APTA Annual Business and Board Meetings – Two serve tournament scheduled

APTA looks at membership profile

APTA Annual Business and Board Meetings – Much discussion on dues

APTA Annual Meeting Minutes – financial situation demands increased membership

The APTA faced a loss of $5,000 due to unexpected tournament expenses and a major effort in the upcoming year would be on increasing membership

APTA Annual Meeting Minutes

The Minutes highlights:

Financial situation impacted by loss of sponsorship and decline in dues due to poor enforcement of membership requirements at local tournaments. The loss for the year was $11,191

Six issues of Platform Tennis News (PTN) to be published with Passport Scotch to be offered logo identification if they continued sponsorship of PTN ($7,500). More regional results were requested

The current crisis in tournament play was discussed and ways to encourage broader participation beyond the “pro circuit”. The Presidents’ Cup was a key part of this and expanding the number of teams from 4 to 8 was proposed

APTA Annual Meeting Minutes

Passport Scotch drops sponsorship

Passport Scotch felt that they were not getting their expected value from their level of financial commitment.

The APTA President Packard felt it was imperative to replace Passport Scotch with another sponsor for the Nationals and preferably not a liquor company so that it might be possible to get television coverage

Source: APTA Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, July 1, 1980

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PTN Update Vol.8, No. 3, April 1997 (National Results)

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