The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
TENNIS PLAYERS ARE
KEEPING CABLE HOT
Proposed Change for Davis
Cup Causes Much
Agitation
Special TO The Globe

| Special 10 The Globe
NEW YORK, April 29.-Cable messages
have been going back and forth between
the English and French Lawn Tennis as
sociation and the United States National
Lawn Tennis association. The reason is
that the foreign associations wish to
change the rule governing the play for the
Dwight f. Davis international challenge
cup. While ii is possible for England,
the country at present holding the trophy,
TO arbitrarily change the conditions, out
of courtesy it is their effort to have the
Americans coincide and confirm such new
rules as seem advisable. These changes
actually relate to the date on which the
challenges must be sent and as to the
time Of naming the players on the COM
peting teams previous to playing the
matches.
As the United States, France. Belgium.
Austria and Australia have challenged
this year, it makes the arrangement more
complicated than was supposed when
Dwight f. Davis gave the trophy in 1900.
A meeting of the executive committee Of
the United States association is soon to
be held in this city to pass on the pro-
posed changes ana make them official.
In addition, they will also arrange for
the tour of the American lawn tennis
players in their practice matches prepara-
tory to the challenge team sailing for
England. The members of the executive
committee recently elected include Hol-
combe Ward, William A. Larned. NAL
com D. Whitman William J. Clothier
Dwight +. Davis, Kreigh Collins and Rob-
Holcombe Ward has announced that the
! players who Were to practice for the in
ternational team would go south for this
purpose on May l. The experts who were
scheduled for this trip. the opening series
of which is to be played on the turf course
of the Norfolk Lawn Tennis club OF Nor
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national champion; William A. Iarned
eX-champion: B. c. Wright OF Boston
Kreigh Collins of Chicago. the western
champion; Raymond ID. Little and Fred
erick Il. Alexander. the former Prince
tonians, and William ]. Clothier of Phila-
delphia. They will practice for two weeks
wood Cricket club of Boston and play
there in a special tournament for three
or four days. After Longwood will follow
play on the courts of Orange Lawn Ten
mis- club at Mountain Station, New Jer-
sey, at the Crescent Athletic club, Bay
ridge, and at the Country club at White
For some time in lawn tennis circles it
has been confidently predicted that the
four players who would later be named
Larned. Wright and Ciothier. There is a
possibility that Larned may be unable to
compete. He broke his ankle last winter
Annapolis, Md This injury has made It II
difficult for him to play in hard fought
taxing contest Should Larned be unable
to go it leaves his place on the team open
for a selection from the trio-Little, Col
Inns and Alexander. The first named is
said TO be the most likely candidate.
The placing of the Americans in the
team for the International matches Is gen.
orally agreed upon among the experts, as
Ward and Wright, the present holders OF
the doubles championship for the doubles.
and Ward and Larned for the singles.
The latest arrangements made by Sec
retary Palmer z. Presbrey indicate that
the American challenging team will sail
from New York about the middle of June
and the matches for the Davis cup will
be played at Wimbledon, England the
first part of July From the other side
of the Atlantic il is said that the famous
Doherty brothers will defend the trophy
which they won two years ago at Long
wood