Tennis veteran has strong opinions, but a soft heart for the
game May 25,2007 00:00 by Jerry Magee  You must remember this:
Tom Brown acted properly when he chose to put the title of his
book, "As Tom Goes By," in the present tense. At 84, his romance
with tennis is continuing.  As he notes in the foreword, " ...
the sentimental things apply."  They do for Brown, who in the
work he has done with Lee Tyler, his longtime female companion,
relives another time in tennis, when there was no money in the
game, men wore long pants, and Brown was the handsome chap from
San Francisco who would come off the public courts of Golden
Gate Park and make a name for himself.  In 1946, Brown, then 23,
was both the gentlemen's doubles (with Jack Kramer) and mixed
doubles (with Louise Brough) champion at Wimbledon. That year he
was a singles finalist to Kramer in what then were the U.S.
Championships. The following year at Wimbledon, he was a singles
finalist, again to Kramer.  Ask him how many years he has stayed
away from ten