ABSTRACT
In 1931 Cecil Moore and his wife were the plaintiffs in a libel case where the defendants were the president (the headmaster of Tonbridge School), the vicepresidents and committee of the Tonbridge Tennis Club.The club had written to Moore and his wife stating that if they played as a pair other clubs would refuse to play against them, that Mrs Moore had claimed points which she had not won, that three clubs had accused her of cheating and that Moore had weakly supported her. Moore was teaching at Tonbridge School. He had been a Balliol scholar and was a former Indian civil servant. In 1911 he had reached the last 16 of the Wimbledon championship. Moore dropped his action when the club officials accepted that Mrs Moore had not cheated.1 In England between the wars notions of what constituted correct behaviour were crucial to the moral and social significance attached to sport.
