William T. Tilden declared in an interview here that he was afraid amateur tennis as a was doomed.
Recuperating from leg injuries suffered in a motor car accident last week, Tilden painted a gloomy picture sh of the future for tennis.
"If you mean what will happen. to the game as considered from the big business angle—big gates, big crowds. big stadiums and so forth—he said, "It won't be able to stand it very long. The Davis Cup is all over, of course. It won't work for a good many years as a result of the war, but it doesn't look to me as if international sport can be reckoned on at all."
This was serious. he said, because "international competition is the backbone of tennis."
Whatever happens, he concluded, tennis he was sure would survive as a play-for-fun proposition in the United States—Reuter.
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