MULLOY “HET UP”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22240, 28 January 1947, Page 4

MULLOY “HET UP”

TEMPER AT TENNIS

RULINGS DISPUTED

OFFER TO FIGHT HECKLER

SYDNEY, Jan. 26

The American tennis player, Gardner Mulloy, oliered to tight a spectator at the White City courts yesterday when he was playing a semi-final of tiie Australian championships against Bromwich.

When in the tenth and lust game of the set, Bromwich won a point trom Mulloy’s serve, Mulloy thought it -had been a net ball and appealed to the umpire and later to Bromwich. Spectators angrily shouted: “Why don’t you play the game?” “Get on with ‘the game!” and “Don't aigue!” Mulloy threw clown his racquet and shouted to one spectator: “Come down here, or meet me outside.”

Sunday papers carry pictures of Mulloy gesticulating.

Alter the umpire asked the spectators not to comment, Mulloy threw the next point away, giving Bromwich the set, 6 —4. Mulloy's comments became bitter in the sixth game of the set when, apparently thinking Bromwich had outed the ball, he said to the linesman: “i can’t play everyone here, Mister”

In the eighth game, when his first service was called fault, Mulloy commented to the linesman: “Did the chalk get in your eyes?”

Bromwich won the match, 6—2, 6—4 I—G, G—s.