Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented procedure-so contrary to the U. S. L. T. A.'s attitude when Ellsworth Vines, Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards turned pro*-caused tennis fans to wonder whether the U. S. L. T. A. was at last willing to sign a peace treaty with professionalism, to sanction open tennis tournaments and to share the natural resources it has laid first claim to for half a century...
Professional Golfer Gene Sarazen, one-time British and twice U. S. Open Champion, recently said: "Any man is crazy to take up golf as a profession. . . ." Professional golfers receive no salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...
...meeting in Lowell House Common Room on Monday further plans will be discussed. The meeting will be open to all students interested in aiding in the project...
...organ recital, open to the public without charge, will be given at the Harvard Germanic Museum by Ludwig Theis, organist of St. Peter's Church, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at 8:15 o'clock tonight...
Hubbard doesn't object to professionalization as such. "The only thing which is really wrong is that football is a professional business which pretends to be amateur," he admits. His solution is open subsidization of players. "Some of the money, at least, would go where it ought to go--to the men who earn it," he concludes...