Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tilden, Champion William T. Tilden II lolled through an easy match against Arnold W. Jones of Yale, to take the Men's Rhode Island Championship. Paired with his favorite protége, A. L. ("Sandy") Weiner, he won the men's doubles, defeating S. Howard Voshell and Alfred Chapin...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
...Tilden vs. Richards. Three times in the last fortnight Champion William T. Tilden II has faced blond, pouting Vincent Richards, his protegé, his rival. Three times the lank champion has carried off the victory-first at a benefit match at Forest Hills, L. I., 6-3, 8-6; then for the Metropolitan Court Championship at the New York Tennis Club, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4; for the third time in the finals of the Eastern New York State Championships at New Rochelle...
...large gallery at Hartford saw Tennis Champion William T. Tilden II make his arms into pointed complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric contes was Manuel Alonso, the Spaniard, whose returns went into the net, over the baseline, whose wrist played him false so that Tilden defeated him with ease, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, winning the New England Tennis Championship...
...spot of bare earth about as big as a monocle, in the surface of a grass tennis court, in Orange, N. J., William T. Tilden II, National Lawn Tennis Champion, glared. There were many other such spots in the court, which was not a very good one. During the course of his game, Champion Tilden glared at most of them. Sometimes, indeed, he stopped short and addressed them in terms that involved the names of prominent Biblical characters. The spectators pitied Champion Tilden's trouble with the spots, which assuredly gave an abominable twist to many of the balls...