The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-16
FINAL RESULTS
WORLDS TENNIS
CHAMP |ONSH|P
OF GAME IN ALL
PARTS OF WORLD AWAIT WITH
INTENSE INTEREST coNcLUo-
ING CHALLENGE ROUNDS FOR
THE DAVIS CUP.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
New York. June 15.-With the pre-
liminary play in the international
contest for the possession of the Davis
Cup, emblematic of the worlds lawn
tennis championship, completed. the
results in the final and challenge
rounds are being awaited with inter
est by followers of the court game in
all parts of the world. In no other
play of international character has the
effort to win and retain the champion
ship been so frequent and sustained.
Since the cup was first donated by
Dwight F. Davis, for worldwide COM
petition, eight countries or colonies
have made repeated tries for first hon
ors with the racquet.
The opening play for the Davis cup
was held in 1900, with United States
and United Kingdom teams competing
The American players retained the
trophy during the following two wears
but in 1903 the famous Doherty Bro
theirs lifted the prize. Nineteen hun
dred and five witnessed the first real
international play, when France,
England Australia and the United
States all entered players, and when
the tournaments were ended England
still held the trophy. Again, in 1906
Australia, United States and the I'm
tied Kingdom were represented and
the challenge round saw the United
Kingdom defeating the United States
team.
The next summer America forced
Australia out of the running but lost
to England. The real upset came in
1917, for the Antipodian players elimi-
mated the United States team and,
by defeating Englands best, took the
cup Down Under Both England and
America, tried to recover the cup dur
ing the next two years, without sue
cess. Nineteen hundred and ten was
an off year so far cup play was
concerned, but in 1911 England and
the United States made another unslIc-
cesstul attempt to Wrest the prize from
the island continent England came
pack again last summer and succeed
ed IN taking the trophy back to Eng
land
During this stretch of years thirty
eight teams have been entered for cup
pay as follows: England, twelve:
United States, ten; Australasia, eight:
belgium, two; France, three: GERMANY
enc; Canada one: South Africa, one
In these matches seventy eight matches
IN singles have been played, and sew
enteen matches in doubles, not count
ing those during the preliminaries Of
the 1913 series.
Death of Noted Athlete.
The death of Mike Murphy, America
olympic team and University of Penn
sYIVania athletic trainer, leaves a. va
cancy IN American athletics which it
go DO llfbI u ~ I'LL JACK VI Oaki6N OF
SorneIl, and keene Fitzpatrick of
princeton, are the most logical sue
ceSsors for the position of Olympic
team trainer in 1914 and 1916.
Murphy was wonderful judge of
athletes, either in their embryo or
perfected stages. He could tell A future
star IN either track or field sport after
witnessing the tryout. and seldom was
his judgment at fault Once he had
an athlete under his charge he pro-
ceeded to develop the performer to the
utmost of his capacity. Murphy knew
every angle of the athletic game and
was close student of personal char
acter, which in part accounts for his
really wonderful career as a trainer.
lie knew whether to drive or coax his
charges IN training, and suited his
methods to the man in hand.
one of the greatest tributes ever
paid to Mike Murphy was made bv
Jack Moakley, the Cornell trainer. Dur
ing talk at an intercollegiate meet
in Cambridge several years ago. Moak
said: Mike Murphy put the college
athletic trainer on a clean and honor
a Bile pedestal and made it a business
that any man might be proud to fol-
low as Life work. His efforts as the
dean of trainers made it possible for
many others to copy his methods and
secure lucrative positions. Much of the
inspiration shown by his followers is
que TO Murphy's example and person
atty. There is only one Mike Muir
ply"
Varsity Fights to Race.
When the Yale and Harvard varsity
elghts paddle to the starting line at
New London next Friday the flash of
the starters pistol will mark the sixty
nrst anniversary of the initial boat
race between these collegiate rivals.
regatta, it is the oldest and most
famous event of university aquatic
sports. Viewing the picturesque scene
on the Thames river at New London
1t is hard to conjecture a comparison
with the first race rOWed way back
in 1852. Although there had been more
or less rowing by student boat clubs
at ooth Harvard and Yale, beginning
a bout 1874, 1t was not until eight years
later that direct challenge was sent
from the New Haven oarSmen to those
at Cambridge. The defy was accepted
by the Oneida Club. for Harvard. and
the date set for August >. the race to
be rowed on Lake Winnepiseog Cen
ter Harbor. \. H.
According TO one version. Yale sent
TWO eIght-oa cared barges named Und1ne
ana ShaWmut to compete against Har-
wards Oneida. Another account of that
cay gave the Yale entry as Halcyon
Ihese are but details, however, for
the race resulted in a Harvard vic
tory, the Oneida finishing first in
~ pun ny ABOUT I" o i6nSInS,
and the judges stated that the time
was about ten minutes" From this
small beginning came the annual re-
gatta- which in Yale Harvard sports
divides popularity only with the yearly
football game.
Sports In France.
Gable dispatches from France init
mating that there is a possibility of the
French cabinet requesting parliament
to create an office. the occupant OF
" hich shah devote his time and talent |
to the direction and cultivation of ath- |
leticS and sport, is but another illus |
ira ton Of the lengths to which Euro
pean countries are going in their de- |
sire to foster amateur athletic com
petition.
L has been repeatedly stated by |
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