The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-07
Number of Stars, Including
Two More Women, to
Turn Pro.
BY Henry l.. Farrell.
United Press staff CorresDondent

Unfted Press stair C0rreSDondent
NEW YORK, Sept. Two more
prominent women stars and six men
players will join Mile. Suzanne
Lenglen and Miss Mary K. Browne
in the professional tennis troupe of
G. G. Pyle.
The names of the two women
players will not be announced until
next week and the men will not be
made known until after the national
championships, which start at For
est Hills on Sept. 10.
1t is likely that two of the new
men players will be Harvey Snod-
grass and Walter Wesbrook, Cali.
fornians who became professional
instructors last year.
Mile. Lenglen, according to Pyle,
will sail for the United States on
Sept. FL and the first matches of
the tour will be played in Tex Rick
ards Garden on Oct. 8. The pro-
gram of each engagement will con-
sist of one woman's singles match,
one mixed doubles match, one mems
singles and one mems doubles
match.
May Go Into Movies
Mile. Lenglen and Miss Browne
may also be featured in a movie, ac-
cording to Pyle. He believes that
the success scored by Red Oranges
movie proves that pictures based
around a sport lot can be put over
when they are made properly and
that tennis is more adaptable to the
screen than any other game.
Officials of the tennis association
still refused today to put their
opinion on record about the startling
announcement that Miss Browne
has decided to turn professional.
But it was easy to gather that their
opinion had been changed about the
possibilities Of open or professional
tennis.
when 1t was first suggested that
Mile. Lenglen might make a tour
of the United States as a profession
al, we ridiculed the idea," promi-
nent member of the tennis associa.
ton said today. But for one, am
now ready to believe that it can be
made a success. Mile. Lenglen, of
course, had to have some good op-
ponent to draw other than curiosity
seekers and in Miss Browne she will
have one Of the best and most popu-
lar players in the game"
New Rule?
The association, it was learned,
was considering a new rule that
would definitely forbid an amateur
player to appear in any kind of a
match against professional, but no
hasty action will be taken.
Miss Brownies plea-'let's be
honest about it" and Mile. Lenglen's
statement that most of the star play
ers were well paid indirectly has
given the officials Of the amateur
game something to ponder over. 1t
was frankly admitted today by one
prominent member of the West Side
Tennis Club.
Tennis from a financial stand.
point has become a matter Of the
player and not the game" he said.
The women's national champion.
ships didn't draw handful this
season, and If the Forest Hills sta.
dunn, isn't to become a huge white
elephant something will have to be
done. If open golf is respectable
and 1t isl fail to see where tennis
shouldn't be the same as an open
game"
Miss Browne had nothing to add
today to the announcement she made
first through the United Press Mon.
day that she had accepted Pyle's
terms.
Il had to do It," she repeated
Il needed the money and | have
to make a living. I can play ten.
MS better than I can do anything
else, and have reached the stage
where had to make a profession
of It,"