LAWN TENNIS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 2, 13 July 1910, Page 11

LAWN TENNIS.

N.Z. La*n Tennis Association. .:WKLUXGW)N, Friday. At n special meeting., of the Council of tn<* New Zealand Teiinte Association oil Friday, Mr 11. IL Gore gave notice to move the following addition to rule 10; ‘‘Each delegate shall vote according to his discretion upon any question on which he has received no instructions from the association which he represents. When such instruct lons have been given, each delegate must adhere strictly to his instructions." Mr G. N. Goldie moved: "That rule 18 be amended as follows: ‘The order of business at all annual general meetings of the Council shall be as follows: Holl call, reading and -adoption of minutes, report and bal-ance-sheet, notices of motion, motions of which notice has been given, nomination and (dectien of Association's officers and committeemen? ’’ The latter motion met with opposition from several outside delegates. Mr MnlOhlm Hoss brought down a suggested rule for the government of the annual and quarterly and annual meeting, and his suggestion referred to a committee to draft a rule to be submitted to provincial associations before the next meeting of the. (’ouncil. Professor Hunter moved. “That, iriesp<Mtive of where the Davis Cup is to be played, the New Zealand championship meeting should be held at the same place as the Davis Cup.’ lie advocated folding championships before great contests, as at Melbourne, instead of after. The Canterbury delegates favoured holding the championships in different places. Mr Black (Otago) thought the holding of the two contests in different places was essential. He moved an amendment to this effect. The amendment was lost by thirty votes to fifteen. The associations voting for it were Canterbury and Auckland, and two of Otago’s (five votes), also the votes of two vice-p residents. The motion was then carried. Mr E. J. Hoss (Canterbury) moved, and Mr Wright (Canterbury) seconded, “That, owing to the fact that the Management Committee lias proved by its past actions that it arrogates to itself powers not given to it by tin' rules, and also observes secrecy with regard to its actions, refusing, as It has done, to reveal correspondence and its minutes of business done in connection with such an important matter as the. playing-off of the challenge round of the Davis Cup contest to properly constituted delegates of an association, the various associations comprising this have lost confidence in the Management Committee as such." The Canterbuiy delegates comolained that the Committee had ignored the canterbury Association in the matter of llxing the place for holding the Davis Cup, and that the Committee had been guilty of unsportsmanlike tactics ami want of frankness. Christchurch had a special claim on the fixture, but the Committee had deliberately overlooked this, and did not forward Canterbury's application for the contest to the Australasian Union. Mr Peacock defended the action of the Committee. There had been no slight on Canterbury, and no association bad ever been refused access to the Committee's record. Mr Goss (Canterbury) claimed that the Committee’s action had been unconstitutional. 'Pile ('ouncil, and not the Com mlttee, shorn! have recommended the venue of the cup contest. Professor Hunter said New Zealand had rendered itsef odious by allowing hie man agement of the blue ribbon of th'e tepnis world to descend to an unseemly squabble. The Association decided by thirty two votes to fifteen in favour of Wellington as the place in which to play the Davis Cup.