Judge — October 8, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE \AIG- Sitting in the Forest Hills amphitheatre and watching the National Singles being played, it reminded me of that famous old painting of the Roman gladiators, and I looked down into the arena half expecting to see two bold riors clad in mail hacking at each other with broadswords . . . but . . . what I beheld was a couple of cissy looking figures in white panties batting a rubber ball at each other across a net! . Leaning far over the wall I stuck both thumbs down! Ce a I am a great lover of sports, but here is a game that leaves me absolutely cold. . . . I like to play it, especially after a few cocktails, but when it comes to sitting around with ten thousand other people and watching, say, Bill Tilden and Rene La Coste knock a ball at each other all afternoon I begin to look around for my nearest exit. he Tennis, Golf, Ping Pong, Cro- quet and such ladylike games ought to be confined to dubs and amateurs . they ones the n get any fun out of such pastimes .. . ra man has socked a ball across a net so : dso many times it to be a sport and becomes mechan and monotonous. .. . Oscar, Slide 36, please! .. . at the risk of being lynched by the United Tennis Fans of the World I will state right out in public that I'll bet Tilden and La Coste could have played almost as good a game if they had both been And apropos of nothing at all, the best show I’ve Trial of Mary Dugan”... thing plus a cludes our favorite—Ann Harding! We are the only + LATE blindfolded! . . . in other words a game is not a sport if you're too good at it! ... there’s no fun in it! ... It’s great sport running a trolley car for example, but not for a motorman! —p— And then our tennis stars are so, oh, so temperamental! . . . if one of their drives happens to go out an eighth of an inch they tear their hair and put on an act that would make a prima donna green with envy . and they're so d--m polite! . Good sports- manship can be ried too far! ... T hope Rene La Coste will prove a good example to our ping pong experts . . . he goes about the game of tennis quietly and without any staginess ... if we must have tennis, let’s have more La Costes and fewer John Barry- mores ! seen so far this season is “The ’s got ev wonderful cast which hear “A la Carte” is closing, which puzzles us no end .. . two duds like “Allez Oop” and “Merry-Go-Round” keep on and “A } la Carte” closes! ... there ain’t no | justice! | OF HE CunePensn? Buty — : comicbooks.com