The All-China Sports, for which preparations have been going on for 80 many weeks, open to-day. Com petitors have been streaming in during the past weeks, and troops of boy scouts from the schools have been meeting trains and steamers to conduct the new arrivals to the places where they will be enteriained. Some of them come from distant provinces of Chis there even some from as far afield as Manila, come to take part in the contests. In order to prevent overcrowding the number of conthstan's has been limited to about 590.
Yesterday, the first day of the China National Sports, jyasced quite successfully. In the morning, the "parade of athleter sind. boy scouts made an imporinz ceremony Tu the. afternoon eats for the flat eve ball, basket-bal, eve in order and without gener: ings, of the lange crowd, were in ateibing: contrast to the. farcical Waar 3 Sports of last month.
'S0 far as results can yet be looks an if East China are going! to carry off most of the honsara: their representatives huve on all the first four places in the shot put first, second and fourth in the broad Jump, and the first three places inthe 1,600 metre voce. in, the Dasket-bail contest between North and Central China, the latter. (re: present ated by the team of Rose University) were detented after hard strogele.
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