Word: kozeluh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Writing in Tennis, Mary K. Browne, women's tennis champion from 1912 to 1914 (runner up for women's golf championship in 1924), suggested a way to put her lower on the list: "Girls, do you want to defeat Helen Wills Moody? She is the Tilden and Kozeluh of women's tennis. You must go to the net and keep on going up, no matter if at first she passes you, no matter if you are tired. . . . The question is, have you the courage, the audacity, the nerve to take punishment ? I think you have the stamina...
Henri Cochet, of France, world's ablest tennis amateur, confided to friends that he was going to turn professional. They expected him to sign a contract (like William Tatem Tilden II, Vincent Richards, Karel Kozeluh) with fat Jack Curley, who is now scouting Europe for wrestling talent...