The Desert Sun from Palm Springs, California • 2

PAGE TWO THE DESERT SUN OP PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA FRIDAY JANUARY SI US duck dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs Phil Quagllno and little son Jack Quagllno Nathan Brown of Glendale executive of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was entertained at a Sun Strokes Vines and Perry To Battle Here For Professional Tennis Championship (By the Desert Commentator) Jackass' broke the stillness of a desert night Or on some clear evenings villagers could hear the roar of Tahqultz Creek swirling over the canyon boulders People used to come to the desert to worship its silence Long miles of sand stretching between still ing mountain ranges Cool moonlight Warm sunshine Magnificent dawns and sunsets The desert has always been a region of vast that tower-i That squat sad-eyed little white dog who has amused us for the past eight years Is dead He was killed by a murderous pack of reservation1 mongrels He was having a grand time nipping at their heels and an- until began to be noisy about noylng them with his wheezy bark our when they auddenly turned on him I The deadly attack was too much for current combination or that was hia name-end he honkIng horn' i(uaIIn tlre8- nicke1' went down in the reservation dust for ln-kMlot Phonographs booming car the final count radl08 rumbln truck8- cockun bar So busy are we with our own and not belong fair many of us have failed to note thIf de8ert and "eve dld' Tbe the disappearance of Most cacaphony is as out or of us knew him He was more than Place de8ert 88 a 8wn Just another dog he was a village Vea? DnUI ear" ta personality The "dog and skate take thing a bit more leisurely and not allowed" warning in the potot 1888 blatant we are missing flee was inoperative a far as he was 016 be8t tlus to concerned i No particular canine comeliness 'he Desert NEW Furnished Home New strictly modem 3-bedroom 2-bath home furnished by Barker Bros Large lot well planted and completely walled Excellent location $13500 Cannot be duplicated for this price $6000 government loan on property can be assumed SEE John Williams or Associates RICHARDSON and BELL North Palm Canyon Drive Phone 3311 (Continued From Page One) dlaputed world's amateur champion tor three yeara before he turned pro the English Daria Cup ace achlevea remarkable "gets" and turns them Into forcing shots on his own account with eye-opening dexterity Perry reveals that the secret of his shot-making achieved from difficult angles and under terrific pressure la In the strength of his superstrong right wrist which was developed at an early age while he was winning the world's table tennis crown His own service compares with the most powerful and the terrific pace the two rivals set is attested by the fact that a racket stringing never lasts more than one match and sometimes two rackets are used In a single battle The English star supplanted Vines as amateur kingpin when the Californian turned pro to tour with Tllden Perry Is the only player In history to hold the national championships of England United States Australia and France In the same year and In one season the remarkable ace held the national singles champion-shops of seven different countries! Vines became the first player In history to win Wimbledon the first crack at the classic world's championship when he triumphed In the 1932 tournament Playing In every major tournament in both England and America that year the sensational Californian did not drop a solitary match in singles an all-time record that even Bill Tllden could not approach in hfs hey-dey Color is expected to abound in the preliminary match between the elongated Senior and stubby Bell Senior is a natural clown of the court and frequently Indulges In added histrionics over shots that provokes hearty then the match and finally won the fifth set 6-2 in a blase of fireworks It was this same TIdball incidentally who gave Vlnea his last defeat as an amateur Bell carriea his old fighting spirit Into professional tennis where his whirlwind style of play makes him a real crowd pleaser and a continual source of annoyance to opponents Hla often finds him tumbling into the laps of his spectators so much speed does he generate In a desperate effort to retrieve the ball but Bit's antics are thoroughly appreciated by his victims Few players like to win more than Bell and his greatest Joy as a professional player when he left the amateur ranks in 1936 came when he teamed with Vines to hand George Lott and Lester Stoefen defeats In their tour of that year Bell Is singles star In his own right as his ecnrd In the First Ten of the country proves and his singles feud with Whiter Senior the slim San Fran ciscan Is a highlight of the current tour Walter 8einor Walter Senior strapping 6-foot 2-Inch former University of California tennis and track ace Is the newest amateur star of the coast to toss his medals and cups into the discard In favor of the clink of cold hard cash in return for hls prowess with the racket The bronzed husky from the Golden State second only to Donald Budge the world's No 1 amateur player in hls home sector was signed to a professional contract by Jack Harris Senior was Just coming into Ufa own In championship tennis when he renounced hls amateur standing A traditional California hard-hltter hls blazing forehand shots rival the sever- could he claim In appearance All of this talk about noise and was pathetically the off-: progress arose out of a conversation spring of a black-and-white terrier and with one man who has come to love an itinerant dachshund Hls stumpy the desert and wh lives miles away legs curved strangely like a wishbone from highway sod town He said he-from hls body His toil was dlspro- lurd beetf on the dbsert for ftv yeaxr portions tely long but had a dignified and during that time It had taught wave as he walked I him that nothing of permanent value It hls body was Bmall and poorly ever came about by forcing or pushing fashioned had the heart of through a situation Let th desert St Bernard He could wag a sin-) take care of you There Is some- a thing that appeals in his idea It makes one wonder it perhaps we wouldn't be better off accepting our living from the desert instead of extracting it Public Stenographer1 Helen Me-Ewen Dfeiert Sun Office: Phone 36M PALM SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Alleine's Memorial) The Plaza South of Plaza Theatre on Palm Canyon Drive HOURS laughter from the gallery Bell earned itj 0f Budge's hls first service is as ntelrnania a 'TumWInw Tova hnrd as any in the pame and his hls nickname of Texan Evenings 7-9 pm 7-9 pm KODAKS MOVIE EQUIPMENT PHCTTO FINISHING A COMPLETE PHOTO SUPPLY HOUSE EASTMAN AGf'a ZEISR BELL A HOWELL EXAKTA GEORGE WESTS DESERT CAMERA MART Palin Cauyn at Arena Rdl 4 Doors South of Desmond's Box 370 PHons 739B Mornings 10-12 am 10-12 am -10-12 am am Afternoons 1-5 pm 1-5 pm 1-5 pm 1-5 pm 1-5 pm Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday cere hello with that tall of hls or a lot of genuine expression Into those sorrowful brown eyes Those few people who took care of "Hippo" and loved him best are missing the loyal devoted little fellow To the rest or us hls passing Is Just another one of those things There is no especial moral to his story no especial reason to regret hls death Still 1 know we do He was snch an under-sized friendly sort of a mutt: We couldn't help but like him Progress With Sound Effects Li those good old days when Palm! Springs was more sandy and less! social villagers managed to exist Just' as nfeery although living at a slower pace than now Today we seem to have reached the conclusion that progress is speed and that to progress we have t'o travel tost But this Is all wrong Progress is development Development is gradual growth In any man's dictionary Why we slow up awliilb? to the siesta hour" movements have Been started periodically and failed' periodically However much or1 little- we have to do we Kke to do in a hurry Everybody begins to fidget when a luncheon dub speaker runs past Hia deadline What in the world' have we to be so unreasonably busy afiout right now anyway? Then too we'te not only rushing around progressing but arso evidently tryttag to do it as noisily as possible There was a time when only the unmelodic bray of a desert Riverside County Library Books can be ordered through the Palm Springs Public Library A nnounctng THE NEW- from his habit of taking In frantic scrambles to retrieve the 'ball But both are rapable of out- standing tennis in their own right with high national ranking during their amateur days Promoter Jack Harris announced that Vines and Perry will award to the outstanding Junior tennis star of this district a year's playing membership in the leading local club as a reward of merit Vines recalls when assistance given him as a struggling Junior aided him greatly In scaling the championship heights and la an ardent booster for Junior tennis Berkeley Bell Scion of the early Texas rangers Berkeley Bell Is known as one of the most tenacious players In tennis wltj a never-give-up attitude that more than once has pulled his match out of the fire But as a member of the Ellsworth Vlnes-Fred Perry pro entourage he has earned the nume of the Texan" for In hls anxiety to retrieve even the most difficult shots Bell often takes a "header" into the front row of the gallery They play here February 6th Bell lured out of the ranks of amateur players by Vines two years ago stood high in the first ten of national amateur stars when a slmon pure As a doubles player partnered with Perry against Ellsworth Vines and Walter Senior the "Tumbling Texan" has hit hls stride and the many daz-sllng rallies that feature this doubles battle as a supporting feature of the singles feud have brought fans to their feet time and again Essentially a volley artist Bell attacks the net with a theory that the best defense is a good offense A neat placement scored In doubles gives him more satisfaction than service ace does Vines The colorful Texan has been bombastic figure of the courts since IDYLLWILD PALMS STABLES Formerly the STABLE BOXING EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Hollywood Legion Stadium net gnme has more than once turned the tide of battle in hls favor On top of that he Is what Is known as a with the crowd hls antics on the court when either making or missing a shot bringing forth a spontaneous laugh The San Francisco product who learned the fine points of the game on the courts that produced Maurice MsLoughlln and Bill Johnston cleaned up in a mid-western amateur campaign last summer scoring victories in no less than seven tournaments and winding up by blazing hls way to victory in the Canadian national championship Senior collected titles In the Western championships the Michigan State championships Wisconsin State championships Illinois State championships as well as In doubles In the Ohio state New England and Florida championships Among his victims was Wllmer Allison former national champion and Davls Cup stronghold Until he elected to cast hls lot with the play-for-pay boys Senior had been assured of a rapid rise in the First Ten of the nation In the Vines-Perry tour Senior is storting a private feud of hls own with Berkeley Bell the sensational Texan" who Is the fourth member of Jack trans-continental troupe He also teams up with Vines in doubles against Perry and Bell Senior first broke into athletic fame while attending Fresno State College before transferring to the University of California He ran a lap on the Fresno quartet that set a new national college four-man mile relay in the famed Fresno Relays and was capable of tearing off a lap in considerably under 50 seconds Tennis has always been hls best love in athletics however a year ago playing In only a few Eastern tourna ments he gained No 12 in natl'onul ranking and in Northern California was second only to Budge himself The late 1937 season found him hitting hls best stride and with the American crop of amateur talent at a low ebb except for Champion Budge Harris persuaded Senior to Join the professionals Just as players like Les Stoefen Bruse Barnes Berkeley Bell and few others have Improved by leaps and bounds under the tremendous strain of top-notch tennis required In professional competition Senior may prove one of the best In the game evontuully accruing to Vines out of the University of -f lyvrtr For Vitality and Pep-Both Players and Spectators Eat E25 he came Texas in 1928 to make a mark for himscir in Intercollegiate competition Not many know that partnered with Wllnu'r Allison Bell won eight tournaments in a row In doubles Boll remained In school hut Allison went on to bcmn world's doubles chum plon with Johnny Van Ryn Otic or the most satisfying wins that bell had tne fallowing year was In the national doubles championship when ho teamed with Lewis Whilo also of Texas and defeated Allison and Van Ryn The following year Bell too was named on the Davis Cup squad Bell lms won the national intercollnglato championship In both singles and doubles and such classic eastern grass qnitrt events ns Senbrlght Nussati and Newport Bell's most thrilling singles victory he calls thn triumph over Jack TIdball of California In tlm final round of the Lnngwood Bowl tournament when was trailing two sets to one and 9-8 In tho fourth set TIdball had flvn match points on the crucial game but the fighting Texan doggedly turned each one buck and won (he gnme then squared the set BETH CHASE and DOROTHY VARNUM Sisters (and really sisters) SPECIALIZING IN PRIVATE PARTIES MOONLIGHT RIDES GUIDE SERVICE WEEKLY LUNCHEON RIDE TO B-BAR-H RANCH (A 20-mlle rouud trip) Phone 4061 Du mi On Andreas Road The Attorney and Mrs Gregory Cruet ami four children of Los Angeles have Ii'iuokI a home In Las Estates for the balance of the Huuson Mr Cruet Is a prominent attorney IIo and Bill Cross of the Hicks Reul Estate agency were classmates In tin luw school and naturally Mr Cross leased Iho property to Mr Cruetx Incidentally "cruelz" Is the Gorman word meaning "cross" Indian Store Indian Avenue at Andreas Road Phens 6044 Freo Plenty 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