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...physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...
...TILDEN, ON VERGE OF DEFEAT, RALLIES MAGNIFICENTLY?TILDEN COMES BACK FROM BRINK...
...match, like the tragedies of some of the playwrights who preceded Shakespeare, was stretched over five acts or sets, the climax coming where it properly should ?toward the end of the third. Tilden employed a formula already made familiar to the .public in others of his superbly improvised dramas. He began with the artifice of making it appear that he was playing his regular game and that Lacoste was rising to stupendous heights. The little Frenchman, never a brilliant player, was at first so appalled to find himself facing the champion that Tilden had to retard his own strokes...
...reviewed the play next morning unanimously agreed that the third set was perhaps the most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...
Champion William Tilden gave a lesson to his partner, 17-year old "Sandy" Weiner. Griffin and Johnston profited by the lesson, took the match...