Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They All Want Something-William Tilden serves doubles...
They All Want Something. Again popular William T. ("Bill") Tilden lays aside his whanging racquet. Though he is more graceful than last year, he is not yet viewed with alarm by Broadway's first 20 ranking actors. As family chauffeur, Wade Rawlins (Mr. Tilden) keeps tabs on father's, brother's, sister's peccadillos, so that at the most embarrassing moment he is able to drive off the blackmailers who threaten the socially unstable new-rich. Later he blossoms forth a most satisfactory candidate for the daughter's hand, especially since...
...Bill" Tilden, able Davis Cup defender. Besides him walked his wife. C. C. Pyle then glanced here, there, rose, announced: "Ladies, Gentlemen . . . Mr. Vincent Richards, greatest male tennis player in the world . . . is now a professional." An orchestra blared...
Concerning the technique of Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their...
...Richards had made a stand, if he had put out the sad-eyed Lacoste, the bounding Borotra, he might have become a national figure comparable to Ethan Allen, Commodore Perry or Red Grange. But the momentum of the French was too great; thinking of Tilden's fall, of Johnston's failure, of Williams' calamity, how could he survive alone? So it was Rene Lacoste who faced Jean Borotra in the final...