New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-23
Mclaughlin, Bundy, Beb,
and Williams the Sc.
lectiOnS Made. !,
r. L. MURRAY AND
JOHNSTON PASSED Up
Team Will Come to This Gin,
After LongWoOd Tournamem
and Begin Training.

The Davis Cup Committee. consisti,,
Of Robert ID. Wrenn, George T. As5
and II. W. SlocUm. announced yess,
day its selection of the four men VI,
will defend, the famous trophy N
month. They are Maurice h. McLous.
lin. R. Norris Williams, I'd, Thomas
Bundy and Karl II. Behr.
The announcement bears out the p.
port circulated on Monday and printsi
in The Tribune yesterday mornir,
that Behr had been selected as agaias
r. Lindley Murray, of California, a;
William ". Johnston, also from Il,
Coast and holder of the Longwood Su
giles cup.
The feature in connection with III
naming Of the team that Is bound :
cause comment is the retention 4
Bundy. The latter is essentially dc,
bles player. I'm the singles he has ran
" attained any distinction and IA
recently been defeated BY men M
even ranked in the first twenty OF N
country's leading players.
Karl Behr. also, is better a a dogl
bleS man than as a singles player. Nt
body will be likely to question the Oh
internationalist's right to play on On,
doubles combination this country "a,
put in the field. Paired with Theodor
x. Pell this season, Behr has swept tie
courts, with the exception of the fiusI
round match at Seabright last wees
when the two we're defeated by Ne.
Loughlin and Bundy, after five hen
sets in which neither team showed say
decided superiority.
In 1907, paired with Beals Wrigh,
Behr defeated Norman T.. Brookes and
A. +. Wilding, the Australians. regard.
ed az the likely challengers for the
Davis Cup.
But why. the question will persist
have two doubles players been chosen
80 assist Mclaughlin and Williams? Il
is generally believed that the chance
OF the Davis Cup remaining in The
United States this year will hinge upon
the result of the doubles match. II
that is lost, the defending team must
capture three of the singles matches.
which means that Mclaughlin is looked
TO to defeat both Brookes and WudIng
in the singles and Williams to take one
of his matches against these men.
Both Z. Lindley Murray and Johnstol
have defeated Behr this season in sin.
giles matches, and within the last few
t;eeks, which would go to substantst
the belief that both are stronger sin
giles players than the man selected as
the fourth member Of the team.
II Behr had been chosen as partau
for Mclaughlin in the double snt
either Murray or Johnston selected t
take Bundy's place, it would have gvg
this country a doubles team certainly
IS strong as any other combination tia.
could be found, and three men for he
singles.
As il is now, the committee seems 70
be holding Behr in reserve As a pos
sible player in the doubles, with Bundy
as the first string man. In view Of The
silence of the committee as 20 It's res.
sons for the selection, perhaps it Is
/ better to await the official word.
In announcing the makeup Of tht
team. Wrenn stated that the four mer
would return TO this city Immediately
after the Longwood tournament, ard
start to work in earnest on the nes
turf courts at Forest Hills, Long Island
the home Of the West Side Tennis Club,
where the international chsllenge
round matches will be player on Angus
13. Il and Is.