DAVIS CUP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 711, 10 January 1910, Page 5

DAVIS CUP.

NEW' AUSTRALIAN:; CONSTITUTION] By Telegraph-Press Assp'ciation-boDyrlßht.' ".'";- •■'.'•.■ .::>.:..:-;lSydney,;' ; r . The 'Council., pi; Tennis ''Asso'oiatioh has made the'alterations in the .constitutipn, agreed upon',at the ,'recont" conference /.with','' Professor' Hunter,: of/ WeUiinjtonV^:';:::'^:'::,;,;/, : ;: ; '■.•'.;;.; /','■) '; This/ohds the. difficulty with. New" land in.r'egard to : the; Davis Cup 'contests and'pther,matters. : '!:■,:,''-;:

..EFFECT OF THitALTERAtIdNS,//';: .'The' text of the proposed,; alterations-in i the constitution' of -the Lawn /Tennis As-: Bocidtioh- (says: an Australian paper) is!' now.ready/for publication. The first ina-.. .torial/change'.iPmei'in. Clause B,'..which-'i will' now read in effdet:'. '"The .Association-" shall be'imanaged by a". Counoil : consist-:!' ing: of the office-bearers I and two delegates-, from, each; of. the/ Australian'. States and', four, from-; New Zealand.";.' -It read bd-forei-"The Association; shall" consist -of,, etc.,", so/ that;..the alteration- makes the-, management committee: a bit'more prominent, and this, is tho'gist'of many of, the !other alterations; v., /:;.:'::.-/; ■•/-.'.'/; In ; : Clause 13 provision'is.made .for '30; .days', notice, for; special meetings '.instead' of 21, as formerly, '/and- then, finally; in Clause 19, material alterations are made which provide for all" future. Davis 'Cup matches, in which "Australasia, is "holder, to be :playod twice id/Australia and- once' in Now.' Zealand,! and that 'the! proceeds' shall be.devoted Exclusively' to''the'-pur-poses of such competitions, with a, saving, clause- giving!"/all .the affiliated: assbcia-" ■tibns power' to .'devote the funds to other; international-contests. '■'&■ further provision'is:made'-that the vice-president for, the State-or Dominion in/which the challenge/match is agreed t'o bo; played, shall,:for■!the purposes of • such challenge tic, be:the president of the, association, when the: challenge n:atch is being played away headquarters of the' dssociatonr! The 'constitution cannot .'be determined while: is champion.nation; but afterwards.may be determined after one 'year's notice; when tho funds are to be divided in the'pro-, portions of two to Australia and ono to Now' Zealand.'' :/"■':'''!! >:V