Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-19 | Page 13 | Custom of Silence is Fading at Net Meets

Custom of Silence Is Fading at Net Meets Among the ancient institutions that have had a good bit of their gloss rubbed of off by contact with a rough rough- necked world during the last few years one must mut not forget to list the once snooty game came of tennis This game which started way back when as an amusement for the nobility nobility nobility no no- of Europe has been carried along on the tide of events until now it is becoming a diversion for the masses much like baseball and football football foot foot- ball and the sIgn of its change isto Is Isto isto to be found in the way the galleries behave at the big matches If you have followed the newspaper newspaper news news- paper accounts of the recent matches at Forest Hills you can cnn hardly fail to have noticed that players umpires and presiding officials were pained every er c so often otten by the effervescence of the paying spectators A time one-time tennis queen was booed lustily when she walked of oft off the court shouts of applause punctuated all of the games the umpires were obliged often oHen to call for quiet and the players protested protest protest- ed that tat the yells of the cash customers disturbed the Sabbath like quiet in which the games viere were being conducted con con- ducted All AU of ot this is contrary to the ancient dig dignity ity of tennis You are not supposed supposed sup sup- posed to cheer loudly loud or to adminis ter the in a tennis stadium A little refined hand clapping now no and then then then-that's that's the limit But the crowd gets unruly in spite spit of tradition And the whole business Is just one more snore example of the thin thing that inevitably happens to an any game gam when it is trotted out of the seclusion of an aristocratic club and made a spectacle for the people at large These big tennis matches make mak their bid for popular support The Th stars are national characters in precisely precisely pre pro the same same way that star baseball base ball players golfers and pugilists ar are arc national characters Some of them for all the fact that they are arc amateurs amateurs ama tours make a n very good living ou out of the game And they precious have little kick coming It if the cash customers customers customers cus cus- cus get noisy When you court p public favor build built builta a big stadium and collect ct cash cosh a athe at atthe atthe the box office from all comers corners yo you cant can't complain if Jt the crowd behaves as it would at any my professional tion Hon Lawn tennis college football polo polo all all of these sports arc being because they woo th the crowds If the sponsors of these thes sports are arc pained at the way th the crowds act their one remedy is is to sto stop selling tickets