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After William Tatem Tilden II trounced him in the match that opened their professional tennis tour in Manhattan last month (TIME, Jan. 22), Ellsworth Vines observed: "Give Tilden plenty of rest and he's probably still the hardest player in the world to beat ... in one match. But I'll wear him down before the end of the tour...
...biggest ever to attend a U. S. tennis match, had paid $30,125 to get in. Of that sum the Garden collected $10,500. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies got $3,760. Promoter Tilden, his business manager William O'Brien, and Ellsworth Vines, his opponent across the net, were to share about $15,000 for what was to happen in the next two hours. Public interest in the match was due to the fact that: 1) it was Vines's first appearance as a professional; 2) it offered the first real test...
...more than one big match, and Robert Tyre Jones's record of 1930 (British & U. S. open, British & U. S. amateur) had not been remotely approached. Frank Shields, who was left off the Davis Cup team for his erratic playing, was named No. 1 U. S. tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might be called Play of the Year. However, it developed early trouble at the boxoffice. George M. Cohan's performances in Pigeons & People and Ah Wilderness ranked high at both ends...
...Orleans: Director Ellsworth Woodward of the Izaac Delgado Museum...
Long-legged Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, last week ended a disastrous year of amateur tennis. Last June, just before he lost his Wimbledon title, Professional William T. Tilden offered him a $100,000 contract if he won. Made dizzy by having lost so much money. Vines talked about it, brought on an investigation by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which finally cleared him of having done more than think about turning professional...