PLAYER-WRITER CONTROVERSY
AMATEUR STATUS AND SEMI-
PROFESSIONALS.
. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) \ NEW YORK, 2nd June. According to a telegram from Boston, Mr. Wightman, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, addressed a letter to a club affiliated to the association asking it to consider, well before taking action in connection with the question of the player-writer ruling.. Mr.' Wightman stated, that if amateur players are permitted to make tenins their business and livelihood, either as player-writer. c-r in any other way, there is bound to develop a small group, perhaps ten or twenty players,, who will soon be invincjble on tennis courts. "Shall we give every amateur' player an unfair opportunity to win our championship tournaments," he wrote, "or must we favour a few semi-professionals by lowering, the amateur standing'to enable them to compete, and win, and keep on winning?" ." The letter indipated that the association will make a strenuous effort to combat the attempts to organise a rival amateur tennis organisation.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 5
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