1923 Far Eastern Championship Games
far eastern championship game sixth edition regional multisport event contested china japan philippine held – may osaka empire japan first time osaka hosted event marking departure capital tokyo traditional japanese venue java thailand french indochina invited compete declined total eight sport contested course fiveday event game lou salvador philippine achieved alltime record point scored player single game international basketball competition scored point lead philippine beat china recapture gold medal football competition china represented south china aa hong kongbased team woman appeared competitor game first time demonstration match tennis volleyball contested awarded medal part official programme call boycott game china due poor relation japan delegation traditionally led american chinese ymca branch nation participated game regardless led question press china national sovereignty international sport republic china japanese empire philippine island