New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
National Net
Championship
In Quaker City
Philadelphia Certain of Big
Meet This Year-Tourna-
ment To Be Rotated
By Fred Hawthorn.

according to the tentative schedule
i0r the national championship tour
nana chts' as recently prt forth by the
on'ted States Lawn Tennis Association
lor the approval Of the delegates to
'le annual meeting of the parent body
"nen 1t convenes at the Hotel Nc
Atp'n on February 5, the national sim
gles event is to go to the Germantown
0i;cNes Is e. Club, Of Philadelphia.
,,o:ss 'HlS IS done, and Indications all
po,n' tsaa 4, II that direction, it will mean
tato taas Vnc tennis cycle has begun to ro-
ta tare. and that hereafter the LEADING
tennis cities, such as New York iis. phiis, :.
aa1slphla. Boston. Newport. and nnssi- [,ss'i
ply talcago and San Francisco will
tlass tsnr;l eneir chance to stage the premier
''i1's-s MIXTURE CT American courts.
;.'iS Is q move in the right d;rec-
tioH' j." move that has been foo lon,
hSe.ayea' IN my opinion. and | onlv
nope lat. after the process of rotation
onGe oeglns, it will continue in lopical
oroef. Anythipg less would be Unfair
w.. w. '"s other cities Interested, for each
e.as aohe its part in Developing the
,d N'.u 80. mourning the expense at
''Iiei ~ 20 staging big tournaments.
wishes, the holding Of the the rst nstionai jonai
Ss;hsies on the courts OF thc West SID
ennis Club OF Forest R7ris vo,ld ho
perfectly agreeable knowing. ae d.
'ne uneXcelled facilities of -4ha locs
cllD' the great crowds that are cor-
Ia .a4A 20 attend, and the ease with which
eile grounds may be reached from this
Coordination Is Essential
But this is a matter in which Tho
question of what is convsninn+ on saion me ne
rrohtaple to any one citv or c,nh
srouid not enter into the considera4ion
oa 81 nose who have the best irterests
OF the game at heart. New York va - :
one OF the most outspokca of the ten-
nls centres at the time the nationaI
journey was first transferred f.on,
Newport TO Forest Hills. in 1915 ana
ca lna0 occasion the supporters of the
movement clanored loudly for rota4ion
NJ the event. A 4o'asio''
r., u,ndoubtedly. the West Side Tennis
N.up mas done more than anv Other
snsie agency TOR the advancement and
4:ueSplead development of tennis in
". ms country, and the manner in yh;cI
VAc great tournament has been I.o,.' non'
qqmicted q1iS, by those in charge ut Forest
Cheney. "0"'e OF en-
W u IS five years, however. since 4he
west SIDE Tennis Club took tho tomr-
n,ey away from Newport, WHARF II I'D
Deen played season after season fo.
more than thirty years. In those fva
years the local club has had it's on.
por,unity to more than pay for the cost
o. the DIG stands that were erected and
lof 'Ae other expenses that attach ro
tne running Of the event, and now il is
inc Tor Philadelphia, for instance, to
AXE over the tourney.
! he Germantown Cricket C1ub uLa,,
ri It's splendid turf is piven over -
tlay, VIII have a tota! of fortv-two
courts on which to run of tho tonrna.
rlent, as against the twenty-three that
the west Side Tennis Club has found
a;np.e to hold the event So much for
tAat, and as for the rest Of it, ~
courts at Germ antown are Just as con.
renIent to Philadelphia. proper as are
Sc West Side courts to our own Penn
sylvania Station, while the sccommoda-
lions for visiting players are more ade-
quate than at our local club
Propose Three-Year Limit
It would hardly be fair to expect
Philadelphia to be satisfied with q
sngle years holding of the event, for
the cost of the stands and other ex-
aenses would exceed the gate" AT
east two years, and probably three
would be required before any club
Gliding the national singles tourney
could make a reasonable profit.
This would mean, naturally, t. at
o.her clubs would have to sit and pine
or three years al a stretch until ther
5urn came. but that is preferable
'irely. to the present practice of wait
iny for a stretch of forty Years which
is what every city in the United States
except Newport and New York City, has
onaN comnelled to do so far