Show SHANGHAI LEAGUE ENDS SEASON BY CARL CArIL GROW Special Cable to International News cw Servi Service cc Shanghai Shang Nov 7 The The first baseball league cague ever or organized m rn China has Just concluder d Its first pennant race Ex Ex- Ex- Ex In this city has been at fever beat I at for a month over the tho battle Even the British German French Japanese Portuguese and were display display- log ing keen Interest In the race before It ended and o of or course the tho American colon colony col col- cOol cOol- on ony onh of about 2000 talked and thought nothing nothing- else eJe Baseball had been rather sporadic In n these parts until the league was or or- or It was anI only a a. four club af affair a- a af- af fair but people In tho the United States and arid especially In the big bIg- lea league ue cities car can have no BO Idea of ot the wild excite ment a a. bunch of ot rabid American baseball base base- ball fans tans stuck off OOOO miles away nay from a a. big league can get up over a ittle league of ot their own This league eague was organized In the middle of ot the summer b by William L. L Merriman mana manager er of ot the American Trading company Thomas homas F. F Millard editor of ot the China Press the new Chinese American me rI can Ch In ese dat dally ly a newspaper e ws pa per which is being published here her and C. C W w. of or the the- British American Tobacco company Of at four tour teams teama entered two were tho- tho hosen ho- ho sen from among residents of ot Shanghai most by Standard OU Oil and British American Amer Amor- ican it Tobacco company men arid and two Iwo from the crew of ot the gunboat Helena which wa was stationed here all summer r. r The fhe beautiful grounds of or the SJ Shang n hat hai Recreation club formed tb the tb scene of or combat This recreation ground Is one oneo o of i tile the most remarkable In the world To j the tourists It offers a succession of f surprises In lit the first place it con one one of ot of the most roost beautiful 1 lace ace courses sea In the world worl a turf turC track of oC otto one one and quarter one miles s with a R. training track Inside of oc it It and beautiful ful and costly grandstands and Ind club buildings In tho the center field of at the track are arc thre e cricket grounds with grandstands a polo field where excl ing- ing ng games ar j ar-j played er e every Saturday during the a season Mallon ason a baseball field and aud anda auda a score of oC tennis tennis' courts On Saturdays all business stops at 1 oclo o'clock k and the tho whole foreign community com corn repairs to the tho recreation field to 10 enjoy the tue Various sports Chinese coolies ke keep p tho the grounds In perfect shape These coolies by tho the thonny way are arc vcr very verr good athletes anti and aro are specially proficient at tennis But to get g-ct back to the baseball l league eague The Shanghai and Navy Xavy baseball base bl ball hall teams have been rivals for several years but only onh occasionally got together for Cor games When hen It was as proposed that thata a a. league be formed there was doubt of ot I Its ts being pos possible but the tho community community com corn seized upon the Idea with the result that a meeting was called calleI and Inside of or a week weck the whole matter had been arranged teams selected and schedule announced It was decided that the best of Shanghais Shanghai's ball play play- ers era should be divided ed Into two teams of or about equal strength and that the players on the Helena should be apportioned apportioned In a n similar way On the Helena the teams were divided divi divi- ded tied on the basis of or above o and below decks one team being called the engineers engi Engi- and the tho other the Swans The rivalry these two teams even before the tue first game Jame was so 80 Intense that b by the time the tho schedule brought them against each other othor over 2000 had been bet on the one game ame The Tho Engineers won It Ono of th the Shanghai teams called tho Red Sox Soc and the two Navy Xav teams alternated alternated alter- alter alternated In th the lead all three e being close together all aU the time Ume Finally the Red Sox pulled ahead but next da day tho the Engineers En En- Engineers won both of a a. header and tied them The playoff was Wis the tile most exciting game of or the whole I league Il ue race The En Engineers scored four runs In the second sec sec- ond end Inning and tho the score remained 4 to 0 until the e seventh when Shanghai got bus busy The Red Hell Sox In that Inning piled up 5 runs Neither side Mille scored after aCter that and the game and pennant I wont went to the tile Red Sox r C to 4 To appreciate the excitement It Jt should be lie remembered that about tOO sailors from rota various American men of or war warm in harbor harbol were present at itt the game g-alDe and about 1500 Americans to lo which rray tray be added a good sprinkling n of at other nationalities The Tue sailors have a a. grandstand all t to themselves while Shanghai residents and officers of or the navy occupy another an an- D other stand with their thell ladles The rivalry between the two grandstands to see which can make the m most i t noise at a crisis in the tue play occasionally stops er e every other sport on tho the grounds |