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...open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first U. S. steel of commercial value, directed Cooper Union for 40 years as secretary of its board, helped smash Tammany's Boss Tweed and, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in 1876 led the fight to establish Samuel J. Tilden's claim to the Presidency. Abram Hewitt's career reached its climax in 1886 when, in a rousing personal victory, he beat Candidates Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt to become a great reform Mayor of New York City...
...Cash & Carry") Pyle induced famed Suzanne Lenglen to sign a contract for exhibition matches. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, professional tennis began its tenth season. A crowd of 15,000 watched leggy Ellsworth Vines beat handsome, lethargic Lester Stoefen 6-2, 6-2. William Tatem Tilden II, now in his sixth season as a professional and no longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with this state of affairs by trouncing Berkeley Bell of Texas, 6-1, 6-4. In the most interesting match of the evening, between two young Californians...
...impresario of the game. Since 1931, his tennis tours have grossed $750,000. Among the 14 onetime amateurs he has induced to play for him have been Francis T. Hunter, Vincent Richards, Henri Cochet, George Lott. Major attraction of the O'Brien troupe has always been Tilden who, as a partner in the enterprise, has thus far made $150,000 from the game. Except for national championships, and an itinerant tournament for the world's title won at London last year by Ellsworth Vines, professional tennis has never progressed far outside the U. S. It has developed...
HARVARD PRINCETON White, r.f. l.f., Vruwink Lavietes, l.f. r.f., Macmillan Gray, c. c., Sauter Struck, r.g. l.g., Meyer Snell, l.g. r.g., Tilden...
Professionals. William Tatem Tilden II won the U. S. Singles Championship for the first time in 1920. He won it six times thereafter, made himself indisputably the greatest player of the times, turned pro fessional in 1931. With Ellsworth Vines at home in California, Tilden last week became a U. S. Champion for the tenth time in his career, by beating tireless, brown-faced Karel Kozeluh, 0-6, 6-1. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the final of the ninth National Professional Championship played in the presence of a handful of spectators on clay courts, at Flatbush...