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...pride & joy is Yvon ("Le Terrible") Petra, 30, a 6-ft.-7 terror. Le Terrible can rifle a serve with all the velocity of Tilden at his best. Petra spent 18 months in a German prison camp with his 6-ft. Davis Cup mate, Pierre Pellizza...
Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
Among the players who use and have used these courts with a great deal of enjoyment, we can name Miss Alice Marble, and Messrs. Donald Budge, William Tilden, Frank Kovacs and many others - even some of the editorial staff of your own magazine...
...CAROL TILDEN MORRIS...
Then Budge & Co. swung some war-rusty arms for $5,000 and the World's Professional Hard Court Championship.* Fred Perry, short on practice, was a semifinal casualty. So was old Bill Tilden, still the master cut-up at 52; he apologized for not reaching a return with: "God, I'm lazy." Organizer Budge was minus his one-time zingy service. But cocksure little Bobby Riggs, sharp from 18 months of playing tennis at various Navy posts in the Pacific, boasted he was "30 points a game better than ever." By way of proving it, he whipped Budge...