Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tilden. (Samuel J. Tilden...
...Tilden, Philadelphia. No. 2-M. Alonso, Fullerton, Pa. No. 3-T. Harada, Boston. No. 4-W. Johnston, San Francisco. No. 5-E. Chandler, San Francisco. No. 6-L. White, Austin, Texas. No. 7-A. Chapin, Springfield, Mass. No. 8-B. Norton, Dallas. No. 9-G. Lott, Chicago. No. 10-G. King, New York...
William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down...
...William T. Tilden, 2nd, fallen idol, erstwhile tennis king, alleged author, who is now an enthusiastic disciple of Thespis, has discovered a striking resemblance between acting and tennis. The similarity for the most part seems to be that a long period of practice, in which technical knowledge is to be accumulated, must be suffered in both great pastimes. He does not point out the likeness of temperament displayed by actresses and by Mile. Lenglen. By Mr. Tilden has made all sorts of court terms apply to the stage so that for a moment he seems to have said something. Continuing...
...wanted to take this sort of a suggestion seriously he could think of a lot of reasons for not liking it--could think of so many that he would finally decide not to take it seriously at all, and he doesn't. But for Mr. Tilden it is a different matter, as he has just left the tennis firmament and is in a new world which needs conquering. He knows what zest a really ambitious tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome...