EMPHATICALLY DENIED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 January 1935, Page 5

EMPHATICALLY DENIED

Perry Will Not Accept Professional Tennis Contract “NO TRUTH IN MATTER” WILL PLAY FOR DAVIS CUP (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph . Copyright). Received 10.30 p.m to-day. MELBOURNE, To-day. F. Perry, when interviewed, gave an emphatic denial to cabled information that he intended accepting a .professional tennis contract in America. “There is absolutely no truth "at all in the matter and I am not even contemplating it,” he said. Hughes endorsed Perry’s denial. “We shall not even be in San Francisco on February 23, the date mentioned in the cable,” he added. “We are shortly to leave for New Zealand to play in the New Zealand championships. Perry intends •to spend a month’s holiday at Los Angeles on his way home to England, but you can take it quite definitely that he will he back in England ready for the next Davis Cup.” U.S.A. NATIONAL RANKING. ALLISON HEADS THE LIST. Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. The United States Lawn Tennis Association has announced the following as the national ranking: Allison, Wood, Shields, Parker, Stoefen, Lott, Bell, Sutter, Budge, Grant; doubles, Lott and Stoefen, Allison and Vanryn, Budge and Mako, Bell and Mangin, Brvan and McDlarmid. OFFERI REFUSED. SUM OF £2OOO INSUFFICIENT. LONDON, Jan. 4. Mrs Whittingstall has cabled tS? New York tennis promoter, Mr O’Brien, refusing £2OOO for a three months’ tour. She says it is uot worth becoming a professional for such a small amount. “I shall not surrender amateurism unless I receive sufficient to keep mo comfortably all my life,” sho declared. Miss Helen. Jacobs declares that sho is not returning to America before the Wimbledon tournament.