PROFESSIONALSE IN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21954, 1 December 1936, Page 16

PROFESSIONALSE IN TENNIS

VIEWS OF FRED PESoI ir AS - -^| \U GAME NOW A FULL-TOBI OCCUPATIOJT* A II _, |l Perry’s latest book on lawn trail has reached New Zealand hard cafel announcement of his decision to ill professional, and in this very i#l esting and exceedingly weU-Übstapl volume, entitled “Perry on W|l the recognised world champion jj presses some interesting views fessionalism and the open tflenaapß controversy. i| “I think that sooner or lattfWH will break down the barrier amateurism and professioaanafj*B says. “The lawn tennis gafflSJwH bodies of the world have unvnMl created a class of young mnUBB if they are to keep ‘in the sniOTFB play the game all the year rofflgfß the neglect of their business oPP®*rjß ties. There is now no ‘dree for world lawn tennis. OnlT Wm thing, I maintain, can prevail MB trend toward professionalism, that does not seem likely to I I mean the agreement among nations to limit their call ** *■ players. “These young men gain rial advantage from their plasms cept money, and the exception. P* ■ will agree, is quite important-*® 1 money in abundance is paid. ■ public to see them performing. j know that if their form fate standard they will be dropped . jm ■ realise, even more, that at thirty they will be ‘finished Wy and then what will happen to wok “Is it any wonder that why j; chance came to join the Tilden uwj some of them took it? Could M really be blamed for turning gs tennis into cash while youth Certainly I cannot criticise of such of my fellow-players as on these principles. Can y<W“No longer can it be said wittig that, as players, the and the professionals follows, then, that the big chaßjr ship meetings of the world are ing no longer fully the world's best tennis.” - r j