The habit of the Hakoah, Jewish sport club of Vienna, now reduced to a second class team, to win all the matches it plays, led to fist fights and a near riot at the and of the eighteenth match in which the Hakoah emerged victorious. The score was 7-0. The captain of the Hakoah team, Scheuer, was injured, as were other players, in the skirmish which followed, in which the opposing team and some of the spectators participated.
The police were called to restore order. The riot, it was declared, was the climax of the envy aroused during the entire soccer season, when the Hakoah weekly vanquished every team it met in seventeen successive matches with second class teams.
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