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Life on a California prison farm was a humbling experience for Big Bill Tilden. During his 7½ months in jail (for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor") he worked in the kitchen scouring pots & pans, waited on table, and worked up to storekeeper ("a very responsible post"). But his prison term hadn't really changed him. He had just published a book, and in it he was still the arrogant and unblushing showoff...
...cornerstone of Kramer's championship game is confidence. In varying degrees all champions must have a deep belief in themselves. Henri Cochet and Fred Perry had plenty of it; Tilden, the prissy virtuoso, had it to an insolent degree. It is the same quality that enabled Babe Ruth to point to the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field during one World Series game and slam the most famed home run of his career...
...tennis public would like Kramer better if he were more of a showman. They like the melodramatics of a Tilden, the antics of a beret-bearing Borotra, the Cockney ping-pongery of a Perry. Kramer makes his "big game" look too easy...
...looked at me. ... I guess both of us figured the other was pretty good in his own line." Said London's Daily Telegraph of Big Jake: "The only one of the postwar generation who could have lived in the company of such great champions as Lacoste and Tilden...
...Birmingham, they drew 1,200 customers (400 more than the pro troupe of Tilden, Budge & Co. drew last year). Early in the tour, Sarah showed the effect of being out of competition a year. She won only four of the first twelve matches, was unable to match Pauline's energetic retrieving and superlative backhand. But business was good and both girls had fun. In a Buick convertible, their only big capital investment for the tour, they drove from Houston to Milwaukee to Chicago to Kalamazoo...