OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

TENNIS LADDER. Wallis Myers "Places" The World's Best. COCHET ON TOP BUNG. (Australian and S.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September IS. Wallis Myers, in the "Daily Telegraph," places the international tennis players in the following order:—Cochet, Lacoste, Tilden, Hunter, Berotra, Lott, Austin, Hennessey, de Morpurgo, Hawkes. Australia baa a brilliant recruit in Crawford and a fine doubles in Hopman. Crawford's strokes are more engaging than many first-rate tennis players, but he lacks the will to co-ordinate them. He wished that England had two players like them as a spearhead. The first women's ten are rated as follows: —Misses H. Wills, de Alvarez, Akhurst, Bennett, Watson, Ryan, Aussem, Baouan, Jacobs, and Boyd. FINISHED ! Suzanne Never Wants To See Racquet Again. REINSTATEMENT RUMOUR. (Australian and 3T.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 2 p.m.) PARIS, September 18. "I shall never play tennis again, either as an amateur or a professional. I have not touched a racquet for months

and never want to see one again. , ' This was Suzanne Lenglen's reply when questioned in reference to Press reports that she intended to seek reinstatement as an amateur.

WALK MILLER'S DEATH.

SUGGESTION OF MURDER. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10.30 ajn.) ' NEW YORK, September 18. An official investigation has begun l into the death of Walk Miller, manager for Billie Grime the boxer, whose body was found at Eddyville, his training camp, with bullets in the head and heart.

The further inquiry was started following an announcement by physicians that there were two bullets in the head of Grime's manager, either one of which was sufficient to have caused death before the other shot was fired. Friends of Miller are unable to advance a reason for the presumption of murder and declare that Miller was well known and popular. "BOXING BRUTAL. , * WHY TUNNEY EETIRBD. PARIS, September 14. "Boxing is a brutal sport; that !£■ why I abandoned it," said Gene Tunney, ex-world heavy-weight, champion, who, when at luncheon at the American Club, was compelled to discard hi 3 incognito, which he had hitherto preserved in Paris. **But a boxer may be quite as much a gentleman as a politician," he added. Tunney denied the existence of a Franco-German misunderstanding. "If France was again involved in war," he said, "thousands of Americans would come to her aid, even if the United States Government refused."