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"For the game's sake" is a phrase long since laughed into oblivion by disillusioned sports writers. The sharp black line supposedly drawn between amateurs and professionals has become a wavy web of honorable evasions, and the conclusion must be drawn that amateur athletes derive income from their strength and skill as surely, but not so profitably, as does, say, the world's champion heavyweight pugilist. Helen Wills, as fine a character as amateur sport has ever known, is a paid artist drawing tennis pictures...
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