New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
WILL CHALLENGE AGAIN
WANT LAWN TENNIS CUP.
Details of Meeting of the National
association

The international challenge for the Dwight T.
Davis Cup and the Incorporation of the national
association were acted on favorably last night
at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the
United States National Lawn Tennis Assocla-
ton at the WaIdorf-Astoria- Thirty-one clubs
were represented by delegates and aiternates.
and twenty clubs by proxies. Tho annual
election resulted in the reelection of the
former officers and the executive committee. It
was also decided rs establish an official organ in
the way of publication to represent the Ameri-
can lawn tennis players. as is done by the pub
ncation Of English Lawn Tennis abroad.
There was considerable enthusiasm manifested
as to the Americans challenging again for the
Dwight F. Davis cup, and also on the subject Of
the Incorporation. Both of these matters were
turned over TO the executive committee how
ever, 10 take action upon and to report at later
meeting. The officers who viii serve again are
as follows:
President, DR.. James Dwight; vlce-presdent
Robert D. Wrenn; treasurer, Richard Stevens;
secretary, Palmer e Presbrey; executive COM
mittee, William A. Larned, Dwight +. Davis
kreigh Collins, Raymond D. Little Hocombe
Ward, William j Clothiei, Frederick G. Ander-
son. A. L. HoSkins and L. D. Scott
The motion to send team 10 England was
made by Thomas G. Trask, of the West Side
Lawn Tennis Club. 1t brought out a protest
from A. c. Taylor of PHILADELPHIA in which he
took the association 70 task for defraying the
expenses of the players by subscriptions of the
clubs. He took the stand that it reflected
against the amateur status OF of the members
Of the team and raised criticism which was det-
rimentel 70 the interests of the sport. AS in
other matters, the details of choosing and send
ing the team fell upon the executive committee,
but it WIS the idea of many of the assembled
delegates that no subscriptions would be called
for TINS year The challenge, If sent, ap-
peared most probable will be IN the hands of
the English association by March l.
l. d. Scott, of the Southern Association
~rOF
asked that the Southern players have represen-
tation in the national CHAMPIONSHIP tournament
at Newport. His request took form Of u
motion that the winners of the Southern doubIe-
championship be admitted into the C0mpetitions
for the doubles title, and that they play in the
preliminary with the Eastern and Western
champions for the right to challenge for the
championship This favorably acted upon
and the preliminares may be decided either al
LongwoOd, southampton Orange, at the dis
erection Of the executive committee.
remembering the strain under which he played
during the finals at Newport last August Karl
H Behr followed Frederick G. Anderson in ia
voTing that at least one day be allowed to elapse
between the playing of the tournament final
ana the challenge match with the champion.
Behr declared that at best a good player became
only an overworked horse, and that It i'm
possible for him to do otherwise than reveal all
of his strategy of play, that when he met the
champion the latter had him at his mercy.
Frederick B. Alexander favored the playing
through Of the championship after the manner
that is finding favor abroad. He was of the
opinion that it the fairest method, as It did
not handicap any one player but resulted in
the best man winning the title. Larned was
against any change in the time honored plan
and he was instrumental in having II left to the
committee TO decide
There was statement made that the Amateur
Athletic Union was seeking to get control of
lawn tennis by Louis Phillips. the former hockey
player This was not taken seriously by the
members, although ii provoked a heated discus
sion as 70 what constituted amateur and
professional. The meeting adjourned with the
understanding that the executive committee will
soon meet and render its decisions on the points
left 10 its action.