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They All Want Something. Again popular William T. ("Bill") Tilden lays aside his whanging racquet. Though he is more graceful than last year, he is not yet viewed with alarm by Broadway's first 20 ranking actors. As family chauffeur, Wade Rawlins (Mr. Tilden) keeps tabs on father's, brother's, sister's peccadillos, so that at the most embarrassing moment he is able to drive off the blackmailers who threaten the socially unstable new-rich. Later he blossoms forth a most satisfactory candidate for the daughter's hand, especially since...
...Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...
...tennis tournament broke all previous records for the annual event when the list closed yesterday with 185 men entered. In the first day's play yesterday, the ten seeded players came through without a mishap and Coach Harry Cowles expects to glean some excellent material from this array of racquet candidates. Among the most promising of these is M.T. Hill '30, holder of last year's national junior doubles championship. Hill graduated from Loomis School last spring and has been widely heralded as one of the best junior prospects in years...
During the season just completed, the University racquet wielders met with but one reverse, losing a close decision to Princeton. Big Three Champion, by the score...
...merely defaulted his U. S. and international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...