LAWN TENNIS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 2

LAWN TENNIS.

SUZANNE FLARES' UP. j "ENGLISH ARE PIGS !»» | (BT CABLE—FEES 3 ASSOCIATION COPTEIGHT.) |iyoT»iT.im AMD H.Z. CABuB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Tanuary 30. The Cannea correspondent of the "Daily Exprnsa" reports an unpleasant incident -in the final of the 'Jadicfl* doubles of the tennis championships, in which 2tllle. Suzanno Lenglen and Mifia Ryan played Mesdames Covell Shepherd and .Barrow. x)uring tho first set a linesman left, his place to ask tho umpire a question. A minut-c later he called a foot-fault against Mile. Lenglen, who thereupon stopped playing, and told the linesman: "You know nothing about the game; you are wron;*." Mile. Lenglen then' left the court, tind went, nearly in tears, to her mother, and refused to continue till the linesman was changed. Thia tho umpire refused to do, holding that tho foot-fault decision was Suzanne returned lo the court, declaring: "It ia unfair. Tho English are -pigs." She then turned the full force of her fury towards tho linesman, but lie missed it because ho wao deaf. Mile. Lenglen adhered to her -refusal to play, and the matter -wa-a settled by tne referee of the tournament askfng tho linesman to rfß!gD| to which the latter agreed in. the interests of the tournament. Mile. Lenglen and Mies Byan won comfortably, 6-3, 6-4. . .