South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-22
TENNIS
MEN TO PROPOSE
CHANGES IN RULES
Will Advocate Server Replace
Raised Foot After Serve Be-
fore Stepping Back Into the
Court.

NEW YORK. Dec. 22.-As Il to
atone for It's oversight i'm permitting
the ormation of the international
Lawn Tennis federation 10 be under
taken By continental authorities. the
Enslish Lawn Tennis association is
nov coming 10 The fore with q num-
Der OF changes IN the Davis cup and
general tennis players rules. Tn
The Irish Lawn Tennis CO. proposes
to submit at The International Lawn
Tennis meeting a new
which is at wide divergence with the
present code. IL is understood that n
the new regulation is adopted II VIII
be necessary Tor the server TO replace
the foot -aised from the ground i'm
service behind the base line before
stepping into the court instead Of
swinging into the court with the
raised foot-Once the service is COM
pleted. as is permissible under he
existing code.
Two more international COMPETE
tons appear likely to be added TO the
1914 schedule of sport and ia both
cases United States yachtmen viii ap-
pear in the role Of cup defendants.
Unofficial announcement from for
eign sources stated that challenges
Will soon be forwarded for both the
Sender and Cano trophies which
were successfully defended during the
last season.
Canadian golfers are looking for
ward with interest TO an unusual
match which will be staged at the ,
time of the annual championships -
the ROYAL Canadian Golf association
at Ottawa next summer.
George s. Lyons. winner OF several
amateur championships, recently
challenged any father and son q
meet him and his 1~5-year-Old boy in
four some play. A. =. Palmer and
all f0ur will be in the Qualifying
round Of the Royal Canadian Golf
association title tournament 1t was
decided 10 hold the match during the
championship week
The following masters have been
invited to compete in an International
tournament To be held at st. Peters
burg next year in celebration OF the
10-year jubilee Of the 81. Petersburg
Chess association:
DR.; Bernstein. B~lackburne. Burns.
CaPablanca, Duras, Juns Berg. Jan
Owiski, DR.. r. Lacker. MarOCzy,
Marshall. Rubenstein. Schlechter. DIT.
Tarrach, lehman, Weiss. Winawer
and the minner of the National Rus
sion Masters tournament. TO be held
at st. Petersburg lex month. The
VIII begin on April 20
and finish about May 10 or Is. There
will be four prizes: First $500; sec.
ond. $500; third, $3.50. and fourth.
$3.50.
Walter Christie. the University ~
California track coach, states as his
opinion based on % years Of observ-
ance. that one-fOurth Of the efficiency
of track men comes directly from
the cheering of rooters. The athlete.
he says, must have music and noise
to keep him going. He claims that
in the intercollegiate races on tho
coast, California men invariably slow
down while passing the rival roOters.
but that upon reaching the other side
Of the grandstand thev speed up be-
cause of the rooters from their own
school. The principle involved is said
to be one we'll known to PSYCHOLOGISTS
as crowd contagiOn" and is a recoE-
nized factor in determining the
strength Of the contestants. II Is
stated that a man breaks quickly into
his reserve of strength when a thou
sand throats are helping him on. A
show Of abnormal strength is usually
cO-incident with a loud cheer from
the bleachers.