SHOULD PLAYERS WRITE?
TRIBULATIONS OF TILDEN. CLUB TAKES A VOTE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 15. The Wcstside Tennis Club, which is ' the most influential in the United States Tennis Association, voted 181 to 153 ir support of the association's interpretation of the amateur rule respecting player writers. The action followed one of stormiest meetings in which it was heatedly charged that personal spit( prompted the framing of that definition Nevertheless it is expected the actioi will influence clubs throughout tin country, especially since the Westsidi Club, which last year constructed a new stadium for Davis Cup matches, risks : loss through a punitive depreciation o gate receipts if Tilden should be barrel from play. Tildcn's adherents, however, point out that the close vot< . presages a bitter countrywide debate oi the ruling.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 5
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