It would indeed be a pity if the Charity Match, to which so many people are looking forward, were to be in any degree spoilt by behaviour such as that against which the Chairman of the League Committee of the Shanghai Football Association appeals in our correspondence columns this morning. There have, unfortunately, been occasions in the past when onlookers at this annual event have allowed the excitement of the moment to betray them into remarks which though not, perhaps, seriously meant have nevertheless given offence. At all times it is desirable that games should be conducted with perfect fairness and it is because that is impossible when spectators annoy players that anything approaching baiting is regarded as bad form. But especially on Christmas Day should the fun of the game and the fun alone be uppermost in everybody's mind. will require something more 20] than pacific assurances from Herr Bernstein before they disbelieve in the readiness of Germany to do all the things he mentions,
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