The Archive · 1926

SHANGHAI BASEBALL "LAWN HOWLS

tional Allstars; A Win Kompetition" at Club: "Komik Over Gakuyu Win for Police The' stocky little international Allastars, composed in the main of Chinese players with a sprink-of Koreans, invited the Shang-Club team for a friendly match at the Pioneer Field and then went head and bast them by a 5—4 score, Kemp, on the mound for the locals, pitched a bang-up game of baseball, allowing but four hits and striking 12, Tsoy wes touched for rine hits and a struck out three. Kemp's pitching is positive proof that it takes more than a battery to ball games. maskee the option.

There was no litre dissatisfaction among the. Club players at. the umpiring on bases, and it is their brief that had they got two, oF even one, of the close calls, they would ave romped home with the bacon.

In the ninth Shanghai staged a rally. Thurman Hyde drove on to the right gardens and came all the way round. Taylor singled to centre and Holliday advanced him with as heat a sacrifice as one could wish for. Then came" the hard luck. Riddick lined one just over Tsao's head, but the latter glued his paves round ig and nearly forced Taylor at second, Smith ended the agony whiffing.

Score by innings:—

Shanghai 1000020014

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