Two softball players, Lionel Kew of the Shanghai Race Club and Lieut, Winecoff of the Marine Officers, were rushed to the Marine Hospital yesterday evening as result of injuries sustained in a collision during a game in the Shanghai Softball League on the Race Course yesterday. The accident happened in the sixth inning but, in spite of receiving severe cuts under me eyes, the two men finished the Contest which went in favour of the Race Club teám by a score of 7-5.
The Marines opened scoring in the first halt of the opening frame when Lieut, Wilde, the second man up the plate, rapped out a home run. The Race Club were quick to retaliate as L. C. Kew and Molly Benavitch both crossed the pan. The civilians lead was increased in the second inning as David Judah got home.
In the third round, the service men put over three runs and regained the read, Lieut, Blais was the first to flash across the pan. He was followed by Lieut, Funk, who came home when Lieut. Kasper made a sacrifice hit and Winecoff hit a two bugger. Lieut. MeDougal then countered the leading run, There was no scoring in the fourth frame, but Albert White renewed ihe: activities with a home run in the fifth session. The Marines tallied another run in the sixth inning to regain leadership for the third and last time. Thereafter, the civilian team forged ahead with no less than three more runs, It was Guring this final rally that Kew ran into Winecoff at second base. The two players fell and were found bleeding badly. Kew received three cuts under the eye while Winecoff's face was covered with blood.
Three other gemes wound up yesterday's programme which marked ihe opening of the 1939 season.
At the Columbia Country Club, the Nationals took the measure of the 7 Rowing Club by twelve runs to two. The Winners proved much superior as, affec the first two innings, they countered in each session.
The. Texes Company, new entrants, trounced the Foreign YM.C.A. on the Race Course by 12-7. The Oilmen began with a barrage in the opening canto in which the team crossed the rubber seven times. Owen Krause ind Harry Bernard did most of the work both in batting and: fielding.
On the grounds of the Jewish Recreation Club, the Columbia Country Club. Americans lost to the home team by a big score of 18 to 16.
Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart and Winston Guest, the same four who beat England in the opening match of the series last Sunday here, 11-7, today again rode to victory. The third match will be played next Sunday, although the outcome will have no bearing on the series since the United States has already wón the Westchester Cup.
The game, however, will be played to see whether the visitors can break the winning streak of the American who have not lost a match in the last twenty years.
Facing magnificent polo, the British fought gallantly and held the Americans almost to even terms for part of the game.
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