The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-22
Talking
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-Because
IN it happens to be the strangest
Institution IN sports the subject Of
amateurism viii always be provocs-
tive OF strange theories. conditions
and what not. Several days ago,
Helen wills Moody was bequeathed
$4,000 in the VIII Of Senator James
Phclan because Of the distinction
her tennis skill had brought 70 her
native state. Should she accept the
money. or genuhecting before the
shrine OF the simon pures, spurn It?
curious public broadeasting ITS ideal
lsrn wanted 10 know. The young lady
ansuersd for herself. Certainly I shall
keep a. Why shouldn't j. And who's
business Is Il anyhow"
70 Vas recalled that Robert Jones, the
golfer. reiused 20 accept ss3,999 h ,3
from Atlanta admirers on the ground tnai
% a 30 might compromise DIS sIelus -
s.ss a e Be- IBs go5ss vas Rofs IN
amateur than Ar-. Moody.
This all depends on the viewpoint Per
rnnatIy. / saw no reason why Jones
shouldn't have accepted the home. gift
from his feHoW-townsmsn. many Of whom
he had grown up With. At the very least
h should have take the garage or the
tunroom.
TONES syndicates his golf writ
j ings both in America and Eng
land. Annually his earnings from
this source are close to SIS, 900. Few
professional golfers are able 10 make
as much in year.
whether Jones rs paid this sort Of
money because be is golfer or writer
isn-t even debatabls. As Joe Doskes. or
loo Williams. for that matter. golf writer,
he would BE- getting SIS = week With pos
fibiv an added 50 expense money for
phons calls. Iuncheons and subway fare.
CIT may be that I'm just snviousl
still. the point I'm trying 70 surround
r-oTiesd snv more seriously BY the checks
he receives from MS goI WIlsings5 , men
home from his friends9
n
Because he is great Eolfer-and
great feiIow-he Is offered the home. and
because his name has = unique and eN-
trsordinary sales value in the public
printS he Is offered the syndicate checks.
There NAV be an important ethical diff
ference involved here but it is hardly yisi-
bic TO the Earl Carroll eye.
AIRS. MOODY is a most practical
WI amateur. The returns from her
syndicated writings are said to be
substantial. In addition, she draws
futile little sketches of women play
ers bounding through the air with
their neecsps blushing in the sun
and deep lines of competitive rage
on their war faces.
2
These arc generally put IN Tor sac IN
me Of the midtown galleries, all precisely
and daintiIy autographed by the greatest
woman tennis PLAYER this country ever
Jaw. and on occasions she visits the gal-
leries in person. al which time both the
curiosity and the sales grow more brisk
n
have heard some Of the art critics
sueer that the ladv's works lack form or
rTbsfanre or something and that II she
were not a celebrated figure IN athletlco
there would be no great qemanu 40L ~
masterpieces. autographed OF llldutO-
rrsphed-
That Mrs. Moody capitaliIes her tennis
fame in very material and vigorous
sense seems quito clear. This practice IS
encouraged more by the lawn tennis peo-
ule than the golf people. and there is a
marked difference in the quality of ANA
teurism as represented BY the tennis cham
pion and the golf champion II can
logically be traced hack 10 the govern
inz bodies.
For the most part. the amateur golfer
navs his Wav while he is PLAYING the
rame. ard the amateur tennis player does
not Inevitably this would make a dill
ference in the psychology Of the two.