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Mary Garden, opera star: " I returned from Europe. Said I: 'I adore Bill Tilden [W. T. Tilden, II, national tennis champion], and he insists that I shall play in a match with him. . . Billy is a dear...
...Forest Hills, L. I., only a tennis net separated the East and the West. With the intersectional title at stake, Williams, Tilden, Johnson, Richards of the East successfully bombarded Johnston, Griffin, the two Kinseys in singles. Johnston and Griffin "took the West's one point in doubles play against Williams and Washburn (Harvard graduates). Match score...
...Hollywood which backs Tilden against a native California...
National Singles. Only 57 minutes were required by national singles champion William T. Tilden, II, to defend his title from world's singles champion William M. Johnston in a disappointing straight-set final at the Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Tilden was at top form; Johnston, beaten before he stepped onto the turf. It was Tilden's fourth successive title. Score...
Virtually every day of the tournament there was an exchange of telegrams between Tilden and Miss Pola Negri, emotional film star, in Hollywood. Just before his crowning triumph Tilden read a long wire from Miss Negri that informed him the " entire Hollywood colony " was backing him against the Californian...