Show Speaking of 0 Sports Sport Budge Likely To Turn Pro Anytime Now Nov By HERB KERB ROGERS ROGERST T LIKE IKE LIKE Alexander the Great Don Budge Badge has hIS no more worlds to conquer This Is ts true at least lust of amateur tennis for the topped red-topped titans titan's successful defense of the Davis cup cop In ID his recent match with Adrian Quist of ot Australia Indicated that there Is le no player In 10 the amateur amateur amateur ama ama- ranks anywhere In the world who Is his hi peer And so 10 a career In professional tennis beckons Lucrative engagements as pro tennis have havo been the reward of poor but deserving amateur champions in recent years Dill BUI Tilden set the style and made a fortune out of his cross-country cross tours which unfortunately unfortunately he did not keep Ellsworth Vines followed suit and aDd accumulated In 10 his first year as a pro lie He has added considerably considerably considerably consider consider- ably to that total In 10 the last year or two and Is now rated as Independently Independently Inde Inde- wealthy Fred Perry of England made his first year as a pro and has been a consistent money maker ever since Fortune Ahead So young Don Budge Dude the son of poor working 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 redhead red red- head soon will wUl be a pro Promoters are pelting him with offers The most attractive Is said ald to be for 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 Dudge would be beless beless beless less than human were he not tempted tempt tempt- ed to turn pro The red head has given rIveD all he be hISto has hIS hasto hasto to tennis tenni lie He has re established American prestige In International competitions by winning the Davis r ha 1 k r rF rr F 2 r a aDON DON DUDGE cup and successfully defending It lie He has bas added to it by capturing the Wimbledon the French and Australian Australian Austra Austra- lian Ilan titles as a. well as a variety of other Important championships He lie is today at the height of his popularity popularity-a a drawing card of the magnitude of Dill BUI Tilden In his prime Ills His feats on the courts have won him hima a place In the tennis hall ball along with Tilden Little Bill Johnston Johnston John John- ston Vincent Richards Maurice McLaughlin and Ellsworth Vines This amazing youngster has bas a sensible sensible sensible sen sen- sible yet thoroughly practical attitude attitude atti atU- tude toward the matter of Why sh shouldn't I turn professional profession profession- al and accept he be asked In the course of an Interview a while back That Is la more money mODey than I might accumulate In a lifetime working at some lome other business It would seem rather foolish to let such luch an aD opportunity pass pas by bJ Goes Stale Budge has haa shown a variable tendency tend teDd- ency endy on 00 other occasions but like Bill Dm Tilden he be has hal always alwa's risen to tae necessity of winning when he be had to win Ills ilL experience in ID Australia last winter was an example of this When he to go 10 on that lour tour the wiseacres shook hook their heads Their pessimism seemed Justified when he let year 19 year old old Bromwich beat him In some exhibition matches and then had what appeared to be bea a nervous breakdown The bigwigs of the U. 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S Lawn Tennis association were censured for tor or sending lending Budge Dudge down to Australia where continued competition seemed Deemed to threaten his hi health and end promised to cost the United States Stales the Davis cup later on Budge Dudge himself was I blamed by others for turning down I pro offers when he had been red hot Everybody thought a long rest would be necessary But Out this sad situation changed almost almost al al- al most overnight Budge regained his hi form and proved that Bromwich's victories In the early exhibition matches meant nothing for he routed routed rout rout- ed his bis opponent and swept on OD to win the Australian lAwn tennis cham cham- Once again aralD be he became king pin of the tennis world and no DO tennis authority had bad any serious doubts about what he be would do when the Davis cup matches matchel came at t the end of the summer The likelihood Is that when Don Budge turns professional he will meet Fred Perr Perry and Ellsworth Vines on his hil own terms rising to the necessity of winning when he has haa hasto hasto to win as be has done before t New Golf Champ TO PO WIN the amateur golf oU championship chant charn- A little pound Willie put on one eDO of the flashiest shows of putting and blasting out ont of o. bunkers bunker that has hal ever enlivened a U. U S 8 S. amateur contest It was the of ot an otherwise uninspired tournament The dapper Italian youth who won the second forty national amateur championship Is la no novice Last year he won the national Intercol s l 11 I A r rt t WILLIE qualifying medal at Oakmont Oak Oak- mont and finished only two shots back of Gus Moreland Inthis In Inthis inthis this show This Is his sixth amateur amateur ama ama- his best performance prior to this time Ume being a quarter final Job fob against Lawson Little Litre at Brookline Mass Mais In 1934 Tornesa Is la the bab baby In the amU family of ot six golfing collin brothers all aU pros It ItIs ItIs Is I. said that they handed haDded him a mashie Instead of m a rattle on the day he first crawled out oat or of his hll crib and aDd stood on his own feet lie he Is U now 23 3 and aDd halls haUl from Elmsford N N. N Y T. Wonder Vonder Team From the tho standpoint of the balance balance bal bal- balance ance of o. both Its attack and defense the he current New York Yankees rank with such other time all great reat t teams ams as the Yanks of 1926 1928 and 28 the Philadelphia Athletics of 1910 13 29 and 31 the New York Giants of the early and aDd Chicago's Chicago Peer less Wonders which Frank Chance led In the early years of the century The 1938 1838 pennant gives the Yankees Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees an American league record of 10 championships In their history all of them since 1921 Heretofore they had been deadlocked with Connie Connie Connie Con Con- nie Macks Mack's AU Athletics each with wilh nine loop titles s. s The crown also gives the Yanks the chance to do what no other club In diamond history ever has accomplished accomplished pUshed Win WID three world championships championships champion champion- ships In a row The They meet the National Na Na- league pennant winners In the taU tall classic The Yanks already claim the record of six alx world titles since 1923 Only twice before in baseball history history history his his- tory has a team had the opportunity to to win win three world John McGraws McGraw's Giants went Into the 1923 world series against the Yankees Yankees Yan Tan kees with two successive world titles ti titles ti ti- ties but were beaten Connie Macks Mack's Athletics started the 1931 world se series series se- se ries against the Cardinals with the same record but Pepper Martin went wild and led St. St Louis to the title Spark Plug Probably the biggest single factor to Improve the 1938 1038 club over the 36 38 and aDd 37 champions was the addition addition addi addi- tion of Joe Gordon rookie from San Francisco via Francisco via Newark Newark Newark-at at second base Gordon Is one of the top lop rookies of ol the campaign having driven In close to runs and aDd hit more than thana a score of a. homers bomers as well as Improving Improving improving Im Im- im- im proving the around all fielding performance performance performance per per- of the Yanks Of course old standby such as asBill Bill DUl Dickey Joe Dl Di Maggio and Lou I Gehrig have been the backbone of r 8 lr l y yr r Y JOE GORDON CORDON the team although It was not until late In the season that Gehrig snapped out of his poor performance at the bat But the fundamental reason for tor forthe forthe the Yankees Yankees' a success year In and year ear out Is II their scouting system In competition with other teams Inthe In Inthe Inthe the matter of discovering and signIng sign sign- In tog Ing new talent the Yankees lead the league and aDd results show In the standing of the clubs 1 C G Western Nw Newspaper pe Union |