Scoring three goals in the last thirty minutes, the First Battalion, Grenadiers of Savoy, ran out victors in yesterday's charity football games over the Chinese on the ground of the French Detachment in Rue Lafayette by the odd point in seven.
Approximately, (1500 people. paid for admission, among whom were a score of interested foreign spectators.
The Chinese did encounter bad luck. In the first place, they conceded the first goal in less than two minutes from the start of play. Upon the resumption, after leading by 3-1, some misunderstanding among the defenders permitted the Italians to tally two successive shots which tied the score and to score the winning goal.
There was no doubt that the Chinese played a better game in the opening session. In spite of working on a soggy and rugged field, they flashed a series of neat short passes which time and again fooled their opponents who adhered to playing a wide open game, But in the remaining half the whole team weakened, owing to a lack of staying power.
SAVOIA:—Marconi, Torricelli, Percivalid, Sabatini, Paricco, Zordan, Mar-zoccolo, Susi, Carenza, Pesce and Murador.
CHINESE:—K. K. Wang, Y. Z. Chuang. Y. H. Tong, Z. K. Ssu, Woo, Y. L. Kia, C. L N. Z Lee,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.