TENNIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 4

TENNIS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TTI.DKN AND U.S.A. HEADS. NEW YORK. Dee. J. A- the re-ult oi an open breach between Tilden and Mr Harold Hnekett, a memlier ol the American Davi- Cup Comuiiti t ..e, in wliieh Tilden ehargethat the -Imeriiau Davi- ( till team received ituulequate notice of their selection, and i!iu- were working under a serious handicap, and in which I Jackett declared that Tiidpti i- inferior na thnibk-' player, and will not obey J in.-truc!ion-, Tilden ha- aunoiiiieed | that he will refuse to participate in the l Davis Cup double- hereafter, utile-; I the present state of affairs i- rettie- | died. Tilden complains bitterly of the ; Commiftce, while Hackett declares I that if the Coinmitte had not seriously repriniitiidcd Tilden after tho third set in the Davis Cun doubles’ match in 1023, the American- would have been beaten. Hackett states that Tilden blindly declined the Committee's request to make liis game onp of position play. Tilden replies that the Committee's doubles team hail no plan of strategic play, for which he and Williams jointly devised one, wliieh lie was unwilling to abandon in favour of the Coniniitee’s impracticable eleventh hour plan. Tennis circles are greatly alarmed over the dissention.