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Show TILDEN IS PRAISED BY BRITISH CRITIC Most Brilliant and Accomplished of Americans. It Is Cut Stroke That "Will Really Make Mess of Other Fellow's Shot if His Game Is Mainly of Orthodox Drive. Discussing the American lawn tennis ten-nis players now in England, a writer In the Tatler says : "Then there is W. T. Tiklen. I believe be-lieve he is the most brilliant and the most accomplished of them all. He Is William T. Tnaen 1 1. n young man in the 20's, and last season sea-son bent Gernld Patterson. If you do not see Mr. Tilden in court you will miss something really worth while. He can hit a ball harder than (lie world's champion; he can stroke it so softly, so caressingly that nothing but the sunniness and genuineness of his game will persuade It to pass the net. Having got that far, the ball just lies down; it refuses to do what a proper ball should. Fortunately, even Mr. Tilden only plays this shot on occasion; otherwise I am sure folk would decline to oppose him. This, of course, is the only difference between tournament championships and tea-party tea-party tennis. At the one the perfect drop shot is a fellow's ambition; nt the other affair it is n horrid lluke. "Mr. Tilden has advanced the science of the game n step farther, lie has gone ahead of all the textbooks. He tells us and demonstrates to us at Queens and Wimbledon, that it is the cut stroke that will, because of the backward spin of the ball, really make a mess of the other fellow's shot if his game is mainly of the orthodox straight or top-spin drive. There are only two things that can be done now. Either we must change our views and that we all know an Englishman never does or we must combine and deport him. This is the home of lawn tennis, Mr. Tilden, and we don't like bothers new-fangled ideas." |