The Shanghai basketball season will begin in some earnestness this evening when a team from the U.S.S. ET, fleet champions last year.
meet a Foreign Y.M.C.A. squad in friendly games at the lotte gymnasium. Owen Krause, better known to Shángháilindefs as a baseballer will run the "Y" team this year, This evening's game will begin at 7 pin, The spirit animating London and provincial sides this season is well summed up by the words of the secretary of the Taunton clüb. "No retirements," he said, "AIl our play ets seem determined to die in their boots."
And that is the tone everywhere, At Leicester, two English inter-Gatiórals will be missed this season, B.C. Gadhey, who has now a school near Skipton, and G, W. C. Meikle, who is also schoolmastering.
Coventry should again do well for all the old players are available. Fixtures are resumed with London Welsh and the Old Cranleighans come on the list for the first time.
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