Wilson's Tennists

In Los Angeles one night last week Tennist Ellsworth Vines beat Fred Perry 4-6, 13-11, 8-10, 6-2, 6-3 in the opening encounter of their second year of coast-to-coast professional barnstorming. This year's tour has a new promoter and a new mode of pay. Instead of Francis T. Hunter, the promoter is Chicago's Jack Harris, promotion chief of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. The mode of pay--to stimulate competition and quell suspicions of collusion after they finished all-even last year--is a bonus for each victory (in addition to salary) and a bonus for the greatest number of victories at the end of the 75-match season. To the victor also goes a possible $30,000 for a tour with Donald Budge next year, if Mr. Budge turns pro.

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