1941-04-17 — Page 31

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 17, 1941

TILDEN APPROACHING HIS HALF-CENTURY

POSSESSES A "FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH"

THE MAN HAS KEPT his secret long enough. A committee of citizens should go to William Tatum Tilden, the Twice, and demand that he reveal the location of the Fountain of Youth, writes Henry McLemore.

TENNIS ENTRIES EXTENDED

As only a small number of tennis League entries were received up to yester- day, the closing Gate has been extended to April 23.

Whitney's cotton gin. Too. I want

MACAO

TEAM BEATEN

A scratch hockey team, con- prising players from Central Bri- fish Association, Police and Re- ereto, bent Macao Lyceum 2-0 on the C.B.A. ground yesterday.

The local team first

scored in the converting a

half. Taylor short-corner. Yvanovich broke through in the second half to add the second goal.

The

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CORRESPONDENCE

To The Sports Editor,

"The China Mail".

Sir It has been brought to My attention that Pte. Noble, Middle- sex Regiment, who is the Army lightweight boxing champion 613 this Station, is ready to meet any- one in the Colony who can in ke the weight.

I as holder ог the bante.- featherweight titles, would like to meet Noble over 15 three-minde rounds.

1 can find a promoter to st.ge the Oght and if Noble is interested I shall be glad if he will accept my challenge in your column:

And while I am on the subject of boxing. I am greatly disap- pointed that Len Collins has far failed to sign the contract for a fight with me, although a ple moter has already been found

Sal Aromin

C. Gough (Police), (Recreio); P.

If he wants a

for the good lights, bad lights, they are whereabouts of the spring whose all the same to him. waters guarantee it perpetuni When he reaches my town I broom to the cheeks and an - want to see him. It may be my last!, ceasing bounce in the legs, then chance

local team the Smithsonjanja slug of that Fountain of Youth Lockhart (C.BA.); was. T. the insurance companies should Institute scouts pick him up and water he carries around in his salves (Recreio), pool then resources and meet his put him in a glass cage next to Eli'

And I'll take it straight. (Nomads); J. Heywood (Police). (Recreio), A. Odell (C.B.A.). canteen. demands

Tilden Succeeds

You wust agrer withi me that Wilham Takım Tilden Jaan NEL eceded where Putter de Lean fal

Else how 131 the world are you gong to explain the super natural endurance 1:1 the long- lenged, lantern jawed terme play

from Philadelphia" By all nor mal athletic standards he shooki be wearing congress gaiters, pe

ng with theumy eyes over ·{4*! farles, and undiging 1 130 125S Violent exerene than Chandan hes clippings-

before

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Spintring laies of how he felt when he won the No 1 ranking in 1920) No, he is out banging and barn storminu around the Country with a group of youngsters who were playing drop the handker chief, London Bridge is Falling Down, and making

mud pies when

the world's greatest tennis player.

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Metali play wth Alice Mable in a few werk. that turned my thoughts to bigl Xal The blub sand, ang other things, that Bil war. elebrating huis 48th birthday. wheel, if you! core to remember, as the third time in three years he has cele d brated ha 48th birthday. to like the number 48 reached it, he apparently has de ended to make it his very GWIE This gives him three legs on it

He seems Having

Miss Marble Featured

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Miss Marble was featured the publicity, and I thank 1the company's press agent TS HUSSHIR a good het in not playing up Til-] den as the star of the trotipe. Not an the time of those now bying will tennis lovers see the equal of Big Bill. The Perrys, the Vines, The Budges, and all the rest are marvellous players, but Tilden stands alone.

All you have to do to prove hot he stands alone is to ask where his contemporaries in the golden- twenties are to-day. Bobby Jones is a comfortably plump lawyer in Atlanta, Babe Ruth is an uneoM- tortably fat watcher from the sidelines. Jack Dempsey IS ના heavy-jowled restaurateur in New York. Tommy Hichrock has land down the mallet to becume Wall Streeter. Jim Londos S wrestling punks on the kerosene circuit, Charlie Paddock's inter-1 ests in spikes are limited to those on his newspaper desk. These. and others, were the men who made of the 1920's what Paul Gallico so aptly called the "Golden Decade in sports."

Tilden Carries On

Of them all, only Tilden carries on, and he doesn't carry on in aj doddering, pathetic fushion, either. How many tennis players are there in the world who,could beat him in a one-set match to-day? Budge might, and the redhead is about the only one. And in a five-set, regulation match, there aren't more than half

dozen players you'd care to bet on to lick the Philadelphian. His legs are still spry enough to make him a fine coverer, and what his legs lack is more than made up by what he carries around in that "head of his. As long ago as 1918 Tilden was No. 2 in national rank- ing-23 years-but still he con- tinues to play and play well In- door, courts, clay courts, en-toutcas courts, grass courts, cement courts, |

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