"BARRACKING"

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18680, 1 May 1926, Page 18

"BARRACKING"

AT TENNIS MATCHES. (fkoic our own coaaßßPosOTitrr.) LONDON, March 12. The effect <rf "barracidn#" oil the nervee of player* in athletic competittofaa .is the subject of an article in the /'Evening News/ l'he Writer, Mf Petet Merrill, rnikfes a toUohing refertnoe to the late Anthopy Wilding. "Both W. T. Tilden and Mrs Lambert Chambers (a great sportswoman, generous to a degree) havi assured toe," says Mi Merrill, "that the; never heat the noils tnide spectators, much less what they are saying. And the late Anthony Wilding, whose death in the Great war is still deplored By those who knew him personally, being a loss that hurt like an old wcUhd in weeping weathofr, t&tight himself to be ifldifferent td cheers and ootihterr-cheert an part of his technique. "At first he waa a little sensitive to the bries of the gallery at Wimbledon and elsewhere, find would be jarrAd by occasional he took hlthself stridtly ita hand and learned td keep his taiha fixed 6n the game, the whole and nothing but the game. 'Besides,' as he said, the excitability of the crowd, eVen if it sometimes goes beyond good sportsmanship is a compliment td the play And the player*.* "Ab fflr the adorable Lefigltnj she otight not to have allowed herself to be upaei oy the outcries of the Cannes crowd, which did no ' .worry _ Helen because Watching footbWl in Atner.ea teafcheS the Values of indifference to the yells of partisan spectators."