Some Thoughts on the Week Much interest was evinced by the hundreds of thousands of spectators who attended the Far Eastern Olympic Games at Hongkew Park throughout last week. With the exception of Monday and Saturday, the weather was excellent but the heavy downpours on these two days did not im the least dampen the ardour of the crowds.
The athletes were in excellent condition and competition was very keen, but friendly. A number of records were broken, a list of which is given below.
In the field and track events, the Filipinos easily came first, with Japan second and China a poor third. The same thing happened in the swimming, baseball, tennis, and the Decathlon.
Japan's chief victory was in the distance running.
China won most of the games, such as football, volleyball, basketball, as well as the Pentathlon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.