Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-07
Get Women's National, De-
feat Vest Sides Fiue-
Year Scheme, Elect Jen-
nirgs and Gibbons
BY SPICK HALL
san Correspondent Of the Evening
Public Ledger

Public Ledger
Nav York, Feb. THE 1920 tennis
,,oson opened up with as many thrills
ss there were in 1919. 80,
From mid afternoon yesterday until
a, carly hour this morning the annual
n,ssting of the United States National
Tswn Tennis Association held forth.
Although everything went off fairly
.oir,lv. there was a vast volume of con :
uarsation on every bit Of business that
same M, and there were many things to
come up. ,,,
we're: s.e.,. .,.
not the one proposed by the rules
Adoption of the committees new
bondicap rule. which provides for
scoring by points instead of by games
and sets as heretofore.
Adoption of all other recommended
lions of the committee in its revision
nf the by laws, except section IL,
which provided that linesman might
roverse his decision il he felt reason
oblv certain that he had made an
error. c. VI,
Wipbtman's offer to donate per-
netual trophy for international play
~ women. This cup will be called
the Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
tropby in honor Of its donor, former
and present women's national singles
champion.
The elimination Of the word ina
tional' in the official title of the as
ISOLATION.
Determination to send challenge
IN Australia before March 1, for the
Davis cup.
Decision to send team to the Olym-
mic games at Antwerp, Belgium, next
summer, provided that those events do
NOT conflict with the Davis cup
matches or national tournament.
The awarding Of the mems national
tournament to the West Side Tennis
Club.
Refusal to grant the West Side
Tennis Club the privilege of having
the tournament for the next five years.
Awarding the women's national
tournament to the Philadelphia
Cricket Club, st. Martins, Philadel
phia.
Election Of the following officers
Julian s. Myrick, New York, presi-
dent; E. f. Torrey. Clinton, N. v,
vice president; G. w. Wightman, Bos7
ton. secretary; Jos. NJ. Jennings,
Philadelphia, treasurer Paul Gibbons,
r. Lindley Murray, ]. B. Adou,
Edwin Sheaf, G. d. Jones. sectional
delegates; J. D. e. Jones, H. Hunes,
G, S. Garland, r. d. Wrenn, G. T.
Adee, H. W. Slocum, delegates at
large.
Adoption Of the ranking and other
committees reports.
Quakers Win Points
There were many other things con :
Bidered and passed upon but those re-
cited are the leading events. Philadel-
phia Jared well at the meeting The
Quaker City delegation went forth to
make q fight to have Joseph M. Jen-
nings, Cricket Club, elected national
treasurer; to put Paul Gibbons in as q
district delegate; to block the efforts of
the West Side or any other club from
getting the national tournament for
longer than one year and again to get
the. womcn's tournament for the Cricket
Club.
All these things the Philadelphians
succeeded in obtaining without having
to use the twenty six votes that they
could have thrown into the fray.
1t was confidently expected before the
meeting that there would be large do
ings when the rules committee recon- =
mendations regarding the footfault, scor-
ing and handicap rules came up. There
was protracted struggle in which,
everybody had knockout scored against
them except L. e. Mahan, the long and
angular representative of the West Side
Club.
The committee was defeated by hav-
Ing their footfault proposal replaced by
the one suggested by Mahan, the antis
we're beaten when the committee won its
fght for the new handicapping system.
Several days ago the committee de-
clded to forget it's suggestion about
changing the scoring system from the
present to one of numerical points ex :
cept as applied to handicaps. The words
love" and deuce" consequently are
still with US, and if future delegates TO
the annual meetings show the same dis
position as those yesterday, the old
method of scoring will remain for a
long while.
In revising the by laws, the com :
mittee made changes in nearly every
section of every article, but with the
exceptions noted the alterations were