TENNIS.
AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT. MDLLE. LENGLEN AGGRIEVED. London, Jan. 30. The Cannes correspondent of the “Daily Express’ 'reports an unpleasant incident in the final of the Ladies Doubles, in which Mlle. Lenglen and Miss Ryan played Mrs- Covell Shepherd and Mrs Barrow. During the first set 'the linesman left his place to ask the umpire a question, and a minute later he called a foot-fault against Mlle. Lenglen, who thereupon stopped playing and told the linesman, “You know nothing about the game. You are wrong.” She then 1-erc the court and went nearly in tears to her mother and refused to continue till the linesman was changed. This the umpire refused tc do. holding that the foot-fault decision was right. Mlle. Lenglen returned t<- the court, declaring “It is unfair; the English are pigs.” She then turned the full force of her fury towards the linesman, but he missed it, because he is deaf.
Mlle. Lenglen adhered to her refusal to play, and the matter was settled by the referee asking the linesman to resign, to which the latter agreed in the interests of the tournament.
Mlle. Lenglen and Miss Ryan won comfortably hv 6 —3, 6—4.—A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 February 1924, Page 2
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