With two weeks of the seventh annual Foreign Y.M.C.A. invitation basketball league completed and three games to their credit, the Foreign Y.M.C.A. "Buccaneers" seem headed for another championship. However, neither the Fourth Marines nor the Kiangwan teams have yet suffered a defeat, and they are certain to give the Buccaneers a close run.
The standard of the play shown by the teams in the league as a whole appears to be on the up-grade, and some really fine basketball should be presented during the season. The The Association Sportive Francaise, who have appeared to have been steadily on the decline since the commencement of the season, were convincingly defeated by the Three Cultures at the Stadium on Sunday, where a large crowd gathered 10 see the Chinese eleven notch five goals against @ return of three. The score a fair illustration of the play. for, throughout, the winners had the game well in hand and after leading three-one at the interval, although allowing partial reduction, managed to keep in a salient position ultima-rely to retire with the deserved vie-tory. vision teams up until December Pet FA, Buccaneers 3 0 1.000 180 107 Chinen 21 607 165 128 4 US.'sarings 3 0 Loop 1 Naneing 2 2.300 152 106] Bane cat ai go 3 Poraire 1 2 (33 151 158!
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