The Russian Regiment showed futher prowess in the Foreign Y.M.C.A. Invitation Volleyball League as they completed their first round activity last night with a fourth consecutive victory at the expense of the Navy Y.M.C.A. by two straight games with identical scores of 15-6.
Through the two frames the Regi ment players had too much dynamite for the Navy team. Chernoff, number one man on the winning team again proved the spearhead of attack as he pounded killing shots over the net. The rest of the team, however, were also in fine pitch and gave valuable assistance. Volcoff and Abranoff were especially useful as they took over Chernoff's task in the offensive when the latter was kept in the rear as a result of the rotation system.
The Navy "Y" had two fine players in Mei and Cheng. These two Chinese stars staged a gallant fight which proved of no avail The other four men were hardly in the picture, being kept too busy in making futile efforts to save themselves from a crushing defeat, RUSSIAN REGIMENT:—Chernoff, ness, Abronoff, Shestakoff, Volcoll, d Makedons NAVY YALCA.:—Mel, Tsang, Chang, ing, Hathaway, Zung.
In another encounter which belonged to the Second Division, Hazelwood, after dropping the first game by 13-15, came back to win the next two mes and vanquish Sun Sing by scores of 15-10 and 15-9. The first ame was an extremely close tussle.
lead see-sawed on no less than five occasions. The Chinese appeared to be stronger towards the close. The "ice cream" team were very much excited and made several costly mistakes in crucial moments, thus conceding the last two points which enabled them to lose.
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