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...young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...
Finalist Weir, son of a Washington, D. C. violin teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national champion in 1931-32-33 and-after a three-year retirement while attending medical college-again...
...BRUCE TILDEN...
This unprecedented procedure-so contrary to the U. S. L. T. A.'s attitude when Ellsworth Vines, Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards turned pro*-caused tennis fans to wonder whether the U. S. L. T. A. was at last willing to sign a peace treaty with professionalism, to sanction open tennis tournaments and to share the natural resources it has laid first claim to for half a century...
...Tilden, 45, now lives in England, competes in European professional tournaments. Richards, first of the famed "White Pants Willies" to turn pro (1926), derives a comfortable income from sporting goods. Vines, after five years of barnstorming, plans to retire after this season; he earned $40,000 the first year, $17,000 last year...