American Squad Displays Superiority in Tactics And Combination; Ruge Best Man on the Floor Shanghai, Dec. 18. Tit cream of Chinese basketball talent in Shanghai was yesterday defeated by a combined American squad in the first|} instalment of the three-game charity basketball series conducted at the Foreign ¥.M.C.A, The final score was 45-37, but it should have been far less narrower.
When the first, half of play wound up, the starting line-up of the United States was a clear 13 points ahead of China (Score: 24-11), but five minutes before the final whistle a squad of substitutes was limping along danger ously, and the yap in the scores had closed in lo 30-31. 11 was time sume the line-up and It. Honsewetz called the entire squad of five substitutes off the Moor, replaced. them with the starting line-up, andthe Jam-packed spectators in' the kymmasium thought that things lek up again for Am They Wid nol, however. In the remaining five minutes America. scored seven points, while China countered with ise have found his stride, and he was ticularly well supported by Owen Krause, Lew Carson, who tolled hard fon the America line-up on Tuesday night, meanwhile, was Tess prominent than "he usually is, and this may be ascribed to the fact that he has to wear America's colours again tonight in the second game of the three-mame charity series between America id China, " "Tiny" Yeknik. the 215 Pound centre of the Cubs, played calm, well-balanced game, For Wu Shing W. M. Liang was the high-scorer, netting a mere ten points the Cubs Dobrenky and Krause shared scoring honours, each netting points DAN" Photo, English International Team
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