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Budge 2-2?╟÷2-2?╟÷2 Perhaps the roost outstanding event in his distinguished career was scoring the first ?╟╓grand slain* in tennis, winning the Wimbledon, United States, French and Australian championships, in 1938, He also won the Wimbledon and Forest Hills titles the previous year. Spectacular achievements merit many awards, and through his career, Budge has garnered some 1,017 trophies in competitive tennis. Although there is no cup in connection with it, the achieving of the ?╟╓grand slam?╟╓ is considered his foremost. The most cherished by Budge is the James E, Sullivan Award, bestowed upon the "outstanding amateur athlete of the year," by 650 sports writers, AAU officials and other outstanding judges. Budge became the only member of the world of tennis so honored, when he won it in 1937, and was nominated for a second Sullivan Award the following year. He still is the only athlete to win a second nomination after once having won the cherished award. Budge was on the U.S, Davis Cup squad from 1934 through 1938, leading the team to victory in 1937, and returning the Cup to this country for the first time in 11 years. For the past six years, Budge has devoted most of his efforts toward the Don Budge Tennis Campus, a summer camp for boys and girls personally supervised by Budge, near Baltimore, The goal, he states, is not to turn out champions, necessarily, but to intro- duce a lifetime sport under the best of circumstances. # # #