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Show RACQUET TOURNEY DATES ARE AWARDED Stricter Rules to Govern Amateurs in Net Sport NEW YORK, K.b. 5. -Awards for the principal championship champion-ship tournament of the National Tennis association were made to-nipht to-nipht as follow: ' I !iivi ' cup. ( hallenge ro'inl. West Side : cliilt. KoreM HU1, N. Y.. to becui Sep- ternber J. I Men a national ainyles chHrnpionship, (Jerniantown Cricket club, 1'hiiadelphia, ; Sepirmber 10 I Xfin'i double Bnd mixed double. : !-rr;irwor:h tTKUfft club. Uoalon. no date. J CHICAGO GETS ONE. j National clay court men's champion-snip. champion-snip. Chicago. Women's national championship. West S!de clt:b. Forest MCI. .V Y.. no date. The time and place of the women's cl.ty court championship was left to the executive committee to be decided in ' March. The AJi80ci.it ion tonight voted to change the rule governing amateur player h to r-ad that any tennla player becomes a professional when he allows his name to "tir "pTriT?(T 7VfT .1 "Tehnlf mcquet''or other ' tennla araphemaliu. whether or not he ! receives money for ihe uae of hia name. Another Important atep taken today wan the decision to confine future annual funking: to twenty narnen each In men'. women's and Junior ninglea and to ten j teams in the men's doubles. Heretofore, j a hundred or more have been Included. The association furt her derided that mixed doubie championships would le held In connection with the men's tour-! tour-! nament instead of at the women's. Offu-ers elected were: I'resident. J. N. Myrick .New Yorl; City; vice president. K. V. Torre y. Oil niton. X. Y.; secret a rv. Charles ;arlanl. J'ittsliurg; treasurer, 4. N. Jennings. Philadelphia. CLUB HAS MONEY. J The annual report showed that the i association had aet of $'2,000. j I The committee In charge of the amal- , ga mat ion of the I'nlted States .National' 'Tennis association with the International lawn Tennla asxortation reporte! it considered inadvisable to take this step I 'at present. The committee said it wss I not able, to approve Joining the world association. Imtum of the rule which the t latter organization had made granting i the worlds grass court tournaments to I Knglund each year. j The report of expenses of the Davis cup team to Kngland and Australia, showed that, over all receipts, the trips had com 1 about 900i. |