TRADE TIE-UP IN TENNIS
.MKl.HOI'ISXK, .Tiin. 30. Monibers of Fnited Ktates Davis Cup feam still in Australia have been asked by ihe Fnited Ktates Lawn Tennis Assoeiation lo retern inimediately. The Aust rtilitin Assoeiation eouneil diseussed ti eable from the president of the Fnited Ktates Assoeitit ion, Mr. Halcombe Ward, to Mullov, Taibert and Brown. " You have had sufficient tournainent plav and we would like you to return iinniediatelv. Do not aeeept invitations to play in Fg.vpt, Franee or anv oi her eountries, " he said. The viee-president of the Australian Assoeiation, Mr. 11. A. Pitt, said that it was time for a frank diseussion on the grip wliieh sporting goods lirms had 011 the game. It wtis well-known that exliibition matehes organised -round -the eountry were designed to promote the saies of sporting goods. Exhibition matehes in Queensland were approved uhtil February 1. Mr. T. B. Robinson said the United - Ktates Assoeiation should be advised that tlie Ameriean players had reniained in Australia under a definite trade tie-up. 6 Taibert stated in Bathurst that he and Mttlloy would fly to Xew Zealand i on Monday for exliibition matehes : tliere and would then return to Aineri- I .ea, 1
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1947, Page 5
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