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Altogether, France took five matches, the U. S. four. William Tatem Tilden II, of course, did not play; and Rene Lacoste was far away in France...
Richard Ely Danielson is a master of fox hounds (Groton Hunt), edits The Sportsman (sport monthly), has no time for any but amateur sports. In the September issue of his magazine he flays William Tatem Tilden II, unfrocked racqueteer, for endorsing cigarets, giving interviews for pay, otherwise professionalizing sacrosanct tennis. Says Foxhunter-Editor Danielson: "We believe that the game should be cleansed ... of the shamateurs who now dominate...
Said William Tatem Tilden, II, writing for a news syndicate: "I hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory...
Just prior to a meeting of tennis moguls in the Hotel Vanderbilt, Manhattan, Tilden made two mistakes: 1) He told the tycoons that business prevented his defending his case, which inevitably was inferred to be a plea of guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate...
...standing of Tilden would seem to be: he is out of tennis, knows it; he may seek reinstatement, but an application for reinstatement would be taken by many to be merely a gesture which would give the U. S. L. T. A. the choice of reversing its stand or of remaining adamant, thus making Tilden appear a martyr. Yet it is unlikely that Tilden cares either way: there are thousands to be made in professional tennis, not a little to be made in exploiting his reputation. Thus, without honor, passes the man who for six years dominated world tennis...