The American baseball team, organized by Mr. Harry Kingman and Mr. R. H. Stanley played two games last week, tying the Tsing-20 Commercial' College with a secre of four each, and defeating the Toba Club by' eight runs to three. The playing of Mr. Kingman end Fred Bills, of Shanghai, ware the outstanding feature. The natives are still talking about. Kingman's sensational fielding feats and it will be a long time before Tsingtao again sees his equal as ball-player.
The U.S. Black Hawk and six destroyers arrived here to-day. They will be joined by six more destroyers in a few days and then the 13 ships will sail for Manila, The summer has witnessed the visits of two score foreign warships, including American, British, French, Japanese and Italian men: of-war. In addition there have been a half-dozen Chinese warships in the harbour for the past several months. These belong to Admiral Wen Shou-teh's reorganized Northeastern Squadron.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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