Show Tennis Critic Hits at Term I Amateurism in Mod Modern rn Sports tl American Girl Book League Choice Shows Sho Unusual l Insight By R. R D. D Hale I Amateurism In modern sports Is being beinS' taken or less Ics with a a. ShruG of th the shoulder or a 3 sly wink these thee days dars and it remains for fOl John R. R Tunis runis sports writer and tennis critic to show th the reason wh why In American Girl Book League of America choice for rOl Augu August t. t Tunis whose reporting of oC tennis matches has carried to foreign as aswell aswell aswell well as American Americ n courts turns his pen loose with all nil he lie has gathered ed about the inside workings of or the sport which makes uh nh interesting novel the more Interesting Its It's hl his tit first book It has long been part of ot tho sporting credo that a a. smart amateur amateur ama ama- athlete can an make as much as or more than a 0 professional out of or his or her calling Tunis certainly hears bears th ou out and his story ston of ot Florence Farley Fancy international champ doesn't give the sport much mucho o of a hand Rather the author seems just the tho least bitter toward it for fOl forlie forlie lie he dwells dells very ay ver very little upon Ulon the advantages lf tennis offers In a physical cal cat calV V nay H which we have been led to believe are supposedly man many Florence Fancy Farley taking up tennis aff nS' a childs child's recreation finds herself developing In ability so 90 fast at that Its It's natural for fOl her to embark on a championship I voyage Her parents middle cl class clatis s folks of ot course courso aid her and find themselves In lii turn aided financially fInancial when civic minded men IncH begin p paying the girls girl's girls ex expenses ox- ox in to tournaments It I is but a n question of time until Florence finds herself hersel elevated to championships Money rone begins rollIng rolIn roll roll- rol- rol In lag Ing in from tom varied sources Advertising Advertising Adver Adver- indorsements personal appearances ap up and and the like for tor en enlightenment en- en o of the uninitiated Her life is one of or boats trains people interviews no mio time Is left leU for personal personal per per- onal pleasure sure recreation n. n for b by this time tennis Jt Is her profession Even en when lovo love comes conies along and amid she finds herself read ready to chuck a title match for tOl her hem racket calls cals and the man walks out of ot her life as she walks walk out on the tho court Tunis runis is conc concerned mainly with wih presenting a a. certain tragic side of or ortho tho the life le of a n champion Of course COUlse it is glamorous in a wa way But he lie goes gocs beyond all that that and the reader feels that after all nl its it's much nicer nicci to be bo a a a dub in any sport than a acha cha champion iii ilon That in is If t hes he's to be an amateur A professional well wel well tim that's differ differ- ent eat A professional proCessional you ou kno know must not even be mentioned In the same breath with the simon pure amateur Brewer Brewer Warren alren pub pub- USh lishers rs |