Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — NEWPORT TENNIS DATES SET [ARTICLE]

NEWPORT TENNIS DATES SET

All-Comers' Championship to Begin There on August 21 —Players to Be Sent to Australia. Monday, August 21, Is the date selected for all-comers’ championship tennis tournament opening at Newport. Though the 1911 contest will be played on the Casino courts, as it has been for the last forty years, another movement Is on foot to take the annual event to Philadelphia next year. Newport won only after a bitter struggle and the opposition to the fashionable watering place will be united next year under Karl Behr and Lyle E. Mahan. In the National Lawn Tennis association meeting Dr. Philip B. Hawk carried a motion that the three best players available be sent to Australia in quest of the Davis international challenge cup. The details were left to a committee to be appointed. The proposed dual matches with England were turned over to the executive committee. ■* The delegates also decided to place a penalty on any prearrangemeat of the draw: “Infraction of the rule requiring a random draw renders a club or other organization liable to loss of their tournament the following years, except that in competitions between nations, states, cities, clubs and similar bodies, where the competition Is between such bodies and not between players as individuals. players may be placed in such manner as may be agreed upon by the management of the competitions."