BILLIE YORKE MAY RETIRE
WIMBLEDON CHAMPION JOB IN LONDON STORE Billie Yorke, 27-years-old blonde Wimbledon doubles champion and Wighlman Cup team runner-up, may never play tournament tennis again. She revealed this to me yesterday when I discovered her behind the wooden stocking counter of an Oxford street cash-and-carry chain-store, says Rhona Churchill, in The Daily Mail. "I’m v/orking here as a salesgirl from 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. every day, and I’m forgetting I ever played tennis seriously. I may never appear in a tournament again. “You see, I've had my fun, and I’ve seen the world. Now it’s time I did some real work.” So every morning Billie walks to work and hangs up her coat and hat with those of her 30s-a-week colleagues. Billie the tennis champion plans to become Billie the welfare worker. In 12 months—maybe a bit more, maybe less —she hopes to be staff manager at one of the store’s suburban branches. Meanwhile she must train.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 11
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