Amateurs Shellacked to Make 1938 Championship Mathematical Certainty; Orzech's Victory IVING the Shanghai Amateurs a trimming by a score of 9-6, the First Battalion captured the 1938 Shanghai Baseball League championship yesterday afternoon at the Race Course before a big crowd of spectators, who went out to see what the civilians could do in the way of checking the First nine from becoming mathematically certain of finishing on top of the year's series.
Two hectic minings in which the victorious Marines collected eight bingles caused the Amateurs to become victims of a three-Tun margin at the end of the ninth frame.
The service team hit away four times in the first stanza and repeated the performance in the fifth to garner seven runs, three in the first and four the next.
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