The Archive · 1928

The Afternoon's Gathering

The principal events of the day were left fur the but the band struck up a lively air] honoured. slsence of Vice-Admiral Yang Si bay the bend struck op 2 ively ale) icthday dinner took place at Sirens of Vice-Admiral Yang Shu. formed the Baseball Dance. There the Japanese Club at 7 p.m Civil Administrator) is in charge! was no necessity to explain to any S#bsequently there was und Squadron, while the} Gnlooker what it was all about, for] Yorks da play on the of the Training Squae to begin with one saw the pitcher, side of the Whangpoo, miral Chen Benn-yung. then the bat, the catcher, infield, the Consulate-Ge Thou: in body of the First! outfield and soon. We ave inform vantage points to vie ed that the whole dance has been hich was enjoyed by how but there are several of worked out by Jo anese who have dren were vociferous vestals at Nanking, Foochow and taken the theme one of their preciation of the wonder national sports the basis.

Jo by many "Ah-h-s" and and Squadron is undes The Baseball Dance over, then The basket racket ye 11 vessels in the port more Swedish drill, and spectators and flowers and coloured star shells treated to a kind of Flag!

Apparently the youngest of the children were selected for} y formed a huge circle, and igh an exceedingly gracetion of flag manipulation.

this portion of the day's proceedings, the performance of the boys and girls reflected great credit on their instructors.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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