Because the grounds at the Shang-Marine Officers hai American School were unavailable, only twe softball games in the opening round of the Shanghai League materialized yesterday. They were played at the Race Course where the" Marine Officers and the Shanghai Race Club ran roughshod over their respective opponents, the Rowing Club and St. Francis Xavier's College by 17-2 and 23-2, Marine Officers:—Nickerson, Stivers, If.; Wilde, re Allen, Lb.; Biais, 3.b.; Wi Walseth, ¢., and Hart, rf.
Club:—Jenson, 2.b.; De Camp. ct.: Nog, £b; Paten, s. McLorn, if Godkin, rover; Reid, ©; Smith, Davis, r£; Blake, r.g, and Reterst Benavitch Homers The Race. Club made full use of their cricket talent in batting and fielding to outclass the inexperienced French collegians. M. Benavitea cracked out a home run right in the first inning with bases loaded and scored a total of four runs, Most outstanding on the victorious team were D, Lewis and G. White who had a lion's share in the matter of gaining runs, a Colony Small Football Team Coming Will Arrive June 12 in Empress of Asia The Hongkong Chinese "small football" team will leave the Colony in the Empress of Asia on June 10 and will arrive in Shanghai on June 12 to play in the much. heralded Charity Interport Series, Three games tentatively have been arranged and should craw unusual interest.
The first match will see the visitors in action against the local Foreign Combined who will be represented by czactly the same side that defeated the Chinese last Saturday by a decisive 3-0 score:
Schneirzon (Public School), Victal (Clube Lusitano), Got (Prenen Forces), Demais (French Forces), Wailey' (Aurora Combined), Foyn (St. Francis Xavier), L. Rozario 4 (Clube Lusitano), V. Souza (Clube Lusitano), Karolick (st. Francis Xavier), Garwood (St. Francis Xavier) and Peterson (St. Francis Xavier).
Later Games Next to oppose the Hongkong team will be the Chinese. The third and probably the last game will see a picked Shanghai team against the invaders. The composition of the local team is a hard question because of evenness of strength among the players, It is suggested that foreign players will take up the four defensive positions while Chinese occupy the three forward berths. A trial game will take place on Sunday, in order to develop understanding and- team-
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