Word: tilden
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...they get a chance: signed a contract to play for pay. She will devote four and a half months to the promotion of Wilson tennis racquets, will play in 50 U. S. cities, starting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Jan. 6. Her fellow troupers: Don Budge, Bill Tilden and a co-ed partner (probably Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 ranking player). Her first year's guarantee: $25,000 and a cut of the gate...
Last week the 14th annual tournament of the Professional Tennis Association, staged at Chicago's Town & Tennis Club, proceeded with professional smoothness. Surviving the quarter-finals were Barnstormers Don Budge (playing in his first pro tournament), Fred Perry (1938 champion), Big Bill Tilden (winner in 1931, the year he turned pro), John Nogrady, a young upstart from Montclair, N. J. Nogrady, a teaching pro, would probably have been eliminated earlier had Barnstormer Ellsworth Vines, defending champion, been among the contestants. Vines, who had been playing golf all summer, had not entered the tournament...
...semifinals, while Perry disposed of Nogrady, Budge put Tilden's 47-year-old legs through a creaking workout before beating him 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Then, to no one's surprise, Budge defeated Perry (6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3) to become the professional champion of the U. S. Prize...
...British chemist named Greville Williams broke down natural rubber by distillation, obtained a hydrocarbon compound called isoprene. In 1882 William Tilden, also of Britain, made isoprene by .racking turpentine vapor in a red-hot tube...
...William T. Tilden. ''for services...