FUSS OVER U.S. TEAM’S CONDUCT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 6

FUSS OVER U.S. TEAM’S CONDUCT

“Australian Writers Responsible” tN.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BAKERSFIELD (California), December 14. Australian sports writers were responsible for the “ruckus” being raised over the behaviour of the United States Davis Cup team in Australia, a United States player, D. Ralston, said today. “It’s not uncommon for tennis players to loose their tempers,” said 18-year-old Ralston, who returned home last night. “All the time we were there the Aussie reporters were taking jabs at us, over-playing small incidents.” He described the locker room incident at Perth as resulting from some “horsing around” by Buchholz and McKinley.

He said they knocked a couple of holes in a cardboard-like partition, and denied it was a beerdrinking rampage as charged by an Australian writer

In Philadelphia today, the former United States Davis Cup player, V, Seixas, warned Australia that if Italy took the Davis Cup home, it would be “awfully hard” getting it back again. The Italians were harder than ever to beat on clay courts and before their own galleries, he said. Americans should congratulate the Italians for a good job, rather than criticise their own players for the outcome of the Perth tie, Seixas said.