Further light ig. thrown on the ficulties of the Shanghai Football Associ-tien by @ correspondent who voices the view that dusaieaction has Been generated by reason of the Association's alleged. inconsistency
Ss'surely © misunderstanding of the iplinarg treatment. Here again rialing cartaln eaten requiring
principles by which organised sport can alone be satisfactorily conducted. Whether an executive acts in accordance with individual opinions of the requirements of impartiality a matter for ds me preerbd machinery a not Una ct direct actions" "An tite way" of spectacular' demonstra-
elsewhere discusses the whole si tune ion with a constructive dispasston-Aeneas which may be found the ful The Atseraton ant wil Placed "in ya. dificult "position by agree that it. has been
Feason of the growth of the game. Possibly" the. constitution has not kept pico with the demands made upon It. But no reform can be contemplated while yearns take the 1aw into their own hands. If the gestions made in that article commend themselves to soccer players, the first step seems to be the dimi: nation of those contuma tures" which. have given favourable impression Shanghai Football" Association should, be firmly supported in. han ling thone specific. eases. then Be invited, to consider "ti gane of revision of its volatic ship with the League and the team: composing. that organisation.
Aajustmant. Possible illness of the remonstrances. made to -supporte fof the Tung Hwa team will assist in diverting the controversy over soccer ulministration into constitutional channels remains to be teen, It is Sincerely "believed, however, that there in every disposition to ropret the "direct action" into which certain.
layers have been almost. tunthinkly betrayed. This is not surprising for the Tung Hwa team has "ison to appreciate the considera tion which fas been shown to them the Shanghai Football Ascociation on several' occasions, Por famble they steve allowed to defer Playing their League fixtures until their engagements in the Nanking Games "had. beer' concluded. This latitude was specially designed to permit. the Tune Hwa "stars" to Rad to thely Tnurels in those Games, Fixtures cannot be indefinitely postponed without inflicting hardship on other Clubs anda team which enters the League fs expected to have suf-fient reserves to allow for ordinary casualties. The defection of the Tan Hwa players from the Trial match expressly breached the rules under which the Club joined the Shanghai Football Association, Happily there ig no question of prestige involved? the Tung Hwa. team can, point. to many favours received at the hands fof the Association. Ite from re= cognition of an error of judgment would certainly be met by a frank desire to replace the bitterness. of Resture and counter-gesture by tha [Eooq, sporting spirit of give and: take" by which adjustment of dif ferences can surely be made,
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