Osaka, June 14 This city's version of the East Asia Sports Meet recently concluded in Tokyo opened here today with competition in basketball, baseball and tennis, conducted in the form of an interport series with the Philippine Islands rather than a bona fide meet including many nations.
In basketball, the Philippines All Stars swamped a representative China team by a score of 74-32. The score at half-time stood at 23-17 in favour of the ultimate victors, who unleashed a furious assault in the second period to completely obliterate the Chinese defence.
In baseball, the Japanese emerged triumphant over the Philippines by a score of 4-1. Following are the details:
Philippines Manchoukuo Batteries Terasima and Nagasawa.
In the first round tennis singles, Kawamura of Manchoukuo eliminated Diy of Manila, 6-1, 6-2; Hirai of Japan eliminated Sanchez of Manila, 7-5, 6-1 Ampon of Manila eliminated Fujikura of Japan, 6-8, 6-4; Kuramitu of Japan eliminated Car-mona of Manila, 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.
Second round competition saw Ampon defeating Oita of Japan, 7-5, 6-0,
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