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California. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts met for Southern California honors. Tilden of Philadelphia smote Chapin of Springfield hip and thigh, though his own thigh and ankle ached from a stumble. Collegiate. Onto the courts at Eastbourne, England, strolled several young Oxonians, several young Cantabs. They undid their white knitted mufflers, slid out of their gay striped blazers. They politely volleyed with their guests-several young Elis, several young "Red Bellies" (Harvards). They conveniently trounced their guests, 15 matches to 6, politely strolled in to tea. These matches are now an annual occurrence...
...Indianapolis, Ind., only 43 minutes were required by elongated by W. T. Tilden II, of Philadelphia, to subdue Brian I. C. Norton in his semi-final match of the National Clay court championship. The title was Tilden's for a third successive year when he followed up that performance with smashes that flattened Harvey Snodgrass, of Los Angeles...
Proceeding to Glencoe, Ill., Tilden thundered into the finals of that State's title-play, descended upon Howard Kinsey, flattened...
...Boston, high ranking tennis exponents competed for the Longwood Bowl, a trophy never won by second raters. Play finished, an engraver was instructed to carve, in close proximity to "W. M. Johnston," "W. T. Tilden II.," "R. N. Williams," the unfamiliar name of Fritz Mercur, of Philadelphia, undergraduate of Lehigh University. Twelve years ago the Longwood spectators blinked at the dazzling play of a tall young Californian, until then unheralded, unsung. The engraver's instructions that summer were "Maurice Mc-Laughlin...
...Indianapolis, two other Australian Davis Cup men, Brian I. C. Norton and Gerald Patterson (team captain) succumbed in turn to John Hennessey, "Indianapolis cyclone." The event was a rain-soaked Western championship, top honors in which the "cyclone" did not quite sweep away from towering Will Tilden, national champion...