As Sailors are Guilty Of Glut of Mistakes A comedy of errors marked the heavy defeat inflicted upon the U.S.S. Luzon, representing the Navy, by the Shanghai Amateurs in a City Baseball League 4ame on the Race Course yesterday afternoon. The civilians took full advantage of the sailors' mistakes which were no fewer than 17, to win by 18-4.
George Adams travelled the whole distance and had an easy time in dealing with the sailors who, however, ted off with a rush to garner three ruins in the first frame out of a like number of bingles Adams forced out two batters before he was faced with an early ficit. Lo France banged out a long fly into right field. Wager walked first. Sparks fied to left field to see Lawler make a big mistake of allowing the shot to take a bounce instead of pulling it down first-time. Lo France galloped home at full speed to notch up the first tally, Daniels grounded short for both Wager and Sparks to beat the throw-in The Amateurs retaliated right away through poor fielding on the part of the sailors. Sparks was the first to commit an error when he muffed Huebner's grounder. The Jatter stole Second. Schaberg walked and then both runners advanced on a wild pitch, Sparks was still in bad shape, hooting Krause's roller which eventually scored the two men on bases.
Riley popped out a low fly over te right. He gained two more bases as the Navy pitcher again delivered a wild threw. Adams grounded to short but Wager, who was roving Between second and third, allowed the Yali to bounce off his glove, thereby giving Riley the chance to tie the score at 3-all.
The Amateurs then encountered no difficulty in forging ahead. Schaberg started off with a single in the third inning, sencing out a roller past third base. He came home when Krause tripled to right field, the ball getting to the Parsee cricket grounds. This run broke the Navy team up, for Hall im right feld and Cloud behind the plate each blundered to permit two more runs to be scored, In the ninth inning, Kussin gained three base hit. Lamneck pegged wild to let the runner get home and lid the scoring at 18-4, Luzon von ni otos] Flippen, if.
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Then a not too difficult chance was offered the Wanderers' wicketkeeper that would have brought the innings to a close but was not accepted and the Nomads still breathed. And as 'a fitting climax, the Nomads' captain, who has never batted better, was run out—rather unfortunately, perhaps—when the scores were tied at 227 and the match was brought to a dramatic conclusion.
Donald Leach, Shanghai's Interport leader for many seasons now, found his batting form once again, and with brilliant innings that was full of sparkle, scored 137 before he had his wicket thrown down. Never has he given a finer display and never has he so mastered the bowling. He was on top of the attack from the moment he received his first ball, and though he should have been caught when 131, he never gave another semblance of a chance during his stay of just over 2% hours.
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