"ABSURD PROPOSALS."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5

"ABSURD PROPOSALS."

1 — ; A TENNIS AGREEMENT. The Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia has forwarded to the New Zear land Lawn Tennis Association a copy of the International agreement decided on it tho Lawn Tennis Conference, held in Paris on March 1' last which■'the' Assoliation of Australasia has adopted. The agreement contains tho regulations Jecided on bv the International Lawn Tannic Association, and will be enforced on each ■ party retaining membership of the association. Wlwm tho copy of 1 the agreement was received in Wellington there was not sufficient time left for it to bo considered by the Management Committee of the New Zealand Tennis Association prior to that body's quarterly meeting which was held last night. It will consequently be considered at the next meeting of the' Management Committee.

The secretary of the association,. however, forwarded copies of tho agreement to oil members of the Management Committee, and thv? Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, in acknowledging receipt of the copy "hoped that the day was a iong way off when the New Zealand. Association would have to adopt such an absurd set of proposals as were outlined."

The regulations, which will be considered by the New Zealand Association, set out' the status of an amateur, and Rule 9 states that tho maximum value of a single prize, which may be won bv a lawn tennis player in any one event, shall not exceed J220, and the value of a prize must not in any event, either excced or be below the vaiuo advertised in tho prolamine. I