Shanghai Recreation Club Wins Wallace Cup The Shanghai Recreation Club lawn bowlers gained a popular and well deserved victory on Saturday in the Wallace Cup competition, which local bowlers have come to regard as the vst of first importance in team events, the conditions being such as must assure really good play to win, each pair of teams meeting on neural grounds. On full totals the Recreation Club did not have so very much in hand, but three of the four games played were won in handsome fashion and the fourth was only lost by a single point, A. Macgregor, of the Yangtszepoo Club, beating R. J. Bowerman, The Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club and the Junior Golf Club each won on two greens and lost on two, but there was a vast difference in, their totals. Indeed, the Lawn Bowls Club can count themselves a little unfortunate in losing the trophy. They had been doing great things all the way through, winning by handsome margins, until A. D. Bell met J. Shaw, of the Recreation Club and went down by 18 to 9. Tt was this game that decided the destination of the cup.
The competition is decided by the biggest margin in favour of winning teams. The Yangtszepoo Lawt Bowls Club and the Junior Golf Club were both losers, the former beaing beaten by 63-80 and Hongkew Park men by 68-84. the Lawn Bowls Club won by 79-65 (a margin of 14) and the Shanghai Recreation Club by 81-62 (a margin of 19). the latter thus winning the tournament by five points.
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