1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

The Lawn Tennis Committee was as follows.Hon. PresidentPresidentSecretaryOther membersH. R. H. PRINCE WILHELM.Captain A. WALLENBERG.KURT ZETTERBERG, Esq., Asst. Paymaster, R. N.Mrs. M. ADLERSTRÅHLE.Miss EBBA HAY.W. BOSTRÖM, Esq., First PrivateSecretary to H. M. the King.Lieutenant H. FICK.Consul, JAMES KEILLER J:r.F. BOHNSTEDT, Esq., B. A.The first thing the Committee did was to draw up the general regulationsfor the competitions and to fix the rules of the game. Asregards the latter, the English Lawn Tennis Association’s rules wereadopted.During the winter of 1911, the Tennis Pavilion at the ÖstermalmAthletic Grounds was completed and then let by the Swedish CentralAssociation for the Promotion of Athletics to a member of the SwedishOlympic Committee, which body determined to make two out-ofdoor courts just outside the Pavilion.The holding of Olympic Lawn Tennis out-of-door court competitionswas now assured, and the Lawn Tennis Committee at onceapplied to the Swedish Olympic Committee, requesting that out-of-doorcourt competitions might be placed on the programme of the Games,and that they should take place at the time previously fixed forthe covered court events, while the latter, in their turn, should beheld in the month of May. In consequence of this request, the outof-doorcourt competitions for the period above mentioned were placedon the programme, but the Swedish Olympic Committee was not verymuch inclined to have the covered court matches in May.Just before the general programme, as a whole, was to be determined,however, the Lawn Tennis Committee made a fresh application,urging their, as they considered, good motives for holding covered-courtcompetitions, and so finally, May 5—12 was fixed as thedate of these matches.The next question of importance was that of the erection of standsfor the out-of-door courts. Plans were drawn in the autumn of1911, and the work of building began in the following March. Thestands were ready by the end of April, 1912, and seated 1,500 persons.At the beginning of 1912, series-cards of admission were issuedat 25 kronor (27/6 d.) each, one series for the covered court competitionsand another for the out-of-door events. They were in greatdemand, every ticket being sold about a fortnight before the respectivecompetitions began.The next task of the Committee was to make a number of alterationsin the Tennis Pavilion, to make marking-arrangements, etc.The entries for the covered court competitions closed on the 5 April,617