Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That evening a telegram came from her father advising her to stop playing tennis for three months. A Manhattan doctor examined her, emphasized this counsel, and as if everything had been settled the West Side Tennis Club confirmed the rumor that she would not defend her title this year Tilden. In the East-West team matches at Forest Hills, Tilden beat William M. ("Little Bill") Johnston, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. It was a dull match. Johnston's game did not seem impressive, but then it has rarely seemed impressive against Tilden these last several years...
...Richards-Tilden. Mrs. Vincent Richards was in a pet. It was her birthday and it seemed to her that, even if he was up against long Will Tilden in the final of the Metropolitan grass court championship, her blond, child-faced young husband might have remembered to get her some keepsake. On the way out to the Crescent Athletic Club courts in Brooklyn, she told him as much, calmly but with frigid point...
...Here," he said, giving her "Rattlesnake," the bronze Indian's head executed by the late Artist Frederick Remington (valued at $3,500), which has stood since 1921 as the Metropolitan grass court trophy. Richards had won it twice before, and now, after a turbulent scene with long Will Tilden, it was his forever. Mrs. Richards was her happy self once more and they went gaily off for a birthday dinner...
...long Will Tilden, these five years kingpin of terrestrial tennis, there was little gaiety in him that evening. It was the third successive time this summer that Richards had trounced him. In the match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now listless. After a week of brilliance, he had had a sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes...
...Tilden's most visible means of livelihood in recent months has been acting small parts in That Smith Boy and other plays...