TENNIS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 301, 6 December 1923, Page 2

TENNIS.

TROUBLE IN AMERICA. DAVIS CUP PLAY. New York, Dec. 4. As the result of an open breach between Tilden and Harold Hackett, a member of the American Davis Cup Committee, in which Tilden charges that the American Davis Cup team received inadequate notice of their selection, thus working under a serious handicap, and in which Hackett declares that Tilden is an inferior doubles plover, who will not obey instructions, TijJen has announced that he will refuse to participate in Davis Cup doubles hereafter unless the state of affairs is remedied. Tilden complains bitterly of the committee, while Hackett declares that if the committee had not seriously reprimanded Tilden after the third set in the Davis Cun doubles match in 1923 the Americans would have been beaten. Hackett states that Tilden blindly declined the committee’s request to make the game one of position play. Tilden replies that the committee had no plan lor strategic play, for which lie and Williams jointly devised one, which ho was unwilling to abandon in favour of the committee’s impracticable eleventh-hour plan. Tennis circles are greatly alarmed over the dissensions..—(A. and N.Z.) MEMOS Beard. Bullen and Co. will sell at their Ta radale saleyards to-morrow, at 1.30 p.in., dairy stock and horses, etc. See auction advt. on page 8. Gill Bros, are advertising their Saturday market sale and Xmas poultry sale. Send in your birds early and do not wait till the last week, and let us know your requirements. See page 8.

INTER-CLUB GAMES.

PARK v. HAVELOCK. A tennis match was arranged and played between Park and Havelock on the former’s ground on Wednesday afternoon and resulted in a win for the Park Club with 10 sets 108 games to 6 sets 80 games. The following is the result, Havelock names being mentioned first;— Ladies’ Singles: Mrs Colrick beat Mrs Clifft, 7 —4; Miss Masters lost to Mrs Scrivener, I—7 ; Miss Richardson lost to Mrs Knapp, 3 —7; Miss Nimon lost to Mrs Mathews, o—7. Men’s Singles.—R. Liley beat W. Mathews, 9—6; S. Liley beat R. Harding, 9 —2; H. Miller lost to A. Knapp, 7—9; S. Land lost to G. Barnett. 4—9. Ladies’ Doubles -. Mrs Colrick and Miss Masters lost to Mrs Clifft and Mrs Scrivener, 3 —7; Miss Richardson and Miss Nimon lost to Mrs Knapp and Mrs Mathews. 3 —7. Men’s Doubles : R. Liley and S. Liley beat Mathews and Harding, 9—B; A. Miller and S. Land lost to Knapp and Barnett, 4 —9.

(. mnbined Bougies: Airs Colrick and R. Liiey beat Mrs vlifit and iVlatfiews, /. —(j. juss Masters and Liley beat Mrs Scrivener and Harding, / —6; Miss Kicnardson and Miller lost to Mrs Knapp, 2 —7; Miss Ainion and Land lost to Mrs Alathews and Barnett, 5 —7.