A barrage of Ave field goals In the second quarter helped the Canadian 'Academy basketball team from Kobe to gain' an initial victory over the Shanghai American School yesterday. The score read 21 to 17%, with the losers staging @ belated rally in the concluding minutes, The Academy boys arrived in Shanghai yesterday afternoon at 2 pam, and directly went out to the American School to prepare for the game which started at 5 p.m, It took the visitors fully ten minutes (0 shake off their sea legs as they trailed in the first quarter by 43. Play was slow, the local team using a slow deliberate offence all the time while the visiting quintette chose both forms of attack, The winners were ably led by their captain, Johnny Clark. Although playing the guard position, he was all over the floor and proved a key man in offensive measures. The whole team was much bigger than the Schoolboys and had a distinct advantage in under-the-basket play, block-out set shots and catching the rebounds "with a high degree of Hackett Shively Bal wRkons—Rirs. T. Lusmon. Miss. grave One G Wigan Weoley, Nis. aloe Me Wen hea: W. Datzich Si: itarker. Stra 0. Burnett Rea, Rest of Shanghal—Mist_M. Collaco, gre "Coltneas Bg B.C
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