HUMILITY OF SURRENDER.
ENGLAND AND DAVIS CUP. L.T.A. CRITICISED. LONDON, December 11. The annual meeting of the English Lawn Tennis Association was unusually crowded and livejy. owing to the reform movement. Mr. .Wallis Myers, the reformers' leader, criticised the council strongly for giving Spain a walkover in the Davis Cup. He pointed out that Italy was making her debut in the Cup, and Czecho-Slovakia, Belgium, and even Rumania, although all realising that they were sure to be beaten, and most of them were short, of funds, contested the matches. If the council bad considered Britain's tennis prestige it would not have made such a humiliat.ing surrender. He also attacked the inhospitable treatment extended to foreign and overseas competitors, and quoted Patterson's statement in the Australian newspapers contrasting the casual official reception received in England with the way the Australians were treated in the United States.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 13 December 1922, Page 5
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