Unlike the best golf players, the best tennis players have been, until very recently, amateurs; five years ago an "open" tennis tournament would have been superfluous. Last week, at their annual meeting in St. Louis the officers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, decided an open tournament would no longer be superfluous, approved plans to hold it at the Germantown Cricket Club next September provided the International Tennis Federation approves.
Further business included the election of a new president, Louis B. Dailey, who was nominated a month ago (TIME, Jan. 27), to succeed...
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