Evening star., 1937-09-13
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
MAY HURT CHAMP
Rising Youngster Will Be
Fresh in Next Net War.
Redhead CANDLES.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, September 13.-
mi The long, cruel tennis war
has ended. Donald Bulge has
the national championship he
needed in his business, and now
there's nothing to do but worry for
the next IL months or so.
The worrying will be about evenly
divided between Bulge, who now is
very austere young man, and Of
ficiab of the United States Lawn
Tennis Association. who put a pile
Of money in the treasury the last 10
days because Bulge was playing in
their show. One more tournament
like this, with capacity crowds the
last two days, and they should be
able to attach a wing to their big
stadium at Forest Hills.
When Bulge won that fifth and
final set from Baron Gottfried Won
Cramm of Germany late Saturday
afternoon, adding the American
championship to his world" title
won at Wimbledon, he parlayed him.
self, so to speak, into a very large
sum Of currency. BY turning profess
sional he could assure himself some
thing like 100000, which is what
both Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry,
who preceded Bulge into the money
ranks, popularity are believed to have
salted away in the last year.
Bulge Promises Years Service.
RUT Bulge has promised his old
friends, the tennis fathers, that
he won't touch cent of it for another
year. at least. They are counting on
him to help defend the newly won
Davis Cup next Summer, and to draw
those bumper crowds through the
gates at the championships again.
Bulge, the unbeatable, is gambling
this fortune or, say, 100000, that
he can play another year of amateur
tennis without being beaten, and
without being injured seriously. He's
wagering that he can win Wimble-
don, Forest Hills and his Davis Cup
matches again. II his best compe-
tition comes again next season from
Won CrAmm, Bulge no doubt can
do Just that.
But there Is young man named
Bobby Riggs coming up, also from
California. It took Won Cramm five
tough sets 10 lick him In the semi
finals, and he won't be 20 until next
year. Bobby doesn't make any secret
Of his intentions. He means to win
the championship and then cash in.
He will be In there really cunning
for Bulge next year, fresh and as
full Of fight Is = tarpon. Bulge
Is leaving soon with his doubles mate,
Gene Mako, for Winter of tennis in
Australia, and he won't be 30 all-fired
fresh when he returns. Such a tour
nearly ruined Fred Perry, you re-
member.
United States Short Of Fair Talent.
THE tennis officials need to worry
only whether Don keeps his
promise to give them another year
Of his valuable services. They are
confident now that he will.
Looking back on the champion
ships. though, all this worry about
the future Is beside the point. The
tournament was the most successful
yet from financial viewpoint, and
it produced couple of worthy cham
pions. Anita LiEana, the spirited
little half-pint from Chile, proved
as great standout in the women's
division as Bulge did in the mems.
More or less underrated throughout
the play, the senorita showed Sat-
urdays big crowd q brillian all
around game in squelching Jadwiga
Jedrzejowska, the Pole.
There isn't q girl playing with a
to approach Anita's, nor
many with q forehand as steady on
the crucial points. She has developed
the drOD-shOt into a deadly offensive