LAWN TENNIS PLAYERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 145, 11 August 1911, Page 6

LAWN TENNIS PLAYERS.

DEFINITION OF AMATEUR. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association (Mr. Fisher in the chair), the report by Mr. (J. A. Hurley was adopted and ordered to be forwarded to the New Zealand representatives upon the council of me Lawn Tennis Association, for the purpose of being considered at the annual meeting in November. Mr. Hurley’s .proposed definition is as follows: (a) An “amateur” means and includes a member of any Lawn Tennis Association club or committee alfili-

ated with or recognised by this association, who plays lawn tennis or otherwise supports the game for the benefits naturally arising therefrom, but does not include any person who shall have, since tho Ist day of January, 191.0, played or agreed to play, refrained from playing or agreed to refrain from pin;-, uig any game of lawn tennis in expectation of the receipt, directly or indirectly, of any monetary or other valuable consideration, in return for such playing or refraining or such agreement as to either; provided that nothing herein contained or implied shall debar the payment by any such association club or committee, or by this association of any sum of money in repayment or reimbursement of the actual and reasonable expenses of any trip undertaken by a player for the sole purpose of playing for such association, or of a portion of such expenses in any case where a player may be travelling partly on private business or for pleasure. A machinery clause is also added as follows: “Only such associations, clubs and committees as will undertake to restiict their membership to

amateurs, its herein defined, .siiall hi* eligible for affiliation or recognition hy tiiis association.”