Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight, there was furious activity on the Thacher campus. Boys and girls, women and William Tatem Tilden II were playing and watching tennis from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. It was an annual affair; in previous years Maurice E. ("Red Comet'') McLaughlin, William ("Little Bill") Johnston, Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy (who won the women's singles for the eleventh time), and many another little Sutton and Bundy had battled for the Ojai challenge cups...
...every department of the game. The ranking player showed flashes of the brilliant form which has assured him a place on the Davis Cup squads of the past several years. Early this spring, Chandler participated in the Davis Cup tryouts held in Georgia, under the leadership of W. T. Tilden H; he returned from the midst of the tournament when his studies called him back to the Law School
...gringo in question was Robert Kinsey, of U. S. birth, but a member of the Mexican Davis Cup Team. His play last week in the tennis matches against the U. S. was indifferent, almost sour. William Tatem Tilden II ran him razzle-frazzle in three straight sets. That was the beginning of a clean sweep for the U. S. at Mexico City. John Hennessy conquered Ricardo Tapia, schoolboy, and later, with less trouble, Gringo Kinsey. Wilmer Allison won a tough match from Alfonso Unda. In the doubles, Captain Tilden and Arnold N. Jones disposed of Unda and Kinsey...
...think we can beat Mexico," said William Tatem Tilden, once a member of a Davis Cup team that could beat anything in the world, as he arrived with his young men in Mexico City...
William Tatem Tilden II, 35, veteran of eight Davis Cup campaigns, sometime actor...