Sport: Money Men

As an amateur, each in his day had been king. Now, as professionals, everybody still wanted to be king. It took amateur tennis' top-drawer West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, N.Y. to get the pros all together last week. The royal dozen of pro tennis and some 40 smaller fry had it out at Forest Hills in the19th national professional tennis championship, and the first one that ever really amounted to anything.

First of the ex-kings to fall was long-faced, impetuous Bill Tilden, whose tennis was good for a 53-year-old but not good enough...

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