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William Tatem Tilden, captain of the U. S. Davis Cup forces, gave up his role in The Buzzard (drama) to start a training camp for Davis Cup players at Augusta...
...them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There was a rumor that famed Tennis Player William Tatem Tilden Jr. would appear in The Buzzard. He went off to play tennis instead...
Hellen Wills sells doubtful sketches. Tilden alternates between the newspaper and the stage. John Doeg leaves college for the Georgia Mecca of the ranking tennis players, and Dr. Hardy, President of the California Lawn Tennis Association, declares that the game is "going to make bums out of our tennis players." Combined with these evidences of dubious amateurism is the announcement of the United States Association to the effect that $45,000, a record amount, will be distributed pro rata to district bodies this year...
...Tilden, Hunter, Lott, and Chandler, will make up this country's Davis Cup team, Coach Cowles believes. Tilden and Hunter would play in the doubles together, and Lott would aid Tilden in the singles. Chandler is the problem in the make-up of this year's team, but, if he can return to the form he displayed two years ago. Coach Cowles thinks that he will have no trouble in making the team. When questioned as to the chances of Hennessey, Van Ryan, Jones and Doeg, Coach Cowles shook his head, and said that all played a good game...
...Lawn Tennis Association came out of conference in Chicago with the scroll of honor for 1927. There was little question about the head man and leading lady. As he has done since 1920 William T. Tilden, 2nd, placed first in the ranking list of U. S. tournament tennis players. Helen Wills, struck from the 1926 list by appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans...