LAWN TENNIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 9

LAWN TENNIS.

MANAWATU ASSOCIATION. r \ . MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The management conn littee of the Ma.nawatu Lawn Tennis Association met last evening. Those present! were - Messrs J. T. McDonald chairman, C. C. Yates, S. Stannard, N , C. Hailding, L. D. Lovelock, J. B. Y orrall ajid J. H. White (secretary). f The Queen Carnival wi s shortly! discussed and the general fe ling wasathat the committee should k ;ep in tnucli with the clubs and earn on activities as at present for the Spi rts Queen. It was pointed .out that ma ly tennis! enthusiasts were actively : nterestedj in the campaign, some bein 5 on committees for other queens. \ _ The Linton Tennis Clu j> wrote advising that owing to the state of the courts, and because the ijlub’s fina,nses were taxed to the utmost!, it had bifen unable to affiliate this ye ir.- —Received with regret. _ t The Pahiatua Lawn Te mis and Croquet Club applied for ' fecember 3v, ! 1933, and January 1,2 a id 3, 1934, as dates (on which the usual tournamenjt is held) for this season’s tournament!. —The request was grante 1. 1 The management comi littee of the New Zealand Association advised that, ’it was regretted that it l tad been un-, able to arrange for the appearance of, either the English or th 3 Australian, team in Palmerston Nort 1. The limit- t ed time available for matches in New , Zealand made it impossible to include , all district associations in the itineraries and the travelling facilities for the visitors had to be considered.-—lt was decided to write to the New Zealand Association regretting that/neither of the teams would be appearing in Pal- ( merston North and expressing the wish that the claims of the city, being central for a wide district, should be considered when teams visited the Dominion in. future. 1 The Northern Bowling, ITennis and Croquet Club advised that "its committee would be willing to aid efforts for the furtherance of the candidature of the Sports Queen. The Pohsi ngina Club secretary advised that mi st of that club’s members were supp offing the Farmers’ Queen, but all a r ailable assistance would be given b v the club to the Sports Queen. —llece ved. The Hutt Valley Sub-Asst ciation enquired the possibility of ar anging a match with the Manawatu Association during the sepson. The tea.n suggested was four ladies and four gentlemen. The match could be staged ii the Hutt Valley as there were two c übs which were quite willing to gran t the rise of their grass courts, both of which were in first class order.—] t was decided to write to the sub-; ssociation thanking them for’the invitation, and suggesting that the date for he match should be fixed later in the si ason. The suggestion of a suitable da <e is also to be requested. An invitation for a Manav atu team to play either in Hastings < r Napier was received from the Hawke’s Bay Association. The dates suggested were March 4 or March 11, it being also suggested that the team should travel on the previous day.-—The a ssociation is to be thanked for the irritation, further consideration to be given to the actual date of the matcl later in the season. . The Whalcarongo Lawn Te inis Club advised that it had been de :ided not to affiliate this year—Received with regret. . , ~ Gratification was expressed at the number of entries received for the inter-club competition this y ear. The entries were:— Saturday—A. Grade: Shannon, Foxton, Palmerston Nor h, Feilding and Pahiatua. Saturday—B Grade: West End, Tak;lro A and B, Bunnythorpe, Palmerston North, Bulls, Pahiatua, Long-

burn, Poliangina, Feilding and Manawatu.

Wednesday.—A Grade: Takaro, Bulls and Palmerston • North. ‘ Wednesday—B Grade: West End, Takaro, Manawatu and Palmerston North. The entries were referred to a subcommittee which will draw up a programme of matches. The sub-commit-tee was also empowered! to carry out any regrading thought necessary. The secretary' is to write to* several clubs which have not yet entered for the competition and are known to be desirous of doing so. Mr Lovelock said that near to Pahiatua there were six clubs with about two courts each. The members were very keen and there was nobody in authority to organise them for interclub games. He suggested that they should be brought under the association and inter-club play organised. The number of players would total about 200, and, if they were under the association, would probably prove a useful asset in future years. The meeting decided to write to the Pahiatua Club suggesting that it should make efforts to have the clubs referred to affiliated and then conduct an interclub competition among them, controlled from Pahiatua. Mr Lovelock 1 suggested that a team should be selected from the clubs to play in the association’s inter-club competition. That could not be brought into effect this year possibly, he added. Another member suggested that a team could be drawn from the smaller association to play the winning A and B teams in the • usual inter-club competition. All the clubs, said Mr Lovelock, were 12 miles inside the Manawatu Association’s boundaries. On the suggestion of the secretary, it was decided to buy' a book and have the results of all inter-club matches correctly kept. The secretary is to provide the next meeting with an estimate of the season’s income to allow ,the expenditure to be gauged accordingly.