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...Tennis Genius." Making a comeback, Tilden won the U.S. title in 1929, the Wimbledon in 1930, and then, at 38, turned pro. He beat the pros of his day: Vinnie Richards, Karel Kozeluh, Bruce Barnes. At 47, in 1940, Big Bill was still touring, and was still good enough to come from a hospital bed to trounce a 25-year-old redhead named Donald Budge, the 1938 U.S. amateur champion. Budge called Tilden "the only genius tennis has produced." Even in his late 505, grey and spare, he was still at it, still able, for one set, to summon...
...R.A.F. Squadron Leader Dan Maskell. The team score: U.S. 4, Empire 1 ¶In overheated Manhattan, a pair of ancient iron men had their day in the quarter-finals of the U.S. pro championships. In 88° heat, 52-year-old Bill Tilden battled 55-year-old Karel Kozeluh through five sets. After two and a quarter hours of chasing elusive drop shots, Big Bill won the match and brushed off the skeptics: "Well, you saw ... I finished standing up, didn't I?" (Next day he got the worst drubbing of his career from young Welby van Horn...
...times thereafter, made himself indisputably the greatest player of the times, turned pro fessional in 1931. With Ellsworth Vines at home in California, Tilden last week became a U. S. Champion for the tenth time in his career, by beating tireless, brown-faced Karel Kozeluh, 0-6, 6-1. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the final of the ninth National Professional Championship played in the presence of a handful of spectators on clay courts, at Flatbush...
...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...
...National Championship in Chicago. William Tatem Tilden II was abroad, practicing for the World's Championship next month in Paris. In the semifinals, Ellsworth Vines, who has this year earned some $50,000 from the game, was beaten by Hans Nusslein of Germany. In the final, Nusslein beat Karel Kozeluh of Czechoslovakia...