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There was once a time when the implausible but inspired rhetoric of Tilden's tennis could overwhelm brilliance like Cochet's. But everyone understood that this time had long since passed when Tilden took the centre court at Wimbledon last fortnight. Tilden could still sail unbeaten through many a major tournament, but he had tried unsuccessfully to win at Wimbledon since his last (1921) singles victory there. Last week, after Cochet was beaten, it appeared that Jean Borotra would take care of Tilden. Borotra was playing better than ever before when they met in the semifinals...
Borotra won the first set, 6-0. It was a bitter match and the crowd sided against Tilden. In the second set, Tilden began to find fault with the linesmen, stared suggestively at the umpire, made repeated requests for quiet as the crowd cheered Borotra. Tilden won the second set and lost the third, 4-6. Borotra, saving himself for the last, dropped the fourth with out winning a game. When the score reached 4-all in the last set, Tilden drew Borotra to the net and played his backhand until the Frenchman, reaching for a passing shot, lost...
Allison's serve had been his best weapon against Cochet, as Tilden's had against Borotra. The final too was a test of serves and Tilden has always had the best serve in the world. He took the first set with a burst of aces, 6-3. Allison made a match of it in the second set, but Tilden served five love games to win at 9-7. In the presence of the King, Queen and Prince George, who is President of the all England Club which runs Wimbledon, Tilden won the last set and match...
...this, one of the first of the new $1 books, Racketeer William Tatem Tilden, onetime world's tennis champion, still up among the first and still the dread of the Davis Cup Committee,* has written a novel. Appropriately, it is a tale of tennis, its hero, at least in tennis ability, much like the author...
Says Author Tilden, who ought to know: Wimbledon (England) is "the last word in tennis clubs," Wimbledon's famed centre court the finest in the world. As the reader might suppose, the story moves at a fairly fast pace...