While, generally speaking, Shanghai presented a washed-out appearance on Sunday morning, the Race Course was a sight for the gods. At 9 am. the only grounds which were visible were those of the Cricket Club and Recreation Club: the rest was an uninterrupted sheet of water, and it was several hours before any appreciable difference could be seen. Although it was low tide at that hour, the creek which circles the race track by way of Bubbling Well Road was brim full, and so it remained for some time to come. The water here is meant to drain off by way of the culverted Yangkingpang into the river, but in a case of this sort the drains refuse to perform their normal functions. The high tide banks the water up at Woosung, and so low tide is several feet higher than the normal, and thus probably higher than the outlet! of the drains. Hence the continuance for so long of the lake on the Race Course.
A baseball enthusiast ventured to suggest the possibility of a bal?' game but an amphibian variation of the game not having yet been invent. ed, no one ventured oni the diamond which, in common with the greater part of the ground, was under a foot or so of water.
One or two sporting club matsheds were dismantled by the wind but otherwise no damage seems to have been done.
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