TENNIS QUARREL ENDED
TILbW-AND THE TOURNAMENT. SJET COMMITTEE. (Mlrlß -PIIBS ASSOCIATION.—COPIEIOHI.) '-P '*.';. (BTDNEI SUM CABLg.) (Received 28th January, 1 p.m.')., YORK,. 27th January;. TKa*:qn~arrel between W. T. Tilden and the Jetihia; Tournament Committee has beenj.amicably settled. E^tly'.last month cable advice was Tecely^.'t? tbe effect that as a', result of ajiipjßßn: breach between W. T. Tilden and -Harold Hackett, a member of the American'Davis Cup Committee, in ',whiclw-.Tilden made charges that the American Davis Cup team received inadequate;, notice of their selection, ; and-: ; thug-worked under a serious' handicap; !&nd in.'which Hackett declared; that Tilden ,'is an inferior -doubles player who ■;,vriU ,'not obey instructions, Tilden an■iiourtc.ed." that he would refuse to participate in Davis Cup doubles hereafter TinleM the state of affairs was remedied. 'Tildsa complained bitterly of the comSnittep, while Hackett declared that, if the .committee had not seriously reprimanded Tilden after the third set in the jjavi? Cup: doubles match in 1923 the .LAmorleans: woilld have been beaten. Haekbtt stated that Tilden blindly declined." the,.committee's request to make his game one of position play. Tilden replied ■ that the committee for the doubles team had no plan of strategic ylay,'and he and Williams jointly de■vised • one,- .which he Vras unwilling to abandon in favour of the committee's impracticable eleventh-hour plan. Tennis circles were greatly alarmed over tho dissension.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 8
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