THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1941.
STRAIN OF PROFESSIONAL TENNIS
Alice Marble will earn at least £8,000 during her
18 weeks' tour as
а
professional. says a Lon- don correspondent.
Not too bad, but she will find it pretty grim work, and, most of it being on wood, tough, mighty tough, on the poor feet Ellsworth Vines otce solemnly told me ha knew no woman who could stund up to the strain of it, and, having run thousands of miles under the bright lights, he should know.
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I recall a very late night sitting in Arthur Elm's sanctum sane- torun at Wembley when Fred Perry, having just come back after a year of professional teams int Ameren, opened lite heart on this (and many other) subjet t»,
Free, squatting cross legged or the floor, dead weary after a terrific five-setter with Cochet, confessed the menotony of it had driven him to golf.
He added, a prettional's gam was bound to sufer grooved and mech. Pie for ack class match mentive, he sud, but indignantly feed there wa ever any Husion or "throwing a gane no matter how often yo tuced the same opponent.
The mystery to me, that thre is enough money in these tours to show a prometer's proft after the players have taken their share of the purse, but I don't suppose the shrewd Jack Harris is in it for his health.
Anyway. Big Bill Tilden, stil!i going strong : 47, has never co- plainest of allen arches or a pa in the back book, though coat- ploints 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 in France.
The "Bounding Basque,” who in 1927, won the Davis Cup for France, at Germantown, with his tean composed of Reue 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.
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With the 1.800.000 French pri- soners scattered throughout Ger- many and the occupied zone 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.
Cochet A Farmer
. "Henri Cochet, (another of the Four Horsemen of the 1927 "Cup" days), has bought a farm near 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."
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FONSECA LAUDS
KUHEL
Lew Fonseca, who played the position himself, says Joe Kuhel of the White Sox is. the finest flelding first baseman he has scon in either major league in years.
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 flicker of emotion.
the
Jack Joel, who died at his St. Albans home, certainly looked the least excited man at Epsom when his beloved Sunstar won the world's greatest race -11 years after he started his Turf
carenr.
up the ill-fated Humorist-he was Found dead in his
box not long afterwards--won again for him in 1921 after a desperate neck and neck finish with Craig-en-Eran. Won Despite Dud Leg
Sunstar won the Derby on three legs. It's an astonishing story.
The colt went lame a few days before the race, and getting him to the post was a Morton miracle, Stern, the French jockey, had the ride because neither Frank Wootton nor Danny Maher was available.
I have seen "Uncle Jack" get more emotional throwing quoits into a bucket at one of brother Sully's famous Ascot
Sunday parties an exclusive
men-only vent which once inspired the Mr. Gossip of the day
felt his mount to perpetrate the clever jingle headhne, "Jolly souls at Soily Joel's,"
And so it was when with Stevel
Stern afterwards said that he
falter about a hundred yards from home, and he knew the dud leg had gone. He was literally carried past the
of
bis
his big heart.
post by the momentum grand gallop and Then he collapsed,
Triumph And Tragedy
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