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...being a ''tennis bum''?i.e.. an amateur who makes a living at the game. The need for making a delicate distinction between players who are "bums" and players who are not, arose again last week in a dispute between officials of and 14 entrants in the Seabright, N. J., invitation tournament. Like most clubs which hold invitation tennis tournaments, Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club offers to house and feed competitors. In the old days, before tennis became overrun with characters whose social graces approximate those of young public links golfers, club members fell over each other...
...feel that Seabright is taking a mercenary outlook on the game and is doing much to impair the desirable spirit of amateurism. As your guests we feel that we should be treated as such and that your failure to do so in the past has shown a lack of regard for the players...
...Perry of London were the two most interesting players in the National Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club last week. Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, has been the sensation of this year's early season tournaments. He won the Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played brilliantly at Wimbledon, polished off his reputation...
...tournament will be held on grass courts so the Harvard representatives will go to Seabright. New Jersey, on Saturday, June 21, where they will put in a day of practice on the grass courts. The men will probably leave Seabright on the following Sunday for Haverford...
...Seabright, N. J., the temperature was 95° one afternoon last week. The score of the finals of a distinguished lawn tennis tournament stood: 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 10-10, John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. v. Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.-both young and brilliant players. Allison, making beautiful shots and then staggering blindly, had been within one point of victory. After that, he was in hopeless condition; Van Ryn took the 20th game of the fifth at love. Allison walked up to the net, told Van Ryn he was going to retire...