SPORTS AND GAMES
TENNIS DISPUTE.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
NEW YORK, April 28.
As an outgrowth of the controversy over the prospective disbarment of Tilden from amateur tennis, Tex Rickard, the promoter, is considering the staging of professional tennis in 1925, when the player-writer rule will be effective.
According to a Philadelphia message, Tilden, answering countrywide queries regarding his attitude to the qmateur ruling, said: “My resignation from the Davis Cup Olympic team has been officially accepted by the committee, thus closing the incident so far as I am concerned.” BILLIARDS ’.CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, April 30. In the final of the professional billiards championship, Newman 9,334, has overtaken Reece, .9,142, owing io an unfinished break of 913, which is a record for championship billiards. BLACKBALL SPORTS. . The following handicaps have been declared by Mr .G. E. Perkins for the Blackball May Day sports 100 Yards. —L. Richardson, R. J. Little scr., C. James Iyd, M. Jamieson 3, J. Wright 4, C. Fairhall,' B. Clark, C. Lamont, H. W. Brown 5, J. Murphy 6, D. Cutbush, A. Mason, C. Mute, A. E. Drummond, 11. Exton, IV. Ryall 8. 220 Yards. —L. Richardson, R. J. Little scr., C. James 4, J. Wright 6, A. R. Blocksage 6, C. Lamont 10, C. Fairhall, H. W. Brown 11, B. Clark, \ J. Murphy 12, H. Exton, B. Biddulph, E. Dumbleton, IV. Ryall 16. i
Post entries will be received for the Quarter-mile Handicap.
The sports, whi&h were to take place to-morrow (Thursday) have been postponed until Friday. The annual ball will be held to-morrow (Thursday) evening.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1924, Page 2
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