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Fierce summer warfare broke out anew last week in the sea angle, between Long Island and New Jersey, which forms the entrance to New York Harbor. An enemy fleet viciously attacked U. S. land defenses at Forts Hancock and Tilden and was finally repulsed, but only after lower Manhattan, the bridges across the East River, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, great ammunition dumps at the Jersey City railheads had been laid in ruins. The invading fleet in this Army-Navy war game was commanded by Rear Admiral William Carey Cole, U. S. N. Aged 61, slender, handsome, rather English in manner...
...person of William Tatem Tilden, II., playing in what was advertised as his last international match, made a small bet with Player Henri Cochet of France and rushed into the first singles match with a brave effort at speed and power. Player Cochet won the bet in precisely 50 minutes...
...gallery sat comfortably in shirtsleeves. . . . Dr. Daniel Prenn stopping in the middle of his match with Francis T. Hunter to chase away an annoying yellow butterfly. . . . Hunter gleefully flinging his racket across the courts after he took the final game from Dr. Prenn. . . . Hans Moldenhauer politely catching William Tatem Tilden's serve in his hand after an erring referee had called "out" to the previous Tilden service. . . . Patriotic Germans groaning loudly while Doubles-Partners Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn raced through three sets after dropping the first to the Moldenhauer-Prenn combination. . . . Bathers in a nearby lake wondering...
...times' sake, and because such victories as were hers were more bitterly earned, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy more than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion...
William Tatem Tilden II, 36, was defeated last week. Four games he won in the first set, only one in the second. In the third Henri Cochet was leading him 5-1. Suddenly, for a moment, returned the Tilden touch. His serves streaked into the court, changed direction when they struck, bounded far out of reach. His drives skimmed the net, his kills were invincible. But when the score was 5 to 5, Tilden's last fling was over. Valiantly he fought but Cochet took the next two games, the match...