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...Haven, Conn., June 7, 1926.--In an interview given to the Yale Daily News today, William T. Tilden 2nd, national lawn tennis champion for six successive years, notes a decided decrease in the quality of college tennis during the last two years...
...difficult to assign any definite reasons or canses for the decline in playing brilliance in college circles," Tilden said, "but I am convinced that it is only a temporary one. Perhaps it is a natural reaction to the intense enthusiasm for the sport in 1920, and the following season which so greatly increased its popularity and the proficiency of the undergraduate players of that time...
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...
...Tilden does not play the lead. His part is small...