Only Doubles; Players from U.S., Japan Invited Manila, Jan. 17.
The Philippine Lawn Tennis Association today cabled the California and Japan Lawn Tennis Association asking them to name players to the invitation Philippine Internatioral Tournament which is to open here s March 27 and continue until March 2i. was received in the singles tournament while the doubles attracted eleven pairs, Play starts next Monday, January 22, with the singles and will be followed by the doubles on February 19. The double-elimination system will be used which means each competitor will have to be defeated twice before he is out of the race.
The local group decided to limit the tournament to the men's and women's doubles, abandoning the singles in order to cut down the of the tay of foreign entrant Press.
Among the entrants this season are last years champions. M. Tehakalian will defend his singles title and the winning combination of Tehakalian and A. A. Wurm will do ihe same in the doubles. Also included in the list of entries are several players from the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Marblehead who are expected to provide stiff competition.
The full list of entries follows:—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.