CRAWFORD'S COME-BACK

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 145, 17 December 1934, Page 10

CRAWFORD'S COME-BACK

Whether lawn tennis at its apex is a game that may reasonably be expected of an amateur, or whether (as some of the top men insist) it is an all-time strenuous job requiring full-time pay for people who give their life to it, the fact remains that the leading figures capture the interest of a large section of the public and become popular heroes and heroines. The English visitors have given a new zest to tennis at this end of the world, and many people who never handled a racket themselves .are concerned in the Perry-Crawford duel. By his recent defeat of Perry, Crawford has made up some of the leeway that had accumulated against him, and had they met in the present series of Victorian championships there would have "been immense interest, but the intervention of Quist (who beat Perry) leaves Crawford on ■ top. Today's cablegrams predict that Crawford will not be beaten this season, "if he maintains his present [ standard of play." Therein lies the uncertainty lhat adds zest to amateur sport— but which to a professional must be an unmitigated worry, since the form of an athlete is said to be not insurable. -