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William Tatem Tilden has not been popular in France. A year ago at the St. Cloud tournament, the crowd disliked his patronizing attitude, his brusque commands to the ball boys; one section of the stands hissed when he criticized a lineman's decision. But when Rene Lacoste defeated Tilden in the finest tennis ever seen on the Continent, Frenchmen went to the cafes content...
Later, as everyone knows, Tilden was drubbed by both Lacoste and Cochet, in England and the U. S. France captured the Davis Cup as well as every important singles championship...
Last week, at the Hotel Carlton in Paris, occurred an incident that made Tilden almost popular among the Gauls. Drawings for the Davis Cup interzone finals between Italy and the U. S. were about to be held. "Where is Tilden?" said a French official, "we cannot go on with the draw unless the American captain is present...
...program of the Southwest High School of K. C., Mo. The graduating class of 1928 had as its President, E. Elliott Norquist, National Oratorical Finalist and winner of 2nd place at Washington, D. C. Its vice president was Junior Coen, member of the Davis Cup team, and pronounced by Tilden the greatest player for his age the world has ever seen...
While a wind from the Lake blew little spirals of grey dust across the clay courts of the Chicago Town and Tennis Club William Tatem Tilden II served balls that traveled like gunshots toward a little figure hunched far back of the opposite baseline. The crashing serves generally came back gently, accurately; the little figure, Tamio Abe, champion of Japan, moved quickly from side to side, rarely forward-he knew he couldn't take the net against Tilden's drives, that the best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults...