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...William Tatem Tilden II has lorded over the .U. S. tennis world pretty much to his liking for the past ten years. From time to time he has knuckled under to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, but never has an individual player or official flouted his prestige. Last week at Forest Hills, L. I., during the national men's singles championship matches he suffered more than one setback...
...William Tatem Tilden II: the Newport Casino singles championship in the morning, beating Wilmer Allison 6-1, 0-6, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, and the doubles in the afternoon with Francis Hunter, from Wilbur Coen & Harris Coggeshall...
...sports writer should let himself go, he ought to be able to write a good novel about his macrocosmic world. Few have; but Sports-Writer Tunis proves it can be done. Though he plays tennis and has appeared in tournaments, Author Tunis is no match for Racketeer William Tatem Tilden II on the court; but he has taken the same theme which recently lured Tilden into writing a novel (TIME, June 23) and has defeated him in straight love sets...
...this, one of the first of the new $1 books, Racketeer William Tatem Tilden, onetime world's tennis champion, still up among the first and still the dread of the Davis Cup Committee,* has written a novel. Appropriately, it is a tale of tennis, its hero, at least in tennis ability, much like the author...
After Van Ryn had beaten Wilmer Allison in the finals and the Davis Cup team had been picked, fresh arguments broke out. Van Ryn, Allison, George Lott, John Doeg?all under 25?were put on the team, with William Tatem Tilden II (now in Europe) still a possibility (he says now he does not want to play again). But Bell too had been picked?he would go along as a substitute...