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...Southern Californians, the first 8,000 miles of barnstorming by Bobby Riggs and Big Jake Kramer didn't count. The real test was how well they did at home (both come from the Los Angeles area). Last week in Los Angeles, 6,529 jurors, including Donald Budge, Bill Tilden, the Bogarts and the Durochers, watched cocky little Bobby Riggs tear into Big Jake...
...Tilden v. the Machine. No man ever scared him, but Rene Lacoste did give him the jitters: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit. . . often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket at him, or hit him over the head with...
...Tilden v. the Women. Big Bill is cattiest about the game's two greatest women-Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. On Lenglen: "Her costume struck me as a cross between a prima donna's and that of a street walker." On Wills: "I regard her as the coldest, most self-centered, most ruthless champion ever known to tennis...
...current object of Tilden's dislike is Big Jake Kramer, whose disrespect for ex-greats is "apparently quite typical of modern youth in many fields." (Kramer says that Tilden dislikes him because, when Jake was 17, he blasted Tilden off the court in a practice match.) Tilden rates Bobby Riggs today's best player...
...Bill Tilden's 6 ft. 1½ in. frame is bowed, his grey hair shaggy, and he reaches for his glasses before he can read a line. But he is anxious to make another pro tour, if "the public will accept me." In Hollywood last week, he shuttled from court to court giving tennis lessons to such high-paying movie clients as Mrs. Charles (Oona O'Neill) Chaplin, the Joseph Cottens, the David Selznicks. Said he: "There's a lot of money here for anyone who can teach the game...