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daylight on a Beverly Hills street while he was
attempting to molest a minor. The policeman, reluc-
tant to arrest Tilden because of his prominence and
doubtful of his own eyes, asked Tilden to drive the
boy home.

Instead Tilden drove around the corner and began
his manual manipulation of the boy all over again.
This time the officer hauled him off to jail. :

Even after serving a term and enduring the em-
barrassment of seeing newspapers around the world
mourn the disgrace of a champion, Tilden’s homo-
sexual impulses led him to commit another offense—
again with a minor.

Once more he was sent to prison. He emerged
some months later, a broken, stooped old man. He
lived the rest of his few years in comparative ob-
scurity. Newspapers mercifully overlooked the two
charges of perversion and impairing the morals of
a minor in their obituaries and permitted the sports
writers to dwell on his feats at tennis.

That a hero of Bill Tilden’s dimensions should
have revealed himself late in life as an active homo-
sexual came as no surprise to psychiatrists who
long have detected an affinity between sportsmen
and homosexuality.

They believe it particularly affects those who par-

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