The result exceeded the expectations of those who fathered the idea, for more than ninety events for youngsters were sanctioned, with more than 1,700 boys and juniors competing. This was such a cordial endorsement that plans were immediately undertaken to broaden the scope of competition this season. By its action at the annual meeting, the United States National Lawn Tennis Association adopts a policy which no governing body in the field of sport has surpassed. In making competition for beginners, culminating in national championships, available for boys all over the country. Any club, college or park association affiliated with the national body can give, (and is urged to give) a tournament under official sanction of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. Winners of these events thereby become eligible to compete in tournaments to be held in more than fifty cities throughout the United States, designated as tennis centers. The winners of these tennis center tournaments are thus made eligible to compete for the national boys' championship or the national junior championship, in tournaments that will be held at Forest Hills, Long Island, during the week of the national singles championship, which begins August 30. A player may enter as many preliminary events as he chooses, but he may compete. In only one tennis center tournament. The age limit for boys is sixteen years, and for Juniors, nineteen years, a reduction in each case of one year from the requirements set last season. The ruling of the association is that a player is eligible who does not reach his nineteenth or sixteenth birthday.  Day, as the case may be, on or before October 1 in the year of competition. 