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Show NEWPORT-NEW YORK RIVALRY IS KEEN Society Center Will Loss Big Tennis Event if New Proposal Is Accepted I NEW YORK Dec 1 Tha West fe de Tennis club of this City plans to make a b d tor the nat onal tenn s champ onships next ear it be ame known today when it was announced that the board of governors of the club had voted to offer the club, courts at Eorest Hills L to the United States a.t onal Lawn Tenn a assoc a t on for the b g event It was state 1 todav that the s p t porter? of Newport where the first championship was held and where it has been cont nued for thirty five vear would te"t the real wishes of the Via ors br offering a proposit on for a ten ear term at the Newport courts when the delegates meet at the Wal dorf Vstor a tor the annual meeting in February The meet ng of the executive com mittee of the United States National Lawn Tennis association here tomorrow b expected to be the most important in the history of the assoc ation The ohief bus ness will be to review and issue is-sue the national ranking list prepared by T C Inman cha rman W M Hall and W L Pate. The report of this rating committee is said to mark an epoch m Amer can lawn tenpis P i. Presbrey Boston will report on awarding a standard gild medal to all nat onal champions Oeorge T Adec will report as to the tests to which the off cial ball adopted for tournaments (.bould be subjected A. i L HoskiBS Philadelphia, will report on the adoption or off eial colors and a seal for th associat on E D Little will offer plans for the institution of tournaments for school boys under na tional supervision "No action w U be taken as to changing the ational ehampionsh p from Newport to other courts at th s meeting E F Torrev of Clinton, N T sec retarv of the nat onal body will read the correspondence with iustral a as to the prospect of Dav s cup matches next year The a lv sab 1 ty of An en ca challenging will be discussed but will not be acted upon unt 1 the an nual meet ng in February in this c ty Torrey has prepared elaborate reports of the Dais c p matches the all c mers at Newport and other import ant features of the game It s ex pected that the twentv execut ves from various sct ons of the country will at tend the two days meet ng |