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| Picture No | 10502358 |
| Date | 1931 |
| Description | W. T. Tilden and protege |
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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'.
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| Source | Photograph in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 3 October 1931 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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