Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-16
LAWN TENNIs CONVENrION.

The Annual Meeting of she U. s. N.
 Lawn Tennis Association at the
 Hoffman House, New YOrk-The
 New Haven Club the Largest on the
 List.
 This meeting was held in accordance with
 the notice on the evening of March 12 at the
 Hoffman House, New York. The president,
 MT. Thomas K. Fraser, called the delegates
 to orderat 8:45. He then made some remarks
 tending to explain his actions in connection
 with the use of the Peck & Snyder ball as 8
 regulation ball during the past season. He
 had studied only the interest of the associa- tion, and wished to have it understood that
 he had no private interest in it's adoption. After an unsuccessful effort to change the regular order of business so that the ball to be used by the association for the coming season might be determined early in the I sning, the meeting proceeded in accordance l with the regular order of business. The
 secretary called the roll of clubs, and as | each one was named it's delegate came 1 forward and presented his credentials, at the same time giving the number of members in l his club. In this connection it is appropri ate to say that the New Haven Lawn club | reported membership of POS, which was the | | that 43 clubs were represented, ,26 by delegate I and seveteen by proxy-more than double ! the clubs represented last year when thirteen 1 delegates and five proxies put in an appear 1 ance. The secretary in his report showed 1 that greater interest was being taken 1n ten | his, the number of clubs belonging in the as- 1 sociation having been increased by the ad- dition of seventeen during the year, making
 total membership of fifty scattered all over 1 the United States. The report of the treas | urer was also encouraging: The cash 1 balance on hand in March, 1855, ments, entrance fees at tournaments, with 1 two hundred dollars which the people at
 at the Newport Casino, was s705 7a. The 1 money paid out for prizes, printing, expense
 of annual meeting. etc. was $573. 10, leaving
 balance in treasury March F, 1886, Of Sl52'
 62. When the time came for electlon or
 officers the secretary, MT. J. $. Clark, rec commended that the association vote unani- mously for MT. Fraser, Far and Near club, as president. he secretary was instructed to cast ballot to that effect, and Mir. Fraser expressed his thanks. MT. Berkeley Mostyn was reelected vice president, NIT. ! Joseph s. Clark, Young America club, secretary and treasurer. For the executive committee -Messrs. w. V K. Perry, | Washington club; w. P. Williams, Orange | club; H. W. Slocum, jr., Waterbury; R. Liv i ingston Beekman, Country club, receiving ! the greater number of ballots, were declared elected. The next thing was to decide on | the ball to be used. The Wright & Ditson | had good support and Peck & Snyder had some strong advocates, but the sentiment of 1 those present seemed to favor the old and l well-tried "Ayers ball, , which after much ! discussion was adopted as the regulation ball | for the ensuing year by vote of twenty four | in it's favor to seventeen against it. The l playing rules were altered only in one par | ticular and that in relation to the foot on l the base line when serving. Last years | rule reads: The server shall serve with one foot on the base line, etc. This was changed so as to read: "Shall serve with one foot on or per cendcularly over the base
 line, etc, D the effect of which is to allow the
 server to raise the heel of the front foot when ! serving.
 The delegate from the ''New Haven Lawn | club" succeeded in obtaining the desired
 dates of July 9th, 7th and Sth for the open | tournament to be held on their grounds, at | which championship cup for the New Eng 1 land States will be offered.
 l The meeting, after discussing several other | matters, broke up at about 12:45, much pleased with the work which had been done l and the prospect of successful season. Among prominent players present were G. NJ. Brinley of Trinity college, president of | the Intercollegiate association and winner of
 the all corners at Newport; H. w. Slocum ,ir., fresh from recent victories at inside tennis; | R. L. Beekman, R. H. Davis, Lehigh univer- ! sity; George G. Haven, jr., for Yale; F. K. Brown of Waterbury, Conn.,, and others.