'WO bad breaks in two innings cost the Shanghai Amateurs their game against the First Battalion on the Race Course yesterday afternoon, when they opened the second round of play in the City Baseball League. The contest, which ended in a 4-1 victory for the Marines, provided a Dragon Boat Festival holiday crowd with a sterling struggle. fought to the very last.
Joe Honeycutt pitched a grand game, in spite of being the losing moundsman. Left Fielder Lawler misjudged Costa's high-fly at the beginning of the third frame to break, Honeycutt's air-tight hurling and allow the score to be deadlocked. The civilian twirler fanned nine batsmen and issued only one walk.
Lefty Houston. the winning pitcher, was also in splendid form, andthe game was virtually a pitcher's duel. The southpaw bettered. Honeycutt's strike-out record, whiffing 13 batters, but} showed much weaker control by giving away five passes. Honey-curt made one single out of two times at bat, while Houston doubled once out of three trips to the plate.
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