Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-03

| RQsroE. Oct s--Tne baseball champion
ship season OF 1873 was brought to clos
Saturday aud the Bastoas finished JUS
! five games ahead Of the PifrsbarSa Eser
| should Harry Wright's protest Be ailowet
I it would not give his club third place, and
be will. therefore. not press it.
The Cleyelsnds deserve great credit fol
making the showing they did in theil
crippled condition
The Ciacin= ats made fine spur. At the
| finish and Just landed ahead Of the Brook
lyns. and were very close TO tie New
Yorks
On the trip just ended the Bostons WOE
q games and lost II. On their first west
eru trip they won Il games and lost q,
making a total OF IS games won and Il
games lost away from home with western
clubs. On eastern trips they won II
games and lost IL, making q grand total
OF 81 games Won and .s lost away from
home, against - won and IA lost at home
this year.
President Young says that every penny
of the $1,000 deb, assumed by the Ma
tional League On the analgamation Of the
American Association has been paid in
full. and be has in his possession every one
Of the outstanding notes properly cancelled
aud marked paid. This. Mr.. Young
thinks. is one of the cieverest pieces OF
financial work ever accomplished by an
organization whose treasury was depleted
in 1872, but whose faith, honor and pledge
was bond made TO be fulfilled.
4 Gratifying showing.
In regard to the improvement OF the
finances of 1898 Ms compared with ls2-,
President Young WAS unable to give ex-
actly the figures, nor could he without
breaking faith with the League, AS he is
under obligations not to divulge any
figures until he makes a report TO the or
ganizstion as a whole
This much you can say" said President
Young. ''the season now nearly closed has
been a grand one financially for tie
League, for every club has shown de-
cided improvement over last season, and
the consequence is that every one has a
balance to their credit. The attendance
has far surpassed 1892. "
This shows conclusively that the Ameri-
can people will support sport that they
know is honest. The most noticeable in
crease in attendance has been in New York.
which, according TO President Young,
leads the clubs in point Of money taken in
ut the gate 1t will be recalled that last
season New York was rank failure in
point of attendance. only about 135, 600
people attending the games during the
season, and that, too, with over 2,UO,Uoo
people to draw from.
The Attendance.
Philadelphia ranks first in actual at
tendance, bat as the majority OF them
came under the - cents admission fee the
city will be found As number four in line
when actual receipts are counted. New
York takes first place this year. as more
money was taken in there than ever be
fore since it became a League city.
Pitttsburg keeps up its good work. and
is close up to the leaders as good second.
Boston is third. Brooklyn is fifth by a
pretty good showing, while Chicago, who
expected to do SO much during the Worlds
fair, is sixth, with Baltimore and Cleye-
laud right on her heels.
St Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and
Washington follow, aud every one shows
decided gaius over 1892.
I'VE have swept away all financial bar
riers; we have paid every obligation in
full; our credit is good, and from the WAY
the turnstiles clicked the year Of 1894 will
be the banner one," said President Young.