Word: tatem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Richard Dudley Sears was champion he dominated the game. One man or at most two have dominated U. S. tennis ever since, until William Tatem Tilden retired to become a professional last year. Last week's jubilee tournament, on the West Side Tennis Club's disgracefully frayed turf, was a young-blooded tournament and one which suggested that tennis has now become so standardized that all the promising young players are almost equally good. Only one oldtime player made a showing?Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916. No one was too much surprised when Sidney Wood...
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...
...sorts: those who teach tennis and those who exhibit themselves for a living. The latter class, mostly onetime amateurs, has multiplied recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, 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...
...that the more seriously Borotra plays the more likely he is to be beaten. He was serious when he came out on the centre court at Wimbledon last week to play Francis Xavier Shields, a handsome, 21-year-old New Yorker who was anxious to do what only William Tatem Tilden II and Gerald Patterson have done?win the British Championship on his first trip to Wimbledon...
...beaten by Harold Lee. Shields, who had never played at Wimbledon be- fore, and Wood were the gallery's favorites. Wood beat the champion of Spain, Eduard Maier, in a straight-set match watched by onetime King Alfonso. Shields, whose resemblance to Wimbledon's favorite William Tatem Tilden II and the fact that he was the first seeded U. S. player, made him the centre of centre-court attention, won his first three matches losing only...