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"BIG
LEAGUES.
LATEST US. BASEBALL
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POSITION.
HOW THEY STAND.
Including all the results given below, the standings in the United States major baseball leagues
are:
National League,"
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Pittsburg
Tet 46 617
}
New York
71 56 569
Cincinnati Brookly
66 66 541
59 62 .488
59 66 .472
St. Louis Philadelphia 54 66 .450 Chicago... 55 69 443 Boston... 54 71 .432 American League.
1. Fole Washington 77 45 .631 Philadelphia
74 45 .622 Chicago
68 56 .547
St. Louis
Detroit Cleveland New York
Beston ...
1.
65 58 .520 62 60 .508 58 68 .460
49 71 .408
36 86 .295
ONE WEEK'S RESULTS.
National League. * Saturday, August 22. Pittsburgh New York 1* Pittsburgh 2, New York 1* Brooklyn 9, Chicago 2* Chicago 9, Brooklyn 2* Boston 4, Cincinnati 2** Cincinnati 8, Boston 2′′ St. Louis 11. Philadelphia 3* Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 2*
Sunday, August 23. New York 7, Pittsburgh 4* Pittsburgh 3, New York 2* Brooklyn 6, Chicago 0*. Chicago 9, Brooklyn 7*
Monday, August 24, Pittsburgh 9, New York 2. Brooklyn 13, Chicago 6* Chicago 11, Brooklyn 6* Boston 3, Cincinnati 2. St. Louis 14, Philadelphia 5* St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 4*
Tuesday, August 25. New York 7, Cincinnati 6. Brooklyn 5. St. Louis 4. Boston 2. Pittsburgh 1. Chicago 19, Philadelphia 10.. Wednesday, August 26. New York 6, Cincinnati 5* Cincinnati 2, New York 1* Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 2. Philadelphia 12, Chicago 2. Pittsburgh 2, Boston 0.
Thursday, August 27. Cincinnati 3, New York 2. Brooklyn 10, St. Louis 9. Pittsburgh 1, Boston 0. Philadelphia 4, Chicago 0.
Friday, August 28, New York 4, St. Louis 3. Cincinnati 12, Brooklyn 7. Pittsburgh 10, Philadelphia 9.
Chicago 6, Boston 4.
Double Header.
American League. Saturday, August 22. Cleveland 5, New York 4... Washington 20, Detroit 5. Philadelphia 6, Chicago 1. Boston 10, St. Louis 4.
Sunday, August 28. Cleveland 7, New York 6.. St. Louis 5, Boston 2. Washington. 6, Detroit' 4. Philadelphia 3, Chicago 0.
Monday, August 24, Cleveland 5, New York 1. Detroit 18, Washington 4. Chicago 3, Philadelphia 1. St. Louis 4, Boston 0.
Tuesday, August 25, New York 7, Chicago 4. Claveland" 4. Philadelphia 3. Detroit 14, Boston 4. St. Louis 8. Whenington
Wednesday, August 28. Chicago 1, New York U
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IS HE RIGHT?
ENGLAND'S TEAM FOR NEXT TESTS.
THE BEST CRICKETERS.
Asked to give his prediction as England's prospects for next year's (crickel) Test Matches, with Australia, a local gentleman who is "well up" in these matters picked the following team:-
as his
THE CHINA MAIL.
HOME "SOCCER.”
MORE MATCHES `PLAYED,
YESTERDAY,
VISITING TEAMS SUCCEED.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, Sept. 3.
The following football matches were played to-day--
Diviston III (South). Charlton..... 0 Newport Co Morthyr
0 Gillingham
Q. P. Rangers. 1 Reading
LOCAL BASEBALL.
TWO WEEK-END DOUBLE HEADERS.
There will be two double- headers in the Hongkong Base- ball League during the week-end at Happy Valley.
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The Hongkong Volunteers will meet the Filipinos to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. in the first game while LIVERPOOL SERVICE. the Chinese will play the Ameri- cans in the second at 4.30 pm.
On Sunday, South China and Indian Recreation Club will stage the first match at 2 p.m. followed by the Filipino v. Japanese game
4 p.m.
South China's line-up and bat- ting order for both games will Ther
!
Pang. et base: Chan, right- niela; June, short-stop: Pan, 2nd are: Shim, pitcher or right-field; 5.1. Lee, 3rd base or pitcher: Leung, left-field: S. S. Lee, catcher; Choy, centre-field.
H.M.S. Hermes and the Volun- teer Defence Corps will play a (In batting order)-Hobbe water polo match at the V.R.C. at (Surrey), Sateliffe (Yorkshire), 9p.m. to-morrow.. Hearne (Middlesex),
Hendren.
Y.
(Middlesex), Holmes (York- The following will represent shire), Kilner, R. (Yorkshire), the Moslem Club in a friendly P. G. H. Fender (Surrey) cap football game with the Club tain, Tate (Sussex), Parker Juvenil to-morrow at the Cause- (Gloucester), Macaulay (York-way Bay ground, kick-off at shire) and Strudwick (Surrey).4 p.m. Sharp-Messrs. M.
Woolley, F. E. (Kent) is left Adal. A. K. Minu. A. R. Dallah, out because both his batting and B. A. Hyder (Captain), bowling have fallen off and his Mohammed, K. M. Omar, felding is not so safe as before. Cussumbhoy, A. Jackson, G. At any rate, the speaker gave it a Mohammed. Y. A. Wahab.
Re-i his opinion that Kilter had super serves-U. Ismail, S. S. Hussaint beled him as the best all- and M. Ismail.
rounder.
If the wicket was very hard, it is suggested that G. 0. Allen
Middlesex) take the place of Parker. He feels that Ferry Fender should be captain but he will not and thinks it likely that A. W. Carr (Sussex) will be given the captaincy.
י,
It is interesting to recall the fact that shortly before the First , at Home, with the South icans last year, the same gentleman almost gave the team as ultimately selected. He makes no mention as to the possibility of A. E. R. Gilligan being skipper again, but this would be depen- dent on his recovering his bowling of the first part of last season.
ST. LEGER.
HOW THE BETTING STANDS.
MANNA STILL FAVOURITE.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, Sept. 2. The betting for the St. Leger to-day was as follows:-
Manna, 8/1 offered, 7/2 taken. Solario, 9/2, offered and taken. Zambo, 7/1 offered and taken. Spelthorne, 8/1 offered. Picaroon, 10/1 offered and
taken.
CANTON MISSION
WORK.
D. J.
YESTERDAY'S INTERESTING CONFERENCE DECISION.
A WITHDRAWAL-TEMPORARELY?
The decision come to yesterday at Conference held in Hongkong to consider the immediate future netivi. ties of the C.M.S. in Canton and throughout Kwangling, marks an epoch in the history of missionary
work in Chine.
regard to conferences held shroud- Reuter has already cabled with
Gut China recently the opinion that had been expressed by missionary bodies that schools and mission's should be handed over to the Chin- cant any rate temporarily, because, in the first place, parents of pupils would hesitate to expose their children to possible insult at mission schools, and, in the second, that it would give an opportunity to test whether the time was opportune for Chinese effort alone to carry on with the work.
The decision at the Conference held here yesterday was that the hoods in Canton should re-open & under the aegis of the C.M.S. but with no foreign teachers, and agit is the first actual decision which has been reported to the "China Mail," its resulta as an experiment will be awaited with interest. An im portant member of the C.M.6. body at present in Hongkong who con- veraed with a "China Mai" repre sentative this morning said that it should be made clear that the Bucellas, 22/1 offered and foreign teachers and missionaries
Pons Asinorum, 20/1 offered
and taken.
taken.
Bucollag
The list of probable starters received yesterday was:--
Horse.
Jockey. Ayaz
H. Jelliss
M. Beary
S. Donoghue V. Smyth T. Burns.
El Cacique
Fox Law My Crackorn Manna Picaroon Pons Aainorum Ptolemy II. Roldore Sir Kenneth Solario Sparus Spelthorne St. :Bocan The Birdar Tournesol Warden of the Marches Warminster Zamba
G. Stern G. Hulme
J. Childe
J. Brennan
Archibald
C. Elliott
H. Beasley Pryor Wolls
B. Caralake
-Detroit 10, Boston 2.-
St. Louis 11, Washington 8. Thursday, August 27 Chicago B, New York 5. St. Louis 5, Washington 0. Detroit 5, Boston
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Friday, AuguEL 28.
St. Louis In New York 0.
- Detroit 8. Philadelphia 1.
Boston 2, Cleveland 1.
Cleveland 8, Philadelphia 1.Washington 8, Chicago
were shirking nothing. In leaving and abstaining from visiting - the scene of their work they were acting merely in accordance with consular instruction and they were pared to return at any moment. if it were possible and if it were thought that such action would serve a good
purpose.
pra-
The Chinese masters had in the grent majority of
Cases
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TOMATO MISSILES.
PARIS. BANK CLEEKS: STRIKE.
SCUFFLE WITH POLICE.
(Reuter's Service,)
Paris, Sept. 8. Bank employees demonstrated
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POWERS AND CHINA PRIVILEGES.
READY FOR INQUIRY.
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INTIMIDATION.
COOLIE BRAWLS HEARD IN COURT.
ACCUSED FINED.
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SAFETY RULES.
WHEN IT IS FATAL TO IGNORE THEM.
DRAIN COOLIE'S DEATH.
Non-observance of the regula- Two Chinese were charged be- fore MS. B.-B. McElderry at tion was alleged at the enquiry the Central Magistracy yesterday yesterday to have led to the death. with intimidating a coolie fore-of a coolie employed on work con-
man.
Mr. R. E. A. Webster, defend-nected with the drainage depart- If the regulations were ing, said that certain witnesses he ment. wished to call had dropped out of adhered to. accidents would be sight, and that apparently one of impossible, said Mr. D. S. the men had been threatened by Edwards, 2 that department,. the complainant not to give evi- who gave evidence at the enquiry. dence against him.
"
A woman who was in Court at
Under the regulations in ques-
the last hearing was called, and tion, which were all explained to she stated that she heard the the coolies, said Mr. Edwards, they complainant threatening a man were told that it was dangerous to outside the Court.
descend a manhole unless, more One of the accused stated that than one of the holes were opened. he had entered into a partnership Sewer gas would tend to accumu with the other accused and that
they went to the Ping On wharf late and rise and when the man- holes were not opened daily the to unload cargo. They met com-
plainant here and had a dispute as gne would escape only when they
were opened. their appearance on the wharf was
The coolie foreman who WAS.. resented. They were later arrest-present at the time that the de- ed on a charge of threatening the ceased went down the manhole complainant, which was denied,
gave evidence at the enquiry. He The accused were each fined said that before the deceased went $25.
down, another hole in Canton A similar charge against the Road was opened and adhered to two men in which a coolis stated this statement, although the that they threw stones at him and Coroner asked him how he could threatened to kill him if he con account for the fact that the drain. tinued in his work was dealt with in question in Canton Road had by Mr. H. R. Butters.
been examined by expert wit -Both the accused were bound nesses who found dirt still round over on a bond of $25 to be of good the edges and were prepared to behaviour for six months.
swear it had not been opened":
The regulations also emphasis ed the imperative necessity of a lamp being lowered before entry and the Coroner put it to the fore- man that there had been one there.. on that day; Witness affirmed that there had been and that be had been there and saw it lower- ed the first time. He did not know what had happened when the deceased went down the Witness had gone second time.
ARMED ROBBERS.
STORY OF BEING ENTICED .BY A WOMAN,
COMMITTED TO SESSIONS: Three Chinese were charged with
to shut the hole opened in Canton attempted armed robbery before Road, he said, when he heard is
Washington, Sept. 4.
the Kowloon Magistracy yester- in several quarters, of Paris: this The nine Powers signatory to day, one of them having an addi- shout that the deceased had be- come unconscious. On going Washington Conference tional charge against him of un-down to pull the deceased from afternoon, throwing stones, ink the bottles, tomatoes and other Chinese treaty have notified the lawful possession of a dagger.the hole, he himself had slipped ted missiles at bank, windows.
Feking Government in identic The story of the prosecution and fallen, said the witness. They splendidly at the various missions A scuffle with the police oc- notes of their readiness to appoint was that the accused went to the were both pulled to the surface by and schools, said the China Mail
curred in the Rue Stribe with commissioners to consider what doorway of a house where another foreman who arrived on informant, and the Mission had injuries to both sides. Several steps, if any, may be taken with woman was seated and ordered the scene. The lamp which wit- every confidence in them. A fow left but merely as a result of in- People were arrested.
of
timidation and not out of sympathy with the forces of disorder.
Missionaries whose sphere activities have been at Foochow and Pakhoi are awaiting conantur in straction before returning
The schools st.Canton affected by the decision come to yesterday are Holy Trinity, St. Andrew's Hall and St Kilda's Girls School.
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DEPUTIES AND SENATORS PLACATED.
CAILLAUX'S DEBT MISSION.
(Reuter's Servios,)
a view to the relinquishment of her to remain silent. This was nese affirmed had been used was extraterritorial privileges,""
overheard by the woman's husnot to be found after the accident. band who was in the cockloft, and as he was away at the time he "When the Queen of Sheba he blew a police whistle. One of could not swear that the deceased came and laid jewels and fine the men was secured after a chase was lowered into the hole the... raiment before Solomon, what and on information given by him second time with the rope around.. did he say?" asked the Sunday two others were arrested later him as provided in the regula school teacher
Two of the accused explaineditions, aylani
One small girl, evidently to such matters, replied pron As 'Ow much d'yer want for Paris, Sept. 3ot?" The Minister of Finance, M. Callaux, making a etetement on the debt negotiations, sal four
their presence in the house by Medical evidence to the effect they were enticed to that the death of the coolie, was
aughter of the due to asphyxia, and that whion-
admitted to Hospital, he had al
the signs of sewer gas poisoning was given and the enquiry was ade, Journed until Friday.
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