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Tall, gaunt William Tatem Tilden II once hurt his finger on his right hand while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...
...young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...singles Jean René Lacoste of France beat Tilden; Jean Borotra of France beat Hunter; Borotra, surprisingly, beat Cochet, but lost to the imperturbable, saturnine, inexorable Lacoste in the finals...
...William Tatem Tilden II, who said last week in Liberty that after 1929 he would play no more international tennis ; Helen Wills, who made no such statement; Francis T. Hunter, Junior Coen. Other U. S. players of high calibre were engaged in a Davis Cup preliminary at Washington...
...they have done before, Lacoste and Borotra beat Tilden and Hunter...