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...National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started a five-week tour of professional exhibition matches with William Tatem Tilden II and Ellsworth Vines...
After William Tatem Tilden II trounced him in the match that opened their professional tennis tour in Manhattan last month (TIME, Jan. 22), Ellsworth Vines observed: "Give Tilden plenty of rest and he's probably still the hardest player in the world to beat ... in one match. But I'll wear him down before the end of the tour...
Gaunt, graceful William Tatem Tilden II strode out on the green canvas floor of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week, and smiled his satisfaction upon the galleries. There was plenty to smile about, for not one seat in the huge house was vacant. A crowd of 16,000. biggest ever to attend a U. S. tennis match, had paid $30,125 to get in. Of that sum the Garden collected $10,500. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies got $3,760. Promoter Tilden, his business manager William O'Brien...
...William Tatem Tilden II: a "farewell" tennis match in Manhattan against German Hans Nusslein, No. 2 man of the Tilden troupe: 6-3, 6-2. By "farewell," long, lean Tilden, theatrical as ever, meant it was his last match in Manhattan-at least until after another tour of the U. S. and a tour of Europe, starting June...
...winter, tennis in the summer, Beasley's job as assistant manager had nothing to do with instruction. He took it upon himself to improve the calibre of Notlek tennis, was rewarded by an offer to become tennis coach at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Ill. Said William Tatem Tilden II, when they met for the first time : "Beasley, there are two ways to get to the top. Be a wonderful player, which you cannot be; the other, study." Mercer Beasley, handicapped by poor eye sight, chose study. In 1928 he became coach at Tulane. Since then...