People, Nov. 8, 1937

"Names make News." Last week these names made this news:

En route to a Los Angeles exhibition match against Ellsworth Vines, Amateur Champion Tennist Donald Budge fell asleep at the wheel of his auto, ten miles north of Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield.

On the witness stand...

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