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...Then Wood ran out four games for the match. Refused permission to wear spikes, Czech Roderick Menzel played shoeless. Champion Fred Perry, too indifferent to win love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter who asked him to write his full name: "I'm like Garbo. I just sign my last...
...champion tennist must win the tournament three times. Since the late William A. Larned, who held the championship seven times, won his second Cup in 1910, only one player has actually got his hands on a U. S. Men's Singles Cup. That was William Tatem Tilden, who did it twice, once in 1922, again in 1925, and holds one leg on the present trophy. If Perry succeeds next week where McLoughlin,* Williams, Johnston, Lacoste and Vines failed, he will be the first foreign player who has ever won possession of a U. S. Singles trophy. Moreover, he will...
...discovered his real vocation in Chicago. He began by promoting Wrestler Frank Gotch, progressed by promoting the Johnson-Willard fight, William Jennings Bryan, Caruso, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, the U. S. tour of the Vatican Choir, Georges Carpentier, William Tilden, several dance marathons and a flea circus...
...Jones (H) defeated Tilney (P) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; Flynn (P) defeated Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; Germaine G. Glidden '36, (H) defeated Minnich (P), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4; Sumner Rodman '35 (H) defeated Whitman (P); 6-1, 7-5; Tilden (P) defeated J. Burke Wilkinson '35 (H) 6-4, 6-1; Robertson (H) defeated Oelsney...
Doubles: Whitman and Minnich (P) defeated E. Rotan Sargent '36 and Glidden (H), 6-2, 6-2; Tilden and Flynn (P) defeated Herbert S. Wallis '36 and Robert L. Bentley, II '36 (H), 9-11, 7-5, 6-3; Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35 and Rodman (H) defeated Goodwin and Bender...