OCR Text |
Show j "' ' " ' TILDEN K ONE OF NET MARVELS j BILL 111,3)1 V THINKING tennis has place J William Wil-liam T. Tllden amoiij the world's supcr-ureata. Itfentftl tt-nnts Is hl garni' lin kt, m i ?! cool clay court arc only ills nmtorlal tooe. When you'ro opposed to Tllden you r.- (-nfTAgtsd In a match of wits not mere tennis carne About 12 y.-ars ago a nilm boy ran balls In the Davis cup match b:-LwceD b:-LwceD W. A. Larr.ed nd J. C. Parke ' i b6 Qarm&ntOWU Cricket club In I'hiladclphla. A few years Inter that same boy went to Wimbledon, Enfr-land. Enfr-land. and defeated the very same Parko while royalty looked on. I Today Bill Tllden Is on hl8 waj I to dcf'-ndlng his third successive' I i ham pionshlp. He har disposed of all the preliminary prelim-inary formalities, ulth the exception ' of defeating Wt'.llaai Johnston of '""ttllfornla and this rnuy be attended .to during national championship w k itself, beginning: Bepftember 8. Tllden Is all the more a great player for being a eery generous ono, as shown In his tutoring of the young I marvel, Vincent Illchards. who share! I honors with Uu? lit 1 1 In defending the I Davis cup. Another of his proteges is little Sandy Welner. who. BUI hopes, will be as great or greater than Richards himself By reason of this wlllingnoss to help others, Tllden may be said to , havo founded a school of tennis of his ; own, so that his game will live after ! him "Some people," he says, "attribute my success to my style of servl". cithers give the credit to my back-band. back-band. But the truth Is. I haven't a stroke that Isn't done better by other players. "What I do Is to co-ordinate all my strokes and select a particular style, and rny Judgment In the use of these strokes Is what makes my game. UTI KM V .M SPF.r.P "I have studied tennis tdnce I was 6 years old. For 20 years I plodded along as an ordinary player Then my experln e began to tell. "It a a science. " never try' to figure out a game beforehand. Freak services are useless. "Be accurate, and then put on speed." |