LAWN TENNIS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS.

:kA meeting.of;the delegates.of the Wellington Provincial Lawn Tennis Association was held on.Thursday night, Mr. E. St. J, Beere being in ; tho: chair.,. There was a large attendance of ■ ~;; -';.-. . • ■■; Two.-,motions,, -moved on:.behalf .-iof -the" 'Brougham Clubi Mvefe; first die-. that .clubs' having: a .'"membership; of. more Uiaa.Worie hundred should be entitled to three delegates—one moro than'.-allowed by- the present rule. ' After a short discussion tho motion was put and lost. The'.second motion aimed, at altering the rule goverh;ing;^e/co'iistituUon : ;of :thc-.' Management; Cbm'mitt*eK«b-':that'i clubs'! 'co'nsisting of nibre' than one hundred members would- be-Tepre-seiited on. the committee. This motion,.was also 'lost. '.

: of.'• a . sub-committee with reference governing inter-club matches was. siibinitted.? ! 'ihis ■ report oaused. considerable; Some.- o|^the. speakers thoughti that-- thoi^fopbsals'showed; -littlo" consideration;' fot' .the ', : junibr x -players, '-. But, against; this.-'it-the jtaeent system ..g'aye 'neither ; thfe",'j<rniors.nor the seniors any chance'' i.toriimprpyertHe' standard;/bf their -play,, and I'.thttt'rin'sthe -near, 'future, when; the : wouW be in possession of about twenty: courts,' the junior players would be given the same privileges :'as the proposals intended', to give the..seniors, now.,- The adoption of.;the snV committee's report was moved .by Mr." Wilson; seconded by 'Mr..- Swanston,. and. carried. < On the'motibn of Mr. Dart; seconded by Mr. Swanston, the Management Committee was instructed,to insist on members' of ; teams, play-, ing .in the order in 'which.-their -names" are', submitted. -, ...,'•-'.;.':•'--■.;• A meeting of the Management Committee was also hold to make arrangements to carry out the adopted proposals. Mr. .G. A. Bobertson w.ae appointed secretary of ,the Shield' Committee, and Messrs. Beere, Blair,, and .the secretary were appointed a Postponement Committee. The resignation of the Berham pore Club from the association;was accepted.

:: BestTaiDt'ip" as-necessary to permanent- success'as.inventipn. vThe extravagant; lengths to driiamehtal' socts : has' been carried''is -fatal to, real -progress-in that direc-' tion, and it-is-bound to die a natural death.—"Men's Wear." '*. Dr. Henshaw, of New York,, estimates that the combined weed-seed consumption of the sparrowsfamily results! in an'aunal saving of 1 per cent of the value of the crops. As the value of the principal field crops of the ■United States for 1900 was £700,000,000, the sparrows alone; saved -the'- farmers .£7,000,000 in one yoar. '■;"■;''■•.. -'. ■ :- . '/. '