Dear Fram we've been down this road a few times before as previously stated this event was an officially sanctioned tournament of the USNLTA at this time in the late 19th century only 30 maybe 35 events were held in contrast to today where the USTA sanctions thousands of events today therefore it's historically important to create a record of it as far as I'm concerned the 1897 winner of this event was a singles semi finalist at the 1898 U.S. National Championships – Men's singles. Navops47 (talk) 10:31, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any significant, non-primary coverage of this event in reliable sources? Not match reports, not databases, not passing mentions, not non-independent notes from the sanctioning body, but an actual secondary sources discussing the tournament at some length? Otherwise it just doesn't meet the WP:GNG, no matter how "historically important" you may consider this. Basically, if no other source has found it historically important, then we should never be the first to correct this. Fram (talk) 10:49, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]