Losing to Sokol Thursday night by two straight games, Betar suffered their fifth successive defeat in the Foreign YMCA., Invitation Women's Volleyball League and have mathematically been awarded the bottom-of-the-table championship, The team's last match will be against the Y.M.C.A, Reds and the expecta: tion is that the Jewish ladies are going to wind up the league with yet another setback, Betar made a spirited start against Sokol, The Russians were slow to settle down which resulted in the Jewish players' having an equal share of the game, Sokol, as a superior team, were ahead practically all the time but they had a narrow escape in pulling away to win the opening frame by a margin of four points at 15-11, In the following session, Betar wilted to allow their conquerors to gain the edge without much difficulty, finishing on top of a 15-7 score, SOKOL:—Hashinsky, Osetroff, Boviloti, Krivenko, Yuin and Levchenko.
BETAR:—R. Plotkin, J. Plotkin, S. Deitch, C. Hanin, 1." Marahovsky, 5. Gurevitch and J. Oystrach.
A fight for position will take place to-day starting at 1 pin, The S.M.C, Mixed are going to meet Aldesi's Whites, The Municipal sextette want to wu their fourth match so as to stand on level terms with Sokol in the runner-up berth while the Whites will also attempt to climb higher in the standings, Following this tussle, the champion You Hsing and Erin Villa will play their last games of the season, Latest Team Standings W. L. Pet You Hsing 5 6 1,000 Sokol E E "800 S.M.C. Mixed 3 2 600 Aldesi's Whites 2 2 500 Foreign "Y" Reds": 2 3 400 Erin Villa 1 4 200 Betar. 10 5 0%
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