The Archive · 1936

Amateurs Close Game

'A triple and a single in the frst inning provided sume lent margin for the Gold Dolphins, visiting Japanese professional baseball team, to beat the Shanghai Amateurs, 1-0, on the afternoon of "Aug. 1 at Hongkew Park. For eight. innings, however, the visitors had to stave off three Amateur challenges to protect their slim margin, and despite the fact that they made three errors, gave away four bases on balls, and the Amateurs made two hits, they managed to do it.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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