Pin league will reach its high water mark this week. The 4th US. bearing Who started out at the bebf the season ása dark horse tea but overpowered the Columbia Country Club, defending champions. in the league's debut, came bounding up ili last week's play by, first, climaxing the opening round's campaign with a victory ever the aspiring, Foreign Y.M.C.A, and then starting the remaining round's activity by handi ing the Columbiens a second defeat. At the present the "leathernecks" are in th lead.
In the Second Division the same story was told, as the Marine second team chalked up four victories in as mally starts during the past two weeks and overtook the Shanghai Race Club Bees.
With the exceptions of the change of team leadership and) the brilliant achievement of E. F. Hartnett from the American Club, who made a new les record of 247 pins, there was nothing outstanding last week. For some Unknown reason, the standard of play has been slowly declining. "The fact that no player in the senior Category could turn in an average of Bbove 180 indicated that clearly.
it was similar in the Second Division, where there was the breaking of a new singles mark by J. S. Clark, also an American Club repre-tentative, who made a score of 231, ind the overhauling of the Race Club by the Marines.
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