Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
PLANS ARE COMPLETED ~
FOR NATIONAL SINGLES i
PLAY AT FOREST HILLS.
Grand Stand Seating 100 Will Be Erected by West Side
Tennis Club-Proceeds to Be Turned
Over to War Fund

'etary. postofice box 2s37, Boston, Mass.
The proceeds will 60 to the War De-
Dartment commission on training camp
activities. Headquarters for players will
he at the Hotel Lenox and Edwin Sheafs
will act as referee
The boys and Junior tennis center
championships for Boston will be played
the same week. beginning on August II.
Winners will be eligible to play for the
national titles
Clinton l.. Childs. of Pittsburgh. was
appointed chairman of the COMMITTEES to-
study equalization Of voting power in
the United States National Lawn Tennis
Association and suggest changes to Its
annual meeting. Associated with him
are l., Harry wa,dner. OF Chicago. who
first brought the matter to the attention
of the national body. and Edward Sheafe,
of Boston. Their long connection with
tennis and their prominence in its affairs
promise a satisfactory adjustment.
Aside from collecting information from
those who represent tennis opinion in
the various sections of the country the
committee will not be particularly active
until the end of the war At the ex-
ecutive committee meeting in Chicago.
where the proposal was argued at length,
every one agreed that it would be ex.
tremely unwise to attempt any radical
II
Wa'dner's proposal, in brief. Is TO
create an executive committee made UP
of representatives Of eleven sectional
organizations, most of which are in op-
GRAFTON. Additional members might be
elected by the annual meeting, but az
each association would be responsible
for the development of tennis in its own
section the annual meeting would in all
probability soon become largely a mat
ter of form. Rather than attempt this
innovation while conditions are unset
tied 1t was unanimously agreed that
changes had better be left for the future,
and the committee was named to have
information available when the time
comes for action.
Want Sectional Doubles
Representatives of the Middle West,
Northwest and Southwest gave the East
something to think about when they
declared without reservation that elimi-
nation Of the sectional doubles cham-
piorships had been an error Of judg-
ment. This was done at the annual
| meeting in 1917 despite the protests Of
men who told the delegates that these
championships had done more than any
one act of the national association to
stimulate interest in the game through
out the country.
Ward C. Burton. Of Minneapolis; c.
Drummond Jones. of st. Louis, and ]. b.
Adoue. Jr, of Dallas. said that the tro-
phies put up by the association had
brought home to the players in their re-
spective sections the activities of the as
sociation in the most direct manner. Fur
thermore they argued that the winners
of sectional championships would go to
play against other teams when they
would not make a similar trip to enter
an open tournament
"It was to secure just such information
as this that the executive COMMITTEES
meeting was scheduled in Chicago said
Myrick on hearing the reports from the
delegates.
"If we had accomplished nothing else
! think this expression OF opinion would
have made the meeting we'll worth
WHILE" was the statement Of the score.
tary, Edwin F. Torrey.