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Show (XXXXXXXXXiCXXXXXX3000COOO IO FUTURE OF LAWN TENNIS O PAINTED IN ROSY HUES g The future of lawn tennis in X America was painted in rosy O hues at the annual meeting of X the United States Lawn Tennis 0 association in New York city. Q There were many predictions Q that the coming season would be O the greatest in the history of X American lawn tennis, partly O because of the steadily increns- Q ing popularity in the game and O partly because the war depart- Q ment has approved tennis as nn 0 q ideal game for training purposes, q j O and has created 100 courts at O Q army training camps. The an- X I p nual meeting, held Friday, was Q Q unusual in that no ranking of o Q players for 1917 was announced, Q O a result of the war. Exhibition Q 8 games during 1918 for war funds X Q were discussed and approved at Q X the annual meeting'. q |