DAVIS CUP CONTESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18635, 29 April 1924, Page 7

DAVIS CUP CONTESTS.

TILDEN'S RESIGNATION. COMMITTEE'S ACCEPTANCE. (Received 8.35 p.m.) A. and N.Z.—Beuter.' NEW YORK, Apl. 27. The Davis Cup Committee has accepted the resignation of Mr. W. Tilden as a member of the American team. A movement has. begun among the constituent members of the United States Lawn Tennis Association to annul the ruling of the Amateur Rules Committee concerning player-writers. This was the cause of Tilden's resignation. The West Side Tennis Club, the largest member of the association, has already framed a petition which, it is stated, the Chicago Lawn Tennis Association will duplicate. Mr. Edward Conlin, president of tho Lawn Tennis Umpire's Association, and one of the leading figures in American Tennis, is sponsoring the movement. He has just returned from a tour of 25 cities, where he sounded the feeling of the local tennis organisations. He found that they strongly support Tilden, whose contention that, if he loses his amateur standing in 1925, it means that he has no right to claim an amateur's standing now, is considered to be justified. An attempt will be made ,to permit those who are already engaged in journalism to continue to write, but all other players will be forbidden to become journalists hereafter. This change would cover the activities of Richards, who is reported to have also threatened to resign from the Davis Cup team.