Couptry Club "A" Beat "B" Team in First Game Play in the Ladies' Doubles Division of the Badminton League opened yesterday with a single encounter, Which resulted in the Country Club "A" team defeating their "B" team decisively by nine games to nil on the Country Club courts. The other scheduled engagement between the Union Church and the French Club was postponed.
The first senior team couple, Mrs. Burton and Miss Holwill did not have too strenuous a time to take a decision from Mrs, Lewis Bryan and Miss Stranack. The following match, however, saw Mrs. Seddon and Miss McNichol of the junior side giving Mrs. Maitland and Miss Cox a good run in which they went to 15-10 before the seniors could exert their supremacy.
was no doubt about the superiority of Mrs, Mirams and Mrs. Baxter for they triumphed easily, losing only nine points in the whole match, The handsome trophy reproduced above is one of the two presented by he late Mr. A. L. Anderson to the Shanghai Rowing Club as perpetual trophies for sculling races to be competed for by members of the local flub. Mr. Anderson was the oldest member of the Shanghai Rowing Club, having joined in 1890 and rowed ay a Griffin oarsman in 1891, The two trophies he presented to the Shanghai Rowing Club have been set aside for the Senior and Junior sell. In the Senior sculls, the figure of a sculler in silver has been worked by Mr. W. W. Wagstaff, e suitable base being made to the trophy on which the names of the winners will be perpetuated. The second trophy is an exact replica of the first, made in bronze by the same sculptor, and both will be among the Club's most coveted prizes.
Up to the time of his death Mr. Anderson was one of the most notable and roleurful among figures water-sports enthusiasts in this city and won the Senior Sculls in 1894, He subsequently took part in many important rowing events and was regarded without peer as a cox. He Was also very well known in the yachting world and became a most Successful skipper.
lAs years went by the withdrew from active participation in water sports, but was always a welcome figure at the Rowing Club -regattas which he attended for many years as an official, He also was a benefactor to the Rowing Club and gave much useful advice and other assistance when required.
His bequest will serve to perpetuate a colourful figure which goes down in the history of sport in Shangha', with particular reference to the association he always had with the Shanghai Rowing Club. The "Anderson Trophies" will definitely instil into the younger Shanghai generation of scullers the necessity of maintaining a really high standard of rowing.
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