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Show Mother Skeptical About Don's Wisdom in Passing Up Pro Offers in the face but the final de- I cialon will be up to him." I That decision, various sports ' prognostlcators have estimated, . would make a difference of $100.-000 $100.-000 In two seasons for the bank ' reputation." Many sportsmen see Budge, who 1 22, a th future traveling opponent op-ponent of th winner of th coming com-ing season's professional tour between be-tween Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry, who kept Budge from winning win-ning the national and Wimbledon. title In l3a. OAKLAND, Cal, Dec 22 IAP , The parents of Don Budge, world's tennis champion, who wants to remain an amateur long enough to defend the Davis cup he won. urged him today to turn professional and "reap some material ma-terial benefit from years of hard work." The unusual advice, which emanated em-anated from the family kitchen, where Mrs. John Budge was doing do-ing dishes, found th racket star on an exhibition tour of Australia, j but nevertheless th recipient. "When Donny returns home, hi 1 father's going to give him a good I Ulking to." Mrs. Budge told an Interviewer. "We're going to try I and convinc him that th wise I thing to do would b to turn i prof eas Ions I and reap some ma-I ma-I terial benefit from year of hard I work he has put into hi tennis." I "We've always' kept our opinion opin-ion in the background." she said, "but now' we think it' time we apok up." I Quickly Mrs. Budge added: "W may talk ourselves blue , account of the redhead, who won the Wimbledon and national championship this year and led th American team to ncaptur th Davis cup for th first time In 10 yeara. Budge, rated the nation No. 1 athlete of 1MT In a poll of sports editors, ha so far turned down professional offer, declaring he want to defend th Davis cup at least once. But said Mrs. Budge: "Neither Don nor we are any too well off. and there seems to be no sense to pas up such an opportunity." "That automobile accident Don had en route to Loa Angeles before be-fore he and Gene -Make left for Australia made me realise the boy should not gamble with his future." fu-ture." his mother declared. "He hurt his shoulder, which was bad enough, but he might have been seriously injured, crippled crip-pled so badly be could never have played again. Then where would he be? He couldn't live on hi oast |