Last month many U. S. sport headliners were asked to donate their services for the Finnish Relief Fund. Among them were America's six top-notch professional tennists: Donald Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Bruce Barnes, Berkeley Bell and greying, 47-year-old Bill Tilden, back in the U. S. after nearly three years abroad. In Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory they did their bit—in a four-hour, five-match show with a $10 top.
Last week bluff & burly Sportswriter Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune published the benefit's itemized balance sheet as submitted to Fellow Sportswriter...
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