Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-01
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P'TERRORS'
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AustraIasian Lawn Tennis Experts
Preparing to Regain LaureIs
They Once Held.
By James S. Mitchell.

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TINE Australaslan lawn tennis play
ers, Norman e. Brookes and
- Anthony +. Wilding, have for
years been known as the Davis Cup
terrors, and as they, with A. w. Dun
lop, an ally in the doubles, are TO be
here for the international cup match
next summer, their movements from
now on will interest the American
lovers of the sport
1t was through the efforts of
Brookes and Wilding that the Davis
Cup was taken in 1907 from Eng
land to Australasia, where 1t remained
five years.
on the way here the AustralaSians
may meet the European teams in the
preliminary rounds, but on form II
is a pretty safe proposition that the
Brookes- Wllding- Dunlop combination
will wade through the opposition and
land in America for the challenge
round
Stanley n. Doust, who was here
with the Australasians last year, has
been named as one of the team, but
he is more or less in the light of a
substitute. or as one of the doubles
should there be a vacancy.
Because he has won more Davis
Cup matches than any other player,
norman T. ibiuOhtS Is NbINilg VI N4AN-
foremost niche in the tennis gallery
of fame. He has engaged in "a bat
ties and only in was he forced to
lower his Colors. Three of these de-
feats We're administered by Beals c.
Wright. of Boston; one by w. A.
Larned: another by James Cecil
Parks the Irishman. who was mainly
responsible for bringing the cup back
to England before 1t came here.
Brookes' two remaining defeats were
in doubles.
Bro6kes is a remarkable player in
many respects. He is probably the
most brilliant left handler that ever
swung a racket All the science he
possesses was acquired and expert
mented upon on a private tennis
court at Melbourne.
caves Taught Brookes.
Brookes owes most OF his tennis
craft to the evolution Of the game
in America. DR.. w V. Eaves, who
was the first Australasian to shine in
lawn tennis visited this country and
England in the late nineties. For
three years-1S95. 1896 and 1S97-he
was the runner-up in the all-comers
at Wimbledon, and in 1897 he won
the all-comers at Newport. r. l.. and
incidentally in both countries made
a system of the styles of all the lead
Ing players.
On his return to Australia DR..
Eaves impaired his repertoire OF
curves, breaks, the reserve service.
the lob, and the overland smash to
Brookes, so that soon afterward
Brookes was the best all-round
player in Australia He came with
DR.. caves to England in 1905 and
went through to the final in the all
corners, at Wimbledon, but had to
succumb to H L. Doherty in the
challenge round.
Two years later Brookes returned
with Wilding and plOwed through
the championship round. The chal-
lenge round went to Brookes by de-
fault. as H. L. Doherty did not defend
the title Then Brookes and Welding
swept the courts and beat both Eng
land and America for the Davis Cup.
Brookes' chief advantage in being
a left handler is that he can play his
driving forehand to the backhand of
an opponent, and where he meets a
rival who might happen to be weak
on the back arm stroke, the Austria
liam is deadly.
Brookes Fierce Driver.
In the last visit OF the American
team to Christchurch, New Zealand,
the match between Mclaughlin and
Brookes was the most spectacular
tussle ever seen across the net in the
Antipodes The Californian was lead
ing sets to I, but had TO give way
at the critical moment 10 the herce
drives Of thG Australian. Brookes
was born in Melbourne in 1877.
Wildinc is native of Christchurch.
New Zealand, and is now 81 years of
age. He is the present English cham
pion, which carries with 1t the worlds
title This honor he has held for the
past four years. He represented
Cambridge University against oxford
in the annual contests of 1904 and
| 1905