New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20

- Edwin Fuller Torrey, vice-president'
aof the United States Lawn Tennis As
ISOLATION, who will act as referee of
both the mems and women's events,
announced last night that Richard
Norris Williams I'd, national singles
champion of 1914 and 1916, and pres
emit worlds doubles champion, with
Charles S. Garland, and Mrs. George
w. Wightman, former national doubles
and singles champion, among the
women players, had sent IN their en-
tries for the Palm Beach to- ney.
Leave for South Tonight
Mr. and Mrs Wightman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams left last night from
Boston and will be joined in this city
to-day by several of the leading play
ers from the metropolitan district. en-
training this evening at the Pennsyl-
vania Station for Palm Beach.
The entries of Williams and Mrs.
.Wightman mean that the annual
tournaments at Palm Beach will meas
ure fully up to the standards of other
years, when men like Beals Wright,
George Myers Church, Craig Biddle.
Theodore Roosevelt Pell and Kumagae
and women stars such as Mrs. Rawson
L. Wood, Mrs. Wightman and Miss
Walsh won the titles.
George Agutter. the Palm Beach pro-
fessional, who has been giving the
courts of the Hotel Royal Poinciana a
special course of treatment for the two
. weeks of play, has declared the clay
surface in unusually fine condition, and
everything indicates a highly success
full tourney.
Entries for the mems events will be
received by Howard NJ. Wing, secre-
tary of the club, up to and including
next Friday. The entry fees are 81 for
each person in each event, and should
be sent to Mr.. Wing at the Hotel Royal
Poinciana, Palm Beach.
The women's singles and doubles will
begin tomorrow and the mixed doubles
will start the following week. The men
start play on Saturday and will con-
tinue through the next week, with the
finals set for Saturday, March S.
A meeting of the utmost Importance
to every tennis club within the metro
poiitan district was held yesterday at
the offices of Paul B. Williams, field
q SECRETARY D! LnS OHItco ot0SSS LAWN
Tennis Association, with no less than
twenty-nne clubs represented by MEM
hers, who gathered to the number of
at least sixty.
Larger Body Planned
The purpose of the meeting was to
merge the present Metropolitan Tennis
Association into large, moro compre-
kensive body, in the nature Of New
York City and metropolitan tennis
center, which will take in al clubs in
Connecticut, New York and New Jersey
within a radius of thirty-five miles Of
the City Hall and all Of Long Island.
Ultimately, probably next year, this
enlarged body will be formed into the
the whole of this state to its scope
of operations.
The following clubs were represented
at this meeting: West Side Tennis
Club Crescent Athletic Club, Univer-
sity Height Tennis Club Hoboken Ten
mis- Club, New York Tennis Club, West
field Tennis Club, Mount Pleasant Ten
mis- Club, Hamilton Grange Tennis
Club, New Rochelle Tennis Club, Ter
Island Cricket Club, Glen Ridge Coun-
try Club, Passaic Tennis Club, Atlantic
Yacht Club, Flushing Tennis Club, 7th
Regiment Tennis Club, Montclair Ath-
letic Club, Westfeld Golf Club,
Country Tennis Club of Westchester,
.Amackassin Club, Colonial Heights
Tennis Club, Dunwoodie Country Club,
Fairview Golf Club, Gedney Farms
Country Club, Brooklyn Heights Ca
sino. Sanford Tennis Club, Summing dale
Country Club and Peninsula Tennis
Club.
Charles Chambers, Of the Terrace
Kings County Club who found
ed the Metropolitan Tennis Associa-
tion and has been leading spirit In
its activities, made the opening adj
dress, outlining the purposes of the
meeting and what the organisation
chopped TO bring about. He then intro.
duced Julian S. Myrick, president OF
the national association, who spoke 60
the members for several minutes
pointing out the great advantages that
were bound to follow a consolidation
of interests such as was planned.
Myrick declared that the clubs con-
cerned would gain tremendous influ.
ence through this organization, gain.
ing form of "home rule" that would
aid them materially in every way. He
strongly urged that every club within
the metropolitan district join the new
body at once.
1t was explained that this local or.
ganization will receive all the dues OF
heWDer ciupS and ChaC bU per cent OF
these dues will be paid over to the ma.
tional association, with the other half
to be retained by the local body. All
clubs, and hence all delegates, will
have equal voting power in the ma
tional association.
Temporary Committee Named
A temporary committee was appoint
ed at yesterdays meeting, with Charlie.
Chambers as chairman and Jones w
Mersereau as secretary, and this com.
mittee, consisting of Haddon WINS
chairman; A. j. Ostendorf, A. S. Hart
G. A. Walker jr., f. w. Peaslee, j. A
Allen and c G. Heylum, whose duty il
will be to organize the few clubs that
- were not represented at yesterdays
meeting and bring them into the folc
before March IL, when final organi.
cation meeting will be held and con.
stitution adopted. All clubs that joir
on or before that date will gain stand.
ing as charter members.
Royal D. Richey, of the Terrace
Kings County Club, drew attention tx
the added Importance that the loca
ranking list would gain, now that The
national association has decided here
after to rank only the first twenty mer
{ in the country, and he also outlined
the possibilities of plan whereby th
clubs of the metropolitan distric,
could get together and build and equir
an indoor tennis building within the
greater city limits.