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RECREATION 



HOLCOMBE WARD. 



Champion, with Wright, American Doubles, and 

 Champion American Singles 



15, 16. — Mixed Doubles (Handicap), 

 Women's Class B Doubles 



18, 19. 



May 13, 

 Tuxedo. 



May 17, 

 (Handicap). 



May 20, 22, 23. — Mixed Doubles. 



May 24, 25, 26. — Women's Singles (Handicap). 



Too much credit cannot be given to Mrs. 

 Berger Wallack, who is mainly responsible 

 for the adoption of the idea, and Metropolitan 

 tennis devotees will be deeply grateful to her. 



THE AMERICAN TEAM. 



The plans now under consideration by the 

 sub-committee of the Executive Committee 

 of the Tennis Association, preparatory to the 

 sending of the American team to England to 

 compete for the right to challenge for the 

 World championship, are awaited with keen 

 interest. The personnel of the team is now 

 occupying the attention of the Committee, and 

 while no announcement will be made until 

 next month of its selection a decision will be 

 reached long before that time. 



An effort has been made to secure an accu- 

 rate idea of the sentiment of the leading play- 

 ers by a careful canvass, and with these views 

 at hand a tentative choice will be made. It is 

 possible that the three or four men likely to 

 go abroad will spend two or three weeks in 

 practice play at Norfolk, Virginia, returning 

 in time to participate in invitation tourna- 

 ments being arranged for them, so that by the 

 time they are ready to sail for England they 

 will be in first-class shape. 



It is now proposed that the men shall in- 

 formally meet at Longwood about the 10th 

 of May for a week's hard practice. An invi- 

 tation tournament will be arranged in which 



they will contest to be played at Orange on 

 May 24, 25, 26. An invitation event at Knoll- 

 wood on May 27 will afford a further oppor- 

 tunity of match play, while the tournament 

 arranged at the Germantown Cricket Club in 

 Philadelphia for May 29, 30, 31 and June l 

 and 2 will be the next event. The Crescent 

 Invitation Tourney on June 5 will probably 

 carry them up to June 9 and chances favor 

 them sailing on the 10th. 



MAY COMPETE INDIVIDUALLY. 



At all events the team will sail between the 

 10th and 10th, arriving in England certainly 

 by June 24 for two or three weeks practice on 

 the other side. It is likely that individually 

 they may compete in either the Northern 

 championships at Liverpool or Manchester, or 

 in the English championships at Wimbledon. 

 That, however, will be a matter of choice with 

 each man and will be determined by their con- 

 dition on arrival and a dozen and one odd 

 things that may influence them. 



Play opens at the Queen's Club in the Inter- 

 national contest on July 8 and continues there 

 until the fifteenth, when it shifts to Wimble- 

 don. The challenge round is played at Wim- 

 bledon on July 21, 22 and 24, so that the team 

 will return to America in time to participate 

 in the Longwood tournament on August 7- 



Upon the interpretation of the English rules 

 governing the International contest depends, 

 in a measure, the selection of our team. 

 This can only be determined by further trans- 

 Atlantic correspondence and necessarily means 

 delay. A list of suggestions for rule-changes 

 has been received from England. Some of 



BE ALE C. WRIGHT 

 Champion, with Ward, American Doubles. 



