The football committee of the East China Intercollegiate Athletic Association in a meeting held yesterday decided to declare the championship for this year a triangular tio between Nanyang College, St. John's University, and Shanghai College.
A play-off of the tie by extra post-season games was considered inopportune and undesirable for the following reasons:
1—It was evident that the efficiency of the scholastic work would be seriously impaired for almost a week at this most important period of the term.
2.—The final examinations of the college term are so near that extra games would have had to be played within the period from January 5 to January 10 inclusive. This would necessitate, for one of the teams, that it play its two games with only one day intervening: for another that it play its games with only two days intervening: while one of the three teams would have the advantage of four days rest between its two games. This inequality of conditions might possible turn the result in favour of a team not necessarily the strongest.
°3.—Finally, such play-off, involve ing two games for each of the tied teams, might again result in the same triangular tie, and in that case would be inconclusive Or it might easily result, through tie games, in merely" reducing the number of teams tied for the championship to two instead of three, in which case also it would be inconclusive.
Rangers Nieh Chi-kuei School, A friendly match was played on the Nieh Chi-kuei Public School for Chinese ground on Monray afternoon between the homesters and the Rangers F.C. which resulted in a win for the latter, the score when the final whistle was blown by Mr, Witschi, who refereed, being six goals to two in favour of the Rangers. The game was of a scrappy nature but was keenly contested. For the winners Nash scored four, and Morcher and Jacobs one each.
The Chinese team played well but failed to equalize. Their passing was exceptionally good. One of their goals was scored from a good field shot and the other from a scrimmage near the Rangers' goal.
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