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Show QUARREL GROWS Writer Pans Mrs. Mallory; Head of Federation Resents Re-sents "Insults" j PAPwIS. Sept. 18. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press) The controversy over Mile Lengien and Mrs Aiolla Pjui -st"dt Mallory whb h continues very ae-tlve ae-tlve In French tennis federation chicles, ch-icles, threatens to disrupt the 'u;an!- Iiatlon, The break between partisans "i Mile Lenglen and advocates of the Closest or relations with the United States Lawn Tennis association, has reached an acut-! stage When Mile Lensden defeated Mrs. -Mallory at Wimbledon in straight sets, the official publication of the tennis federation, "Tennis and Golf." published pub-lished an article under the signature 't "Ganlnos" one of the most proml-ii- m members of the, federation, which H.-nry Wallet, president of the federation, fed-eration, though derogatory to the United States association. This artleb r.-r.-rred to the defeat jof Mrs. Mallory as "an exemplary chastisement, a severe correction, an effective spanking." M. Wallet took exception to these expressions and In la letter print, d in ,he official section of Tennis and Golf, insisted that the j l r. n. h federation desired to relieve Itself It-self Of all responsibility of the article which he termed "insulting u a friendly federation,,'' M Walut now is charged with tim-lldlty tim-lldlty and Is upbraided for his alleged failure to stand by ''Franaco's foremost woman athlete," M. Wallet retorts that r'Daninos" Is tryiug to form a soviet I within the federation and he carries the fight to another quarter when he advocates that William T, Tilden be officially recognised in Prance as the singles champion of the world, owing to his two defeats of Gerald Patterson jth- Australian, who the French federation feder-ation accepts as the world's champion, cham-pion, according to this season's result at Wimbledon. A movement is on foot to have th. world's championship decided in the various countries Without halleng-Ing halleng-Ing Qreat Prltain's rignt to "world's championship in perpetuity," granted by the International Iawn Tennis federation, fed-eration, there is a strong element in the French federation, which wouhl support a proposition, If made in neutral neu-tral quarters, to hold tho championship champion-ship matches in Wimbledon next year, but afterward in the country which holds the championship. The federations federa-tions of the various countries under this proposal would pay the expenses of their nominees to the championship tournament. |