Taking 73 Sets of 81 Earn Championship The Flying Shuttles crowned iheir season's efforts in the Badminton League last night when they captured the Men's Division title by scoring another 9-0 triumph at the French Club against the C.S.F. "B" to aggregate a record which will be im-Possible for the other teams in the competition to duplicate. The Chinese team have earned their championship; their only defeat was at the hands of the C.S.F. "A" when the latter put up an inspired fight in the second round to beat the Flying Shuttles by 5-4. With the exception of the loss of five sets in this encounter, the league champions dropped only three others, one to the C.&F. "A" in the first round and two to the Union Church.
The American started out well by winning the opening game with a fairly wide margin of 696-641. In the second session Mrs. Ryan bowled badly and amassed only 92 pins, Mrs. Kwok also showed up weakly, netting 117. These play endangered the position of the homesters. However, Mrs, Gregor of the visitors followed with a low score of 110 and gave the opponents a final advantage of 651-645.
In the third game both sides improved. Mrs. McDonnell, who is the leading competitor in the. contest, chalked up 196 pins and led the Reds to turn the tables on the Americans by a narrow 745-737 score.
Miss Hykes was the best performer with a triple of 505. She was in fairly consistent form and made improvement in every string.
The Marines Ladies completed their fixtures with another defeat at the hands of the Columbia Country Club "Blues," who won all three games. With the exception of the first string which was separated by 22 pins, play was one-sided.
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