Suggested Remedy For Foot-Fault
What is the best remedy for that curse of lawn tennis, the foot-fault? Captain A. K. Trower, assistant referee at Wimbledon, thinks he has found it, according to L. V. Manning, writing in The Daily Sketch recently. He would disqualify footfaulters and give their opponents that particular game. , “I would abolish Rules 6 and 7,” he said. “Instead of calling ‘footfault,’ I would have the umpire tell the player where the stroke was in error. Then let him play the stroke again. If he persisted, disqualify him and give his opponent that game.” Drastic, but Captain Trower thinks it would clean up the game in no time and be far more welcome and easy to apply than a rigid interpretation of the present rules.
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Southland Times, Issue 23946, 12 October 1939, Page 11
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