VOICE FROM GALLERY
AN OBSTREPEROUS PERSON It was near the end of the singles final, at the Seventh Regimental Armoury. United States, when E. T. Hunter’s win was clearly foreshadowed. Hunter served an ace to Seligson, and Umpire Rufus Davis scored the point; but as he did so a -spectator in the • north gallery of the Armoury half arose from his seat* pointed with outstretched arm at the service linesman j and cried: “That was a fault!” Attention was focussed on the objector, who added: “You have, let ten faults go without calling them!” Tho obstreperous person then got the attention of Umpire Davis. Looking toward the portion of the gallery from which the heckling came, he said, quietly but with finality: “The linesmen are much 'better qualified to judge shots than anyone else.” There was no further remark from the gallery, and the service linesman. Harry Mattice, merely smiled: a little later he took the friendly rallying he got from the other officials without 1 betraying the slightest perturbation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 9
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170VOICE FROM GALLERY Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 9
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