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Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 26--The Belgium Tennis Federation tonight announced that William Tilden H, professional court star, in among players on its list of "undesirables." Tilden is scheduled to play a series of exhibition matches in Brussels, starting December...
...Lawn Tennis Association, William O'Brien is Public Enemy No. 1. For the past four years U.S.L.T.A. has watched Mr. O'Brien woo away from amateurism the cream of the nation's tennis crop. Last year his prize catch was Ellsworth Vines. With Vines, William Tilden, Bruce Barnes and Vincent Richards, Promoter O'Brien played 75 towns and cities, taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven...
...baseball, became an accountant, was rejected by the Army because of poor eyesight, squeaked through a second examination to become the champion machine-gun marksman of the Tenth Division. After the War he studied osteopathy, trained Harry Greb, the French Davis Cup team, Suzanne Lenglen, Red Grange, Richards, Hunter, Tilden...
...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...
Only setback to the headlong Long week came from the U. S. Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...