Word: tatem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the most ardent U. S. devotees of tennis have had a hard time keeping things straight for the last three or four years. Before that, William Tatem Tilden II and William Johnston were the two great U. S. players. A grade below were other famous names, easily distinguishable from each other-Richard Norris Williams II, the most brilliant half-volleyer in history, Wallace Johnson, a sporting-goods salesman who seemed always trying to compensate for his plebeian occupation by the languidly patrician gestures of his chop-strokes, Vincent Richards, who remained almost perpetually the boy wonder...
...Bernie Friedman of West Philadelphia, from William Tatem Tilden III (nephew), of Haverford, Pa., who was coached by his uncle between sets: the Middle States junior tennis championship...
...William Tatem Tilden II: his series of matches against his onetime doubles partner, Vincent Richards, for the indoor professional tennis championship of the world (TIME, May 18); by winning the second match in Boston, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3; the third, more easily, in Philadelphia 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2. Continuing the tour to Chicago Tilden...
...William Tatem Tilden II had not played Vincent Richards for five years because Richards was a professional and the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association would not countenance official matches between pros and amateurs. But after Tilden turned pro himself (TIME, Jan. 12) a match between them loomed. Shrewdly Promoter Jack Curley, tsar of U. S. professional tennis, built up for this match a lusty Irish ballyhoo startling in tennis* although routine in Mr. Curley's boxing and wrestling enterprises. He had the rivals issue derisive statements about each other which neither would under any circumstances have uttered. Curley further...
Tilden. Last week in Madison Square Garden William Tatem Tilden II played his first tennis as a professional. On the other side' of the net was brown, wiry Karel Kozeluh who has often been professional champion of the world and was runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that...