Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-27 | Page 22 | Backseat Driving

" T i I Backseat Driving tCoatlauea Croat Precedlnf Fes j for the 18 matches already played. Between 90,000 and 100,000 fans have turned out to see the pros in action since! they began their campaign three weeks ago in New York! City. Budge and Vines have booked only 32 exhibitions, concluding con-cluding with a match in Montreal on March 6. Vines and Perry played 62 matches on their 1937 tour, averaging $6693, as they drew $413,000. Of course, the Budge and Vinea average would decrease if they elected to play so many matches and by necessity neces-sity have to book a number of the smaller cities to arrange that many encounters. If, as anticipated, Budge annexes the professional diadem, now held by Vines, he is expected to go on a short swing with 1 Ferry after concluding with the current champion in Mon-1 treal. There is some indication, too, that the Budge-Perry cn-i counter might make an even better show than Budge and Vines can offer. Because he banks entirely on power and speed, Vines has many occasions when a steady player such as Budge or Ferry can make him look bad. When he Is right, Vines is exceptionally ex-ceptionally brilliant, capable, perhaps, of beating almost any foe in straight sets. He can't reach that peak consistently, though, and upon the occasions when his drives are missing th corners or baselines, th fundamentally steady players usually beat him. Perry is one of the stylists. In fact, he doesn't even have the speed and power on his strokes that Budge has. j His day-after-day consistency is above Vines', though, and because of that workmanship, his protracted performances against Budge ought to be mighty interesting. If it is too late to schedule Vines and Budge here, an exhibition by Perry and the red-headed Budge would be plenty acceptable in the eyes of those who like to watch good tennis. And especially so for the . many youngsters who want to study the game of the pros in the hope of i learning how to improve their own game. Such show does not materialise without effort. It would taka energetic promotion to make it pay, but with adequate development it should click. Eddie Mattig of Erie, Pa., is the first outboard driver to enter the Albany-New York marathon May 14. He finished fourteenth last year. . America's Olympic bobsled committee will depend largely on the receipts of the three-day tryoutg at Lake Placid to defray expenses ex-penses of the team to the games In Switzerland next year. Tryouts are scheduled for the Mount Hoveaberg run February Febru-ary 10, U and 12.