| Show TENNIS IS SPORT SAYS HELEN WILLS Always to Be of Secondary Importance to Her Tennis has 1105 made Helen Wills one oneat of at the most famous women In the tho world today but tennis she sho said al always al- al always ways has been and always will continue continue con con con- to be a matter secondary Importance In her life I 1 dont don't know how bow my life Ufe looks to other people she said but Ive I've never nevez let tennis Dennis tennis be the thing that mattered most most rou You cant can't do that Tennis Is Js' lots of fun but fun but its it's only a 3 sport I I If you dont don't think Helen Wills wms meant that read wh what t happened to her In New York New York and her reaction to it When she she came In on on the the tania winner for the third successive year ear of ot the tile Wimbledon championship championship champion champion- ship thirty news cameramen and abig a n abig big crowd of reporters boarded the ship at quarantine to take pictures of her and interview her After the tile ship docked docked docked- one of ot the ship reporters hurried to a n telephone and in his story quoted Miss Mss Wills as having said she doubted If she ever eyer would play tennis In Europe nga again n. n The story went out and during the afternoon reporters began to flock into her hotel to find out wJ wiry why y Somebody must have bae misunderstood misunderstood stood me she said amiably when she sile had found o out t what the excitement excitement excite excite- ment meat was all aU about After a all that would be natural enough the there e were lots of people around ro nd and quite a bit of confusion Y Helen Wills i What I meant to convey comey was that 1 I didn't know whether Id I'd go back next year jear or not not that that Id I'd made no plans As a matter of fact Ive I've never made plans very far ahead about goIng goIng go- go Ing lag to Europe to play tennis Id I'd love loveto to go over o and play again next year but Im not able to say right whether 1 I can or not After all consolingly dont don't take all aU this so seriously Its It's only onty ten ten- nis Helen Wills loves lares tennis tennis tennis-as as a sideline sideline sideline side side- line but as for the fame it has brought her her her- Oh that isn't fame she said hastily Not real fame If I could ever er make any Important scientific discovery or become a great grent artist or something or-something like fe that that well well than I might be famous but tennis Tennis is just a sport sport something something that's fun For awhile since Ive I've be been n playing tournament tennis I 1 was goIng going going go go- ing to college and I made that count really more more really mean more to me as a person person than than tennis My drawing means more than tennis to me too You see Ive I've got my life ahead of me and I cant can't let tennis be the Uie only thing In It nor It-nor nor the most important Imp Important Im Im- p thing dune Perhaps one reporter suggested You may not go to Europe next year Jear because you'll you be married by then But Dut all nIl that got was a laugh |
