The Washington herald., 1913-07-28
final MATCHES
CARDED TODAY
Davis international Lawn Ten
mis- Battle Between Ameri-
can and British Cracks.
LOOKS LIKE YANKEES
Prediction Made that Nothing Short Of
Catastrophe viii Rob Us Of
the Honor.
LOOKS LIKE YANKEES
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Wimbledon. July 2.-The Davis cup In
ternational lawn tennis battle between
America and the British Isles will be
decided tomorrow afternoon, and in the
ten years America has been battling for
the world-famous bowl she has never
faced a roster chance to bring It back.
With two matches to go, the American
racquet wielders are in the lead by two
matches to one. and nothing short of a
catastrophe will rob them OF the victory.
In the matches tomorrow, Maurice
O'Loughlin will meet c. p. Dixon, and
Richard Norris williams will tackle J. c.
Parke. the most aggressive man on the
British Isles team. McLoughlin should
capture the one and only necessary
match from Dixon. When this pair met
here in the Davis cup preliminary in 1911.
Mclaughlin had the Englishman at his
mercy. and won by three sets to one, and
the Californian was not near the man
then that he Is now.
That Williams should win from Parke
Is not outside the bounds of possibility.
and II he does 1t will further clinch the
victory and give the United States the
verdict by four matches to one Williams
plays the kind of a game that should win
from the Irishman. The Harvard man
Is a slasher on ground strokes. and II ID
only a man good at that style OF game
that can bother Parke. Then, again
Williams has a tireless get-there sort OF
a way of covering his court which keeps
his opponent moving all the time.
History of the Cup.
Although Dwight F. Davis had planned
the donation Of the cup for the en-.
couragement of international tennis az
far back as 1887. il did not assume OF.
fetal shape till 1890. Since then twelve
competitions have been held. and in the
matter of long trips the British Isles and
America are even with seven apiece
while Australia has made four.
In looking over the percentage OF the
players who have participated in tlis
Davis cup since its donation. sou:e
curious figures are revealed. Premier
honors, OF course, rests with H. L.
Doherty. who played in thirteen matches,
and won them all-never once meeting
with defeat. Outside OF the prominence
he has earned in connection with the
present match, nobody ever heard much
about Harold II. Hackett. yet he is sec
ond on the percentage list to Doherty.
Hackett has played in four Davis cup
matches, and has won three and les.
one.
OF the players presently engaged Nc
Loughlin has had the most brilliant ca
reer. Although barely twenty-three
years old he has been once to Australia
and once to ESew Zealand after the cup.
In the nine matches which he played he
tas won three and lost six, and these de-
faults were to such players as Broo,s
and Wilding, the wonders Of the lawn
tennis world.
Mclaughlin was with Larned and
Wright when they went to New Zealand
in 1911, and he was the whole thing in
the doubles. Wright, who partnered with
Mclaughlin. was off color. and had he
been anything at all like himself. tho
United States would have been credited
with the victory, and. as 1t was. Brookes
and Dunlop only managed to scratch
out. Larned was unable to play Brookes
ia the last singles and Mclaughlin was
substituted.
The match between Brookes and the
young American will never be forgotten
lin set the crowd wild with his spectacu-
lar smashing and volleying. especially
when he led at two sets to one. but the
steadiness of Brookes prevailed and he
won out.
Though several Americans have tried
Mclaughlin has been the first to win his
way into the all-comers at Wimbledon for
the worlds championship. Where others
got ratified the young Californian was
cool, and has earned the regard of the
Old World for his unassuming ways N
the tennis court and his genteel bearing
toward everybody. c. p. Dixon calls
him the net of Wimbledon