Sport: Tilden Explodes

The tennis sovereigns are becoming solicitous over their subject's literary activities. Amateur tennis players, they aver, should not gain from the game by authorship. Ceteris verbis, tennis players will probably be forbidden the right of contributing to magazines for money. So swollen is the trade apparently that certain of the stars are supporting themselves thereby. They are commercial athletes if not professional.

Will Tilden immediately exploded. Said he: "Writing is my chosen career. The committee may not know that I began working for newspapers while in my junior year at college and have...

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