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Show "Shamateurism" Called Tennis' Chief Menace ".Shamateurism" is the greatest menace in (lie world to good tennis, in the opinion of Charles B. Cochran who has been managing Suzanne Lenglen and other professional tennis stars on a tour through England. "Professionalism will do no more harm to tennis than it has to golf, cricket, football and bast hall." said Cochran. "The all-important thing is to keep amateurism and professional ism entirely separate, and not to have purported amateurs camouflage their professionalism." Professional tennis has brought great tennis within the reach of the masses, so Cochran says, and since municipalities have encouraged tennis ten-nis playing so generally by providing courts there is universal desire to see good tennis at a low cost. This was impossible with strictly amateur matches. "At Glasgow a crowd of l."i,l)tlll sat through a rain to watch Mile. Lenglen Leng-len and her associates in professional tennis," Cochran asserted. "This Is said to be the largest crowd that ever attended a tennis match." |