TENNIS PROFITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 99, 27 April 1915, Page 8

TENNIS PROFITS.

TROUBLE OVER DISTRIBUTION £5,000 FROM THE DAVIS CUP. ■ (liy Telegraph.— Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON*, this day. \ Trouble appears to l>e browing iri { Australasian lawn tennis circles over the j t distribution of Davis Cup profits between s the Mew Zealand and Australian State Associations. A sum of over £5,000 i has been made out of the. Cup games in r Australia, and, according to the agree- i ment entered into some years ago, when t New Zealand decided to co-operate with Australia to win the coveted trophy, any .) profits made were to be distributed on A the basis of two-thirds to Australia and 1 one-third to the New Zealand Lawn < Tennis Association. The competition has < proved niuch more profitable, from a gate ] standpoint than tennis people antici- ( pated, .and money has even come to the i Australasian Lawn Tennis Association i from America as its share of the gates i there. A distribution of £2.100 was | 1 recently made, but New Zealand, instead < of petting £900. receive donly a one- | I seventh share (£300). This distribution - of outside profits might be held to be } outside the Davis Cup challenge agree- 1 ment. but a proposal is to come before * the Australasian Tennis Association's 1 next annual meeting to alter the consti- I ' tution in such a way that Xew Zealand | ' will benefit only lo* the extent of one-! , seventh in all distributions of profits. ? This i< held by the Xew- Zealand Asso- ; ciation to be a proposal so grossly violat- "' ing the agreement that the Dominion's ] delegates'at tho annual meeting in Syd-1 ' ney have had the most emphatic instruc- | ' tions to oppose it. They have been asked [ to state, if necessary, that, should the J Australasian council decide to adopt tho l proposed nitrations, in spite of the bind- ' ing- clause in rule ]0. then the Xew ' Zealand Association will be forced t have recourse to the law courts. Tennis ' players throughout Australasia realise ' that the Xew Zealand representative . (Wilding) has done his full share in recovering the Cup—in fact, when an ' attempt was made without his inclusion ] in the team it resulted in failure.