THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1941.
STRAIN OF PROFESSIONAL TENNIS
Alice Marble will earn at least £8,000 during her
18 weeks' tour
as
a
professional, says a Lon- don correspondent.
Not too bad, but she will find it ,pretty grim work, and, mest of il being on wood, tough, mighty fough, on the por feet. Ellsworth Vines ollee solemnly told me ha knew no wean who could stant up to the strait of it, and, have! Pin thousands of ratles under the bright lights, he should know.
1 res all a ery to right sitting in Arther Elton's shetim sane torom at Wembley whavi Fred Perry, having met come back afte a veer 1 mote stemal
Amerat, opened la heart on th (and many other) subject
1:
cross legged
Feru. squatting
the floor, de..d weary after
a terrific five setter with Cochrt.
conise the της notony
had driven him to golf
oli
He acids, a prate goal's gam WHIS bound to subes ·་』 ྃ grooved and nech me leg st. class match spenalive, lie and but indignantly I had the wa ever atty Husum of "thrown game no matter how often you Beed the come epinept
The mystery to men that this is enough money n. thes, Jours to show a prem ter's prof alter the players have taken then shore of the purse, but I don't suppore te shrewd Jack Harris n an it To his health
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Anyway. Big Bill Tikien, stali going trong at 4%, his never com plained of fallen atthes or a pam in the bark book, though com- plaints are his long-suit.
FRANCE OUT OF TENNIS PICTURE
Jean Borotra, world famous tennis player, who has been made French Sport Commissary by Marshal Philippe Petain, said in an interview re- cently that until peace is restored in Europe there could be no question of in- ternational matches France.
in
The "Bounding Basque." who in 1927, won the Davis Cup for France, at Germantown, with his team composed of Rene Lacoste. Henri Cochet, and Jacques Brung-
non, said:
"Since France's star players. Yvon Petra and Henri Pelizza, are! in German prison camps it would be Impossible for France to parti- cipate in tennis matches abroad.
With the 1.800,000 French pri- soners scattered throughout Ger- many and the occupied zone of France." he continued, "and every French family with at least one member in captivity, we do not feel up to playing in public. Thus. France will not be represented at Davis Cup matches next summer However, there will be French inter-regional championships to be held in Paris on the courts of the Tennis Club de France,
near
Cochet A Farmer "Henri Cochet, (another of the Four Horsemen of the 1927 "Cup" days), has bought a farm Paris and devotes most of his 'time to agricultural line, I was assured that Henri Cochet still plays ten- nis in his spare time. "As for Rene Lacoste," Borotra pursued, "he has accepted to head the French Lawn Tennis Federation, replacing. Pierre Gillou, who re- signed. However, Gillou will con- tinue in his functions until July 1 when Rene Lacoste will take over."
FONSECA LAUDS KUHEL
DERBY WON ON THREE LEGS
One expects a man who plays with millions ..to know how to take a short- head beating or win Derby without showing a round dead in his flicker of emotion.
the
Jack Joel, who died at his SL Albans home, certainly looker the least excited man at Epsom when his beloved Sunstar won the world's greatest rage 11 years after he started his Turi carver.
up the 1-fated Humorist-he was box not long afterwards won again for him in 1921 after a desperate neck and neck finish with Craig-on-Eran.
his
post by the momentum of grand gallop and his big heart. Then he collapsed.
Triumph And Tragedy