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William Tatem Tilden II had not played Vincent Richards for five years because Richards was a professional and the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association would not countenance official matches between pros and amateurs. But after Tilden turned pro himself (TIME, Jan. 12) a match between them loomed. Shrewdly Promoter Jack Curley, tsar of U. S. professional tennis, built up for this match a lusty Irish ballyhoo startling in tennis* although routine in Mr. Curley's boxing and wrestling enterprises. He had the rivals issue derisive statements about each other which neither would under any circumstances have uttered. Curley further...
...night last week before a crowd which had paid $40,000 to be in Madison Square Garden Tilden put the first ball of the first match in play and Richards returned it. Much fatter than he was in the old days, but still fast, a strong server, and with the possible exception of Borotra the best volleyer in the world, Richards had warmed up for the match by beating John Doeg, national amateur champion, four straight sets on an indoor court. Now, against Tilden, he started coming up to the net, ran out the first set 7-5. This first...
...George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, famed young poloist and gentleman jockey: the Byers Cup golf tournament at Aiken, S. C. C. Grinning, feline Jean Borotra; Tilden-esque Francis Shields; curly-haired Clif- ford Sutter; stumble-footed Berkeley Bell: their easy first-round tennis matches in the National Indoor Singles Championships; in Manhattan...
...Tilden. Last week in Madison Square Garden William Tatem Tilden II played his first tennis as a professional. On the other side' of the net was brown, wiry Karel Kozeluh who has often been professional champion of the world and was runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that...
Last week the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced its annual ranking. From that list was dropped-as everyone knew he was going to be-William Tatem Tilden II who for the last ten years has been ranked No. 1 He had formally renounced all claim to ranking last month when he gave up his amateur standing, turned professional. His friend Francis Townsend Hunter, for three years ranked No. 2, was left out for the same reason. Helen Wills Moody, generally acknowledged to be the greatest woman amateur in the world, was also dropped because, married, she preferred domestic life...