Sport: Amateur Tilden

William Tatem Tilden II is an amateur again. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, under the friendly presidency of Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, voted last week in Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches.

Surprising even himself, probably, the heretofore consistently defiant Bad Boy of Tennis paved the way for his...

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