The official match was called off and no Cup awarded, but to quiet the crowd and show their sportsman" ship both teams played 10 minutes each way in a friendly game, Mr. A. H. Leslie finished as referee.
The score at the conclusion of the first half of the unfinished match stood at 2 goals each. In the earlier minutes of the second period the foreign Boy Scouts scored twice to their rivals once. The game was Gleanly fought and keenly contested with the best of feeling between the members of both aggregations—not the slightest display of rancour or anger.
With but 15 minutes to play, Mr. Jones went to the goal which' the Chinese defended and ordered about 50 or 60 people off the field, Not knowing that he took time out on his watch, sympathizers with the Chinese, thought he was but delaying the game and thus narrowing it chances of winning or tying the count. Catealls came from all sides.
Less than five minutes had lapsed, when the Chinese scored the tying goal. The referee disallowed it, calling offside. In justice the Chinese team, many foreigners sid that they" thought he was wrong. But that was neither here nor there—Mr. Jones called the play as he saw it, Accepting the decision in good faith the Chinese received the kkickout and carried on with the game.
Suddenly on the far side of the field, that is the river side, a yellow-shirted, loudly-dressed Chinese! in foreign clothes, leaped over the fence, and shouted to the stands to come slong. In a moment the eld students, was black and locke an
Fortunately the calmer heads averted what might have been a serious imbroglio, and a lasting schism in Anglo-Chinese sport. task may be satisfactorily carried out, the members of the Delegation trust that those representing the various interests that may be affected, will give the Delegation their counsel and ce-operation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.