The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-28
Everything in This Country's
Favor for Final Lawn Tennis
Matches.
ISpecial Cable to mo Times. Disnatnh

iISpeciai Cable to The Times Dispatch.l
I'm eiedon, July 1.-THE Davis cup
,mtermatio lawn tennis battle be-
tween America, and the British Isles
viii he decided tomorrow afternoon.
ana , In the ten years America has been
batting for the worlds famous bowl
she has never faced a roster chance
TO bring it back. With two matches
70 go me american racquet wieldcrs
ana nothing short of a catastrophe will
rob them Of the victory
IN the matches Tomorrow Maurice
ana Richard Norris Williams viii
tackle j. {. Parke, the most aggressive
man on the british Isles team. Me
rouShIln should capture the one and
ON! necessary match from Dixon.
men ms pair met here in the Davis
cup preliminary in 1911 Mclaughlin
had The EnElishman at his mercy. and
Won by three sets to one. and the Cali
torninn was not near the man then
Unit he Is now
rarke is not outside the bounds OF
possibility; and If he does it viii fur
United States the verdict by four
matches To one. Williams PLAYS the
END i;i OF a game ih2i should win from
slnsher on ground strokes, and il is
only {" man good at that style OF game
that can bother Parke. Then. again
OF "a way OF covering his court. which
keeps his opponent moving all the time.
Another quality in favor of Williams
Is that he IL stayer, and il is only a
player full OF stamina that can with
stand the ruShcS and driving of Parkc
,n 9miH s GnGe before h,1 ala the United
tory in the challenge round and that
was in 1905. when Frederick T.; Alex
ander and lieale G. Wright went TO
Norman Brookes and Anthony f.. Wild =
ing defended for the Southern Cross.
The matches were all when Alex
court for the deciding tilt. With the
thermometer touching l02 in the shade
before Wilding in straight sets In the
single" match previous. Wright beat
liIookes and the men We're so exhaust
carried off the courts
The coaching OF Wright and en-
couragine him had worn out Alexander,
was not there Alexander said after
wards that he thought a New Yorker
could stand any heat: but that Mel
too much for him
planned The donation of the cup for
The announcement OF International
assume official shape till 1900. Since
then twelve competitions have been
held, and In the matter of long trips the
With a seven apiece while Australasia
has made four
In looking over tho percentage OF the
players who have participated in the
DAVIS cup since its donation. some
curious figures are revealed Premier
honors. of course, rest with II. l..
Dohcrty, who played in thirteen
matches and won them all, never once
meeting with defeat. Outside Of the
prominence he has earned in ccnncc-
iio, with the present match. nobody
ever heard much about Harold H.
Hackett. yet he is second on the per-
ccntage list to Doherty Hackett has
PLAYED in four Davis cup matches and
has won three and lost one
OF the players at present engaged,
Mcl.oughir has had the most brilliant
career Although barely twenty-threc
years old. he has been once to AUS
tralia and once to New Zealand after
the cup. In the nine matches which
he has played he has won three and
lost six. and these defaults were to
such as Brookcs and Wilding. the Won
ders of the lawn tennis world Nc
Loughlin 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 the
United States would have been credited
with the victory. and as it was