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...Cooper frantically switching his racket from forehand to backhand. Volleys flicked dust from the base line. Backhand lobs plopped into corners like wet sponges. Up in the stands, stunned tennis fans, many of them longtime Hoad baiters, talked aloud of such oldtime greats as America's Bill Tilden or Jack Kramer, and wondered whether Hoad's game did not rank him among them. It was all over in 55 minutes. Afterwards even Hoad admitted that Hoad had been great. "I think I've played better in Australia," he said, "but this was good tennis." So good...
...layoff. And Savitt had forced him to play the best tennis of his career to pull out the match. As he faced Hoad it seemed improbable that he could be that good again. But he was. Watching him took spectators back to the golden days of prewar tournaments, to Tilden and Vines and Budge, to Perry. Crawford and Cochet...
...Grant in 1872, and continuing up to the present campaign. The most valuable items in the collection are two large buttons for the McKinley inauguration in 1900 and for his first nomination in 1896. Among Sugar's more than 3,000 buttons are ones for William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Tilden, Rutherford B. Hayes, Wendell Wilkie, Alfred Landon, Alfred Smith, Herbert Hoover and Alton B. Parker...
...Looking back over its long history, the U.S.L.T.A. celebrated its Diamond Jubilee by naming the alltime first ten U.S. tennis players: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) J. Donald Budge, 3) John A. Kramer, 4) William M. Johnston, 5) H. Ellsworth Vines Jr., 6) Richard A. Gonzales, 7) Maurice E. McLoughlin, 8) William A. Larned, 9) R. N. Williams II, 10) Robert L. Riggs...
Regarding every day Cambridge, Clara Bow and Mary Pickford appeared regularly at the University Theatre; Willie Hoppe, Bill Tilden, and George M. Cohan appeared in Lucky Strike advertisements; Langrock, Browning King, and J. August...