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BASEBALL.

runners who should not have scen the first bag to cross the plate Later in the inning. In the second

HONG KONG DEFEATED BY inning he was replaced at stort

S. CHINA.

CHANG HITS A HOMER: SOME

POOR PLAY.

the

South Ching walked away with the baseball game on Saturday when they beat Hong Kong Baseball Club with five mon crossing the plato against Hong Kong's neno,

Tough to say, but all the pro- mises that the clubs have been making turn out to be nothing but promises. In whole game Hong Kong worn only able to got two lucky hits and they turned out to be not worth a run. South China came across with two runs in the first inning and had the game in the bag from the start.

The Hong Kong lads looked a bit stale and were not up

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H.K. & SHANGHAI BANK.

by Murata, third baseman, whose | SPORTS" MEETING AT NEW place he filled during the balance of the game."

BECKENHAM.

SOVIET TO PURCHASE EGYPTIAN COTTON.

(THROUGH BEUTEL'S AGENCY,3-

CAIRO, July 12.

...

The Director of the Boxict Cot. During the fourth, fifth and

The annual athletic sports meet-ton Bureau is arriving in Egypt pa sixth stanzas, play tightened on both sides of the arguement anding of the Hong Kong and Shang-July 13 to negotiate the purchase hai Bank was held on the Bank's of large quantities of Government TO ACOTTA

wore tallied although

ground at New Beckenham on cotton. sufficient effort was seen in all

Saturday, June 13, Favoured by Negotiations are also afoot to innings.

beautiful weather and the presence introduce Egyptian cotton transac of the band of the Queen's Westions at Havre, Bremen and other minster and Civil Service "Rifles, European, exchanges, as Liverpoo! there was a very large attendance is at present the only exchange and great interest was displayed dealing in Egyptian cotton. in the events. The challenge oup, presented by the London committee, was won for the second year in succession by G. 8. Browne, with 18 points, 3 firsts and 1 second. The tug-of-war was won by the Eastern staff on Jouve, coached by

The following reports are pon- Mr. T. J. J. Fenwick, for cup pre- sented by Sir John Peters. All tinued in the fortnightly bulletin ccncerned contributed to the suc-issued by the Hong Kong Chamber cess of the meeting, but special of Commerce:- praise is due to the hon, treasurer and secretary, Mr. R W. Iver, who was largely responsible for the manner in which the programme was carried througn.

Seventh Inning Rally, Opening the seventh, the Chin ene were three up and three down but here th Jape came to bat with blood in their eyes and started the ball rolling when Mariano hit to Arst. Y, Hackiuma filowed to Arst thru being hit by a pitched ball, putting two men on bnses and Murata followed with a two bag. ger scoring both men. Not to be outdone, Saido tipped out a single toto put Murata on third, Honda was caught cut on a pop Ay, 8.

scratch but they might show signs of improvement later on

season.

in the Hackiuma drove out a hot two sacker to chalk up two more by Saido and Murata. The last man up strvek out. Score at end of seventh, four all and another canto to follow.

Pitches Up in the Air. Milton Goo, pitching for South China, was as wild as usual and if it had not been for five fan-outs that he was able, by some chance, to get, ho would have been a per feet washout Most of the time he was doing nothing but walking his men and if it had not been for some good support from the rest of the team, his average would have been way down."

Disastrous Eighth.

The following are the results: 440 Yards Handicap., . C. Allen; H. R. McGilchrist; 3, I. L. G. Wheeler.

HONG KONG TRADE.

PIECE-GOODS BUSINESS

LIMITED.

Cotton Plece Goods,

A limited business has been done in shadow stripe poplins and colors ed stripa poplins on a sterling basis. The dealers appear to be showing some interest in Manches ter prices but general buying has not yet commenced.

A small business has been report Ladies 100 Yards, Scratch-1,ed in palm bench styles Clear- Miss C. Hellingsworth; 2, Miss P.2aces of white shirtings and drilla Heley; 3, Miss M, Haddock; time from stock are fair.

13 secs.

Back Race.-1, H. I. Baird; Helbling..

Not to be outdone by the Japan cse slugfest of the seventh, the Chinese came back strong in the eighth when T. C. Chan, first sacker, popped cut a single and perched on the bag waiting for as- Bistanco. Assistance was forth-

Putting the Weight. J. E Gilson took the mound for Hong coming in the person of S. K. Fung Hutton; 2, C. Bennett; distance, 33 Kong but was yanked in favour with a two bagger. S. C. Les pass-ft. 4 in. of Campbell after he had two men

ed to first, K. W. Pau with a single

100 Yards Scratch (Final).-1, G down in the third. Campbell hold scored Chan, and advanced Fung his own pretty well until the sixth and Lee to third and second reg-S. Browne; 2, G. O. W. Stewart; when he hit the batter and then pectively. P. M. Chani arrived, J. E. Hutton and F. J. Helbling gavo two walks. Even with the with a single sacker, scoring Fung (bracketed); time, 10) sec bases full ho might have pulled while P. Chang was out on a long through O.K. if it had not been for fly. Chan Lit tried a ancrifice hit a bone head stunt Thaich pulled scoring Lee and landing himself on when he held the pill, letting the first corner and Y, Y. Kwok 'annexed a twe bagger to spore Pau runner get through.

Matty Chang 'made the prettiest and P. M. Chan. Chan Lit re- hit of the day when he hit a beaut tired at third trying stretch an through centre for a homer. As extra sack from Kwok's two bag usual there was none around to ger whon S., Hackiuma woke up anng the ball and he was able to long enough to stop the ball and make it good.

tag him. K. K. Loung duplicated The fielders of both sides shewed Kwok's two sacker, sccring Kwok, distance, 20 ft. 6 in.. remarkably poor head-work and as and T. C. Chun, with another folders they made good wash-wo-single "scored Leung S, K, Fung pop flied out to finish the slaugh. ter.

Plenty of errors were the result of all of the runs that South China gathered and if the pitcher for Hong Kong had had any support the tune might have been differnt. Line-Up.

Hong Kong

South China M. Goo p. "Bowker

T. Leonard

M. Chang

C. Y. Tin Ib. Lawrence C. C. Leung 2b. D. Lecnard

H. Young 3b. Campbell.

3.5. Zafra H. Jan

C. P. Fung r.f. Thompson A..Fong

c.f. Thatch

H. Feng 1.f. Lawreźco

Substitutions.

In the second half the Japs were unable to make any impresion en the lead, which the Chinese had piled up, only one man managing to see the first corner and that thru being hit by IL pitched ball.

Ladies Obstacle Race-3, Miss H. Wilson; 2, Miss W. Lammond; 3, Miss P.. Holey.

Half-Mile Handicap.-1, R. L McKissack; 2, F, G. L. Clarke;-3, A. Robertson.

3

Long Jump.-, T. J. Helbling; 2 G. 3. Browne; 3, J. E. Hutton;

Children's Race.-1, Miss M. Galby; 2, Miss T. De Couroy; 3, Miss J. Knight; 4, Miss V. Stabb.

Quarter-Mile Scratch-1, C, S. Browne; 2, G. O."M-Stewart; 3, F. G. L. Clarke; time 80 sóc..

Ladies' Three-legged "Raoc.-1, Misses W. Lammond and P. Heley;

Misses I, Wallis and H. Wilson.· Obstacle Race-1, J. W. Clarke;

Final count was Japanese 4, H, R. McGilchrist; 3, A. Robert

Chineso. 11.

Erratic Pitching,

Batteries for the Japs were Miki and Y. Hackiums and for the Chinese Lee and Pau. Of the two combinations there was little doubt during the opening stages of the game that Lee and Pau had quite an dae on their opponents, Miki Campbell pitched for Hong and fineklim boing unable to Kang in the third, with two men work together to any great degren dewa, Zafra catching for Thomp until the fourth. Wildness on the son in the fourth, with Grover part of Miki in the early stanza left fold; George Ng played for allowed H. Young in the fourth; Ed Howe played for C. C. Loung in the Bixth, with C. K. Leung at first base, in place of C, Y. Tin.

Hoore by Innings,

tion

of

the hits

which

B.

Hackiuma, at short, allowed to be converted into rans. Fielding was unusually good despite the eend

the ground after the rain of the morning and early after

6. China

2,0,3, 0, 0, 1, 0-620oon and few were the opportun

ties offered an outfielder which Hong Kong : 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, th

were not accepted.

:

CHINESE BEAT JAPANESE. SEVENTH INNING RALLY,

Chinese

Line-Up

Japanese

MAS, L. Loo, P. Miki

Local fans who attended the Pau C. Y. Hackiuma baseball game yesterday afternoon

at Carolino Hill stadium, when

T. CChan 16, Marizono

the - Chipose Athletice met and Chan Li 26. Honda trounced the Japanese, were treat. Fung. 3b. Murata i

ed to some of the must sensational baseball seen on the ke lot for Bome time:

The opening four innings found

the Japanese sadly out of luck

while the Chinese annexed 1 in the

Y. Y. Kwcks.. 8. Hackiuma

P. M. Cheh .f. Baido

K.K. Leung cf. Kusano

P. Chang 1.f. Suzuki

Scote by Innings.

1.2 3.4. 5. 6. 7. 8.Total

first a in the second and 1 Chinelo 12 1 0 0 07

Staff Relay Race (Handicap)-1, Foreign Staff; 2, Home Staff..

Messengers' Race.-1, A. Bale; 2; A. Hazard.

McGil-

High Jump-1, H. christ; 2, E. LH. Glensie; 3; F. G. L. Clarke; height, 3 ft.

Moffat.

The latest cotton prices to hand the 9th instas are those of follows:

Middling American Spot: 5.21d. Egyptian Sakel. F.G.F: Spot: 8.10d.

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Woollens.

With the exception of a small business for the tailoring "trade there is little or nothing doing, One or two sales of wool yarns are reported but here also the business is extremely small.

EXCHANGE RATĖS.

(RITION WIRELESS SERVICE]

Rugby, July 10:

*123.89

4.80.21/32. 34.83.

Paris New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam Milan Berlin

25,00

12.08

92.953

'20.42}

Stockholm

18.14

Copenhagen

18.16

Oslo

18.10

Vienna Prague

34.82

104

Helsingfors

1831

Madrid

51T

Lisbon

110

Athens

+375

Bucharest

817-

Rio

321/32

Buenos Aires

35

Montevideo!..

28

1/8 28/32

1731 1/4 2/-11/32

Bombay

Shanghai. Hong Kong

Yokalınma

Silver, spot & forward 13 3/16

Tilting the Bucket-1, Miss W. Lammond and G. O. Martin; 2,G. O. W. Stewart, R. W., Ives, G. Mi K. Churchill and J. D. S. Brown, 1. H. Bradford, V. F. Tyrrel, A. M. Knight, Miss W. Lammond. Ang K

Starter: Frederick J. Hulford. Judges: A. M. Knight, J. D. Wilson, J. M. Crabb, C, E, Stevens Time-keepers:, W. Garrow, H: McNab.

One Mile Scratch-1, G. 8. Browne; 2, F. G. L. Clarke; 8, R. GL. Oliphant; time, 4 min. 56

sec.

Tug of War (Final) for Cap pre- sented by Sir John Peter-Won by Eastern Staff on leave, whose coach

was Mr. T, J. J. Fenwick..

At the conclusion of the events Mr. R. F. N. Padfield felicitously introduced Mrs. H. D. C. Janes, who presented the prizes to the win ners. Mr. Padfield prad a glowing tribute to the great interest taker! and amount of work done by both Mr. and Mrs. H. D. C. Jones on. behalf of the club.

Stewards: C. L. Jones, C. Ben- nott, A. R. Meldrum, F. J. Alleyne, Miss N, H. Hiscox, Miss W. Nor- man, F. W. Chandler, Miss D. 6. Snell, E. Longman, J. Jeffrey

Hon.. Treasurer and Secretary: R. W. Ives.

The company present included: Sir Newton and Lady Stabb, Sir Charles and Lady Addir, Sir Henry And Lady Pollock, Dowager Lady After the ceremony a hearty vote Jackson, Sir Thomas and Lady of thanks to Mrs. Jones was pro, Jackson, Lady Cameron, Mr. H. D. posed by Mr. O. Baker, who, on 0. Jones, Mr. and Mrs A M

behalf of the club, presented her with handsome silver salver as a light memento of, the cocasion.

The officials responsible for the gathoring were

Townsend, Mr. and Mrs R E-M Fadield, Mr. We Adazos Orom, Mr. J. Madannan, Mr. R. C. D. Guin ness, Mr. and Mrs. J., D. Smart, Mr. and Mrs. J. P, Mackintosh,

Athletic Committen: A Moncur Dr. and Mr. Hartigan, Dr. O 11(chairman), Bennett, L. H. Marriott, Mr and Mrs. H. Har-

In the third, and at least two of Japanese 0000800¬4Bradford Miss W. Lammond, C. 1wood, Mr. and Mrs, L, Middleton, those four runs can be attributedSubstitutions:

Japanese, SB. Stevens, W. Ive, Tiny W. Alt. Sidney Hanços

to sloppy, play on the part of 8. Hachiums to third and Marizono Norman, Miss D. 8. Snell, E. T. Hyaci, Mrs. O. J. Barnes, Mr. and

Hackiume, thort stop of the Japan to short-stop:

ose aggregation, who muffed a pair

Umpire H. Jan. Base Umpire-U

of pop lics too short and permitted H. Young.

Turner, B, D. Armstrong,

Sports Committee: 0. Bennett, (Contented on next Column.)

Nra, V., A. 0 Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. O Aminall, Mr. and Mrs. W Hay, Mr. H H. Kopaoni

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