LAWN TENNIS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17939, 6 December 1923, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS.

N.S.W. TEAM.

NO MATCH AT AUCKLAND. (PBBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGItAM.) AUCKLAND, December 5. The correspondence has been published between the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association and the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association regarding tho visit of the New South Wales team. The final letters from Auckland express regret at the decision to cancel the Ai ckland match in view of Auckland's offer to give the New Zealand Association the full proceeds of the match. It was urged by Auckland that the request for 5& ger cent, of the gate meant a certain loss, while the New Zealand Association would n-ake a profit on this and other matche-i. At the meeting of the Auckland Association the president said that the worst feature of the matter was that the visiti.ig team would be out for the best tennis it could get, and would not be interested in the failure of local associations and the New Zealand Association coming to terms. The position now is that the New South Wales team will arrive in Auckland on December 11th, but no match will be played here. On December 12th the team leave to play matches in Taranaki. and Wanganui, and will then proceed direct to Christchurch for the New Zealand championships. AN AMERICAN SQUABBLE. TILDEN IN HOT WATER. (BY CABLE —PHESS ASSOCIATION —COPYAIGHT.) (AL'STEALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December sth, • 9.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, December. 4. As the result of an ooen breach between W. T. Tilden and Harold Hackett, a member of the American Davis Cup Committee, in which Tilden charges that members of tho American Davis Cup Team received inadequate notice of their selection, thus working under a serious handicap, and in -which Hackett declares that Tilden is an ■ inferior doubles player who will not obey instructions, Tilden has announced he will refuse to participate in Davis Cup doubles hereafter tinie=3 the £tate of affairs is remedied. Tilden complains bitterly cf the committee, while HacKett declares that if the committee had not seriously reprimanded Tilden after the third set in the Davis Cup doubles match tlm year, the Americans would have been beaten. Hackett states that Tilden blindly declined the committee's request to make his game one of position play. Tilden replies that the committee gave the doubles team no plan of strategic play. He and Williams jointlv devised one. which he was unwilling to abandon in fav-c-ur of the committee's impracticable eleventh-hour plan. Tennis circles are greatly alarmed over the dissension.