'The Shanghai mosquito press, one of the strongest arms of China's Fourth Estate, has received reports of the string' of defeats of the Chinese Olympic teams with keen disappointment and sarcasm, but still with faint hopes and encouragement for the future, Although none of the mosquito papers take cable stories from any the foreign news agencies, they obtain their information regarding the Olympic competitions from the "big Papers" and have commented exten sively on the results of the events, Ucularly those concerning Chinese A survey shows that probably never before has the Chinese press in. general taken such a keen interest the Olympic Games as this year, this being chiefly due to the large number petitions fof Chinese participants, inthe com-
While the mosquito press critics generally agreed beforehand. that [China had no chance in track and field events, they had, however, expected a better" display in the Dasketbot games and tu-a few of the Paintul Defeat They were particularly disappointed ft the first basketball defeat, when China lost to Japan. There was a faint hope of getting to the semi nals in this sport and sting of defeat was more painful because the victor was Japan. Had it been some other country' probably the mosquito ress would not have been so bitter.
The members of the quintet, who were described by the Central "News Special Correspondent at Berlin as "haughty." came in for another attack when they lost in the second game to Peru. The defeat of the soccer team at the hands of Britain was a foregone conclusion but some praise was dished out to the team for keeping the score so close.
Times Doubled Individuals who came in for attack included Liu Chang-chun, the 100- metre sprinter, Paul Fu, pole vault champion, and' Miss Yang. Sau-king, relly Chinese swimmer. The press Was disappointed as none of these ational champions got placed in the heats and were eliminated from the first trials. One commentator asks Jwhether the national record of Liu—107 seconds—was accurate, and why he did not place in the Berlin heats when some runners did by 11 seconds fat. Another critic doubts the timekeepers in China, saying that probably the stop-watch was pressed a little Jsooner, just to make the record look ood and to please the runner and the public.
Paul Fu, who crossed the bar at 41 metres at the last National Athletic Meet, merely reached the 3.75 metres mark at Berlin, which caused another critic fo doubt the actual record made in China, Miss Yang, who was 15 metres behind the winner in the 100- metres heat for women, was criticized as being spoiled by the public in China, who put her "too high:
Some writers excused them by saying that the Chinese members had travelled a long distance to Berlin and were tired and practically "out"
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