| Show PLANS 1 TO QUIT TEAM Tennis Squabble Will Be Subject At Next Meeting P PHILADELPHIA II L DELP lA Dec The 6 B 5 The I he I contro erby between bet TJ T Tilden 2nd national singles and doubles tennis tennia champion and Harold H Ifs Haet Hackett a member ot of the l ls Dais cup committee which re suited Tue Tuesday dllY In a declaration by bythe bythe the champion that Je w re may neer again appear on an American in Davis cup team li Is to conic come before the thc United Stales sta tates Lawn Tennis as- as I at Rt Its ita annual meeting Til- Til Tilden Tilden den said that he Gould attend the tho meeting to see that t rat the matter tar Is ig taken up u up and that hat at h he a intended to do somo some of ot J the he threshing nAPS R US U'S Y Replying to criticism of ot Mr Ir Hackett that Tilden had chosen Ito to park his Intelligence outside the tho stadium and had failed to i during nc play his position round f e a n round ot the do bles match ag nt Australia the Davis cup competition In lit fall the I champion declared that heas he was as ag so so disgusted s nith i tho the star atar at a aben r cham- cham chamber c ham ham- her ben v T 1 o of the committee that lie he 11 bad had no Intention pt ot ot pia play play- playIng Ing InK Davis cUI cup matches again un less leas this procedure is broken up lie He s slid add lId that ho did snit not know who 1 would play piny on tho the American double doubles to team am until 36 hours the match and that ho he and his 1 partner Richard H II Williams hid and had h 11 nc er cr played together to ether little chance hance to practice The Tho Davis cup matches hale ac Tilden that gro groan gron n so eo much said th they arc are now ot nations nation and in- in In Importance and it Is I rong that IT Ir little group of ot men should keep the details to them them- soles spes sp s es until the scry ry last minute The Tho secrecy maintained by the Da- Da vis Is cup s 's a ea link linkin In Americas America's defense ot of the cup it 11 itis I If is a danger point I believe e may result In our losing the trophY In tho the near future futuro as aa we wo did n In 1914 l t S SIN S o FRANCISCO Dec Dee Wll 5 5 11 Ham lam Johnston Johnton of ot San na- na known t tenni tennis player is- is isI issued j I sued a 0 statement In connection w db the threat of ot William 1 T 1 Tilden tr the American DavIs cup team teames am as oI a 11 result ot of controversy With Harold IL U If Hackett o of they the United States Dh cu cup committee Johnston said sald he was VIlS In the dressing room when Tilden was called tailed on by members of the tho com com- committee committee c and lna and asserted that ho he felt Tilden was right In resenting the L ge of ot Hackett at that time 00 00 |
