New-York tribune., 1921-04-27
Foreign Stars May Com
pete in Tourney at Club
of w World Champion
By Fred Hawthorne

1t will not be the fault of "Big Bill"
Tilden, the worlds singles lawn tennis
champion, if the annual Rhode Island
state championship tournament, to be
held on the courts of the Agawam
Hunt Club, in Providence, during the
week of July 1S, does not overshadow
all except the national singles tourney
itself IN the quality of its entry.
Tllden, who is a member of Agawam
Hunt has already secured entries from
Richard Norris Williams I'd, Watson
NJ. Washburn, Charles S. Garland, Vim
cent Richards and Samuel Hardy, and
promise from William M. Johnston. of
California, that he will make every
effort to play at Providence. Tilden
also expects to compete, for he plans
TO return from Europe on July u and
make his first appearance after land
ing in the Rhode Island event.
1T IS also probable that members of
the English and Australasian and
French Davis Cup teams will take the
courts at Agawam Hunt.
The Metropolitan Tennis Association
IS evidently going to make its presence
telt IN all local sanctioned tournaments
played this summer, and if everything
goes through according to plans then
the tournament situation in the metro
politan district ought to be vastly i'm
proved over what it has been in pre-
vious wears.
Enforce the rules" is the motto of
the local association and every effort
will be made to live up to this motto.
No longer will players be able to en-
ter tournaments at the last moment,
after the entry list has been closed, as
has been done before, for the ruling
on this matter reads as follows:
ENTRIES for sanctioned tourna-
ments shall be closed not later than
the evening of the second day pre-
ceding the date announced as the
first day of play in the tournament.
No entry shall be accepted unless
given in writing by the entrant and
panied by check, money order
or cash, for the entry fee"
The Metropolitan Association has
jurisdiction over all sanctioned tour
naments within radius of thirty-hve
miles of New York City, and the first
club to put the new rules into effect
will be the University Heights Tennis
Club, which will begin its annual open
doubles tourney on Saturday. The en-
tries will close tomorrow evening at
1880 o'clock, with Embree X. Hender
son, 1862 University Avenue, Bronx.
On the following Thursday entries will
close for the annual open tournament
of the Harlem Tennis Club and should
be sent to Louis Bry, West Twenty
second Street, before 6 p. m. o'clock.
Haddon Ivins, of the Hoboken Tennis
Club, is chairman Of the metropolitan
committee on tournaments and rules,
and this committee will not only be
represented at tournaments in all parts
of the metropolitan district, but will
also call upon the sub-committees of
trct TO aid in the enforcement of the
rules.
Charles s. Landers, president of the
association, is going to devote his in
very important features of tournl-
ment play, namely, the efficient
umpiring of all tournaments in tn"
metropolitan district and the develop
ment of municipal tennis, particularly
among boys and juniors.
Landers has asked Albert ]. Ostsa-
dorf, of the New York Tennis Club, to
organize an umpres' association, ard
Heights Tennis Club, to accept tho
Craftsmanship of committee to pro-
mote the municipal tennis.
If Mr.. Landers succeeds in getting
together an efficient corps of umpi ces
and linesmen to officiate at the numc~-
Gus tournaments in the metropolitan
district this summer, he will have ac-
complished something that should raise
the standards of compntition to heights
never before achieved\ b local Journeys.