TENNIS IN AMERICA
FIRST OPEN TOURNAMENT^
PROFESSIONALS TO PLA\S
ICEW YORK, February IT. The United States Lawn Tennis Association at its annual meeting her* today for the first time authorised aa open tournament for professionals and amateurs, to be held some time durinaf the year in Phildelphia. , : The decision arose .from a warning that the Germantown Cricket Club of Philadelphia, one of the oldest tennis clubs in the country, would be compelled to disband unless it could augment its funds through some important tournament likely to bring7 coasiderable gate receipts. - ~ The association has long resisted;th« open tournament idea.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7
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98TENNIS IN AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7
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