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...Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket* Club, the oldest tennis club in the U.S. (founded 1877), has always prided itself on doing things right. Because the best turf came from England, the founding fathers imported Seabright's first sod from across the Atlantic. Over the years, they also imported the best amateurs in the world to play in their invitation tournaments at Rumson, along the North Jersey shore. Since 1903, when Beals C. Wright won Seabright's Achelis Cup, the annual tournament has been a midsummer tradition on the Eastern tennis circuit, a pleasant prelude to the national championships...
...Seabright has also stood for lack of fuss. It built no permanent stands, kept its roomy, shingled clubhouse modest. Since Rumson is short of hotels for transients, touring amateurs such as Big Bill Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this...
...Seabright's members made another decision this year. For the first time in its history (except for a three-year wartime lapse), the Seabright Bowl will not be placed in competition this summer. It was not a matter of money; last year's tournament, won by San Francisco's Earl Cochell, easily cleared expenses. The members simply decided that the tournament was becoming too much fuss...
Next week it will wait in vain. For the second time in 62 years, Newport will have no Tennis Week. World War II has blasted Newport tennis off the courts-as World War I did in 1917.* Also blasted off the big-time summer tennis circuit are Seabright, with its 56 courts flanked by trees, estates; and Longwood, with its box-square stands flanked by bus and trolley lines out of Boston...
Ordinarily, at this time of year, top flight U.S. tennists would be warming up for the Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...