The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
Pro Tennis Stars Welcomed Back
 To Forest Hills?

New York, June 0 - So the pro. fessicnal tennis tycoons are coming back to Forest Hills. There was Q time when many Q young mans highest ambition was to reach a point in his life where he could af. ford to be an amateur tennis player
 Back in the plush days (we al. most wrote lush days) and that wasn't so far back, some of the players were intolerable. They seemed to think c tennis racquet and c pair of long white pants au- tomatically qualified them for the nobility. They adopted the broad A, the Regal strut and the starch i'm. perial manner Practically all of them had the maklngs of first class snobs.
 A small town movie operator out Of Illinois helped change all this. Cash and carry Pyle, we used to call, him. He started throwing coarse greenback around in large numbers and you should have seen what hap. pened to the counterfeit social at. titudeS Of the stars. Even the i'm. possible Tilden took hls hair down and became slightly human. But 1t must have been Q struggle. Tilden will always have to be on anybody's all-tiine tennis team and in those days he was in Q fair way of mak. ing anybody's all-tiine snob team.
 Reaction
 It was interesting also to see how some of these stars who had turned square, that Is, turned unashamed. " pro. reacted to their former keepers at Forest Hills. We recall an Ellsworth Vines incident The year he went all-out commercially, he sold his by-line to c magazine and told all, which was another custom Of the Pros at that time, He told how he had been exploited by the money greedy amateurs of tennis (which was somewhat true). how his boyhood had been blighted, how nc lived the life of a slave in chains. or course, he didn't tell how he was being maintained in luxury, the like Of which he never would have known If he hadn't been able to tan a fuzzy white ball over an exageer- ateG mosquito net with unusual skill; how he was able to travel all over the world; how he was able to meet and mingle with people who certainly couldn't do him any harm: and how, while all this was going on, he was able to build up a pres- tige that was worth $50,000 cash on the line when he signed a profess sional contract, and at an age which still found him a very, very young man. We thought then, and still do. that this is a form of cruel exploita- ton that has much to recommend 1t.
 Anyway, the summer Vines en- oraced the money game he appeared at Forest Hills to broadcast the matches, or comment on them. This was not motivated by his furious en- thusiasm for tennis. He was ped- ding for cash all the by-products of his reputation. But he didn't broadcast. The Forest Hills officials barred him. There followed much loose chatter about the freedom of the air. the freedom of speech, ty- ranny, petty czardom and what not. All the Forest Hills people did was bar a fellow who had knocked their brains out and without justification. We said then, and we say now, they did the proper thing.
 We read that this unprecedented appearance of the pros at Forest Hills may lead to open tennis, pros against amateurs. We don't think so. De don't think anybody's interested. We think amateur tennis at the mo- ment has more vitality than pro tennis. If pro tennis were going on its own, it would be more firmly entranched as 6 nation al attraction by now than it is.
 charity Affair?
 We almost forgot to add that the pros got into Forest Hills because they are playing for a war charity. Any war charity these days deserves support and we hope yolfll go out and sec the pros. Just the same we can't help but remember they play cd for another war charity some