REMARKS RESENTED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 8

REMARKS RESENTED.

UMPIRE LEAVES TENNIS MATCH. There was another umpiring incident in the covered court lawn tennis championships at Queen’s Club, London, a lew weeks ago. C. H. Kingsley and Miss J. Ridley were playing I. H. Wheatcroft and Mrs Wheatcroft (until recently Miss C. Hardie). When the scores reached five games all in the first set the umpire, Rear-Admiral C. W. Bruton, who has officiated at many matches on the centre courts at Wimbledon, gave an incorrect decision. He recognised this at once nnd apologised to trie players. Wheatcroft, however, made a remark which caused Admiral Bruton to get down from the umpire’s chair and say, “Very well, you can umpire for yourselves.” . , , . “We all make mistakes, but we do our best, and I decline to be spoken to in the manner in which I was addressed,” Admiral Bruton said afterwards. “Such incidents are too common these days,” comments Stanley N. Doust, the noted Anglo-Austrahan player, in the Daily Mail. Some lawn tennis players think they are a law unto themselves, and need to be taught a severe lesson if they are unable to take good and bad decisions with equal grace. , . “Nothing will bring this or any other game into disrepute more than such incidents. There was a very large crowd at Queen’s Club, and its sympathy was with the umpire. “Earlier in the -week Mr M. J. Or. Ritchie asked for the removal of an umpire because he thought that official was making too many mistakes. “A player has that right, but he has no right to make derogatory remarks to the person officiating.”

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