The disgraceful incident on Saturday afternoon at the Canidrome, when the Chinese. 1 spectators indulged in a riot in the course of the S.MP, v.. Tung Hwa football match, inspires the question as to whether the time has not ived for drastic action to be taken by the ities concerned. The cause of the disturbance was the action of the referee first Chinese team, and, second, the attitude of the Chinese spectators. the conduct of the former led to must be a matter of some specula-the fact that their method of protest against the action of the referee which appears to have been perfectly correct, clearly proves that the Tung Hwa team was ted by no spirit of that type of sportsmanship which accepts unfavourable seeing their chances of victory 1 slight have sought to serve their pur-which on a number of occasions resulted in correspondents writing to this journal on the subject. Referees, who endeavour to "maintain control of the games, and to punish run the risk of at any unpopular de-to disorder. There bt that the Tung scenes.
On that point there is not the slightest doubt that there is a very strong feeling that these sino-foreign football: matches should be discontinued until there is a better assurance of good conduct on the part of Chinese players and crowds than at present exists, It is unthinkable that a foreign team and a handful of foreign spectators should run the risks which they apparently do in the sino-foreign matches. To argue that these engagements serve the ends of ce-operation between the Chinese and the foreigners is to offer a contention which cannot possibly be supported in the light of what has happened. Indeed the opposite is entirely the case, and there is a grave danger that continued repetition of these incidents will increase bad feelings rather than allay them. That is a probability which has to be faced, and it is for the Shanghai Football Association, or the authorities responsible for peace and order to decide whether or not there shall be any further sino-foreign football matches this season, and whether they shall be resumed in the next. As matters stand it would seem. that the Chinese should be left to play amongst themselves until they have learned what true sportsmanship really is. That they do not at present know.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.