Wimbledon 1960: last year of the old regime - archive, 30 June 1960

30 June 1960 The professionals are knocking on the gates. Next year, instead of glory first and hard cash later, there will probably be prize-money on the nail for the winners From now on, almost certainly, Wimbledon will never be the same again. There will still be the summer hats and the fashionable voices, the colonels from Cheltenham, the schoolgirls from Putney, and the housewives from Maida Vale, strawberries and cream and hamburgers and onions (J Lyons and Company will continue to feed ev...