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...jerky Long Island R. R. trains, the bumpy, pot-holed Long Island motor roads, were ram-jammed to capacity by thronging tennis enthusiasts crowding toward Forest Hills, L. I., to see if and how anyone would humble elongated William T. Tilden II, of Philadelphia, national champion the past four years, in the 1924 national singles play...
...throngs crushed past tall brick apartments which, flanked by many tennis courts and faced by the concrete stadium, give Forest Hills the appearance of a "tennis factory." They crushed up into the stadium and out among the far-flung courts, watching, sizing up, arguing, betting...
...every field of endeavor - Art, Finance, Law, Education, Politics. Otto H. Kahn is Honorary President. James K. Hackett is Honorary Executive Secretary. Others include W. Vincent Astor, George F. Baker Jr., James M. Beck, David Belasco, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul D. Cravath, John W. Davis, Robert W. De Forest, John Emerson (President of the Actors' Equity Association), Charles Dana Gibson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Thomas W. Lament, Clarence H. Mackay, Frederick William MacMonnies, Frank L. Polk, E. T. Stotesbury, Augustus Thomas, Harry Payne Whitney, George W. Wickersham, Owen D. Young...
Drawings were made for the men's National singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, L. I., and out popped the names of Champion Tilden and Manuel Alonso, sleek Spaniard, for the opening round. Alonso has been known to beat Tilden. Also in Tilden's quarter of the draw were Norman E. Brookes, ancient Australian, Pat O'Hara Wood, and Howard Kinsey, the deadlier of the two Kinsey brothers. Any one of these might conceivably upset the elongated Philadelphian...
...national singles championships begin August 25, at Forest Hills...