TENNIS PLAYERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 5

TENNIS PLAYERS

TURNING PROFESSIONAL

PROMOTER'S OFFERS

PERRY'S £BOOO FOR TOUR

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3.

Mr. Bill O'Brien, the well-known promoter, announces that Miss Helen Jacobs," the 'tennis "player, has accepted an offer to turn 'professional. Mr. O'Brien said that his offer called for Miss'Jacobs to receive £4OOO for a tour beginning on March 20. He said' that a fortnight ago ho offered Miss Jacobs £BOOO. ' She , asked for more money and on Wednesday he cabled his £4OOO offer. '' I 'knew jth-nr.. was what she wanted, ''.*e«said, ■'''and know'that she will accept'it', so I' mailed 'thecon'tfaet to her."'

Mr. O'Brion declared that Mrs Fearnloy-Whittingstall (formerly Miss Eileen Bennett), had accepted an offer of £2500.

Mr. . O'Brien also indicated that Perry would sign. He said that his representative on the Pacific Coast, Mr. Silas Masters, had received a cable message on Saturday from Perry, asking Mr.'Masters to have the contract ready when he'arrived at San Francisco on February'23; Perry will receive £BQOO. Mr. O'Brien said that none of the three had signed the contracts, but he was satisfied that all would relinquish amateur status within a few weeks.

NOT TURNING "PRO"

DENIAL BY PERRY

(Received January 5, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 5

Perry, interviewed, gave an emphatic denial "to- tho cabled information that he intended accepting a professional 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 oven be in San Francisco on February 23, the date mentioned in the cable message," he declared. "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 hi will be back in England readv for the next Davis Cup."