Word: kramer
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...good as won. The decisive volley was a pair of announcements last week by Australia's top singles players, Lewis Hoad and Kenneth Rosewall, declaring that they would stay in amateur tennis and rejecting the $45,000-a-year professional contracts offered them by U.S. Promoter Jack Kramer. Since U.S. Singles Champion Tony Trabert, the only U.S. player in the Australians' class, has already signed a pro contract (TIME, Oct. 24), a successful U.S. challenge for the Davis Cup next year looks hopeless...
...Aussies' double negative was also a heavy blow to Promoter Kramer, who was counting on the Hoad-Rosewall-Trabert matches to be the feature attractions on a forthcoming world tennis tour. Said Kramer: "This hits me like a ton of bricks." Kramer claimed that he had definite promises from both Australians to turn pro when they left the U.S. last month. But back home in Australia they came under heavy pressure to change their minds. Lew Hoad, who earns $4,500 as a part-time racket salesman for the Dunlop Sports Co., Ltd., was promised unspecified "opportunities of advancement...
...long ago (1947) the world's top amateur himself, Kramer can talk convincingly to younger players about the advantages of turning pro. Kramer knows that amateur tennis is not always pure, that players get paid on the side and serve as social pets for rich backers. "People respect you more when you make your own way," Kramer tells the youngsters. "More important, you respect yourself more." Jack demolishes the argument that there is something nobler or more socially acceptable about being an amateur. "That's a lot of bunk." He tells tennis amateurs bluntly: "When...
...prove that they can get it by turning pro, Jack Kramer reels off names of some of the ex-amateurs who did well in the pro game in recent years. Pancho Segura: "He has a $30,000 home .. . and between $40,000 and $60,000 in a coffee can somewhere." Don Budge: "He has annuities, a long-term sporting goods contract, the management of two tennis clubs, not to mention a laundry, which he owns." Frank Sedgman: "He's worth $80,000 . . . a success story...
...these success stories Promoter Kramer should have a few more to add after his next pro tour is over. Trabert is guaranteed $75,000, Hoad and Rosewall, if they accept, $45,000 apiece. Promoter Kramer expects to net the better part of $250,000 after paying expenses...