Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-03-04 | Page 11 | Tilden Predicts French Tenni S Reign, in Salt Lake Visit

PREDICTS FRENCH TENNI S S' REIGN IN SALT SAL T LAKE I VISIT 5 BIG BILL CLAIMS INTEREST BOOMING IN RACQUET SPORT Tennis Wizard III With Influenza Says Kozeluh Better Than Richards I By Dy Frank Baker Daher Love the game or dont don't play it That was William T. T Tilden's advice to a group of Salt Lake tennis ent enthusiasts enthusiasts en- en t h u s 1 a s t s this morning as he passed a. a d through Salt Lake en n route to California with K a a. r c 1 Kozeluh S' S S former world pro- pro Iv t cham- cham plon j The great tennis k e layer who re- re 4 forsook the E amateur ranks for j N. N ithe thc profits proms of pro pro- t w wh was wasI I h confined confined to his V berth with 1 but was the k gradous gracious con congenial genial Tilden Bill nm his friends have ha always known him to be and permitted a a small smaIl band to crowd Into his stateroom for a brief brier visit Frances France's chances for victory in the Davis cup play next year ear arc are good with their two aces Henri Henrt Cochet and Jean Borotra still in the game he believes Barring injury or illness to either of oC these stars France is aswell aswell as aswell well endowed with amat amateur ur material as it was last season It was successful sue sue- enough then without the services of La Coste Just now there is no team capable of or really threatening threat threat- ening the reign of or Cochet and BoI Bo Bo- Bo- Bo I He refused l to comment on AmerIcas Amer Amer- ica's leas Davis cup prospects or the po potential potential po- po members of or the team ATTENDANCE RECORDS FALL IN EAST Attendance records were broken at N New w York Baltimore Chicago Bost Boston n Col Columbus and Youngstown during the recent tour he said Tilden Tilden Til Til- TU- TU den believes that shows a greater Interest In Interest In- In interest terest In the game This ace of or tennis pla players ers forgot all about himself himsel in his enthusiastic praise of or Karel K Kozeluh zeluh CzechoSlovakian CzechoSlovakian Czecho- Czecho Slovakian star with wh whom m he has been touring the country Tilden has beaten Kozeluh consistently but Bill BUI made no mention of that In his I remarks Karel is a R. machine He makes no mistakes he said He will never beat himself You simply have to him Tilden rates Kozeluh far superior to Vincent Richards but figures that tha Cochet and a few other would beat him Bill BUl Johnston might have downed him in his prime but but 1 it would have been a a. most interesting match Advised that Salt Lake proposes to concrete some of i its clay courts he said tough 1 He is 15 under contract for some some- pIctures pictures pic pie tures lures with the Metro Metro Metro-Goldwyn- n Ma Mayer Mayet er film company and will be in Hollywood Hollywood- four or live weeks ecks on that project His party parly included I 12 people people peo peo- plc aboard the Los Angeles Limited Uncertain as as' as to his hla return urn route across the country to the t-he east again he expressed the the the-d desire sire to have it ine in include in- in elude clude e Salt Lake a again ain He said I 1 would like to p play y here