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...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...
...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...
Teaching professionals were quickly eliminated from the U. S. 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...
...Vincent Richards crushed Karel Kozeluh in one of the finest exhibitions of sustained attack I have ever witnessed. ... It seemed to me that he played Richards' backhand too much . . . missed many openings to Richards' forehand corner. . . . Kozeluh was wild and erratic in his efforts to pass Richards...