TENNIS CHAMPION
TWO TEMPTING OFFERS PROFESSIONALISM EOTAILED LONDON, Oct. 17 The British tennis champion, Fred Perry, in a transatlantic telephone conversation with a representative of the Evening News, said ho had received "tantalisingly tempting" offers to turn professional. /Perrv stated that Tilden's manager had offered him £IO,OOO for n. live months' tour of America, and he had also received an offer to appear in tennis films of an amount aggregating £25,000. "I believe I could livo on these sums for a lifetime, and they would constitute only one year's earnings," said Perry. " 1 am going to deeply consider the offers on my way to Australia, for which country I am to leave America to-morrow."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21934, 18 October 1934, Page 11
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