The Cricket Club was in none too bright a position when R. Booth and G. S. Dunkley resumed play with an Overnight score of 10 and 4.respectively. The board showed 94 runs for five, which meant that the visitors the remainder of the side failed to come up to expectation.
W. V. K. Chadwick was successful with the ball in th Birmingham innings, taking three wickets for 33 runs, and holding a hard return to Tyro Cup Polo Action The Annuzi General Meeting of the Shanghai Wheelers was held yesterday morning at the club room wae and was attended by a large number of members. In spite of the prevailing conditions moral support towards the club has by no means decreased. On the contrary many new members have enlisted and the increase tends io'show that the interest in cycling is always on the upward grade.
Amongst the prominent members it may be of interest to mention that Captain Lebon Maund of H.MS. Danze has joined the local Wheelers for old time's sake, for he and his brothers were members of a'cycling club in London in 1905 of which Mr: Kyat Tong, well-known local cyclist, was the captain.
Races in October were 37 behind with half the side yet to bat. dismiss Pay. Mid. Collins.
The Club's fielding might have been better, The Mounties had little difficulty in trouncing the Durham yesterday in one of the Tyro up engagements at the Race Course.
Dick Harris, who scored most of the goals for the winners, Every effort is being made to have the club activities resumed at the Kellner and Madar took charge of the Recs attack, but the rest seemed io have done the batsmen a lot of good, and after playing themselves in, both. Booth and Dunkley started forcing the pace. The latter particularly showed uncommon energy in belabouring the bowling, and it {was not till the pair had put on "over 60 runs together that Kellner Shattered Dunkley's stumps. Seven runs later Booth left at the hands Of Quincey, and no one could stop the rot that immediately set in. The last three wickets fell with the addition of only one run,
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