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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
...Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...
...Hotel Vanderbilt, Manhattan, Tilden made two mistakes: 1) He told the tycoons that business prevented his defending his case, which inevitably was inferred to be a plea of guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes either falsehood or an anaemic revival...
...standing of Tilden would seem to be: he is out of tennis, knows it; he may seek reinstatement, but an application for reinstatement would be taken by many to be merely a gesture which would give the U. S. L. T. A. the choice of reversing its stand or of remaining adamant, thus making Tilden appear a martyr. Yet it is unlikely that Tilden cares either way: there are thousands to be made in professional tennis, not a little to be made in exploiting his reputation. Thus, without honor, passes the man who for six years dominated world tennis...
Engaged. Lieut. Commander John S. G. L. Dundas of H. M. S. Vindictive, son of the late Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas and of Lady Cordeaux; to Miss Ruth Northrop Coleman, daughter of the Postmaster of Minneapolis...