Word: tildenized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Getting back into its victorious stride yesterday afternoon on Divinity courts, the University tennis team overwhelmed Lehigh, 9-0. The feature match was Captain Whitbeck's three set victory over Sullivan, the Lehigh number one man. Sullivan, a double victor with Tilden, the national champion, at Winchester last week, defeated Van Ryn, the Princeton ace earlier in the season Whitbeck's victory is particularly notable since he was defeated by Van Ryn last...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...
...Champion Tilden race and chase in taxi cabs...
...indoor championship (TIME, March 1). The crowd loudly announced its pleasure at this denoument which won, by three matches to two, an international team match wherein Vincent Richards and this tall actor had each been beaten individually by U. S. Indoor Champion Rene Lacoste. But Actor-Champion William T. Tilden had little time for curtain calls in the Seventh Regiment Armory. Another public was waiting. What he needed was another taxi, more grease paint and a certain cue in That Smith...
...Tilden does not play the lead. His part is small...