The Archive · 1938

French Incensed

The disallowing of a goal scored by the French Forces for an offence which was not obvious rather in-ery Rough Play Tarico the Italian right half had gathered the ball and was tackled by a French player. The Italian player continued to retain possession of the ball, and went along the touch-line with the French player following behind. The French player pushed the Italian in the back and then fell, When on the ground, he censed the supporters of the French forces, added to the fact that Susi, who scored from Carenza's pass the second goal, was off-side when the ball was sent forward. In the second half, the ball struck the post and rebounded to Carini, and a claim was made for a goal. Inquiry from well-known senior players standing behind the goal resulted in their ating that the ball did not enter the net, The referee blew his Cairo, Mar. 12.

Mr. Hsieh Shou-kang, former Chinese Charge d'Affaires at Brussels and substitute Chinese delegate to the International Olympic Committee meeting now in session here, was today ruled ineligible to participate in the conference by Count Baillet de LaTour, President of the Olympic group.

This ruling prevented Mr. Hsieh from introducing the motion to boycott the holding of the Olympic Games at Tokyo in 1940.

Many delegates, however, believed that somebody else would move that the Games be held elsewhere.

Substituting for Dr. C. T. Wang, President of the China National Amateur Athletic Federation who is now Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Hsieh issued a statement after he had been declared ineligible. He said that Dr. Wang had already sent the Conference a greeting, calling the attention of the nations participating in the meeting to the incongruity of holding the Olympic Games by a warring nation.—United Press.

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