LAWN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 105, 4 May 1920, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS.

(By FOOTFAULT.) The> Auckland Association held n meeting on Thursday evening Taßt. when a fair number of delegates al tended. The secretary reported that the takings at the l»pami*h and Lowe exhibition niiitchcM mral'i'i] n> , :. , . the nroflt amounting to £fi.->. At Wellington the three days' takings totalled tITI, whilst for two days at i.'hrlstcliiir.-h t.".ni) was obtained. The N.Z. Association Intend making a new rule to prevent two players from the same town meeting one another in the first round. This is a very good move imlr-ed. as it very often occurs, iv fact a recent Instance was Uinrensnn and Bartleet meetins in the first round of the N.Z. Championship nt Wellington. Davis Cap.— Po far nothing definitt liaa been fixed re the centre in whii-h the next I>avls Cup fixture is to be played It is New Zealand's turn to have the fixture, and Auckland. 'Hastings and Chrlsteliiireli ;avc applied for it. As soon as tile Australasia ii Council decide where it Is lo lie held the: preparation of a court can lie gone on with, but until some definite word is obtained practically nothing can be done. The local association have great hopes ol the fixture being held here, and with this in view have ibeen looking at a piece ol Kronnd at the south-eastern end of the Domain. Owing to the fact that there must be stands all round the court it would lie impossible to hold th" fixture on any of our local club lawns. It is to be hoped that the Australasian Association will wake up to the fact that a court has to lie prepared, and it takes some time to get a piece of ground into first-class eirder. The sooner the decision is made the tiettei the court will be. It appears that tho. article which appeared ill the "Star," commenting on the management of the recent X.X Championship fleeting, held in Wellington, set things movirrg, and the Auckland and -Can tenbnry associations eventually protested ngalnst the bad management The outcome was that at the quarterly meeting of th< X.Z. Association, the secretary, Mr. A Pctherick, replied In detail, exoneratlni himserf, tint refused to handle, any future meetings. If this is the case it would bt In the best interests of tennis if a chanjrt were made." Mr. Petherlck has workec hard, but he does not Mem to have the support of the prominent men In tennh circle*, and without this he is enable tc make the progress that Is necessary. Mr. Barry Keesing, the Auckland eWev gate to the N.Z. Association, was recentlj appointed to the Management Committee The application of the Cambridge clut for. affiliation to -the Auckland -issuciatloi was approved^.