Lady Tennis Champion.
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1925.
One Form of Gambling.
A Beauty Spot
The final of the ladies' singles lawn tonnis Championship of the Shanghai Lawn Tennis Association was played at the Majestic Hotel courts last month and resulted in a victory for Mrs. Hicks over Mrs, E. A. Prince. Mro. Hicks won 6-8,6-3, and 6-1. Thisisthesecond time Mrs. Hicks has won the honours and her victory is well doserved. Above is a recent portrait of the lady champion.
The photographer managed to snap these two Chinese countryman indulging in one of the favourite pastimes of the natives, that of gambling by means of bamboo sticks shaken
up in a tin or wooden holder, The fellow on the right has
just pulled out a stick and is looking at his number.
Those with an eye for a pretty spot will find one where a conseless stream of traffic rumbles by. It is the entrance to the] Shanghai Municipal Conservatories at the Garden Bridgo where so many hundreds of beautiful planta flourish.
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of the service you have rendered to the Society and to all Irtshiren during your many years of membership.
our genial personality has endeared you alike to the members as to the Community in general and in parting" we assure you that the memory of your successful work wi Long remain green.in our minds and will stimulate thoseiny remain behind in upholding the Society's interests and those the Empire at large
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Unit one year ago, Mrs. Walter P Androws Atlanta, Ga., had never had gun in her hands. Then she got a shotgun and took up trapshooting. Now she has won the women's doubles championship at Dayton, O. That tournament constituted her first experience with clay Targets, but he proved u crack shot.
Reproduced above is the handsome illuminated scroll presented as a token of great
esteem to Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, who is retiring from the post of Crown Advocate at Shanghai,
President Von Hindenburg of Germany discarded his eivilian clothes and appeared once inore in the uniform of a Field Marshal of the Ger- man armies when he review- ad the manoeuvres of the Reichswehr troops at Mock- lonburg, a few wooks ago.
When the Spanish Landed at Alhucemas.
This striking photograph was taken while the Spanish ware landing troops at the Bay of Albucemas, in North Africa. Spanish battleships are bombarding the Riffs' shore batteries and receiving a hot fire in return. The aeroplane is spotting onemy positions for Spanish gunners.
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