Huge Crowd s Game Under Floodfights Manila, May 2.
LaSalle College, runner-up in the recent Manila football league, tonight created a major surprise by beating the crack football eleven from Hongkong, 3-1, before a huge crowd in the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
With six men wearing LaSalle colours who on Sunday night helped the All-Manila team trim the Chinese, 3-1, the collegians flashed excellent form and speed tonight in taking the measure of the visitors.
The largest crowd tò witness a foot ball match here since the China-Japan clash in the Far Eastern Athletic Association championship which inaugrated the Rizal stadium in 1934 flocked to the game tonight.
The stadium was filled with yelling Chinese and Filipinos as they saw the men reveal high-class football under brilliant floodlights.
As on Sunday night, Manila tonight saw football played under international rules which allow no suhstitutions.
K. King Cheong scored Hongkong's only goal tonight. He booted the leather into the net in the first half, but LaSalle retaliated twice, both times through A. Crespo. J. Ortigas netted the other goal for the local team in the second period, The Chinese will make their final appearance here Thursday night when they oppose the Yeo Athletic Club, champions of the Manila football league.
The Yeo line-up includes Alex Bois-
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