The Archive · 1940

Shanghai Cricket

SPORTS AND PASTIMES — Wanderer's First Loss

Shanghai, Aug. 4.

Some excellent bowling by Elliot and an aggressive but 1 iner Iueky innings by. Pote-Hunt enabled the Nomads. to cause about the big-{est upset of the current season yes. terday' afternoon on the S.C. ground when they got home against their club-mates, the Wanderers, by the convincing margin of four wickets fand thus administered the first defeat of the season to the losers. The Wanderers; batting first, fared badly throughout and had it not been for a splendid innings by FET. Marshall Who scored 62 would have been in serious trouble. As it was they could muster only 121 and this score the Nomads passed for the loss of six wiekels, "This defeat, which came rather unexpectedly. "to many Tookers, has caused the Wanderers to slip badly in the league race and with the Tyros winning yesterday they are now well behind. declared. They then set_about "the task of getting the Scots out and did not take too long in the effort, retiring the soldiers for the paltry soce of 83.

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