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Drawings were made for the men's National singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, L. I., and out popped the names of Champion Tilden and Manuel Alonso, sleek Spaniard, for the opening round. Alonso has been known to beat Tilden. Also in Tilden's quarter of the draw were Norman E. Brookes, ancient Australian, Pat O'Hara Wood, and Howard Kinsey, the deadlier of the two Kinsey brothers. Any one of these might conceivably upset the elongated Philadelphian...
...Buffalo, Tilden, tennis man, was beanten twice. He met Alonso, paragon rfom Aragon, in the finals of the invitation singles. The result was: 6-4, 1-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Alonso covered the court sensationally and was unbeatable in the second set. Tilden favored his ankle, wrenched the day previous in the 'doubles...
...Yonkers youth had won two legs on his booty, and in clinching it last week he gave a grand and conclusive exhibition. His opponent was Carl Fischer, intercollegiate champion and a victor in earlier rounds over both the California Kinseys and Clarence J. Griffin (who has beaten Alonso of Spain). Richards shot through Fischer, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2, with a brilliancy that robbed their match of all dubiety...
...Angeles gallery, numbering 1,500, and described as " very unruly," was said to have interfered with Alonso's play. Alonso was nervous...
...night before the final, Alonso and Tilden were seen at a place of amusement escorting Pola Negri, Polish film celebrity. Nearby, ignoring them, sat Charles S. Chaplin, with the actress, Lenore Ulric...