Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
PHILADELPHIA AFTER
BIG TENNIS TOURNEY
Committee to Make Fight
for National Singles
Championship for Ger.
nm,to,Un Cricket Club
WOMEN PLAY HERE
by SPICK HALL
~ THE committee named to make

+ THE committee named TO make a
fight for the Germantown Cricket
Club to get the mems national singles
championship event is successful in its
drive, Philadelphia will have the two
big teams events of 1920. It is vir-
tualy settled that the Philadelnhia
Cricket Club. st. Martins, again will be
tho seem of the womcn's nationals.
Next Friday the matter probably will be
settled when the annual meeting of the
United States National Lawn Tennis
Association is held in New York.
When the singles championship was
taken from Newport and given to the
Forest Hills Tennis Club, Long Island,
the argument was used that the big
nationel event should be held in differ
cnt parts of the country, to stimulate
the interest not in the national cham
pionships but in the game itself.
similar argument seems valid at this
time, and it is not unlikely that the
Germantown Cricket Club. with ITS
excellent facilities for holding the tour
nament, will be awarded the meet.
Has Done Much %
The cricket club at Mannheim has done
more than any other club in Philadel-
nhia for the advancement of tennis
Nearly every year exhibition matches
are held there and the attendance at all
of the matches has shown how keen the
interest is. Philadelphia has produced
a host of great tennis players and GER
taiuly deserves TO get the national event,
Bill Tilden and Wallace, the leading
players of Philadelphia now, were
ranked in the first ten for l9lo ana
should again be far up ii not at inc
pinnacle of the list OF the nation eH-
pcrts.
rhiladclphia's flight for the national
tournament are 4. L. .Hoskins, W. J.
Tildep. I'd. Howard W. Lewis, w. L.
Kurtz and J. II. Carpenter, Jr.
Rule Changes
The proposed changes in the scoring
and handicap rules will be the big issue
at the meeting next Friday. The Metro
politan Association, with representa-
tives from the New York Tennis CLUB,
Seventh Regiment Tennis Club and
Kings County are so insIstent upon
substitute for the proposed handicap
regulations that they have persuaded j,
| w, Mersereau, chairman of the associa :
tion. to make public the substitutes
which they will offer at the coming
meeting.
Below arc the proposed changes of the
| Motropolitan Association to be pre-
| sented to the U. s. n. l.. It. A.,
In handicap matches the method OF
| scoring shall be as follows:
A-Points shall be counted one, two,
three, four, in continuity.
B-A total of thirty points for com
| petitor shall constitute set.
C-Thc best two out OF three sets
shall constitute match.
D-The service shall change after
each five points played. The service
shall change at the beginning of each
set.
E-Tho players shall change courts
after five points, fifteen points, twenty
| five points, and so on. :,
The allotted handicap points shal
| apply on each set, the player first at
tanning thirty points, less his handicap
! allowance, to stand as the winner OF
| the set
illustration: Player A, with handi
cap of two points, completes with player
B, with handicap of five points. A
must win thirty points before B wins
comedies the handicap to his opponent
always plays from scratch.
Warns Against New Rules
Bob Wrcnn, former president of tho
| National Association, does not believe
that the association should adopt any
radical changes at this time. He be.
lieves that such sweeping changes would
result in the games losing some of the
popularity which it has gained in the
last few years.
Wrcnn thinks that the association
should leave the game alone and put al
of its time in making plans for Davi!
Cup play and other big tournaments
which increase the popularity of tennis
mis-.
Here is what Wrenn had to say re.