The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06
BY ANTHONY f. WELDING.
Worlds LAWN Tennis Champion.

London, July 5.-The international
lawn tennis championship thatcher
We're inaugurated when Dwight Davis.
of the United States. offered the $500
cup for competition among the ma
lions. The rules governing the matches
are that four singles and one double
match shall DO played between the
teams OF the contestins ,nations.
Either two, three or four men may be
nominated to represent r nation In
the first event both players play In
the singles and doubles. In any event,
the system works out admirably. as
one man cannot win Davis cup match
off his own bat, since the doubles
makes the odd trick,
America lost the Davis cup to Eng
land in the days when the Brothers
Doherty were in their prime. Since
then the big rose bowl has travelled
rather extensively IN Australia Mr..
Brookes and managed to win the cup
from England in 1907, although we
was against Beals c. Wright and Karl
Behr. OF America. In the elimination
round
For some wears we kept the coveted
prize, BUT last winter the Parks
Dixon Beamish combination won
surprisingly fine victory for England.
Having successfully traced the cups
NE during the past few years, we
come TO the present competition And
what wonderful entry there is
America, Australia. Germany. Canada,
France, South Africa and belgium
all with splendid teams. America has
already ousIcd Australia by four
matches to ono. German steadiness
prevailed oyer French brilliancy. and
lastly the Canadians beat South Africa
al Queens Club.
crit had h
est proposition In playing Australasia
But. as every American tennis enthus-
last knows, Mclaughlin and Williams
made short work OF Doust and Rice in
the singles. Australasia. however. de-
serves every credit for winning a bril-
liant double which went TO seven
games. all in the final set.
The Australian pair. Doust and Jones.
are an absolute first-class combination.
but not one whit better than Klein
schroth and Rahe, the German pair.
who will play the doubles for Germany
tingham on July 10. IL. IL. Mclaughlin.
however, Is in such brilliant form that
that he and Hackett-presumably
Hackett Will partner him again-ought
to defeat the German pair.
With regard to the singles. can
not see how Germany can win game.
Greutzer is certainly very steady. but
after making q distinctly poor showing
against Doust, ut Wimbledon. even his
most ardent admirers can hardly ex-
pect him to beat either Mclaughlin or
Williams.
Frotzheim. Germany's other singles
player. is possibly the steadiest player
in the world. He varies a great deal,
but on his day il is conceivable that he
might outplay Williams on steadiness
alone. But taking all contingencies
and even possible minor accidents into
ran
American can lose this match.
The Americans next match then
would be- the final against the winners
OF the Canadian Belgium struggle. We
need not discuss the match. as America
is certain TO come through.
We need not discuss Americas
chances in the challenge round. They
appear to mo to be very rosy. Who has
England got to withstand the on
slaughts of Mclaughlin. Williams and
Hackett? This is n difficult question to
answer. 1t is conceivable that a
double pair may be produced capable
OF winning the double. but who is
OF even extending McLoughlin
and Williams?
1t is true that Williams is Mt present
more or less Of an unknown quantity
over here, but If his American reputa-
tion OF not being much inferior to his
famous colleague is true, it is a poor
outlook for England
Parke. the English hero, has to
great extent fallen from his lofty ped
estal by reason of his somewhat poor
showing against Mclaughlin Mt VIM
bledon. Roper Barrett, cunning and
active as ever. might trouble Will
liams. but his inferiority to McLoughlin
was amply illustrated at Wimbledon.
one point TO which / would like to
call particular attention is this: A
tennis player is human. and when he
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entailing both physical and mental
strain 1t is quite likely for him to be
seized with staleness. This is most
fatal, and is tho cause of many n fay-