The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
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 BY HENRY McIEMOltE United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Aug 1O.-UP)- That age old question--when is an amateur not an amateur ?-like the famous one involving . chick en's reason for crossing the thor oughfare, apparently has no cor rect answer. But that doesn't keep the amateur sports officials from continually seeking a solu- ton.
 It's the gentlemen of tennis who are busy now, and they're probing into the doings of such high and mighty citizens as our two national champions, Henry Ellsworth Vines and Helen Hull Jacobs. The Ja- cobD probe apparently Is complet- ed. They, meaning in this in-' stance, Louie Carruthers, chair man of the amateur rule commit tee, turned the microscope on Miss Jacobs yesterday when some one called attention to an adver- tisement stating Miss Jacobs would be at a local department store to- morrow to autograph copies of her new book, Modern Tennis and to answer tennis questions. Sporting Goods Sixth Floor" the advertise ment added.
 This was all wrong, and poor Helen virtually admitted 1t last night in a statement issued through Carruthers in which she promised to be a good little girl and not ap- pear at the store to-day, "in or- der to avoid even the appearance of violating the letter or spirit of the amateur rule"
 Helen also insisted that a refer ence to her as famous tennis champion" was incorporated in the advertisement by mistake and against her instructions.
 So the Jacobs affair seems to be ironcd out, with Helen. her book. the forthcoming national cham pionships and the store all getting some swell publicty. And the public got q new slant On the am, Miss Jacobs made her first mis- take in her choice for the subject of a book. She should, by all means, have laid off tennis. It would have been much wiser to give off a cook book, treatise on single sculling. railroading in. the Pacific northwest, or a manual for beginners in tandem bicycling.
 Her second mistake came in the wording of the advertisement. It should have read Helen Jacobs, q true American Girl Helen Ja- cobs, rather ordinary bridge play err" or Helen Jacobs, collector Of Tekwood fire alarm boxes" Any thing but Helen Jacobs, famous tennis champion"
 Miss Jacobs probably made the most serious mistake of all when she agreed to do the autographing in the sports goods shop. That was terrible. She should have picked the piano department, the rug counter. the riding britches section. In short, any place but sports goods, for whenever an ann ateur sports official sees an ath- lete in three country blocks oA sports goods house, his ears fly up and his nose quivers after the man. ner of. pointer when he gets on the trail of covey of quail.
 And that business about answer ing questions on tennis-well, that was simply outrageous. Even though her customers asked noth- ing more pertinent than what wns Tilden's age when he finished grammar school, the officials would be sure to interpret her an- swer as teaching.
 Meanwhile MT Carruthers says "I have nothing to say" regarding the Vines investigation which ap- parentIy was launched to find out if Ellsworth has already signed some sort of contract, which dc- bends on how he fares in the nH- tional championship in September.