Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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How can such things happen in a civilized state like Illinois? Those who know Illinois by the rolling farm lands and the occasional placid town of its northern part are not equipped to judge the Southern part ? "Egypt", as it is known because of the city of Cairo at...
The jerky Long Island R. R. trains, the bumpy, pot-holed Long Island motor roads, were ram-jammed to capacity by thronging tennis enthusiasts crowding toward Forest Hills, L. I., to see if and how anyone would humble elongated William T. Tilden II, of Philadelphia, national champion the past four...
The throngs crushed past tall brick apartments which, flanked by many tennis courts and faced by the concrete stadium, give Forest Hills the appearance of a "tennis factory." They crushed up into the stadium and out among the far-flung courts, watching, sizing up, arguing, betting.
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...
* The national singles championships begin August 25, at Forest Hills. L. I.