SUNDRY SPORTS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1931, Page 7

SUNDRY SPORTS

TENNIS MANNERS. (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) i '"' J LONDON,,.December,, 15. .... Tennis tournament manners were scathingly criticised at the annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association. Mr Griffiths, Chairman of the JCouncil, 'i"‘d,«d instances of players stopping their game, glaring at the umpire or the linesmen, and the losing of points their tempers, and their b ; I by hitting i.t into .space. He considered that one of the causes of th new mentality was a swollen head, which, perhaps was encouraged by the fulsome praise of young players, in an eagerness to discover a future Suzanne Lenglen. AMERICANS AND DAVIS CUP. NEW YORK, December }4. Sidney Wood, a member of hist year’s United States Davis Cup squad, publicly accused Samuel Hardy, the Davis Cup captain, of berating, instead of encouraging, him at a critical point in one of the matches in the inter-zone final <at Paris. Wood made -the charge in a letter to the editor ol ‘■Tennis/’ which carried an article by Hardy, in the last issue, discussing the prospects of next year’s team, and suggesting that Wood was not yet a player of international' rank. Woods’ letter, in reply, accused Hardy of making an unfair attack on him, and said : "had you (the editor) been in the iocker room of the Roland Garrors Stadium, during the rest period of my match against Austin (Austin won two sets to one) and overheard my captain telling me with a lack of control surely to be regretted in one supposed to lead and encourage players, that I was no good, and that I looked like a fool on the court, and had no chance t 0 win had you heard all this, you would understand why I can ernproy invective towards my former captain.”

SWIMMING. O'FAGO CHAMPION SHI PS. DUNKDIN, December 15. At the Otago .swimming championships to-night, Walter Jarvis won the 100 yards intermediate boys' event in 61 seconds. Reg. Geddes won the 220 yards intermediate boys’ championship in 2 minutes Msecs and the 100 yards intermediate boys’ breast-stroke in 79 4-ssecs. In the 150 yards man’s back-stroke, Brian Kerr, the winner, covered the distance in 1 minute 5t seconds.