Tennis: Feb. 24, 1930

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Unlike the best golf players, the best tennis players have been, until very recently, amateurs; five years ago an "open" tennis tournament would have been superfluous. Last week, at their annual meeting in St. Louis the officers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, decided an open tournament would no longer be superfluous, approved plans to hold it at the Germantown Cricket Club next September provided the International Tennis Federation approves.

Further business included the election of a new president, Louis B. Dailey, who was nominated a month ago (TIME, Jan. 27), to succeed Samuel Collom, of Philadelphia: the publication of the ten best men and ten women players, as follows:

Men 1) William T. Tilden 2d, Philadelphia. 2) Francis T. Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y. 3) John Doeg, Santa Monica, Calif. 4) George M. Lott Jr., Chicago. 5) John Van Ryn, Orange, N. J. 6) Frederick Mercur, Harrisburg, Pa. 7) Wilmer Allison, Austin, Tex. 8) Wilbur F. Coen, Kansas City. 9) Berkeley Bell, Dallas, Tex. 10) Gregory Mangin, Newark, N. J.

Women 1) Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, Berkeley, Calif. 2) Miss Helen Jacobs, Berkeley. 3) Miss Edith Cross, San Francisco. 4) Miss Sarah Palfrey, Boston. 5) Mrs. L. A. Harper, San Francisco. 6) Miss Mary Greef, Kansas City. 7) Miss Eleanor Goss, New York City. 8) Miss Ethel Burkhardt, San Francisco. 9) Miss Marjorie K. Gladman, Santa Monica. 10) Miss Josephine Cruickshank, Santa Ana, Calif.