The Archive · 1936

DRAMATIC DAYS

the slowness with which the insure While it has been suggested that

ents are capturing Madrid is due to was the creator of understanding, In the interior of China his Influence in Glrecting. the development of the YALCA. through. the training of the Chinese workers who passed through his hands Ju Shanghai must have remarkably contributed to its success, Later, when he was able to travel in the country in an oflelal capacity, he In' which countries can stop the exodus of their best amateur players. Whether the Lawn Tennis authorities would do well to adopt the cricket or Holt procedure and allow amateurs and professionals to play together is, moot point. When such enormous Pecuniary stakes are concerned, the difficulty of setting up effective barriers against professionalism hi comes obvious, Even now the growth of the All England Club at Wimbl don Into an undertaking of perten ous finances raises doubts regarding ability to vindicate its purely amateur standing. And it has long been common knowledge that the leading amateurs could not possibly make the game so absorbing @ study by ong Journeys and incessant tournament' play allowed them to accept assistance which—under the Incompatible status,

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