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...amateur rules it was of course, impossible to grant Anderson's request, although the Association would doubtless have been glad enough to do so. Unless he changes his mind, the Australian Davis Cup Team will lose the man who last September brilliantly defeated William M. Johnson, and gave Tilden a run for his money...
Retorted Hackett in a letter to the same publication: "Unfortunately Tilden considers himself not only the greatest singles player, but also the greatest doubles player. . . . He absolutely fails to understand the great fundamental of the doubles game which is position play. . . . The Davis Cup Committee is responsible for results. . . . Tilden was believed capable of playing the doubles match, in spite of an atrocious performance in the 1922 Davis Cup Doubles. The fact that he chose to park his intelligence outside the stadium was naturally unexpected by any of the committee...
...Tilden rebounded with a threat to withdraw from Davis Cup play and a searing indictment against the Davis Cup Committee system. He alleged that the players were not selected, in some cases, until a few hours before their match. They were given no plan of play. "I feel I am right in refusing to obey instructions given between the third and fourth sets of a match...
Said William Tilden to Harold Hackett...
Said Harold Hackett to William Tilden...