LAWN TENNIS
TILDEN AND TOURNAMENT . COMMITTEE.
New York, January 27. The quarrel between W. T. Tilden and the Tennis Tournament Committee has been amicably settled. —Sydney “Sun” Cable. [Early last month cable advice was received of an open breach between W. T. Tilden and Harold Hackett, a member of the American Davis Cup Committee, Tilden ‘having made charges that the American Davis Cup team received inadequate notice of their selection, and thus worked under a. serious hanti&cap, and Hackett, having declared that Tilden was an inferior doubles player who would not obey instructions. As a result of the breach, Tilden announced that, he would refuse to participate in Davis Cup doubles unless the state of affairs was remedied. Tilden complained bitterly of the committee, while Hackett declared that if the committee had not seriously reprimanded Tilden after the third set in the Davis Cup doubles match in 1923 the Americans would have been beaten. Hackett stated that Tilden blindly declined the committee’s request to make his game one of position play. Tilden replied that the committee for the doubles team had no plan of strategic play, and ho and Williams jointly devised one, which he was unwilling to abandon in favour of the committee’s impracticable eleventhhour plan. Tennis circles were greatly alarmed over the dissension.]
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 105, 29 January 1924, Page 12
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