1941-04-17 — Page 47

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.

the good lights, bad lights, they are

all the same to him

If he wants a pie

for wherengouts of the spring whose waters guarantee

perpetual bloom to the cheeks and an un- ceasing bounce in the legs. then the insurance companies should pool their resources and meet his demands.

Tilden Succeeds

You mus1 agree with me that Walloon Tatum Tikiem has s cemiled where Pune de Leon fark-

Else how in the world are you going to explan the super natural endurance

the long-

legged, lantern jawed tennes play - et from Philadelphia" By all t mal sthletre standard- he should be wearing congress Kivitets, pres ng with rheuniy eyes riter spee tacles, and indulging 12 me more violent exeLLISE bon #wambang his chippings

But where 15 the man In Some quiet retreat, spinning tales of how he felt when he won the No 1 ranking in 1920 No, he is cut banging and barn &torming around the country with a group of youngriers who were playing drop the handker. chief, London Bridge Falling Down, and making mud pies

when h

Was 17

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wakt play with Alee Marble in a few weeks. that turned my thoughts to bigi Bill The blurb aid, anong other! things. that Bill w. pelebrating Buy 48th birthday, which, if you

remember Is the third time in three years he has rele brated his 48th birthday. He seems to like the number 48

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reached it, he apparently has de- cided to make of lus Very Own. This gives him three legs on it.

Miss Marble Featured

Miss Marble was featured

the publicity, and I think the company's press agent is missing a good het in not playing up Til- den as the star of the troupe. Not in the time of those now living 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 how 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 uncom- fortably fat watcher fruth the sidelines. Jack Dempsey is El heavy-jowled restaurateur in New York, Tommy Hitchcock has laid down the mallet to) become Wall Streetes. Jim Lundos wrestling punks on the kerosene circuit. Charlie Paddock's inter- ests in spikes are limited to those on his newspaper desk. These, and others. were the men who inade 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 a doddering, pathetic fashion, either. How many tennis players arc there in the world who could bent him in a one-set match to-day? Budge might, and the redhead is about the only one. And in a five-sel, regulation match, there aren't more than half П 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, grans courts, cement courts,

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TENNIS ENTRIES EXTENDED

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

MACAO

TEAM BEATEN

A scratch hockey team, com- prising players from Central Bri- tish Association, Police and Re- creio, beat Macao Lyceum 2-0 on the C.B.A. ground yesterday.

The local team scored in the first half, Taylor converting a short-corner. Yvanovich broke through in the second half to add the second goal.

When he reaches my town

Whitney's cotton gin. Too, I want want to see him. It may be my last

a slug of that Fountain of Youth chance before the Smithsonian Institute scouts pick him up and water he carries around in his put him in a glass cage next to Eli canteen. And I'll take it straight. (Nomads); J. Heywood (Police),

The Jocal team Lockhart (C.B.A.); salves (Recreio),

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