The next important step was in May, 1912, when the Second National Chatpionship Games were in the Temple of Heaven grounds at Peking, where " quarter-mile track was built, with tennis courts and baseball and football grounds.
Forty picked Chinese athletes were sent to Manila in February 1913 and competed with the Filipinos and Japanese there assembled the Carnival games. This gave rit to the organization, at the Manila meeting, of the Far Eastern Athletic Association, of which Dr. Wu Ting-fang was elected first pret The Chinese delegates then at Manila extended an invitation for the Second Far Eastern Games to be held in China, and the very body successful meet in Hongkew Park, Shanghai, in May, 1915, was the result.
The Third Far Eastern Games will be held at Tokio in May, 1917, and the China Contest Commi (which is purely Chinese) is to send 100 picked Chinese to Japan to compete with the Japanese and contestants sent by the contest committees of the Philippines, the Straits Settlements and Siam, each country having its own committee. The Honolulu Chinese are not to take part, owing to the fact that the Honolulu Baseball Team was brought here last year by the F.E.A.A. simply to prove to some doubters that Chinese could throw a ball
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