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Like Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., last week tennis's William Tatem Tilden II formally announced his retirement from amateurity. Also like Golfer Jones, he has signed a film contract (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In his open letter to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, said he: "I shall never coach professionally, but I will always be glad to help any person in the tennis ranks whom I care to. . . . The future Davis Cup Team . . . should be built around [George] Lott...
...British Who's Who, issued annually at this time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody was included for the first time, her tennis championships being listed under "recreations." Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, open and amateur golf champion of Britain was left out, as was William Tatem Tilden II. Ernest Hemingway joined the U. S. literary contingent of Sinclair Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...motion pictures, "Raffies", with John Barrymore, and "Tennis", featuring William T. Tilden II, Helen Wills Moody, and Molla Mallory, will be shown; magic, music, and refreshments will also be in order...
...gathered together a few peculiarities of the training table at Dartmouth. Here they are: All the men are required to sip their milk through one straw. "Stan" Yudicky limits himself to a cup of tea and a piece of toast before every game.... "Sandy" Weinner, one of Bill Tilden's tennis proteges and regarded as a coming youngster several years ago is on the Yale backfield squad.... During the halves of all football games played at the Yankee Stadium uniformed men come out and tread down the turf that was dug up during play.... A certain New York football expert...
After Doeg and Tilden the ground becomes increasingly treacherous. TIME OUT has made the following list: no. 3, Shields; no. 4, Sidney Wood; no. 5, Allison; no. 6, Sutter; no. 7, Mangin; no. 8, Lott; no. 9, Vines; and no. 10, Van Ryn. This list omits Mercur, Bell, Hunter, and Coen of last year's elite. Of these Mercur finished up a bad season by being declared a professional, while the other three merely failed to keep pace with the rising tide of youthful stars which made the past season such a significant one in the development of American tennis...