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Show Don Budge Advised To Recall Maurice (Continued from Precedlne Pase) tlOO, which they presented him when he returned to this country. His boyish faith In them only cost him $200. Then one year he quit amateur tennis. He went into business. The amateur officials, who only six months before had sought his company, said : Called Him "Through" "Isn't it a shame how Maurle's gam has gone all to pieces? All burned out, I guess." Then they turned and adopted "Little Bill" Johnston, who played so hard for them he broke down bis health completely. , Today, in my apartment Maurice McLaughlin, with no trace of bitterness bitter-ness in his voice, told me why he quit. "I wasn't burned out," he said. "As a matter of fact,, 1 hadn't reached my peak. My conscience hurt me. I knew I was a poor boy and had no businesaaplaying a game six months of every year, using up the best years rf my youth. This preyed on me so that finally I couldn't bit a shot So I had to quit" He's No Alone j This same tiling happened to Ells- I worth Vines. To George Lott i Next year It's going to happen to 1 J. Donald Budge, who is red haired, ; freckle faced, and believing, just as Maurice McLaughlin was, two decades ago. To you, "Maurie," and to you Vines and Lott, and all of th rest of you gallant gentlemen who did a man's job for nothing, I drink a toast. For th United Suites Lawn Ten- j nis association. I only ask that some ' time it has the sleepless nights it ' has given the boys who hsve carried car-ried its colors. j |