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Professionals. Played informally as early as 1895, organized professional football really began to flourish in 1925, when famed C. C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle signed famed Illinois Halfback Harold ("Red") Grange to play for pay. Last year, a million people paid more than $1,000,000 to see the 54 games played by the nine teams of the National League, No. 1 organization of the game. This season professional football has two major leagues, named after baseball's. Leaders of the six teams in the American League last week were the Boston Shamrocks. In the National League, the Chicago Bears...
Almost since tennis started, there have been professional teachers. Yet professional tennis, as a game, did not really get under way until 1926, when Charle's C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle induced famed Suzanne Lenglen to sign a contract for exhibition matches. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, professional tennis began its tenth season. A crowd of 15,000 watched leggy Ellsworth Vines beat handsome, lethargic Lester Stoefen 6-2, 6-2. William Tatem Tilden II, now in his sixth season as a professional and no longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with...
When Lenglen turned professional, tennis authorities were loudly indignant. They anticipated immediate trouble when other amateurs followed her example. Promoter Pyle went bankrupt, Suzanne Lenglen retired and professional tennis was in the doldrums when it was rescued by Miss Lenglen's onetime trainer, William O'Brien, now No. 1 impresario of the game. Since 1931, his tennis tours have grossed $750,000. Among the 14 onetime amateurs he has induced to play for him have been Francis T. Hunter, Vincent Richards, Henri Cochet, George Lott. Major attraction of the O'Brien troupe has always been Tilden...
Capt. Lindbergh pocketed his $25,000 prize, refused offers of $200,000 (cinema), $400,000 (vaudeville), $50,000 (radio), $75,000 (advertising), $150,000 (C. C. Pyle). What he could not refuse were the thousands of gifts which poured in on him from the ends of the earth. Because a handful of St. Louis businessmen had backed him with $15,000, he sent his trophies to the Missouri Historical Society, which housed them in a wing of the Jefferson Memorial at Forest Park. St. Louis. The Spirit of St. Louis he sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...help teach at Stone City appeared a handsome dark-haired young man named Arnold Pyle who is the subject of Grant Wood's best-known male portrait, Arnold Comes of Age. Painter Arnold Pyle not only taught at Stone City while it lasted but now frames some of Grant Wood's pictures, helps prepare his panels for painting, acts as his unofficial business manager. His portrait, too, was on view at last week's Manhattan show...