Photograph of Don Budge playing tennis. Photo is taken just before he hit a return ball to George Rice as he plays in the Pacific Coast tennis championship. Budge is wearing a light colored polo shirt and light colored pants and shoes and is holding a tennis racket in his right hand.
Tribune caption affixed to back of photo reads, "Don Budge, back from European and National tennis wars, put in his first appearance on local courts in a year when he competed in the Pacific Coast tennis championships at Berkeley yesterday. In this shot he is returning one of George Rice's offerings, whom he defeated 6-2, 6-3.--Tribune photo."
Photograph has cropping registration marks, a white square and 'X' in the bottom left corner and Budge's image has been outlined for reproduction purposes.
Don BudgeFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Budge (5/3/2007) Don Budge hitting a backhand as an amateur in 1935 John Donald ("Don") Budge (June 13, 1915 _ January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for 5 years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first man to win in a single year the four tournaments that compose the Grand Slam of tennis. Budge was considered to have the best backhand in the history of tennis, at least until the emergence of Ken Rosewall in the 1950s and '60s.Born in Oakland, California, ...Budge studied at the University of California, Berkeley in late 1933 but left to play tennis with the U.S. Davis Cup auxiliary team.
