W. T. Tilden and protege
William ('Bill') Tatem Tilden (1893 - 1953), American tennis player, known as Big Bill'. Dominated international tennis in the first half of the 1920s; won Wimbledon three times and the US Open seven times. Pictured here with his latest protege, Jack Behr, who the editorial describes, was adopted by the Master'. Tilden was a homosexual and served two prison sentences in the 1940s for so-called misdemeanours
Picture No
10502358
Media ID
46037981
Size
4500px x 4546px
(3.0MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 3 October 1931
Date
1931
