The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-10
Sport 
 ALAN J.0oulD

Open tennis championships, open ly arrived at, have heen dealt a knockout wallcp for the present by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, which vetoed the Amer ican proposal to legalize them. AL though the U. s. L. T. A. felt it was desirable as a progressive for ward step, no great amount of grief will be manifest in this country or elsewhere over the situation
 Tennis is still long way from golf, so far as open championships arc concerned. There is neither any great demand for them or need. This is chiefly because ten his professionals, individually or as a class, do not compare with the golf professionals in competi- tive skill or opportunities to dem Cnstrate it.
 BCDby Jones, an amateur, is the C0el golf king. Culmet, Travers anl Evans also beat all corners in the National open tournament. Tennis, with the exception of two men-Karl Kozeluh of Czechoslo- vakia and Vincent Richards of the United Statec-has few, if any pro- fessionals who could hold their own with a member of the worlds amateur first ten" or, perhaps, even the American first ten" which is now at a lower level than in some time.
 In short, professional tennis does not develop competitive stars. Rich ards, the best American pro is pure ly an amateur product. If anything, pro tennis dulls the individuals playing skill. Professional golf has just the opposite effect.
 The professionals dominate con- potitive golf as a class, except where the able Mir Jones is concerned. The reverse is true of tennis, where the amateurs would take at least eight of the first ten places in any world ranking.
 Horton Smith, Gene Sarazen, Leo Diegel, Walter Hagen, Johnny Far rell and Tommy Armour probably would oyerwhelm any half dozen amateur golfers in team match, even by spotting Jones to the simon-pures On the other hand no six tennis pros could cope with a group including Lacoste, Cochet, Tilden, Borotra, Harada and Hun ter. This is largely speculative but the case seems clear.
 "Tennis still is mainly an amateur sport" a high and influential off cial of the U. s. L. T. A. said to me recently. There may be things to criticize about it and, of | course, the game has gone a long | way from the days when it was just a gentleman's pastime at Newport and Southampton. The ! amateur game is more highly or ganized but it also is better organ ized; has spread to more countries than any other sport.
 This amateur growth might be retarded or handicapped if open competition was legalized and the bars let down on pro-amateur con- petition. It would mean added temptations for the amateur play !! ing in tournament where the best he could get was cup while the pro collected a slice of the gate money"
 Which also happens to be point worth digesting, if there is any in clination to argue the case.
 Unless I badly miss my guess, Glenn Wright's arm is O. K, and about as good as ever" remarked F. Bucky Harris, the Tiger pilot, af- t ter watching the veteran Brooklyn !. shortstop let loose in an exhibition game If so, keep an eye on : Uncle Hobbies flock Wright's arm and cleanup wallop, in daily use, may mean the difference be- tween an ordinary club and pen , nant contender |,