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...mostly onetime amateurs, has multiplied recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, since patting soft shots at novices spoils the teachers for high-grade competition. In it are William Tatem Tilden II; his good friend Frank Hunter; Vincent Richards, onetime Tilden protégé; Howard Kinsey. Californian cut-stroker; Emmett Pare, youngest member of Tilden Tennis Tours, Inc.: and Karel Kozeluh, who was supposed to be best player in the world till Tilden beat him 33 out of 37 matches last winter...
...Professional Championship at Forest Hills last week. In the best quarter-final match, Karel Kozeluh, who considered himself disgraced by Tilden's beatings and said he would never return to the U. S. unless he won the tournament, defeated Francis Hunter in four sets. Howard Kinsey beat Albert Burke, able Irish professional attached to the Deauville Sporting Club in France and rated as Europe's second best pro. In the semifinals, four "playing professionals" proceeded to eliminate each other in a manner that was almost a foregone conclusion, and Tilden became professional tennis champion...
...final round. They put out well-known professionals from all parts of the U. S. as easily as these same players could defeat the women and children pupils by whom they earn their living. Even in the semifinal round neither had any trouble. Kozeluh eliminated famed chop-stroking Howard Kinsey of San Francisco, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3. Richards took Harvey Snodgrass 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. Critics, believing Richards looked fat and pallid, favored Kozeluh in the final, and the Czechoslovakian started just as they expected him to. He won the first...
...generally conceded that Karel Kozeluh and Vincent Richards would meet in the finals as they do in all U. S. Professional tournaments, whether played on boards, clay, or grass. The other pros who played them in their respective divisions of the draw failed to take many games. Howard Kinsey, who ranked in the first ten as an amateur, did well when he won 13 from Kozeluh in three sets. Paul Hesten, in the other semifinal, lost to Richards more quickly...
Died. Mrs. Howard Kinsey, 68, of San Francisco, mother of Tennis-Players How ard and Robert Kinsey (U. S. national clay court doubles champions, 1924); in San Francisco...