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...times' sake, and because such victories as were hers were more bitterly earned, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy more than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion...
Tall, gaunt William Tatem Tilden II once hurt his finger on his right hand while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...
...week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...William Tatem Tilden II, who said last week in Liberty that after 1929 he would play no more international tennis ; Helen Wills, who made no such statement; Francis T. Hunter, Junior Coen. Other U. S. players of high calibre were engaged in a Davis Cup preliminary at Washington...
National Indoor Tennis Doubles Championship?Won by Francis T. Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., and William Tatem Tilden II, Philadelphia, in Manhattan...