Budge Makes Tennis Turnstiles Ring
(Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 23. The tour of Donald Budge and Ellsworth Vines seems certain to be the most profitable in tennis history. So far 86,275 people have paid 129,850 dollars to see 14 matches, between the pair. This is an average of 9275 dollars compafred with an average of 6693 dollars for the record tour of Fred Perry and Vines in 1937, which yielded 415,000 dollars for 62 matches. Although Budge nas won 10 of the matches, six of them in straight sets, the advance sales for the rest of the matches are tremendous.
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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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