The Shanghai Race Club captured the laurels in the Second Division as a result of their splendid. performance against the Swiss Club whom the Racers vanquished without loss of a game. In this encounter the junior champions smashed two league records. W. O. Lancaster hung up a magnificent single of 242 pins in the second game and enabled his side to turn in an aggregate of 933 and beat the old team single mark of 913 achieved by the same club early in the season.
Throughout the three games the Swiss were seen playing with great enthusiasm, evidently trying to pull the last straw on the prospective winners. They scored 760 in the fir canto and then 773 in the next game. But the Race Club were simply not to be denied the championship, performing with utmost care.
With the exception of V. B. Hill, every member on the championship succeeded in getting over the 500. Lancaster, undoubtedly through his great single of 242, had the highest score of 593 which incidently surpass even the best record in the First Division on the night's play. V.H.W. Watton, netted 549 and W. Marsay and-L. C. Kew had 521.
In the Columbia Country Club alleys the visiting American Club annexed two games from the homesters. Parrott was in fine style in the opening game, He countered 23 which helped his team to defeat the opponents by 888-802: In the next session the Columbians had their revenge, tying the score by a win of 817-792." The third period again saw the visitors in the front, leading at 861-780. Four winning players stood out. Barrett made 533, Clark 524, Breen 509, and Evans 500. The outcome of this encounter put the Americans in second place with seventeen victories and thirteen losses.
At the Foreign "Y" another gruelling struggle was seen between the homesters and the Marine Bees. The civilians waged a determined "fight and, although lost the first game by 812-851, came back strongly to bag the remaining two frames by 778-751 and 792-751. These two winning games caused a triple tie for the runner-up position, each having the same number of wins and defeats as the American Club. It. Winecoff stood out in this tussle by scoring a single of 233 and a triple of 582,
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