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GLORY'S NET--William T. Tilden 2nd-- Doubleday, Doran ($1.00).

In this, one of the first of the new $1 books, Racketeer William Tatem Tilden, onetime world's tennis champion, still up among the first and still the dread of the Davis Cup Committee,* has written a novel. Appropriately, it is a tale of tennis, its hero, at least in tennis ability, much like the author.

David Cooper, an unknown from the Middle West, leaps into fame overnight by winning the national championship at Forest Hills. More, he leaps into a good job, for Mr. Harker, genial villain of the piece, is not only a member of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association's executive committee but has a penchant for employing tennis champions: he seems to think it helps him in his business. For a long time David sees nothing wrong with the picture. Mr. Harker pays him to sell bonds but insists on his playing in all the big U. S. and European tournaments. David comes up to expectations, beats the best of them, recaptures the Davis Cup from France almost singlehanded, goes on from glory to glory. Finally, when his sensible little wife has left him, after due warning, when Adventuress Arline Harker almost has the grips on him, when he has become the tennis employee (by inference) of the U. S. L. T. A., David wakes up, tells all concerned he will have nothing more to do with them, leaves professional amateur tennis, returns to honesty and his sensible little wife.

Says Author Tilden, who ought to know: Wimbledon (England) is "the last word in tennis clubs," Wimbledon's famed centre court the finest in the world. As the reader might suppose, the story moves at a fairly fast pace.

*Because of his temperament, his technical infringements of U. S. L. T. A. amateur rules, his ingenuity in defending his actions, in putting the U. S. L. T. A. in an unpopular light.

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