The Archive · 1938

AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 37 New York

Boston...

Detroit 2.500.

Washington 32 Philadelphia 26 Chicago 20 St. Louis 19 36—United Press. which sent Sung away. The latter lifted a high cross for Woo, the right winger, to meet it but, before the ball swooped down, Marconi pulled off a brilliant save.

Shortly afterwards, Kia and each rifled shots but the Italian goal handled superbly and prevented the Chinese from finding the net. In the 15th, minute neat short passes, originated by Lee, resulted in C. I. Kia scoring. It was a beautiful play. The ball passed through five players without any interception. Lee passed to Kiang, who transferred to Var. The latter slipped the leather to Sung and Sung gave to Kia, who rar forward and booted a low shot past Marconi, Within ten minutes Woo, the right winger, succeeded in obtaining the lead as he scored from a similar play which he missed earlier in the fight. The scorer placed the ball in the far corner well out of the custodian's reach from a distance of only five. Yards at an acute angle. The Chinese had a few more chances to increase the margin but met with hard luck. They attacked almost incessantly and the ball twice hit the cross bar.

Caught Napping Starting the second half with the same vigour, Y.L. Kia sent his team two up by countering an easy shot. He caught, the opponents unprepared. However, disaster came right after that goal and in less than ten minutes two goals were lost. Misunderstanding between the keeper and Tang enabled Caranza to shorten the margin to 3-2. He got hold of stray ball which lay between the back and the goalkeeper and easily tapped it over the line. Then from a pass by Murador, Marzoccolo was left unmarked. The latter took a shot which hit Tang and deflected into the net for tying point. These two goals took the sting out of the ultimate losers, who despite all their efforts to rally, finally yielded a fourth goal in a row to Caranza at about ten minutes to the end of the contest.

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