Word: tatem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey, Earl Sande. Bobby Jones. Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Man o' War, the gentlemanly game of tennis came out of the private clubs into the national limelight. The man responsible for this revolution was a lanky, hunch-shouldered, hawk-faced competitor named William Tatem Tilden II. He was the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen, the one man in any U.S. sport who was without a peer. He did not always look as good as he really was. Determined never to be bored, Big Bill often deliberately made a match close, simply...
Died. William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, 60, longtime international tennis champion and one of the U.S.'s great athletes; of a heart attack; in Hollywood (see SPORT...