China is indebted for the game to four men, Galey, Robert-
son, Exner, and Siler. Robert Galey, a former center in football at
Princeton, left Springfield in 1904 for Tientsin to establish both
missions and the game of basketball in North China. J. Robertson, in
1905, followed his colleague to Tientsin to assist in the intensive
development of this work. Dr. Max. J. Exner, a medical missionary,
went to East China in 1908, and figured prominently in the extensive
development of the game there. Dr. Charles Siler, a Kansas cage Athlete,
and also a medical missionary, left the states in 1912, China-bound,
to add a further contribution to the game, in the way of his personal
knowledge of scientific basketball.

C. Herok, another Springfield man, transplanted the game
in Persia as early as 1901. In 1924, Roberts College in Constantinople
became the first college in a foreign land to incorporate basketball
in its curriculum. Chester N. Tobin has done much for the game in
Turkey. In 1924, he brought about the publication of the first trans-
lation of the American Basketball Rules into the Turkish language.
Many of the pictures of American players were reproduced in this book
of rules.

Today, the game is enjoying a rapid and enthusiastic growth
in the land ofthe Moslem. Louis W. Riess has done for Greece what
Tobin did for Turkey. He has translated the American game into Greek.
Salonica was the birthplace of basketball in Greece.

The game in Mexico is well established. H. C. Aguirre of
the University of Mexico, City of Mexico, and T. B. Rodriguez, at
Chiluahua, both graduates of the Y.M.C.A. school at Springfield, have
done much to promote the game in that republic. At present we are in
communication with Mexican basketball teams who are desiring to make
a tour through the United States.

In Canada, hockey is the big game among the men, although
basketball is growing in proportion to the growth of indoor playing
space, much of which is now under construction in the dominion.

Canada possesses the World's Champion Girls! Basketball
Team in the personnel of the Commercial Grades of Edmonton, Alberta.
This team has successfully defended its laurels both in this country
and in Europe. Coach J. P. Page has tutored this quintette for eight
or nine years.

After the Armistice was signed, two American teams, by
invitation from the British government, demonstrated basketball in
the British area of the war zone. The English took to it readily.

In the earlier days in England, basketball was introduced as a girl's
game. Until a little more than a decade ago, the British did not
know that there was a game.of basketball for men.

In Poland and Russia, where the cold weather prohibits
outdoor play, the lack of large indoor playing spaces is a hindrance
to the game. Czechoslovakia received the game with open arms in 1920.

In the last decade, the World War has contributed its
share of advancement to the play program of Germany. Many years have
passed since the American Army of Occupation vacated German soil, but