TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3462, 29 February 1912, Page 6

TENNIS.

THE MENTONE TOURNAMENT. fUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, L * PARES, Feb. 2/. Wildiu" lias been scratched for the Mentone tournament, owing to inflamed hands, the result of playing m the match at Monte Carlo. NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION. [PER press association.!] WELLINGTON, Feb. 28. The quarterly meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association was held last evening. The statement of receipts and expenditure from October 1, 1911, to January 24, 1912 show! cash on deposit Lot) and cash at bank £ll4 18s. . . Mr G. A. Hurley, a Wellington delegate , moved that the New Zealand Championship shield as far as possible be held only in the four principal cities alternately' in the North and 'South Islands. "The mover stated that his ultimate goal in bringing the matter forward was to have one place in the Dominion! made a home or mecca for ■tennis. He did not care where the centres were. Mr A. L. Berry (Otago) seconded. Mr H. Brown (Canterbury) moved as an amendment, “That in th e event of the championship being played in another .centre than Wellington the conduct of the meeting be delegated to the local association. The amendment was seconded by Mr O. W. Parsons (Canterbury), but the chairman ruled it was not aamissable Much discussion ensued on the ruling. A motion that the meeting disagree with the ruling was lost. Mr Hurley moved that the meeting be adjourned for five weeks, and a special meeting of the Council be held at the time to consider Mr Brown's resolution. This was carried. A motion that a North Island and South Island singles championship for ladies and gentlemen be established, at a cost of not exceeding 20 guineas, was held over • till the' adjourned meeting. An application by the Hawke’s Bay Association for the 1912 meeting was held over.