Word: collom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Tatem Tilden II is an amateur again. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, under the friendly presidency of Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, voted last week in Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches...
...tennis moguls in the Hotel Vanderbilt, Manhattan, Tilden made two mistakes: 1) He told the tycoons that business prevented his defending his case, which inevitably was inferred to be a plea of guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes either falsehood...