New-York tribune., 1921-01-08
Shift i'm Tennis
Dates to Mean
Much for Came
Boston and Philadelphia in
Line for Court Classics
After Years of Waiting
By Fred Hawthorne

There is going to be q shifting Of
dates this year, when it comes time
for the United States Lawn Tennis
Association to assign the various ma
tional championship tournaments, and
| believe that this changing about of
some Of the more important events is
going TO have beneficial effect on the
game in this country.
Championship, for instance, should
begin to rotate. Newport and New
York have staged this tourney ever
since its inception, forty years sgo,
and they have staged it wonderfully
well, but there are other cities that
desire, and have legitimate claim, to
take over the fixture.
And now it Is about to be done. The
result Of Americas victory in the Davis
'up matches last week means that
there will be q general shifting in
tn, the assignment of the fye leading
Journeys for next season. Boston and
Philadelphia will come into their own
after several years of waiting.
It was agreed by the officials Of the
y. S. L. 7. A. at the last meeting that.
in the event of the United States
winning the Davis Cup challenge
round matches in 1920, the national
singles championship Of 1921 should
be awarded to Philadelphia, on the
turf courts Of the Germantown Cricket
Club at Mannheim, while the cnal-
Ienge round Davis Cup matches will be
played on the courts Of the West
Side Tennis Club, at Forest Hills.
Doubles at Rrest Hills
The other championship tourna-
ments will be assigned as follows, if
the present plans are carried out:
National doubles championship
West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills.
l.. 7.
National women's hampionships-
Longwood Cricket Club, Boston.
National Intercollegiate champion
ships-Longwood Cricket Club, Boston.
Church Cup intercity matches-Ger-
mantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia.
While she gains one national title
event, Philadelphia loses another. for
the women's championship will leave
the courts Of the Philadelphia Cricket
Club, where it has always been held,
to move over to Boston.
The annual East-West matches were
held last September at the Germantown
Cricket Club, and at that time there
were not sufficient courts upon which
TO run off so large tournament as
the mems national singles. But this
difficulty has been obviated by the ac-
ton of the board Nf governors Of the
club in taking Ct'sr the famous Ger
mantown cricket creases on the broad
lawn that faces the clubhouse, for the
purpose of Transforming the turf into
tennis courts.
Challenge Rounds Here
The West Side Tennis Club will
hardly miss the national singles, for
in running the Davis Cup matches and
the national doubles fixtures there
will be moro than enough to do. The
challenge round matches for the in
ternational cup are certain to attract
crowds that will fill the stands to
overtowing, and the doubles attrac-
ton will probably contain the entries
Of several of the leading players Of
Europe.
AS for the transferring of the wom-
ems national event from PHILADELPHIA
to Longwood, doubt whether the
change will be for the better, or,
rather, that it will fare as we'll as in
its old home. The new courts OF the
Longwood Cricket Club arc not Vet
IN proper shape for cham pionship
play. The turf still needs seasoning,
and the accommodations for visiting
players at the small clubhouse are en-
tirely inadequate.
I hope that the tournament commit
tee OF the national association will
again name September date for the
holding OF the women's tournament, as
was the case last year. It makes for
better play; the heat is not so great.
and it gives the women a much better
opportunity for working their game
uD to the ION n0tch