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1921 Far Eastern Games
The law of averages finally
caught up on the Philippines in
basketball hostilities in the fifth
staging of the Far Eastern Games
in 1921 in Shanghai.
China, playing host to the
three-nation sports meet for the
second time since the Games
opened shop in Manila in 1913,
ended a long, eight-year exercise
in futility by exacting a 30-27
victory in the sport considered as
a private domain of the Filipinos,
who, until that year, succeeded in
protecting their lily-white record.
That reversal though would
prove to be the first and only
loss the Filipinos would suffer
as they would continue running
roughshod of the opposition the
rest of the way until the triangular
conclave would have folded up
in 1934 to give way to the much
bigger Asian Games.
But what made the setback
bitter was it came at a time when
the team had gone a massive
revamp that, except from old
mainstays
Jovito
Gonzales
and Aurelio Buenconsejo, saw
outstanding players from the
NCAA dominating the line up
– prolific shooter Luis “Lou”
Salvador, Vicente Avena, Augusto
Bautista and Mariano Sangle –
among others.
Also beefing up the national
five were Joaquin Inigo, Elpidio
Jose, Ped