Sport: Longwood Quits

There will be no Davis Cup, no Wightman Cup, no Wimbledon matches this summer. It is the war. But what shocked U. S. tennis fans last week was the announcement that Boston’s Longwood Cricket Club had been forced to cancel its tournament, for nearly half a century a major tune-up for the national championships. Reason: aristocratic Longwood can no longer afford to pay America’s top-ranking amateurs (most of whom come from California) the “expenses” they demand for appearing in tournaments.