IHE Shanghai Recreation Club, or the "Rees, by which name they are more familiarly known, will tomorrow officially celebrate their Golden Jubilee. The Committee have arranged a 'Club Day', tiffin being served at the Pavilion at 12.30 p.m. after which a cricket match will take place between the Recs and a Shanghai ide.
The Lawn Bowls Section will arrange rinks and the testi ies will culminate with a soiree on the Club premises.
Messrs. Tom Wallace, Harry Veitch and D. W. Crawford, all members when the Club was formed in 1888, will be present along with representatives of other sporting institutions in Shanghai.
There are no official documents of the Club prior to the year 1896 but research in other directions brings interesting side-lights.
The "North-China Daily News" of 1888 informs us that on Saturday, June 9, a new club, called the Shanghai Recreation Club, had been started and already boasted of eighty members. At a meeting on this day held on the grounds formerly occupied by the Shanghai Athletic Club it was decided to include among the recreations 'Lawn Tennis, Cricket, Base Ball, Football, Quoits and any other sports that members desire to engage in provided the ground will permit of their being played'. A Committee was elected consisting of the following gentlemen:—Messrs, T. Brown, Hart Buck, D. W. Crawford, J. Henningsen, J. Purdon, E. J, O. Rowland, H. Schlichting and J. West. The subscription was limited to $10.
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