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Last week at the National Singles Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, Long Island, William T. Tilden II tried for a record. He tried to match William A. Larned's list of seven national championships. Tilden has six. Last year Henri Cochet of France robbed him of his chance to tie R. D. Sears's record, seven successive championships; Rene Lacoste be- came 1926 champion...
...made. These pictures were taken under the auspices of the Harvard Athletic Association and will be shown in the Harvard Clubs throughout the United States. In addition to these pictures, an attempt is being made to secure the three reels of regular and slow motion pictures of Tilden, Johnson, and Lacoste which were shown here with great success last spring...
...Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, the contest for the famed Davis Cup stood even with two matches for the U. S. and two for France after William T. Tilden II had lost to Rene Lacoste 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Out ran William Johnston, famed Davis Cup defender, only hope of the U. S. team. He would show that U. S. stamina could whip French flabbiness...
...other bracket of the semi-finals Tilden and Hunter were careless in the first set, lost it 5-7 to John Hennessey, Indianapolis, and Lucien Williams, Chicago. Tilden and Hunter tightened up, ran the match out easily...
...Tilden and Hunter then took the National Championship: 10-8, 6-3, 6-3. Tilden served eight aces; Hunter, one; Williams, one; Johnson, none. Tilden last won a doubles title in 1923 (with Brian Norton). Last year Williams and the then amateur Vincent Richards beat Tilden & A. H. Chapin in the finals...