Berlin, June 18.
The football championship of the Reich was won today by a Westphalian team, the Schalke 04 Football Club, which beat an Austrian XI from Vienna by the overwhelming score of 9-0 goals after a match marked by incident after incident.
A total of 90,000 spectators saw the game, in which the Vienna team, from the Admira Club, showed up poorly against their speedier, more clever opponents. Minor incidents culminated in a serious outbreak one of the Austrians struck a Westphalian player.
After the game, Herr von Tschamer und Osten, Fuehrer of German Sports, announced that the Austrians would be expelled from the German Sports League and, therefore, would not be allowed to play any more.
Their club, Admira, would not be allowed to play to the end of the season "for neglecting to inculcate a spirit of sportsmanship in its members."
Herr von Tschamer und Osten made a special point of asking news-Papermen not to raise the thorny
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