1925-06-11 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

"THURSDAY, JUNE 11 1925.

Record Crowds Witness Lawn Tennis.

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Angeles at Bermuda.

The lawn tennis exhibitions in which Messrs. Robert and Howard Kinsey and H. Sugdgrass, the well-known American tennis champions, played, proved to be among the most successful exhibitions promoted by the Shanghai Lawn Tennis Associa tion. The average attendance per day at the Country Club was about 1,000, but at the Cricket Club, when the Kinsoy brothors appeared together for the first time in Shanghai, the crowd was much larger. This picture shows the stand packed with spectators, among whom can be seen Colonel W. F. Gordon, Commandant of the S.V.C., Mr. A. Brooke-Smith, Mr. P. Peebles and Mr. C. W. Porter,

Here is shown the Los Angeles successfully maored to the mast of the U.S. 8. Patoka in the harbour at Bermuda, whore she recently made an experimental flight, A few days ago the Los Angeles met with engine trouble when dying from Lakehurst to Minnesota, and had. to return. She cruised about holpless for some hours, and was moored at the twenty-sixth attempt.

"Soccer" Midgets.

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The Shanghai Francis Xavier's College Midgets Football Eleven, winners of the Midget Cup presented by the late Mr. Johs Prentice, make up in (nargy and fighting spirit what they Jack in size. The toam coach is Mr. J. Hourihan, who is see1 at the back,

Shanghai Children Enjoy Empire Day.

Art Sacrifice.

The official colebration of Empire Day was almost monopolized by the Shanghai children, who spent one of the follleet times of their lives at the Race Course, where the national soolotion, by a piece of clever transformation, introduced a real English fair with obutos, aerial flights, Aunt Sallies, olowns and everything making for abundant amusmont. Hors ard samo pictures taken at the fair showing the children at the various amusements. It might be mentioned, en passant, that some of their parents were not averse to showing their children "how it was done in my day,

Babs Groig felt that the hair which hung down to her wast was her most prized possession, But the Broadway play in which she was cast demanded bobbed trosses. Forced to choose ba-: tween her hair and her art, her art won, and now Bibe basks in a boyish bob.