Word: tatem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said he: "When I was young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...
...four times (1932-35-36-37). He has played 74 Davis Cup matches and lost only 14, five in his first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained a thigh muscle and lost to Perry in the final...
Professional tennis, as a major sport, really began when William Tatem Tilden -who got $ 1,000 last week for two sets of exhibition doubles as an added attraction to the first Perry-Vines match-made his first tour in 1931. Major promoter of the game until this year has been a onetime boxing trainer named Bill O'Brien. Last week's match marked the first time that the balance of power among the world's ablest tennists was indisputably on the side of the professionals. As such it was an important milestone in the game...
...Cash & Carry") Pyle induced famed Suzanne Lenglen to sign a contract for exhibition matches. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, professional tennis began its tenth season. A crowd of 15,000 watched leggy Ellsworth Vines beat handsome, lethargic Lester Stoefen 6-2, 6-2. William Tatem Tilden II, now in his sixth season as a professional and no longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with this state of affairs by trouncing Berkeley Bell of Texas, 6-1, 6-4. In the most interesting match of the evening, between two young Californians...
Professionals. William Tatem Tilden II won the U. S. Singles Championship for the first time in 1920. He won it six times thereafter, made himself indisputably the greatest player of the times, turned pro fessional in 1931. With Ellsworth Vines at home in California, Tilden last week became a U. S. Champion for the tenth time in his career, by beating tireless, brown-faced Karel Kozeluh, 0-6, 6-1. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the final of the ninth National Professional Championship played in the presence of a handful of spectators on clay courts, at Flatbush...