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Show Speaking of Sports i Budge Likely To Turn Pro Anytime Now By HERB ROGERS T IKE Alexander the Great, Don ' Budge has no more worlds to conquer. This is true, at least, of amateur tennis, for the red-topped titan's successful defense of the Davis cup in his recent match with Adrian Quist of Australia, indicated that there is no player in the amateur ama-teur ranks anywhere in the world who is his peer. And so a career In professional tennis beckons. Lucrative engagements as pro tennis have been the reward of poor but deserving amateur champions in recent years. Bill Tilden set the style and made a fortune out of his cross-country tours, which unfortunately unfortu-nately he did not keep. Ellsworth Vines followed suit and accumulated $70,000 in his first year as a pro. He has added considerably consider-ably to that total in the last year or two and is now rated as independently inde-pendently wealthy. Fred Perry of England made $100,000 his first year as a pro and has been a consistent money-maker ever since. Fortune Ahead So young Don Budge, the son of poor, hard-working parents, has an impressive precedent behind him, when and if he makes the leap into the professional ranks. Insiders will give you long odds that the redhead red-head soon will be a pro. Promoters are pelting him with offers. The most attractive is said to be for $100,000, and this, it is believed, would be just a beginning. With a fortune in his grasp and the example before him of other famous amateurs who capitalized on their popularity. Budge would be less than human were he not tempted tempt-ed to turn pro. The red-head has given all he has to tennis. He has re-established American prestige in international competitions by winning the Davis c - f - " ' ' ' 1 ;wV - l f Z-'-t j i - 'I f- ; - . - A ' - . : .. .. ' ' " A DON BCDGE cup and successfully defending it. He has added to it by capturing the Wimbledon, the French and Australian Austra-lian titles as well as a variety of other important championships. He is today at the height of his popularity a drawing card of the magnitude of BUI Tilden in his prime. His feats on the courts have won him a place in the tennis hall along with Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, John-ston, Vincent Richard3, Maurice McLaughlin and Ellsworth Vines. This amazing youngster has a sensible sen-sible yet thoroughly prac'jcal attitude atti-tude toward the matter of professionalism. profes-sionalism. "Why shouldn't I turn professional profession-al and accept $100,000," be asked in the course of an interview a while back. "That is more money than I might accumulate in a lifetime working at some other business. It would seem rather foolish to let such an opportunity pass by." Goes Stale Budge has shown a variable tendency tend-ency on other occasions but like Bill Tilden he has always risen to tne necessity of winning when he had to win. His experience in Australia last winter was an example of this. When he dediced to go on that tour, the wiseacres shook their beads. Their pessimism seemed Justified when he let 19-year-old Bromwich beat him In some exhibition matches and then had what appeared to be a nervous breakdown. The bigwigs of the U. S. Lawn Tennis association were censured for sending Budge dovn to Australia where continued competition seemed to threaten his health and promised to cost the United States the Davis cup later on. Budge himself was blamed by others for turning down pro offers vhen he had been red hot. Everybody thought a long rest would be necessary. But this sad situation changed almost al-most overnight. Budge regained Ills form and proved that Bromwieh's victories in the early exhibition matches meant nothing, for he routed rout-ed his opponent and wept on to win the Australian lawn tennis championship. cham-pionship. Once again bo became king pin of tho tennl world and no tennis authority had any serious doubts about what he would do when the Davis cup match': tamo at llio end of the summer. The l.k'lihwl Is that when Don l:u'!;;; turnn profes;.i'n.il, ho will rne'-t I red Terry and Ellsworth Vir.es on his own t'-rrn.t, rising to tne ri"rev.ily of winning vhen lie iiaa W win an he has dona before. New Golf Champ npO BIN the amateur golf cham-plonship cham-plonship little 130-pound Willie Turnesa put on one of the flashiest shows of putting and blasting out of bunkers that has ever enlivened a U. S. amateur contest. It was the highspot of an otherwise uninspired tournament. The dapper Italian youth who won the forty-second national amateur championship is no novice. Last J year he won the national intercol- WELLES TURNESA legiate qualifying medal at Oak-mont Oak-mont and finished only two shots back of Medalist Gus Moreland in this show. This Is his sixth amateur, ama-teur, his best performance prior to this time being a quarter-final job against Lawson Little at Brookline, Mass., in 1934. Turnesa is the baby In the family of sis golfing brothers, all pros. It Is said that they handed him mashie Instead of a rattle on the day he first crawled out of his crib and stood on bis own feet. He is now 23, and hails from Elmsford, N. Y. Wonder Team From the standpoint of the balance bal-ance of both its attack and defense, the current New York Yankees rank with such other all-time great teams as the Yanks of 1926 and '28, the Philadelphia Athletics of 1910, '13, '29 and '31; the New York Giants of the early '20s, and Chicago's "Peerless "Peer-less Wonders" which Frank Chance led in the early years of the century. The 1938 pennant gives the Yankees Yan-kees an American league record of 10 championships in their history, all of them since 1921. Heretofore, they had been deadlocked with Connie Con-nie Mack's Athletics, each with nine loop titles. The crown also gives the Yanks the chance to do what no other club in diamond history ever has accomplished: accom-plished: Win three world championships champion-ships in a row. They meet the National Na-tional league pennant winners In the fall classic. The Yanks already ! claim the record of six world titles since 1923. Only twice before in baseball history his-tory has a team had the opportunity to win three straight world series. John McGraw's Giants went into the 1923 world series against the Yan- ! kees with two successive world titles ti-tles but were beaten. Connie Mack's Athletics started the 1931 world series se-ries against the Cardinals with the same record but Pepper Martin went wild and led St. Louis to the title. Spark Plug Probably the biggest single factor to improve the 1938 club over the '36 and '37 champions was the addition addi-tion of Joe Gordon, rookie from San Francisco via Newark at second base. Gordon Is one of the top rookies of the campaign, having driven in close to 100 runs and bit more than a score of homers, as well as improving im-proving tke all-around fielding performance per-formance of the Yanks. Of course, old standbys such as Bill Dickey, Joe Dl Maggio and Lou Gehrig have been the backbone of r ; ' :knt; - -, ! " "i i ' '.W' i , : av rA - ' AX!i 1 i-;AAv ; : ; .. .( ' -' :-;X JOE GORDON the team, althoutlh It wns not until lato in the leaion that Gehrig snapped out of hi poor performance at the hat But the fundamental reason for the Yankees' miecemi year In and year out Is their Reouting dystern. In competition with other team In tho matter of discovering and signing sign-ing new talent, llin Yankrm lead Hie league nnrl results show In tho IHlamling of the r lubs. C. 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