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Show TENNIS ENTRIES TO DELIMITED Qualifying Conditions Sent to Executive Committee for Approval. , New York, Nov. 27. A plan to curtail cur-tail the entries at future national lawn tennis championship tournaments will be considered at the coming meeting of tho executive committee of the United States National Lawn . Tennis association, it was announced here today. to-day. A set of qualifying conditions to be submitted for the approval of tho committee com-mittee provides that the entry list, which shall be published at least ten days before the tournament begins, shall be confined to players in good standing with clubs or associations holding memberships in the national associations, within the following, restrictions: re-strictions: "Players who have been ranked bv the United States National Lawn Tennis Ten-nis association during any of the five years last preceding the tournament, or who have at any time been ranked in the first twenty. "Players who in the last three years preceding the championship have been semifinalists or better in any two tournaments sanctioned by tho United States National Lawn Tennis association. associa-tion. "Players who have in the current playing season played in not less than three sanctioned tournaments, and have made a reasonable good record, committee of management of the tournament tour-nament to have the power to rule on the value of a player's record. "Players who do, not qualify in any of the above classes, but whose entry is acceptable to the executive committee commit-tee by reason of residence in foreign countries, promise of skill, or other circumBtancs deemed sufficient to cause exceptions in their cases." TEX RICKARD MAY MATCH JESS WILLARD Chicago, Nov. 27. A meeting of heavyweights was discussed today between be-tween Jess f Willard, heavyweight champion, and "Tex" Rickard, boxing promoter of New York, and the announcement an-nouncement was made that Willard looks favorably upon a match suggested sug-gested by the New Yorker. Neither would say who Rickard plans to have meet the champion, but the conference I will bo continued tomorrow. I |