Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 30 | Seek Better Basis for College Tennis

SEEK BETTER BASIS f FOR COLLEGE IE1I5 Annual Tourney Fails to Attract Attention and 1 Support It Deserves. NEW Vol! K, Oct. 25. College law! tennis players arc seeking lo place ty intcrcoi .v'a'-c chiimyionsliip tournM ment upon a better basis. It ),. been n-uiizvd lor a number of wars thai th annua i tournament on ihc tnrt i.f t hit -Morion Cricket club at HawriVnl, !'a., practically a suburb ot I'hiladclpliia, failed to attract fl atlcniicn ami the support it hu fll served. The entry has always repiS sen. 0(1 the !.: .! tin' American courts. ( ,;,rl-s .-. liarlttnrl, Jr., the Vale cap,-tain, cap,-tain, won the title ill the tangles a fe weeks afo. Ho stood io. i on the na-lioHiil na-lioHiil r.viiti; Ht and had won jM wav into l he semifinal round, of thB world's championships .at Vinmbledag London, earlier in tno season. ' Those w !... arc seeking to establfafl clianecs tliat will place the intercoft 1 . lc i : i i o on the courts as a-n inipoitaaj national ci.mpet it io.i are making the eS fort to iiu-rp' the, Ini crcollegiate Lain? Tennis a.-.-oein t ion and the New En trliiml Iiili'icoilootaH' Lawn Tenuis as..' social ion in one influential organiaKjiy tion. The members of the former bH are I V a" I r m 'jiii I:. Harvard,! Princeton, I'vnnsjivnnia and Ya!.;..TlB New England Ijody includes Amherst, Bates, Uowdoin, Brown, DartmoutL Massachusetts 'Tech. Trinity, Tuiti Wesleyau and Williams. Letters Given for Tennis. The recent decision of tho coital to award the letter lo the lawn tenuB stars of the. winning teams and those in the championships has operated!, place the game upon a more stable foafl ing. It, is this that has inspired thi; effort to attain to other imports! things for the development of the spill It is the objective to hold one great tournament each year, ins' cad of tl .New England association conducting M I championship in .May on tho turf M ' the Longwood I ticket club, Boston, aril the other association its series in Sea teuiber at -J avert' ord. It is the belij of those behind the plan that one grel competition, finely managed and wiffl tho prestiie of the college spirit, woUM i work wonders for the game on tqfl American courts. All of the records of tho game ml this country show that the intej j collegiate title has always been won H some of the men holding the highej places on the cotirts. Richard Xorrjl Williams 2(1 won the title in 1915 wmfl a student at Harvard., lie also fitl gained the honors in 1913, the year bfl i fore he competed in the Davis ! matches on the turf at forest Hill and finished by his sensational ovel throw of Maurice E. McLoughlin tm the national championship. Among others win - recent perforna ances have added to the . Americail laurels are Ceorpe M. Church, as JB Princeton representative; Wallace aM Johnson of Pennsylvania; William Clothier of Harvard, who shortly aitaH gained the national championship ifcl singles; Frederick B. Alexander of fk Princeton, Robert Le Roy of Columbia. . Dwight F. Davis of Harvard, donor oiS the international challenge cup, amB Important in Colleges. A change in the affairs of the inteM' collegiate tournaments would not refl resent anything -revolutionary, it IB pointed out. The competitions baiS been decided upon various fields, al cording to the besl interests of tltBf game. They were originally launcheW at Hartford in 1SS3. Later they w;ere transferred to thH courts of the Kew Haven Lavn clulB at New Haven, Conn., and came dH rectly under Vale management and dnj rection. In 1900 the i lia inpioushiBj tournament was transferred to thBJ Merion Cricket club. At that tiinB" Isaac Clothier, the father of WilliarBj J. Clothier, offered a handsome cuH to be competed for as a point pfizH in the compeitions. The collegiate game has become onH of the important elements bf the sporB upon American I'rncticaH ly all of the tournaments are doininnSJ ed by the collegiate competitors. TheS now want a tournament that will bSJ demoted to their strength and represenl I nt ion in the game, and they are seekM iug to determine, upon arrangementB that will successfully launch the neB order of things during the season oflj greatest achievement tho intcrnationaB match year of 1920.