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...must know I admired him when I would sing for him 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Ye gods, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' of all songs! Well, of course, I didn't know the words. I asked Bill Tilden to give me the words to the song and he went as far as 'Oh, say, can you see?' Then he 'ta-da-daed' the rest. What a scholar he is! Finally I had to have the words looked up in a library...
Writing football, and Harvard sports in general, for this paper, is Mr. George Carens. Here again reverence and great humility is needed. It is no simple ordinary task to sit down and write of a newspaperman who has lunch with William T. Tilden 2nd "Big Bill", Mr. Carens would call him, just like that who drops into Mower Hall, and engages in pillow fights with the first-string half back of the University eleven, who wakes up Mr. Bingham at midnight, who knows just what the Harvard stroke told the cox at the 3 3-4 mile mark...
...during a world series has been broadcast to five million listeners, the "77" jersey of Grange viewed from behind by spectator and player alike, the polo mallet of Devercux Milburn, the horseshoes that were first under the wire at Churchill Downs, the bats of Ruth and Gehrig, and Bill Tilden's racket. Harvard students will notice that no college of size is unrepresented but their...
...resume of all Harvard sports during 1926-1927. This film was gotten up by the H. A. A. and will be shown at all Harvard Clubs throughout the country. Following these reels, three more will be shown in slow motion. These are American Lawn Tennis Association films and show Tilden, Cochet and Lacoste in action. In connection with these latter reels, it is hoped that tennis Coach, H. L. Cowles, will speak...
Fighting Lacoste in the 1927 finals, Tilden seemed burned out by the frantic rush and smash of trying to defend the Davis Cup (TIME, Sept. 19). Gloom shrouded experts, patriots. Tilden, dogged, forced Lacoste to long deuce sets. Never a popular champion, the greatest ovation of his history drummed into his ears as he walked off the court loser to Lacoste...