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...College football today is a professional sport, because it commercializes the collective ability of the players, although not the individual," said William T. Tilden 2nd, tennis champion of this country for the past five years, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently...
...Tilden now changed his subject to that of tennis, of which he is often hailed as the greatest exponent of all time. "The college tennis star of today cannot make the grade in the tennis championships," he said. "Of course there have been a few, but the competition is getting too keen. In fact, in all sports today, there is a tendency toward the thirties and forties in the ages of the stars, with the exception of golf. Golf used to be called the 'old man's game,' but now it is coming to be perhaps the most youthful...
...days. The greater a man is, the sooner he may fall. And great men, especially in athletics are just curiosities. The public wants to see them once, and that's usually all. We may take grange's recent visit to Boston as a good example of that. Bill Tilden and Jack Dempsey had no success in the movies, and neither will Grange, unless he should prove to be an exceptionally good actor...
...reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside sheet of the Tampa Morning Tribune, a famed baseball manager turned his valorous name to shrewd and blatant...
...management of the Union has announced that tonight at 7.30 o'clock the performance will again be given. Coach Cowles of the University tennis team will be present to explain the line points of the slow-motion pictures of Tilden, Johnston, Richard, and Williams...