DENIAL BY PERRY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 87, 7 January 1935, Page 7

DENIAL BY PERRY

Not Turning Professional

Melbourne, January 5.

Perry, interviewed, gave an emphatic denial to the cabled information that he intended accepting a professional contract in America. “There is absolutely no truth at all in the matter. I am not even contemplating it,” he said.

Hughes endorsed Perry’s denial. "We shall not even be in San Francisco on February 23, the date mentioned in the cable,” he said. "We are shortly to leave for New Zealand to play in the New Zealand championships. Perry intends to spend a month’s holiday in Los AngeleS on his way home to England, but you can take it quite definitely he will bo back in England ready for next Davis Cup.”

A cable from New York, published on Saturday, stated that Mr. Bill O’Brien, promoter, announced that Miss Helen Jacobs had accepted an offer to turn professional. Mr. O'Brien said his offer called for Miss Jacobs to receive 20,000 dollars for a tour beginning on March 20. Mr. O’Brien said that a fortnight ago he offered Miss Jacobs 15,000 dollars, but she asked for more money. On Wednesday he cabled his 20,000-dollar offer.

“I know that was what she wanted, and know she will accept,” he said. “I mailed a contract to her.” Mr. O’Brien declared that Mrs. Fehrt>ley Whittingstall, formerly Miss Eileen Bennett, had accepted an offer of 10,000 dollars, and indicated that F. J. Perry would sign. He said his representative on the Pacific Coast, Mr. Silas Masters, had received a cable from Perry asking Mr. Masters to have a contract ready when he arrived at San Francisco on February 23. Perry will receive 40,000 dollars. Mr. O’Brien said that none of the three had signed contracts, but he was satisfied that all would relinquish their amateur standing within a few weeks. STATEMENTS BY WOMEN PLAYERS London, January 4. Mrs. Fearuley Whittingstall has cabled a refusal to Mr. O’Brien’s oft’eShe says it is not worth becoming a professional for such a small amount. ”1 shall not surrender amateurism unless I receive sufficient to keep me comfortably the rest of my life. Miss Jacobs declares that she is not returning to America before Wimbledon. UNITED STATES RANKINGS New York, January 4. The United States Lawn Tennis Association announces the national rankings as:— Singles: Allison, Wood. Shields, Parker, Stoefen. Lott. Bell. Sutter. Budge, and Grant. ' Doubles: Lott and Stoefen, Allison and Van Ryn, Budge and Mako. Bell and Mangin, and Br.vat. and McDlar mid.