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...years, tennis was a game that was played for the fun of it. Then came Big Bill Tilden. The greatest player the world had ever seen, he made the game a spectacle-a show well worth the price of admission...
...appearance in vaudeville at Broadway's Loew's State Theatre) and Britain's No. 1 woman player, Mary Hardwick, stranded in the U. S. since the outbreak of World War II. But the performer most of the crowd had come to see was Bill Tilden, the Old Master, in his age-defying...
...been playing big-time tennis for 28 years-18 as an amateur, then as a pro. Now, after spending three of the past four years barnstorming around Europe, the Old Master is reappearing on a cross-country U. S. tour, playing opposite Don Budge, who was still unborn when Tilden won his first national (mixed doubles) championship. Last week the Old Master's legs were slow, his timing not so good, but to an admiring gallery he proved that he still has a few aces up his sleeve, showed flashes of bygone brilliance before losing the match...
Most of the top-ranking American players have had work done at the shop at some time or other. Bill Tilden, Vinnic Richards, and Little Bill Johnston used to drop in at Harry Cowles' when they were playing at Longwood. George Lott and Berkeley Bell still send their racquets up here for restringing. And the shop annually receives its order from an old Harvardian, now living in Singapore. All in all, upwards of 75,000 stringing jobs have been turned out at 67a Mt. Auburn Street in the past sixteen years...
...they get a chance: signed a contract to play for pay. She will devote four and a half months to the promotion of Wilson tennis racquets, will play in 50 U. S. cities, starting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Jan. 6. Her fellow troupers: Don Budge, Bill Tilden and a co-ed partner (probably Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 ranking player). Her first year's guarantee: $25,000 and a cut of the gate...