The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-14
Oriental Students From New
 York Coming to Meet
 Crack Organization Here.

store for them a rare treat Sunday afternoon when the Chinese Students Soccer Football Club of New York city, the only Oriental eleven ever formed in the United States, meets the Bridgeport Stars at the Meadows the grounds of the Bridgeport City team. Kickoff is announced for 3;30 p. m.
 The Chinese team, organized only last season, is explained this year by Tommy Lee, Columbia University athlete, who played forward and cap tained the Phillips Andover Academy eleven at Andover, N. H., for several years and who the season before last played on the Yale soccer eleven. With an eligible list of more than score of players, all of whom were born in China, the club is made up from the student bodies of Columbia University, New York University and General Theological Seminary.
 Ernest Kau, one of the organizers of the team, will play. Kau, who is a. student at General Theological Sem mary, was captain of the Hang-Kow University team, one of the strongest amateur teams in China, where soccer is the most played of all competitive sports. K. L. Kwong, captain of the famous Columbia Chinese crew last season and member of the university's wrestling team, who managed the Chinese kickers last season, will not be with with the team, having sailed several months ago for France to ser vice with the American forces as a Y. M. c. A secretary.
 Lee was Y. M. c. A. 115-pound wrestling champion last year, and Yip. another member of the eleven, is a member of the Columbia mat team.
 The Chinese team has been booked for a match with the national cham pions, Bethlehem Steel F. C., on Schwab Field, Bethlehem, Pa, a few weeks hence. The Chinese students organized their soccer club very late in the 1917-18 season and played but two games. In the first they met the powerful Montclair (N. J) Athletic Club footballers and were defeated by 5 goals to 1. The Montclair aggre- gation had out their strongest lineup and the performance of the Chinamen was most meritorious.
 After defeating the Chinese stu dents, the Montclair A. c. team not only won the championship of the Field Club Soccer League-which competition the Chinese eleven has entered for 1918-19-but also beat Haverford College for the interstate Field Club League title.
 The Chinese team surprised New York soccer followers on April 27 last, by holding the Crescent A. c. team of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to a A tie.
 The remarkable agility of the Orientals and their great speed have surprised soccer critics who have watched their play and many among the foremost soccerites for the metro politan district have predicted for the Chinese team a remarkable future ir the kicking game.
 The game should prove the greates drawing card ever offered for the SOC cer fans of this state as the Chimes players are an attraction whereve they go. The team is composed 0 players of the highest class of life and there are no Iaundrymen or Fal III lIlSlI IdhhS. LS are all highly esteemed gentlemen and are all fine athletes. They hay been sent to this country by the Chi nese government to learn the Ameri can ways and especially the tactics O the various sports of the country, es pecially soccer which is a very popula game in their country. The player can all speak from three to four Ian guages and all have been throug either Yale or Harvard Universities The game will be played under tn auspices of the Connecticut Stat Football association, who have gone t great expense to get this team c stars to visit this city. The player will arrive in the city just before moo and will go direct to the grounds al ter they have visited one of the Can ton restaurants of the city. The Lord ship Trolley Co. have decided to ru special trolleys direct to the ground from Golden Hill street at 2; 2:3t 2:45, and 3:15. While the Connel ticut Trolley Go. will have trolleys ru up Stratford avenue every five mir utes, spectators travelling by the5 trolleys should alight at Hollister ave nue and the grounds are seven mir utes walk towards Lordship. Tn teams are expected to lineup as fo lows:
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