LAWN TENNIS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1479, 29 June 1912, Page 17

LAWN TENNIS.

DAVIS CL'P DATES. ' , By Telegraph—Press A^spcjatipn—Cppji-.iprh.t Sydney, Juno 2.8. Tho Australian Laiyii. '£erinfc' Asspcia-' tion has informed tho English .Ajsocias ■ tion that America and Eranco have mresd ' to November as the, date, lor the Davis ; Cup matches, and that ;it. wbiil.d. be very : inconvenient to play the inatcii in Decern- : ber. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE N.Z.L.T A. . A meeting of the jlanagement. Cbniniit-: 1 too of the New Tennis; Association was held last • evening. Mr, U. A. Hurley.presided,'uv'the.absence of''Mr... , F. M. B. Eisher, who' attended .later'. Others present were: .'...Messrs; Redward, ; 1 Barton, and Gray. It was resolved that the nmended Tu'ie's of the Lawn Tennis Association (Eiiglan.d) ■ passed at its annual - mceling, . held in : October, 1911, ba adopted By tho Nc-.v . Zealand Association. , ' A letter was leceivcd iroru tho Aiiitralasi.an Association, suggestiijg a hicUfOil pf. banking" the' Davis Clip iiuidrf. ■ Thevsugy j' gestion was-agreed to. ' _ '. |. It was reported Uiai Ayres's laini f.Hinis balls had been adopted fur ilio i!H2 New Zealand championship meeting. In regard to tlio . chanipionsjiip: . meeting a letter was. receij-pd' Irqiiv tlte Auckland Association, lint was dofwrod : for further consideratipii... ~, Several matters in connection with Hie 1912 championship mr-c'.ing, to bo held at Hastings, wero dealt with. The secretary of lhs>.ljawn : Tfrinis Association of Australasia: wrotCi. .c.t't'erihg. that, the Australasian chanipip.nsh'ip. of 39.1? : bo played in New Zealand; : rhe biVer ji was accepted, and tlic oyciib irill.'bo: nliiyoJ at the end of Dsceinlior.