Debutants

Tilden. Last week in Madison Square Garden William Tatem Tilden II played his first tennis as a professional. On the other side' of the net was brown, wiry Karel Kozeluh who has often been professional champion of the world and was runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that all Kozeluh could do was wave at it; they saw Tilden outsteady the stone wall with baffling dropshots, cross-court drives. Tilden ran the match out in straight sets, 6-4. 6-2, 6-4. Next evening in Baltimore they played the second of their series in their U. S. tour. Again Tilden won, this time 6-1, 6-2, 6-4, won again in Boston and in Cincinnati. Said he: "When I was an amateur ... it was my idea that the players were under no obligation to the public. . . . But now I go out on the courts realizing that I owe the public a hard fight, good tennis, and a show." Jones. In Atlanta Robert Tyre Jones Jr. made his first public appearance since his retirement from amateur golf. It was a charity exhibition-match on his home course; Jones was playing with burly John Golden against Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith. He seemed to loaf, was tail-ender of the foursome, which ended in a tie. Still to be determined is his professional-amateur status.

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