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...welter in cons and pros...
...week for open tournaments of their own; in Forest HilHills, N.Y., the governors of the West Side Tennis Club, long a shrine of amateurism and site of the U.S. National grass court championships, voted to convert the Nationals into a U.S. Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest living from their sport -as golfers do - seemed pretty good to the younger amateurs...
...vote for open tennis most immediately benefits the pros, who had been relegated to barnstorming tours and gimmicks-colored uniforms, pingpong scoring-in their efforts to' make buck. It may hurt some amateurs who are not quite good enough to compete successfully as pros and can no longer expect a free ride from tournament promoters. But it will also attract new talent to the game. "There will be a lot more interest in tennis now," said Bilhe Jean King. "It will be a strong motivation to young athletes to take up the sport...
Since then, a few of the MacKenzie-designed holes have been remodeled to make them tougher for the 80 or so top pros and amateurs who compete each year, by invitation only, in the Masters. But the course remains essentially a "members' course,"-6,980 yds. of wide Bermuda-grass fairways and huge, rolling greens, flanked by towering pines and largely free of man-made hazards. "We don't have to spend money building bunkers or maintaining them," explains Clifford Roberts, 74, the austere, bespectacled New York investment banker who, as Jones's deputy, rules both Augusta...
...pros like to sign stars as soon as they graduate from high school. Chances aren't good that any organization will take a chance on a college junior, particularly a junior in an Ivy school who's apt to head for grad school after a year...