LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS MOTIONS FOR ANNUAL MEETING The recommendation of the council of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association to the management committee that the South Canterbury Association’s application for the New Zealand championships next season be allotted to Timaru is likely to be contested strongly at' the annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Association at Wellington on August 26. Normally the recommendation of the council would be adopted automatically by the management committee, but the Auckland Association has oiven notice to move at the annual meeting that the council’s resolution be rescinded. The Canterbury Association has also moved that the championships be held at Christchurch. Another motion has been notified by Auckland providing that five weeks’ notice be given of resolutions by the council to the management committee regarding the allocation of championships or dates. The president of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association (Mr P. R. Harman) and the secretary (Mr S. W. Jameson) were nominated by the Canterbury Association’s management committee yesterday as delegates to the annual meeting. They ware instructed to support all three motions. Another circular from the South Canterbury Association in support of its case for the championships was read at the meeting. It was claimed that a “gate” at Timaru during the holiday period was assured, and that this would be important in view of the non-par-ticipation of visiting Australian players in the tourney. Mr Mercer said it was not the place of the Canterbury Association to point out where the shortcomings of the Timaru facilities lay; the association should emphasise its own excellent facilities. He doubted whether members of the New Zealand Association were familiar with conditions in the south. If the facilities in the two centres were compared side by side he was sure that Canterbury would be favoured. , „ Mr R. Browning said that the Canterbury Association had now gone so far that it must support the motion to rescind the resolution of the council. He was doubtful, however, whether the decision would be reversed. I ‘ LIMITING ENTRIES i “A RETROGRADE STEP” A move by the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association to limit entries for the New Zealand championships was described at a meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association yesterday as a very retrograde step. Canterbury will oppose the motion at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Association in Wellington on August 26. The Wellington Association’s resolution provides for a limit of 32 entries in the men’s singles and 16 in each of the other senior events. Quoting the annual report of the New Zealand Association, Mr J, Mercer, the chairman, said that entries in the men’s singles since 1928 had been 50, 35, 43, 43, 46, 39, 57, and 45 respectively, and in the women’s singles 28, 27, 27, 29 26, 39, 29, and 19 respectively, while most of the other events all exceeded considerably the proposed limits. Mr J. R. Johnston said that young players gained valuable experience in the championships and should be encouraged to enter rather than discouraged. His views were supported by other speakers. PLAY BETTER TENNIS. New Season’s Restrings that will guarantee a faster and better gamecomplete 12/6, 17/6, and 25/-. Single strings 9d each. Country Clients!— “Our same-day mail order service is a specialty.” THE TENNIS SHOP, I Armagh street and Hereford Court. ’Phone 31-452. 83247