Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Harold ("Red") Grange first began to romp under the managerial eye of C. C. ("Cold-cash") Pyle, and U. S. suspected that. Mr. Pyle was a sucker. Later, when professional football showed signs of success they realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford...
Bill" Tilden, able Davis Cup defender. Besides him walked his wife. C. C. Pyle then glanced here, there, rose, announced: "Ladies, Gentlemen . . . Mr. Vincent Richards, greatest male tennis player in the world . . . is now a professional." An orchestra blared...
...venture of Mr. C. C. Pyle and his partners in this crime against the untainted amateur spirit will not, it is predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed a trick by not sending tennis balls to the sick boy whose convalescence has recently been so materially aided by the receipt of a baseball from Mr. Ruth and a football from Mr. Grange. The Madison Square Garden audience showed no World Series fever and Mademoiselle Lenglen showed no temperament. Which...
...rumors that peasants of the Middle West will defeat Coolidge. They change with the wheat crops and he has two to go." Or, "A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle. He is now here in London trying to get Bernard Shaw to turn professional and write for money...
...serve sang true; her sly placements sped exactly. Mary Browne was buckled down to business, but the two sets took Helen Wills only 45 minutes: 6-3, 6-2. Lenglen. Not long ago, Harold ("Red") Grange wound sinuously, ably through tough tacklers while thousands screamed frenzied delight. C. C. Pyle, "Red's" manager, was pleased. "Red" was a good bet-but how long would this Wheaton iceman last? There were other "stars," men and women of taste, gentility who could keep fickle sports-lovers' interest-Tilden, Jones, Wills . . . Last week Mr. Pyle secured a prize beyond his dreams...