[78-L] MGM Musical Shorts

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

As someone very much taken by sports of the 1920s and ’30s and their 
stars, I was familiar with Bill Tilden and was awed by his 
accomplishments. When Ross Russell, founder of Dial Records, told me he 
once served as a ball boy for Tilden at matches in Los Angeles, I was 
greatly impressed. Unbeknownst to most jazz enthusiasts, Russell was a 
skilled tennis player and golfer, and was a teacher of both sports. For 
a time, he even managed a golf club in Massachusetts.