Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Tatem Tilden has not been popular in France. A year ago at the St. Cloud tournament, the crowd disliked his patronizing attitude, his brusque commands to the ball boys; one section of the stands hissed when he criticized a lineman's decision. But when Rene Lacoste defeated Tilden in the finest tennis ever seen on the Continent, Frenchmen went to the cafes content...
...program of the Southwest High School of K. C., Mo. The graduating class of 1928 had as its President, E. Elliott Norquist, National Oratorical Finalist and winner of 2nd place at Washington, D. C. Its vice president was Junior Coen, member of the Davis Cup team, and pronounced by Tilden the greatest player for his age the world has ever seen...
After a final and as ever victorious verbal struggle with the Davis Cup committee, Big Bill Tilden and his fellow tennis warriors have sailed to engage in the first Davis Cup matches an American team has played away from home for many years. What the chances are for Tilden, Lott, Hennessey, Hunter and Coen to ensure next year's contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe...
While a wind from the Lake blew little spirals of grey dust across the clay courts of the Chicago Town and Tennis Club William Tatem Tilden II served balls that traveled like gunshots toward a little figure hunched far back of the opposite baseline. The crashing serves generally came back gently, accurately; the little figure, Tamio Abe, champion of Japan, moved quickly from side to side, rarely forward-he knew he couldn't take the net against Tilden's drives, that the best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults...
Wrote Mr. Tilden last week: "I have never played more tennis in three days in my life ... a new sensation . . . real amateur sport ... for the game's sake . . . personality ... a lesson...