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...politics. The electoral votes in the election of November 1876 were so close and the charges of fraud so numerous that the election was thrown into Congress. Republican leaders knew that the doubtful votes of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana would elect Republican Rutherford B. Hayes over Democrat Samuel Tilden. Spokesmen for the G.O.P. and for Southern Democrats met and made an agreement. The Southern states would throw their electoral votes to Hayes, and his Administration would grant concessions to the South. Among those concessions : 1) troops would be withdrawn, and 2) the states would be permitted to establish their...
...Vincent ("Vinnie") Richards, 50, onetime wonder boy of tennis who teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship at the age of 15 and later won the national professional singles championship four times, was named vice president of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Richards joined Dunlop in 1930, when the company first entered the tennis-equipment field...
...times a bit wistful over the scarcity of Colgate graduates in the arts, there is solace in pointing to the fine record of Colgate men in the more practical graduate work. Especially proud is Colgate of being the only school to have two men in one year win Root-Tilden scholarships to NYU Law School...
...When Wilmer Allison reached the finals only to lose to Bill Tilden...
...general agreement, the golden age of sport occurred somewhere back in the 19205, and the titans of those days-Red Grange, Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, Charley Paddock, Man o' War-have seldom, if ever, been matched. Last week, however, it was clearer than ever that-for track and field sports-another golden age may be just around the comer...