1925-10-28 — Page 5

Hongkong Telegraph 港電新報 士蔑新聞 All

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1925.

WHEN MICKEY WALKER RETAINED HIS WELTERWEIGHT TITLE.

WEA

Many of Walker's most effective blows landed on the spine. It seemed apparent that Walker could not ponotrato Shado's defensive crouch and thai his blows to the pine wero with the purpose of straightoning the challenger to an orthodox fighting posture."

"This bit of action was snapped in the fifteenth and final round of Mickey Walker's fight with Dave Shade at the Yankee Stadium in Now York. It shows the champion boating Shado (left) almost to the floor. Many at the ringside believed the decision would go to Shade because he had battored Walker all over the ring in the twoifth, thirteenth and fourteenth rounds, but Walker made a whirlwind finish and received the docision.

NEA

Almost all of Dave Shade's blows were against

Mickoy Walker's chin and jaw. He shook the champion to his heels time and time again, but could not put him opt. Here wo havy Shade (loft) springing back from the

ropes and tin, Wilker severely.

Visiting America.

Soviet

Planes In China

Naval Court Discusses

Shenandoah Tragedy.

Naval officers investigating the crash of the Amerlean airship Sheriandoah' mot at Lakehurst, NJ, and used a model of the big airship in their discussion of its construction and possible weaknesses. They are, left to right, Com- mander R. G. Pennoyer, Commander Maurice Pierce, Captain Paul Foley, the judge advocato Captain Louis B. McBride, Admiral Hilary P. Jones, president of the naval court, and Commander John H. Towers.

General Feng Yo-belang's war preparations include the acquisition of a pinber of Junker monoplanes, German ma- chines, from the Soviet Government. Although reports that he is building up an air force have been denied; this photograph is ample proof of the truth of the statement Hure is seen an engine of one of the machines being transported to Kalgan by car. Notice the propeller across the packing case.

Cardinal Gasparri, 'Papul Secretary of State, will visit Chicago as the Pune's person- al legate to the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress there. The trip, it is expacted, will bo one of the Cardinal's last official acts, ar he is 73 and is not in the best of health. This is his mol recent photograph.

New York's Delegates.

Steamer That Sank Submarine.

Alabama's Best.

This is the coasting steamer, the City of Rome, which collided off the New England coast with the U. 8. Submarine S-51, which sank, most of the crew being drowned.

Two of the fairest of Now York's daughters sock the title of Miss America" at the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant. They are Audrey Jean Austin as "Miss Man- hattan" (left) and Edith Higgins as "Miss Bronx."

A sixteen-year-old giri, Miss Nellie Kincaid, carries off

the beauty honours in Birmingham, Ala,

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