 8 .375 +Baltimore 5 3 8 .625 Washington 2 7 9 .174 +Pittsburgh 4 4 8 .500 Chicago 1 8 9 .111 +-------------------------------------------------- + +It had been confidently expected that Boston would be in the lead and +Cleveland not far off; but that St. Louis should be tied with both for +the lead was a surprise. Philadelphia was in its anticipated place, but +Baltimore was lower than the club officials had looked for, as also New +York, while the fact that the tail-ender of 1893 led the Chicago "Colts" +of 1894 was a disagreeable ending of the month's play for the Chicago +cranks. + + + +THE MAY CAMPAIGN. + +The May campaign changed the relative positions of the twelve clubs +materially. By May 31st, Pittsburgh had pulled up to the leading +position, having won 18 out of 23 games; and while Cleveland had held +its position fairly well, Baltimore had done better than Boston, and New +York had won more games than Brooklyn. Chicago, too, had rallied, while +St. Louis had fallen off badly, as also Cincinnati and Louisville; the +Washingtons winning but 4 games out of 23, that club ending the second +month's campaign a bad tail-ender in the figures of May. Here is the +record for May: + +THE MAY RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh 18 5 28 .783 Brooklyn 12 11 23 .522 +Cleveland 13 7 20 .684 Chicago 9 12 21 .429 +Baltimore 12 6 18 .667 St. Louis 9 16 25 .360 +Boston 14 8 22 .636 Cincinnati 7 13 20 .350 +Philadelphia 12 7 19 .632 Louisville 6 14 20 .300 +New York 13 11 24 .542 Washington 4 19 23 .174 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The monthly record differs in its percentage figures from the pennant +race record, as the latter gives the totals of the games played from +April 19th, while the former gives the totals of each month's games +only. A hundred and twenty-nine games, resulting in victories, were +played in May, with, of course, the same number of defeats. Seven of the +twelve clubs won more games than they lost. + + + +THE JUNE CAMPAIGN. + +The June campaign opened with Cleveland in the van in pennant race +percentages, the other clubs in the first division being the Pittsburgh, +Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn clubs in order; New York +leading the second division, followed by St. Louis, Cincinnati, +Louisville, Chicago and Washington; the leader in the race having a +percentage of .690, and the tail-ender .212, a difference in percentage +figures of 478 points, showing a poorly contested race thus far. Only +two Western clubs by this time remained in the first division, viz., +Cleveland and Pittsburgh; New York and Washington being the two Eastern +clubs in the second division. Baltimore overtook and passed Cleveland in +the first week of the June campaign, and closed the month in the +lead. Boston, too, rallied and pulled up in the race from fifth place on +June 4th to second position by June 11th, and remained there to the end +of the month. Brooklyn also took a jump from sixth place on June 18th to +third position on June 29th; New York not getting out of the second +division until the last of the month. In the meantime the two Western +teams of Cleveland and Pittsburgh began to lose ground, and by the 21st +of June they occupied fifth and sixth positions in the race, Cleveland +leading their rivals of Pittsburgh by 13 points. On the same date +Philadelphia was in third place, but the "Phillies" fell off to fifth +position by the end of the month. In victories won during June Brooklyn +led with 18 games won out of 23 played, Baltimore being second with 20 +victories and 6 defeats, and Boston third with 18 games won to 8 +lost. On June 8th Washington had pushed Louisville into the last ditch, +and also led Chicago; but the "Colts" got ahead of the "Senators" by the +end of the month. On June 30th Baltimore held the lead in the pennant +race with the percentage figures of .712 to Louisville's .255, a +difference of 457 points, only one Western club being in the first +division at the end of the month. + +Here is the record of the June campaign, showing which club led in won +games during the month. + +THE JUNE RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn 18 5 28 .789 Philadelphia 11 12 23 .478 +Baltimore 20 6 26 .769 Cleveland 9 13 22 .409 +Boston 18 8 26 .692 St. Louis 10 15 25 .406 +New York 15 8 23 .686 Washington 9 15 24 .375 +Pittsburgh 13 13 26 .500 Chicago 8 17 25 .320 +Cincinnati 12 13 25 .480 Louisville 4 22 26 .154 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that out of the twelve clubs but four won more games +than they lost, the Louisvilles ending the month's play with a record of +but 4 games won out of 26 played, the poorest record of any single month +of the season. + + + +THE JULY CAMPAIGN. + +The July campaign opened with the Baltimore and Boston clubs as apparent +fixtures for the two leading positions, the "Orioles" leading the +champions on July 5th by seven points only, viz., .679 to .672. On the 2d +of July New York was sixth and Brooklyn third in the race. By July 5th, +however, the "Giants" had jumped into third place, and Brooklyn had +fallen back to sixth position. On the same date Baltimore, Boston and +New York occupied the three leading positions, and though three more +months of the season still remained, the other nine clubs were even then +virtually out of the race, the only other point of interest left in the +championship contest being that of the fight for the last three places +in the first division, Pittsburgh being at that time the only Western +club out of the second division. Of course, such a one-sided condition +of things in the pennant race led to a falling off in the interest in +the championship contests, especially out West, where the clubs of that +section lost patronage greatly, four of the six Western clubs being +virtually out of the race as early as May, as far as winning the pennant +was concerned. During July there were only two points of interest in the +race outside of the fight for first place between the three leaders, +viz., the struggle between the Brooklyn and Philadelphia clubs for +fourth place in the race, and that between the Cleveland and Pittsburgh +clubs to retain a place in the first division. Cleveland lost its +position in the first division the first week in July, Pittsburgh on +July 2d being in fourth place. By the 6th of that month the "Phillies" +had overtaken them, and by the 9th the Pittsburghs were down to sixth +place, the Clevelands then heading the second division. The "Pirates" +then rallied and got ahead of Brooklyn, the latter being driven into the +second division by July 17th, Cleveland rallying and getting among the +six leaders again by the 18th of July, after which date they remained in +that division to the close of the season, A feature of the July campaign +among the six tail-end clubs was the close fight between Washington and +Louisville on the edge of the last ditch. First one club would cross +the goal line and make a touch-down--as the foot ball men have it--and +then the other, Louisville being in eleventh place at the end of the +month, while the "Senators" rolled about in the last ditch. When the +July campaign ended Boston was in the van with the percentage figures of +.659, Baltimore being second with .618, and New York third with .613. It +looked at that time pretty sure for Boston. + +Here is the record of the month's play, showing which club won the most +games during July: + +THE JULY RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +New York 18 7 25 .720 Philadelphia 12 14 26 .462 +Boston 16 9 25 .640 Baltimore 10 14 24 .417 +Cleveland 18 11 29 .621 Pittsburgh 10 16 26 .385 +Chicago 16 10 26 .615 St. Louis 10 17 27 .370 +Cincinnati 16 11 27 .593 Brooklyn 9 16 25 .360 +Louisville 13 15 28 .464 Washington 8 16 24 .331 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +But five clubs out of the twelve won more games than they lost during +the July campaign, but there was a little improvement shown in the +difference of percentage points between the leader and tail-ender, the +figures being .363. The Baltimores made the poorest record in July for a +month's campaign of any they made during the season; while New York made +the best show of any one of their four months' campaigns up to the close +of July. Chicago also made their best monthly record in July, likewise +Cincinnati and Louisville. + + + +THE AUGUST CAMPAIGN. + +Baltimore rallied in fine style in August, that club winning 22 out of +29 games that month, while New York won 20 out of 28; but Boston won +only 15 out of 25, Philadelphia pulling up with 19 out of 29. Chicago +also won a majority of their August games, these being the only clubs of +the twelve which won more games during the month than they lost. When +the August campaign opened the first division clubs included Boston, +Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, the "Phillies" +being in the second division; but the latter soon took Brooklyn's place +and sent them to seventh place in the race. But before the first week +of the month had ended, Brooklyn replaced Pittsburgh in the first +division. The "Pirates," however rallied and drove their Eastern +opponents back again; Brooklyn ending the month in sixth place, and +after that the "Pirates" remained at the head of the second division to +the finish. The 31st of August saw the first division clubs fixed for +the season, as far as first and sixth places in the race were concerned, +the interesting point in the month's campaign being the struggle between +the New York and Boston clubs for second place and that between Brooklyn +and Philadelphia for fourth position. There was but one Western club in +the first division at the end of August, the other five staying in the +second division to the finish, a result that was ruinous to the +financial interests of the Western clubs, and to a large extent to the +clubs of the East, all of which clubs played to "small houses" out West, +especially at Louisville, the cranks of "Breckinridgeville" being +disgusted with their local club team during the last three months of the +season. + +Here is the record of the August campaign, showing each club's victories +and defeats for August; + +THE AUGUST RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +----------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 22 7 29 .759 Washington 13 14 27 .481 +New York 20 8 28 .714 St. Louis 9 13 22 .409 +Philadelphia 19 10 29 .655 Cleveland 9 15 24 .375 +Boston 15 10 25 .600 Pittsburgh 8 16 24 .333 +Chicago 15 12 27 .556 Cincinnati 7 19 26 .269 +Brooklyn 14 14 28 .500 Louisville 5 18 23 .217 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that August was a bad month for the Boston champions, +while it was the very reverse for the Chicago "Colts," the latter making +their best monthly record in August. The difference in percentage +points between the leader and the tail-ender at the close of the August +campaign was 355 points, the best of the season to that date. Still the +figures showed a comparatively poor race, several of the minor league +races being more evenly contested. Cleveland and Pittsburgh were behind +Washington in percentage of victories during the August campaign, the +latter making their best monthly record in August, thereby escaping +their old place in the last ditch. + + + +THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN. + +Baltimore virtually had the pennant in their hands the first week of the +September campaign, the only point of interest in the race left at that +time being the struggle for second place between New York and Boston; +all of the other clubs had long been practically out of the race, a +result which involved considerable loss for the majority of the twelve +League clubs. This state of things in the major league pennant race is +the result of the selfish policy of a minority in trying to monopolize +the cream of the playing element in the League ranks without regard to +the saving clause of the League organization, the principle of "_One for +all and all for one_," the very essence of the plan of running the +League on true business principles. + +During September the Brooklyn club tried their best to oust the +"Phillies" out of fourth place, while the Clevelands worked hard to take +Brooklyn's position in fifth place, but both clubs failed in their +projects. Up to September 6th the "Giants" tried in vain to send the +Bostons down to third place, but it was not until the 7th of September +that they were able to oust the champions out of second place in the +race, and when they did so they kept them out to the finish, the +champions failing to rally after they had lost the position. It was a +close fight, however, as on September 10th New York led Boston in +percentage of victories by only 3 points, viz., .655 to .652, Baltimore +leading at that date with .684. By September 19th, however, the Bostons +had got down to .631, and New York's figures were .667, with "the +country safe." Boston's lowest score in percentage figures for the month +was reached on September 25th, when they touched .623. By that time the +places in the first division were all settled, and all of those in the +second division also, except Cincinnati and St. Louis. On September 29th +Cincinnati led St. Louis by the percentage figures of .424 to .415, but +two victories by St. Louis over Washington, against a drawn game by +Cincinnati with Cleveland on the 30th, gave St. Louis the lead by .424 +to .419, and Comiskey's "Reds" had to finish in tenth position, beaten +in the race by Von der Abe's "Browns," a galling fact for the Cincinnati +cranks. + +Here is the month's record of victories and defeats in September: + +THE SEPTEMBER RECORD. +-------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 20 3 23 .870 Philadelphia 13 12 25 .520 +New York 20 6 26 .769 St. Louis 11 13 24 .458 +Boston 14 11 25 .560 Cincinnati 10 16 26 .385 +Cleveland 13 11 24 .542 Chicago 9 17 26 .346 +Brooklyn 14 12 26 .538 Washington 8 16 24 .333 +Pittsburgh 12 11 23 .522 Louisville 5 21 26 .192 +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The appended summary shows the progress of each club from the opening to +the close of the season, as also in what month each club made its best +and worst record during the championship campaign: + + + + +SUMMARY OF VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + T + S h + e e + p + A t F + A u e i + p J J g m n + r M u u u b i + i a n l s e s + l y e y t r h +Clubs. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 5 3 12 6 20 6 10 14 22 7 20 3 89 39 +New York 3 5 13 11 15 8 18 7 20 8 20 6 88 44 +Boston 6 2 14 8 18 8 16 9 15 10 14 11 83 49 +Philadelphia 6 3 12 7 11 12 12 14 19 10 13 12 71 56 +Brooklyn 3 5 12 11 18 5 9 16 14 14 14 12 70 61 +Cleveland 6 2 13 7 9 13 18 11 9 15 13 11 68 61 +Pittsburgh 4 4 18 5 13 13 10 16 8 16 12 11 65 65 +Chicago 1 8 9 12 8 17 16 10 15 12 9 17 57 75 +St. Louis 6 2 9 16 10 15 10 17 9 13 11 13 56 76 +Cincinnati 4 4 7 13 12 13 16 11 7 19 10 16 54 75 +Washington 2 7 4 19 9 15 8 16 13 14 8 16 45 87 +Louisville 4 5 6 14 4 22 13 15 5 18 5 21 36 94 +Totals 50 50 129 129 147 147 156 156 156 156 149 149 782 782 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +MONTHLY RECORD OF PERCENTAGE. + +The following table shows the monthly record of percentage of victories +in the campaign from April to September. + +---------------------------------------------- +1894. S + e + p + A t + A u e + p J J g m + r M u u u b + i a n l s e +Clubs. l y e y t r +--------------------------------------------- +Baltimore .625 .654 .712 .618 .657 .695 +New York .375 .500 .564 .613 .639 .667 +Boston .750 .645 .667 .659 .645 .629 +Philadelphia .667 .643 .569 .526 .562 .559 +Brooklyn .375 .500 .623 .545 .533 .534 +Cleveland .750 .679 .549 .575 .529 .527 +Pittsburgh .500 .710 .614 .531 .491 .500 +Chicago .111 .333 .327 .430 .458 .432 +St. Louis .750 .455 .431 .412 .411 .421 +Cincinnati .500 .393 .434 .488 .434 .419 +Washington .222 .188 .281 .296 .343 .341 +Louisville .444 .345 .255 .325 .302 .277 +--------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that in percentage figures of each month's play, Boston, +Cleveland and St. Louis were tied in April. In May, Pittsburgh, +Cleveland and Baltimore led. In June, Baltimore, Boston and Brooklyn +were in the van. In July, the three leaders were Boston, Baltimore and +New York. In August, also, the same three were nearest the goal, and +September saw Baltimore carrying off the pennant, followed by New York +and Boston. + + + +THE CAMPAIGN RECORD OF 1894. + +We introduce in the GUIDE for 1895 a new and important record, which +shows, at a glance almost, the total score of each championship game +_won_, _lost_ and _drawn_ from April 19th to September 30th, inclusive, +and also gives the names of the pitchers who were credited with pitching +in a victory, or charged with pitching in a defeat. The record of each +month's campaign, too, is given, with the position in the pennant race +each of the twelve clubs occupied at the close of each month's campaign +of the six comprising the championship season. This record in full will +be found to be the most complete table of the statistics of the League +season yet published in the GUIDE series, and especially valuable as a +reference record. + + + +THE APRIL RECORD. + +The League championship season of 1894 began on April 19th and ended on +September 30th, the April campaign opening at Boston, Baltimore, +Washington and St. Louis on the 19th, at Cincinnati and Louisville on +the 20th, and at Philadelphia and Brooklyn on the 21st, while the +opening games at New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago were not played until +the 24th, 25th and 28th of April respectively, and not at Cleveland +until May 3d. Fifty games were played in April, the twelve clubs of the +two divisions of the League being engaged in playing their respective +home-and-home series. Here is the complete record of the April campaign, +showing the pitchers of each side and the total score of each contest of +the month: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +April + 19 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Stivetts Kennedy 13-2 + 19 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore McMahon Rusie 8-3 + 19 Washington vs. Philadelphi Washington Esper Weyhing 4-2 + 19 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Breitenstein Killen 11-3 + 20 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Mullane Clark 12-6 + 20 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Washington Taylor Stephens 9-8 + 20 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Parrott Hutchinson 10-6 + 20 Louisville vs. Cleveland Louisville Menafee Young 10-3 + 21 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Nichols Stein 3-0 + 21 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Inks Westervelt 4-3 + 21 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Philadelphia Carsey Esper 10-2 + 21 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Chamberlain Abbey 8-0 + 21 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Cuppy Hemming 5-1 + 21 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Gumbert Gleason 7-2 + 22 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Dwyer McGill 5-4 + 22 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Clarkson Kilroy 3-2 + 23 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Lovett Daub 7-4 + 23 Philadelphia vs. Washi'g'n Washington Weyhing Stockdale 8-4 + 23 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Breitenstein Ehret 4-3 + 24 Baltimore vs. Boston Baltimore McMahon Stivetts 15-3 + 24 Washington vs. New York Washington Petty Rusie 6-3 + 24 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Carsey Korwan 22-5 + 24 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Parrott 1-0 + 24 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Menafee Nicol 7-3 + 24 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago A. Clarkson McGill 9-5 + 25 New York vs. Washington Washington German Maul 14-5 + 25 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Stein Taylor 8-2 + 25 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Nichols Mullane 6-3 + 25 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cuppy Chamberlain 12-6 + 25 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Louisville Gumbert Hemming 2-1 + 25 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Hawley Hutchinson 13-3 + 26 New York vs. Washington Washington Meekin Stockdale 7-5 + 26 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Weyhing Sharrott 13-3 + 26 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Staley Brown 13-7 + 26 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Clarkson Cross 12-4 + 26 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Louisville Killen Kilroy 3-1 + 26 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Gleason Abbey 10-4 + 27 No games scheduled ----------- ---- + 28 New York vs. Baltimore New York Rusie McMahon 9-6 + 28 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Stein Petty 10-9 + 28 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Carsey Stivetts 14-3 + 28 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Breitenstein Young 7-1 + 28 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Parrott Terry 10-5 + 28 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville McGill Menafee 2-1 + 29 Cleveland vs. St Louis St. Louis Cuppy A. Clarkson 5-2 + 29 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Hemming McGill 8-3 + 30 Baltimore vs. New York New York Mullane German 10-6 + 30 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Gastright Mercer 15-10 + 30 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Weyhing[1] 6-5 + 30 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Nicol Chamberlain 15-6 + 30 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Stratton McGill 8-2 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The record showing the total victories and defeats scored by each of the +twelve clubs during the April campaign is as follows. The names are +given in the order of the percentage of victories scored in the pennant +race: + +APRIL PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + V V + i P i P + c D e c D e + t e P r t e P r + o f l o f l + r e a c r e a c + i a y e i a y e + e t e n e t e n +CLUBS s s d t CLUBS s s d t +------------------------------------------------------ +Boston 6 2 8 .750 Cincinnati 4 4 8 .500 +Cleveland 6 2 8 .750 Louisville 4 5 9 .444 +St. Louis 6 2 8 .750 New York 3 5 8 .375 +Philadelphia 6 3 9 .667 Brooklyn 3 5 8 .375 +Baltimore 5 3 8 .625 Washington 2 7 9 .222 +Pittsburgh 4 4 8 .500 Chicago 1 8 9 .111 + +Fifty games were played from April 19th to April 30th, inclusive. +None were drawn or forfeited. +------------------------------------------------------ + +The first month of the championship campaign, short as it was, was +marked by the largest attendance for the month of April known in the +history of the League, an aggregate of 188,509 people patronizing the +twenty-five games played in the East and 82,719 for the twenty-five +played in the West. The largest aggregate attendance on a single day was +45,332 on April 21st, on which date 40,324 people patronized the three +games played at Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and 5,008 the +three games played at Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville. Though three +Western clubs occupied positions in the first division--Cleveland and +St. Louis tieing Boston for first place--the attendance in the West, as +will be seen above, did not compare with that at the three games in the +East, the terribly hard times out West greatly affecting everything in +the amusement line in the Western League club cities. + +Boston, Cleveland and St. Louis started off well in the pennant race in +April, these three clubs ending the April campaign tied for first place; +with the "Phillies" a good fourth, Baltimore fifth, and Pittsburgh and +Cincinnati tied for sixth position, Louisville being eighth, with New +York and Brooklyn tied for ninth place, and Washington on the edge of +the last ditch, the Chicago "Colts" being last on the list, they having +won but one game out of nine played during the opening month of the +season. During April the clubs of the two sections took part in their +first home-and-home series, this series of games lasting into May. + + + +THE MAY CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The following is the complete record of the campaign of May, which +proved to be a very interesting one: + +THE MAY RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +May 1 New York vs. Baltimore New York Meekin McMahon 7-4 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Sharrott Stephens[3] 2-1 + " 1 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Lovett Carsey 7-3 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Killen Parrott 7-6 + " 1 Cleveland vs. St. Louis St. Louis Clarkson Gleason 7-0 + " 2 Washington vs. Boston Washington Maul Stivetts 6-4 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Brown Stein 8-2 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Taylor Rusie 7-5 + " 3 Boston vs. Washington Washington Nichols Esper 10-8 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Weyh'g Westervelt 7-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Brookyln Baltimore Mullane Gastright 8-3 + " 3 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Gumbert Breit'nst'n 6-2 + " 3 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Young Menafee 7-2 + " 4 Boston vs. Washington Washington Stivetts Stephens 15-5 + " 4 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Rusie Haddock 6-4 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore McMahon Sharrott 12-8 + " 4 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Cuppy Hemming 8-4 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Nicol A. Clarkson 10-9 + " 4 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago McGill Dwyer 6-3 + " 5 New York vs. Boston New York Westervelt Lovett 5-2 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Daub Carsey 4-3 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Brown Mercer 9-2 + " 5 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Killen Hawley 6-5 + " 6 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Chicago Chamberlain Camp 6-6 + " 7 Boston vs. New York New York Nichols Rusie 1-0 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Weyhing Gastright 7-5 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Mullane Maul 17-0 + " 7 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Parrott Gumbert 17-6 + " 7 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Breitenst'n Stratton 8-6 + " 7 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Young McGill 7-1 + " 8 New York vs. Boston New York Meekin Stivetts 16-7 + " 8 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Haddock Daub 18-5 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Inks Petty 11-5 + " 8 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Cuppy Camp 18-3 + " 8 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Hawley Menafee 5-4 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Ehret Dwyer 6-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Boston Brooklyn Kennedy Lovett 7-3 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington McMahon Stockdale 12-6 + " 9 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Gumbert Chambl'n 11-3 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Clarkson McGill 4-1 + " 9 Louisville vs. St. Louis Louisville Hemming Gleason 6-3 + " 10 New York vs. Washington New York Rusie Mercer 6-2 + " 10 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Nichols Stein 7-1 + " 10 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Baltimore Taylor Mullane 9-3 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Young Killen 2-1 + " 10 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Parrott Hawley 18-9 + " 11 New York vs. Washington Washington Westervelt Petty 5-4 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Baltimore Carsey Horner 12-7 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Ehret Cuppy 7-6 + " 11 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Griffith Stratton 4-2 + " 12 New York vs. Washington New York Meekin Stockdale 5-2 + " 12 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Kennedy Stivetts 8-2 + " 12 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Brown Callahan 8-3 + " 12 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Killen Clarkson 8-5 +" 12 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Parrott Breitenstein 5-0 + " 12 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Hutchinson Hemming 6-5 + " 13 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago McGill Kilroy 14-12 + " 13 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Dwyer Gleason 7-3 + " 14 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Carsey Rusie[2] 5-4 + " 14 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Gastright Mercer 14-7 + " 14 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston McMahon Nichols 16-5 + " 14 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Gumbert Abbey 6-3 + " 14 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Parrott Whitrock 12-7 + " 14 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Young Breitenstein 7-3 + " 15 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston Stopped by fire(3in) 3-3 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Taylor Westervelt 10-4 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Stein Petty 16-7 + " 15 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Cuppy A. Clarkson 7-0 + " 15 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Griffith Ehret 6-2 + " 16 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Lovett Mullane 10-8 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Haddock Meekin 10-1 + " 16 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Daub Mercer[1] 3-2 + " 16 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Killen McGill 2-0 + " 16 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Clarkson Gleason 5-0 + " 16 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Hemming Dwyer 9-7 + " 17 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Kennedy 6-4 + " 17 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Carsey 4-3 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Hawke Petty 10-2 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Stein German 16-7 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Taylor Stivetts[1] 5-4 + " 19 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Daub[1] 3-3 + " 19 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Haddock Staley 8-7 + " 19 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore McMahon Mercer 7-5 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Breitenstein Parrott 5-2 + " 19 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Young Griffith 9-5 + " 20 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Hawley Chamberlain[1] 4-3 + " 20 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Dwyer A. Clarkson 7-1 + " 21 Boston vs. New York Boston Nichols Westervelt 3-0 + " 21 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Killen McGill 11-10 + " 21 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cleveland Parrott Young 2-1 + " 22 Boston vs. New York Boston Lovett Rusie 3-2 + " 22 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Griffith Ehret 7-6 + " 22 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Gleason Kilroy 6-4 + " 23 New York vs. Boston Boston Meekin Staley 12-4 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Baltimore Kennedy Mullane 5-1 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Gumbert Hutchinson[3] 10-9 + " 23 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Hawley 4-3 + " 24 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Young 6-5 + " 24 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Louisville Menafee Parrott 6-0 + " 24 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Hutchinson Breit'st'n 3-1 + " 25 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Kennedy 12-6 + " 25 Boston vs. Washington Boston Nichols Maul 10-2 + " 25 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Cleveland Clarkson Killen 5-2 + " 26 New York vs. Brooklyn New York Meekin Stein 8-7 + " 26 Boston vs. Washington Boston Lovett Mercer 10-8 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Inks Taylor 5-5 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Cuppy[3] 12-3 + " 26 St. Louis vs. Chicago Chicago Breitenstein Griffith 9-8 +" 26 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Louisville Knell Parrott 5-2 + " 27 St. Louis vs. Chicago St. Louis Hawley McGill 3-2 + " 27 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Hemming Dwyer 6-5 + " 28 Boston vs. Washington Boston Staley Petty 18-12 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 4-2 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Killen Stratton 11-6 + " 29 New York vs. Cleveland New York Meekin Young 2-0 + " 29 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Philadelphia Taylor Hutchinson 14-7 + " 29 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Mercer Hemming 12-2 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Breit'stein Kennedy 9-8 + " 29 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Pittsburgh Ehret McMahon 3-2 + " 30 New York vs. Cleveland New York Rusie Cuppy 2-1 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Stein A. Clarkson 6-2 + " 30 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Petty Knell 7-3 + " 30 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Lovett Parrott 13-10 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia McGill Haddock 12-4 + " 30 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Chamberlain 20-11 + " 30 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Maul Kilroy 14-9 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Daub Hawley 5-2 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Griffith Weyhing 12-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. New York New York Clarkson German[2] 3-2 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Mullane Dwyer 7-1 + " 31 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Kennedy Terry 5-3 + " 31 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Washington Killen Esper 15-4 + " 31 St. Louis vs. New York New York Breit'stein West'velt 6-2 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +During the May campaign the first home-and-home series was completed, +and the first West vs. East series commenced. + +The record showing the relative positions of the twelve clubs up to the +close of the May campaign, as also the number of games won and lost by +each club during May, is as follows: + + + +THE MAY PENNANT RACE RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh 22 9 31 .710 Brooklyn 15 15 30 .500 +Cleveland 19 9 28 .679 St. Louis 15 18 33 .455 +Baltimore 17 9 26 .651 Cincinnati 11 17 28 .393 +Boston 20 11 31 .645 Louisville 10 19 29 .345 +Philadelphia 18 10 28 .643 Chicago 10 20 30 .333 +New York 16 16 32 .500 Washington 6 26 32 .188 + +Three games were drawn during May; one was forfeited; +one protested; and one stopped by fire. +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +During May the Pittsburghs pulled up to the head of the first division, +with the percentage figures of .710, Cleveland being second with .679, +and Baltimore third with .654; Boston, Philadelphia and New York +following in order--Brooklyn being tied with New York for sixth +place. Baltimore had pulled up ahead of Boston, while Philadelphia fell +off, as did St. Louis and Cincinnati, both of the latter clubs retiring +to the second division, while Washington allowed the April tail-enders +to push them into the last ditch, and it was not until August 23d that +they got out of it. + + + +THE JUNE CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The month's record of the June campaign shows that several important +changes were made in the relative positions of the majority of the +twelve clubs in the race, the record being as follows: + +THE JUNE RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +June 1 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Washington Mercer Gumbert 10-5 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Hawke Chambl'n 9-8 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Gastright Griffith 5-0 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Taylor Menafee[3] 10-3 + " 1 Cleveland vs. Boston Boston Young Stivetts 22-8 + " 1 St. Louis vs. New York New York A. Clarkson Rusie 5-1 + " 2 St. Louis vs. New York New York Hawley Meekin 2-2 + " 2 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Nichols Clarkson 11-10 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Weyhing Hemming 11-0 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore McMahon Parrott 13-6 + " 2 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Washington Maul Ehret 11-6 + " 2 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Stein Abbey 1-0 + " 3 No games scheduled + " 4 Cincinnati vs. New York New York Dwyer German 8-4 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Boston Killen Staley 7-4 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Breitenstein Taylor 3-2 + " 4 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Petty Cuppy 8-5 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hawke McGill 12-4 + " 4 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Daub Knell 18-4 + " 5 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Meekin Chamberl'n 10-6 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Kennedy Menafee 5-4 + " 5 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Nichols Gumbert 7-3 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore McMahon Hutchinson[1] 8-5 + " 5 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Young Mercer 9-6 + " 5 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Hawley Weyhing 7-3 + " 6 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Boston Colcolough Lampe 27-11 + " 7 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Gumbert Gastright 13-13 + " 7 New York vs. Chicago New York Westervelt Terry 8-7 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Clarkson 6-0 + " 7 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Nichols Breitenstein 18-7 + " 7 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Maul Parrott 8-8 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Inks Hemming 7-4 + " 8 New York vs. Chicago New York Rusie McGill 3-0 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Ehret 2-1 + " 8 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Stivetts A.Clarkson 12-6 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Hawke Stratton 14-2 + " 8 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Esper Dwyer 9-6 + " 8 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Young Weyhing 4-1 + " 9 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Nichols Breitenstein 12-8 + " 9 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Fischer 9-1 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore McMahon Menafee 7-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Daub Killen 14-5 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Washington Chamberlain Petty 8-3 + " 9 Chicago vs. New York New York Hutchinson Meekin 10-9 + " 10 No games scheduled. + " 11 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 8-3 + " 11 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Stivetts Terry 15-14 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Weyhing Killen 7-4 + " 11 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Stein Dwyer 12-11 + " 11 St. Louis vs. Washington Washington A. Clarkson Maul[2] 3-2 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Baltimore Young Brown 9-7 + " 12 New York vs. Louisville New York Meekin Knell 4-1 + " 12 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Taylor Ehret 17-1 + " 12 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Nichols McGill 12-9 + " 12 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Mercer Breitenstein 4-3 + " 12 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Chamberlain Gastright 5-3 + " 13 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 7-5 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Daub Parrott 11-5 + " 13 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore McMahon Clarkson 9-2 + " 13 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Esper Gleason 12-3 + " 13 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Griffith Lovett 6-2 + " 13 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Nicol Carsey 8-6 + " 14 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Weyhing Dwyer 5-2 + " 14 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Staley Knell 9-6 + " 14 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Mullane Br'tenst'n[2] 7-6 + " 14 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Young Kennedy 5-4 + " 14 Pittsburgh vs. New York New York Killen Clark 10-4 + " 14 Chicago vs. Washington Washington McGill Sullivan[2] 12-11 + " 15 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Gumbert 9-2 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Stein Lyster 9-8 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Callahan Chamberlain 21-8 + " 15 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Hawke A. Clarkson 17-3 + " 15 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Maul Abbey 6-4 + " 15 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Stivetts Hemming 15-10 + " 16 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Rusie Ehret 8-5 + " 16 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Kennedy Fischer 11-7 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Carsey Pfann 19-9 + " 16 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore McMahon Breitenstein 12-5 + " 16 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Lovett Stratton 16-10 + " 16 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Griffith Esper 11-5 + " 17 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati A.Clarkson Tannehill 9-6 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. New York New York Weyhing Meekin 4-1 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Stein Mercer 10-6 + " 18 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Stivetts Mullane 24-7 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston McMahon Nichols 9-7 + " 18 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Colcolough Knell 9-8 + " 18 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Killen Menafee 11-1 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Young McGill 11-3 + " 18 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Dwyer Breitenstein 8-4 + " 19 Brooklyn vs. Washington Washington Kennedy Maul 11-9 + " 19 Baltimore vs. Boston Boston Hawke Staley 13-8 + " 19 Chicago vs. Cleveland Cleveland Terry Knaus 5-2 + " 19 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Easton 9-4 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis St. Louis Chamb'lain Hawley 3-2 + " 20 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Clark Carsey 6-4 + " 20 New York vs. Philadelphia New York Rusie Callahan 14-6 + " 20 Boston vs. Baltimore Boston Stivetts McMahon 13-12 + " 20 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Esper Daub 16-12 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 7-6 + " 20 Cleveland vs. Chicago Cleveland Clarkson Griffith 7-3 + " 20 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati St. Louis Breitenstein Blank 4-2 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. New York Brooklyn Kennedy Germar 16-1 + " 21 Boston vs. Washington Boston Nichols Mau 10-7 + " 21 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Mullane Weyhing 9-5 + " 21 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Terry Ehrel 10-7 + " 21 Louisville vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Knell Dwyer 5-4 + " 22 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Stein Rusie 7-0 + " 22 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore Inks Burris 18-14 + " 22 Washington vs. Boston Washington Mercer Staley 26-12 + " 22 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Killen Griffith 11-4 + " 22 Cleveland vs. St. Louis St. Louis Young A. Clarkson 6-3 + " 23 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Kennedy 10-8 + " 23 Boston vs. Washington Washington Stivetts Esper 12-5 + " 23 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Baltimore McMahon Lukens 18-11 + " 23 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Breitenst'n Griffith 14-8 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Pittsburgh Colcol'gh Hutchinson 9-4 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Chamberlain Stratt'n 5-1 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Cincinnati Tannehill Menafee 8-8 + " 24 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Dwyer Hemming 7-5 + " 24 St. Louis vs. Cleveland St. Louis Hawley Clarkson 14-10 + " 24 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago Hawke Terry 11-10 + " 25 St. Louis vs. New York St. Louis A.Clarkson Rusie 3-2 + " 25 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Killen Esper 6-1 + " 25 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Hutchinson Mullane 15-8 + " 25 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Nichols Knell 9-1 + " 26 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Meekin Breitenstein 4-3 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago McMahon McGill 14-6 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Ehret Sullivan 6-5 + " 27 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Westervelt Hawley 11-0 + " 27 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Stein Young 10-7 + " 27 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Daub Clarkson 5-2 + " 27 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Stivetts Menafee 13-3 + " 27 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Griffith Hawke 13-4 + " 27 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Mercer 11-4 + " 27 Cincinnati vs.Philadelphia Cincinnati Parrott Weyhing 7-3 + " 28 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Rusie Terry 6-5 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Kennedy Killen 11-7 + " 28 Boston vs. St. Louis St. Louis Nichols A.Clarkson[1] 12-11 + " 28 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Cleveland Cuppy Mullane 18-11 + " 28 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Louisville Hemming Carsey[1] 11-9 + " 28 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Chamberlain Maul 6-4 + " 29 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 14-8 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Stein Ehret 7-5 + " 29 Boston vs. St. Louis St. Louis Staley Breitenstein 13-4 + " 29 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland McMahon Griffith 9-6 + " 29 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Louisville Knell Lukens 12-5 + " 29 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Dwyer Sullivan 6-4 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Inks Young 5-3 + " 30 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Weyhing Menafee 13-6 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Gumbert Kennedy 10-6 + " 30 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Parrott Mercer 12-0 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis A. Clarkson Lovett 10-9 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings.] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE JUNE PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 37 15 52 .712 Cleveland 28 23 51 .549 +Boston 38 19 57 .667 Cincinnati 23 30 53 .434 +Brooklyn 33 20 53 .623 St. Louis 25 33 58 .431 +Pittsburgh 35 22 57 .614 Chicago 18 37 55 .327 +Philadelphia 29 22 51 .569 Washington 16 41 57 .281 +New York 31 24 55 .564 Louisville 14 41 55 .255 + +No games were drawn, forfeited or protested. +------------------------------------------------------- + +The Baltimore club retained the leading position in the race at the +close of the June campaign with the percentage figures of .712, the +tail-end club's percentage figures being .255, a difference in +percentage points of .457, thereby showing a poorly contested race even +at that early period of the season. Boston was in second position, with +Brooklyn third, this month's figures being the culmination of the +Brooklyn team's success. Pittsburgh was fourth, that being the only +Western club in the first division, although so early in the race, the +"Phillies" and the "Giants" being respectively fifth and +sixth. Cleveland headed the second division at the close of the month, +followed by Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington, Louisville +being still occupants of the last ditch. + + + +THE JULY CAMPAIGN RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +July 1 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Cincinnati Chamberlain Daub 9-7 + " 1 Louisville vs. Baltimore Louisville Hemming Hawke 6-0 + " 1 Washington vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Breitenstein 4-2 + " 1 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy Griffith 10-9 + " 2 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Griffith 6-4 + " 2 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Nichols Ehret 7-2 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Chicago Carsey Stratton 17-15 + " 3 No games scheduled. + " 4 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Meekin Cuppy 4-3 + " 4 New York vs. Cleveland. Chicago. Weyhing McGill 12-11 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Louisville. Louisville McMahon Knell 3-2 + " 4 Louisville vs. Baltimore. Louisville Hemming Inks 11-1 + " 4 Washington vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Sullivan Hawley 10-5 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Washington. St. Louis. A.Clarkson Mercer 15-8 + " 5 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Westervelt Menafee 4-3 + " 5 Boston vs. Cleveland. Cleveland. Staley Clarkson 22-7 + " 5 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Carsey Colcolough 4-3 + " 5 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn. St. Louis. Hawley Daub 13-12 + " 5 Cincinnati vs. Baltimore. Cincinnati. Dwyer Hawke 20-6 + " 5 Chicago vs. Washington. Chicago. Stratton Maul 13-10 + " 6 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Rusie Hemming 10-6 + " 6 Boston vs. Cleveland. Boston. Stivetts Cuppy 19-6 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Haddock Killen 13-7 + " 7 New York vs. Louisville. Louisville. Meekin Knell 14-6 + " 7 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Kennedy Breitenst'n 10-5 + " 7 Boston vs. Cleveland. Cleveland. Nichols Young 16-10 + " 7 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Weyhing Ehret 12-0 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Inks Parrott 11-2 + " 7 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Abbey Sullivan 9-7 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Stein A.Clarkson 12-5 + " 8 Washington vs. Chicago. Chicago. Esper Griffith 9-8 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. McMahon Chamberlain 14-4 + " 9 New York vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Rusie Parrott 13-8 + " 9 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis. St. Louis. Callahan Hawley 11-10 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Brown Killen 14-10 + " 9 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Wadsw'th Kennedy 20-8 + " 9 Chicago vs. Boston. Chicago. Stratton Staley 18-11 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Cuppy Esper 16-15 + " 10 Cincinnati vs. New York. Cincinnati. Dwyer Meekin 7-3 + " 10 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Menafee Daub 13-7 + " 10 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore. Pittsburgh. Ehret McMahon 19-9 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Young Esper 23-4 + " 10 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia. St. Louis. Breitenst'n Haddock 17-8 + " 10 Boston vs. Chicago. Chicago. Stivetts McGill 12-3 + " 11 Cincinnati vs. New York. Cincinnati. Parrott Westervelt 6-5 + " 11 Louisville vs. Brooklyn. Louisville. Hemming Stein 7-3 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore. Pittsburgh. Gumbert Inks 8-6 + " 11 Chicago vs. Boston. Chicago. Griffith Nichols 13-1 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Washington. Cleveland. Griffith Mercer[1] 15-10 + " 11 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia. St. Louis. A.Clarkson Weyhing 13-12 + " 12 New York vs. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Rusie Killen 9-6 + " 12 Boston vs. Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Stivetts Dwyer 6-4 + " 12 Chicago vs. Brooklyn. Chicago. Stratton Kennedy 11-6 + " 12 Louisville vs. Washington. Louisville. Knell Sullivan 7-5 + " 12 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia. Cleveland. Cuppy Carsey 20-10 + " 13 Pittsburgh vs. New York. Pittsburgh. Ehret Westervelt 10-4 + " 13 St. Louis vs. Baltimore. St. Louis. Breitenstein Hawke 11-10 + " 13 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Young Callahan 16-8 + " 13 Boston vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Staley Parrott 22-7 + " 14 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Meekin Gumbert 9-5 + " 14 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Inks Hawley 7-3 + " 14 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Stein Abbey[1] 8-8 + " 14 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Cross Nichols 14-12 + " 14 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Griffith Weyhing 14-7 + " 14 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Wadsworth Esper 5-3 + " 15 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Terry Gastright 10-7 + " 15 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis McMahon A.Cl'kson[2] 9-8 + " 15 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Menafee Mercer 11-8 + " 15 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cincinnati Dwyer Cuppy 17-8 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Harper Stivitts 9-2 + " 16 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Br't'nst'n Colcol'gh 11-7 + " 16 Louisville vs. Chicago Chicago Hemming Griffith 11-10 + " 16 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Parrott 9-1 + " 17 New York vs. Washington New York Rusie Maul 7-2 + " 17 Philadelphia vs. Boston Philadelphia Taylor Staley[4] 12-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Gleason Kennedy 13-4 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Griffin Flynn 16-7 + " 17 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis St. Louis Ehret Mason 5-4 + " 17 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Stratton Knell 8-5 + " 18 New York vs. Washington New York Meekin Mercer 5-4 + " 18 Boston vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Nichols Weyhing 6-5 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Baltimore Hawke Underwood 6-2 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Young Chamberlain 9-4 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh St. Louis Hawley Gumbert 3-2 + " 18 Chicago vs. Louisville Chicago Terry Wadsworth 8-4 + " 19 New York vs. Washington New York German Sullivan 13-12 + " 19 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stein Inks 10-8 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Dwyer Colcolough 8-6 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Chicago St. Louis Breitenstein Abbey 7-1 + " 20 Boston vs. New York Boston Stivetts Rusie 12-1 + " 20 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Kennedy Taylor 8-2 + " 20 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Hawke Petty 12-8 + " 20 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chamberlain Ehret 7-6 + " 20 Louisville vs. Cleveland Louisville Menafee Mullane 7-4 + " 21 Boston vs. New York Boston Nichols Meekin 14-3 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Underwood Herper 8-7 + " 21 Washington vs. Baltimore Baltimore Maul Gleason 14-3 + " 21 Chicago vs. St. Louis St. Louis Stratton Hawley[1]16-11 + " 21 Cleveland vs. Louisville Louisville Cuppy Hemming 2-0 + " 21 Cleveland vs. Louisvile Louisville Young Knell 9-1 + " 21 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cross Gumbert 12-4 + " 22 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Dwyer Wadsworth 4-0 + " 22 Chicago vs. St. Louis St. Louis Griffith A.Clarkson 11-9 + " 23 Boston vs. New York Boston Staley German 9-5 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia Brooklyn Stein Taylor 7-3 + " 23 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Weyhing Daub 12-4 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Chamberlain Menafee 9-8 + " 23 Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Chicago Killen Stratton 14-6 + " 24 New York vs. Baltimore New York Rusie McMahon 1-0 + " 24 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Mullane Breitenst'n 12-9 + " 24 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Cuppy Hawley 4-2 + " 24 Cincinnati vs. Louisville Louisville Parrott Hemming 4-3 + " 24 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Hutchinson Ehret 18-11 + " 25 New York vs. Baltimore New York Meekin Gleason 7-2 + " 25 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Kennedy Stivetts 8-7 + " 25 Boston vs. Brooklyn Boston Nichols Underwood 12-6 + " 25 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Mercer Fanning 16-6 + " 25 Philadelphia vs. Washington Washington Carsey Sullivan 9-6 + " 25 Cleveland vs. St. Louis Cleveland Young Breitenstein 12-3 + " 25 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Chicago Griffith Colcolough 24-6 + " 26 New York vs. Baltimore New York German Hawke 16-4 + " 26 Brooklyn vs. Boston Boston Stein Staley 15-9 + " 26 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Maul Taylor 5-4 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Mullane 9-3 + " 27 Philadelphia vs. New York Philadelphia Harper Rusle 13-5 + " 27 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Mercer Kennedy 8-2 + " 27 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stivetts McMahon 7-4 + " 27 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Cleveland Cuppy Nicol 9-6 + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Dwyer Stratton 14-12 + " 27 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Hawley Wadsworth 6-4 + " 28 New York vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Meekin Carsey[3] 12-11 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Washington Brooklyn Underwood Sullivan 9-5 + " 28 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Staley Gleason 8-4 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Cleveland Ehret Young 8-0 + " 28 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cincinnati Cross Griffith 19-13 + " 28 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Mason 8-4 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Louisville St. Louis Breitenst'n Menafee 13-2 + " 29 Louisville vs. St. Louis St. Louis Knell Hawley 9-2 + " 29 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Griffith Parrott 16-9 + " 30 New York vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia German Taylor 13-7 + " 30 Washington vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Maul Daub 10-6 + " 30 Boston vs. Baltimore Baltimore Stivetts Hawke 5-2 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Gumbert Cross 8-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Cuppy Wadsworth 14-5 + " 30 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Stratton Hawley 8-4 + " 31 New York vs. Boston New York Rusie Nichols 4-3 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Harper Kennedy 13-6 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore McMahon Mercer 11-3 + " 31 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago Hutchinson Breitenst'n 8-1 + " 31 Cleveland vs. Louisville Cleveland Mullane Hemming[2] 12-10 + " 31 Louisville vs. Cleveland Cleveland Menafee Young 12-4 + " 31 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Nicol Dwyer[2] 11-10 + +[Footnote 1: Ten Innings] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings.] +[Footnote 3: Thirteen innings.] +[Footnote 4: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Only one game was drawn in July. + + +THE JULY PENNANT RACE RECORD. +------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +------------------------------------------------------- +Boston 54 28 82 .659 Philadelphia 40 36 76 .526 +Baltimore 47 29 76 .618 Cincinnati 39 41 80 .488 +New York 49 31 80 .613 Chicago 34 45 79 .430 +Cleveland 46 34 80 .575 St. Louis 35 60 85 .412 +Brooklyn 42 35 77 .545 Louisville 27 56 83 .325 +Pittsburgh 43 38 81 .531 Washington 24 57 81 .296 +------------------------------------------------------- + +By the end of July the Boston club had ousted Baltimore out of first +place, and the calculation now was that Boston would ultimately win. New +York had pulled up to third place this month, and from this time out +these three clubs monopolized the three leading positions in the race, +no other club from now on being regarded as in the race, as far as the +winning of the pennant was concerned. On the 31st of July two Western +clubs occupied positions in the first division--Cleveland being fourth +and Pittsburgh sixth--the Brooklyn club leading the "Pirates" by a few +points only. The "Phillies" had been forced back into the second +division, and Louisville had pushed the Washingtons into the last ditch, +the difference in percentage points between the Boston and Washington +clubs--the leader and tail-ender--being 355 points. + +Now came the trying month of August, and with it came the customary +falling off in patronage, largely due to the one-sided character of the +pennant race, the chief interest in the contest for the championship now +lying in the struggle for the lead between Baltimore, New York, and +Boston, the "Bean Eaters" still leading at the end of July, followed by +Baltimore and New York. + + +[Illustration: Brooklyn Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Cleveland Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: Pittsburgh Base Ball Club, '94.] +[Illustration: A.C. Anson, Chicago Base Ball Club. + The only "Colt" Who Had a picture Taken.] + + + +THE AUGUST CAMPAIGN RECORD + +The following is the record of the August campaign, which led to a +material change in the relative positions of the twelve clubs by the +close of the month: + +THE AUGUST RECORD +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Aug. 1 New York vs. Boston New York Meekin Staley[2] 5-4 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Carsey Stein 6-5 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Gleason Stein 6-4 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Washington Washington Inks Stockdale 11-4 + " 1 Chicago vs. St. Louis Chicago McGill Hawley 26-8 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Colcolugh Parrot 15-5 + " 2 Boston vs. New York New York Nichols German 13-13 + " 2 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn Philadelphia Fanning Underwood 9-8 + " 2 Baltimore vs. Washington Baltimore Hawke Maul 10-9 + " 2 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Breitenstein Ehret 7-4 + " 2 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cleveland Cuppy Chamberlain 9-4 + " 2 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville Hutchinson Knell 4-3 + " 3 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Westervelt Daub 17-3 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. New York Brooklyn Kennedy Clarke 7-6 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Philadelphia Taylor Esper 14-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia McMahon Weyhing 16-3 + " 3 Washington vs. Boston Boston Mercer Nichols 8-4 + " 3 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cleveland Young Cross 11-5 + " 3 St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hawley Gumbert[2] 8-6 + " 3 Louisville vs. Chicago Louisville Forfeited; no game 9-0 + " 4 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Rusie Stein 16-8 + " 4 New York vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Meekin Stein 9-* + " 4 Boston vs. Washington Boston Stivetts Sullivan 11-5 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Gleason Carsey 19-12 + " 4 Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis Pittsburgh Colcol'h Br'tenst'n 11-5 + " 4 Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Cleveland Parrott Cuppy 8-5 + " 4 Chicago vs. Louisville Louisville Griffith Hemming 10-4 + " 5 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Griffith Dwyer 8-1 + " 5 Lousiville vs. St. Louis Lousiville Wadsworth A.Clarkson 5-2 + " 6 Brooklyn vs. New York New York Kennedy Westervelt 21-8 + " 6 Boston vs. Washington Boston Staley Maul 15-7 + " 6 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Stratton Cross 12-9 + " 6 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Eghret Young 11-6 + " 6 Louisville vs. St. Louis Louisville Menafee Hawley 3-1 + " 7 New York vs. Washington Washington Rusie Mercer 16-8 + " 7 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn McMahon Daub 26-5 + " 7 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Brooklyn Stein Inks 18-8 + " 7 Boston vs. Philadelphia Boston Nichols Carsey 19-8 + " 7 Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Cuppy Colcolough 10-9 + " 7 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Hutchinson Fischer[1]13-11 + " 7 St. Louis vs. Louisville Louisville Breitenstein Knell 11-2 + " 8 Washington vs. New York Washington Sullivan Meekin 12-10 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Broooklyn Brooklyn Gleason Kennedy 4-1 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Esper Summerville 13-5 + " 8 Philadelphia vs. Boston Boston Harper Staley 18-10 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Pittsburgh Ehret Perry 10-3 + " 8 Cincinnati vs. Chicago Chicago Dwyer McGill 14-11 + " 9 New York vs. Washington Washington Meekin Maul 7-3 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Brooklyn Stein Hawke 11-7 + " 9 Boston vs. Philadelphia Boston Hodson Taylor 11-2 + " 9 Louisville vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Gumbert 5-4 + " 9 Chicago vs. Cincinnati Chicago Dwyer McGill 14-11 + " 10 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore Gleason Rusie 12-9 + " 10 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Nichols Kennedy 12-6 + " 10 Washington vs. Philadelphia Washington Mercer Carsey 4-1 + " 10 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Ehret Wadsworth 9-6 + " 10 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Young Hutchinson 2-1 + " 11 Baltimore vs. New York Baltimore McMahon Westervelt 20-1 + " 11 Boston vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Lucis Stivetts 11-10 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Taylor Sullivan 10-7 + " 11 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Weyhing Maul 16-4 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Louisville Pittsburgh Gumbert Menafee 3-2 + " 11 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy Stratton 11-9 + " 11 Cincinnati vs. St. Louis Cincinnati Fischer Hawley 7-6 + " 12 Chicago vs. Cleveland Chicago Griffith Petty 16-5 + " 12 St. Louis vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Breitenstein Parrott 12-5 + " 13 New York vs. Baltimore Baltimore Meekin Hawke 5-1 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Boston Brooklyn Stein Hodson 13-5 + " 13 Chicago vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hutchinson Ehret 17-14 + " 14 New York vs. St. Louis New York Rusie A.Clarkson 5-4 + " 14 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Nichols Gumbert 22-5 + " 14 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Gleason Dwyer[1] 6-5 + " 14 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Stratton Kennedy 5-1 + +THE AUGUST RECORD--_Continued._ + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Aug 14 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Young Mercer[1] 1-0 + " 14 Louisville vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Knell Carsey 13-7 + " 15 St. Louis vs. New York New York Breitenstein German 4-3 + " 15 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Brooklyn Daub Hutchinson 9-5 + " 15 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Stivetts Ehret[2] 6-5 + " 15 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Taylor Hemming 14-4 + " 15 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore McMahon Fischer 8-2 + " 15 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Stockdale Cuppy 7-6 + " 16 New York vs. St. Louis New York Meekin Hawley 13-3 + " 16 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Boston Staley Menafee 6-4 + " 16 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Baltimore Hawke Parrott 15-6 + " 16 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Weyhing Nicol 17-8 + " 16 Washington vs. Cleveland Washington Maul Young 6-2 + " 16 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Griffith Lucid 3-1 + " 17 New York vs. St. Louis New York Rusie A.Clarkson 7-6 + " 17 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Philadelphia Carsey Wadsworth 29-4 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Washington Washington Cuppy Mercer 9-8 + " 18 Chicago vs. New York New York Stratton German 6-4 + " 18 Chicago vs. New York New York Terry Meekin[1] 5-5 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Breitenstein Stein 4-0 + " 18 Cincinnati vs. Boston Boston Dwyer Nichols 19-6 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Gleason Ehret 17-2 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Taylor Sullivan 11-6 + " 18 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Stockdale Hemming 6-4 + " 19 No Games Scheduled + " 20 New York vs. Chicago New York Rusie Griffith 11-3 + " 20 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Kennedy A.Clarkson 20-4 + " 20 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Harper Young 16-1 + " 20 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Maul Knell 8-7 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Baltimore Menafee Esper 7-5 + " 21 New York vs. Chicago New York German Hutchinson 13-11 + " 21 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis Brooklyn Lucid Breitenstein 20-11 + " 21 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Staley Fischer 18-3 + " 21 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Parrott 28-8 + " 21 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Baltimore Hawke Gumbert 17-11 + " 21 Philadelphia vs. Cleveland Philadelphia Carsey Cuppy 12-6 + " 21 Washington vs. Louisville Washington Mercer Wadsworth 15-9 + " 22 New York vs. Chicago New York Meekin Hutchinson 8-5 + " 22 Boston vs. Cincinnati Boston Nichols Fournier 8-7 + " 22 Philadelphia vs. Baltimore Philadelphia Taylor Inks 3-2 + " 23 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Hemming 8-4 + " 23 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Stivetts Young 12-10 + " 23 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Harper Menafee 9-4 + " 23 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Stockdale Terry 14-3 + " 23 St. Louis vs. Baltimore Baltimore Hawley Gleason 10-6 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Dwyer Stein 13-2 + " 24 New York vs. Louisville New York German Knell 20-4 + " 24 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Kennedy Fischer 15-9 + " 24 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore McMahon Breitenst'n 5-2 + " 24 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carsey Ehret 14-7 + " 24 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Hodson Cuppy 14-4 + " 24 Cleveland vs. Boston Boston Cuppy Staley 10-8 + " 24 Chicago vs. Washington Washington Griffith Mercer 10-5 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville New York Meekin Nicol 18-6 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville New York Rusie Wadsworth 5-1 + " 25 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Brooklyn Daub Dwyer 5-3 + " 25 Baltimore vs. St. Louis Baltimore Hawke A.Clarkson 4-3 + " 25 Boston vs. Cleveland Boston Hodson Sullivan 8-3 + " 25 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Taylor Gumbert 13-6 + " 25 Washington vs. Chicago Washington Mercer Stratton 9-4 + " 26 No game scheduled + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Whitrock Fanning 19-9 + " 27 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Fournier Harper 9-8 + " 27 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Gleason Hutchinson 12-3 + " 28 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Young 5-1 + " 28 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Menafee 8-2 + " 28 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Philadelphia Taylor Terry 16-6 + " 28 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore McMahon Hemming 8-2 + " 28 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Maul Dwyer 9-7 + " 28 St. Louis vs. Boston Boston Hawley Nichols 9-5 + " 29 New York vs. Cleveland New York Meekin Cuppy 6-4 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Stein Ehret 11-7 + " 29 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Hawke Wadsworth 8-6 + " 29 Boston vs. St. Louis Boston Stivetts A.Clarkson 14-4 + " 29 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Mercer Fournier 9-5 + " 29 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Griffith Carsey 13-6 + " 30 Cleveland vs. New York New York Sullivan Clarke 13-4 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Boston Boston Hawley Hodson 7-3 + " 30 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Hutchinson Harper 15-11 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Louisville Baltimore Gleason Knell 9-8 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh Brooklyn Kennedy Gumbert 19-11 + " 30 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Menafee Daub 9-1 + " 30 Washington vs. Cincinnati Washington Stockdale Fischer 8-6 + " 31 New York vs. Boston New York Rusie Nichols 5-1 + " 31 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Esper Young 5-1 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Taylor Maul 10-8 + " 31 Philadelphia vs. Washington Philadelphia Weyhing Wynne 11-5 + +[Footnote 1: Ten innings] +[Footnote 2: Eleven innings] + +Two games were drawn in August. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Baltimore, Boston and New York led the first division clubs in the +pennant race up to August 31st, with the respective percentage figures +of .657, .645 and .639, followed by Philadelphia with .562, Brooklyn +with .533 and Cleveland with .529, only one Western club being left in +the first division, something hitherto unprecedented in League pennant +races. Pittsburgh led the second division clubs with the percentage +figures of .491 only, that club having fallen off badly in August, with +Chicago a good second, followed by Cincinnati, St. Louis, Washington and +Louisville, the "Senators" having driven the "Colonels" into the last +ditch, the Louisville figures being .302. + +Here is the pennant race record up to the close of the August campaign: + +AUGUST RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------------- + P P + P e P e + l r l r + L a c L a c + W o y e W o y e + o s e n o s e n +Clubs. n t d t Clubs. n t d t +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 69 36 105 .657 Pittsburgh 52 54 106 .491 +Boston 69 38 107 .645 Chicago 49 58 107 .458 +New York 69 39 108 .639 Cincinnati 46 60 106 .434 +Philadelphia 59 46 105 .562 St. Louis 44 63 107 .411 +Brooklyn 56 49 105 .533 Washington 37 71 108 .343 +Cleveland 55 49 104 .529 Louisville 32 74 106 .302 +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +By the close of the August campaign the Baltimore club had regained the +position in the van, and afterward they were not headed. Then began an +exciting struggle between the Boston champions and the "Giants" for +second place, but it was not until September 6th that the "Giants" led +the "Champions," and then only by the percentage figures of .652 to +.646. Baltimore leading at that date with but .676, so it will be seen +that the fight between those three was nip and tuck after the end of +August. At that time the "Phillies," the Brooklyns and the Clevelands +were struggling equally hard for fourth place, the "Phillies" leading, +with Brooklyn fifth and Cleveland sixth. By this time Washington had +comfortably buried the Louisvilles in the last ditch, and no +resurrection followed. + + + +THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN RECORD. + +The feature of the last monthly campaign of the championship season was +the fight for second place between Boston and New York. When the +campaign began Baltimore led with the percentage figures of .667, and it +was an exceedingly close fight between the "Champions" and "Giants," the +former leading the latter by the percentage figures of .645 to .643 on +September 3d. The "Phillies," Brooklyns and Clevelands were the next +three in the first division, all three being in the five hundreds in +percentage points. + +Here is the month's record: + +THE SEPTEMBER RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date. Contesting Clubs. City. Pitchers. Score. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Sept 1 New York vs. Cincinnati New York German Whitrock 8-6 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Stein Hemming 6-5 + " 1 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Kennedy Wadsworth 20-7 + " 1 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Gleason Cuppy 5-2 + " 1 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Carsey Hawley 19-9 + " 1 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mercer Menafee 11-4 + " 1 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Ehret Mercer 15-6 + " 1 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Terry Stivetts 15-6 + " 1 Cincinnati vs. New York New York Dwyer Meekin 8-6 + " 1 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Philadelphia Breitenst'n Fanning 8-6 + " 2 No games scheduled + " 3 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Meekin Fournier 16-2 + " 3 New York vs. Cincinnati New York Rusie Dwyer 6-4 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Lucid Knell 6-4 + " 3 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Brooklyn Daub Inks 9-3 + " 3 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Staley Griffith 5-4 + " 3 Boston vs. Chicago Boston Nichols Hutchinson 11-4 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Esper Sullivan 13-2 + " 3 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Baltimore Hawke Young 10-3 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Weyhing Breitenst'n 8-1 + " 3 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis Philadelphia Jones Hawley 6-4 + " 3 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Maul 22-1 + " 4 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Menafee 14-13 + " 4 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Cuppy Stein 8-0 + " 4 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Stivetts Knell 20-11 + " 4 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hemming Terry 9-3 + " 4 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Taylor Whitrock 6-2 + " 4 St. Louis vs. Washington Washington Breitenst'n Haddock 10-7 + " 5 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Rusie Ehret 4-0 + " 5 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Brooklyn Kennedy Young 2-1 + " 5 Boston vs. Louisville Boston Nichols Wadsworth 7-6 + " 5 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Gleason Hutchinson 12-3 + " 5 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Carsey Dwyer 15-6 + " 5 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington St'kdale A.Cl'kson[1] 7-4 + " 6 New York vs. Pittsburgh New York Meekin Gumbert 6-5 + " 6 Baltimore vs. Chicago Baltimore Hawke Griffith 14-6 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Weyhing Fischer 14-7 + " 6 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Philadelphia Taylor Whitrock 16-2 + " 6 Washington vs. St. Louis Washington Mercer Breitenstein 12-2 + " 6 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn Sullivan Lucid 13-2 + " 6 Louisville vs. Boston Boston Inks Staley 15-10 + " 7 No games scheduled + " 8 Boston vs. Chicago Chicago Nichols Hutchinson 3-1 + " 8 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Gleason Knell 6-3 + " 8 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Stein Hawley 6-1 + " 8 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Menafee Weyhing 13-7 + " 8 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Dwyer Haddock 14-9 + " 9 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn St. Louis Br'tsenst'n Kennedy 7-5 + " 9 Brooklyn vs. St. Louis St. Louis Kennedy Hawley 11-7 + " 9 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Hemming Wadsworth 9-4 + " 9 Cleveland vs. Chicago Chicago Cuppy McGill 9-5 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Whitrock Mercer 4-1 + " 9 Cincinnati vs. Washington Cincinnati Fisher Stockdale 7-6 + " 10 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Rusie Sullivan 13-4 + " 10 Boston vs. Chicago Chicago Stivetts Terry 25-8 + " 10 Baltimore vs. Louisville Louisville Esper Inks 15-6 + " 11 Cleveland vs. New York Cleveland Young Meekin 13-3 + " 11 New York vs. Cleveland Cleveland Meekin Cuppy 9-1 + " 11 Chicago vs. Boston Chicago Hutchinson Staley 17-2 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Colcolough Taylor 9-7 + " 11 Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Ehret Johnson 9-8 + " 12 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Stein McGill 12-8 + " 12 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Carsey Knell 5-3 + " 12 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Gleason Dwyer 16-2 + " 12 Cleveland vs. Boston Cleveland Sullivan Stivetts 9-8 + " 12 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Haddock 9-6 + " 13 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Rusie Hawley 7-3 + " 13 Brooklyn vs. Chicago Chicago Kennedy Hutchinson 8-3 + " 13 Boston vs Cleveland Cleveland Nichols Cuppy 11-4 + " 13 Philadelphia vs. Louisville Louisville Weyhing Wadsworth 5-2 + " 13 Washington vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mercer Menafee 11-6 + " 14 St. Louis vs. New York St. Louis A.Clarkson Meekin 1-0 + " 15 New York vs. St. Louis St. Louis Rusie Breitenstein 7-2 + " 15 Boston vs. Cleveland Cleveland Stivetts Wallace 7-2 + " 15 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Hutchinson Lucid 10-3 + " 15 Pittsburgh vs. Washington Pittsburgh Gumbert Stockdale 11-6 + " 16 Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Gleason Dwyer 14-3 + " 16 Cincinnati vs. Baltimore Cincinnati Parrott Hawke 4-3 + " 16 Washington vs. Louisville Louisville Mercer Inks 7-6 + " 16 Chicago vs. Brooklyn Chicago Griffith Stein 13-5 + " 17 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 5-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hemming Menafee 10-2 + " 17 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Esper Ehret 4-1 + " 17 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Cleveland Sullivan Kennedy 12-6 + " 17 St. Louis vs Boston St. Louis Hawley Nichols 6-5 + " 17 Louisville vs. Washington Louisville Knell Haddock 7-6 + " 18 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Rusie Terry 4-3 + " 18 New York vs Chicago Chicago Meekin Griffith 9-6 + " 18 Cleveland vs. Brooklyn Cleveland Young Daub 9-3 + " 18 Brooklyn vs. Cleveland Cleveland Lucid Cuppy 7-1 + " 18 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Gleason Colcolough 15-8 + " 18 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Taylor Fischer 10-4 + " 18 Washington vs. Louisville Louisville Mercer Wadsworth 9-4 + " 18 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis Br'tenst'n Stivetts 5-1 + " 19 New York vs. Chicago Chicago Meekin Hutchinson 4-3 + " 19 Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Carsey Whitrock 12-11 + " 19 Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia Cincinnati Parrott Weyhing 8-3 + " 19 St. Louis vs. Boston St. Louis Hawley Stivetts 5-4 + " 20 Pittsburgh vs. New York Pittsburgh Menafee Rusie 10-3 + " 20 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Nichols Inks 4-3 + " 20 Cleveland vs. Washington Cleveland Wallace Boyd 14-8 + " 20 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Chicago Abbey Johnson 20-4 + " 21 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Meekin Ehret[2] 4-4 + " 21 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Staley Knell 13-6 + " 21 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Hemming Breitestein 8-4 + " 21 Washington vs. Cleveland Cleveland Mullarky Young 4-3 + " 21 Chicago vs. Philadelphia Chicago Hutchinson Taylor 11-5 + " 22 New York vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Rusie Colcolough 6-2 + " 22 Pittsburgh vs. New York Pittsburgh Ehret German 4-1 + " 22 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Stein Fischer 11-6 + " 22 Philadelphia vs. Chicago Chicago Carsey Abbey 9-6 + " 22 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Hawley 6-4 + " 22 Boston vs. Louisville Louisville Stivetts Wadsworth 3-2 + " 22 Louisville vs. Boston Louisville Inks 6-4 + " 22 Cleveland vs. Washington Cleveland Sullivan Anderson 6-5 + " 23 Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Kennedy Whitrock 10-9 + " 23 Cincinnati vs. Brooklyn Cincinnati Parrott Daub 3-2 + " 23 Washington vs. Chicago Chicago Mullarky Terry 6-5 + " 23 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Griffith Boyd 11-5 + " 23 Baltimore vs. St. Louis St. Louis Esper Breitenstein 10-4 + " 24 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Meekin Knell 8-7 + " 24 Boston vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Stivetts Fischer 7-4 + " 24 Cleveland vs. Baltimore Cleveland Cuppy Gleason 12-7 + " 24 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Menafee Stein 10-4 + " 24 Chicago vs. Washington Chicago Hutchinson Stockdle 17-5 + " 24 Philadelphia vs. St. Louis St. Louis Johnson A.Clarkson 21-1 + " 25 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Rusie Wadsworth 15-3 + " 25 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Esper Young 14-9 + " 25 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Parrott Nichols 9-7 + " 25 Cincinnati vs. Boston Cincinnati Whitrock Hodson 5-1 + " 25 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia St. Louis Hawley Figgemeir 14-7 + " 25 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Jordan Kennedy 10-7 + " 26 New York vs. Louisville Louisville Meekin Inks 9-5 + " 26 Baltimore vs. Cleveland Cleveland Hemming Cuppy 7-6 + " 26 Pittsburgh vs. Brooklyn Pittsburgh Colcolo'h Kennedy 9-8 + " 26 St. Louis vs. Philadelphia St. Louis Breitestein Johnson 12-6 + " 27 New York vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Clark Fischer 11-4 + " 27 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Stivetts Ehret 8-1 + " 27 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Young Weyhing 26-4 + " 28 New York vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati German Whitrock 9-8 + " 28 Pittsburgh vs. Boston Pittsburgh Gumbert Nichols 15-9 + " 28 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Wallace Carsey 8-6 + " 29 Cincinnati vs. New York Cincinnati Parrott Meekin 7-6 + " 29 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Hawley Anderson 6-4 + " 29 Chicago vs. Baltimore Chicago Hutchinson Gleason 5-4 + " 29 Cleveland vs. Philadelphia Cleveland Sullivan Taylor 11-3 + " 29 Boston vs. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hodson Menafee 6-5 + " 29 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Louisville Stein Knell 11-4 + " 30 Baltimore vs. Chicago Chicago Esper Terry 20-9 + " 30 Louisville vs. Brooklyn Louisville Wadsworth Daub 10-8 + " 30 Brooklyn vs. Louisville Louisville Stein Inks 12-4 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Br'tenst'n Mullarky 14-2 + " 30 St. Louis vs. Washington St. Louis Hawley Boyd 10-4 + " 30 Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cuppy Dwyer 16-16 + +[Footnote 1: Protested.] +[Footnote 2: Forfeited.] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE PITCHING OF 1894. + +The pitching of 1894 in the National League arena was in advance of that +of 1893, but it has yet to reach the point of perfect work in the +box. Somehow or other, managers of teams cannot get it out of their +heads that great speed is the principal factor of success in pitching, +when the fact is that speed is but an aid to success, secondary in value +to that of strategic skill in delivering the ball to the bat. + +The experience of the past season in connection with the limit of speed +in pitching presents some valuable suggestions which team managers will +do well to bear in mind this year. Some years ago, the swift +pitching--which had then about reached the highest point of +speed--proved to be so costly in its wear and fear upon the catchers +that clubs had to engage a corps of reserve catchers, in order to go +through a season's campaign with any degree of success. Afterward, +however, the introduction of the protective "mitts" led to some relief +being afforded the catchers who had been called upon to face the swift +pitching of the "cyclone" pitchers of the period. The seasons of 1893 +and 1894 were marked by some exhibitions of swift pitching unequaled in +the annals of the game, and yet it was not effective in placing the team +which held the cyclone pitchers in the lead. If the speed of the ball is +too great for catchers to handle, even with the protection the breast +pads, masks and the padded gloves of the period afford, why then it is +worse than useless. It was skilful, strategic pitching which helped to +win the pennant in 1894, and not "cyclone" pitching. Speed is all very +well as an important accessory, but without the best of catching to +support it, and thorough command of the ball to give it full effect, it +is more costly than otherwise. + +The Pitching Percentages for 1894. + + + +THE CHAMPION BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. + +The complete record of the pitching percentages of victories pitched in, +shows that Baltimore's full season's team of pitchers had a general +percentage of victories pitched in of .695 by the eight pitchers who +occupied the box during the season's campaign. This record excelled the +percentage figures of New York's team of five pitchers by 31 points, and +that of Boston's seven pitchers by 66 points, the respective percentage +figures being, .695, .664 and .629. These figures show the relative +strength of the three battery teams, as far as the record of percentage +can show them. A better criterion of pitching skill would be, of course, +at command, were the scoring rules giving the data of runs earned off +the pitching revised properly; but as they were not in 1894, we have to +take the next best data at command, that being the percentage of +victories pitched in. Taking the records of the first three pitchers +named in the Baltimore "battery" team record, as a whole, we do not +hesitate to award to McMahon the position of leading pitcher of the club +for 1894. Brown led McMahon in percentage of victories against the five +Eastern teams, but the former was last on the list against the six +Western teams, McMahon's percentage figures against the Western batsmen +being .812 against Brown's .500. Against the Eastern teams +Brown's figures were .750 to McMahon's .706. But McMahon pitched in 17 +games against the Eastern batsmen, to Brown's 4 games only, and that +fact counts to McMahon's advantage. Esper stood second in percentage +figures against the Western batsmen with the percentage of .889 in 9 +games to McMahon's .812 in 16 games. Gleason stood third against the +Eastern teams with .625 to McMahon's .706; but against the West, Gleason +was fourth, with the percentage of .769 to McMahon's .812. Hawke did +service against the West with .688 to .556 against the East. Inks and +Mullane stood even at .667 against the West, but Inks led Mullane by +.511 to .500 against the East, Horner only pitched in one game. Here is +a full record of the eight pitchers of the Baltimore team of 1894, +showing what each pitcher did against the Eastern and Western batsmen +separately, in victories and defeats against each club, and in +percentage of victories pitched in against the batsmen of each +section. It is a valuable record, if only in its showing what each +pitcher did in the way of victories, against each club of each division. + + +THE BALTIMORE CLUB'S RECORD. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + l a C i i o + W N a B s l t S n u + o e d r h P e t C t c i P +BALTIMORE n w B e o i e v s h . i s e + / o l o n T r e b i L n v T r +vs. L Y s p k g o c l u c o n i o c + o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e + s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n +Pitchers t k n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brown W 0 0 1 1 1 3 .750 Hemming 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 1.000 + L 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +McMahon W 2 3 2 2 3 12 .706 Esper 3 1 1 2 0 1 8 .889 + L 3 2 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 +Gleason W 1 0 1 2 1 5 .625 McMahon 2 0 2 3 3 3 13 .811 + L 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 +Inks W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .571 Gleason 1 2 2 3 0 2 10 .769 + L 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 +Hawke W 0 1 0 1 3 5 .556 Hawke 1 1 3 2 2 2 11 .688 + L 2 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 +Mullane W 2 0 1 1 1 5 .500 Inks 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 .667 + L 0 3 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 +Esper W 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 Mullane 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 .667 + L 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 +Horner W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Brown 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 + L 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen by the above table that, while Brown did not pitch in a +single victory against the two clubs standing next to Baltimore in the +race, McMahon pitched in five victories; and yet Brown's percentage +figures exceeded McMahon's by .750 to .706 against the five clubs as a +whole, owing to McMahon's pitching in five defeats, against Brown's +single defeats against the New York and Boston batsmen. Hemming's record +is A No. 1, as far as he pitched, but he did not pitch in a single game +against the Eastern teams, to the extent of a full record of innings +pitched in. + +Here is the record for the whole season, showing the total percentage: + +THE BALTIMORE PITCHERS' FULL RECORD. +----------------------------------------------------------- + Per cent. of +Pitchers. Victories. Defeats. Games Pitched. Victories. +----------------------------------------------------------- +Hemming 5 0 5 1.000 +Esper 9 2 11 .818 +McMahon 25 8 33 .758 +Gleason 15 6 21 .714 +Brown 4 2 6 .667 +Hawke 16 9 25 .640 +Inks 8 5 13 .615 +Mullane 7 6 13 .538 +Horner 0 1 1 .000 +----------------------------------------------------------- + +These tables include all victories and defeats of the season, whether +counted or thrown out. It will be seen that only three pitchers pitched +in a majority of the games played. + + + +THE NEW YORK CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The New York club, in 1894, went through the season's campaign with the +fewest pitchers in their team of any of the twelve clubs. Moreover, +their "battery" teams of the season, as a whole, surpassed those of any +of the club's previous batteries since the club was organized. Led by +Meekin and Farrell--the champion "battery" of 1894--followed by pitchers +Rusie, Westervelt, German and Clarke, with catchers Wilson and Doyle, +the club presented battery strength sufficient to have carried the team +to the goal, but for sundry drawbacks they met with during the early +part of the championship campaign, especially during April and May. And +handicapped as they were, they managed to close the season in second +place, after brilliant rallying work during the last three months of the +campaign, when their pitchers were well backed up by better team-work +than they had at command up to July. + +In giving the record of the work done by the club pitchers, we have +deemed it essential to divide the tables up into sections, showing the +work done in the box against both the Eastern and Western teams +separately, as well as the table showing the aggregate figures of the +individual percentages of victories pitched in. Thus it will be seen in +the appended table, that while Meekin's pitching was more successful +against the batsmen of the Eastern teams, Rusie excelled Meekin in +downing the batsmen of the Western teams, by a percentage of victories +of .889 against .778 for Meekin. But it should be remembered that in +pitching against the batsmen of the three leading teams in the race +opposed to them, Meekin pitched in 7 victories out of 11 games, while +Rusie only pitched in 6 victories out of 14 games. Against the three +most successful of the Western teams, too, Meekin pitched in 13 +victories against Rusie's 12. Taking the season's figures as a whole, +Meekin led Rusie by the percentage figures of .783 to .735, quite a +difference in favor of Meekin. German led Westervelt against the Eastern +teams, but the latter led against the Western batsmen, and also had the +best percentage figures, in the aggregate of the season, by .498 to +German's .471; Clark being in the last ditch in all three +tables. Westervelt was a new man in the field compared to German, but he +is very likely to excel his last year's record in 1895. The best +individual records in victories pitched in by the two leaders, were +Rusie's 6 to 0 against Louisville, and Meekin's 3 to 0 against +Baltimore. German's best was 2 to 0 against Washington, and Westervelt's +was 1 to 0 against Baltimore; Clarke's best being 1 to 0 against +Philadelphia. + +Here are the records of the pitchers of the team against the five +Eastern and the six Western teams for 1894: + +THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P + h + i W P C L + B l a C i i o + W a a B s l t S n u + o l d r h P e t C t c i P +NEW YORK n t B e o i e v s h . i s e + / i o l o n T r e b i L n v T r +vs. L m s p k g o c l u c o n i o c + o o t h l t t e a r a u a l t e + s r o i y o a n n g g i t l a n +Pitchers t e n a n n l t Pitchers d h o s i e l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Meekin W 3 3 1 3 4 14 .778 Russie 4 4 4 4 2 6 24 .889 + L 0 1 2 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 +Rusie W 2 2 2 3 3 12 .545 Meekin 4 4 5 2 2 5 22 .783 + L 2 3 3 1 1 10 1 0 1 1 3 0 6 +German W 1 0 1 0 2 4 .500 Westervelt 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 .571 + L 1 1 0 2 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 +Westervelt W 0 1 0 1 1 3 .333 German 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 .471 + L 2 1 2 1 0 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 +Clarke W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .333 Clarke 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .333 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE SUMMARY. + +The summary giving the full totals of the season's record entire is +appended: + +------------------------------------------------------------ + Games Per cent. of +PITCHERS Victories Defeats Pitched Victories +------------------------------------------------------------ +Meekin 36 10 46 .783 +Rusie 36 13 49 .735 +Westervelt 7 9 16 .498 +German 8 9 17 .471 +Clarke 2 4 6 .333 +------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +THE BOSTON CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +While the Boston team of 1893 went through the season of that year with +virtually but four pitchers to do their box work--Quarles and Coyle +pitching in but three games in 1893--the batteries of the club for 1894 +included seven pitchers, two of the seven each pitching in but single +games, Nichols, Stivetts and Staley doing the brunt of the work of the +past season. Nichols did his best work against the five Eastern teams, +he being most effective against Philadelphia and Brooklyn, neither of +which clubs won a game with him in the box against them. He also took +both Cleveland and Louisville into camp without their being able to win +a single game off his pitching, the only team to strike even figures in +games against his pitching being the Cincinnatis--3 to 3, Baltimore +winning 2 out of 3 with Nichols opposed to them, and New York 2 out of +5, St. Louis also getting the same figures. Beyond question, Nichols led +the Boston pitching record of 1894, he ranking in strategic skill with +the best in the League. Stivetts excelled even Nichols against the +Western batsmen by a percentage of .763 to Nichols' .692; but against +the stronger Eastern teams Nichols led Stivetts by the percentage +figures of .756 to .417, an advantage more than off-setting the Western +figures of the two pitchers. Lovett and Hodson both excelled Stivetts +against the Eastern teams, by .714 and .500, respectively, against +Stivetts' .417; but against the Western teams, Stivetts led by .763 to +Hodson's .600 and Lovett's .500. Staley was very ineffective against the +batsmen of both sections. Lampe pitched in but one game, and that one a +defeat by Pittsburgh; Stephens pitching, too, in but one game but it was +a victory over Washington. Here are the sectional records for the season, +together with the column giving the totals of the season: + + +THE SECTIONAL RECORDS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t S n u n d + o l e d r h P e t C t c i P d P +BOSTON n t w e o i e v s h . i s e e + / i l o n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y p k g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o h l t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r i y o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k a n n l t d h o s i e l t l t +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Stephens W 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Nichols W 1 3 4 4 3 15 .756 3 3 3 3 3 3 18 .692 33 .717 + L 2 2 0 0 1 5 0 2 1 2 3 0 8 12 +Stivetts W 4 1 0 1 2 8 .471 3 3 3 2 2 4 18 .763 26 .650 + L 1 1 3 3 1 9 2 0 1 2 0 0 5 14 +Lovett W 1 1 1 1 1 5 .714 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .500 7 .636 + L 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 +Hodson W 0 0 1 0 0 1 .500 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 .600 4 .571 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 +Staley W 2 1 0 0 2 5 .385 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 .371 13 .481 + L 1 2 3 1 1 8 1 1 2 0 0 2 6 14 +Lampe W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .006 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +Under the Philadelphia club's management of 1893 but three pitchers were +in the box in over 20 games each; and but two others in 10 games and +over, seven pitchers being employed during that season. In 1894, the +blunder was committed of experimenting with no less than _thirteen_ +pitchers with the result of finding it difficult to reach fourth place +at the end of the race; while the club, after being in second place in +April, fell down to the second division in July. But for this error of +judgment, the team might have ended among the three leaders. Of those +who pitched in over 10 games, Taylor took a decided lead by a total +percentage of .706 to Weyhing's .548 and Carsey's .533. Of those who +pitched in less than 10 games and over 5, Harper led with .667 to +Haddock's .571. None of the other pitchers reached average +figures--.500--except Jones, who only pitched in one game, which he won +against St. Louis, while four of the thirteen did not pitch in a single +victory. Experimenting with thirteen pitchers was a costly mistake in +the management, and should not be repeated. It is bad enough to try too +many changes in the _in_ and _out_ field teams, but worse in +battery-team-experiments of this kind. Harper led in percentage of +victories with .800 against the Eastern club batsmen, while Taylor led +against those of the West with .728. The failures of the season were +Fanning, Callahan, Johnson, Turner, Burns, Figgemeir and Lukens, the +former being the only pitcher of the seven who pitched in a single +victory against the Eastern batsmen. + +Here is the record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + G + G r + W P C L r a + B a C i i o a n + W a N B s l t S n u n d + o l e r h P e t C t c i P d P +PHILADELPHIA n t w B o i e v s h . i s e e + / i o o n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s k g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t l t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o y o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n n n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Jones W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Taylor W 3 2 2 0 3 10 .625 4 2 2 0 3 3 14 .778 24 .706 + L 0 1 1 3 1 6 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 10 +Harper W 0 1 2 1 0 4 .800 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 .500 6 .667 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 +Haddock W 0 1 1 1 0 3 .750 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 4 .571 + L 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 +Weyhing W 0 2 0 3 3 8 .615 0 2 1 1 2 3 9 .500 17 .548 + L 2 0 2 0 1 5 3 1 1 2 2 0 9 14 +Carsey W 1 1 1 2 2 7 .467 0 2 2 1 2 2 9 .600 16 .533 + L 1 2 3 1 1 8 2 1 1 0 0 2 6 14 +Callahan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 .667 2 .400 + L 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 +Fanning W 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 +Johnson W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .250 1 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Turner W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 +Burns W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1* 1 +Figgemeir W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Lukens W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +[Footnote *: Should add up to 0. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE BROOKLYN CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The Brooklyn club experimented with nine pitchers in 1894, of which but +three were able to exceed the average in percentage of victories. Of the +three, Stein took the lead with the total percentage figures of .650 +against Kennedy's .545, Daub being third with but .406 to his credit, +all the others pitching in less than 10 games. No less than four of the +nine failed to pitch in a single victory. Lucid did good work in the few +games he pitched in, his victory over Boston being noteworthy. But he +pitched in as many defeats against the Western teams as he did in +victories. Four of the nine were worthless for skilful, strategic +pitching. + +Here is the club's total record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a s l t S n u n d + o l e d h P e t C t c i P d P +BROOKLYN n t w B e i e v s h . i s e e + / i o l n T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p g o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h t t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i o a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Stein W 3 2 2 2 3 12 .632 2 2 2 3 2 3 14 .667 26 .650 + L 1 3 2 1 0 7 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 14 +Lucid W 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 .500 4 .571 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 3 +Kennedy W 1 3 3 1 1 9 .500 2 4 2 3 2 2 15 .577 24 .545 + L 2 3 2 1 1 9 2 3 2 2 1 1 11 20 +Gastright W 0 0 0 0 2 2 .500 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .333 3 .429 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 +Daub W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .222 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 .500 10 .406 + L 1 1 1 2 2 7 2 1 0 1 2 2 8 15 +Underwood W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .400 + L 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +G. Sharrott W 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .333 + L 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Sommerville W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Korwan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CLEVELAND CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +The Cleveland club's management made as great a mistake in 1894 as that +of the Philadelphia club in experimenting with too many pitchers. They +tried but six pitchers in 1892, when they won the championship of the +second half of the divided season of that year, and in 1893 put eight in +the box. But last year they engaged no less than thirteen pitchers to +experiment with, and from third place in 1893 with eight pitchers, they +ended in sixth position in 1894 with thirteen. Of those who pitched in +over 20 games, Cuppy led with the percentage figures of .568, Young +being second with .543. Of those who pitched in over 10 games and less +than 20, Sullivan led with .600, followed by John Clarkson with .533. Of +those who pitched in less than 10 games, but one reached average figures +in percentage, Menafee pitching in only one game, a victory over +Brooklyn, and Mullane in but 3, of which 2 were victories over St. Louis +and Louisville. Cuppy did fine box work against the five Western clubs +opposed to him, but he was excelled by Young against the Eastern +batsmen. Five of the thirteen failed to pitch in a single victory. + +Here is the record in full: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a i i o a n + W a N a B s t S n u n d + o l e d r h P t C t c i P d P +CLEVELAND n t w B e o i e s h . i s e e + / i o l o n T r b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Menafee W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 1 0 0 1 .000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1[*] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Mullane W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 2 .667 2 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +Sullivan W 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 .600 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 6 .600 + L 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Cuppy W 2 0 1 1 1 2 7 .368 2 3 3 2 4 14 .778 21 .568 + L 2 4 3 0 1 2 12 2 0 0 2 0 4 16 +Young W 1 1 1 3 2 3 11 .440 1 4 3 4 2 14 .667 25 .543 + L 4 3 2 1 2 2 14 3 0 1 1 2 7 21 +J. Clarkson W 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .167 1 2 2 1 1 7 .778 8 .533 + L 1 0 2 1 1 0 5 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 +Wallace W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .667 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .500 + L 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 +Griffith W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .500 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 2 .500 + L 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 +Lyster W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Whitrock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Knauss W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 +Fischer W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 +Petty W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 +[Footnote *: Total should be 0. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THE PITTSBURGH CLUB'S PITCHING RECORD. + +Of the nine pitchers employed by the Pittsburgh club in 1894 only three +pitched in 20 games and over, and of this trio Killen led in percentage +figures with .583, against Gumbert's .563 and Ehret's .389. The latter's +blunders, outside of his actual box work, damaged him in his field +support and in loss of local favor, otherwise he would have probably led +in the season's record against the Eastern clubs. Gumbert led Killen by +.471 to .364 in percentage figures, Killen being the most effective +against the Western teams. Of those who pitched in 10 games and less +than 20, Colcolough did the best work, with average percentage figures +against the batsmen of both sections, with an even .500 in percentage +figures against both, Menafee being second against both with .333 +each. Of those who pitched in 5 games and less than 10, Nicol took the +lead with the total figures of .667. Terry was a failure in Pittsburgh, +but did well in Chicago. Easton was the last ditch pitcher, not winning +a game. Ehret's record against Cleveland was the best of the season--not +a single lost game out of the series he pitched in. Jordan won his +single game. + +Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W C L r a + B l a C i o a n + W a N a B s l S n u n d + o l e d r h P e C t c i P d P +PITTSBURGH n t w B e o i e v h . i s e e + / i o l o n T r e i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Jordan W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 1.000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Nicol W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 1 2 0 3 .600 4 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 +Killen W 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 .364 1 4 1 1 3 10 .769 14 .583 + L 1 1 1 2 2 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 3 10 +Gumbert W 1 0 1 1 1 4 8 .471 0 2 2 2 4 10 .667 18 .563 + L 1 3 2 1 1 1 9 0 0 2 2 1 5 14 +Colcolough W 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 .500 0 1 1 1 1 4 .500 7 .500 + L 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 4 7 +Ehret W 2 2 1 1 0 2 8 .364 7 0 1 1 1 10 .556 18 .389 + L 2 2 3 3 3 1 14 0 5 2 1 0 8 22 +Menafee W 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 4 .333 + L 1 1 2 1 1 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 +Terry W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Easton W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CHICAGO CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Chicago club, in 1894, placed only seven pitchers in the box, of +which but three pitched in 20 games and over, and but two in not less +than 10 games and not less than 20. Of the three former, Griffith led +with a percentage of victories pitched in of .645 to Stratton's .643 and +Hutchinson's .471, McGill being fourth with but .240. Of those who +pitched in not less than 5 games, besides the above pitchers, Abbey led +with .333, Terry's figures being .294, the Eastern batsmen punishing him +badly. Camp pitched in but one game, and that a defeat. + +Here is the club record of the pitching: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t S n u n d + o l e d r h P e t t c i P d P +CHICAGO n t w B e o i e v s . i s e e + / i o l o n T r e b L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r u a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Griffith W 1 0 2 2 2 3 10 .625 1 3 1 3 2 10 .667 20 .645 + L 1 2 1 0 1 1 6 2 1 0 1 1 5 11 +Stratton W 0 1 1 0 2 1 5 .714 0 0 2 1 1 4 .571 9 .643 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 5 +Hutchinson W 2 1 1 2 1 2 9 .409 0 2 2 1 2 7 .583 16 .471 + L 3 5 2 1 2 0 13 1 2 1 1 0 5 18 +Abbey W 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .333 + L 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 4 +Terry W 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 .143 1 1 0 0 1 3 1.000 5 .294 + L 3 3 2 1 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 +McGill W 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 .222 0 0 1 1 2 4 .250 6 .240 + L 2 1 2 1 1 0 7 4 2 2 2 2 12 19 +Camp W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE ST. LOUIS CLUB'S RECORD. + +The St. Louis club tried seven pitchers in 1894, and but one reached the +percentage average of .500 and over, and that one was Breitenstein, who +had .519; Hawley being second with .419, and A. Clarkson third with +.360, Gleason making but little effort in the St. Louis box, though he +did better in that of Baltimore, his percentage being but .250 in the +St. Louis team. Clark, Sullivan and Mason were failures, not one of them +pitching in a single victory. Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C L r a + B l a C i i o a n + W a N a B s l t n u n d + o l e d r h P e t C c i P d P +ST. LOUIS n t w B e o i e v s h i s e e + / i o l o n T r e b i n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c n i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a a l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Breitenstein W 1 2 1 4 3 2 13 .448 2 4 2 3 3 14 .609 27 .519 + L 5 2 8 1 2 3 16 3 2 2 2 0 9 25 +Hawley W 1 0 4 2 1 2 10 .417 1 2 2 1 2 8 .421 18 .419 + L 2 3 3 3 3 0 14 1 1 3 3 3 11 25 +A. Clarkson W 0 3 1 1 0 2 7 .438 0 0 1 1 0 2 .222 9 .360 + L 3 2 0 0 3 1 9 3 1 1 1 1 7 16 +Gleason W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 2 .286 2 .250 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 5 6 +Clark W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Sullivan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Clark W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE CINCINNATI CLUB'S RECORD. + +It may be said of the Cincinnati club's management in 1894, that in the +multiplicity of pitchers there is much danger, or words to that +effect. Twelve pitchers were tried (including one who pitched in two +innings) with a field support of no less than eleven players, exclusive +of the pitchers who took part at times in both infield and outfield +positions, together with four catchers, an aggregate of 27 _players_ to +occupy but _nine_ positions in the game. Could blundering management go +further? Under such circumstances is it any wonder that team-work was +impossible, while cliques of disappointed players still further weakened +the nine in nearly every game, the ultimate result being ninth place in +the race, with the added discredit of being beaten out in the race by +their old rivals, the St. Louis "Browns." But three of the twelve +pitchers took part in 20 games and over, and but one in 10 games and +less than 20, and three out of the twelve failed to win a single +game. Parrott did the most effective work against the Eastern batsmen, +and he and Dwyer were tied against the Western batsmen, but two of the +twelve pitching in more victories than defeats. The experience of the +Cincinnati "battery" teams should teach managers a lesson for 1895 in +indulging in experiments with too many pitchers. + +Here is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P L r a + B l a C i o a n + W a N a B s l t S u n d + o l e d r h P e t C t i P d P +CINCINNATI n t w B e o i e v s h . s e e + / i o l o n T r e b i L v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c o i o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a u l t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g i l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o s e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Tannehill W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 1 .500 1 .500 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Dwyer W 1 3 1 0 1 2 8 .400 1 1 3 3 2 10 .588 18 .486 + L 4 1 1 2 2 2 12 0 2 2 0 3 7 19 +Parrott W 1 2 1 2 2 2 9 .500 2 2 1 2 2 9 .474 18 .486 + L 3 1 3 0 1 1 9 2 2 2 2 2 10 19 +Chamberlain W 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 .500 0 1 1 1 2 5 .455 10 .476 + L 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 3 2 0 1 0 6 11 +Cross W 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1.000 0 1 1 0 0 2 .333 3 .429 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 4 +Whitrock W 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 .375 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 3 .375 + L 0 2 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 +Fournier W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .250 + L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Fischer W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .100 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 2 .167 + L 1 1 2 2 2 1 9 0 0 1 0 0 1 10 +Blank W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 +Flynn W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1[*] +Pfann W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 + +[Footnote *: Grand Total should be 2. [Proofreader]] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE WASHINGTON CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Washington club was weakened in the same manner as the Cincinnati +club, by experimenting with too many pitchers, they using a round dozen +in the box during their campaign in 1894. Of the twelve, but one +exceeded the percentage average of .500. Of those who pitched in 20 +games and over there were but two, Maul leading with .423, and Mercer +following with .410. Of those who pitched in 10 games and under 20, +Esper led Stockdale and Petty, by .400 to .357 and .273, respectively. +Sullivan was a bad failure, as he only pitched in 2 victories out of 12 +games. No less than five of the twelve pitchers failed to pitch in a +single victory, not even against the Western teams. Under such +circumstances the wonder is that Washington escaped the last ditch. Here +is the record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i P C L r a + B l C i i o a n + W a N a B l t S n u n d + o l e d r P e t C t c i P d P +WASHINGTON n t w B e o e v s h . i s e e + / i o l o T r e b i L n v T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k o c l u c o n i o c o c + o o o t h l t e a r a u a l t e t e + s r r o i y a n n g g i t l a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Mullarsky W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 .667 2 .667 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 +Maul W 1 0 1 1 1 4 .267 1 1 1 0 2 2 7 .636 11 .423 + L 2 3 3 2 1 11 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 15 +Mercer W 0 0 2 2 1 5 .294 0 3 1 2 1 4 11 .500 16 .410 + L 4 3 1 0 4 12 4 2 1 1 2 1 11 23 +Esper W 0 0 0 1 1 2 .400 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 .400 6 .400 + L 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 6 9 +Stockdale W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 .625 5 .357 + L 2 2 0 1 0 5 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 9 +Petty W 0 1 0 0 0 1 .125 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .667 3 .273 + L 3 1 1 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 +Sullivan W 0 1 0 0 0 1 .167 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .167 2 .167 + L 0 1 1 2 1 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 5 10 +Wynne W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Anderson W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 +Stephens W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 +Boyd W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 +Haddock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 4 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +THE LOUISVILLE CLUB'S RECORD. + +The Louisville club had nine pitchers in position during 1894, of which +but four pitched in 20 games and over, and but one in 10 games and less +than 20, Knell pitching in less than 20 games, with the percentage of +.241, and Stratton in less than 10, with .143, the latter doing far +better afterwards in the Chicago team. Hemming's .355 was the best +record, Menafee being second with .348, both pitching in over twenty +games. + +Hemming's percentage in the Louisville team was but .355, which, +compared with his record of 1.000 in the Baltimore team, made his total +percentage .615, showing quite a difference between his support in the +Louisvilles and that in the Baltimores. + +Hemming, Menafee and Inks were the most successful against the strong +teams of the Eastern division. Whitrock, Sullivan and Kilroy were +unsuccessful opponents. Here is the record: + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. + P G + h G r + i W P C r a + B l a C i i a n + W a N a B s l t S n n d + o l e d r h P e t C t c P d P +LOUISVILLE n t w B e o i e v s h . i e e + / i o l o n T r e b i L n T r T r +vs. L m Y s p k g o c l u c o n o c o c + o o o t h l t t e a r a u a t e t e + s r r o i y o a n n g g i t a n a n +Pitchers t e k n a n n l t d h o s i l t l t +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Hemming W 2 0 0 1 1 0 4 .250 0 2 2 3 0 7 .429 11 .355 + L 2 4 1 2 1 2 12 3 1 2 0 2 8 20 +Menafee W 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .286 3 1 0 1 1 6 .375 8 .348 + L 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 1 4 1 2 2 10 15 +Inks W 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .250 + L 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 +Knell W 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 .190 0 0 0 1 2 3 .375 7 .241 + L 3 4 4 1 3 2 17 1 1 2 1 0 5 22 +Wadsworth W 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 .200 0 0 0 1 0 1 .167 4 .190 + L 2 2 2 2 2 2 12 1 1 1 1 1 5 17 +Stratton W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 0 1 .167 1 .143 + L 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 +Whitrock W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 +Sullivan W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +Kilroy W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 + L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 4 5 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +Interesting Pitching Records. + + +No pitching records under the scoring rules of 1894 admitted of any data +being made up from which a true criterion of the skill of the pitchers +could be arrived at; nor can there be until the rules give the figures +of "innings pitched in" and base hits made off each inning each pitcher +pitched in. There is scarcely a game in which two pitchers do not enter +the box to pitch, at least in one or two innings; but the scoring rules +do not give the figures of innings pitched in, or how many base hits +were made off each pitcher, and the result is that the total base hits +scored in the game cannot be divided up between the pitchers +correctly. A pitcher goes into the box at the outset of the game, and in +one or two innings he is badly punished. Then a substitute follows him, +and in the succeeding innings not a third of the base hits made off the +first pitcher are recorded against the substitute, and yet not a record +to show this is to be had off the data the scoring rules admit of. Here +is the pitching score which should be used in the summary of each game: + +[_Copy of Yale-Princeton score of June 16, 1894_.] + +PITCHING SCORE. +--------------------------------------------------------- + CARTER. BRADLEY. ALTMAN. +Innings pitched in by 9 6 2 +Base hits off 9 5 7 +Runs earned off 3 2 3 +Bases on balls by 4 2 1 +Wild pitches by 0 1 1 +Hit batsmen by 0 1 1 +Struck out by 8 3 0 +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Umpire--Emslie. Time of game--2 hours 5 minutes. + + +Not an official record, giving the data of work done in the box by the +League pitchers, furnishes any correct figures by which to judge the +good or bad work done in the box each season. We give below a series of +records which give a somewhat better idea of each pitcher's box work +than the official averages can give under the pitching rules in vogue up +to 1895. The first table gives a full, but not complete, record of the +League pitching of 1894 by those pitchers whose percentage of victories +pitched in are not less than .500. Those whose record was under .500 and +not less than .400 included the following: Inks, .478; Stratton, .476; +German, .471; Maul, .470; Hutchinson, .467; Parrott, .459; Ehret, .436; +Daub, .423; Mercer, .421; Hawley, .413, and Westervelt, .412. Of those +whose percentages were under .400 and not less than .300 were the +following: Stockdale, .375; Menafee, .351; Sullivan, .348; J. Clarkson, +.308. These were followed by McGill, .291; Terry, 278; Knell, .200, and +Wadsworth, .190. The official pitching averages, from which these +figures are taken, give no record of the pitchers who pitched in less +than 15 games during 1894, and those who pitched in 10 games and less +than 15 included pitchers having better percentages than some of those +recorded above. + +Here is a record taken from the figures of the official tables, which +presents data from which a pretty fair estimate of a pitcher's ability +can be arrived at; though it is, of course, not a really correct +criterion of his box work, as it does not contain the record of the runs +earned off his pitching solely by base hits, which cannot be obtained +under the existing scoring rules: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P B + e a + r s + c e + e + G n h + a t i + m t B S + e o s a a + s f s c S + o e r t R + P V P f s S i o u + i i i f t f l n + t c t o r i e s + c t c P n u c n F A B A + h o h i c e S i v a v + e r e t B k B c e e t e + d i d c a H a o l r t r + e h l O i s r d a i a + i s I i l u t e e i g n g + n n n s t s s d n e g e +PITCHERS. CLUBS. . . g . . . . . g . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Meekin New York 47 .790 253 147 127 1 4 26 .798 .281 +McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 269 109 55 8 1 17 .869 .286 +Rusie New York 49 .734 253 189 204 2 4 20 .867 .275 +Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 381 85 79 0 3 21 .796 .331 +Nichols Boston 45 .711 291 108 98 2 1 40 .856 .282 +Stivetts Boston 39 .692 306 100 73 3 4 56 .813 .336 +Hawke Baltimore 23 .652 311 58 50 5 2 12 .887 .301 +Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 280 162 72 4 3 31 .785 .260 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 320 73 60 1 1 18 .909 .303 +Gleason Baltimore 29 .586 312 59 39 4 1 24 .841 .342 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 303 83 57 1 1 14 .909 .256 +Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 298 119 63 1 4 28 .916 .253 +Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 314 95 40 1 3 31 .831 .277 +Breitenstein St. Louis 49 .551 280 162 138 9 3 27 .902 .229 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 324 101 79 7 1 9 .845 .168 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 302 134 101 0 5 22 .771 .300 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 354 59 19 1 1 19 .844 .214 +Young Cleveland 47 .532 293 100 100 0 4 24 .902 .213 +Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 309 78 57 3 1 10 .729 .304 +Staley Boston 25 .520 344 55 29 2 0 12 .744 .238 +Esper Baltimore 26 .500 339 59 36 0 0 16 .929 .239 +Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 317 97 49 0 0 32 .902 .269 +Hemming Baltimore 40 .500 295 140 75 0 2 23 .893 .256 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +Here are the records, showing the batting and fielding averages +of the nine pitchers who excelled in each record: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + F A B A + i v a v + G e e G t e + a l r a t r + m d a m i a + e i g e n g + s n e s g e + PITCHERS CLUBS . g . PITCHERS CLUBS . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Stratton Chicago 21 .931 1. Stratton Chicago 33 .350 +2. Esper Baltimore 26 .929 2. Nicol Louisville 28 .348 +3. Cuppy Cleveland 37 .916 3. Mullane Cleveland 18 .343 +4. Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .909 4. Gleason Baltimore 31 .341 +5. Killen Pittsburgh 24 .909 5. Inks Baltimore 24 .337 +6. Menafee Pittsburgh 37 .904 6. Stivetts Boston 57 .336 +7. Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .902 7. Taylor Philadelphia 34 .331 +8. Young Cleveland 47 .902 8. Parrott Cincinnati 59 .329 +9. Breitenstein St. Louis 49 .902 9. Terry Chicago 25 .325 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +According to the above figures Stratton was the best fielding pitcher, +and Breitenstein the poorest; Stratton also excelling in base hit +averages, while in that record Terry was the tail-ender. The nine +pitchers who excelled in total stolen bases were as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +PITCHERS. CLUBS. Games. Stolen Bases. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Parrott Cincinnati 59 5 +2. Stivetts Boston 57 4 +3. Terry Chicago 25 3 +4. Stratton Chicago 33 3 +5. Taylor Philadelphia 34 3 +6. Mullane Cleveland 18 2 +7. Nicol Louisville 28 2 +8. Inks Baltimore 24 1 +9. Gleason Baltimore 31 1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +In the foregoing two tables pitchers are included who did not reach a +percentage of victories pitched in of .500; the list of these including +Inks, Stratton, German, Hutchinson, Mullane, Parrott, Maul, Ehret, Daub, +Mercer, Hawley and Westervelt, whose percentage figures were less than +.500 and not lower than .400. Of those whose percentage figures did not +reach .400 and were not lower than .300, were Stockdale, Menafee, +Sullivan and A. Clarkson; while those who were less than .300 and not +lower than .200, were McGill, Terry and Knell; Wadsworth being the +tail-ender in percentage figures with .190. + +The above tables present quite an interesting pitching problem, the +puzzle being to find out which of the above pitchers did the best work +in the box in every respect, not only in pitching, but by his batting, +fielding and base running. In percentage of victories pitched in, Meekin +took the lead. In the number of batsmen struck out, Rusie excelled. In +fewest bases on balls, Staley had the lowest figures. In base hit +averages, Stivetts led; while in total sacrifice hits, Breitenstein bore +off the palm. In total runs scored, Stivetts had the largest total. In +stolen bases, Kennedy was the most successful, and yet he only stole 5 +in 42 games. + +Now the problem is, Which pitcher did the best average work in his +position? and we leave that for our readers to solve. + +It is alleged that the reason pitchers do so little in stealing bases is +that they are too fatigued in their pitching in each inning to do much +in the active work of base running, both duties trying a player's nerves +considerably. For this reason it would be a good plan, in the order of +batting, to have a sure hitter follow each pitcher, so as to help bat +him round. + + + +Hints to the Pitchers of 1895. + + +We are glad to record the fact that scientific pitching is advancing in +the League arena. Its progress, hitherto, has been slow and only step by +step, but it is making headway, and during 1894 the science of strategic +pitching made greater progress than ever before. The effective blow +given to "cyclone" pitching by the new pitching rules, which went into +effect in 1893, while it did not materially affect the strategic class +of pitchers--some of whom the new rules actually benefited--obliged the +class of pitchers who depend solely upon their dangerous speed for +success, to adopt strategic tactics to a more or less extent; and this +is why a few of the old "cyclone" pitchers--as they are +called--succeeded better than they anticipated under the change made in +the rules in 1893, which had placed them farther from the batsman than +in 1892. + +It may be said, in connection with the pitching of 1894, that one thing +noticeable in the "box" work of that season was that the brainy class of +men in the position began to pay more attention to the advice of the +theorists of the game than before; and thereby they learned to realize +the fact that _strategic skill, and that equally important attribute, +thorough control of temper_, together with the avoidance of the +senseless _kicking habit_ in vogue, had more to do with success in their +position than they had previously been aware. Those of the pitching +fraternity who read up on the subject of skill in pitching, were told +that the primary elements of strategic work in the "box" included: +"First, to deceive the eye of the batsman in regard to the character of +the delivery of the ball, as to its being fast or slow. Second, to +deceive his judgment in reference to the direction of the ball when +pitched to him, as to its being high or low, or where he wants +it. Third, to watch the batsman closely so as to know just when he is +temporarily 'out of form' for making a good hit; and Fourth, to tempt +him with a ball which will be likely to go high from his bat to the +outfield and be caught." + +Then again they were told that "another very effective point in +strategic pitching, is a thoroughly disguised change of pace in +delivery. This is difficult of attainment, and as a general rule it can +only be played with effect on the careless class of batsmen. Let it be +borne in mind that the pitcher who cannot control his temper is as unfit +for his position as is a quick-tempered billiard player to excel as a +winner in professional contests. Quick temper is the mortal foe of cool +judgment, and it plays the mischief with that nervy condition so +necessary in the development of skilful strategy. The pitcher must of +necessity be subject to annoyances well calculated to try a man's +temper, especially when his best efforts in pitching are rendered +useless by the blunders of incompetent fielders, but under such trying +circumstances his triumph is all the greater if he can pluck victory out +of the fire of such opposition, _by the thorough control of his +temper_." This is something only a minority of League pitchers did in +1894. + + + +SUMMARY RECORD. + + +The leading pitcher of each of the twelve clubs against the six clubs of +each section, in percentage of victories pitched in, by those who +occupied the box in 10 games and over, is given in the following table: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +BALTIMORE. + AGAINST THE EASTERN CLUBS. AGAINST THE WESTERN CLUBS + Percent. of Percent. of +Pitchers. Victories. Pitchers. Victories +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +McMahon .706 McMahon .811 + +NEW YORK. +Meelin .778 Rusie .889 + +BOSTON. +Nichols .756 Stivetts .763 + +PHILADELPHIA. +Taylor .625 Taylor .778 + +BROOKLYN. +Stein .692 Stein .650 + +CLEVELAND. +Sullivan .600 Cuppy .778 + +PITTSBURGH. +Gumbert .471 Killen .769 + +CHICAGO. +Griffith .625 Griffith .667 + +ST. LOUIS. +Breitenstein .448 Breitenstein .609 + +CINCINNATI. +Parrott .500 Dwyer .588 + +WASHINGTON. +Mercer .294 Maul .636 + +LOUISVILLE. +Hemming .250 Hemming .429 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that Rusie leads all the pitchers against the Western +teams and Meekin all against the Eastern teams, Rusie having the highest +individual percentage of victories against a single section. + +There can be no really reliable criterion of a pitcher's skill, as judged +by the data of his averages, until the figures of runs earned off the +pitching solely by base hits, and not by base hits and stolen bases, and +the errors they lead to combined, as is the case under the defective +scoring rules in existence in 1894. To call a run scored by a +combination of base hits and stolen bases is unjust to the pitcher, +while judging his pitching by the percentage of victories pitched is +only less faulty; but the latter is the better criterion of skill than +that of earned runs, as calculated on the basis of the rules of 1894. + + + +THE OFFICIAL AVERAGES FOR 1894. + +The official averages for 1894, as prepared by Secretary Young, of the +National League, from data furnished him under the regulation scoring +rules of each year, have always been more or less defective as far as +affording a reliable criterion of play in each department of the game +was concerned, and necessarily so, owing to the faulty scoring rules in +existence up to 1895. The batting averages are more than useless, as +they fail to show the only reliable criterion of play there is, and that +is, _the percentage of runners forwarded around the bases by base hits._ +The pitching averages are similarly useless, as they fail to give the +correct data for judging the percentage of runs earned off the pitching +on the basis of runs scored by base hits, and by nothing else; the +figures of earned runs, under the present defective rules, including +runs earned by a combination of base hits and stolen bases, together +with such fielding errors as base stealing leads to, a class of errors +aside from regular fielding errors. Glancing at the record of the +so-called leading batsmen since 1888, we find that the data on which the +averages are made out grew more defective each year up to 1893, when +they were improved a little. Below will be found the several headings of +the season's averages, together with the name of the so-called leading +batsman of each year, during the past seven years, beginning with 1888 +and ending with 1894. + +SEASON OF 1888. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Anson +CLUB. Chicago +Games Played. 134 +Times at Bat. 515 +Runs Scored. 101 +Ave. Per Game. 0.75 +First Base Hits. 177 +Percentage. .343 +Total Bases. 52 +Ave. Per Game. 1.88 +Bases Stolen. 28 +Ave. Per Game. 0.20 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1889. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Brouthers +CLUB. Boston +Games. 126 +Per cent. of +Base Hits. .373 +Stolen Bases. 22 +Sacrifice Hits. 31 +No. of Runs. 105 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1890. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Glasscock +CLUB. New York +Position. S. S. +Games. 124 +P. c. base hits +to times at bat. .336 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1891. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Hamilton +CLUB. Philadelphia +Games Played. 133 +Runs Scored. 42 +Per cent. .338 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1892. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Childs +CLUB. Cleveland +Games Played. 144 +Times at Bat. 552 +Runs Scored. 135 +Base Hits. 185 +Per cent. .335 +Total Bases. 233 +Sacrifice Hits. 14 +Stolen Bases. 31 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1893. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Stenzel +CLUB. Pittsburgh +Games Played. 51 +Times at Bat. 198 +Runs Scored. 56 +Base Hits. 81 +Per cent. .409 +Total Bases. 113 +Sacrifice Hits. 12 +Stolen Bases. 13 +------------------------------ + +SEASON OF 1894. +------------------------------ +Rank. 1 +NAME. Duffy +CLUB. Boston +Games Played. 124 +Times at Bat. 539 +Runs Scored. 160 +Base Hits. 236 +Per cent. .438 +Total Bases. 372 +Sacrifice Hits. 10 +Stolen Bases. 49 +------------------------------ + +Every record of the above tables is made up to encourage the mere record +batsman, the team-worker at the bat having no show given him whatever, +as there is not a figure in the averages--with the probable exception +of the "sacrifice hit" column--to show his percentage of runners +forwarded by his base hits, this being the sole criterion of effective +batting. What is wanted is a record made up in this form: + +BATSMAN. +CLUB. +Games. +Per cent. per Game Runners + Forwarded by Base Hits. +Per cent. of Base Hits to + Times at Bat. +Per cent. of Sacrifice Hits per + Game. +Per cent. of Runs per Game. +Per cent. of Bases Taken on + Balls. +Per cent. of Outs on Strikes. +Per cent. of Chances Given + for Catches. + + +The above record shows how the batsman excelled in forwarding runners by +his hits, together with his percentage of base hits, sacrifice hits, +runs scored, percentage of times he gave chances for outs on catches--a +record which shows the batsman's weakness in batting--percentage of outs +on strikes, and of the times he took his base on balls. The figures +showing total bases is only of more advantage to record batsmen than to +team-workers at the bat, and if left out would cause the "fungo" hitting +class of batsmen to strive to do more teamwork at the bat than they do +now. Another column might be added showing the percentage of runners +forwarded by extra base hits. + +As regards the pitching averages they are equally unreliable in +affording a criterion of excellence of play in the box. How is it +possible to tell how effective a pitcher is by the figures of earned +runs as recorded under the scoring rules in vogue up to 1895? A batsman, +for instance, gets to first base by a fly ball which dropped between two +fielders running to catch the ball, a so-called base hit is scored--the +hit really giving an easy chance for a catch. This is followed by two +steals, sending the runner to third, and a single base hit sends him +home, and by the combined play an earned run off the pitching is +unjustly earned. Another instance of this kind is shown when the first +batsman is given a life by a dropped fly ball; the second is given +another life by a muffed ball from an infield hit, and the third man at +the bat is given a life by a wild throw to first base; after which three +batsmen make safe hits, and before the side is put out, three runs are +scored as earned, though the side should have been put out had the +pitcher's field support been up to even ordinary mark, the fact being +that not a single run was really earned off the pitching, yet three +earned runs are scored against the pitcher under the scoring rules "up +to date." Other instances of the uselessness of the existing method of +making out the League averages could be readily cited, but these amply +suffice, we think. + +One thing against improvement in the scoring rules is: first, the fact +that the magnates have the power to revise the amendments made by the +Committee on Rules. Another is the failure, as a rule, to appoint that +committee so as to secure an efficient working committee. But even when +this is done their good work is knocked in the head by the majority vote +of the magnates at the spring meeting. The vote should be made unanimous +in changing any rule favorably reported by the Committee. + +Here are the complete official averages for 1894, as prepared by +Secretary Young, after revision of averages published last fall: + + + +Batting Record + +OF PLAYERS WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN FIFTEEN OR MORE +CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES--SEASON OF 1894. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Duffy Boston 124 539 160 236 .438 372 10 49 +Turner Philadelphia 77 347 94 147 .423 187 8 12 +Thompson Philadelphia 102 458 115 185 .403 314 8 29 +Delehanty Philadelphia 114 497 149 199 .400 283 5 29 +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 559 196 223 .398 289 7 99 +Anson Chicago 83 347 87 137 .394 188 7 17 +Kelley Baltimore 129 509 167 199 .391 304 19 45 +Cross Philadelphia 120 543 128 211 .388 290 16 28 +Tenny Boston 24 80 21 31 .387 43 2 7 +Holliday Cincinnati 122 519 125 199 .383 297 4 39 +Brodie Baltimore 129 574 132 212 .369 269 24 50 +Doyle New York 105 425 94 157 .369 216 4 48 +Keeler Baltimore 128 593 164 218 .367 305 16 30 +Griffin Brooklyn 106 405 123 148 .365 209 5 48 +Childs Cleveland 117 476 144 174 .365 227 4 20 +Grady Philadelphia 50 187 45 68 .363 100 2 3 +Dahlen Chicago 121 508 150 184 .362 289 10 49 +Ryan Chicago 108 481 133 173 .359 233 8 12 +Burns Brooklyn 126 513 107 184 .358 261 9 29 +Burkett Cleveland 124 518 134 185 .357 267 10 32 +McKean Cleveland 130 561 115 199 .354 281 11 32 +Smith Pittsburgh 125 497 129 175 .352 267 10 37 +Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 523 148 184 .351 303 5 60 +Earle Brooklyn and Louisville 33 114 23 40 .350 47 4 5 +Stratton Chicago and Louisville 33 134 39 47 .350 77 0 8 +McCarthy Boston 126 536 118 187 .349 266 9 40 +Nicol Louisville 28 112 12 39 .348 53 1 2 +Robinson Baltimore 106 420 71 146 .348 182 11 13 +Davis New York 124 492 124 170 .345 267 9 37 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brouthers Baltimore 123 528 137 182 .344 287 18 40 +Joyce Washington 98 357 103 124 .344 230 5 23 +Beckley Pittsburgh 132 534 122 184 .344 284 22 20 +Clements Philadelphia 47 172 26 59 .343 85 3 04 +Mullane Baltimore and Cleveland 18 67 3 23 .343 27 1 2 +Gleason Baltimore and St. Louis 31 111 24 38 .342 55 4 1 +Miller St. Louis 125 480 93 164 .341 223 8 20 +Lowe Boston 133 615 585 210 .341 323 9 25 +McGraw Baltimore 123 515 115 175 .340 221 14 77 +Daly Brooklyn 123 494 135 167 .338 237 4 53 +Inks Baltimore and Louisville 24 89 12 27 .337 30 1 1 +Sullivan Washington & Philadelphia 93 374 72 126 .337 166 7 15 +Connaughton Boston 38 166 38 56 .337 76 1 2 +Bannon Boston 127 496 130 167 .336 257 6 42 +Stivetts Boston 57 244 56 82 .336 133 3 4 +Treadway Brooklyn 122 482 124 162 .336 254 12 29 +Sugden Pittsburgh 39 141 24 47 .333 70 6 3 +VanHaltren New York 139 531 110 177 .333 231 13 44 +Jennings Baltimore 128 505 136 168 .332 246 18 36 +Taylor Philadelphia 34 145 21 48 .331 63 0 3 +Wilmot Chicago 135 606 137 201 .331 294 14 76 +LaChance Brooklyn 65 258 47 85 .329 129 3 25 +Wilson New York 45 179 37 59 .329 77 2 9 +Parrott Cincinnati 59 228 50 75 .329 126 1 5 +Tucker Boston 122 503 112 165 .328 212 2 19 +Hallman Philadelphia 119 519 111 170 .327 207 22 27 +Hassamer Washington 116 493 106 161 .326 243 10 15 +Lange Chicago 112 447 87 145 .324 119 4 71 +Long Boston 103 475 136 154 .324 240 8 25 +Terry Chicago 25 96 19 31 .323 39 0 3 +Hutchinson Chicago 34 133 28 43 .323 64 2 1 +McPhee Cincinnati 128 481 113 154 .320 230 6 31 +Shock Brooklyn 63 237 46 76 .320 94 8 18 +O'Connor Cleveland 80 324 67 105 .320 146 4 13 +Abbey Washington 129 521 95 166 .318 243 13 30 +Kittredge Chicago 50 167 36 53 .317 65 5 2 +Twineham St. Louis 31 127 22 40 .314 50 1 2 +Connor New York and St. Louis 121 462 93 145 .313 253 6 15 +Latham Cincinnati 130 532 132 167 .313 233 11 62 +Hoy Cincinnati 128 506 118 158 .312 241 11 30 +Hartman Pittsburgh 49 186 41 58 .311 82 8 12 +Lyons Pittsburgh 72 254 51 79 .311 113 11 17 +Foutz Brooklyn 73 296 41 92 .310 126 8 16 +Decker Chicago 89 391 76 121 .309 177 2 22 +Vaughn Cincinnati 67 275 48 85 .309 145 2 6 +Selbach Washington 96 372 70 115 .309 188 3 23 +Stockdale Washington 19 75 9 23 .306 25 1 2 +Donovan Pittsburgh 133 575 146 176 .306 230 26 51 +Reitz Baltimore 109 450 86 138 .306 226 7 18 +Ely St. Louis 127 508 85 155 .305 237 13 23 +O. Tebeau Cleveland 119 501 79 153 .305 200 9 27 +McGuire Washington 102 427 67 130 .304 176 4 11 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Chamberlain Cincinnati 20 69 10 21 .304 36 3 1 +Ward Washington 89 343 85 104 .303 130 5 36 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 33 112 18 34 .303 52 1 1 +Corcoran Brooklyn 129 573 124 173 .302 251 10 33 +Irwin Chicago 130 503 85 152 .302 220 4 34 +Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 527 88 159 .301 217 20 20 +Anderson Brooklyn 16 63 13 19 .301 29 1 7 +Bonner Baltimore 27 113 26 34 .301 46 2 11 +Hawke Baltimore 25 93 12 28 .301 37 5 2 +German New York 19 60 8 18 .300 19 2 1 +Merritt Boston and Cincinnati 66 243 38 73 .300 100 1 5 +Shindle Brooklyn 117 476 96 143 .300 201 17 18 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 160 22 48 .300 61 6 5 +Burke New York 138 575 124 172 .299 225 10 47 +Cooley St. Louis 52 207 35 62 .299 71 6 8 +Kinslow Brooklyn 61 221 38 66 .298 91 2 6 +McAleer Cleveland 64 251 36 75 .298 99 5 17 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 420 66 125 .297 182 15 33 +Flaherty Louisville 38 149 15 44 .295 55 1 2 +Dungan Louisville and Chicago 18 71 11 20 .295 23 1 3 +Mercer Washington 43 163 29 48 .294 61 1 10 +Nash Boston 132 510 132 150 .294 212 3 19 +Canavan Cincinnati 100 362 81 106 .293 201 5 15 +Lake Louisville 16 41 8 12 .292 18 0 2 +Cartwright Washington 132 509 86 149 .292 238 3 35 +Boyle Philadelphia 116 512 103 150 .291 203 18 22 +Grimm Louisville 107 413 65 120 .290 182 8 14 +Smith Louisville 39 135 27 39 .288 56 1 13 +Blake Cleveland 73 300 51 86 .286 113 10 1 +McMahon Baltimore 34 129 17 37 .286 46 8 1 +Shugart Pittsburgh 133 533 103 152 .285 236 13 23 +Knell Louisville 31 119 10 34 .285 47 1 2 +Zimmer Cleveland 88 340 55 97 .285 141 2 15 +Fuller New York 95 378 82 107 .283 138 0 34 +Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 332 47 94 .283 123 13 20 +Nichols Boston 45 170 40 48 .282 64 2 1 +Tiernan New York 112 429 87 121 .282 184 6 26 +Farrell New York 112 404 50 114 .282 175 3 10 +Meekin New York 48 174 26 49 .281 80 1 4 +Ganzel Boston 65 266 52 74 .278 98 4 1 +Carsey Philadelphia 32 126 31 35 .277 40 1 3 +Rusie New York 49 185 20 51 .275 74 2 4 +Shiebeck Pittsburgh & Washington 75 294 69 81 .275 102 1 19 +Clark Louisville 76 316 55 87 .275 132 1 24 +Peitz St. Louis 100 364 62 100 .274 159 7 17 +Quinn St. Louis 106 411 58 113 .274 142 13 26 +Denny Louisville 60 222 26 61 .274 87 6 10 +Hawley St. Louis 48 161 16 44 .273 68 5 1 +Reilly Philadelphia 36 132 21 37 .272 42 1 6 +O'Rourke Louisville & St. Louis 80 316 60 86 .272 106 6 11 +McGarr Cleveland 127 522 94 142 .272 185 5 34 +Murphy New York 73 284 65 77 .271 89 2 25 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + e + A r + G t B + a R a c + m B u s e T S S + e a n e n . . . + s t s s t B H B +NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Ryan Boston 49 203 39 55 .271 87 1 4 +Virtue Cleveland 23 85 15 23 .270 80 2 1 +Clarke Baltimore 27 100 18 27 .270 40 3 1 +Dwyer Cincinnati 49 171 32 46 .269 72 0 0 +Schriver Chicago 94 356 56 96 .269 123 5 9 +Dailey Brooklyn 65 230 39 62 .269 89 6 4 +Murphy Cincinnati 76 265 42 71 .268 89 6 5 +Dowd St. Louis 123 524 92 141 .267 185 9 34 +McCarthy Cincinnati 40 168 29 45 .267 60 4 3 +Smith Cincinnati 128 492 73 131 .266 207 3 12 +G. 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CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 195 300 35 530 .934 + 2 Jennings Baltimore 128 307 497 62 866 .928 + 3 Richardson Louisville 107 236 363 50 649 .923 + 4 Smith Cincinnati 128 234 523 72 829 .913 + 4 Corcoran Brooklyn 129 282 446 69 797 .913 + 5 McKean Cleveland 130 278 401 66 745 .911 + 6 Allen Philadelphia 40 93 130 23 246 .907 + 7 Connaughton Boston 32 60 105 18 183 .901 + 8 Ely St. Louis 127 279 444 82 805 .898 + 9 Dahlen Chicago 66 191 257 52 500 .896 + 10 Long Boston 99 223 371 71 665 .893 + 11 Sullivan Washington and Phila. 83 199 232 52 483 .892 + 11 Irwin Chicago 62 122 219 41 382 .892 + 12 Murphy New York 48 112 148 34 294 .884 + 13 Shiebeck Pittsburgh and Wash. 62 130 230 48 408 .882 + 14 Fuller New York 91 211 309 71 591 .879 + 15 Pfeffer Louisville 15 30 63 13 106 .877 + 16 Radford Washington 47 127 184 53 364 .851 + 17 Selbach Washington 18 52 52 23 127 .818 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +OUTFIELDERS +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + P + u A C P + t s E h e + G s r T a r + a O i r o n c + m u s o t c e + e t t r a e n + s s s s l s t +RANK. 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CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Dungan Louisville and Chicago 18 30 3 1 34 .970 + 2 Griffin Brooklyn 106 298 13 12 323 .963 + 3 Hamilton Philadelphia 131 363 16 15 394 .961 + 3 Thompson Philadelphia 102 163 11 7 181 .961 + 4 Weaver Louisville and Pitts. 35 59 8 3 70 .957 + 5 McAleer Cleveland 64 173 10 9 192 .953 + 6 Kelley Baltimore 129 274 19 15 308 .951 + 7 Brodie Baltimore 129 311 11 19 341 .944 + 8 Shock Brooklyn 34 89 11 6 106 .943 + 9 Burns Brooklyn 126 212 16 14 242 .942 + 10 Hogan St. Louis 29 43 5 3 51 .941 + 11 Blake Cleveland 73 122 17 9 148 .939 + 11 O'Connor Cleveland 31 85 8 6 99 .939 + 12 Delehanty Philadelphia 85 224 21 16 261 .938 + 13 Smith Pittsburgh 125 271 18 20 309 .935 + 14 Tiernan New York 112 170 11 13 194 .933 + 15 Donovan Pittsburgh 133 267 24 21 312 .932 +16 Dowd St. Louis 115 201 16 16 233 .931 + 17 Keeler Baltimore 127 220 27 19 266 .928 + 18 Radford Washington 22 30 8 3 41 .927 + 19 Ewing Cleveland 52 91 7 8 106 .924 + 19 Selbach Washington 76 153 7 13 173 .924 + 20 Duffy Boston 123 313 23 28 364 .923 + 21 Burke New York 138 269 16 23 308 .922 + 22 Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 317 22 30 369 .918 + 22 Canavan Cincinnati 94 191 10 18 219 .918 + 23 Holliday Cincinnati 121 247 26 25 298 .916 + 24 Brown Louisville 130 327 23 33 383 .914 + 24 McCarthy Cincinnati 25 46 7 5 58 .914 + 25 Burkett Cleveland 124 242 18 24 284 .912 + 26 VanHaltren New York 139 309 28 33 370 .911 + 26 Shugart St. Louis 119 276 23 27 326 .911 + 27 Abbey Washington 129 341 26 36 403 .910 + 27 Hassamer Washington 68 102 10 11 123 .910 + 28 Turner Philadelphia 77 143 7 15 165 .909 + 29 McCarthy Boston 124 286 30 32 348 .908 + 30 Smith Louisville 39 64 2 7 73 .904 + 30 Ryan Chicago 108 222 23 26 271 .904 + 31 Lange Chicago 110 278 30 33 341 .903 + 32 Twitchell Louisville 51 104 14 13 131 .900 + 33 Hoy Cincinnati 128 322 27 41 390 .895 + 34 Treadway Brooklyn 122 274 20 36 330 .891 + 35 Clark Louisville 76 166 14 23 203 .886 + 36 Frank St. Louis 77 159 11 23 193 .880 + 37 G. Tebeau Wash'n and Cleveland 87 182 8 26 216 .879 + 38 Murphy New York 20 32 3 5 40 .875 + 38 Virtue Cleveland 20 38 4 6 48 .875 + 39 Bannon Boston 127 243 42 41 326 .874 + 40 Wilmont Chicago 135 262 17 46 325 .858 + 41 O'Rourke Louisville, Wash., St.L. 18 34 2 6 42 .857 + 42 Decker Chicago 30 55 9 11 75 .853 + 43 Cooley St. Louis 38 73 1 14 88 .840 + 44 Nicol Louisville 26 33 3 7 43 .837 + 45 Anderson Brooklyn 15 21 0 6 27 .777 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +CATCHERS' AVERAGES. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + P P T + u A a o C P + t s E s t h e + G s r s B a a r + a O i r e a l n c + m u s o d l c e + e t t r l e n + s s s s s s t +RANK. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + 1 Zimmer Cleveland 88 285 107 16 13 421 .931 + 2 Clements Philadelphia 47 182 38 11 7 238 .924 + 3 Buckley Philadelphia, St. Louis 66 249 72 18 12 351 .914 + 3 Robinson Baltimore 106 364 96 24 19 503 .914 + 4 Mack Pittsburgh 63 274 59 22 15 370 .900 + 5 Merritt Boston, Pitts., Cinn 61 177 72 16 13 278 .895 + 6 Schriver Chicago 86 294 93 34 13 434 .891 + 7 Grimm Louisville 75 262 104 29 16 411 .890 + 8 Miller St. Louis 39 138 36 12 10 196 .887 + Murphy Cincinnati 74 197 69 29 5 300 .887 + Farrell New York 103 470 138 41 36 685 .887 + 9 Kittredge Chicago 50 209 40 20 13 282 .883 + 10 Vaughn Cincinnati 41 155 43 19 8 225 .880 + Dailey Brooklyn 58 217 62 21 17 317 .880 + 11 Ganzel Boston 55 188 57 24 10 279 .878 + 12 Sugden Pittsburgh 30 104 28 12 7 151 .874 + 13 Earle Brooklyn and Lousiville 31 89 42 6 13 150 .873 + 14 Twineham St. Louis 31 147 35 9 18 209 .870 + 15 O'Connor Cleveland 42 160 37 12 20 229 .860 + 16 McGuire Washington 102 288 116 39 28 471 .857 + 17 Clarke Baltimore 22 86 21 10 8 125 .856 + Ryan Boston 49 166 49 18 18 251 .856 + 18 Peitz St. Louis 38 153 52 13 11 229 .851 + 19 Tenny Boston 18 55 18 11 3 87 .839 + 20 Wilson New York 32 119 22 20 9 170 .829 + 21 Weaver Louisville and Pitts. 30 88 27 11 15 141 .815 + 22 Kinslow Brooklyn 61 114 47 19 23 203 .793 + 23 Grady Philadelphia 38 101 30 21 20 172 .761 + 24 Dugdale Washington 30 75 38 20 10 143 .720 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +PITCHERS' RECORD, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER--1894. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Heading abbreviations used in this table: + G Games Played + %W Percent games won excluding tie games + RS Runs scored average per game + RE Runs earned, average per game + %BH Percent of base hits off pitcher + BoB Bases given on balls + SO No. struck out + %FC Percent fielding chances accepted + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pitcher. Club. G %W RS RE %BH BoB SO %FC +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Breitenst'n St. Louis 49 .551 6.32 3.06 .280 162 138 .902 +Colcolough Pittsburgh 15 .533 9.13 4.87 .354 59 19 .844 +Cuppy Cleveland 37 .583 7.13 3.24 .298 119 63 .916 +Carsey Philadelphia 31 .580 7.93 3.84 .314 95 40 .831 +Clarkson St. Louis 26 .308 8.11 4.19 .318 102 42 .794 +Chamberlain Cincinnati 19 .526 7.45 3.70 .309 78 57 .729 +Dwyer Cincinnati 39 .500 7.3 4.13 .317 97 47 .902 +Daub Brooklyn 26 .423 7.89 3.70 .306 71 33 .694 +Esper Wash. and Balti. 26 .500 8.3 4.88 .339 59 36 .929 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 .436 7.05 4.17 .306 111 91 .808 +Gumbert Pittsburgh 31 .600 7.23 4.87 .326 73 60 .909 +Griffith Chicago 32 .656 6.46 3.59 .300 79 67 .901 +German New York 17 .471 7.82 3.53 .288 48 15 .842 +Gleason St.L. and Balti. 29 .586 6.00 3.45 .312 59 39 .841 +Hemming Louis. and Balti. 40 .500 6.02 2.85 .295 140 75 .893 +Hawke Baltimore 23 .562 7.17 4.08 .311 58 50 .887 +Hutchinson Chicago 30 .467 7.47 3.33 .314 125 60 .716 +Hawley St. Louis 47 .413 7.04 3.72 .303 121 117 .708 +Inks Balti. and Louis. 24 .478 7.96 4.04 .337 75 37 .846 +Killen Pittsburgh 24 .583 6.25 3.87 .303 83 57 .909 +Knell Louisville 30 .200 8.46 3.60 .329 97 65 .693 +Kennedy Brooklyn 42 .545 7.55 4.21 .302 134 101 .771 +Menafee Louis. and Pitts. 37 .351 6.59 3.67 .309 85 78 .904 +Mercer Washington 38 .421 7.18 4.09 .303 105 57 .852 +Meekin New York 47 .790 4.91 2.38 .253 147 127 .798 +Maul Washington 24 .458 8.08 4.08 .307 60 31 .785 +Mullane Balt. and Cleve. 17 .470 8.17 4.17 .297 80 44 .740 +McMahon Baltimore 34 .735 5.51 3.00 .269 109 55 .869 +McGill Chicago 24 .291 8.12 3.83 .321 98 55 .846 +Nichols Boston 46 .711 6.78 3.56 .291 108 98 .856 +Parrott Cincinnati 37 .459 7.24 3.94 .307 120 61 .824 +Rusie New York 49 .734 4.73 2.12 .253 189 204 .867 +Stratton Louis. & Chicago 21 .476 9.43 5.24 .366 52 29 .931 +Stockdale Washington 16 .375 7.60 3.60 .353 39 8 .825 +Stivetts Boston 39 .692 7.49 3.43 .306 100 73 .913 +Stein Brooklyn 42 .619 6.26 3.05 .280 162 72 .785 +Staley Boston 25 .520 8.88 5.72 .344 55 29 .744 +Sullivan Wash. and Cleve. 23 .348 8.26 3.74 .320 97 28 .714 +Terry Chicago 19 .278 9.73 4.00 .334 91 43 .782 +Taylor Philadelphia 33 .719 5.30 2.76 .281 85 79 .796 +Weyhing Philadelphia 33 .545 6.72 3.49 .324 101 79 .845 +Wadsworth Louisville 21 .190 9.38 4.66 .360 97 58 .703 +Westervelt New York 18 .412 7.39 3.83 .297 62 28 .654 +Young Cleveland 47 .532 5.83 3.17 .293 100 100 .902 + +Tie games--Cuppy, 1; Dwyer, 1; Daub, 1; Ehret, 1; Gumbert, 1; Hawley, 1; +Inks, 1; Meekin, 4; Nichols, 1; Stein, 1; Terry, 1; Taylor 1; Westervelt,1. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +The Batting of 1894. + + +THE TEAM-WORK AT THE BAT. + +It goes to the credit of the leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 +that the first three clubs did better team-work at the bat, and more of +it, than any previous trio of the kind known in the annals of the +League. In fact, competent managers and captains of teams have learned +in recent years, by costly experiment, that one of the most potent +factors in winning pennants is the method of handling the ash known as +good _team-work at the bat_ the very essence of which is devoting all +the batsmen's efforts to _forwarding runners by base hits_, and not by +each player's going to the bat simply to build up a high record of base +hits without regard to forwarding runners on bases. Suppose the first +baseman in a game to take his position at the bat makes a two or +three-bagger at the outset. Of course the object of the batsman who +succeeds him would be to send the runner home the best way he can, +either by a base hit or a sacrifice hit. In striving to do this, the +very worst plan, is to try solely for a home run hit, as it only +succeeds once in thirty or forty times, and not that against skilful, +strategic pitching. Time and again were batsmen, last season, left on +third base after opening the innings with a three-bagger, owing to the +stupid work of the succeeding batsmen in trying to "line 'em out for a +homer," instead of doing real team-work at the bat. Of course, good +"sacrifice hitting" is part and parcel of team-work at the bat, but +this kind of hitting was not done to any special extent last season by a +majority of the League batsmen. + + + +SACRIFICE HITTING. + +There is one thing about the point of play in batting known, as +"sacrifice hitting" which is not as thoroughly understood as it should +be. A majority of batsmen seem to be of the impression that when they +are called upon to forward a base runner by a "sacrifice hit," all they +have to do is to go to the bat and have themselves put out, so that the +base runner at first base may be able to reach second base on the play +which puts the batsmen out. This is a very erroneous idea of the true +intent of a sacrifice hit. No skilful batsmen ever goes to the bat +purposely to hit the ball so as to have himself put out; that would be a +very silly move. On the contrary, he takes his bat in hand every time, +with the primary object of _making a base hit_ if he possibly can; but +in trying for this strongest point in batting, he proposes, to make the +desired hit in such a way that if he fails to make the base hit he will +at least hit the ball in that direction in the field which will oblige +the fielders to throw him out at first base. With this object in view he +will always strive for a safe hit to _right field_, especially by means +of a hard "bounder" in that direction, so as to force the second baseman +to run to right short to field the ball, in which case the runner at +first base will be able to steal to second on the hit in nine cases out +of ten. Another good effort for a sacrifice hit is to _bunt_ the ball so +that it may roll towards third base, out of reach of the baseman or +pitcher. A third sacrifice hit is that of a long high ball to the +outfield, which admits of a chance for a catch, but so far out in the +field that the runner will have an opportunity to steal a base on the +catch. This latter point won't work, of course, when two men are out; +moreover, it should be the last point aimed at. + +A great deal of bosh has been written--mostly by the admirers of "fungo" +hitting--about sacrifice hitting being something that should not be in +the game, just as these fungo-hitting-advocates try to write down _bunt_ +hitting--the most difficult place hit known to the game. This class of +writers think that the very acme of batting skill is the home run hit, a +hit which any muscular novice in batting on amateur fields can +accomplish without difficulty, and where more home runs are made in a +single season than in two seasons by the best managed professional +teams. The effort to make home runs leads to more chances for catches by +outfielders in one game than there are home runs made in fifty. The +exhaustion which follows a home run hit, with its sprinting run of 120 +yards at full speed, is entirely lost sight of by the class of patrons +of the game who favor home runs. One season, a few years ago, the +tail-end team of the League excelled all its rivals in scoring home +runs, while the pennant-winning team took the honors and the prize +solely on account of its excellence in team-work at the bat. The mere +record of the best averages in scoring base hits in batting seems to be +regarded by the majority of "cranks" in base ball as the only sound +criterion of good batting. This is one of the fallacies of the game, as +such a record is unreliable. The only true criterion of good batting is +the record which shows the players who excel in the batting which +forwards runners; and this record the existing scoring rules, up to +1895, did not admit of, the champion batsman being regarded as the one +who excels in his base-hit average, without regard to the runners his +base hits forwarded. For instance, one batsman in a game will make three +three-baggers, and forward but a single runner by his three hits, while +another batsman by a single base hit, a good "bunt" hit and a telling +"sacrifice hit," will forward _four runners_; and yet by the existing +scoring rules the record batsman carries off all the honors in the +score, and the team-worker at the bat does not get the slightest credit +for the effective batting he has done. + + +SACRIFICE HIT RECORD. + +The following is the record of the players in the League teams of 1894 +who led in sacrifice hits last season. The names are given in the order +of bases stolen, as recorded in the official average tables made up by +Mr. Young. The percentage figures would, of course, materially change +the order. + +----------------------------------------------- + Sacrifice +PLAYERS. CLUBS. Games. Hits. +----------------------------------------------- +Donovan Pittsburgh 129 24 +Brodie Baltimore 129 24 +Beckley Pittsburgh 132 22 +Bierbauer Pittsburgh 131 20 +Ward New York 136 20 +Kelley Baltimore 129 19 +Buckley Philadelphia 67 18 +Boyle Philadelphia 116 18 +Brouthers Baltimore 123 18 +Jennings Baltimore 128 18 +Shindle Brooklyn 117 17 +Cross Philadelphia 120 16 +Keeler Baltimore 128 16 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 15 +Mack Pittsburgh 63 14 +McGraw Baltimore 123 14 +Brown Louisville 130 14 +Wilmot Chicago 135 14 +Shugart St. Louis 33 13 +Glasscock Pittsburgh 86 13 +Quinn St. Louis 106 13 +Ely St. Louis 127 13 +Abbey Washington 129 13 +Van Haltren New York 139 13 +Frank St. Louis 80 12 +Weaver Pittsburgh 90 12 +Tredway Brooklyn 122 12 +Lyons Pittsburgh 72 11 +G. Tebeau Cleveland 105 11 +Robinson Baltimore 106 11 +Hay Cincinnati 128 11 +Latham Cincinnati 130 11 +McKean Cleveland 130 11 +Menafee Pittsburgh 37 10 +Ehret Pittsburgh 41 10 +Blake Cleveland 73 10 +Hassamer Washington 116 10 +Dahlen Chicago 121 10 +Duffy Boston 124 10 +Burkett Cleveland 124 10 +E. Smith Pittsburgh 125 10 +Corcoran Brooklyn 129 10 +Burke New York 138 10 +---------------------------------------------- + +According to the above table Pittsburgh led with a total of 146 +sacrifice hits, Baltimore being next with 120, followed by Philadelphia +with 52, New York 43, Cleveland 42, Brooklyn 39, St. Louis 38, +Louisville 29, Chicago 24, Washington 23, Cincinnati 22 and Boston 10. + +A record connected with the batting of each season is that showing the +number of victories and defeats, marked by single and double figure +scores. This data shows, to a considerable extent, how the pitching +stands in relation to the batting, as to whether the one or the other +dominates too much in the efforts of the rulemakers to equal the powers +of attack and defence. If the pitching has the best of it than we have +a predominance of the undesirable class of pitchers' games, in which the +minority of the fielders only bear the brunt of the contest. On the +other hand, if the batting rules the roost, then we have too much of the +old slugging style of play, in which the outfielders are mostly brought +into play, and but little chance to see skilful base running or splendid +infielding is afforded. Here are some records which show what was done +in 1894 in this respect: + +The three leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 scored a total of +198 single figure games to 194 double figure games. The record in +detail being as follows: + +SINGLE FIGURE. +------------------------------------------- +Baltimore single figure victories 40 +Baltimore single figure defeats 18 +New York single figure victories 59 +New York single figure defeats 25 +Boston single figure victories 34 +Boston single figure defeats 22 + --- +Totals 198 +------------------------------------------- + +DOUBLE FIGURE. +------------------------------------------- +Baltimore double figure victories 49 +Baltimore double figure defeats 21 +New York double figure victories 29 +New York double figure defeats 19 +Boston double figure victories 49 +Boston double figure defeats 27 + --- +Totals 194 +------------------------------------------- + +This record includes games counted out or forfeited. + +The full record of the twelve clubs in single and double figure +victories and defeats in 1894 is appended. + + +RECORD OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE FIGURE GAMES. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + SINGLE FIGURE. DOUBLE FIGURE. +CLUBS. Victories. Defeats. Totals. Victories. Defeats. Totals. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore 40 18 58 49 21 70 +New York 59 25 84 29 19 48 +Boston 34 22 56 49 27 76 +Philadelphia 28 22 50 43 30 73 +Brooklyn 34 27 61 36 35 71 +Cleveland 39 36 75 29 25 54 +Pittsburgh 35 35 70 30 20 50 +Chicago 20 40 60 38 35 73 +St. Louis 35 45 80 21 31 52 +Cincinnati 36 37 73 20 38 58 +Washington 28 34 62 17 53 70 +Louisville 24 61 85 12 34 46 +Totals 412 402 814 373 368 741 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Boston club, which was third in the race, is +first in scoring the most total double figures in their contests, the +"Phillies" being second and the Chicagos third. In total single figure +scores New York takes a decided lead, while the Louisville club is +second and St. Louis third. In single figure victories, however, New +York is first, Baltimore second and Cleveland third; while in double +figure victories Baltimore and Boston are tied and Philadelphia is +third. The totals of 814 single figure games against 741 double figure +contests shows that the pitching is not yet overpowered by the batting, +though the use of the big mitts in infield work had much to do with the +scoring of single figure games. As far as these records show, it would +appear that the New York team really did the best batting of the +season. + + + +The Batting Averages. + + +We give below a record, taken from the official averages of the League, +giving the batting figure, which shows the base hit percentage and the +total sacrifice hits of those who have played in a majority of the +scheduled games of the season of 1894, the limit being not less than 70 +games. The names of the clubs are given in pennant-race order, beginning +with Baltimore and ending with Louisville. The record is not of much +account, except in the showing of the comparative base hit and sacrifice +hit batting, the larger total of the latter giving the palm in case of a +tie in the base hit averages. It also shows, as far as sacrifice hit +figures can show, which batsman did the best team-work batting. But the +one thing wanting in the record of batting averages is the data showing +the runners forwarded by base hits, and until the scoring rules give +such data there can be no correct data useful as a criterion of skilful +batting. Another record needed in the score summary of each game is that +of the number of chances given for catches off the bat, thus showing the +carelessness of the batting in the averaged number of chances for +catches offered off the bat. + +Here, is the record above referred to: + +An Analysis of the Batting Averages. +-------------------------------------- + +BALTIMORE CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Kelly 129 .391 19 +Brodie 129 .369 24 +Keeler 128 .367 16 +Robinson 106 .348 11 +Brouthers 123 .344 18 +McGraw 123 .340 14 +Jennings 128 .332 18 +Reitz 109 .306 7 +----------------------------------------------------- + +NEW YORK CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Doyle 105 .369 4 +Davis 124 .345 9 +Van Haltren 139 .333 13 +Burke 138 .299 10 +Fuller 95 .282 0 +Tiernan 112 .282 6 +Farrell 112 .282 3 +Murphy 73 .271 2 +Ward 136 .262 20 +----------------------------------------------------- + +BOSTON CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Duffy 124 .438 10 +McCarthy 126 .349 9 +Lowe 133 .341 9 +Bannon 127 .336 6 +Tucker 122 .328 2 +Long 103 .324 8 +Nash 132 .294 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + +PHILADELPHIA CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Turner 77 .423 8 +Thompson 102 .403 8 +Delahanty 114 .400 5 +Hamilton 131 .398 7 +Cross 128 .388 16 +Hallman 119 .327 22 +Boyle 116 .291 18 +----------------------------------------------------- + +BROOKLYN CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Griffin 106 .365 5 +Burns 126 .358 9 +Daly 123 .338 4 +Treadway 122 .336 12 +Foutz 73 .310 8 +Corcoran 129 .302 10 +Shindle 117 .300 17 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CLEVELAND CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Childs 117 .365 4 +Burkett 124 .357 10 +McKean 130 .354 11 +O'Connor 80 .330 4 +O. Tebeau 119 .305 9 +Blake 73 .286 10 +Zimmer 88 .285 2 +McGarr 127 .272 5 +G. Tebeau 105 .266 11 +----------------------------------------------------- + +PITTSBURGH CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +E. Smith 125 .352 10 +Stenzel 131 .351 5 +Beckley 132 .344 22 +Lyons 72 .311 11 +Donovan 133 .306 26 +Bierbauer 131 .301 20 +Shugart 133 .285 13 +Glasscock 86 .283 13 +Shiebeck 75 .275 1 +Weaver 90 .250 12 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CHICAGO CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Anson 83 .394 7 +Dahlen 121 .362 10 +Ryan 108 .359 8 +Wilmot 105 .331 14 +Lange 112 .324 4 +Decker 89 .310 2 +Irwin 130 .302 4 +Schriver 94 .269 5 +Parrott 126 .244 9 +----------------------------------------------------- + +ST. LOUIS CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Miller 125 .341 8 +Ely 127 .305 13 +Peitz 100 .274 7 +Quinn 106 .274 13 +Dowd 123 .267 9 +Frank 80 .246 12 +----------------------------------------------------- + +CINCINNATI CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Holliday 122 .383 4 +McPhee 128 .320 6 +Latham 130 .313 11 +Hoy 128 .312 11 +Canavan 100 .293 5 +Murphy 76 .268 6 +G. Smith 128 .266 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + +WASHINGTON CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Joyce 98 .344 5 +Hassamer 116 .326 10 +Abbey 129 .318 13 +Selbach 96 .309 3 +McGuire 102 .304 4 +F. Ward 89 .303 5 +Cartwright 132 .292 3 +Radford 93 .233 1 +----------------------------------------------------- + +LOUISVILLE CLUB. +----------------------------------------------------- + Percent. of Sacrifice +BATSMEN. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +----------------------------------------------------- +Pfeffer 104 .297 15 +Grimm 107 .290 8 +Clark 76 .275 1 +Richardson 116 .255 4 +Brown 130 .251 14 +Lutenburg 70 .192 3 +----------------------------------------------------- + + +The record of the twelve clubs in the League pennant race of 1894 in the +total number of sacrifice hits is as follows: + +---------------------------------------------------------------- + Sacrifice +BATSMEN. CLUBS. Games. Hits. +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Donovan Pittsburgh 133 26 +Brodie Baltimore 129 24 +Cross Philadelphia 128 16 +Pfeffer Louisville 104 15 +Wilmot Chicago 135 14 +Quinn St. Louis 106 13 +Abbey Washington 129 13 +Van Haltren New York 139 13 +Tredway Brooklyn 122 12 +Hoy Cincinnati 128 11 +G. Tebeau Cleveland 105 11 +Duffy Boston 124 10 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The first nine in base hit averages were as follows: +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + Percent, of Sacrifice + BATSMEN. CLUBS. Games. Base Hits. Hits. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Duffy Boston 124 .438 10 +Turner Philadelphia 77 .423 8 +Thompson Philadelphia 102 .403 8 +Delahanty Philadelphia 114 .400 5 +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 .398 7 +Anson Chicago 88 .394 7 +Kelly Baltimore 129 .391 19 +Cross Philadelphia 128 .388 6 +Holliday Cincinnati 122 .383 4 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +BASE RUNNING. + +It should be borne in mind by the rulemakers of the League, and +especially by the magnates who pass upon the work done by the Rules +Committee, that base running has come to be as much of an art in the +game as is skilful, strategic pitching or team-work in batting. +Especially has skill in stealing bases become a potent factor +in winning games, and year after year is it increasing in popular favor +as one of the most attractive features of the game. Every manager of the +period should realize the important fact, that, however strong his team +may be in its "battery" department, or in the excellence of the field +support given the pitchers, it is lacking in one essential element of +strength if it be not up to the mark in base stealing by its +players. Effective pitching and sharp fielding are, of course, very +necessary to success in winning games, as also skilful batting, +especially of the strategic kind. While it is a difficult task to get to +first base safely in the face of a steady and effective fire from the +opposing "battery," backed up by good support from the field, it is +still more difficult when the first base is safely reached to secure the +other bases by good base stealing. The fact is, a greater degree of +intelligence is required in the player who would excel in base running +than is needed either in fielding or in batting. Any soft-brained +heavy-weight can occasionally hit a ball for a home run, but it requires +a shrewd, intelligent player, with his wits about him, to make a +successful base runner. Indeed, base running is the most difficult work +a player has to do in the game. To cover infield positions properly, a +degree of intelligence in the player is required, which the majority do +not as a general rule possess; but to excel in base running such mental +qualifications are required as only a small minority are found to +possess. Presence of mind, prompt action on the spur of the moment; +quickness of perception, and coolness and nerve are among the requisites +of a successful base runner. Players habitually accustomed to hesitate +to do this, that or the other, in attending to the varied points of a +game, can never become good base runners. There is so little time +allowed to judge of the situation that prompt action becomes a necessity +with the base runner. He must "hurry up" all the time. Then, too, he +must be daring in taking risks, while at the same time avoiding +recklessness in his running. + +Due consideration had not been given by the League magnates, up to 1895, +to the importance of having more definite rules governing the base +running in the game, the rules applicable to balks in pitching, as +affecting the base running, having been at no time as clear and definite +as they should be; nor have the existing rules bearing upon base running +been strictly observed by the majority of the umpires each year; +especially was this the case in 1892, when the observance of the balk +rule was very lax indeed. The difficulty in framing a proper rule for +the purpose is, to properly define the difference between a palpable +_fielding_ error, which enables a base to be run on the error, and an +error plainly induced by the very effort made to steal a base. No base +can be credited to a base runner as having been stolen which is the +result of a dropped fly ball, a wild throw to a base player, or a +palpable muff in fielding a batted ball. But in view of the difficulties +surrounding base stealing, it is not going out of the way to credit a +base as stolen when the effort of the runner, in taking ground and +getting a start to steal, leads to a passed ball, a failure to throw to +a base quick enough, or a failure on the part of a base player to put +the ball on the runner quick enough. Of course these are, to a certain +extent, errors on the part of the fielders, but they are not of the +class of _palpable errors_ as wild throws, dropped fly balls, and +failures to pick up batted balls, or to hold well thrown balls, are. The +other errors are consequent upon the effort on the part of the runner to +steal a base, and as such should be included as part and parcel of a +credited stolen base. + +#The Base Running of 1894.# + +The base running records of the past three years, under the rules of the +great major league, present a very interesting set of tables, whereby +one can judge of the good work done in this direction pretty +fairly. Below we give the full record of each season in stolen bases +from 1892 to 1894, inclusive, showing the totals of stolen bases by each +club each season, together with the aggregate of stolen bases for the +three years. We give the names of the twelve clubs in the order in which +they lead in stolen bases at the end of the three years of base running. +Here is the full record in question: + +RECORD OF TOTAL STOLEN BASES FOR 1892, 1893 AND 1894. +--------------------------------------------------- + CLUBS. 1892. 1893. 1894. TOTALS. +--------------------------------------------------- +1. New York 281 401 294 976 +2. Brooklyn 408 247 266 921 +3. Baltimore 197 261 320 778 +4. Chicago 216 237 324 777 +5. Cleveland 288 242 228 758 +6. Boston 337 174 230 741 +7. Pittsburgh 211 245 247 703 +8. Philadelphia 217 174 266 657 +9. Cincinnati 241 204 205 650 +10. Washington 250 142 209 601 +11. Louisville 228 174 198 600 +12. St. Louis 196 196 150 542 +--------------------------------------------------- +Totals 3070 2697 2937 8704 +--------------------------------------------------- + +It will be seen by the above record that the best base running, in the +aggregate of the three years' play, was made in 1892, the three leading +clubs in stolen bases that year being Brooklyn, Boston and Cleveland. In +1893 the three leaders in base running were New York, Baltimore and +Brooklyn, and the three leaders of the past season were Chicago, +Baltimore and Brooklyn, Philadelphia being tied with Brooklyn. The +tail-end clubs in stolen base records during the three years were +St. Louis in 1892, Washington in 1893 and St. Louis in 1894. In the +aggregate of the three years, New York stands first, Brooklyn second and +Baltimore third, St. Louis being a bad tail-ender in these total +figures. It is a noteworthy fact that when Brooklyn led in base running +Ward was captain, while when New York led the next year, Ward was +captain, too, New York jumping from .281 in 1892, when Ward was in +Brooklyn, to .401 in 1893, when he went to the New York club, Brooklyn +that year falling off from .408 to .247. Baltimore, too, made a big jump +in base running after Hanlon became manager, the jump being from .197 in +1892 to .320 in 1894. + +The highest totals of stolen bases in any one year was in 1892, there +being quite a falling off in 1893; while in 1894 a considerable +improvement was shown, the average for the three years being 2,901 for +the twelve clubs. + +Last season the Baltimore club's team, under Hanlon's control, excelled +all the other Eastern teams in stealing bases, Philadelphia being +second, New York third and Boston fourth in this respect, the +Baltimore's quartette of leading base stealers scoring a total of 212 +bases to Philadelphia's 185, New York's 180 and Boston's 156. The three +teams of the Western clubs which excelled in base running last season +were Chicago, with a total of 324; Pittsburgh, with 247, and Cleveland, +with 228. + +Had the umpires properly interpreted the balk rules in 1894, probably +the total of stolen bases for that year would have got up among the +twelve hundreds at least. This year they should be made to do it. + + +THE STOLEN BASE RECORD OF 1894. + +The record of stolen bases for 1894, showing the best nine base stealers +of each club is as appended. The names of clubs are given in pennant +race order, and of players in the order of percentage of stolen bases +per game. + + +THE RECORD OF THE FIRST DIVISION CLUBS. +---------------------------------------- + +BALTIMORE +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +McGraw 123 77 .636 +Bonner 27 11 .407 +Brodie 129 50 .388 +Kelley 129 45 .350 +Brouthers 126 40 .317 +Jennings 128 36 .281 +Keeler 128 30 .235 +Reitz 109 18 .165 +Robinson 106 9 .123 + +Totals 1005 820 .318 +---------------------------------------- + +NEW YORK +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Doyle 105 48 .457 +Fuller 95 34 .358 +Burke 138 47 .340 +Van Halt'n 139 44 .315 +Ward 136 41 .306 +Davis 124 37 .298 +Tiernan 112 24 .214 +German 19 4 .211 +Wilson 45 9 .200 + +Totals 1006 294 .292 +---------------------------------------- + +BOSTON +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Duffy 124 49 .395 +Bannon 127 42 .331 +McCarthy 126 40 .317 +Tierney 24 7 .292 +Long 103 25 .243 +Lowe 133 25 .188 +Tucker 122 19 .156 +Nash 132 19 .144 +Stivetts . 57 4 .070 + +Totals 948 230 .253 +---------------------------------------- + +PHILADELPHIA. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Hamilton 131 99 .756 +Thompson 102 29 .284 +Delahanty 104 29 .279 +Cross 120 28 .233 +Hallman 119 26 .218 +Boyle 116 22 .190 +Reilly 36 6 .167 +Sullivan 93 15 .161 +Turner 77 12 .157 + +Totals 898 266 .296 +---------------------------------------- + +BROOKLYN. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Griffin 106 48 .453 +Daly 123 53 .431 +LaChance 65 25 .385 +Shock 63 18 .286 +Corcoran 129 33 .256 +Burns 126 29 .230 +Foutz 73 16 .219 +Treadway 122 26 .213 +Shindle 117 18 .154 + +Totals 924 266 .288 +---------------------------------------- + +CLEVELAND. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Ewing 53 19 .385 +G. Tebeau 105 34 .324 +McGarr 127 34 .269 +McAleer 64 17 .266 +Burkett 124 32 .258 +McKean 130 32 .246 +Childs 117 20 .171 +O'Connor 80 13 .163 +O. Tebeau 109 27 .155 + +Totals 909 228 .251 +---------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the Baltimore club's nine excel the other five +clubs in the percentage of stolen bases, Philadelphia being second and +New York third; the other three following in order in percentage figures +as follows: Brooklyn, Boston and Cleveland. In total stolen bases by the +individual player, Hamilton leads with 99--the champion stolen-base +record of the season--McGraw being second and Duffy third, followed by +Griffin, Doyle and Ewing. + + +THE SECOND DIVISION LEADERS. +---------------------------- + +PITTSBURGH. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Stenzel 131 60 .450 +Hartman 44 17 .386 +E. Smith 125 37 .296 +Shiebeck 75 19 .244 +Donovan 131 31 .236 +Glasscock 86 20 .233 +Shugart 133 23 .172 +Bierbaur 131 20 .153 +Beckley 132 20 .152 + +Totals 987 247 .250 +---------------------------------------- + +CHICAGO. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Lange 112 71 .634 +Wilmot 135 76 .563 +Dableu 121 49 .415 +Parrott 126 34 .370 +Irwin 130 34 .262 +Decker 89 22 .247 +Anson 83 17 .205 +Ryan 108 12 .111 +Schriver 94 9 .096 + +Totals 998 324 .325 +---------------------------------------- + +ST. LOUIS. +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Dowd 123 34 .276 +Hogan 29 7 .248 +Ely 127 23 .181 +Pietz 100 17 .170 +Miller 125 20 .160 +Cooley 52 8 .154 +Quinn 106 26 .151 +Frank 80 12 .150 +Breitenstein 53 3 .057 + +Totals 795 150 .189 +---------------------------------------- + +CINCINNATI +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Latham 130 62 .477 +Holliday 122 39 .320 +McPhee 128 31 .242 +Hay 128 30 .235 +M. Murphy 76 5 .192 +Canavan 160 15 .150 +Vaughn 67 6 .097 +G. Smith 128 12 .094 +Merritt 66 5 .079 + +Totals 945 205 .217 +---------------------------------------- + +WASHINGTON +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Ward 89 36 .401 +Cartwright 132 35 .269 +Radford 106 26 .245 +Seebach 96 23 .240 +Joyce 98 23 .235 +Mercer 43 10 .233 +Abbey 129 30 .233 +Hassamer 116 15 .129 +McGuire 102 11 .108 + +Totals 911 209 .229 +---------------------------------------- + +LOUISVILLE +---------------------------------------- +Players. Games. Stolen Per cent. of + Bases. Stolen Bases. +---------------------------------------- +Brown 130 74 .569 +Smith 39 13 .333 +Pfeffer 104 33 .317 +Clark 76 24 .316 +Twitchell 51 9 .176 +Denny 60 10 .167 +Lutenberg 70 10 .143 +Grim 107 14 .131 +Richardson 116 11 .095 + +Totals 753 198 .263 +---------------------------------------- + +It will be seen that the leaders of the six second division clubs +aggregated a total of 337 bases, of which Brown is credited with 74, +Lange with 71, and Latham with 62. In percentages, however, Lange led +with .634, Brown being second with .569, and Latham third with .477, +Stenzel, Ward (of Washington) and Dowd following in order. In total +percentages, the Chicago nine led "by a large majority," Louisville +being second and Pittsburgh third, Washington beating both Cincinnati +and St. Louis, the latter club making a very poor show in base running +figures in 1894. + +THE LEADING BASE STEALERS OF EACH CLUB. + +The following record shows the leader of each club in percentage of +stolen bases, the names being given in the order of percentage figures: + +--------------------------------------------------- + Total Per cent. + Stolen of Stolen +Players. Clubs. Games. Bases. Bases. +--------------------------------------------------- +Hamilton Philadelphia 131 99 .756 +McGraw Baltimore 123 77 .636 +Lange Chicago 112 71 .626 +Brown Louisville 130 74 .569 +Latham Cincinnati 130 62 .477 +Doyle New York 105 48 .457 +Griffin Brooklyn 106 48 .453 +Stenzel Pittsburgh 131 60 .450 +Duffy Boston 124 49 .395 +Ewing Cleveland 53 19 .385 +F. Ward Washington 89 36 .306 +Dowd St. Louis 123 34 .276 +--------------------------------------------------- + +The record of the base runners of the twelve League clubs who have a +record of 10 stolen bases and less than 20 each for 1894 is as follows: + +--------------------------------------------------- +PLAYERS. CLUBS. Games. Stolen Bases. +--------------------------------------------------- + 1. Ewing Cleveland 53 19 + 2. Shiebeck Pittsburgh 75 19 + 3. Tucker Boston 122 19 + 4. Nash Boston 132 19 + 5. Shock Brooklyn 63 18 + 6. Reitz Baltimore 109 18 + 7. Shindle Brooklyn 117 18 + 8. McAleer Cleveland 64 17 + 9. Lyons Pittsburgh 72 17 +10. Anson Chicago 83 17 +11. Pietz St. Louis 100 17 +12. Foutz Brooklyn 73 16 +13. Zimmer Cleveland 88 15 +14. Sullivan Philadelphia. 93 15 +15. Canavan Cincinnati 100 15 +16. Hassamer Washington 116 15 +17. Grimm Louisville 107 14 +18. Smith Louisville 39 13 +19. O'Connor Cleveland 80 13 +20. Robinson Baltimore 106 13 +21. Hartman Pittsburgh 49 12 +22. Frank St. Louis 80 12 +23. Turner Philadelphia. 77 12 +24. Ryan Chicago 108 12 +25. G. Smith Cincinnati 128 12 +26. Bonner Baltimore 27 11 +27. McGuire Washington 102 11 +28. Richardson Louisville 116 11 +29. Mercer Washington 43 10 +30. Denny Louisville 70 10 +31. Lutenberg Louisville 70 10 +32. O'Rourke St. Louis 80 10 +33. Farrell New York 112 10 +--------------------------------------------------- + +Those who did not steal a single base were pitchers Esper, +Dwyer, J. Clarkson, Ehret, Staley, Whitrock, McGill, +Wadsworth and catcher Buckley. + + + +THE FIELDING OF 1894. + +Season after season finds the fielding in base ball better attended to +than any other department of the game; and it is fortunate for the +business end of professional ball playing that it is so, as skilful +fielding is decidedly the most attractive feature of our national +game. Next to fielding comes base running, and lastly batting. The +reason that so much more skill is shown in the fielding department than +in that of batting, is due to the fact that more attention is giving to +fielding than to batting. Regular training in team-work batting is +practically unknown in the professional arena; while practice in +fielding is given every attention. No game is played now-a-days without +an hour being devoted to preliminary practice in fielding, while +efficient batting is unknown except in the college arena, the +professionals ignoring team-work batting practice in nearly every +club. Hence the superiority fielding has attained over the batting. Go +on any amateur field and watch a game in progress, and you can readily +see the inferiority in fielding exhibited in comparison with that shown +on the professional fields. It is not so in the batting, however. The +reason is that amateurs have not the time to devote to the practice +required to excel in fielding; but they can bat out three-baggers and +home-runs as easily as the record batsmen do in the professional fields; +it is different, however, in the case of doing team-work at the bat, +owing to their not having time for the necessary practice. + +Some splendid fielding was done in 1894, but as a whole it was not +superior to that of 1893, or even to that of 1892. One reason for this +was the introduction of the catcher's "big mitt" in the infield +work--something that should not have been allowed. It was due to this +fact that the batting scores were not larger the past season than they +were in 1893, the big mitt on the hands of infielders enabling them to +stop hard hit "bounders" and "daisy cutters" which, but for the use of +the mitts, would have been clean earned base hits. This gave the +infielders an opportunity to materially lessen the base hit record. By a +mistaken calculation, the pitchers were charged with doing less +effective work, single figure games being in a majority last season. + +In contrast to the attractions of fine fielding, the average batting of +the period is decidedly behindhand. What sight on a ball field is +prettier to the good judge of the fine points of the game, than to see a +hard hit "bounder" well stopped and accurately thrown from back of third +base over to first base in time to cut off a rapid runner? or to see a +splendidly judged fly ball held after a long run; or a hot "liner" +caught on the jump by an infielder; or a beautiful triple play made from +the infield; or a good double play from a neat catch, followed by a +fine, long throw-in from the outfield? All these attractive features of +sharp fielding all can enjoy and appreciate. But in the batting +department too little team-work at the bat--that is, skilful scientific +handling of the bat in the form of _place_ hitting, to forward +runners--is done to gratify good judges, the mere novices regarding +over-the-fence hits for a home run as the very acme of "splendid +batting," though they are invariably chance hits, and only made off poor +pitching as a rule. Then, too, how the "groundlings," as Hamlet called +them, enjoy "fungo" hitting, that is high balls hit in the air flying to +the outfield, this style of hitting giving fifty chances for catches to +every single home run. Time and again will one hear a "bleacher" remark, +"I don't care if the ball was caught, it was a good hit," as if any hit +could be a good one which gave an easy chance for a catch. When a +"fungo" hitter takes his bat in hand all he thinks of is to "line 'em +out, Tommy," in response to the calls from the "bleaching boards;" and +when the ball goes up in the air to outfield a shout bursts forth from +the crowd, only to be suddenly stopped as the ball is easily caught at +deep outfield by an outfielder placed there purposely for the catch by +the pitcher's skilful pitching for catches. Contrast this method of +batting to that of place hitting which yields a safe tap to short +outfield, ensuring an earned base; or the skilful "bunt" hit made at a +time when the fielders are expecting a "line-'em-out" hit; or a +sacrifice hit, following a good effort for a base hit to right field, +which should mark all attempts to forward runners, especially when on +third base. Of course there are skilful outfield hits made in team-work, +but they are confined to hot, low liners, giving no chance for a catch, +or hard hit "daisy cutters," which yield two or three bases; but every +ball hit in the air to outfield shows weak batting, and this style of +hitting it is which gives so many chances for catches in a game. It +will be readily seen how inferior the "bleaching-board" style of batting +is to team-work at the bat, and how much more attractive fielding is in +contrast to the popular "fungo" hitting method, of which there was +altogether too much in the League ranks last season to make the batting +compare with the fielding, as an attractive feature of the game. + + + +Single Figure Games. + +There is a great difference between first-class single figure games, +marked by batting against skilful, strategic pitching, backed up by +splendid in and outfield support, and the class of contests known as +"pitchers' games." The former are contests in which runners reaching +second and even third base by good hits are cut off from scoring runs by +superior pitching and fielding, and this class of games comprises the +model contests of each season. On the other hand, the "pitchers' games," +which yield single figure scores, are tedious and wearisome to the best +judges of the game, from the fact that the brunt of the work falls on +the "battery" team and one or two infielders, all the attractions of +base running and of sharp fielding being sacrificed at the cost of +seeing batsman after batsman retired on called strikes, arising from the +intimidating speed of the pitching, this requiring the batsman to devote +his whole energies to defending himself from the severe and often fatal +injuries following his being hit by the pitched ball. Fortunately, the +change in the distance between the pitcher and batsman has decreased the +opportunity for this class of unattractive games. But it will not do to +go over to the other side and by too much weakening of the box work give +the "line-'em-out" class of "fungo" hitters a chance to revel in +over-the-fence hits, and give the batsman undue preponderance in the +effort to equalize the powers of the attack and defense in the +game. Single figure games should outnumber double figure contests to +make the game attractive for the scientific play exhibited, but not in +the line of being the result of "cyclone" pitching. + + +The Umpiring of 1894. + +The umpiring of 1894, despite of the new rules adopted early in the year +governing the position, was no improvement over that of 1893; in fact, +in several instances it was worse. The explicitly worded rule, +prohibiting umpires from allowing any player, except the captain, to +dispute a single decision of the umpire, was allowed to be openly +violated by nearly every umpire on the staff. Then, too, as a rule, +they, the majority, lacked the nerve and the courage of their +convictions too much to keep in check the blackguardism displayed by a +small minority of the players of the League teams of 1894; some of the +umpires also displayed a degree of temper at times which sadly marred +their judgment. That they all endeavored to do their duty impartially, +goes without saying, but no umpire is fit for his position who cannot +_thoroughly control his temper_. There was one instance shown of the +folly of condoning the offence of drinking, which should not have been +allowed; a drunken umpire is worse than a drunken player, for no one +will respect his decisions. None such should be allowed on the League +staff under any circumstances; moreover, no umpire connected with the +low-lived prize-fighting business should be allowed on the League staff, +no matter what his ability may be in other respects. When it becomes a +necessity to have to engage pugilists as umpires to control hoodlum +players, then will professional ball playing cease to be worthy of +public patronage. + +One great drawback to the successful umpiring which was expected to +follow the revision of the rules made in March, 1894, was the +countenancing of the abuse of umpires by the magnates of the clubs +themselves. When presidents and directors of clubs fail to rebuke the +faults of their club managers in allowing incompetent or hot-headed +captains to set their players bad examples in this respect, they have no +right to find fault with the poor umpiring which follows. + +In the recent past, the rule on the League ball fields--and minor +leagues copy all that the major league does--has been that, from the +time the umpire takes up his position behind the bat, from the beginning +to the end of a game, he finds both the contesting teams regarding him +as a common enemy, the losing side invariably blaming him as the primary +cause of their losing the game. + +Then, too, in addition to the contesting teams as his foes, there are +the majority of the crowd of spectators to be added to the list, the +rougher element of the assemblage, the latter of whom regard the umpire +as an especial target for abuse in every instance in which the home team +is defeated. Last on the list of the umpire's opponents are the betting +class of reporters, who take delight in pitching into him whenever his +decisions--no matter how impartially he acts--go against their pet club +or the one they bet on. + +It is a fact not to be disputed, that those of the crowd of spectators +at a ball game, who are so ready to condemn umpires for alleged +partiality in their work, or for a supposed lack of judgment in +rendering their decisions, never give a moment's thought to the +difficulties of the position he occupies, or to the arduous nature of +the work he is called upon to perform. There he stands, close behind the +catcher and batsman, where he is required to judge whether the +swiftly-thrown ball from the pitcher, with its erratic "curves" and +"shoots," darts in over the home base, or within the legal range of the +bat. The startling fact is never considered that several umpires have +been killed outright while occupying this dangerous position. Neither +does any one reflect for a moment that the umpire occupies this perilous +position while regarded as a common enemy by both of the contesting +teams, and as a legitimate object for insulting abuse from the partisan +portion of the crowd of spectators. In fact, the umpire stands there as +the one defenseless man against thousands of pitiless foes. The wonder +is that half the umpires in the arena are as successful in the discharge +of their arduous duties as they are, and the still greater wonder is +that any self-respecting man can be induced to occupy a position which +is becoming year after year more objectionable. There can be no +successful umpiring accomplished in the position, no matter how perfect +the code of rules governing the umpiring may apparently be, as long as +that nuisance of the ball field, the professional "kicker," is allowed +to have his way. In view of the express rules which are in the code, +prohibiting the disputing of a single decision made by the umpire, it is +astonishing that the umpires themselves, not to mention club managers +and field captains, are so derelict in their duty in not enforcing the +letter of the law of the code in this respect. + +Let the magnates remember, when they say to each other this year--as +they did at the close of the season of 1894--that "this hoodlumism in +professional ball playing must be stopped," that _it is themselves who +are to blame_ for the blackguardism exhibited in the League arena in +1894. It is the failure of presidents and directors of League clubs to +do their duty which is the real cause of such umpiring as we had in +1894. Club managers of teams, as a rule, do what they know the club +presidents or directors quietly approve of or countenance, hence the +latitude given to the hoodlum tactics of the rough element in each team. +Don't blame umpires from meekly following the example club presidents +and directors afford their team managers and captains. + + + + +Editorial Comments + + +ON THE OCCURRENCES, EVENTS AND NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS OF 1894 IN THE BASE +BALL ARENA. + +Here is a list of the rules governing the movements of the pitcher, in +delivering the ball to the bat, which we saw violated repeatedly during +1894, without any protests from any of the umpires who acted in the +games we reported. First-- + +Not a pitcher had his foot in contact with the rubber plate last season, +all of them invariably placing their back foot a few inches in front of +the plate. Not one pitcher in ten, after feigning to throw to a base, +resumed his position, as required by the rule, after making the +feint. Not one in ten held the ball "firmly in front of his body," as +the rule requires. Not one in ten faced the batsman, as required by Rule +30. As for the balk rule it was as openly violated last season almost as +it was in 1893. Time and again was Section 29, Rule 32, violated as was +Section 3 all the time, as not one had his foot in position as the rule +requires, and yet not an umpire fined a single pitcher for the violation +of the rules in question, that we saw. + +What the pitching rules should be made to foster is, first--_thorough +command of the ball_, with the consequent accuracy of aim in delivery; +secondly--the substitution of _skilful strategy_ in delivery in the +place of mere intimidating speed; thirdly--the avoidance of the wear and +tear of an extremely swift delivery of the ball; fourthly--the +prevention of obstacles to successful base running, in the way of +allowing too many balk movements in preventing stolen bases. These +desirable objects were almost impossible of attainment under the +badly-worded rules in existence in 1894. + +In regard to the wearing of the catcher's "big mitt" by infielders in +1894, it is worthy of note that that first-class utility man of the +Philadelphia team, "Lave" Cross, while wearing a catcher's mitt as third +baseman--a large one at that, too--used it to such advantage that it was +next to impossible for a ball hit to his position to get by him. At +times it was simply laughable to see him stop ground hits. To wear such +gloves is making a travesty of skilful infield work in stopping hard +hit, bounding or ground balls. But with the speedy batting of the hard +ball now in use, the stopping of hard hit balls in the infield becomes +dangerous to the fingers without the aid of small gloves. But no such +glove as the catcher's mitt should be allowed to be used save by the +catchers or first basemen. In this position the "mitt" in question is a +necessity in view of the great speed of the pitcher's delivery and the +extremely wild, swift throwing from the field positions to first +base. It should be borne in mind that in the days when gloves were not +worn, when the pitching was far less swift than now, even then broken +and split fingers marked nearly every contest, and behind the bat four +catchers were needed where one or two will now suffice. + +A Washington scribe, in commenting on Manager Schmelz's work in 1894, +said: "Schmelz is a base ball man from the crown of his head to the +soles of his feet, and we have been taught to believe here that when he +says he will do a thing he comes pretty near fulfilling his +prediction. If the team gets a fairly good start at the beginning of +this season he is just as like as not to let several teams chase him +under the wire in September next. A lack of team-work and a most +deplorable weakness at short, second and third throughout the past +season lost the team many a game." + +To this latter list may be added, incompetent captaining of the team by +the noted kicker, Joyce. + +The Boston correspondent of the St. Louis Sporting News, in one of his +letters of last winter, sent the following interesting account of an +interview had between Manager Selee, of the Bostons, and a business man +he met on a train last October. The B.M. asked the manager "whether +ball-players, as a class, were a disreputable set of men, who made a +practice of spending their money foolishly, and of saying and doing +things on the ball field that were decidedly objectionable; also if, in +consequence, the interest in the game had not to a very large degree +been on the wane for a number of years past? He said he had read in the +papers of a number of acts that had led him to believe that such was the +case, and that, while formerly he had been an attendant at the games, +that latterly he had lost his desire in that respect, though he still +had an interest in all that is published about the game and the +ball-players." Mr. Selee at once attempted to show the gentleman where +his opinion was at fault, and an interesting conversation was carried on +until the train reached Boston, the gentleman severely criticising the +players and the Boston manager defending them. + +The correspondent, in commenting on this, wrote as follows: "This +incident opens anew a topic that has created considerable discussion for +several years, and which was brought most forcibly to the public eye by +a number of cases that occurred during the season of 1894, namely: Has +the rough, rowdy, disreputable, hoodlum element increased or decreased +in the professional arena in the past five or ten years?" Further on he +adds: "Any intelligent, unprejudiced student of the game cannot but +reach the conclusion that in recent years the excessive drinkers, the +foul-mouthed talkers, in short, the worst element in the professional +ranks, has been gradually weeded out, until the evil has been reduced to +almost a minimum, while the intelligence, manliness and exemplary habits +of the players have increased correspondingly; where, even five years +ago, a ball team could be found where a majority of its players were of +the drinking, gambling, disreputable class, to-day can be seen the +results of a great and gratifying reform in the personnel of the teams, +brought about largely by the efforts of the management, who have had +their eyes opened to the trend of public opinion, and have gradually +gotten rid of this unpopular element, and secured in their places +players of a far different plane of morals." Judging from reports of +contests in the League arena in 1894, the reformation above referred to +has been far too slow in its progress for the good of the game. Witness +the novelty in League annals of men fighting each other or striking +umpires on the field, the use of vile language in abuse of umpires, and +the many instances of "dirty" ball playing recorded against the majority +of the League club teams of the past season. "The time was," says the +same writer, "when a ball player's skill was the primary recommendation +for an engagement, his moral qualifications being of a secondary +consideration. To-day, however, while playing skill is, of course, one +of the leading qualities that an applicant for honors on the diamond +field must possess, it does not fill the whole bill by any means. His +habits, his influence among his fellow players, his general reputation +with the public, are also taken into consideration more than before, and +if he can pass muster in all these respects he is eligible for +engagement in all well managed teams." + +In commenting on the existing situation of the professional branch of +our grand national game, Mr. Wm. H. Bell, the Kansas correspondent of +the St. Louis Sporting News, says: "The growth and development of our +national game as been wonderful. Its success has been unparalleled in +the world's history of athletic sports, and stands to-day a living +monument to the courage, energy and perseverance of the American +people. When we pause a moment in our contemplation of the brilliant +future of our game and turn a glance back over the past, and try to +realize that less than one generation has lived since the birth of base +ball, and our fathers guided its first feeble steps, even we Americans, +familiar with progress unequaled in the history of the world, are forced +to marvel at the rapid growth of this athletic sport." Further on, on +the same topic, Mr. Bell says very truly: "While base ball has advanced +with great strides, its growth has been normal and healthy. Its success +is not the result of a boom, giving it a fictitious value, its +prosperity is not as an inflated balloon that will collapse when torn by +the knife of adversity. It is but a creation of man, and while its life +has been one of unequaled prosperity it has suffered, as do all things +of this earth. One factor has ever been potent in its success and that +is honesty. The honesty of the game has always been its motto, and +though often assailed has still remained intact. This, alone, has gained +for baseball a foothold in the hearts of the American people that +nothing can dislodge. Americans are known the world over as lovers of +fair and honest sport, and to base ball they have given their unswerving +allegiance." Here is a merited compliment to the National League from +the same able pen: "Our national game was never so firmly established in +the hearts of the people as at the present time. It is safe in the hands +of true and tried men, who are devoting their lives to its success. It +is dominated and controlled by that grand old organization, the National +League, which for twenty years has been the great exponent of the game, +and has done more to advance the game than any other factor. The League +has, during its life, stood on one platform, "honesty and purity in base +ball," and has always retained the confidence and respect of the +people. It has elevated the game until to-day base ball stands on a firm +foundation of popular approval unequaled by any other athletic +sport. While the game has advanced with marvelous rapidity it has +experienced short periods of depression and stagnation during its career +of thirty years. It has had enemies who have sought to pervert it for +their own uses. It has been all but torn asunder by civil war. But each +time it has bravely met the issue and in the end triumphed. It is just +now recovering from the effects of a civil war which all but destroyed +it. The rapidity with which it has recovered has been wonderful and is +to me a greater proof of prosperity and success than any success that +could come to it while enjoying a long period of peace." We regret not +having space to quote more at length from Mr. Bell's very able article +published in the Sporting News of January 12th last. + + * * * * * + +The Following Paragraph, Published In The New York Clipper Of February +5, 1895, Tells A Quiet Little Story Well Worthy Of Record In The Guide: +"A.G. Spalding, Of The Chicago Club, Was Asked How So Much Stock Of The +New York Club Came To Be Owned By Outside Parties, And He Said: 'well, I +Will Tell You. During The Troublous Brotherhood Times Of 1890, Along In +July, I Think, I Was Suddenly Summoned To New York. I Went Direct To +Mr. Abell's House, By Request, Entirely Oblivious Of The Object Of The +Sudden Call, And There Met Soden Of Boston, Reach Of Philadelphia, Byrne +Of Brooklyn, Brush Of Indianapolis, And One Or Two Others. There We +Received The Pleasant Information From John B. Day That The New York +Club Was Financially At The End Of Its Rope, And Must Have Immediate +Assistance. Imagine Our Surprise When We Were Told That The Club Must +Have $80,000 At Once To Carry It Through The Season, Or The New York +Club Must Give Up Its End Of The Fight. When We Had Collected Our +Senses Sufficiently To Speak, It Was The General Opinion That If The New +York Club Failed At That Stage Of The Game, The Fight With The +Brotherhood Was Lost, And The Future Of The Old National League Was, To +Say The Least, Uncertain; So It Was Finally Decided That We Must Save +The New York Club At All Hazards, And Before We Separated That Night I +Agreed To Provide $20,000, Soden And Brush Came Forward With Similar +Amounts, And The Balance Was Taken By Reach, Abell And One Or Two +Others, As I Remember. It Was Pretty Costly, But That Prompt Act Saved +The National League, And, By Saving It, The Future Of Professional Base +Ball In This Country Was, In My Opinion, Also Saved. This Will Explain +How I First Became Interested In The New York Club, And, As A Result, +Find Myself Criticised For Ever Being Permitted To Hold Any Of The +Stock. Of This $20,000 Stock Alloted To Chicago, Anson Took And Paid +Cash For $5,000, Another Chicago Gentleman Took $5,000, My Brother +Walter $5,000 And Myself $5,000. Afterward I Sold Or Practically Gave My +Stock To My Brother, And I Think He Picked Up Some More While He Was A +Director Of The Club. That Brotherhood Fight Was A Great Fight, And One +That Will Probably Never Be Duplicated. The Real Inside History Of That +Struggle, And Its Final Settlement, Was Never Written, But If It Ever +Is, It Will Prove Quite Interesting, As Well As Quite A Surprise To The +Base Ball Men Of That Day. But Why Talk In This Strain Any Longer. You +Know I Am Out Of Active Base Ball, And These Reminiscences Simply +Emphasize The Fact That I Ought To Be Out Of It, For I Am Getting Too +Old.'" + +What A Commentary On The Selfish Greed Of The Overpaid Star Players Of +The "Out-For-The-Stuff" Class Of The Professional Fraternity +Mr. Spalding's Account Of One Costly Result Of The Players' Revolt Of +1890 The Above Story Presents. It Also Tells The True Story Of How The +Above-Named Magnates Of The Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn And +Indianapolis Clubs Of 1890 Came To Be Financially Interested In The New +York Club, Not For Profit, But To Save The Disruption Of The League. + + * * * * * + +The veteran Comiskey thus explains the difference in one special +respect, between a seasoned player and a _colt_--and he is one who ought +to know, you know. He said, in an interview: "No one appreciates the +superiority of hustling, aggressive youngsters over the old standbys of +the diamond more than I do. A seasoned player, as a rule, develops into +a mechanical player who is always watching his averages and keeping tab +on himself. While he may be too loyal to shirk, he will not take a +chance which he is not compelled to. Especially is this true in running +bases. How many of these old players will slide or go into a bag when +they are blocked off? Very few. On the other hand, a young player +appreciates that he has to make a reputation, while the old player, who +has one to protect, is in the business for a livelihood and nothing +else. Popular applause has lost its favor for him, and, while it is not +unwelcome, it does not stimulate him to renewed exertions as it did when +he began his career. It is entirely different with the man who is trying +to establish himself in the major league. An ambitious young player +thinks that the game depends upon him, and is dead sure that every crank +agrees with him. Give him a good send-off in the papers, or let his +manager commend him for a creditable piece of work, and he will break +his neck in his efforts to deserve another installment to-morrow. The +public demands snappy ball, and the young players are the only ones who +can serve up that article." + +In his remarks, Comiskey furthermore said: "The good effect of a +manager's or captain's praise of a 'colt' is surprising. Both of these +officials of the League clubs, almost without exception, are apt to be +silent as the grave when a player makes a good point or a fine stop or +catch; but the moment he fails to make an almost impossible play then +comes the ill-natured snarl or the rutty growl. Harry Wright stands out +alone as the only manager or captain to encourage a player with praise." + + * * * * * + +A Philadelphia scribe, in commenting on the rowdy ball playing of 1894 +in the League ranks, says: "We could fill pages with evidence of the +rowdyism indulged in by the majority of the League teams during the +season of 1894, and that, too, if we were only to confine ourselves to +the local reports of the season at Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, +Baltimore, and half a dozen other cities." As the Cleveland Leader had +it, in commenting upon one of the Baltimore-Cleveland games: + +"I say it with reluctance--for I have always admired Ned Hanlon's +pluck--that the national game never received so severe a set-back as it +did during the last Baltimore series here. The effort to spike players, +the constant flow of profanity and vulgarity, the incessant and idiotic +abuse of an umpire, all combined to make the Baltimore club--that local +people have been led to believe was made of a crowd of earnest, honest +players--thoroughly despised and detested. In ten years' experience in +scoring games in Cleveland I have never heard such a torrent of +vulgarity, profanity and brutal, senseless abuse heaped upon an umpire +as Lynch stood from the Baltimore players upon the field here." + +Similar charges against visiting teams were made by the Pittsburgh +people against the Cleveland team; by the Philadelphia scribes against +the Bostons, etc. In fact, proof, and plenty of it, was easily +attainable from the reports from every League city during 1894, to a +more or less extent. + +The question apropos to this comment is, "What are you going to do about +it" in 1895, Messrs. Magnates? + + * * * * * + +John Rowe, the veteran player, who was one of the "Big Four," +transferred from the Buffalo club to the Detroit club, in the fall of +1885, is a firm believer in Southern trips during the preliminary +season, to get the players in condition for a championship season. In +speaking on that subject, he said: "The year the Detroits won the +National League pennant we went South, and before the regular season +opened that team had played over 40 games. In consequence we were in +the acme of condition, and some of the teams nearly lost their breath +when they tackled us for the first time. The men could hit like fiends, +and field fast and perfect. There were no cases of 'charley horse' in +our team, and as for 'glass arms,' they were not included in our +outfit. It is a great thing, I tell you, and the managers who take their +men into a warm climate are doing a sensible act. According to my idea +the plan is to first practice until the players become limbered up, say +for a week or so, before attempting to play a game. Then get in as many +games as possible, without overdoing it, until the regular schedule +begins, In the exhibition games the experiments can be tried out, and +the men will gradually learn to play together, which means much to a +club. Of course, there is more or less luck in base ball, but at the +same time luck can't win alone all the time. Team-work and an agreeable +manager count a long ways toward winning a pennant." We would add to the +last line, that the absence of drinking and hoodlumism in the ranks is +equally a necessity. + + * * * * * + +In the arena of minor leagues, in professional baseball, outside of the +sectional leagues, like those of the Western, Eastern, Southern, New +England and other like leagues, there is no class of minor leagues which +is so much fostered as individual State leagues. Trio or duo State +leagues should be avoided except in very exceptional cases. In the +organization of the various minor leagues in existence, one special +point has been too much neglected, and that is the importance of making +the league's pennant race specially attractive by the attractive +character of the honors to be won. Sectional leagues, made up of +well-arranged circuits, present as good attractions in their +championship honors at stake as that of the great major league, and next +to these come the pennant races of State leagues. But what special +object, in this respect, is there to strike for in the championships of +trio or duo State leagues? None whatever. They are mere gate-money +organizations, lacking all of the attractive features of sectional and +State league pennant races. State leagues also possess the advantage of +not interfering with the interests of the sectional leagues which +include State clubs. Take any State in which professional base ball +flourishes, and in the State there will be found two classes of +professional clubs, viz., the one strong class, which exist in the +larger cities of the State, and the weaker class which represents the +smaller towns. The sectional leagues, of course, seek to attach the +former to their circuits, leaving the latter eligible for State league +circuits. + + * * * * * + +For many years past columns of space in papers making base ball a +specialty have been occupied with long arrays of figures giving the +averages of the players in the batting and fielding departments of the +game. To such an extent has this feature of the annual statistics of the +game been carried that the records based upon these averages have come +to be regarded by the players as the primary object in view during each +season's work in the field. As a result of this system those club +directors and managers who have never fully examined into the merits of +the subject, and who are not, therefore, aware of the fact that, as +criterions of the most skilful play in each department, these averages +are comparatively useless, have been led into the costly error of making +their selections for their teams each season upon the basis of the +figures of the players' averages, and hence the customary announcement +made at the beginning of each season that "our team has the best batting +average of the season." It is about time that the fallacy of this +average business should be shown up in its true light and that the +existing system of making out averages should be so changed as to make +it some sort of a test of a player's skill in his home position, which +it certainly is not now. The worst of this average business as it +prevails now is that it is a powerful incentive for every player to make +"playing for a record" his principal object in his season's work, and +that all-important duty, "playing for the side," a matter of secondary +consideration. + + * * * * * + +The cranks' title of "Giants," given years ago to the New York club's +team, has become a misnomer. The team most entitled to it in 1894 was +that of the Chicago club, no other club team making such a show of +heavyweight players last season as did Anson's real "Giants," as will be +seen by the appended record. Look at the figures of their biggest men: + +-------------------------------------------- + Height Weight + Feet Inches lbs. +-------------------------------------------- +Schriver, catcher 5 10 185 +Camp, pitcher 6 160 +Anson, first base 6 1 202 +L. Camp, second base 6 165 +Parrott, third base 5 11 160 +Clayton, short stop 6 1 180 +Decker, left field 6 1 180 +Lange, centre field 6 1 180 +Dungan, right field 5 11 180 + ---- ------ ---- + Average 6 173 +-------------------------------------------- + +How does Murphy, Fuller, Burke, Ward _et al_ stand in weight and size +compared to the above "Giants"? + + * * * * * + +Here is something worthy of note by club managers who begin to get their +teams together each spring, which we clipped from the St. Louis Sporting +News of last December. The editor of the News said: "The player that is +on the upward path is the man for success. He is playing for something +far more than the salary he gets. He is looking forward to a place in +the foremost ranks of the nation's ball players. Consequently he proves +to be a hard worker at all times. He tries to land his club in the top +notch, and his record, for the part he took, stands out as a +recommendation to all the world. On the other hand, the older player, +who has made his record and is going down again, has lost all his +ambition. He can put no life into the club, his ginger has been expended +in the days gone by, and the people look upon him as a back number. He +sticks to the profession generally for a livelihood. He wants to play +so as to hold his place, but he has lost the powers that he once had, +and cannot do what he would like to accomplish. The old-timers had +better get a hump on themselves this year, else will the youngsters +drive them out of the business." + + * * * * * + +The well-known base ball writer, Mr. Pringle, was right when he said: +"It is useless to get new rules until existing ones have been rigidly +enforced and tested." It is an undeniable fact that the umpires of 1894, +almost without exception, failed to properly enforce the rules governing +the umpire's duties. In this regard Mr. Pringle said: "The rules +relating to the duties of umpires are all right. They have power to stop +all rowdy conduct on the field, but the trouble has been the lack of +nerve on the part of umpires to enforce the rules." This, and the fact +that the presidents and directors of clubs who governed the managers and +captains of teams, were largely to blame in the matter for not backing +up the umpires as they should have done. The latter have arduous duties +enough to discharge as it is without their finding obstacles in their +way in the partisan actions of club officials who control club managers +and captains. When this class supports the umpires against the club +teams it will be time enough to lay the whole onus of hoodlumism in the +ranks on the umpires--not until then. + + * * * * * + +A Philadelphia scribe hits the nail on the head when, in commenting on +the existing abuses of kicking and dirty ball playing in the League +arena, he says: "If the club owners would take the initiative in +enforcing decorum upon their players, upon pain of fine or suspension, +instead of shifting the burden and onus upon the umpire, the problem of +order at ball games would be solved at once. But the majority of +magnates and managers, while openly, hypocritically, deploring dirty ball +playing, secretly wink at it and rather enjoy it, especially if their +particular club secures advantages from it. The players all know this, +and so do the umpires; hence the former presume upon it, while the +latter weaken in their intent and desire to strictly enforce the +rules. When the duty of preserving order on the field and decorum among +the players is devolved upon the clubs, who represent direct authority, +power and responsibility, instead of irresponsible umpires, then, and +not till then will the evils complained of cease, or at least be +mitigated." + + +Al Wright, the base ball editor of the New York Clipper, in its issue of +February 15, 1895, had this noteworthy paragraph in its columns: "Frank +C. Bancroft, the business manager of the Cincinnati club, in speaking +about the equalization of the players of the major league teams, said: +'I am not a firm believer in the prevalent practice of selling the best +men in a weak or tail-end team to one of the leading clubs, and register +a vigorous kick against it. My plan is that the National League shall +pass a rule forbidding the sale of a player from a club in the second +division, to a club in the first division. I think this would, in a +measure, prevent some of the hustling to dispose of a clever man for the +sake of the cash that is in the trade. There is certainly some good +arguments in the idea, and not one against it. The clubs of the second +division have been too willing to dispose of their best men for a decent +cash consideration, and the damage that has been done to the game is +incalculable.'" + + +A young Brooklyn writer, in commenting on the threatened war on the +reserve rule which Messrs. Richter, Pfeffer, Buckenberger and Barnie +were active in promoting, said: "Since the National League and American +Association amalgamated at Indianapolis in 1892 the League has not been +a glorious success." The reply to this is a statement of fact which +contradicts the above assertion very flatly. The reorganized National +League started its new career in the spring of 1892 with an +indebtedness, resulting from the base ball war of 1891, of over +$150,000. At the close of the season of 1892 it had partially redeemed +its heavy indebtedness, and by the close of the season of 1893 it had +paid the debt off in full, and it closed the season of 1894 with a +majority of its clubs having a surplus in their treasuries, and that, +too, despite the hardest kind of times of financial depression. If this +is not a glorious success, pray what is? + + +A Pittsburgh scribe, in commenting on the dead failure of the scheme to +organize a new American Association, one object of which was to levy war +upon the now permanently established rule of the National Agreement +clubs, very pointedly said last winter that "such a scheme would be +folly of the maddest kind. There is not a good reason, theoretical or +practical, sentimental or otherwise, in support of it. The success of +base ball, to a very great extent, depends on public sentiment, and we +have seen what a base ball war did to that sentiment four years +ago. There is one solid basis for all base ball organizations, and that +is the reserve rule. The proposed organization ignores this fundamental +and necessary principle, and consequently can only be compared to that +foolish man who built a house on sand." + + +During the decade of the eighties the League's code of rules had this +special clause in it: + +"Any player who shall be in any way interested in any bet or wager on +the game in which he takes part, either as a player, umpire, or scorer, +shall be suspended from legal service as a member of any professional +Association club for the season during which he shall have violated this +rule." + +The question is, Why was this important and much-needed rule taken from +the code? + +No player can play ball as he should do who is personally interested in +any bet on the content he is engaged in; that is a fact too true to be +contradicted. Independent of this fact, too. Experience has plainly +shown that the step of betting on a game he plays in is but a short one +from accepting bribes to lose a game. The rule should long ago have been +replaced in the code. + + +The Cleveland Leader says: "The patrons of the game have begun to +realize the true inwardness of scientific batting, as shown in the +securing of single bases by well-timed place hits, safe taps of +swiftly-pitched balls to short outfield, and skilful efforts in +sacrifice hitting and bunting, every such hit forwarding a run or +sending a run in. Of course, to occupants of the bleaching boards, as a +rule, the great attraction is the long hit for a home run, which is made +at the cost of a 120-yards sprint, and at the loss of all chances for +skilful fielding. But to the best judges of scientific batting the safe +tap of the swiftly pitched ball, the well-judged bunt or the effort to +make a safe hit to right field, which, if it fails, at least yields a +sacrifice hit, is far more attractive than the old rut of slugging for +home runs and making fungo hits to the outfielders." + +There is something to fight for in the winning of a State league's +championship honors, while there is little or nothing at stake in a trio +or duo State league. Suppose each State had a four or six club circuit, +and at the close of its season, each August or September, what a paying +series of October games could be arranged in the Southern section of the +country in October for a grand championship series for the prize of +leading all the State leagues of the country for the honors of the +champion pennant of State league organizations? By all means let State +leagues be organized, until every State in the Union--North, South, East +and West--has its representative State league. + +The fickle nature of base ball "rooters" was conspicuously shown at the +Polo Grounds in 1894. At the end of the June campaign, when the New York +"Giants" stood sixth in the race, Ward's stock among the local "cranks" +and "rooters," stood below par; at the close of the July campaign, +however, that same stock was at a premium; and yet it was the same John +M. Ward at the head of the "Giants." In May there were "none so poor to +do him reverence." In August, John was carried off the field a hero. Of +such are the "cranks" and "rooters." + +A Toronto paper says: "Spalding Brothers will present to the champion +club of all regularly organized base ball leagues, junior or senior, in +Canada, a valuable flag, 11x28, pennant shaped, made of serviceable +white bunting, red lettered, and valued at $20. The flags will be +forwarded, duty free, immediately after the season closes. Each league +must consist of four or more clubs, and each club must play not less +than 12 championship games." This is a good plan to encourage the game +on foreign soil. It has worked well in England and Australia, too. + +Among the magnates of the League who could be seen at nearly all of the +home games of the twelve clubs during the past season were the Boston +triumvirate, Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings; the irrepressible +Charley Byrne, of Brooklyn; the handsome Vonderhorst, of Baltimore; the +smiling Eddie Talcott, of New York; the noted "Philadelphia lawyer" +Rogers, of Philadelphia; the "Boss Manager" Von der Ahe, of St. Louis; +the energetic Kerr, of Pittsburgh, and Al Spalding's successor, +President Hart, of Chicago. + +The Louisville team was a strong one as regards its individual players. +But it lacked harmony in its ranks and suffered from cliques. With two +ex-captains in its team, besides the one who ran it, but little else +could be expected. Ambitious ex-captains are obstacles in the way of +successful management of a team. One regular captain should be the rule, +with an acknowledged lieutenant--a pair like Comiskey and Latham, who +worked the old St. Louis "Browns" up to being four-time winners of +pennant honors. + +It is a noteworthy fact that Anson has been manager and captain of the +Chicago club's teams since 1877, and from that year to this he has taken +his team to the goal of the championship five years of the six the club +won the pennant, A.G. Spalding being the manager in 1876, the first year +the club won the honors. Fifteen successive years of management in one +club beats the League's records in that respect. + + +[Illustration: P. T. POWERS, President Eastern League.] +[Illustration: Yale Team, '94.][Illustration: Harvard Team, '94.] +[Illustration: University of Pennsylvania Team, '94.] +[Illustration: Princeton Team, '94.] + + + +#EASTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE.# +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Clubs. At Toronto. At Buffalo. At Rochester. + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + ................ May 29, 30, 30 June 6, 7, 8 +Toronto ................ June 17, 18, 19 July 6, 8 + ................ July 15, 16 Aug. 14, 15, 16 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 24, 24 ................ June 1, 3, 4 +Buffalo May 31, July 1,2 ................ July 9, 10 + Sept. 11, 12, 14 ................ Aug 17, 19, 20 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 10, 11, 12 June 13, 14, 15 ................ +Rochester July 12, 13 July 4, 4 ................ + Aug. 24, 26, 27 Aug 21, 22, 23 ................ +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 13, 14, 15 June 10, 11, 12 May 29, 30, 30 +Syracuse July 9, 10 July 12, 13 July 1, 2 + Aug. 21, 22, 23 Aug 24, 26, 27 Sept. 10, 11, 15 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Wilkes- May 16, 17, 18 May 13, 14, 15 May 23, 25, 27 + Barre July 26, 27 July 24, 25 July 20, 22 + Sept. 3, 4, 5 Sept. 6, 7, 9 Aug 28, 29, 30 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 13, 14, 15 May 16, 17, 18 May 20, 21, 22 +Scranton July 24, 25 July 26, 27 July 18, 19 + Aug. 31, Sep. 2,2 Aug. 28, 29, 30 Sept. 6, 7, 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Spring- May 20, 21, 22 May 23, 25, 27 May 13, 14, 15 + field July 20, 22 July 18, 19 July 26, 27 + Aug. 28, 29, 30 Aug. 31, Sep.2, 2 Sept. 3, 4, 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Provi- May 23, 25, 27 May 20, 21, 22 May 16, 17, 18 + dence July 18, 19 July 20, 22 July 24, 25 + Sept. 6, 7, 9 Sept. 3, 4, 5 A'g 31, Sep. 2, 2 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Clubs. At Syracuse. At Wilkes-Barre. At Scranton. + +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 1, 3, 4 May 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 +Toronto July 4, 4 June 21, 22 June 24, 25 + Aug. 17, 19, 20 Aug. 10, 12, 13 Aug. 7, 8, 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 May 6, 7, 8 +Buffalo July 6, 8 June 24, 25 June 21, 22 + Aug. 14, 15, 16 Aug 7, 8, 9 Aug 10, 12, 13 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + June 17, 18, 19 Apr. 29, 30, May 1 May 2, 3, 4 +Rochester July 15, 16 June 28, 29 June 26, 27 + Sept. 12, 13, 14 July 30, 31 Ag. 1 Aug 2, 3, 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + ................ May 2, 3, 4 Apr. 29, 30, May 1 +Syracuse ................ June 26, 27 June 28, 29 + ................ Aug 2, 3, 5 July 30, 31 Ag. 1 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Wilkes- May 20, 21, 22 ................ July 1, 3, 4 + Barre July 18, 19 ................ July 4, 4 + Aug. 31, Sep. 2,2 ................ Aug 14, 15, 16 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + May 23, 25, 27 May 29, 30, 30 ................ +Scranton July 20, 22 July 1, 2 ................ + Sept. 3, 4, 5 Aug. 17, 19, 20 ................ +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Spring- May 16, 17, 18 June 6, 7, 8 June 10, 11, 12 + field July 24, 25 July 15, 16 July 12, 13 + Sept. 6, 7, 9 Sept. 13, 14, 15 Sept. 10, 11, 12 +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Provi- May 13, 14, 15 June 10, 11, 12 June 6, 7, 8 + dence July 26, 27 July 12, 13 July 15, 16 + Aug. 28, 29, 30 Sept. 10, 11, 12 Sept. 13, 14, 15 +------------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------ + +Clubs. At Springfield. At Providence. + +------------------------------------------------ + Apr 29, 30, May 1 May 2, 3, 4 +Toronto June 28, 29 June 26, 27 + Aug. 2, 3, 5 July. 30, 31 Ag.1 +------------------------------------------------ + May 2, 3, 4 Ap. 29, 30, May 1 +Buffalo June 26, 27 June 28, 29 + July. 30, 31 Ag.1 Aug. 2, 3, 5 +------------------------------------------------ + May 9, 10, 11 May 6, 7, 8 +Rochester June 24, 25 June 21, 22 + Aug 10, 12, 13 Aug 7, 8, 9 +------------------------------------------------ + May 6, 7, 8 May 9, 10, 11 +Syracuse June 21, 22 June 24, 25 + Aug 7, 8, 9 Aug 10, 12, 13 +------------------------------------------------ +Wilkes- June 17, 18 19 June 13, 14, 15 + Barre July 6, 8 July 9, 10 + Aug. 21, 22, 23 Aug. 24, 26, 27 +------------------------------------------------ + June 13, 14, 15 June 17, 18 19 +Scranton July 9, 10 July 6, 8 + Aug. 24, 26, 27 Aug. 21, 22, 23 +------------------------------------------------ +Spring- ................ May 29, 30, 30 + field ................ July 4, 4 + ................ Aug. 17, 18, 20 +------------------------------------------------ +Provi- June 1, 3, 4 ................ + dence July 1, 2 ................ + Aug. 14, 15, 16 ................ +------------------------------------------------ + + + +#THE EASTERN LEAGUE.# + +The cities composing the Eastern League circuit are Toronto, Canada; +Buffalo, N.Y.; Rochester, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Providence, R.I.; +Springfield, Mass.; Scranton,, Pa., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. + +The officers are; P.T. Powers, President, Secretary and Treasurer; +headquarters, A.G. Spalding & Bros., 126 Nassau St., New York. + +Board of Directors: James Franklin, Buffalo; George N. Kuntzsch, +Syracuse; William H. Draper, Providence, and E.F. Bogert, Wilkes-Barre. + +The base ball magnates of the Eastern League held their annual schedule +meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel March 13th. + +These delegates were present: President P.T. Powers, James Franklin and +Charles H. Morton, Buffalo ; E.A. Johnson and John M. Battey, +Providence; Charles F. Leimgruber and J.C. Chapman, Rochester; William +Barnie, Scranton; I.E. Sanborn and Thomas E. Burns, Springfield; George +N. Kuntzsch, Syracuse; William Stark and Charles Maddock, Toronto; +E.F. Bogert, L.W. Long and Dan Shannon, Wilkes-Barre. + +The League has a great staff of umpires for this season, as will be seen +from the following list appointed at the meeting: Tim C. Hurst, of +Ashland, Pa.; Herman Doescher, of Binghamton; John H. Gaffney, of +Worcester, and Charles N. Snyder, of Washington. It was voted to +increase the staff to five, and President Powers will sign another +umpire. He will also keep a number of reserve men in readiness to fill +in as substitutes in place of local men, as formerly. + +The constitution was subjected to a few minor changes, the most +important being the change of date for the payment of the guarantee to +finish the season ($250 per club) from May 1st to April 15th. + +John Depinet, of Erie, and Lawrence T. Fassett, of Albany, were elected +honorary members of the League, with all privileges of games, etc. + +The Eastern League adopted the Spalding League Ball as the Official Ball +for 1895, and it will be used in all League games. + + + +#The Eastern League Averages.# + + +THE RECORDS MADE BY EACH PLAYER IN BATTING AND FIELDING ACCORDING TO +OFFICIAL FIGURES--THE AVERAGES OF THE CLUBS. + +Sheehan of Springfield leads the entire batting list with the fat +percentage of .416. Patchen of Scranton was second with .392, and Mulvey +of Allentown-Yonkers was third, .391. All three of these are ahead of +Drauby's record, .379, which led the Eastern League the previous +year. Rudderham led the pitchers in fielding his position. + +The club averages are significant. They show that the Providence +champions turned up third in batting, and led the list in fielding. Thus +they deserved to win, for the Springfields, second in batting, are third +in fielding, tied with Troy; and Buffalo, first in batting, comes sixth +in fielding. Scranton and Yonkers see-saw on the tail end. Wilkes-Barre +is below the centre of the heap in both fielding and batting. In fact, +the sum up of club averages in stick work and field work indicates that +the clubs finished about as they deserved. The figures will give +opportunity for a couple of hours study. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 2 + s n + t d P + A e + G t B B r + a R a a c + m B u s s e + e a n e e n + s t s s s t +NO. NAME. CLUB. . . . . . . +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Sheehan Springfield 32 144 31 60 2 .415 + 2 Parchen Scranton 32 135 15 53 5 .392 + 3 Mulvey Yonkers 22 92 13 36 2 .391 + 4 Kelley Yonkers 15 61 11 23 2 .377 + 5 P. Sweeney Yonkers 21 86 21 33 3 .372 + 6 Knight Wilkes-Barre and Providence 113 493 108 183 34 .371 + 7 Bassett Providence 109 484 125 178 32 .367 + 8 Smith Buffalo 24 96 14 35 3 .364 + Rafter Binghamton and Syracuse 43 184 31 67 14 .364 + 10 Minnehan Syracuse 115 504 95 182 11 .361 + 11 O'Brien Binghamton 15 61 9 22 0 .360 + 12 Griffin Buffalo and Syracuse 106 465 103 167 14 .359 + 13 Raymond Binghamton 22 92 23 33 4 .358 + 14 Vickery Buffalo and Springfield 54 199 47 70 8 .356 + 15 Shearon Erie 103 145 108 158 23 .355 + 16 Dowse Binghamton, Buffalo, and 88 355 76 126 5 .354 + Troy + 17 Power Binghamton and Syracuse 79 328 72 116 15 .353 + 18 Collins Buffalo 125 562 126 198 18 .352 + 19 Drauby Buffalo 97 436 126 153 12 .350 + 20 Shannon Wilkes-Barre 77 347 77 121 21 .348 + 21 Nadeau Springfield 110 469 128 162 30 .345 + 22 Field Erie 109 436 71 150 16 .344 + Sweeney Binghamton 27 116 21 40 0 .344 + 24 Campfield Wilkes-Barre 29 94 20 32 1 .340 + Dixon Providence 80 320 58 109 33 .340 + 26 Rogers Providence 112 492 97 167 37 .339 + 27 Lytle Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton 101 479 115 162 39 .338 + Carr Binghamton 15 71 13 24 2 .338 + 29 Weddige Buffalo 21 86 19 29 1 .337 + Wood Yonkers 22 86 21 29 2 .337 + 31 Lynch Springfield 110 469 127 158 44 .336 + Kilroy Syracuse 30 98 22 33 8 .336 + Clymer Buffalo 121 523 97 176 36 .336 + 34 Lyons Providence 108 511 131 171 37 .334 + Johnson Troy and Scranton 111 463 221 155 14 .334 + Bottenus Springfield 110 440 111 147 22 .334 + Betts Wilkes-Barre 107 463 114 155 21 .334 + 38 Gillen Wilkes-Barre 106 417 89 139 17 .333 + Nicholson Erie 105 453 115 151 71 .333 + 40 Lewee Buffalo 71 262 56 87 3 .332 + 41 Breckenridge Troy and Springfield 113 440 98 146 11 .331 + Lally Erie 108 458 78 152 8 .331 + 43 O'Brien Buffalo 60 276 77 91 14 .329 + Payne Syracuse and Binghamton 52 197 37 65 5 .329 + 45 Cahill Scranton and Troy 91 402 73 132 26 .328 + 46 Scheffler Troy and Springfield 111 459 138 150 29 .326 + 47 Friel Binghamton, Scranton, & 60 251 58 81 17 .322 + Springfield + Pickett Troy 71 304 54 98 12 .322 + Hoffer Buffalo 76 282 63 91 5 .322 + 50 Lezotte Wilkes-Barre 78 336 73 108 8 .321 + 51 Shannon Springfield 109 493 115 158 15 .320 + 52 Gore Binghamton 48 191 46 61 5 .319 + 53 Boyd Buffalo 82 339 76 105 10 .318 + 54 Berger Erie 67 255 50 80 3 .313 + " Urquhart Buffalo 101 402 80 126 7 .313 + 56 Bausewein Syracuse 44 146 8 45 4 .308 + " Demont Buffalo, Bingh'ton & Scranton 36 146 31 45 4 .308 + " Burns Springfield 36 146 27 45 7 .308 + 59 Daly Buffalo 82 336 82 103 7 .306 + 60 Hoover Syracuse and Scranton 83 344 74 105 21 .305 + 61 Warner Wilkes-Barre 97 387 71 118 17 .304 + 62 Barnett Binghamton and Syracuse 42 132 23 40 2 .303 + " Hanrahan Binghamton and Syracuse 54 221 36 67 4 .303 + 64 J. Hess Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 78 348 72 105 8 .301 + 65 T. Hess Syracuse 98 381 64 114 6 .299 + 66 Gunson Erie 64 261 40 78 2 .298 + 67 Whitehead Binghamton and Scranton 30 131 28 39 8 .297 + 68 Welch Syracuse 108 422 111 125 81 .296 + " Eagan Syracuse 111 435 97 129 30 .296 + 70 Cross Syracuse 69 247 62 73 34 .295 + " Duryea Binghamton and Yonkers 53 190 24 56 6 .295 + " Heine Binghamton and Buffalo 50 203 35 60 8 .295 + 73 Simon Troy and Syracuse 114 485 123 143 22 .294 + " Faatz Syracuse 25 102 15 30 0 .294 + 75 Donnelly Troy and Springfield 83 361 91 104 15 .288 + " Wilson Syracuse 27 104 18 30 1 .288 + " Pettit Providence and Wilkes-Barre 78 368 65 106 12 .288 + 78 Conley Syracuse 62 247 30 71 9 .287 + " Brown Wilkes-Barre 54 233 28 67 2 .287 + 80 Keenan Wilkes-Barre 47 175 24 50 1 .286 + 81 Gruber Troy and Springfield 45 151 33 40 0 .284 + 82 Stearns Wilkes-Barre and Buffalo 76 307 76 37 14 .283 + " Lehane Scranton and Springfield 99 386 67 110 5 .283 + 84 Stricker Providence 108 436 88 123 52 .282 + " Cooney Providence 98 422 68 119 28 .282 + 86 Delaney Binghamton and Scranton 51 188 35 53 6 .281 + 87 Mack Binghamton 66 272 62 76 10 .278 + 88 Van Dyke Erie 108 434 66 120 36 .276 + 89 Leahy Springfield 101 423 96 116 30 .274 + 90 Bott Buffalo 18 66 11 13 2 .272 + 91 Healy Erie 37 137 21 37 0 .270 + 92 McGinness Erie 27 89 11 24 1 .269 + 93 Smith Erie 108 432 102 115 19 .266 + 94 Murray Providence 109 430 80 112 68 .260 + 95 Murphy Troy 29 116 11 30 1 .258 + " Johnson Buffalo 51 213 31 55 13 .258 + 97 Rogers Scranton 21 82 10 21 1 .256 + 98 Kuehne Erie 106 427 64 109 13 .255 + 99 McCauley Providence 53 197 33 50 27 .253 +100 Phelan Scranton 26 103 20 26 8 .252 +101 Wise Yonkers 20 80 14 20 7 .250 + " Dolan Binghamton and Springfield 25 84 12 21 0 .250 +103 Egan Providence 35 105 25 26 9 .247 +104 McMahon Wilkes-Barre 99 393 43 97 4 .246 +105 Lovett Providence 16 62 7 15 0 .241 +106 Donovan Scranton, Troy and Yonkers 34 121 12 29 4 .289 +107 Sullivan Providence 40 155 23 37 10 .238 +108 Smith Troy and Scranton 108 421 67 97 1 .230 +108 Coughlin Springfield 49 178 26 41 1 .230 +110 Messitt Springfield 82 112 20 25 2 .228 +111 Meekin Troy and Wilkes-Barre 39 135 28 30 4 .222 +112 Fisher Buffalo 17 60 5 18 3 .216 +112 W. Sweeney Yonkers 20 74 7 16 2 .216 +114 Costello Yonkers 22 86 9 18 1 .209 +115 Marshall Binghamton 17 62 10 19 0 .206 +116 Quarles Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 35 127 16 26 2 .204 +117 Blackburn Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 18 66 9 13 0 .196 +118 Kilroy Yonkers 17 64 10 12 4 .187 +119 Connors Binghamton 19 75 12 14 1 .186 +120 Lang Binghamton 16 59 19 11 7 .183 +121 Herndon Erie 47 189 21 29 1 .182 +122 Lohbeck Binghamton 42 160 20 29 7 .181 +123 Phillips Troy 15 59 8 10 1 .169 +124 Rudderham Providence 30 105 7 17 2 .161 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +PITCHERS' FIELDING AVERAGES. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Rudderham Providence 30 9 46 1 .982 + 2 Lovett Providence 16 7 38 1 .975 + 3 Bausewein Syracuse 41 14 60 3 .960 + 4 Sullivan Providence 39 8 72 4 .952 + 5 Campfield Wilkes-Barre 29 8 49 3 .949 + 6 Hoffer Buffalo 57 39 92 8 .942 + 6 Vickery Buffalo and Springfield 52 26 122 9 .942 + 6 Bott Buffalo 18 3 46 3 .942 + 9 Keenan Wilkes-Barre 38 29 64 6 .939 + 10 McGinnis Erie 27 6 52 4 .935 + 11 Gruber Troy and Springfield 45 7 77 7 .931 + 12 Duryea Binghamton and Yonkers 40 36 65 9 .918 + 13 Blackburn Scranton and Wilkes-Barre 17 8 25 3 .916 + 14 Coughlin Springfield 45 19 79 9 .915 + 15 Meekin Troy and Wilkes-Barre 39 29 63 9 .910 + 16 Donovan Troy, Scranton and Yonkers 34 14 55 7 .907 + 17 Fisher Buffalo 17 6 23 3 .906 + 18 Fagan Providence 20 9 65 8 .902 + 19 Herndon Erie 46 23 61 10 .896 + 20 Marshall Binghamton 13 3 23 3 .896 + 21 Quarles Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 33 13 64 9 .895 + 22 Dolan Binghamton and Springfield 25 4 34 5 .886 + 23 Healy Erie 34 14 63 16 .885 + 24 Delaney Binghamton and Scranton 50 21 80 12 .884 + 25 Kilroy Syracuse 27 20 56 10 .883 + 26 Barnett Binghamton and Syracuse 42 4 86 12 .852 + 27 Payne Syracuse and Binghamton 18 9 19 10 .736 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CATCHERS' AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Lohbeck Binghamton 42 138 30 6 .965 + 2 Gunson Erie 54 157 46 8 .962 + 3 Berger Erie 58 180 45 9 .961 + 4 Dixon Providence 63 241 48 12 .960 + 5 Cahill Troy and Scranton 51 161 51 11 .950 + 6 Urquhart Buffalo 83 321 74 22 .947 + 7 Warner Wilkes-Barre 97 317 71 22 .946 + 8 Wilson Syracuse 20 71 26 6 .941 + 9 Leahy Springfield 95 321 76 25 .940 + 10 Murphy Troy 24 83 10 6 .939 + 11 Hess Syracuse 89 253 54 22 .933 + 12 McCauley Providence 53 136 47 23 .913 + 13 Boyd Buffalo 61 226 37 28 .903 + 14 Rafter Binghamton and Syracuse 43 128 40 20 .893 + 15 Patchen Scranton 32 114 20 17 .887 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SHORT STOP AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Demont Binghamton and Buffalo 29 68 117 23 .898 + 1 Shannon Springfield 109 245 454 90 .898 + 3 Cooney Providence 98 148 331 55 .897 + 4 Smith Erie 106 205 429 75 .894 + 5 W. Sweeney Yonkers 20 40 78 14 .893 + 6 Lewee Buffalo 71 146 269 50 .892 + 6 Smith Troy and Scranton 108 139 332 57 .892 + 8 Cross Syracuse 69 172 275 60 .881 + 9 Hanrahan Syracuse and Binghamton 54 65 166 35 .870 + 10 McMahon Wilkes-Barre 99 218 402 98 .863 + 11 Johnson Buffalo 49 70 144 39 .845 + 12 Lang Binghamton 16 20 52 14 .837 + 13 Heine Binghamton and Buffalo 35 75 103 35 .835 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +FIRST BASE AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Brown Wilkes-Barre 54 578 30 10 .983 + 2 Breckenridge Troy and Springfield 113 1133 37 22 .981 + 2 Field Erie 109 1092 56 22 .981 + 2 Kelly Yonkers 12 96 11 2 .981 + 5 Lehane Springfield and Scranton 98 938 64 20 .980 + 6 Rogers Providence 109 970 42 25 .975 + 7 Power Binghamton and Syracuse 79 728 37 20 .974 + 8 Drauby Buffalo 46 455 21 14 .971 + 8 Faatz Syracuse 25 235 4 7 .971 + 10 Conley Syracuse 62 569 15 19 .968 + 11 Stearns Buffalo and Wilkes-Barre 76 774 24 30 .945 + 12 Sweeney Binghamton 23 215 9 15 .937 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +SECOND BASE AVERAGES. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Stricker Providence 108 341 308 30 .955 + 2 Wise Yonkers 20 76 79 8 .950 + 3 Lynch Springfield 20 70 59 7 .948 + 3 Pickett Troy 71 241 197 24 .948 + 5 Eagan Syracuse 111 364 362 40 .947 + 6 Clymer Buffalo 54 159 171 21 .940 + 7 Nicholson Erie 105 321 300 42 .937 + 8 Cahill Troy and Scranton 28 75 78 11 .932 + 9 Burns Springfield 36 104 82 14 .930 + 10 O'Brien Buffalo 60 192 162 28 .926 + 10 Mack Binghamton 66 185 206 31 .926 + 12 Smith Buffalo 13 36 31 7 .905 + 13 Shannon Wilkes-Barre 77 168 221 41 .904 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +THIRD BASE AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Bassett Providence 109 183 290 46 .911 + 2 Kuehne Erie 106 154 265 41 .910 + 3 Minnehan Syracuse 111 165 251 45 .902 + 4 Donnelly Troy and Springfield 83 123 207 36 .901 + 5 Whitehead Binghamton and Scranton 30 43 61 13 .888 + 6 Smith Troy 16 14 41 7 .887 + 6 Lynch Springfield 87 203 223 54 .887 + 8 Dowse Buffalo, Troy and Binghamton 67 97 146 36 .870 + 9 Mulvey Yonkers 22 35 44 12 .858 + 10 Gillen Wilkes-Barre 106 127 216 67 .836 + 11 O'Brien Binghamton 15 20 15 9 .818 + 12 Phelan Scranton 29 19 31 12 .806 + 13 Raymond Binghamton 22 24 42 17 .795 + 14 Weddige Buffalo 14 16 20 11 .765 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +FIELDERS' AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + P A P + u s E e + G t s r r + a i r c + m O s o e + e u t r n + s t s s t +No. Name. Club. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Clymer Buffalo 61 152 11 4 .976 + 2 Drauby Buffalo 37 67 5 5 .960 + 2 Welch Syracuse 108 225 19 10 .960 + 4 Lyons Providence 108 294 27 14 .956 + 4 Gore Binghamton 48 99 10 5 .956 + 6 Simon Syracuse and Troy 114 265 15 13 .955 + 7 Scheffler Troy and Springfield 112 175 23 12 .942 + 8 Hoffer Buffalo 19 45 3 3 .941 + 9 Collins Buffalo 125 299 34 21 .940 + 10 Wood Yonkers 22 42 3 3 .937 + 11 Griffin Buffalo and Syracuse 106 178 13 13 .936 + 12 Lally Erie 108 239 17 18 .934 + 13 Knight Wilkes-Barre and Providence 113 307 13 24 .930 + 14 Van Dyke Erie 108 219 23 20 .923 + 15 Johnson Troy and Scranton 111 312 24 31 .915 + 16 Betts Wilkes-Barre 107 302 23 31 .912 + 17 Shearon Erie 103 163 21 18 .910 + 18 Payne Binghamton and Syracuse 47 58 9 7 .905 + 19 Bottenus Springfield 110 267 6 31 .898 + 20 Daly Buffalo 82 137 17 18 .895 + 21 Murray Providence 108 144 26 21 .890 + 22 Lezotte Wilkes-Barre 63 112 7 15 .888 + 22 Carr Binghamton 15 32 2 4 .888 + 24 Connors Binghamton 19 37 2 5 .886 + 25 Hess Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 74 136 8 20 .878 + 26 Nadeau Springfield 85 187 17 30 .871 + 27 Lytle Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton 87 196 34 36 .864 + 28 Hoover Syracuse and Scranton 83 152 12 27 .858 + 29 Friel Spr'gf'ld, Binham'n, Scranton 60 96 5 11 .857 + 30 Pettit Providence and Wilkes-Barre 57 98 5 12 .830 + 31 Rogers Scranton 18 32 2 7 .829 + 32 P. Sweeney Yonkers 17 34 4 8 .825 + 33 Costello Yonkers 13 28 2 7 .810 + 34 Sheehan Springfield 32 36 6 7 .728 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CLUB BATTING AVERAGES. +----------------------------------------------- + A B S P + t a t e + s o B r + B R e H l a C + a u i e s e + t n t n e n + s s s s t + No. CLUB. . . . . . +----------------------------------------------- + 1 Buffalo 4630 1022 1500 154 .323 + 2 Springfield 4004 942 1268 184 .316 + 3 Providence 4210 842 1306 365 .310 + 4 Syracuse 4092 814 1260 186 .307 + 5 Binghamton 3018 585 919 128 .304 + 6 Wilkesbarre 3949 773 1196 136 .302 + 6 Erie 4018 751 1214 194 .302 + 8 Troy 2775 588 821 97 .295 + 9 Scranton 1269 200 372 154 .293 + 10 Yonkers 735 118 220 28 .288 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +CLUB FIELDING AVERAGES. +------------------------------------------------------------- + P + P A e + u s E r + t s r + i r C + O s o e + u t r n + t s s t +No. CLUB. . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------- + 1 Providence 2825 1357 257 .942 + 2 Erie 2776 1399 281 .936 + 3 Troy 1968 940 194 .934 + 3 Springfield 2779 1286 285 .934 + 5 Syracuse 2754 1380 310 .930 + 6 Buffalo 3011 1442 369 .923 + 7 Wilkes-Barre 2457 1191 354 .918 + 8 Binghamton 1916 967 276 .916 + 9 Yonkers 410 263 68 .902 +10 Scranton 794 357 138 .892 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +#The Presidents of the National League.# + +This is the twentieth year of the existence of the National League, and +in all that time but four members of the League have occupied the +presidential chair, viz., Morgan G. Bulkeley, ex-Governor of +Connecticut; the last W.A. Hulbert; A.G. Mills, the leading spirit of +the great New York Athletic Club, and N.E. Young, the present +highly-esteemed and worthy President of the League. Mr. Bulkeley served +during 1876; Mr. Hulbert from 1876 to his death in 1882; Mr. Mills from +that date up to 1884, when business requirements led to his resignation, +and Mr. Young since then. From the organization of the National League +in 1876 to the day of his death, Mr. Hulbert was the great moving +spirit in the reforms in the government of the professional clubs of the +country, which marked the period from 1876 to the eighties. It was his +influence, largely, which led to the war upon the "crookedness" which +marked the early years of professional base ball history, in which pool +gambling was the potent factor. It took years of cohesive and even +arbitrary legislation to eliminate the poison of the pool rooms from the +professional system, but success was finally achieved, and to the late +President Hulbert and his able coadjutors in the League does the credit +of this success belong. During the League regime, under President Mills, +the great union safety compact, known as the National Agreement, sprang +into existence, and its author--Mr. Mills--at this day has reason to be +proud of the good work he did for professional ball playing, and for the +benefit of the game at large, in the perfecting of this bond of union +between the reputable clubs of the professional fraternity. The wisdom +of the measure, as a protection against the abuses of "revolving" and +"contract breaking," has been very strikingly shown by court decisions +which oblige professional clubs to depend entirely upon base ball law, +and not the common law, for the preservation of their club rights in +contracting with players for their services on the field. Since +Mr. Mills left the League arena he has done most efficient service in +conserving the best interests of the New York Athletic Club and those of +the clubs of the Amateur Athletic Union at large. + +The great master of League records, and the whilom Secretary of the +League since its organization, Mr. Young, is known throughout the entire +base ball world, alike for the integrity of his character, the geniality +of his disposition and the marked industry and persevering application +which has characterized the discharge of his onerous official duties. + +It is well known that "Old Nick" is frequently alluded to in daily life +as the arch-fiend of the world; but the Old Nick of the base ball arena +presents a character the very opposite in every respect of his devilish +namesake--the one being the spirit of evil, and the other the spirit of +honor and good nature. Long may he live to honor the position and +uphold the reformation in the base ball world which his predecessors so +creditably originated and supported. + +Mr. Young is a native of Amsterdam, N.Y. He was but a mere boy at the +outbreak of the war between the States, but he was game to the core and +among the first from his home country to enlist in the Union +service. Just before the war he appeared as an athletic young fellow +with muscles that would have done credit to one as large again as he +was. He was looked on as the best cricket player in the section of the +country in which he lived, playing frequently on elevens which had +besides himself George and Harry Wright as members. You should hear Nick +relate anecdotes of his career as a cricketer. At the close of the war +Mr. Young made Washington his residence, and securing a position in the +Second Auditor's Department, being an excellent accountant, he has +occupied his position through several administrations. From cricket he +became interested in the national game of base ball, and eventually, in +connection with Mr. A.G. Mills, he started the old Olympic club of +Washington, and then it was that he took the field again. In 1871 he +was elected Secretary of the old "National Association of Base Ball +Players"--not of clubs, but of players--and in 1884, he succeeded Mr. +Mills as President of the National League, which organization succeeded +the National Association, which had become rotten. + +[Illustration: CORRECT DIAGRAM OF A BALL FIELD. +NOTE. For Specifications see Rules from No. 2 to No. 13.] + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE PLAYING RULES +OF +PROFESSIONAL +BASE * BALL * CLUBS + + +As adopted by the National League and American +Association of Professional Base +Ball Clubs. + + +THE BALL GROUND. + +RULE 1. The Ground must be an inclosed field, sufficient in size to +enable each player to play in his position as required by these Rules. + +RULE 2. To lay off the lines governing the positions and play off the +Game known as _Base Ball_, proceed as follows: + +From a point, A, within the grounds, project a right line out into the +field, and at a point, B, 154 feet from point A, lay off lines BC and BD +at right angles to the line AB; then with B as centre and 63.63945 feet +as radius, describe arcs cutting the lines BA at F and BC at G; BD at H +; and BE at I. Draw lines FG, GE, EH and HF, and said lines will be the +containing lines of the Diamond or Infield. + +THE CATCHER'S LINES. + +RULE 3. With F as centre and 90 feet radius, an arc cutting line FA at +L, and draw lines LM and LO at right angles to FA; and continue same out +from FA not less than 90 feet. + +THE FOUL LINE. + +RULE 4. From the intersection point, F, continue the straight lines FG +and FH until they intersect with the lines LM and LI, and then from the +points G and H in the opposite direction until they reach the boundary +lines of the grounds. + +THE PLAYERS' LINES. + +RULE 5. With F as centre and 50 feet radius, describe arcs cutting lines +FO and EM at P and Q, then with F as centre again and 75 feet radius +describe arcs cutting FG and FH at R and S; then from the points P Q R +and S draw lines at right angles to the lines FO, FM, FG, and FH, and +continue same until they intersect at the points T W and W. + +THE CAPTAIN AND COACHERS' LINE. + +RULE 6. With R and S as centres and 15 feet radius, describe arcs +cutting lines RW and ST at X and Y, and from the points X and Y draw +lines parallel with lines FH and FG, and continue same out to the +boundary lines of the ground. + +THE THREE FOOT LINE. + +RULE 7. With F as centre and 45 feet radius, describe an arc cutting +line FG at 1, and from 1 out to the distance of 3 feet draw a line at +right angles to FG, and marked point 2; then from point 2, draw a line +parallel with the line FG to a point 3 feet beyond the point G, and +marked 3; then from the point 3 draw a line at right angles to line 2, +3, back to and intersecting with line FG, and from thence back along +line GF to point 1. + +THE PITCHER'S PLATE. + +RULE 8. With point F as centre and 60.5 feet as radius, describe an arc +cutting the line FB at a point 4, and draw a line 5, 6, passing through +point 4 and extending 12 inches on either side of line FB; then with +line 5, 6, as a side, describe a parallelogram 24 inches by 6 inches. + +THE BASES. + +RULE 9. Within the angle F, describe a square the sides of which shall +be 12 inches, two of its sides lying upon the lines FG and FH, and +within the angles G and H describe squares the side of which shall be 15 +inches, the two outer sides of said square lying upon the lines FG and +GI and FH and HI, and at the angle E describe a square whose side shall +be 15 inches and so described that its sides shall be parallel with GI +and IH and its centre immediately over the angular point E. + +THE BATSMAN'S LINE. + +RULE 10. On either side of the line AFB describe two parallelograms 6 +feet long and 4 feet wide (marked 8 and 9), their length being parallel +with the line AFB, their distance apart being 6 inches, added to each +end of the length of the diagonal of the square within the angle F, and +the centre of their length being upon said diagonal. + +RULE 11. The Home Base at F and the Pitcher's Plate at 4 must be of +whitened rubber and so fixed in the ground as to be even with the +surface. + +RULE 12. The First Base at G, the Second Base at E, and the Third Base +at H, must be of white canvas bags, filled with soft material, and +securely fastened in their positions described in Rule 9. + +RULE 13. The lines described in Rules 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 must be +marked with lime, chalk, or other suitable material, so as to be +distinctly seen by the Umpire. + + +THE BALL. + +RULE 14. The Ball.[A] [Footnote A: The Spalding League Ball has been +adopted by the National League for the past sixteen years, and is used +in all League contests. + +For junior clubs (clubs composed of boys under 16 years of age) we +recommend them to use the Spalding Boys' League Ball, and that games +played by junior clubs with this ball will count as legal games the same +as if played with the Official League Ball.] + +SECTION 1. Must not weigh less than five nor more than five and +one-quarter ounces avoirdupois, and measure not less than nine nor more +than nine and one-quarter inches in circumference. The Spalding League +Ball, or the Reach American Association Ball, must be used in all games +played under these rules. + +SECTION. 2. For each championship game two balls shall be furnished by +the Home Club to the Umpire for use. When the ball in play is batted to +foul ground, out of sight of the Umpire, the other ball shall be +immediately brought into play. As often as one of the two in use shall +be lost a new one must be substituted, so that the Umpire shall at all +times after the game begins have two balls for use. The moment the +Umpire delivers an alternate ball to the pitcher it comes into play, and +shall not be exchanged until it, in turn, passes out of sight to foul +ground. + +SECTION. 3. In all games the ball or balls played with shall be +furnished by the Home Club, and the last ball in play becomes the +property of the winning club. Each ball to be used in championship games +shall be examined, measured and weighed by the Secretary of the +Association, inclosed in a paper box and sealed with the seal of the +Secretary, which seal shall not be broken except by the Umpire in the +presence of the Captains of the two contesting nines after play has been +called. + +SECTION. 4. Should the ball become out of shape, or cut or ripped so as +to expose the interior, or in any way so injured as to be, in the +opinion of the Umpire, unfit for fair use, he shall, upon appeal by +either Captain, at once put the alternate ball into play and call for a +new one. + + +THE BAT. + +RULE 15. The Bat. + +Must be made entirely of hard wood, except that the handle may be wound +with twine, or a granulated substance applied, not to exceed eighteen +inches from the end. + +It must be round, not exceed two and three-quarter inches in diameter in +the thickest part, and must not exceed forty-two inches in length. + + +THE PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS. + +RULE 16. The players of each club in a game shall be nine in number, one +of whom shall act as Captain, and in no case shall less than nine men be +allowed to play on each side. + +RULE 17. The players' positions shall be such as may be assigned them by +their Captain, except that the pitcher must take the position as defined +in Rules 8 and 29. + +RULE 18. Players in uniform shall not be permitted to occupy seats among +the spectators. + +RULE 19. SECTION 1. Every club shall adopt uniforms for its players, but +no player shall attach anything to the sole or heel of his shoes other +than the ordinary base ball shoe plate. + +SECTION. 2. The catcher and first baseman are permitted to wear a glove +or mitt of any size, shape or weight. All other players are restricted +to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces, and +measuring in circumference around the palm of the hand not over fourteen +inches. + + +PLAYERS' BENCHES. + +RULE 20. The Players' Benches must be furnished by the Home Club, and +placed upon a portion of the ground outside of, and not nearer than +twenty-five feet to, the players' lines. One such bench must be for the +exclusive use of the visiting club, and one for the exclusive use of the +home club, and the players of the competing teams shall be required to +occupy their respective benches while not engaged in active play. + + +THE GAME. + +RULE 21. SECTION 1. Every Championship game must be commenced not later +than two hours before sunset. + +SECTION. 2. A Game shall consist of nine innings to each contesting +nine, except that + +(a) If the side first at bat scores less runs in nine innings than the +other side has scored in eight innings, the game shall then terminate. + +(b) If the side last at bat in the ninth innings scores the winning run +before the third man is out, the game shall terminate. + +A TIE GAME. + +RULE 22. If the score be a tie at the end of nine innings, play shall be +continued until one side has scored more runs than the other in an equal +number of innings, provided that if the side last at bat scores the +winning run before the third man is out the game shall terminate. A DRAWN +GAME. + +RULE 23. A Drawn Game shall be declared by the Umpire when he terminates +a game on account of darkness or rain, after five equal innings have +been played, if the score at the time is equal on the last even innings +played; but (exception) if the side that went second to bat is then at +the bat, and has scored the same number of runs as the other side, the +Umpire shall declare the game drawn without regard to the score of the +last equal innings. + +A CALLED GAME. + +RULE 24. If the Umpire calls "Game" on account of darkness or rain at +any time after five innings have been completed, the score shall be that +of the last equal innings played, unless the side second at bat shall +have scored one or more runs than the side first at bat, in which case +the score of the game shall be the total number of runs made. + +A FORFEITED GAME. + +RULE 25. A forfeited game shall be declared by the Umpire in favor of +the club not in fault, at the request of such club, in the following +cases: + +SECTION 1. If the nine of a club fail to appear upon a field, or being +upon the field, fail to begin the game within five minutes after the +Umpire has called "Play," at the hour appointed for the beginning of the +game, unless such delay in appearing or in commencing the game be +unavoidable. + +SECTION. 2. If, after the game has begun, one side refuses or fails to +continue playing, unless such game has been suspended or terminated by +the Umpire. + +SECTION. 3. If, after play has been suspended by the Umpire, one side +fails to resume playing within _one minute_ after the Umpire has called +"Play." + +SECTION. 4. If a team resorts to dilatory practice to delay the game. + +SECTION. 5. If, in the opinion of the Umpire, any one of these rules is +willfully violated. + +SECTION. 6. If, after ordering the removal of a player as authorized by +Rule 59, Sec. 5, said order is not obeyed within one minute. + +SECTION. 7. In case the Umpire declares a game forfeited, he shall +transmit a written notice thereof to the President of the Association +within twenty-four hours thereafter. + +NO GAME. + +RULE 26. "No Game" shall be declared by the Umpire if he shall terminate +play on account of rain or darkness, before five innings on each side +are completed, except in a case when the game is called, and the club +second at bat shall have more runs at the end of its fourth innings than +the club first at bat has made in its five innings, then the Umpire +shall award the game to the club having made the greatest number of +runs, and it shall be a game and be so counted in the Championship +record. + + +SUBSTITUTES. + +RULE 27. SECTION 1. In every championship game each team shall be +required to have present on the field, in uniform, one or more +substitute players. + +SECTION. 2. Any such player may be substituted at any time by either +club, but no player thereby retired shall thereafter participate in the +game. + +SECTION. 3. The Base Runner shall not have a substitute run for him +except by consent of the Captains of the contesting teams. + + +CHOICE OF INNINGS--CONDITION OF GROUND. + +RULE 28. The choice of innings shall be given to the Captain of the Home +Club, who shall also be the sole judge of the fitness of the ground for +beginning a game after rain. + + +THE PITCHER'S POSITION. + +RULE 29. The Pitcher shall take his position facing the Batsman +with both feet square on the ground, and in front of the Pitcher's +plate, but in the act of delivering the ball one foot must be in contact +with the pitcher's plate, defined in Rule 8. He shall not raise either +foot, unless in the act of delivering the ball, nor make more than one +step in such delivery. He shall hold the ball, before the delivery, +fairly in front of his body, and in sight of the Umpire. When the +Pitcher feigns to throw the ball to a base he must resume the above +position and pause momentarily before delivering the ball to the bat. + + +THE DELIVERY OF THE BALL--FAIR AND UNFAIR BALLS. + +RULE 30. A Fair Ball is a ball delivered by the Pitcher while standing +in his position, and facing the Batsman, the ball so delivered to pass +over the Home Base, not lower than the Batsman's knee, nor higher than +his shoulder. + +RULE 31. An Unfair Ball is a ball delivered by the Pitcher, as in Rule +30, except that the ball does not pass over the Home Base, or does pass +over the Home Base above the Batsman's shoulder or below the knee. + + +BALKING. + +RULE 32. A Balk shall be: + +SECTION 1. Any motion made by the Pitcher to deliver the ball to the bat +without delivering it. + +SECTION. 2. The holding of the ball by the Pitcher so long as to delay +the game unnecessarily. + +SECTION. 3. Any motion in delivering the ball to the bat by the Pitcher +while not in the position defined in Rule 29. + + +DEAD BALLS. + +RULE 33. A Dead Ball is a ball delivered to the bat by the Pitcher that +touches any part of the Batsman's person or clothing while standing in +his position without being struck at; or any part of the Umpire's person +or clothing, while on foul ground, without first passing the Catcher. + +RULE 34. In case of a Foul Strike, Foul Hit ball not legally caught out, +Dead Ball, or Base Runner put out for being struck by a fair hit ball, +the ball shall not be considered in play until it is held by the Pitcher +standing in his position, and the Umpire shall have called play. + + +BLOCK BALLS. + +RULE 35. SECTION 1. A Block is a batted or thrown ball that is touched, +stopped or handled by any person not engaged in the game. + +SECTION. 2. Whenever a Block occurs the Umpire shall declare it, and +Base Runners may run the bases without being put out until the ball has +been returned to and held by the pitcher standing in his position. + +SECTION. 3. In the case of a Block, if the person not engaged in the +game should retain possession of the ball, or throw or kick it beyond +the reach of the Fielders, the Umpire should call "Time," and require +each Base Runner to stop at the last base touched by him until the ball +be returned to the pitcher standing in his position, and the Umpire +shall have called play. + + +THE BATSMAN'S POSITION--ORDER OF BATTING. + +RULE 36. The Batsmen must take their positions within the Batsmen's +Lines, as defined in Rule 10, in the order in which they are named in +the batting order, which batting order must be submitted by the Captains +of the opposing teams to the Umpire before the game, and this batting +order must be followed except in the case of a substitute player, in +which case the substitute must take the place of the original player in +the batting order. After the first inning the first striker in each +inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man who +has completed his turn--time at bat--in the preceding inning. + +RULE 37. SECTION 1. When their side goes to the bat the players must +immediately return to the players' bench, as defined in Rule 20, and +remain there until the side is put out, except when batsmen or base +runners; provided, that the Captain and one assistant only may occupy +the space between the Players' Lines and the Captain's Lines, to coach +base runners. + +SECTION. 2. No player of the side "at bat," except when batsman, shall +occupy any portion of the space within the Catcher's Lines, as defined +in Rule 3. The triangular space behind the Home Base is reserved for the +exclusive use of Umpire, Catcher and Batsman, and the Umpire must +prohibit any player of the side "at bat" from crossing the same at any +time while the ball is in the hands of, or passing between the Pitcher +and Catcher, while standing in their positions. + +SECTION. 3. The players of the side "at bat" must occupy the portion of +the field allotted them, but must speedily vacate any portion thereof +that may be in the way of the ball, or any Fielder attempting to catch +or field it. + + +THE BATTING RULES. + +RULE 38. A Fair Hit is a ball batted by the Batsman, standing in his +position, that first touches any part of the person of a player or +umpire or falls within the foul lines, that (whether it first touches +Foul or Fair Ground) bounds or rolls within the Foul Lines, between Home +and First, or Home and Third Bases, without interference by a player. + +RULE 39. A Foul Hit is a ball batted by the Batsman, standing in his +position, that first touches the ground, any part of the person of a +player, or any object behind either of the Foul Lines, or that strikes +the person of such Batsman, while standing in his position, or batted by +the Batsman, standing in his position, that (whether it first touches +Foul or Fair Ground) bounds or rolls outside the Foul Lines, between +Home and First or Home and Third Bases, without interference by a +player: _Provided_, that a Foul Hit ball not rising above the Batsman's +head, and caught by the Catcher playing within ten feet of the Home +Base, shall be termed a Foul Tip. + +RULE 40. A bunt hit is a deliberate attempt on the part of the Batsman +to hit a ball slowly within the infield so that it cannot be fielded by +any infielder in time to retire the batsman. + + +BALLS BATTED OUTSIDE THE GROUNDS. + +RULE 41. When a batted ball passes outside the grounds, the Umpire shall +decide it Fair should it disappear within, or Foul should it disappear +outside of, the range of the Foul Lines, and Rules 38 and 39 are to be +construed accordingly. + +RULE 42. A Fair batted ball that goes over the fence shall entitle the +batsman to a home run, except that should it go over the fence at a less +distance than two hundred and thirty-five feet from the Home Base, when +he shall be entitled to two bases only, and a distinctive line shall be +marked on the fence at this point. + + +STRIKES. + +RULE 43. A strike is: + +SECTION 1. A ball struck at by the Batsman without its touching his bat; +or + +SECTION. 2. A Fair Ball legally delivered by the Pitcher, but not struck +at by the Batsman. + +SECTION. 3. Any obvious attempt to make a Foul Hit. + +SECTION. 4. A Foul Hit, other than a Foul Tip, made by the Batsman while +attempting a bunt hit, as defined in Rule 40, that falls or rolls upon +foul ground between Home Base and First Base or Home Base and Third +Base. + +SECTION. 5. A ball struck at, if the ball touches any part of the +Batsman's person. + +SECTION. 6. A ball tipped by the Batsman and caught by the catcher +within the 10-foot lines. + +RULE 44. A Foul Strike is a ball batted by the Batsman when any part of +his person is upon ground outside the lines of the Batsman's position. + + +THE BATSMAN IS OUT. + +RULE 45. The Batsman is out: + +SECTION 1. If he fails to take his position at the bat in his order of +batting, unless the error be discovered and the proper Batsman takes his +position before a time "at bat" recorded; and in such case the balls and +strikes called must be counted in the time "at bat" of the proper +Batsman, and only the proper Batsman shall be declared out: _Provided_, +this rule shall not take effect unless _the out_ is declared before the +ball is delivered to the succeeding Batsman, and no runs shall be scored +or bases run, and further, no outs shall be counted other than that of +the proper Batsman. + +SECTION. 2. If he fails to take his position within one minute after the +Umpire has called for the Batsman. + +SECTION. 3. If he makes a Foul Hit other than a Foul Tip, as defined in +Rule 39, and the ball be momentarily held by a Fielder before touching +the ground, provided it be not caught in a Fielder's hat or cap, or +touch some object other than a Fielder, before being caught. + +SECTION. 4. If he makes a Foul Strike. + +SECTION. 5. If he attempts to hinder the Catcher from fielding or +throwing the ball by stepping outside the lines of his position, or +otherwise obstructing or interfering with the player. + +SECTION. 6. If, while the First Base be occupied by a base runner, three +strikes be called on him by the Umpire, except when two men are already +out. + +SECTION. 7. If, after two strikes have been called, the Batsman +obviously attempts to make a foul hit, as in Rule 43, Section 3. + +SECTION. 8. If, while attempting a third strike, the ball touches any +part of the Batsman's person, in which case base runners occupying bases +shall return, as prescribed in Rule 49, Section 5. + +SECTION. 9. If he hits a fly ball that can be handled by an infielder +while first and second bases are occupied, or first, second and third, +with only one out. + +SECTION. 10. If the third strike is called in accordance with Section 4, +Rule 43, in such case the Umpire shall, as soon as the ball is hit, +declare infield or outfield hit. + + + +BASE RUNNING RULES. + + +WHEN THE BATSMAN BECOMES A BASE RUNNER. + +RULE 46. The Batsman becomes a Base Runner: + +SECTION 1. Instantly after he makes a Fair Hit. + +SECTION. 2. Instantly after four balls have been called by the Umpire. + +SECTION. 3. Instantly after three strikes have been decided by the +Umpire. + +SECTION. 4. If, while he be a Batsman, without making any attempt to +strike, his person--excepting hands or forearm, which makes it a dead +ball--or clothing be hit by a ball from the Pitcher; unless, in the +opinion of the Umpire, he intentionally permits himself to be so hit. + +SECTION. 5. Instantly after an illegal delivery of a ball by the +Pitcher. + + +BASES TO BE TOUCHED. + +RULE 47. The Base Runner must touch each base in regular order, viz., +First, Second, Third and Home Bases, and when obliged to return (except +on a foul hit) must retouch the base or bases in reverse order. He shall +only be considered as holding a base after touching it, and shall then +be entitled to hold such base until he has legally touched the next base +in order, or has been legally forced to vacate it for a succeeding Base +Runner. + + +ENTITLED TO BASES. + +RULE 48. The Base Runner shall be entitled, without being put out, to +take the base in the following cases: + +SECTION 1. If, while he was Batsman, the Umpire called four balls. + +SECTION. 2. If the Umpire awards a succeeding batsman a base on four +balls, or for being hit with a pitched ball, or in case of an illegal +delivery--as in Rule 46, Section 5--and the Base Runner is thereby +forced to vacate the base held by him. + +SECTION. 3. If the Umpire calls a "balk." SECTION. 4. If a ball, +delivered by the Pitcher, pass the Catcher and touch the Umpire, or any +fence or building within ninety feet of the Home Base. + +SECTION. 5. If, upon a fair hit, the ball strikes the person or clothing +of the Umpire on fair ground. + +SECTION. 6. If he be prevented from making a base by the obstruction of +an adversary. + +SECTION. 7. If the Fielder stop or catch a batted ball with his hat or +any part of his dress. + + +RETURNING TO BASES. + +RULE 49. The Base Runner shall return to his base, and shall be entitled +to so return without being put out: + +SECTION 1. If the Umpire declares a Foul Tip (as defined in Rule 39), or +any other Foul Hit not legally caught by a fielder. + +SECTION. 2. If the Umpire declares a Foul Strike. + +SECTION. 3. If the Umpire declares a Dead Ball, unless it be also the +fourth Unfair Ball and he be thereby forced to take the next base, as +provided in Rule 48, Section 2. + +SECTION. 4. If the person or clothing of the Umpire interferes with the +Catcher, or he is struck by a ball thrown by the Catcher to intercept a +Base Runner. + +SECTION. 5. The Base Runner shall return to his base, if, while +attempting a strike, the ball touches any part of the Batsman's person. + + +WHEN BASE RUNNERS ARE OUT. + +RULE 50. The Base Runner is out: + +SECTION 1. If, after three strikes have been declared against him while +Batsman, and the Catcher fail to catch the third strike ball, he plainly +attempts to hinder the Catcher from fielding the ball. + +SECTION. 2. If, having made a Fair Hit while Batsman, such fair hit ball +be momentarily held by a Fielder, before touching the ground, or any +object other than a Fielder: _Provided_, it be not, caught in a +Fielder's hat or cap. + +SECTION. 3. If, when the Umpire has declared three strikes on him, while +Batsman, the third strike ball be momentarily held by a Fielder before +touching the ground: _Provided_, it be not caught in a Fielder's hat or +cap, or touch some object other than a Fielder, before being caught. + +SECTION. 4. If, after Three Strikes or a Fair Hit, he be touched with +the ball in the hand of a Fielder _before_ he shall have touched First +Base. + +SECTION. 5. If, after Three Strikes or a Fair Hit, the ball be securely +held by a Fielder, while touching First Base with any part of his +person, _before_ such Base Runner touches First Base. + +SECTION. 6. If, in running the last half of the distance from Home Base +to First Base, while the ball is being fielded to First Base, he runs +outside the three-foot lines, as defined in Rule 7, unless to avoid a +Fielder attempting to field a Batted Ball. + +SECTION. 7. If, in running from First to Second Base, from Second to +Third Base, or from Third to Home Base, he runs more than three feet +from a direct line between such bases, to avoid being touched by the +ball in the hands of a Fielder; but in case a Fielder be occupying the +Base Runner's proper path, in attempting to field a batted ball, then +the Base Runner shall run out of the path, and behind said Fielder, and +shall not be declared out for so doing. + +SECTION. 8. If he fails to avoid a Fielder attempting to field a batted +ball, in the manner described in Sections 6 and 7 of this Rule; or if he +in any way obstructs a Fielder attempting to field a batted ball, or +intentionally interferes with a thrown ball: _Provided_, that if two or +more Fielders attempt to field a batted ball, and the Base Runner comes +in contact with one or more of them, the Umpire shall determine which +Fielder is entitled to the benefit of this rule, and shall not decide +the Base Runner out for coming in contact with any other fielder. + +SECTION. 9. If, at any time while the ball is in play, he be touched by +the ball in the hands of a Fielder, unless some part of his person is +touching a base he is entitled to occupy: _Provided_, the ball be held +by the Fielder after touching him; but (exception as to First Base), in +running to First Base he may overrun said base, without being put out +for being off said base, after first touching it, provided he returns at +once and retouches the base, after which he may be put out as at any +other base. If, in overrunning First Base, he also attempts to run to +Second Base, or, after passing the base he turns to his left from the +foul line, he shall forfeit such exemption from being put out. + +SECTION. 10. If, when a Fair or Foul Hit ball (other than a foul tip as +referred to in Rule 39) is legally caught by a Fielder, such ball is +legally held by a Fielder on the base occupied by the Base Runner when +such ball was struck (or the Base Runner be touches with the ball in the +hands of a Fielder), before he retouches said base after such Fair or +Foul Hit ball was so caught: _Provided_, that the Base Runner shall not +be out in such case, if, after the ball was legally caught as above, it +be delivered to the bat by the Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on +said base, or touches the Base Runner with it; but if the Base Runner in +attempting to reach a base, detaches it before being touched or forced +out, he shall be declared safe. + +SECTION. 11. If, when a Batsman becomes a Base Runner, the First Base, +or the First and Second Bases, or the First, Second and Third Bases, be +occupied, any Base Runner so occupying a base shall cease to be entitled +to hold it, until any following Base Runner is put out, and may be put +out at the next base or by being touched by the ball in the hands of a +Fielder in the same manner as in running to First Base, at any time +before any following Base Runner is put out. + +SECTION. 12. If a Fair Hit ball strike him _before touching the +Fielder_, and in such case no base shall be run unless forced by the +Batsman becoming a base runner, and no run shall be scored; or any other +Base Runner put out. + +SECTION. 13. If, when running to a base or forced to return to a base, +he fail to touch the intervening base or bases, if any, in the order +prescribed in Rule 47, he may be put out at the base he fails to touch, +or being touched by the ball in the hands of a Fielder, in the same +manner as in running to First Base; _Provided_, that the Base Runner +shall not be out in such case if the ball be delivered to the bat by the +Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on said base or touches the Base +Runner with it. + +SECTION. 14. If, when the Umpire calls "Play," after any suspension of a +game, he fails to return to and touch the base he occupied when "Time" +was called before touching the next base: _Provided_, the Base Runner +shall not be out in such case if the ball be delivered to the bat by the +Pitcher before the Fielder holds it on said base or touches the Base +Runner with it. + + +WHEN BATSMAN OR BASE RUNNER IS OUT. + +RULE 51. The Umpire shall declare the Batsman or Base Runner out, +without waiting for an appeal for such decision, in all cases where such +player is put out in accordance with these rules, except as provided in +Rule 50, Sections 10 and 14. + + +COACHING RULES. + +RULE 52. The coachers shall be restricted to coaching the Base Runner +only, and shall not be allowed to address any remarks except to the Base +Runner, and then only in words of necessary direction; and shall not use +language which will in any manner refer to or reflect upon a player of +the opposing club, the Umpire or the spectators, and not more than two +coachers, who may be one player participating in the game and, any other +player under contract to it, in the uniform of either club, shall be +allowed at any one time. To enforce the above, the Captain of the +opposite side may call the attention of the Umpire to the offence, and +upon a repetition of the same, the offending player shall be debarred +from further participation in the game and shall leave the playing field +forthwith. + + +THE SCORING OF RUNS. + +RULE 53. One run shall be scored every time a Base Runner, after having +legally touched the first three bases, shall touch the Home Base before +three men are put out by (exception). If the third man is forced out, or +is put out before reaching First Base, a run shall not be scored. + +THE UMPIRE. + +RULE 54. The Umpire shall not be changed during the progress of a game, +except for reason of illness or injury. + + +HIS POWERS AND JURISDICTION. + +RULE 55. SECTION 1. The Umpire is master of the Field from the +commencement to the termination of the game, and is entitled to the +respect of the spectators, and any person offering any insult or +indignity to him must be promptly ejected from the grounds. + +SECTION. 2. He must be invariably addressed by the players as +Mr. Umpire; and he must compel the players to observe the provisions of +all the Playing Rules, and he is hereby invested with authority to order +any player to do or omit to do any act as he may deem necessary, to give +force and effect to any and all such provisions. + + +SPECIAL DUTIES. + +RULE 56. The Umpire's duties shall be as follows: + +SECTION 1. The Umpire is the sole and absolute judge of play. In no +instance shall any person, except the Captain of the competing teams, be +allowed to address him or question his decisions, and they can only +question him on an interpretation of the Rules. No Manager or any other +officer of either club shall be permitted to go on the field or address +the Umpire, under a penalty of a forfeiture of a game. + +SECTION. 2. Before the commencement of a Game, the Umpire shall see that +the rules governing all the materials of the Game are strictly +observed. He shall ask the Captain of the Home Club whether there are +any special ground rules to be enforced, and if there are, he shall see +that they are duly enforced, provided they do not conflict with any of +these rules. + +SECTION. 3. The Umpire must keep the contesting nines playing constantly +from the commencement of the game to its termination, allowing such +delays only as are rendered unavoidable by accident, injury or rain. He +must, until the completion of the game, require the players of each side +to promptly take their positions in the field as soon as the third man +is put out, and must require the first striker of the opposite side to +be in his position at the bat as soon as the fielders are in their +places. + +SECTION. 4. The Umpire shall count and call every "Unfair Ball" +delivered by the Pitcher, and every "Dead Ball," if also an unfair ball, +as a "Ball," and he shall count and call every "Strike." Neither a +"Ball" nor a "Strike" shall be counted or called until the ball has +passed the Home Base. He shall also declare every "Dead Ball," "Block," +"Foul Hit," "Foul Strike," and "Balk," "Infield" or "Outfield Hit," as +prescribed in Rule 45, Section 9. + +CALLING "PLAY" AND "TIME." + +RULE 57. The Umpire must call "Play" promptly at the hour designated by +the Home Club, and on the call of "Play" the game must immediately +begin. When he calls "Time" play shall be suspended until he calls +"Play" again, and during the interim no player shall be put out, base be +run or run be scored. The Umpire shall suspend play only for an accident +to himself or a player (but in case of accident to a Fielder "Time" +shall not be called until the ball be returned to and held by the +Pitcher, standing in his position), or in case rain falls so heavily +that the spectators are compelled, by the severity of the storm, to seek +shelter, in which case he shall note the time of suspension, and should +such rain continue to fall thirty minutes thereafter, he shall terminate +the game; or to enforce order in case of annoyance from spectators. + +RULE 58. The Umpire is only allowed, by the Rules, to call "Time" in +case of an accident to himself or a player, a "Block" as referred to in +Rule 35, Section 3, or in case of rain, as defined by the rule. + + +INFLICTING FINES. + +RULE 59. The Umpire is empowered to inflict lines of not less than +$25.00, nor more than $100.00, for the first offence, on players during +the progress of a game, as follows: + +SECTION 1. For vulgar, indecent or other improper conduct or language. + +SECTION. 2. For the Captain or Coacher willfully failing to remain +within the legal bounds of his position, except upon an appeal by the +captain from the Umpire's decision upon a misinterpretation of the +rules. + +SECTION. 3. For the disobedience by a player of any other of his orders, +or for any other violation of these rules. + +SECTION. 4. Immediately upon notification by the Umpire that a fine has +been imposed upon any Manager, Captain or player, the Secretary shall +forthwith notify the person so fined, and also the club of which he is a +member, and in the event of the failure of the person so fined to pay to +the Secretary the amount of said fine within five days of notice, he +shall be debarred from participation in any championship game until such +fine is paid. + +SECTION. 5. The Umpire may remove a player from the playing field for a +violation of Section 1 of this rule, in addition to a fine, but under no +circumstances shall he remove a player for a violation of Section 2 of +this Rule, unless upon a repetition of the offence prescribed therein. + + +FIELD RULES. + +RULE 66. No club shall allow open betting or pool-selling upon its +ground, nor in any building owned or occupied by it. + +RULE 61. No person shall be allowed upon any part of the field during +the progress of the game in addition to the players in uniform, the +Manager on each side and the Umpire; except such officers of the law as +may be present in uniform, and such officials of the Home Club as may be +necessary to preserve the peace. + +RULE 62. No Umpire, Manager, Captain or player shall address the +spectators during the progress of a game, except in case of necessary +explanation. + +RULE 63. Every Club shall furnish sufficient police force upon its own +grounds to preserve order, and in the event of a crowd entering the +field during the progress of a game, and interfering with the play in +any manner, the Visiting Club may refuse to play further until the field +be cleared. If the ground be not cleared within fifteen minutes +thereafter, the Visiting Club may claim, and shall be entitled to, the +game by a score of nine runs to none (no matter what number of innings +have been played). + + +GENERAL DEFINITIONS. + +RULE 64. "Play" is the order of the Umpire to begin the game, or to +resume play after its suspension. + +RULE 65. "Time" is the order of the Umpire to suspend play. Such +suspension must not extend beyond the day of the game. + +RULE 66. "Game" is the announcement by the Umpire that the game is +terminated. + +RULE 67. An "Inning" is the term at bat of the nine players representing +a Club in a game, and is completed when three of such players have been +put out, as provided in these rules. + +RULE 68. A "Time at Bat" is the term at bat of a Batsman. It begins +when he takes his position, and continues until he is put out or becomes +a base runner; except when, because of being hit by a pitched ball, or +in case of an illegal delivery by the Pitcher, or in case of a sacrifice +hit purposely made to the infield which, not being a base hit, advances +a base runner without resulting in a put out, except to the Batsman, as +in Rule 45. + +RULE 69. "Legal" or "Legally" signifies as required by these Rules. + + +SCORING. + +RULE 70. In order to promote uniformity in scoring championship games +the following instructions, suggestions and definitions are made for the +benefit of scorers, and they are required to make all scores in +accordance therewith. + + +BATTING. + +SECTION 1. The first item in the tabulated score, after the player's +name and position, shall be the number of times he has been at bat +during game. The time or times when the player has been sent to base by +being hit by a pitched ball, by the Pitcher's illegal delivery, or by a +base on balls, shall not be included in this column. + +SECTION. 2. In the second column should be set down the runs made by +each player. + +SECTION. 3. In the third column should be placed the first base hits +made by each player. A base hit should be scored in the following cases: + +When the ball from the bat strikes the ground within the foul lines, and +out of reach of the Fielders. + +When a hit ball is partially or wholly stopped by a Fielder in motion, +but such player cannot recover himself in time to handle the ball before +the striker reaches First Base. + +When a hit ball is hit so sharply to an infielder that he cannot handle +it in time to put out the Batsman. In case of doubt over this class of +hits, score a base hit, and exempt the Fielder from the charge of an +error. + +When a ball is hit so slowly toward a Fielder that he cannot handle it +in time to put out the Batsman. + +That in all cases where a Base Runner is retired by being hit by a +batted ball, the Batsman should be credited with a base hit. + +When a batted ball hits the person or clothing of the Umpire, as defined +in Rule 48, Section 5. + +SECTION. 4. In the fourth column shall be placed Sacrifice Hits, which +shall be credited to the Batsman, who, when no one is out, or when but +one man is out, advances a Runner a base by a bunt sacrifice hit, which +results in putting out the Batsman, or would so result if the ball were +handled without error. + + +FIELDING. + +SECTION. 5. The number of opponents put out by each player shall be set +down in the fifth column. Where a Batsman is given out by the Umpire for +a foul strike, or where the Batsman fails to bat in proper order, the +put out shall be scored to the Catcher. + +SECTION. 6. The number of times the player assists shall be set down in +the sixth column. An assist should be given to each player who handles +the ball in assisting a run out or other play of the kind. + +An assist should be given to a player who makes a play in time to put a +Runner out, even if the player who could complete the play fails, +through no fault of the player assisting. + +And generally an assist should be given to each player who handles or +assists in any manner in handling the ball from the time it leaves the +bat until it reaches the player who makes the put out, or in case of a +thrown ball, to each player who throws or handles it cleanly, and in +such a way that a put out results, or would result if no error were made +by the receiver. + +ERRORS. + +SECTION. 7. An error shall be given in the seventh column for each +misplay which allows the striker or base runner to make one or more +bases when perfect play would have insured his being put out, except +that "wild pitches," "base on balls," bases on the Batsman being struck +by a "pitched ball," or in case of illegal pitched balls, balks and +passed balls, shall not be included in said column. In scoring errors of +batted balls see Section 3 of this Rule. + +SECTION. 8. Stolen Bases shall be scored as follows: + +Any attempt to steal a base must go to the credit of the Base Runner, +whether the ball is thrown wild or muffed by the fielder, but any +manifest error is to be charged to the fielder making the same. If the +Base Runner advances another base he shall not be credited with a stolen +base, and the fielder allowing the advancement is also to be charged +with an error. If the Base Runner makes a start and a battery error is +made, the runner secures the credit of a stolen base, and the battery +error is scored against the player making it. Should a Base Runner +overrun a base and then be put out, he shall receive the credit for the +stolen base. If a Base Runner advances a base on a fly out, or gains two +bases on a single base hit, or an infield out, or attempted out, he +shall be credited with a stolen base, provided there is a possible +chance and a palpable attempt made to retire him. + + +EARNED RUNS. + +SECTION. 9. An earned run shall be scored every time the player reaches +the home base unaided by errors before chances have been offered to +retire the side. + + +THE SUMMARY. + +RULE 71. The Summary shall contain: + +SECTION 1. The number of earned runs made by each side. + +SECTION. 2. The number of two-base hits made by each player. + +SECTION. 3. The number of three-base hits made by each player. + +SECTION. 4. The number of home runs made by each player. + +SECTION. 5. The number of bases stolen by each player. + +SECTION. 6. The number of double and triple plays made by each side, and +the names of the players assisting in the same. + +SECTION. 7. The number of men given bases on called balls by each +Pitcher. + +SECTION. 8. The number of men given bases from being hit by pitched +balls. + +SECTION. 9. The number of men struck out. + +SECTION. 10. The number of passed balls by each Catcher. + +SECTION. 11. The number of wild pitches by each Pitcher. + +SECTION. 12. The time of Game. + +SECTION. 13. The name of the Umpire. + + + +INDEX TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. + + + RULE. +The Ground, 1 +The Field, 2 +Catcher's Lines, 3 +Foul Lines, 4 +Players' Lines, 5 +The Captain's and Coachers' Lines, 6 +Three-foot Line, 7 +Pitcher's Plate, 8 +The Bases, 9 +Batsman's Lines, 10 +The Home Base, 11 +First, Second and Third Bases, 12 +Lines must be Marked, 13 +The Ball, 14 + Weight and Size, (1) 14 + Number Balls Furnished, (2) 14 + Furnished by Home Club, (3) 14 + Replaced if Injured, (4) 14 +The Bat, 15 + Material of (1) 15 + Shape of (2) 15 + + +THE PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS. + +Number of Players in Game, 16 +Players' Positions, 17 +Players not to Sit with Spectators, 18 +Club Uniforms, (1) 19 + Gloves, (2) 19 +Players' Benches, 20 + + +THE GAME. + +Time of Championship Game, (1) 21 +Number of Innings, (2) 21 +Termination of Game, (a) 21 +The Winning Run, (b) 21 +A Tie Game, 22 +A Drawn Game, 23 +A Called Game, 24 +A Forfeited Game, 25 + Failure of the Nine to Appear, (1) 25 + Refusal of One Side to Play, (2) 25 + Failure to Resume Playing, (3) 25 + If a Team Resorts to Dilatory Practice, (4) 25 + Wilful Violation, (5) 25 + Disobeying Order to Remove Player, (6) 25 + Written Notice to President, (7) 25 +No Game, 26 +Substitutes, 27 + + RULE. + One or more substitute players, (1) 27 + Extra Player, (2) 27 + Base Runner, (3) 27 +Choice of Innings--Condition of Grounds, 28 +The Pitcher's Position, 29 +Delivery of the Ball--Fair Ball, 30 +Unfair Ball, 31 +Balking, 32 + Motion to Deceive, (1) 32 + Delay by Holding, (2) 32 + Pitcher Outside of Lines, (3) 32 +A Dead Ball, 33 +A Foul Strike, 34 +Block Balls, 35 + Stopped by Person not in Game, (1) 35 + Ball Returned, (2) 35 + Base Runner must Stop, (3) 35 +The Batsman's Position--Order of Batting, 36 + Where Players must Remain, (1) 37 + Space Reserved for Umpire, (2) 37 + Space Allotted Players "at Bat," (3) 37 +Batting Rules--Fair Hit, 38 +Foul Hit, 39 +Bunt Hit, 40 +Batted Ball Outside Grounds, 41 +A Fair Batted Ball, 42 +Strikes, 43 + Ball Struck at by Batsman, (1) 43 + Fair Ball Delivered by Pitcher, (2) 43 + Attempt to Make Foul Hit, (3) 43 + Foul Hit while Attempting a Bunt Hit, (4) 43 + Ball Struck at after Touching Batsman's Person, (5) 43 + Ball Tipped by Batsman, (6) 43 +A Foul Strike, 44 +The Batsman is Out, 45 + Failing to Take Position at Bat in Order, (1) 45 + Failure to Take Position within One Minute after + being called, (2) 45 + If He Makes a Foul Hit, (3) 45 + If He Makes a Foul Strike, (4) 45 + Attempt to Hinder Catcher, (5) 45 + Three Strikes Called by Umpire, (6) 45 + Attempt to Make a Foul Hit After Two Strikes + have been Called, (7) 45 + If Ball Hits Him While Making Third Strike, (8) 45 + If He Hits a Fly Ball that can be Handled by + Infielder while First Base Occupied with Only + One Out, (9) 45 + If Third Strike is Called, (10) 45 + + +BASE RUNNING RULES. + RULE. +The Batsman Becomes a Base Runner, 46 + After a Fair Hit, (1) 46 + After Four Balls are Called, (2) 46 + After Three Strikes are Declared, (3) 46 + If Hit by Ball While at Bat, (4) 46 + After Illegal Delivery of Ball, (5) 46 +Bases to be Touched, 47 +Entitled to Bases, 48 + If Umpire Call Four Balls, (1) 48 + If Umpire Award Succeeding Batsman Base, (2) 48 + If Umpire Calls Balk, (3) 48 + If Pitcher's Ball Passes Catcher, (4) 48 + Ball Strikes Umpire, (5) 48 + Prevented from Making Base, (6) 48 + Fielder Stops Ball, (7) 48 +Returning to Bases, 49 + If Foul Tip, (1) 49 + If Foul Strike, (2) 49 + If Dead Ball, (3) 49 + + If Person of Umpire Interferes with Catcher, (4) 49 + If the Ball Touches the Batsman's Person, (5) 49 +Base Runner Out, 50 + Attempt to Hinder Catcher from Fielding Ball, (1) 50 + If Fielder Hold Fair Hit Ball, (2) 50 + Third Strike Ball Held by Fielder, (3) 50 + Touched with Ball After Three Strikes, (4) 50 + Touching First Base, (5) 50 + Running from Home Base to First Base, (6) 50 + Running from First to Second Base, (7) 50 + Failure to Avoid Fielder, (8) 50 + Touched by Ball While in Play, (9) 50 + Fair or Foul Hit Caught by Fielder, (10) 50 + Batsman Becomes a Base Runner, (11) 50 + Touched by Hit Ball Before Touching Fielder, (12) 50 + Running to Base, (13) 50 + Umpire Calls Play, (14) 50 +When Batsman or Base Runner is Out, 51 +Coaching Rules, 52 +Scoring of Runs, 53 + + +THE UMPIRE. + +The Umpire 54 + When Master of the Field, (1) 55 + Must Compel Observance of Playing Rules, (2) 55 +Special Duties, 56 + Is Sole Judge of Play, (1) 56 + Shall See Rules Observed before Commencing + Game, (2) 56 + + RULE. + Must Keep Contesting Nines Playing, (3) 56 + Must Count and Call Balls, (4) 56 +Umpire Must Call Play, 57 +Umpire Allowed to Call Time, 58 +Umpire is Empowered to Inflict Fines, 59 + For Indecent Language, (1) 59 + Wilful Failure of Captain to Remain within + Bounds, (2) 59 + Disobedience of a Player, (3) 59 + Shall Notify Captain, (4) 59 + Repetition of Offences, (5) 59 + + +FIELD RULES. + +No Club Shall Allow Open Betting, 60 +Who Shall be Allowed in the Field, 61 +Audience Shall Not be Addressed, 62 +Every Club shall Furnish Police Force, 63 + + +GENERAL DEFINITIONS. + +Play, 64 +Time, 65 +Game, 66 +An Inning, 67 +A Time at Bat, 68 +Legal, 69 +Scoring, 70 + Batting, (1) 70 + Runs Made, (2) 70 + Base Hits, (3) 70 + Sacrifice Hits, (4) 70 + Fielding, (5) 70 + Assists, (6) 70 + Errors, (7) 70 + Stolen Bases, (8) 70 + Earned Runs, (9) 70 +The Summary, 71 + Number of Earned Runs, (1) 71 + Number of Two Base Hits, (2) 71 + Number of Three Base Hits, (3) 71 + Number of Home Runs, (4) 71 + Number of Stolen Bases, (5) 71 + Number of Double and Triple Plays, (6) 71 + Bases on Called Balls, (7) 71 + Bases From being Hit, (8) 71 + Men Struck Out, (9) 71 + Passed Balls, (10) 71 + Wild Pitches, (11) 71 + Time of Game, (12) 71 + Name of Umpire, (13) 71 + + +[Illustration: The Famous Red Stockings of 1869.] +[Illustration: Rock Island-Moline. Champions of the Western Assn, '94.] +[Illustration: Sioux City Base Ball Club. Champs of Western League, '94.] +[Illustration: Petersburg Base Ball Club. Champs of Virginia League, '94.] + + + +#Rules Appendix.# + +We have very little to comment upon this year in regard to the +amendments made to the playing rules of the game, alike by the special +committee appointed to revise them, or by the committee of the whole who +do the final work of revision. No improvement in this branch of League +legislative work, too, may be looked for until a regular and permanent +committee of rules be appointed, with President Young as its continuous +chairman, aided by the chief of the umpire staff, Harry Wright, and one +member of the League, a member like Mr. Byrne, who has done more since +he has been in the League to really improve the game than any other of +the several members of the rules committee since 1891. Moreover, the +report sent in by this proposed permanent committee of rules should not +be changed by the committee of the whole at the spring meetings except +by a two-thirds vote. As it is now, the whole business would likely be +spoiled by the final revision made by a simple majority vote. + +The changes made by the committee of 1894, in several instances did not +improve the game at all. The amendment made to the bat rule, which +removed the restrictions as to size, was absurd. The League did well to +throw it out. The gain in the diameter of the bat, though small, will +have its effect on the batting. A quarter of an inch is not much, but it +will tell. The abolition of the "mitt," except for catchers and first +basemen, was a good move, as was the introduction of a penalty for the +failure of umpires to prevent "kicking." One change introduces a new +experiment, and that is the call of a strike on every foul tip caught on +the fly. The calls of strikes will be more numerous than ever, viz., the +regular strikes, the strikes on foul bunts and on foul tips. + +As to the change made in the pitcher's plate, nothing was gained by it. +The pitcher will still violate the rule requiring him to have his foot +in contact with the rubber plate, as he did last year. He cannot get a +firm foothold by placing his foot on the rubber. What was wanted was a +hollow, oblong square, 12x36 inches, in which the pitcher could have +obtained a good, firm foothold within the box, and not as now, outside +of it, as he now has to, to secure a good standpoint for his pivot foot +outside of the box. + +Not a single change was made in the badly-worded scoring rules, and in +consequence the same old premium for record batting is offered to every +"fungo" hitter in the ranks. Each member of the committee still walks in +the same old rut in this respect. + +One of the best changes was the following: Rule 59 reads now so that +players using "vulgar, indecent, or other improper language" shall be +fined $25 and $100, instead of $5 and $25. In Rule 59, Section 4 was +stricken out and the following substituted: "Upon notification from an +umpire that a fine has been imposed upon any manager, captain or player, +the secretary shall forthwith notify the person so fined, and also the +club of which he is a member, and in the event of the failure of the +person so fined to pay the amount within five days, he shall be debarred +from participating in any championship game until such fine is paid." + +The committee still retained that problem in mathematics contained in +the first rule, a description of how to lay out a field which would +puzzle a Yale quarterback. + +The change made in Rule 45, Section 1, is a good one. Only the batsman +who has failed to bat in his proper turn can be declared out, not those +who have batted out of turn in consequence of the former's error. + +It will now cost a kicker $25 at least, for indulging in his "hustling" +tactics. + +That was a much-needed resolution adopted by the League forbidding any +club from paying a single fine inflicted on a player. + + + +NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE. + + +SEASON OF 1895. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Boston. Brooklyn. New York. Philadelphia. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston July Apr. June 29 + 3, 4, 4 24, 25, 26 July 1, 2 + Sept. Sept. Aug. + 23, 24, 25 11, 12, 14 16, 17, 19 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn June Apr. July 30, 31 + 19, 20, 21 18, 20, 22 Aug. 1 + Aug. Aug. 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In In In In + Baltimore. Washington. Pittsburgh. Cleveland. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston Apr. Apr. May May + 27, 29, 30 20, 22, 23 23, 24, 25 13, 14, 15 + Aug. Sept. July July + 13, 14, 15 27, 28, 30 6, 8, 9 25, 26, 27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn Apr. Apr. May May + 24, 25, 26 27, 29, 30 6, 7, 8 20, 21, 22 + Sept. Sept. July July + 11, 12, 14 16, 17, 18 10, 11, 13 18, 19, 20 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York June July 30, 31 May May + 26, 27, 28 Aug. 1 16, 17, 18 23, 24, 25 + Aug. Sept. July July + 9, 10, 12 23, 24, 25 25, 26, 27 10, 11, 13 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia Apr. Apr. May May + 18, 20, 22 24, 25, 26 13, 14, 15 16, 17, 18 + Sept. July 3 July July + 23, 24, 25 Sept. 11, 12 18, 19, 20 6, 8, 9 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore June 24, 25 May May + July 1 9, 10, 11 6, 7, 8 + Aug. July July + 2, 5, 16 22, 23, 24 15, 16, 17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington June 22, 29 May May + July 2 20, 21, 22 9, 10, 11 + Aug. Sept. July + 3, 17, 23 7, 7, 9 22, 23, 24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Cincinnati. Louisville. Chicago. St. Louis. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Boston May May May May + 20, 21, 22 16, 17, 18 9, 10, 11 6, 7, 8 + July July July July + 15, 16, 17 10, 11, 13 18, 19, 20 22, 23, 24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Brooklyn May May May May + 9, 10, 11 23, 25, 26 16, 18, 19 12, 13, 14 + July July July July + 6, 7, 8 14, 15, 16 21, 22, 23 26, 27, 28 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +New York May May May May + 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11 13, 14, 15 20, 21, 22 + July July July July + 22, 23, 24 18, 19, 20 6, 8, 9 15, 16, 17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Philadelphia May May May May + 23, 24, 25 6, 7, 8 20, 21, 22 9, 10, 11 + July July July July + 25, 26, 27 22, 23, 24 15, 16, 17 11, 12, 13 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Baltimore May May May May + 12, 13, 14 20, 21, 22 23, 25, 26 16, 18, 19 + July July July July + 18, 20, 21 25, 27, 28 11, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Washington May May May May + 16, 18, 19 12, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 24, 25, 26 + July July July July + 10, 13, 14 6, 7, 8 25, 27, 28 19, 20, 21 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Boston. Brooklyn. New York Philadelphia +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh. Jun 5,6,7 Jun 1,4,10 June 3,8,11 Jun15,17,18 + Aug.24,26,27 Aug. 20,22 Aug. 21 Aug. 31 + Sept. 5 Sept. 4,6 Sept. 2,3 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cleveland. Jun 15,17,18 May 30,30 May 28 Jun 8,10,11 + Aug.28,29,30 June 13 June 12,14 Aug24,26,27 + Aug. 31 Sept.2,2,5 + Sept. 4,6 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cincinnati. June 1,3,4 June 5,7,17 June 6,15,18 May28,30,30 + Aug. 31, Aug. 29 Aug. 28,30 Aug20,21,22 + Sept. 2,2 Sept. 7,10 Sept. 9 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Louisville. June 8,10,11 June 6,15,18 June 5,7,17 Jun12,13,14 + Aug.20,21,22 Aug.26,28,30 Aug. 24,27,29 Sept. 7,7,9 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Chicago. Jun 12,13,14 May 28 May 30,30 June 1,3,4 + Sept. 4,5,6 June 8,11 June 10 Aug28,29,30 + Sept. 2,2,9 Aug. 31 + Sept. 7,10 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +St. Louis. May 28,30,30 Jun 3,12,14 June 1,4,13 June 5,6,7 + Sept. 7,9,10 Aug. 21,24,27 Aug. 20,22,26 Sept. 4,5,6 + Sept. 2,2 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +CLUBS. In In In In + Baltimore. Washington. Pittsburgh Cleveland +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Pittsburgh. June 12,13,14 May 28,30,30 . . . . . July 1,2,3 + Aug. 28,29,30 July 16,17 . . . . . Aug. 1,2,3 + Aug. 19 . . . . . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Cleveland. 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May 5 July 29,30,31 June 30 . . . . . + June 24,25 Sept.16,17,18 July 1,2 . . . . . + Aug. 8,10,11 Aug. 1,3,4 . . . . . +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + +OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. + +The readers of the OFFICIAL GUIDE will receive with pleasure the +innovation of this year, which for the first time, presents to them +twenty-one pages of half-tone portraits of all the leading clubs and +players of America. + +Old-timers will appreciate the picture of the famous Red Stockings of +'69. + +Herewith we present a key. The individual players in each group are +numbered to correspond with the numbers in the following list: + + +BALTIMORE BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Ed Hanlon; 2, H.R. Von der Horst; 3, H.H. Von der Horst; 4, W. +Brodie; 5, George Hemming; 6, W. Robinson; 7, D. Brouthers; 8, +J. McMahon; 9, W. Clark; 10, W. Brown; 11, Charles Esper; 12, J. Kelly; +13, H. Reitz; 14, "Kid" Gleason; 15, F. Bonner; 16, J. McGraw; 17, +H. Jennings; 18, W. Keeler; 19, W.V. Hawke. + + +NEW YORK BASE BALL CLUB, '94. (Photograph copyrighted by Prince, New +York and Washington.) + +1, Park A. Wilson; 2, Charles A. Farrell; 3, George Van Haltren; 4, +Roger Connor; 5, Jouett Meekin; 6, Huyler Westervelt; 7, Amos Rusie; 8, +W.H. Clark; 9, Lester German; 10, John J. Doyle; 11, John Ward; 12, +M. Tiernan; 13, Geo. S. Davis; 14, W.B. Fuller; 15, James Stafford; 16, +W.H. Murphy. + + +PHILADELPHIA BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Callahan; 2, Allen; 3, Delehanty; 4, Boyle; 5, Thompson; 6, Taylor; +7, Hamilton; 8, Reilly; 9, Clements; 10, Weyhing; 11, Hallman; 12, +Irwin; 13, Carsey; 14, Haddock; 15, Hartman; 16, Sharrott; 17, Turner; +18, Grady. + + +BROOKLYN BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, G. Tredway; 2, M.G. Griffin; 3, T.P. Burns; 4, P. Gilbert; 5, Wm. +Shindle; 6, T.W. Corcoran; 7, T.P. Daly; 8, T.F. Kinslow; 9, D.L. Foutz +(Manager); 10, C.F. Dailey; 11, G. Lachance; 13, G. Q. Shoch; 13, +William Kennedy; 14, D.W. Daub; 15, G.O. Sharrott; 16, E.F. Stein. + + +CLEVELAND BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Tebeau; 2, O'Connor; 3, Young; 4, Burkett; 5, Ewing; 6, McAleer; 7, +McGarr; 8, Childs; 9, McKean; 10, Dewald; 11, Virtue; 12, Clarkson; 13, +Cuppy; 14, Fisher; 15, Zimmer. + + +PITTSBURGH BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Shiebeck; 2, Bierbauer; 3, Stigden; 4, Mack; 5, Beckley; 6, Smith; 7, +Lukens; 8, Lyons; 9, Colcolough; 10, Donovan; 11, Killen; 12, +Buckenberger; 13, Ehret; 14, Stenzel; 15, Glasscock; 16, Gumbert; 17, +Nicol. + + +CINCINNATI BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Chas. Comiskey; 2, Frank Dwyer; 3, Elton Chamberlain; 4, Geo. Cross; +5, Thos. Parrott; 6, Morgan Murphy; 7, Harry Vaughn; 8, Frank Motz; 9, +John McPhee; 10, Arlie Latham; 11, Geo. Smith; 12, Jas. Holliday; 13, +Wm. Hoyt; 14, John McCarthy; 15, Jas. Canavan. + +ST. LOUIS BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, A.G. Cooley; 3, A. Twineham; 3, T. Dowd; 4, Thomas Hannigan; 5, +M.F. Hogan; 6, T. Breitenstein; 7, Harry Staley; 8, Roger Connor; 9, Tom +Brown; 10, C.H. Peitz; 11, J.H. McDougal; 12. F. Ely. + + +WASHINGTON BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Charles Petty; 2, Sam Wise; 3, Joe Mulvey; 4, Wm. Hassamer; 5, +W. Black; 6, Charles Esper; 7, Ed Cartwright; 8, Wm. Joyce; 9, Geo. +Tebeau; 10, Geo. Stephens; 11, Jas. McGuire; 12, G.H. Schmelz; 13, Otis +Stockdale; 14, Jos. Sullivan; 15, Frank Ward; 16, Al Selbach; 17, John +Egan, 18, John McMahon; 19, Paul Radford; 20, D.E. Dugdale; 21, +W.B. Mercer. + + +SIOUX CITY BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, E. Cunningham; 2, A. Stewart; 3, H. Howe; 4, Chas. Marr; 5, W.F. +Hart; 6, F. Parvin; 7, Chas. Jones; 8. W.H. Watkins (Manager); 9, J. +Walsh; 10, Geo. H. Hogreiver; 11, F. Genins; 12, A. Twineham; 13, +F. Kraus; 14, J. Newell. + + +ROCK ISLAND-MOLINE BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1. Al Mauck; 2, Belden Hill; 3, W.F. Kreig; 4, Paddy Lynch; 5. Wm. +Zeis; 6, Harry Sage (Manager); 7, Harry Burrell; 8, J.A. Andrews; 9, Joe +Cantillon (Captain); 10, Dan Sweeney. + + +PETERSBURG BASE BALL CLUB, '94. + +1, Jno. Farrell; 2, H.F. Keefer; 3, J. McJannes; 4. R. Fender; 5, John +Foreman; 6, Mike Trost; 7, Geo. Kelly; 8, R. Stafford; 9, L.W. Smith; +10, Bert Myers; 11, Stewart Sanford; 12, Ed Leach; 13, S.T. Honeycutt. + + +YALE TEAM, '94. + +1, J.B. Speer; 2, C.H. George; 3, F. Murphy; 4, F. Rustin; 5, H.M. +Keator; 6, A.A. Bigelow; 7, G.B. Case; 8, M.J. Warner; 9, W.F. Carter; +10, J.R. Quinby; 11, T.S. Arbuthnot; 12, F.B. Stephenson; 13, +G.O. Redington; 14, E.R. Trudeau; 15, J.C. Greenway. + + +HARVARD TEAM, '94. + +1, C.J. Paine; 2, E.W. Ames; 3, J.H. Williams; 4, J. Wiggins; 5, P.W. +Whittemore; 6, B. Cook, Jr.; 7, A. Winslow; 8, A.A. Highlands; 9, F.M. +Carthy; 10, J. Corbett; 11, R. Paine; 12, R. Stevenson; 13, J.J. Hayes; +14, D.D. Scannell; 15, H. Dickinson; 16, W.J. O'Malley. + + +PRINCETON TEAM, '94. + +1. Payne; 2, Bradley; 3, King; 4, Brooks; 5, Trenchard; 6, Otto; 7, +Forsythe; 8, Gunster; 9, W.D. Ward; 10, Mackenzie (Captain); 11, +P. Ward; 12, Lindsay; 13, Small; 14, Altman; 15, Williams. + + +UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TEAM, '94. + +1, Blair; 2, Brown; 3, Sinclair; 4, Stokes; 5, Dickson; 6, Blakely; 7, +Reese; 8, Hollister; 9, Higgins; 10, Mintzner; 11, Coogan; 12, Thomas; +13, Gelbert; 14, Goeckel. + + +THE FAMOUS RED STOCKINGS. + +1, Charles Gould, First Base; 2, Charles Sweasey, Second Base; 3, Asa +Brainard, Pitcher; 4, Cal McVey, Right Field; 5, Harry Wright, Centre +Field (Capt.); 6, George Wright, Short Stop; 7, "Dug" Allison, Catcher; +8, Fred Waterman, Third Base; 9, Andy Leonard, Left Field. + + + + +#A Compliment to the Editor of The Guide.# + +At the annual meeting of the National League, held at the Fifth Avenue +Hotel, New York, on Nov. 15, 1894, on a motion made by C.H. Byrne, +president of the Brooklyn club, Henry Chadwick, the veteran base ball +writer, and editor of the League GUIDE since 1881, was, by a unanimous +vote, made an honorary member of that body. This honor has been +conferred upon but four other persons in the history of the League, +namely: A.G. Mills, of New York, ex-President of the League; +A.G. Spalding, of Chicago; George W. Howe, of Cleveland, and John +B. Day, of New York. In presenting Mr. Chadwick's name Mr. Byrne spoke +enthusiastically of the effective work the veteran had done for years in +popularizing base ball, and called attention to the fact that +Mr. Chadwick was the recognized authority in all matters pertaining to +base ball, and to him more than any other individual living is due the +credit for the present almost perfect code of rules governing the game. + +The League subsequently appointed a committee, consisting of President +N.E. Young, C.H. Byrne, of Brooklyn, and A.J. Reach, of Philadelphia, to +prepare a proper address to Mr. Chadwick, and to have same engrossed and +framed for presentation. The result of their official duty was an +exceptionally handsome piece of engrossing, set in a gilt frame. A +pastel portrait of Mr. Chadwick is in the centre of a decorative scroll +on which is the following testimonial: + + + + The +NATIONAL LEAGUE AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION + of +PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS OF THE UNITED STATES + to + HENRY CHADWICK. + +At a regular annual meeting of the National League and American +Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs, held in New York City, +November 15, 1894, all twelve clubs being present, + + MR. HENRY CHADWICK, + of Brooklyn, N. Y., +was by a unanimous vote elected an + HONORARY MEMBER + of this body. + +In conferring this membership this organization pays the highest tribute +in its power to one who, during a number of years almost as great as is +usually alloted to man to live, has unselfishly devoted his time, his +talents and his energies, by voice and pen, to establish BASE BALL as +the NATIONAL GAME of America. + +At all times and in all places he has diligently worked for its +DEVELOPMENT, and battled for its INTEGRITY, its HONESTY and the PURITY +of its methods. + +He has been an unflinching foe of those within the ranks who permitted +any stigma to attach to it and a gallant defender against any attack +from without, touching its good name and fame. Always a devoted friend +of the honest ball player, he has been a never-failing advocate of the +rights of and the respect due the umpire. His advice and good offices +most frequently sought have ever been readily given, and to the benefit +and advantage of all. + +We pay this tribute with pleasure and deference to + + HENRY CHADWICK, + +the father of base ball, who now in the full of his years and after a +long life of usefulness to his fellow man, still lives to see the +fruition of his fondest hopes, and base ball, which he has fostered and +upheld, pleaded for and battled for, now established forevermore as our +national game. + +The National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball +Clubs, Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, +Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago. + +N.E. YOUNG, +C.H. BYRNE, +A.J. 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