TENNIS UMPIRES
SHOULD HAVE POWER TO 1 ORDER PLAYERS OFF! DRASTIC ENGLISH PROPOSAL Stronger and more frequent complaints than ever come. this year, ; from the Riviera, as to the court man- • ners of lawn tennis players in big i matches (writes Vedette in London ■'Sporting and Dramatic News”). The job of the umpire is always a long. : arduous and thankless one. and it is I noticeable that the star players very ; seldom get up to take their turn on the unpopular perch. : When certain players habitually so ' behave to umpires that the umpires j will give everything, in any way pos- | sible, in their favour, these players are really guilty of constructive cheating, j The remedy lies, of course, in giving | umpres powers that are not a joke. One cannot imagine a referee using Law 21 ; of Rackets or Law 22 of Squash Rackets, but those two laws are identical. ! The referee has the power *o order: (a) A player, who has left the courr. to play on; (b) a player to leave the court for any reason whatsoever, and may award the rubber to his opponent. If the L.T.A. would give all umpires the power conferred by section B of the above law some lawn tennis tournaments would soon be much more pleasant meetings for nearly all the player* and spectator*.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 973, 16 May 1930, Page 7
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