It is to be hoped that the crushing defeat of the Giants by their fellow-citizens the Yankees of New York in the annual World Series will not have any serious effects on American spirits. Some there will be who will exult in the outcome of the great encounter. They should spare a little of their exuberant joy for the consolation of their defeated, if not dejected rivals. Here in Shanghai no non-American would essay the task of ascertaining which team was the more popular among baseball enthusiasts on the banks of the Whangpoo. The assumption is that the evidently superior form of the winners has brought its own solace. It would be difficult for a convinced supporter of the Giants to find reasons for cavilling at the result. At the same time the sportsman who knows the value of close competition wilt hope that this second successive disaster will incite the Giants to overhaul their equipment and their leisure in the next few months in improving their standards of play. It seems that their solitary success in the World Series was directly due to the good play of one of their latest recruits. That should be taken as a hopeful sign. However that may be, the Yankees deserve congratulations on a fine display of relentlessness in driving home their superiority at all points of the great game.
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