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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.

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EASTERN CLUBS. WESTERN CLUBS.

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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

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————————————————————————————————————— 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.