Chapter 64 Basketball belongs to foreigners

Jinmen, in a tennis court somewhere.

The sun was shining brightly, and Xiaoliuzi, Zhang's eldest son in Northeast China, was playing tennis with his American friend Pride.

"How is Mr. Pride? Have my tennis skills improved compared to last year?" Xiao Liuzi wiped the sweat from his head and said happily: "Look carefully, you may not be able to catch this ball."

Pride on the opposite side was also well versed in the ways of the world. His foot slipped and he did not catch the ball. He looked very regretful: "Zhang, after half a year of hard work, you are no longer the same person as before. You have surpassed me."

That’s a lot.”

"Haha, that's because the teacher taught me well. If you hadn't brought me in when you came to the Northeast, I still wouldn't have understood the charm of tennis, let alone enjoyed the happiness brought by sports." Xiao Liuzi happily picked up the tennis racket.

He handed it to the attendant next to him, took the towel and wiped his face: "Now I really like this sport, and I hope to popularize it in the Northeast one day."

When looking at historical figures, while knowing his mistakes, we should also see his strengths.

In fact, Xiao Liuzi also had ideals and wishes when he was young, that is, he wanted to learn medicine to save people and relieve people from their diseases. Unfortunately, his father who kept his mouth shut and said "what a fool" was unwilling, so he and Yu last autumn.

Fengzhi got married, and after a short honeymoon, she was sent back to the Fengtian Military Governor's Office to study military affairs.

During this period, I participated in the activities of the Fengtian YMCA and met a group of foreign friends, including the American Director General Pride. With his help, I learned and fell in love with this sport, and my sports ideas began to sprout.

Later, he became a person who cannot be ignored in the history of sports in our country. He urged the development of modern sports in the Northeast, especially the establishment of a sports major at Northeastern University, where he was also the president, to cultivate sports professionals, pioneering sports education in the Northeast, and later becoming the three northeastern provinces.

The foundation was laid for one of the most competitive regions in our country's sports.

Liu Changchun, our first athlete to participate in the Olympics, was funded by Xiaoliuzi, which became a landmark event for our country to officially enter the Olympic family.

anyway.

Xiao Liuzi threw the towel aside and sat on the chair with his legs crossed: "It's a pity. There are so few people who love sports, especially tennis. Practicing those military drills every day is like puppets. It's so boring. It's so boring."

Otherwise we wouldn’t have come all the way from Fengtian to come to Tianjin to play football and meet friends.”

Pride said with a smile: "If we don't come to Tianjin, how can we participate in the North China Games? More than 20 schools from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Shanxi are participating. People who love sports like you and me can't miss it."

According to the division at that time, the North China region was particularly large, including more than ten provinces north of the Yellow River, including Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. The North China region was the earliest and most extensive in the country to develop modern sports at that time.

Regions with higher technical levels organized the North China Games on this basis.

From 1913 to 1934, a total of 18 sessions were held. During this period, the sports level in North China has always been higher than that in other regions.

But at this point, Xiao Liuzi became interested: "That's right, the 5th North China Games will be held soon this month, and there happens to be a tennis match. Although it is just a performance event, it must be a high-level skill. It must be obvious from the looks of it.

It’s a worthwhile trip.”

"Zhang, you have also overlooked the most important point. The venue of this event is Jinmen Nankai School." Pride pointed at the building not far away and said with interest: "There are old friends of ours there."

Xiao Liuzi sat up straight: "I almost forgot that the organizer of this North China Games is Mr. Zhang Boling. I haven't seen him in Fengtian since last year. I haven't seen him for half a year. I think it's better to go over now and have a look. What will happen if there is a sports meeting?

If you need it, we can help as much as we can."

Pride nodded and said with a smile: "If there is a shortage of contestants in the tennis exhibition match, I will be happy to sign up."

Nankai School is not far from the tennis court. The two of them didn't even need a rickshaw and walked a few steps to get there.

However, it was completely different from the lively scene they imagined. Someone seemed to be quarreling, and the surrounding area was surrounded by people watching the excitement.

After listening for a while, it turned out that there was a quarrel between the players and the organizing committee.

Dong Shouyi, the athlete representative, pointed to the track and field track under his feet with an angry look on his face: "Mr. Arthur, please tell me why the competition measurement units are not in metric units but in imperial distance units. We are running on the land of China, not on yours."

Great Britain!"

Arthur on the opposite side didn't care. He took a puff from his pipe and said slowly: "Dong, did you only know about this recently? I'm sorry. The first North China Games was held under the guidance of the Peking YMCA.

, without these imperial units you don’t even know the rules of track and field.”

Dong Shouyi was in disbelief and asked: "That was before. Starting from this year, can't we Chinese people hold one by ourselves? Don't underestimate others."

"Poor child, may God have mercy on you." Arthur leaned on the gentleman's staff with regret on his face: "Then I can only apologize again. The on-site referees, venue, funding, and rule formulation are all done by us.

The control is not in your hands, little guy, enjoy your first game."

Dong Shouyi was completely furious. He took the manual for participating athletes from his friend and looked through it. Although it was all in Chinese, it was clearly written on the cover that the translation was from a foreigner named so-and-so.

"This is impossible, how could it be like this? No one would ever tell me that the sports meeting would be like this."

For a moment, I felt completely hopeless. It seemed that except for the land under my feet and the yellow-skinned athletes, everything had blue eyes and high nose bridges.

The companion next to him said cautiously: "Actually, this rule was not there from the beginning. It was only translated into English last year at the strong request of our athletes. I didn't know how to compete before."

Arthur over there shook his head, turned around with a gentleman's stick and was about to leave. He paused and took off his hat and put it on again: "Poor boy, I see you are wearing a basketball uniform. You should be a basketball player. I must remind you.

, the basketball in your hand is also imported from us, China? NO, you don’t have this technology yet.”

After he finished speaking, he left only a figure behind and walked away.

Dong Shouyi could no longer hold on, all the strength in his body gave out, and he slumped to his knees on the ground, tears streaming down his face.

"The country has fallen to this point, and we don't even have the sovereignty of sports. We are ashamed."

His vision went dark and he fell to the ground. After seeing it, the onlookers rushed to rescue him.

Some indignant Nankai students couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to rush up to teach the arrogant Arthur a lesson. The staff stopped them one after another for fear of causing an accident, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Liuzi was also furious and wanted to rush over and beat the foreigner up, but unfortunately he was hugged tightly by Pride.

"Let me go, Pride, please let me go quickly. That foreign devil is bullying people too much. He is simply trying to kill someone. How can I endure this!"

"Zhang, you have to calm down. Don't forget that this is a critical period in preparing for the North China Games. There is no room for chaos. If you are so impulsive, you will harm yourself. How will you explain to your father and Mr. Zhang Boling?" Pulei

De pulled him tightly to prevent him from coming forward: "Look, there are several newspaper reporters over there, waiting for a joke."

After hearing these words, Xiao Liuzi's energy slowly dissipated, but the humiliation on his face could not be dissipated.

"No, we must go to Mr. Zhang Boling and find out whether this North China Games belongs to us or to the foreigners!"

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