League of. Chinese Formed for This Season Hongkong, Mar. 4
For the first time in Hongkong. the Chinese will have a. baseball! Jearue of their own this season, addition to the international 1 of which they form an important! part, Under the auspices of the South China Athletic Association, five: teams have already been enrolled.
'This Chinest league' has been mace possible by a group of former: Honolulu boys, including Mr. Richard Shim and Me. K, F. June, for many years captain and mane ager, respectively, of the South: China A. A, baseball section. Last summer the old Honolulu boys in Hongkong induced the South China 'A. A. baseball section to send for a team from Honolulu to play series of exhibition games, and this aroused so much interest that several schools in Hongkong later took up the game seriously.
There will be regular games thi summer among these junior teams on Caroline Hill, the aporting field of the South China Athletic Ase sociation, The senior games, of course, will still be played at Happy Valley under the auspices of the Hongkong "Baseball Association, which now hag six teams; two Chinese, one Japanese, one Ameri+ can, one Portuguese, and one Filipino.
In Canton @ baseball team has. deen formed by the students of Lingnan University, and, before the Teague seaton starts in' Hongkong, some games will be played between Canton and Hongkong in Canton.
Canton fs planning a sports ground on the East Parade Ground under the joint management of the Canton International Race and Sporting Club and the Canton Branch of the National Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, Until this field is finished, games have to be played on the campus either of the Kuangtung or the Lingnar: University—Reuter,
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