When Coach Benny Lorn of San Francisco's Chinese football team counted noses before the game with the city's Japanese team at Kezar Stadium last week, twelve players were missing, including Charley Chan, onetime star of Commerce High School. The absentees were less afraid of their opponents, or the possibility of the game's ending in a riot as it did the last time they played in 1930, than they were of their parents. Most Chinese families had forbidden their sons to play with the Japanese boys since matters had gone so far in...
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