LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 9

LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION.

The Management Committee of the Now Zealand Lawn 'lomiis Association tnet last evening, Professor T. Hunter presiding. ' The programme lor the Wairarapa tournament was approved, subject to the condition that certain second pmos be not cut out. The tournament is a handicap meeting, to be held on the Masterton Club's courts on January 21 and 22, 1910.' -Tho Canterbury, .College Club revested permission to hold the annual ;DniTersity;tournamont;at .Chnstchurch:atiEdster.V.,":eonsidera- : tion; of:thermatter ;waS: deferred ■ to next'meet-' lhsi Canterbury ;;College.' to bo advised in'-'.the meantime.to.arrange for the 'affiliation'of the Auckland University 'Clttb.h. V;v •''■] ■-■ : '^ ■' v-v ' .BuleS .of; the.iiawke'silay-'AssociatiOn , were formally:approved.-!>'.,:i.;:. ; ':i v ■.;':,;;.:;:■;/, .:.;':Word. was receive!. by- cablegram : from Sydney . that it; was iliitiossible to 'arrango for a ■.visits.vNoff , Zealand;of\a-ladies' team from New South Wales'. .;The •' chairman explained , .that .it.was giiite-possible 'that,a team-would ,bo : ,sent< next year,V:es. : the .Davis..Cup Contest ATOUlii probably: .take' place, in :New.Zealand; :■;■'. ■'■' Professor Hunter, reporting:.on. : his: visit to Australia/1 said :that';ho>,was received by'-the. •Australasian:.Association' with'great cordiality. Iloihad. interviewed many .men., apart frdin the c6nfeieiice, : and had. conie. to conclusion that .it.was to'",; force the' ■ {ormation. of .an .Australian. Association,- since such an action would lend only to strife. Without ithe-.'formation,': of an \ Australian: Association,' New' Zealand could not get- equal 'representation with Australia,-:but.'notwithstanding this,'''he .-.thought' the.: Australasian Association would -work.saisfactorily. provided,it were-Te-constituted nndi'its/pbwers were limited to the I 'management'/of;;' the" Davis' Cap contests.- [ Though the akreemeiit -arrived: at had yet to beconfirqed,' there was little possibility of its being -reversed since,-oil 'the delegates ati.tho conference ' were 4 for,; a .'settlement. Briefly, the chief points of the agreement,were that... the "Australasian Association: was. to control the -Dayis : Cup: contests, ivhich were to bo .heUl.twice in Australia.aid.once in New Zealand;; iTho'vvice-president of the centre: whero the;' contest' was;,: held ■ would ■ be; for the time being president , of.the, Australasian Association. The.funds.from;the'contests.would be , divided in;thoipropOrtidn.'bf iS3 to. Australia'and.ill to-New,Zealand,,and jtliey.would he : sef : asidfl specially for the purpose of. Davis Cup competitions,-, not' to:;De devoted'- to' any. other' object, save by ■a ■ unanimous ■ vote -of ; the States. ••'. Thie agreqrnent.was to hold, good while the cup.reniairie'd inttustralssiaii»nd'for twelve-months aftorwards, so that if ; tho cuprwere lost-Aus-tralid and-'Now, Zealand ...would fight l , for;it at least.'once.together.;; '•:';:'; V'.-; ; ;\ M . ! ' ;, ''■•;