Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-10
TENNIS DATES OUT
More Tournaments to Be Held
This Year Than Ever Before.
MAKE AN IMPOSING LIST
National Championship at Newport
Set for the Usual Time
in August.

NEW YORK, April D.-An imposing
list of lawn tennis tournament dates was
issued BY the officials of the United States
National Lawn Tennis Association yes
terday. Altogether a total of 40 fixtures
find place on the list, a greater number
than ever before. The dates are late in
appearance, but this delay has been due
to an effort to avoid conflicts.
The all corners national championship
tournament will hold the turf courts of
the Casino, at Newport, r. l., beginning
Monday, August 10. This follows the
usual custom and does not inaugurate
change, as had been talked of. The
United States clay court championship
will be played at the Pittsburgh Athletic
Club. beginning Saturday, June %.
The women's national championship
again goes to the Philadelphia Cricket
Club, beginning Monday, June 10. while
the national intercollegiate tournament
is slated for the Merton Cricket Club, at
Haverford, Pa, the week of September 4.
The important championships in this
section-the New York state tournament
and the Metropolitan-are to be held. as
formerly. at the Crescent Athletic Club
at Bay Ridge, and at the West Side Ten
mis- Club, respectively. August 1 is the
date of the former and June - for the
latter. In the list of state championships
twenty-siX states have arranged tourna-
ments.
The principal interscholastic dates were
set as follows: May 4. at Princeton; May
|G. at Pennsylvania; May II, at Harvard:
May Is. at Columbia. and Illinois at Chi
cago; May %. at Yale.
The more important dates allotted te
clubs in the metropolitan district follow
May IL Harlem Tennis Club, oper
tournament; 1s, championship of The
Bronx, at the Bedford Park Club: "a
Manhattan doubles and open singles, a
New York Tennis Club: %. ladies' tourna.
ment, at the Morristown, n. j.. Field
Club; 80 championship of Nassau and
Queens counties, at the Great Neck Hills
Country Club
June 3. open tournament at the Engle-
j wood Field Club; 8. eastern New forE
state championship, at County Tennis
Club, Westchester: 10. invitation tourna-
ment at Ardsley on Hudson; 10. oper
tournament at Knickerbocker Field Club
3D. Marine and Field Club tournament. al
Brooklyn; 10, metropolitan champion
ships, at West Side Tennis Club; ~ lnvi-
tation tournament. at Long Beach Tennis
pionship, at Kings County Club, Brook
lyn; &c, open tournament, at PoWeltoh
Club, Newburg n. Y; q. Invitation tour
nament, at Knollwood Country Club.
July IL. Siwanoy Country Club; open
tournament, Mount Vernon, n. Y; 10
Westchester County championship. West
chester County Lawn Tennis Association;
q. invitation doubles, at Westminster
Country Club: 3D. invitation tournament,
at Edgernefe Tennis Club. NY.
August. II, invitation tournament, al
Meadow Club. Southampton, Long Island
28, open tournament. at Nyack Country
Club: %, International tournament, al
Niagara Lawn Tennis Club; 81, open tour
nament,' at New Rochelle Tennis Club.
September II, Lake George champion
ship. at Sycamore Tennis Club.
February IL, 1913, Mems indoor cham
pionship, at eth Regiment Armory. New
York. ......