TENNIS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1924, Page 3

TENNIS

AUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CAIII.L ASSOCIATION, A TEN N iS INI I DENT. “THE ENGLISH Alt!- I’H-S' SO HAYS MLEE. I.DNGEI'N. Received this day at 0.15 n.mM LONDON. January MM. The Cannes coriespondt nt oi 0 ; e "Daily Express" reports an nape "'ii! ,1.. id' id ill the fund id I-!:,- ; - dvitblvs in w liieli M 'it. L '--N a:;.! At. Hyne played dir.. <>\< 11 Us.'laed .i;- rl All Burrow. I •urn. tin, i', •: ■ ( a linesman let t hi pl;c e I" d c umpire a ipiestion. and a minute ’a” l ' he called a foot fault against Mile. I.< ligleii who tliereupoii stopped playing ,1,1(1 ,ii,l In the linesman: ‘'You know nothing aljout the game, you are wiring." She then left tile Court, and went, nearly in tears, to her mother and refused to continue till die Ii - man was changed. This the umpire refused to do, holding the foot-fault "as right. Lenglen relic tied to the ( oiu t, declaring: “ft is unfair the English are pigs." She then turned the lull I,,ree iif her furv towards tile linesman but be missed it beeaues he E deal.

All it*. Lenglen .■idlieied to her refusal t,i play and the matter was settled by tbe refcica of tin- tournament asking tile linesman to resign, tu wbieb the latter agreed, in tlu* interests of the tournament.

Lenglen and ltynn won comfortably 0-3. 0-1.