The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
RULING LIMITS PLAYER-WRITER Stars Will Not Be AL lowed To Attach
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By WESTBROOK PEGLER Special Leased Wire To Age -Herald)

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 NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-William T. Tilden, commonly regarded as the great est tennis player in the world, has won his fight over the so-called player writer rule which began year ago and at times became as wordy as war be- tween baseball magnates.
 The executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis associa- tion approved today new amateur rule written by special committee, ot which Tilden himself was a member, and which included representatives of ] in the squabble. This rule permits Til den, Vincent Richards and such other amateur tennis players as feel the liter ary afflatus to go ahead and write as much as they want and sell it for what. ever the market will pay. It only for bids them to use their tennis titles or tennis regulations in connection with their literature and to cover tourna- ments in which they play. The same prohibition applies to their acting Tn movies, to lectures and to radio talks
 Lose Nothing
 ,, Inasmuch as the names of Tilden and Richards are synonymous with tennis, they lose nothing by agreeing to refrain from using their titles or athletic repu- tations. There is no way of determin- ing real financial value of tennis stars literature and therefore no at tempt was made to draw line betwene the actual value of the stuff and the market value which publishers and syn dicates are willing to pay for the works of great athletes.
 Thus a tennis player whose stories might be worth S25 week without any signature, may still earn $10O or $2O0 by signing his name, without running foul of the new statute.
 The fuss over the player-writer rule began when the lawn tennis association last winter gave heed to Tilden's prom thence as tennis-writer and decided that the champions career did not con form to amateur rule as 1t stood then. Tilden insisted that he was newspaper man first and tennis star incidentally, resigned from the Davis cup team and said that if he couldn't play under his own theory of amateurism he wouldn't play at all.
 Thoughts Of Revolt
 A large number of tennis people thought an injustice was being worked on Tilden and for time there was lusty possibility that the established government of the game would be over thrown and new, rival body formed around Tilden.
 Under an armistice arrangement, Til den came back to the fold, defending his national amateur title successfully and playing on the Davis cup squad which retained the international team trophy for the United States. After that the special committee was appoint ed to see what could be done and in two sessions an entire new rule was framed This is the one that the executive com mittee approved Saturday. The United States Lawn Tennis association is vir- tually certain to adopt the new rule at the February convention.
 The special committee was composed of George Wharton Pepper, United 1 States senator from Pennsylvania; De vereaux Milburn, the international polo star Grantland Rice, the sports writer; Jones Messereau, vice president of the U. s. l.. T. A.; Arthur Hellen, of Washington, a member of the U. S. l.. T. A; Tilden, himself; and R. Wallis Merrihow, editor of tennis magazine. As the new rule had the unanimous ap- proval of the committee, it follows that Tilden was satisfied with the conditions.
 Tilden, obviously, wins all the way in the settlement of the player-writer row. The other provisions of the new amateur definition were not contested by him as they deal with such matters as the receipt of money or goods by competitors; participation in unsanc- tioned matches; participation in the sporting goods business and the use of players names for advertising purposes. Tilden never objected to any of those commandments.