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Professional tennis, as a major sport, really began when William Tatem Tilden -who got $ 1,000 last week for two sets of exhibition doubles as an added attraction to the first Perry-Vines match-made his first tour in 1931. Major promoter of the game until this year has been a onetime boxing trainer named Bill O'Brien. Last week's match marked the first time that the balance of power among the world's ablest tennists was indisputably on the side of the professionals. As such it was an important milestone in the game...
...days when Tilden, Johnston and Richards, first three in the world's tennis ranking, made the thought of serious rivalry for the Davis Cup an absurdity, the U. S. Men's Singles Championship was easily the equal of the All-England Championship at Wimbledon. This year the U. S. celebrated the tenth anniversary of its last Davis Cup victory by failing for the first time even to reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that...
...tennist, Helen Jacobs has a game marked less by brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing...
Singles--Minnich (P) defeated Glidden 6-0, 6-3; Whitman (P) defeated Helmholz 6-1, 6-0; Tilden (P) defeated Bentley 7-5, 3-6, 6-1; Martin (P) defeated Fuld 6-4, 6-2; Rawls (P) defeated Dorson 6-1, 5-7, 6-1; Baker (P) defeated Sullo...
Doubles--Minnich and Whitman (P) defeated Glidden and Roberts 6-4, 6-4; Rawls and Oclson (P) defeated Bentley and Lowman 6-4, 8-6; Tilden and Martin (P) defeated Helmholz and Wallis...