WORLD BASEBALL FINAL.
YANKEES RECORD VICTORY OVER CARDINALS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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Harvest thanksgiving services were held at St. John's Cathedral yesterday, the occasion being marked by the customary display of fruit, vegetables, etc.
Preaching at the morning ser- vice, the Rev, H. V. Koop said it might be said that here in Ilong
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1928.
IMPROVED SWATOW UNLICENSED MOTOR
FEELING.
SEAMEN'S UNION ASK FOR
UNION JACK.
EVERYBODY CORDIAL.
BOAT.
OWNER FINED AT MARINE
COURT.
MIDNIGHT FIRE ON "CHANGTE.”
EFFECTIVE ACTION BY THE FIRE. BRIGADE.
CARGO DAMAGED.
At the Marine Court this morn ing, before Commdr. J. B. Nowill, D.S.O., R.N., Chan Shing, owner of BABE RUTH HERO.
tho motor boat Luen On, was charged with (a) using an un-
The flare of red torchlights in Swatow, Oct. 12. St. Louis, Oct. 9.
The most noticeable feature of licensed craft and (b) using on the middle of the Harbour, accom Smashing all World's Bories
steamer's syren, were the only achlevomments by making a second
the "Double Tenth" celebrations unsurveyed craft for the purposes anted by prolonged blasts of a The accused pleaded guilty and outward indications of a fire which successive fourgame sweep to
here, to the foreigners, at any rate, of harbour work. the baseball championship, the kong, where nearly every morsel was the great change which has
board tho Australian liner New York Yankees bent the St. of food is imported, Harvest taken place during the past for stated that survey was in course raged for an hour and a half on Louis Cardinals, 7 to 3, to-day Thanksgiving Was
superfluous. months in the allitude of the Chin-of completion and he had used the the deciding game of the 1928
In Hongkong it was the harvest so to the British. No trace of the bont without a full rocognition of Chongte, shortly after midnight.
Tho fro was first observed at Fines of $20, with the alterna-12.30 this morning, the outbreak series, with a record shattering of commerce for which they had to Anti-British feeling remains, and what that implied.
tive of three week's imprisonment, occurring in the ship's No. 1 orgy of home runs.
be thankful to the men who riak-on all sides Britishers moet with After training for the first sixed their lives in ships, to the cordiality, smiles and goodwill.
one month's imprisonment, were for assistance was immediately Innings, the Yankees broke loose miners who procured the coal for A significant illustration of this and $30, with the alternative of afterhold. A wireless message in the seventh, when successive those ships, to the merchants and change of attitude was furnished inflicted on the respective charges, sent out, and the ship's company home runs by Babe Ruth and bankers who had built up the pro- by the members of the Seamen's the sums mentioned being twice wore apprised of the fire by the Lou Gehrig accomplished the perity of this place, and to the Union-formerly one of the most the value of the certificate fees.
ringing of the ship's bells, which The coxswain of the Luen On could be clearly heard on the downfall of Sherdel, cardinal Government without whose minis- rabidly anti-foreign institutions, in southpaw hurlor, and sent the trations life would not be so Swatow-who approached the head New Yorkers into
The Fire Brigade immediately a lead that pleasant. But though there was a of one of the leading shipping firms was similarly charged, but in view waterfront, clinched the game and the series. long chain of processes between here and asked if they might bor-of the fact that the prosecution
The victory was the
Yankees' Hongkong and the villages where row a Union Jack and the firm's was not pressing this charge, his responded by sending two are eighth straight win in two years food was grown, we were none the house flag to fly alongside the Na-Worship inflicted nominal fines of Boats to the Chengte, under the charge of Superintendent Brooks. ***Kwok lu-jum, master of a fishing On their arrival, large volumes of over their National Longue oppon-less dependent upon the fruits of tionalist flag amongst their decor-$1 in each case.
boat, was charged with navigating smoke were observed by the fire-| ents, and in defeating the the earth and to God Who gave ations. Cardinals four in a row, the them.
Both Wednesday and Thursday the harbour without regulation men, but the locality of the fire American Languors duplicated
were declared to be universal hol- lights, and pleading guilty, wou Itacit was not established. The their triumph of last year aver
days by the Municipality, and al fined $10, with the usual alterna-smoke came from the No. 1 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
though some few builders carried tive.
An Obstruction. on their work, practically all busi-
To benefit the fund in memory of Basil Macdonald Hastings a Ruth's Home Kuns.
of "The mathee performance Ruth, with three home runs, Squeaker" was given on Septem- the spectacular figure of ber 27 at the Shaftesbury Thea- the deciding victory. He equall-tre, London.
WOR
ed his World's Series record of Resembling the tango, but with
three homes in one game, made in the same park in 1926. All of a Highland Schottische step, the his clouts cleared the roof of the Ecstasy Glide has been approved right field stand. They occurred by a conference of dancing mas in the fourth and the seventh off ters of América, Shordel and In the eighth off Alexander, who finished the game for the Cardinals.
neventh consecutive victory over Ruth got his second homer the National League contenders after Sherdel had tried to sneak in the fall baseball classic. over a third strike and after he A record crowd of 89,602, pro- had protested when it was dia-ducing a gate of $168,726, saw the allowed. As a result of the home tenni sunk for a defeat that, argument, the Babe was the target about ruins its chance of winning for pon balles when he went the series. The Yankees into his position in the last half only one more win to carry off the of the seventh. Having success- 1928 baseball championship, fully dedged the bottles, he turn- ed the jeers into cheers in the next Inning when he laced out his third homer and again in the ninth when he ended the game with a squrkling catch" of Frisck's foul..
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In winning. the American Leaguers pulled up from behind. They started badly by allowing the Cardinals two runs in the first in ning. But a three-run rally in the sixth, after one tally had been scored in the second and two in the fourth, gave the Yankees
lead that was never threatened.
Batting Hero.
ness In the town was suspended. Chau Hol, stceraman of a trad- The streets were gay with flags, ing Junk of 2,500 pleuls, pleaded banners and floral decorations, guilty to mooring his craft in the Even the buses--converted Ford Southern Fairway, thereby causing trucka-had their share of flags an obstruction. He stated that he had just get away from the Praya where he had taken on a heavy load and flowers,
rice. He was getting up
At an early hour, large crowds of began to congregate in the now anchor when arrested.. park, named after Sun Yat-sen, An
The police officer in charge of enclosure had been railed off in the ease stated that there were no front of a temporary platform, and signs of life on board the boat at each school and Union was accom-the time of arrest, and, on board medated in the enclosure. Boy fng, he learned that the master was Scouts formed living fences at the
on shore. edges of the pathe by making a chain of Scout poles and so protect. ing the newly-ald-out flower-beds, Everyone seemed to have a flayd the inevitable fiererackers were everywhere in evidence.
After the singing of the Nation-i al Song, speeches were delivered by prominent citizens and slogans were Police and military shouted,
Questioned by his Worship, the: accused admitted this and stated master's orders to move the craft that he was acting under the to another place.
ward hold, and pumping operations were immediately commenced.
The prompt action of the. fire- men, no doubt, provented the con- Bagration from doing more damage than it did. At about 2 a.m. the blate was under control, and half an hour later the pumps were with- drawn.
According to a report made to the police by Captain C. F. Gambrill, the master of the ship. the fire started in the No. 1 aft lower hold. When he went to investigate, he found that the hold was well alight. He sounded the alarm and signalled for help.
The cargo involved in the fire,
it is learned, consisted of general
tes. The fire soon spread to the dry goods, rice, caso goods and No. 1 forehold, which contained A fine of $10, with the usual | gunny bags and case goods."
The exact amount, of damage is alternative, was inflicted.
"Other Cases,
at the moment unknown. En- The rehearing of the case inquiries from the ship's agents this forces, heavily armed, patrolled the which Captain Midgeley, of the morning showed that the damage park and its approaches, but theres.s. Tal Lee, was fined $250 for has not yet been surveyed and that was no hint of any disturbance or Sunday cargo working has been details are not available. It is fixed for Tuesday next, October 23. | learned, however, that the gunny disorder.
There was no attempt made at Captain K. H. Ruthberg of the bags in the forehold suffered most any organised procession, such as as. Atlantic, will appear before damage by fire.
was so popular a few years ago. the Marine Court to-morrow morn- The rest of the day passed offing to answer a charge of carry- quietly. A request was made by ing passengers in excess of those. all the Labour Unions asking the allowed, on a suromons adjourned authorities to allow them to hold a sine die from July 21. At the first lantern procession in the evening, enlling, the vessel was absent from but this was not granted, as it was the port. feared that such an event might give any Communists who happened to be in Swatow an opportunity of creating a disturbance..
The Yankees pounded out total of five home runs, establish ing a series record for the num- ber of homers in a single game. Gehriz and Durat mnde the other two. Debrig, is getting another
Lou Gehrig, with two home homer tony, ran his total for runs, was the batting hero of the the series up to four, thus tying day, Ruth's record.
Tom Zachary, the veteran south- Although wild and shaky at Umes paw, went the entire nine inning Hoyt pitched the entire nine for the Yankees, and pitched lunings for the New Yorkers. It great ball, especially in was his second victory of the series inches, despite erratic support. and his sixth in World's Series competition. With the tied Chief Bender's record in the champion ship classic.
Although he had allowed eight hits, Sherdel had limited the Yan- hees to one run up until the seventh inning. Then a homer by Ruth followed by another by Gehrig sent him to the showers, Alexander, who replaced him, did little, batter, allowing two more runs in the seventh and two in the eighth.
the
His rival, Jess Haines, had even worse support, and retired after six innings. He was relieved by Johnson, who in turn was relieved by Rhem. Wilson enught.
The Yankees, though: held to seven hite, made each of them count for a run. In the sixth, they scored three tallies on two hits as a result of a double steal, a pair of walks, and two Cardinal errors.
Another illustration of the in-
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"FINE" TO PREVAIL.
The Cardinals made three errors The anticyclone is central over and two of them let in runs. The N. Japan. The typhoon is situat to the Yankees errored twice, both ined more than 150 miles the second inning, but they did no North-west of Guam moving damage.
W.N.W. Moderate mionsoon will prevall along the China coast to the south of Foochow and over the 'northern part of the China Sea.
The forecast till noon to-morrow is:-East winds, moderate; fine.
Many Changea. Numerous changes in line-ups were made by both teams, before
The Innings, and during the game. Ruth was
shifted into left field and Meusel Firat inning-Yankees made no into right field. Orsatil repinced runs and no hits. Douthit in centre fleld and Smith High singled and Frisch replaced Wilson as catcher for the duplicated him. Bottomley, Na- Cardinals. In the seventh the tional League home run champion, Yankees replaced Dugan with Ro- tripled, scoring High and Frisch. bertson on third, Bengough with Second inning-Gehrig home- Collins behind the bat, Lazzeri red, with Durocher on second, and
Maranville and Douthit were
Paschal with Durst in centre field, safe on errors, but were left on
The atorm which resulted in the ; „bago,
postponement of the game yester- Third inning-The Yankees day had entirely cleared away to- were retired one, two, three,
day, and the contest was played in bright sunshine. A crowd of 37,- 331 say the game.
The closing game produced a gate of $101,302. It was divided as follows: $58,284 for the clubs and the leagues, $15,191 for the advisory council, and $97,427 for the players pool. The datter amount, together with receipts from the other games brought the players' pool to a total of $419,700,
a record figure,
Inning by Inning:
New York..
Hafey got on base with a single, but didn't score.
Fourth inning-Ruth singled, Gehrig slamed out a home run, scoring Ruth ahead of him.
Maranville singled, but was out trying to stretch it into a double.
Fifth inning Bengough sing- led. Zachary forced Bengough and was left on base.
Douthit walked. High doubled, scoring Douthit. High was left | on base,
Sixth inning-Koenig singled. Ruth forced Koenig. Gehrig walked. Meusel force Gehrig, Ruth scored on an error, stealing, home. Lazzeri walked. Meusel scored on a double steal, Robert- son singled, scoring. Lazzeri, Batteries Hoyt and Bengough, Robertson was left on base.
*Runs Hitá
000 100 420-7 101 222 421~~15 Errors....... 000 200 000-2
Collins.
St. Louis.
The Cardinals were scoreless. Seventh inning-Johnson etart- ed pitching for the Cardinals, 001 100 001- 8 Durst was safe on an error, Ruth 122 101 013-11 singled, scoring Durst. Gehrig 000 000 000—0 walked. Ruth and Durst were left | Batteries-Sherdal, Alexander on base. and Smith.
Runs Hits Errors
The Third Game.
St. Louis, Oct. 7, The New York Yankees to-day scored a third straight victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The score was 7 to 8.
Having won four straight games from the Pittsburgh Pirates last year, to-day's win was the Yankees
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Douthit singled, but was left on
base.
Eighth Inning-Rhem started pitching for the Cardinal, and re- tired the Yankees without allowing them a hit..
Hafey singled. Holm singled. Wilson hit into a double play. Harfey was left on base.
Ninth inning-Both sides were retired one, two proe.
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HIGH SCORING IN ENGLISH LEAGUE.
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In a search of a trading junk, Arsenal' (No. 7220W), which was boarded Aston Villa by the Police in Shaukiwan har- Blackburn
Bolton bour during the week-end, a box Dorby of dynamite was found in addition Loeds lo. 400 detonators and eight colls Lolestor of wire.
Liverpool
As the result of the seizure, the Manchester U. master and owner of the craft Wednesday were taken into custody, being Sunderland charged before Major C. Willson this morning with possession of! explosives without a permit. The Barnaley former was fined $75, or four Blackpool. weeks' hard labour, while the lat- Bradford
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