The Archive · 1935

SHANGHAI BASEBALL

With "Coffee" Zatkoff twice driving! the ball out of the park for leisurely home runs, the ist Battalion 4th USMC. pounded James Kam for nineteen solid hits completely to overwhelm the Chinese team on Saturday afternoon by the score of 22 to 6 at the Stadium, in one: of the two remaining Shanghai League baseball games being completed this week-end.

By committing ten errors in a gen~ erally loose game, the Chinese team Tost to Naigai Wata Kaisha on Sunday afternoon by the score of 11 to 4 on the Naigai grounds, and by losing the last game of the Shanghai Base-bali League series, placed themselves, ina tie with their violers for the cellar position. At the same time, on the Shanbo grounds, the First Battalion U. S. M. C. was playing a friendly game with the Shanghai Cotton and Spinning Mills representatives, which the Marines won without much dificulty by the score of 7 to 1.

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