People: Jan. 24, 1927

Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down.'

" Helen Wills, onetime (1923-25) U....

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