Pro Professionals

Despondent over the incapacity of English tennis players as winners or even serious contenders for the Davis Cup, Britain has hired a teacher. Karl Kozeluh, a leading professional tennis player of the continent, winner last week of an unofficial professional championship of Europe at Beaulieu, France, goes to the All-England club to tutor budding Britons. He is a Czechoslovak.

Coincident with this announcement of recognition from highest English tennis potentates of the importance of perfect tennis education came a similar, more general recognition in the U. S. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association drew up resolutions nurturing professionalism. Careful co-operation with the Professional Lawn Tennis Association was recommended. Last summer's loss of the Davis Cup to France unquestionably prompted the resolutions.

All care was taken to distinguish between teaching-professionals and professionals suddenly promoted to make money for exhibitors. This distinction was directed at promoters such as C. C. Pyle who deleted amateur tennis of champions Suzanne Lenglen and Vincent Richards. The U. S. L. T. A. desires to encourage not with richer tennis promoters, but with sounder tennis teachers.