The Archive · 1936

Hunan Wins Twelve Championships

Changsha, Oct. 17.

Despite a minor dispute which had three days ago threatened to disrupt the progress of the gathering, the Sixth Central China Athletic Meeting was concluded to-day in the best of spirit.

The home delegation representing Hunan arried off twelve of, the eighteen championships, of iris made a clean sweep of all eight titles.

In the men's division, Hupeh and Hunan split honours, each taking four championships, the former winning the swimming, track, soccer, and baseball titles while the latter took the all-round, field, tennis, and Chinese art of defence trophies.

Anhwei and Kiangs! each won one championship, namely in basketball and volleyball respectively.

The girls championships which were monopolized by Hunan were swimming, track, field, basketball, volleyball, tennis, baseball, and Chinese boxing—Central News.

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