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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1028.

The TAJMAHAL

1-TENNIS

SILK STORE'S Behind the

Annual Summer

SALE

Now in Progress

Each succeeding year our sales continue to be anticipated by keen bargain 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.

Before

Now

$2.50 $1.25 $2.50 $1.20 $2.50 $1.30 $3.00 $1.80 $2.00 $1.20 $1.50 $0.40 $2.50 $1.65

$1.20 $0.70 $2.50 $1.25

45" PRINTED CREPE

36" PRINTED WEMCO

45" PRINTED GEORGETTE

36′′ FANCY COTTON NELO

36" PRINTED COTTON

29" FANCY COTTON

36′′ PRINTED LINEN

23" COTTON LACE

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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

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MANUFACTURERS' REMNANTS

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

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

Sports that Millions Enjoy

some

By Stuart Emeny

wire-netthug, court construction, and from a height of 100 inches on to a clothes hng a turnover of some concrete floor to see that #1 hna the

£4,000,000 a year.

Lawn Tennis Association regulation

A grand total of $04,000 rackets bounce of 53 to 58 Inches at a tem- valued at £471,000 are sold every perature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit. year. The "rabbit" makes his guinea

racket last several years; the "class" The cost of tennis to the individual player may buy three or four new varles enormously. To reneh Wim- jackets in a season; unl the star bledon costs about £2,000, "Bunny" played will use anything from 40 to 4ustin estimated that at the height 70 rackets (valued at 70s. a time) of his career it cost him about 2800 In a single season. ;

a year to play tennis, Here is his loss and expenditure account;

Thirty-eight feet of gut goes to the Loss of earnings a year stringing of each racket (21 feet for Entrance fees and court fees the vertical strands and 17 for the at Queen's Club

As Clothes

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£ A. 400

35 10

150

40

50

BO

40

£705

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GREEN and white lawn tennis horizontal) so that a total of 3.513 Travelling expenses

days are here again and miles of gut is used in a season. this article based on Census takes the intestines of eight sheep linckets and balls of Production and the compu- to make a single racket, pause for a Entertainment tations of leading manufac-moment in silence for some 4,000,000 Cost of training (medical

sheep! A percentage of rackets are advice), ele, turers of tennis equipment tells strung these days with a synthetic little-known facts and gut which is claimed to be weather figures which make modern mout. lawn tennis the most played

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

For the next few months of ush, and for men weighed 14% to But the ordinary player can enjoy some 2,000,000 people of all ages are slender affairs made of laminated as £7 7s, Including the purchase of Tu-day's streamlined models his Orst season's tenuls for as little 10oza. 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 abscription. His second season will time and a vast amount of their weigh 13 to 14oza. energies patting, hitting and Complicated machines are now if he is a player of promise and de-

manufacturing 12.02

12,024,000 tennis balls stres to play in tournaments his ex- armashing lawn tennis bulls.

(valued £420,000) which will be penses will increase year by year. Every evening and week-end they lammed backwards and forwards

cost him about half that amount, but

will be seen-battalions of a white- over the nets before the tennis year hundreds of

The fact remains, however, that

·

clad sports army--hurrying by ene, le put. The balls are covered with

thousands of players cycle or afoot from office and home Melton cloth, one yard, 72 Inches enjoy the game at its cheapest level to the courts.

and for the matter of a few shillings wide, being needed to cover six dozen Of the 2,000,000 players women balls-so that ball manufacturers will week dcrive all the benefits of

health outnumber men by about 1,200,000 to this year use 109 miles of cloth,

the fun and pleasure, Che 800,000.

friendships-and sometimes

the A mere 300,000 of them belong to

romance-which makes modern luwn the 2,014 clubs affiliated to the Lawn Every bail before It leaves the tennis the most popular of outdoor Tennis Association. Another 600,000 manufacturers is solemnly dropped games, or so belong to small anahated chibs connected with the social side of churches, small business houses and shops, or to one and two court clubs formed by little Aroups of neighbours and friends.

·

There is no exact figure for the number of these unnfiliated clubs, but it is believed to be in the neigh- bourhood of 20,000. and one tennis equipment Arm alone has 15,000 of the men on its books.

pay

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The remaining 1,040,000 players are freelances who only play ocen skmatly on municipal on on other public hire courts. They they play by the hour.

There are approximately €0,000 tennis courts 2 Great Britain- roughly 18,000 afliated club courts, 35.000 courts owned by other clubs. and the remainder owned by local authorities, hotels or private com- panies. The

number of private garden courts diminishes every year with the increase of public tennis facilities and vicarage lawn and private house jeanis-once the backbone of the game is practically dead.

Year by year the standard of play is improving and with the aid of newspaper articles and booklets 04 tennis technique more people master: the strokes. But even so only a frac- tion of those who wield a racket arti "class"

players. most promising players get proper coaching through the

Only 7,050 of the Olympe Bradna and Gene Raymond, the romantic pair in "Stolen Heaven”,

нау

Lawn

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

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*

Not more than 24,000 out of the 2,000,000 players take part in the 185 open Lournaments. Another 00,000 play tr Inter-club matches und limited tournaments, and DL least

the new film that opens on Saturday at

the Alhambra Theatre.

MAMPEI HOTEL

KARUIZAWA

1,900,000 are "rabbits who play the Karuizawa, a small scat- game with a minimum of skill and tered town, is situated

maximum of unabashed enjoyinent. Over 80 per cent. of the women

nen 3,080 feet above the sea wear shorts and skirts. The pre-war and has been known for tennia girl needed seven yards of material for her voluminous frock. many years as the sum- Miss 1838 can and does--make do with as little as 1 yards for her mer resort where more shorts and backless and sleeveless

game make the head reel.

top-fashionably known as "haller." foreigners go than any The dance and statistics of the other place in Japan. It According to the computations of Was discovered in 1886. experts our 2,000,000 players out some £7,000,000 a year in con-

Pay Situated only three and nection with the game. If the in- a half hours from Tokyo, direct expenses such us hospitality were taken into account the figure by train, it offers ideal

would be much greater.

This expenditure gives employ- summer temperatures, ment to some 10,000 groundsmen and never exceeding 80 de-

supports the tennis equipment indus- |

xxx try.

which in rackets, balls, nets,' grees.

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