Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1917 — MAY BAR MOLLA BJURSTEDT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAY BAR MOLLA BJURSTEDT

Proposed Rule to Prohibit Clubs From Paying Traveling Expenses Will Keep Her Out. The tennis officials have become so' badly affected by the “amateur mania” that they probably will adopt a rule at their coming meeting which may bar Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the Scandinavian star and champion, from appearing in exhibition matches throughout the country. The girl net wizard is comparatively poor. By profession she is a nurse.

Her income from that source is sufficient to meet her ordinary expenses of.llving,'but not much morg. Certainly it does not j?rove enough money to enable her to pa/ traveling expenses wherever she is asked to appear in an exhibition gaipe. But that is just what the officials alm to force her to do. Since she became a tennis sensation In America, Miss Bjurstedt has appeared in many cities in exhibition matches. In all such instances her expenses were paid. Being an amateur, she never received pay for her playing. She was glad to do that for the good of the sport, and there is no questiorjbut that the publicity gained for lawn tennis through) her wonderful playing, ability has brought a large increase in the number of women devotees of the game.

Molla Bjurstedt.