The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-29
TOO MANY TENNIS TITLES
LIKELY TO MJURE SPORT
Championships Become Meaningless as Their
Numbers Increase and Almost Any Good
Player Can Win Some Sort of Crown.

pionship as usual. while the Great Neck
HIS &. G.. Will hold the Nassau and
Queens championship. II would almost
seem from this array hat any player
who could not hold a championship title
must have little skill OF little time to
enter the numerous tournaments offered.
An unfortunate clash OF dates oc-
ours in the schedule for the women.
Leading up to the women's national
championship at Philadelphia. June :.
there are several Womeu's events and
they crowd In 50 close on each other
that they overlap and double up badly,
leaving little or nc opportunity for those
Who are training for the championship
TO enter all
The season for the women opens May
10 with the Metropolitan Championship
az Forest Hiils. A special tournament
bcc.ns at Morrlstowu on May Il and
only two days later the Pelham Country
Cluh is scheduled for An invitation meet
.ng for women only The following week
al" Pennsylvania stat" open champion
ship tournament conflicts with the
women's evcn'S al the eastern New York
state championship cat liartsdale) that
has generally attracted a good entry
from the girls 1t Seems q pity that
these tournaments could not have, been
spread over "A little more ground so that
li'F Nll lON Nbllllltl 81 lhl'l III udltH.
II is not very many years since ON
plants were numerous because of the
uumbcr Of invitation tournaments on the
official schedule. These meetings arc
l,uiied to players arbitrarily selected 10y
the clubs holding them. and II was
claimed hat the fiilur" TO open their
entry lists limited the range of tourna-
mcut play foI ambitious young players
who were anxious to play more often
against the cracks of the country. THIS
s,a>lu Their" are no fewer than six Of
these invitation meetings ON the local
circuit. Sleepy Hollow country CLUB.
Nassau Country club. country club Of
WcSt,h"ster. Rockaway Hunting club.
Seahright tr.D k"t club and Crescent
Athieti' club. and IN addition there Will
be similar CLOSED tournaments at Tuxedo
Park. southampton and Newport.
The effort 10 restrict entries for inc
national championship tournament.
which brought out much heated discus
sion and many suggestions at the re-
cent annual meeting of the l. : y. l..
r \. Was somewhat along these lines.
and the final decision of the commit
tee not TO Limit the entries for the big
tournament at Forest Hl.ls the first
week OF september Will meet with gen
eral favor among the great rank and
file Of the players throughout the coun-
try. II - certainly against tn. ALI
corners principle on which his tour
nanent has SO long been conducted. and
IL is against the democratic spirit OF
the game that the championship should
be limited.
| have not seen a system suggested
yet for this limitation that would not
have shut out the entry OF Mclaughlin
the first year ne came east from the
coast, or of Johnston. Murray or Fot-
tre.l In their first years east. Yet almost
every one OF them vas considered q
qualified contender FOR championship
honorS IN his first year AZ Newport one
great difficulty is that players from far
on sections are unknown In the East.
Yet they may he good enough to WI
the championship, and we should not
refuse them the right TO try for IL.