The New York herald., 1921-01-10
DAVIS CUP TENNIS
FOR FOREST HILLS
Challenge Round as Well as
American Doubles Will
Come Here.
NATIONAL SINGLES MOVE
Philadelphia Is to Be Scene
Women's Tourney Slated
for LongwOod.
BY DANIEL.

In the wake of Americas regaining
the Davis Cup and the certainty that
the challenge round for the trophy will
be played in this country next summer
has come an intense interest in the prob
able complexion of the schedule of big
events for 1921. While official word
from the powers that be in the United
States Lawn Tennis Association has
been lacking. it is quite safe to say that
they lean toward sending the national
singles championship tournament to
Philadelphia. or course. the final word
rests with the delegates at the annual
meeting here next month.
The national singles has been held at
Forest Hills on the splendid courts OF
the West Side Tennis Club for a number
Of years and a feeling of unrest seems
to have developed thereover in the out
lying sections Philadelphia, for one, Is
determined that the tournament shall
rotate and that the rotation shall begin
next summer. Incidentally. while it is
talking Of rotation, it Is making plans
to ask the national association to give
II the singles fo- a period of three years,
which 1t will not do.
The West Side Tennis Club has re-
signed itself to the loss of the national
singles, but for that there Is good rea-
son. In return for relinquishing the
singles to Philadelphia the West Siders
are to get the national doubles. which
, have been held at Longwood for many
years, and the challenge round for the
Davis Cup. 1t seems safe to predict that
the Davis Cup matches here will excite
as much interest as would the national
singles and that in the exchange the
West Side Club will get the better end.
women's Event for LongwOod.
While Philadelphia will obtain the
national singles and attain the goal
toward which 1t has been striving for
the last twenty years. it will lose the
women's national championship tourna-
ment. which has been Quaker City
fixture for many years The women's
event is to be sent to Longwood to COM
pensate 1t for the loss of the national
doubles. Longwood will welcome this
change 1t has drawn the women's
national indoor tournament, too, which
will be held in March.
While it is up to the national associa-
tion to award the championships we are
In q position to give the dates for the
big tournaments which will lead up to
the titular competition. Seabright has
put In a bid for the week beginning
August 1. This will usher in the grand
cycle. and will be followed by the OPEN
ing of the tournament at Newport on
August g. Southampton will start its
annual competition on August Is. and
on August 90 we are quite sure that
New York will see the inaugural OF the
first national doubles championship tour
nament yet staged in this section.
Nm n ha aY,'a oh a MI
ship event is quite likely to be started
at Longwood. The challenge round for
the Davis Cup--America VS.. Australasia
again, most likely-probably will be
started on Saturday, September B. and
with fair weather will bring the doubles
matches of that programme on the fol-
lowing Monday. which will be Labor
Day. That would be an admirable ar
rangement.
LatesDate for Singles.
The national singles, we believe. will
be started at Philadelphia on Septem-
Der IL. This will be the latest date yet
set for the national event. Newport
used to run 1t early In August and at
Forest Hills 1t was started late in Au-
gust so as to bring the final, with fair
weather., on Labor Day. But at Phila-
delphia, particularly this year. an Au-
gust date would be out of question. For
one thing. a good many of the followers
of tennis would be away in the noun
tains and at the seashore.
But what Is more important. the
schedule would not be acceptable unless
the national singles came after the Da-
Wis Cup matches. The United States
Lawn Tennis Association expects to OBJ
tain the entries OF the challenging ma
tionals for the American singles cham
pionship. II they competed first in the
national singles the Davis Cup matches
would be in the nature of an anti
climax.
BY putting the national singles after
the Davis Cup round the national as
ISOLATION would provide fitting climax
for the season, would make the singles
bigger and more interesting. and would
give beaten challengers chance to
come back against their conquerors.