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THE ́HONGKONG, " TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1938.

The TAJMAHAL

1-TENNIS

SILK STORE'S Behind the

Sports that Millions

Annual Summer Enjoy

SALE

Now in Progress

Each succeeding year our sales continue to be anticipated by keen bargam lovers, with ever increasing eagerness, as very real and absolutely genuine money saving events

This season the sale will be even more attractive than ever

LOOK AT THESE NEW GOODS ! ALL NEW AND UP-TO- DATE AND THE GENUINE REMAINS OF THIS SEASON'S

STOCK.

By Stuart Emeny

wire-netting, court construction, and from a height of 100 inches on to a clothes has 41 turnover of some concrete floor to see that it has the

£1,000,000 a year.

Lawn Tennis Association regulation

A grand total of 304,000 rockets bunce of 33 to 38 Inches at n'tem- valued at £471,000 are sold every perature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit. year. The "rabbit" makes his guinea

rucket last several years; the "class" The cast of tennis to the individual player ng bay three or four new Varies enormously. To reach Wim- inckets in a season; and the star bledon costs about £2,000. "Bunny" played will use anything from 40 to Austin estimated that at the height 70 rackets (valued at 759. a thing) of his career it cost him about £300 in single senson,

a year to play tennis. Here is his inas and expenditure account;

...

£ X.

33 10

150

40

50

BO

(medical

20

PRINCE'S PLATE

PEMBURY

and

£795 10

Thirty-eight feet of gut goes to the Loss of earnings a year 400 stringing of euch racket (21 feet for Entrance fees and court fees CREEN and white lawn tennis horizontal) so that a total of 3.513 Travelling expensea

the vertical strands and 17 for the af Queen's Club U

days are here again and inites of gut is used in a season. As Clothes this article based an Census it takes the Intestines of eight sheep Rackets and bulls of Production and the compu. to make a single racket, pause for a Entertainment

of training tations of leading

manufactment in silence for some 4,000,000 Co

sheep' A percentage of rackets are advice), ele. turers of tennis equipment tells strung these days with a synthetic some little-known facts and gut which is claimed to be weather figures which make modernať.

lawn tennis the most played In pre-war days the thick-handled Betty Nuthall estimated that her open-air game in Great Britain, cumbersome rackets were made out tennis cost her £600 a year.

For the next few months of ash, and for men weighed 14 to Hit the ordinary player can enjoy some 2,000,000 people of all ages are slender affairs made of laminated or £7 7., Including the purchase of 10ozs To-day's streamlined models als first season's tennis for as little from eight to 80 will spend a hickory, beech, and ash which gives rackets, balls, clothes and his club large percentage of their spare both lightness and strength. They subscription. His second sruson will time and a vast amount of their weigh 131⁄2 to 14ozs

cost him about half that amount, but mnelines energies patting, hitting and Complicated

IT now if he a player of pronuse and de- manufacturing 12,924,000 tennis balls tres to play in tournaments his ex-

smashing lawn tennis balls. (valued €425,000) which will be penses will inercase year by year.

to the courts.

0

800,000

Every evening and week-end they lummed backwards and forwards will be seen-battalions of a white over the nets before the tennis year The fact remains, however, tha! clad sports army--hurrying by enz. is oual, The bails

л are covered with hundreds

thousands of players rycle or afoot from office and horne Molton cloth, one yard, 72 inches enjoy the game at its cheapest level wide, being needed to cover six dozen and for the matter of a few shillings Of the 2,001,040 players women balls-so that ball manufacturers will week derive all the benefits of putnumber men by about 1,200,000 to this year use 100 miles of cloth. health, the fun and pleasure. the friendships-and sometimes the A mere 360,000 of them belong to

romance which makes modern lawr the 2,814 clubs affiliated to the Lawn Every ball before it leaves the tennly the most popular of outdoor Tennis Association. Another 600,000 manufacturers. is solemnly dropped games. or so belong to small unaffiliated clubs connreted with the social side) of churches, stall business houses anel shops, or to one and two court rubs formed by little Groups of meghbours and friends.

*

There is no exact Ogure for the number of these unaffiliated lubs. best be believed to be in the neigh- bourhood of 20,000, and one tennis equipment firm alone has 16,000 of this men on its books.

The remaining 1,040,000 players! are freelances who only play seVR- on other

CIN

stopally on municipal

Before

Now

45" PRINTED CREPE

$2.50

36" PRINTED WEMCO

$2.50

$1.25 $1.20

45" PRINTED GEORGETTE

$2.50 $1.30

36" FANCY COTTON NELO

$3.00

$1.80

36" PRINTED COTTON

$2.00

$1,20

29" FANCY COTTON

$1.50

$0.40

36" PRINTED LINEN

$2.50

$1.65

they

1

23" COTTON LACE

$1.20

$0.70

STOCKINGS

$2.50

$1.25

ALSO MANY OTHER LINES SUCH AS:-

WHITE SILK SHIRTS

WHITE AND COL PYJAMAS

STRIPED SILK SHIRTS

$2.50 $1.10 $3.50 $1.80 $2.75 $1.25

CREPE DE CHINE SILK SHIRTS

White and Col

$4.50 $2.75

Amazing Reductions Incredible Bargains

Absolutely Unrepeatable Bargains

450 DRESS LENGTHS

MANUFACTURERS' REMNANTS

Exclusive designs

at GIVE-AWAY PRICES

REMEMRER Belays are dangerous. To-morrow the very line you kad set your heart on may be gone. Come in to-day.

The TAJMAHAL SILK STORE

King's Theatre Bldg., Queen's Road C.

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

puthan hure rourts. They pay

by the hour. Diag There

approximately 60,000 terinis courts in Great Britain-- (roughly 18,000 affiliated cfub courts, 35,000 courts owned by other clubs, and the remainder oward by local outhorities, hotels or private

paties

tennis-once

cum-

The number uľ private garden | courts diminister every your with the increase of public tennis facilities and vicuruge lawn and private house the backbone of the game--is practically dead.

Year by year the standard of play improving and with the aid of Tewspaper articles and booklets on tennis technique more people master The strokes. But even so only a frac tion of those who wield a ruel

rucket are

"lass" players. Only 7,050 of the Olympe Bradna and Gene Raymond, the romantic pair in "Stolen Heaven", most promising players gel any

the new film that opens on Saturday at the Alhambra Theatre. proper coacting through the Lawn Tennis

Association, and the tine spent on coaching works out at an average of only about one hour and Ave minutes a year.

Not more than 24,000 out of the| 2,000,000 players take part in the 165 open tournaments. Another 60,000 play Lix inter-club matches and limited tournaments, and at least)

MAMPEI HOTEL

KARUIZAWA

1,000,000 are "rabbit" who play the Karuizawa, a small scat- game with a minimum of skill and tered town, is situated a maximum of unabashed enjoyment.

Over 80 per cent of the women 3,080 feet above the sea wear shorts and skirts, The pre-war tennis girl needed material for her voluminous frock.

seven yurd, of and has been known for Miss 1938 can and does--make do many years as the sum- with as little as

as 1% yards for her mer resort where more shorts and backless and sleeveless

top-fashionably known as "halter." foreigners go than any The finance and statistics of the other place in Japan. It According to the computations of was discovered in 1886. experts our 2,000,000 players

game make the head reel,

out

pay

sume £7,000,000 a year in con- Situated only three and nection with the gume. If the in- a half hours from Tokyo, direct expenses such as hospitality

were taken into account the figure by train, it offers ideal

would be much greater.

This expenditure

Hives employ-summer

temperatures,

ment to some 10,000 groundsmen and never exceeding 80 de-

rackets, balls, nets, grees.

supports the tennis equipment indus-

which in

ury,

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