Show TENNIS IS SPORT SA SAYS YS HELEN WILLS Always to Be of Secondary Importance to Her Tennis has hus Helen Wills Wllis one ot of the lie most famous ramous women In n the lie world today but tennis she sold said al- al aiwa's always al always ways was has lias been ben and always with wit con con- continue continue to bo he n a matter of ot only secondary importance In her tier life Ufe I 1 dont don't know how v my life liCe looks to other oilier people she file h said but Iye Ive never ne let tennis be the tire thin thing that I mattered most You rou cant can't do 10 that Tennis Is lots of ot fun but fun but Its It's only o a sport If It you dont don't think Helen Wills WYllis meant that hat read what happened to her In New ew York and her IIer reaction to It When sho came fame In on the tho Aqui- Aqui tania lania winner for the third successive year yar of ot the Wimbledon championship champion champion- championship championship ship thirty news cameramen and a abig abig abig big crowd of ot reporters boarded the shIp at quarantine q to take tale pictures ot of other her and Interview her After Arter the lie ship docked one of ot the ship reporters hurried 1 to a n telephone and In his story quoted Miss MIs Wills ns as having ha sal said 1 she doubted 1 If It she ever would play piny tennis In Europe Europen n again aln The story went out and during the afternoon reporters began hegan to Jock flock Into her hotel to find out why hy Somebody must have misunderstood stood me she said amiably when she had found out what the excite excite- excitement excitement excitement ment was all nil about After Arter all that would be natural enough there were lots hots of ot people m nn l a hit y i I Helen Wills Willa I What 1 I meant to convey on was that I didn't know whether hether Id I'd go so back next year ear or not that not that Id I'd made no plans As a matter of ot fact Ive I've never ne made plans very ery far ahead about go- go goIn goin go going In ing to I Europe to play tennis Id I'd love lo loveto loveto to go 10 over o and play again next year but Im I'm not able to say now whether I can or not After oil nit consolingly dont don't take all this tills so seriously Its It's only onry ten ten- tennis tennis nis Helen Wills loves tennis tennis-as tennis as a side side- sl sideline sideline line but Lut as oS for the fame Came It has brought her her- Oh Oh that isn Isn't t fame tame she Rhe said hastily Not ot real fame Came If It I 1 could ever er make any Important scientific er discovery or become a n great artist something or-something something like well that that well than I might he famous but tennis Tennis Is Just n a sport something sport that's fun For awhile since Ive I've been Leen playing tournament tennis I was go- go goIng going go going ing to college and I made that count really more really mean more to me as a person than than tennis My drawing means more than tennis to me too You see Ive I've got my life lite ahead ot of mc me me and I cant can't let tennis be the only thing In nor It-nor It nor the most im- im important Im Important I thing Perhaps one reporter suggested You may not go to Europe next year ear because you'll be married by then Ulen But all that tint got was a laugh I |