The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-20
REPLY TO NEWPORT
DEFENDERS ISSUED
Tennis Player Committee Gives
Further Reasons for Taking
Tournament Away.
ALL SECTIONS ARE IN LINE

As the date for the annual meeting OF
the United states National Lawn Tennis
Association draws nearer debate over the
place for holding the 1915 national cham
piouship tournament Is becoming more
and more ~ regular fight The West
side Tennis club is known to be anxious
70 hold the tournament. but the orEanlza-
ton has taken 10 official stand I'm the
matter. 4 short tmo ago the players
committee sent out a statement giving
its reasons for wanting the tournament
taken away from Newport The par
tisans OF Newport were not of mind to
let this go unhceded and last Sunday sent
ont an answer to tho statement, having
formed themselves into a committee too
Their arguments were answered In turn
by statement made public last night
The reply 20 the circular Of the COM
mittee ttvoriug Newport came from the
office Of Lyle T.. Mahau, secretary Of the
players committee. In the first place,
she Newport parti~tuS suggested iU their
circular that the movement of the players
committee tended to deprive certain sec
lions Of the country tn" opportunity uf
advancing its claim to the championship
tournament The players committee de-
MES this aud iu answer says. "bur COM
illltct ~ NATIONWIDE As JUS t'tlpltAlbH
plainly shows. quite the contrary TO that
Of our opponents. Its formation was the
result of national not sectional demand
10 broaden aud spread the game by re.
moving the championship from Newport
New York city was chosen becaus" Il
appeared at present the logical place.
Ever since 1911 this matter has been
before tho players Of the country, and
ample time afforded to advance claims"
In regard TO hSiug tho site Of the
tournament the committee says; The
! annual meeting has always decided yearly
I by vote 20 what place TN" national cham
| pionsuin was TO be- awarded. and We fail
| - see 'he necessity OF a new 'so-callod'
definite policy mis- year more than any
I other year In any case, the 1915 annual
meeting has not the power 10 bind Culture
annual meetings hy present legislation
Future conditions must and can best bc
me- as they arise. No annual meeting
. can Impose policy " rotation OF the
4 champN ush.p on future annual meetings.
We believe the championship should he
4 yearly allotted as IN the past, but 10 that
/ place wnich bss. serves the interests Of
/ the game.
One OF the principal, although really
, one OF the weakest arguments triC has
been advanced 10y the Newport partisaus
Is the sentiment gtt.uchod to the Casino
a. Newport Ia 1871. when a number
. Of players We're lighting to have the
/ tournG meut taken away from Newport.
som" OF the old timers gO' up and made
. much palaver about this sentiment and
/ did not appear 20 have any other argI-
| ments. The so-calied sentiment s. treated
in he following paragraphs ~ thc play
crs' committee reply:
We resp, c'fu!ly ackuowl edge the sen'itnen.
/ tai attachm"nr NJ many to Newport, but ~
I desire 20 SAY mat feeling ~ distinct dis
Z ike on the part OF many more IN number
a hat
championships has been held In one place
fut thit'} -iu,r s',tr' j. nu argument why b
lIk" many other things h7- outErown I;j
former environment. n outerew Newport
number ~ wears ago. bus Boston grasp or
3d." gam" has until now been too strong q
break. Tennis may formerly have belonged
az u Iil. TO that section ot tho country. hu
Who viii now assert that 1t h'N not outsrowt
There IS no obligation on tn, par OF IN
national Association. implied or otherwise, q
avur" ~ the likelihood "f q chang, eve
since l9li and has his year 'u any rus
received not'ca of seven months We sun
mt mat r' monetary considerations shoul'
ancrt thia question. N"wpor' has Valu''
much from "u. association Ia the past, an
. SHOULD 81 suffer slightly now a- We acl.sr
10 win moi. n .g IMPLY prepared 20 stand 'li
burden. W. believe. however, THAT TIA. \rW
por' Casino has not built u- addit'ona
tonal chamr."uship. hut hecaus" OF an 500
& creased demand In local play In iis own ciut
In one OF the closing paragraphs OF th'
reply thc question Of jus who the mem
= hers OF the committee fsvorlnE NeWpor
4 are and whom they represented is dis
8 cusaed as follows
/ We desire to pay duo respeot TO some o
. I lts houorai trnHl, names We wish, how
% over, rp point out mat at least eight OF Shes
are Of men VINO played when the game va,
: New EnElHnd'F and who have retired lon
, since, and IN consequence lost all touch Wit
. the growth ana needs Of tennis Tho enor
4 made 20 gather together this committee o
twenty nine has consumed as much laho
ana time ala ours and 81 f. worthy u
/ special notice that m It. whole composi'io
. there are only thirteen OF this years rank
ing players,
, W" further submit that thiG committee
not In any respect national but on the con
trary, Is extremely sectional In Its compile
Inent; with tho exception OF al few member
70 only, II ia made mp entirely OF men iron
n three cities Boston. New York and philu
drlphis who have al grown up IN an
p, the same environment.
As opposed 20 this the players com
: m.ttee points out that it Is formed OF ! .
u men, representative % eighteen state
and active tennis players.