Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-31
WINNERS OF DAVIS
CUP MAY INVADE
BROOKS AND WILDING INVITED
70 THIS COUNTRY
Australians Form Strong Team, and If
They Come viii Figure Promi-
nently In Newport Cham
pionships
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, July SO.-Unsated by their
conquests in England, Norman Z.
Brookes and a. F. Wilding of Australia
will probably invade American tennis
realms in search of new conquests. The
Hint came across the water in the shape
of cable sent here today asking about
conditions governing their participation
in the national tournament, which will
take place at Newport. An invitation will
doubtless be forwarded them.
Should this pair of Australian stars
come for the national events, the Amer
lean championships in both singles and
doubles will be seriously endangered. This
pair won the British championship In
doubles, and followed 1t up by winning
the Davis cup in competition with Eng
lsh and American teams. The play In all
cases was close, however, and 1t Is by no
means certain that on home courts the
Americans will not turn the tables on the
men from Australasia.
May Meet Wright and Ward
Speculation on the outcome of the ma
tional events is therefore somewhat tan
gled until the question of the coming of
the Philistines is determined. Supposing
they do come the team that went to
England in the doubles, Wright and Behr,
will probably be changed to Wright and
Ward, the hitherto invincible pair in ma
tional championships
1t Is in the doubles contests that chief
interest will center at the Newport
events. This year, omitting the visiting
teams, the contest will be three-cornered,
the winners of the Eastern, Western
and Southern championships, played, re-
spectively at Longwood, Chicago and
Atlanta, being called upon to play off at
Bay Ridge prior to the challenge round
The Southern representatives have al
ready been selected. They are NAT
Thornton and Bryan Grant, who won the
doubles championship of the South at At
lanta, Ga, July 6, on the courts of the
Atlanta Athletic club. They are an ex-
perienced team, having twice won the
Southern title, and should give good ac-
count of themselves.
In the West
the west will produce new combina-
ton this year. The doubling up of IT,,
two western champions, Kreigh Collins
and Carr Neel, will be watched with the
greatest interest in the western doubles
championship, which is scheduled Tor
July o. on the courts of the Onwentsia
club This is the initial holding of the
event under the auspices of the Onwentsia
club, it formerly being played on the
courts of the Kenwood Country club.
Waidner, Collins former partner, has
paired with Allen Ross, the national in
terscholastic champion. This combination
is saIu to be very easily matched with
Collins and Neel, and in recent practice
matches there has been very little ad-
vantage on either side.
Ofttirne Winners Favored
f. B. Alexander and H. H. Hackett,
who have with regularity won the east
crn title, and then defeated the pair sent
from the west to oppose them, only to go
down before the invincible Ward ana
Wright, are again favorites for the east
ern championship, which will be held on
the courts of the Longwood Cricket CRUZ
on August 5. This date was changed
from July % to accommodate the mem
bers of the interna tional team, Dut Whetn-
er Wright and Behr will continue as
team after their return to this country
has not been decided.
There is just a possibility that tnere
will be a challenge round in the doubles
at Newport next month. and that Hol-
combe Ward viii pair with Beals y
Wright to defend the title neid ny tnem
Jointly. 1t is something like 100 to
shot, however, and the chances are over
whelminRly In favor of the doubles cham
pionship going by default to the winner
OF the preliminary series at Bay Ridge.