The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
TO CURTAIL ENTRIES
TO CHAMPIONSHIP
Tennis and Golf Associations Have
Found Plan Necessary in Order to
Prevent Top Heavy and Long
Drawn-0ut Playing.

! New York, Feb 23.-That general
movement to curtail entries at various
national championship tournaments is
deemed necessary is shown by the recent
action of the tennis and golf associations.
1t has become apparent that in order
to prevent such competitions from be-
coming top-heayy and long -drawn.o out,
some form of limitation in either the en-.
! try or play must be adopted. At the
annual meeting of the United States Ma
| tional Lawn Tennis association, that
body went on record as favoring such a
move by adopting new regulations gov
erning the championship tournament to
be held at the West Side club, Forest
Hills, L. l., beginning Thursday, Aug. 80.
These will prove of great interest to
tennis players, because they change the
character of this event to the extent that
entrants will now be required to show
some qualifications to justify their com
peting for the national title. These quail
ifcations are not SO strict as to change
materially the open character of the
tournament, but they do prevent those
who might be fairly described as having
worse than an outside chance from en-
tering merely for the sake of playing in
the national championship.
When the tournament was shifted
from Newport to New York, it was felt
that in such a large tennis center many
PLAYERS might enter, Influenced in part
la 4 30 .,
ticket for the matches and to have the
distinction of competing in this event,
although without a possibility of coming
through Practically there has been some
tendency to restrict the entries by hav-
ing them made through club secretaries,
and this has helped to prevent the tour
nament being clogged by the presence of
some who could not be considered as Sc
rious contenders.
This restriction was not entirely eff
fective, however, and it became necessary
to draw up more drastic entry conditions
These were presented at the annual
meeting, and the delegates from clubs all
over the country seemed to be cordially
in favor of the idea, as it went through
without opposition. Consequently, the
following stand as the qualifications !
which will determine the acceptability of |
entries for the national championship in |
1917:
Entries shall close on published date,
at least ten days prior TO the beginning |
of play.
Entries shall be open to players in
good standing belonging to clubs or as
sociations having membership in the U. |
S. National Lawn Tennis association as
follows:
81. PLAYERS who have been ranked bv
the L. $. National Lawn Tennis associa-
ton. during any of the five (5) years
last preceding the tournament, or who
have at any time been ranked in the first
20.
-. Players who in the last three (3l
years preceding the championship have
been semi finalists or better in any two
sanctioned by the L. S. n.
L. T. A.
IS. Players who have in the current
playing season played in not less than
three 81 sanctioned tournaments. and
have made reasonably good record
Committee of management of the tour
nament to have the power To rule on the
value of players record.
II. Players who do not qualify in any
II the above classes, but whose entry Is
acceptable to the executive committee by
reason of residence in foreign countries,
promise Of skill, or other circumstances
leemed sufficient TO cause exceptions in
heir cases.
Entries shall be made through the
secretary OF a club belonging to the L. 5.
y. l. T. A"