It was in 95 that our first team went to Japan, where at Yokohama, A. E, Lanning, 46, was top scorer, the result owing to rain being a draw. On the way back, stopping making but 65 and 89 against Kobe's at Kobe our men got a hammering,
was thus that Kobe revenged her own innings' defeat in Shanghai in '94, when, thanks to a contribution of 111 by Mr. Farbridge, she lost to the tune of 309 to 100 and 60.
Such see-saw play is common in Inter port cricket: The most successful team ever sent away from Shanghai was that of 1901, to Hongko: It swept the board—cricket, tennis, swimming, everything. The cricket was triangular—Shanghai, Hongkong, and Singapore all playing. The end of the Shanghai-Singapore match was by far the most sensational ever known in the interport series. Shanghai's last pair, Weippert and V. H. Lanning, were in. Neither had made a run, and yet one run was needed to win: Not a few spectators had actually to leave the ground unable to stand the strain of the excitement! Eventually, after all the wiles and fire of the Singapore attack had failed, the match was won by a leg-bye! events by running into 1901, for in '99 the School played another of their surprising tricks on the 8.C.C. disposing of the best eleven their seniors could collect' for 29. The same year saw what, probably, was the first purely Chinese cricket match in all history, the 8.0.0. coolies taking on " The Rest of China" who proved too good for them—74 to 43. Chinese boys had played cricket before under the auspices of the C.M.8. at Ningpo, but there they had foreigners with and against them.
A number of more modern names had come into prominence during these years for while the Moules remained, and the Wallaces, there were Smalley, Sawyer, McClure, Dew, K. J. McEuen, followed afterwards by a brother, D. R. equally good, the Veitches, H. B. Ollerdessen, Potter, Stanion, Turnbull, and others too numerous to mention, the mere record of whose names will recall to the Shanghai cricketer reminiscences of mighty hitting, excellent bowling, sensational catches, and everything else that goes to make cricket the King of Games.
Mo More Snipe.
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