The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-13
WEEKLY SPORT REVIEW
Arrival Of Australasian Team Rooms Tennis-- Heavy I1itters Of Last
 Years Up To Form

New York. July 1S.-The arrival Of the Australasian Davis Cup team in this country during the present week is expected to give added impetus to both the international tennis match es and the sport in general The team, consisting of Brookes, Dunlop Doust and WiIdings is one Of excep- uonal strength and is considered to have an excellent chance of ultimate ly winning the trophy emplematic of the worlds team championship in ten his.
 The quartet sailed Saturday and should arrive in New York on Fri day or Saturday. They will go di- rectly to the West Side Club quar- ters at Forest Hills, L. T., for prac- tfces moving on to Chicago at the end of the week for the first round against the Canadian team. These matches are scheduled for July 23, 24 and 25. Upon the completion of this match the Australasian doubles pair, Wflding and Brookes, will enter in the western cnampi onship in order to quality for the national championship, challenge round at Newport late in August.
 While the Canadian team will con sist of four players this, year, in- cIuding two former internationaIists 1t is considered unlikely that the com bination can check the, progress of the Australasians toward the cup hn-. als. The Maple Leaf representatives, include R. B. Powell and B. P. 6chwengers, both of Victoria, who played in the 1918 cup round, B. c. Mayors of Winnipeg. and H. SherweH of Toronto Neither Individuality or as, a. team does the Canadian four rank with the Antipodeans and for this reason interest turns toward the Eng fish team which Is at present playing through the lower half of the draw on home courts.
 Having successfully passed the Bel gfu1n team at Follzstone last week the English players are at present cross ing racquets with the French combine atton on the champ pionshfp courts at Wimbledon. As composed for these preliminary ttes the team is consid- cred strong enough to win it's way to the final round against the Austral- asians at Boston, August 6, ( and 8, but 1t is believed that England will select other players for the American invasion since winter and spring tour nament play abroad has shown that hngscotes Parke. Mavrogordato and Barrett do not as a combination class with the Australasians.
 Batting averages based upon the hitting in the two major leagues dur ing the first three months of the 1914 season show that as a.. ruHe the heavy
 
 ting fairly close to form. In the Ne- tional League Grant, Cincinnati; Crandall, New York. and Zimmerman, Chicago, were leading on July 1, 1912. A year later CrandalI, New York: Cra- vath, Philadelph1a; Hyatt, Pittsburgh, and Daubert. Brooklyn, were closely punched in the race for honors- Their averages on the first of July were as follows: Grant .329s which gave him fourth place among those players who had participated in at least twenty five games. Crandan in the Federal League was batting at 1928 rate which put him among the first seven stick wielders in the new league. Thinner man, however, showed slump in his batting, being more than a hundred points below his previous record. Cra- vath, who batted .346 in 1918 showed was considerably below his 1918 form.
 The average, in the American League was about the same, for while Jackson and Cobb were going at top speed, Iris Speaker and Nap. LaJoie had fallen short of their performances Of the past two years. The standing Of the first five batters in each year were as follows: 1912-Jackson, Cleveland .402; SpGaker, Boston, 1884; Lajoie, Clevelah 1884; Cobb, Detroit .s82; Jackson, .4O4; Cobb, SS7; Speaker, .371; Collins, Philadelphia .352; D. Murphy, Philadelphia. .348.
 This season Cobb was second with .S49: Jackson third with 1928; Baker sixth with .326; Collins tenth with .295;, Speaker fourteenth with .280, while Lajoie had dropped far down the list with<.247.
 The stewards of the English Royal other foreign cvreWs and scullers com peted so meritori ously last week, have taken decisive steps to fix the status of these rowing races in the future. Because of the prominent and. classic history of this regatta and it's tro- phies there is a. constantly increas- ing pressure from foreign rowing clubs to be permitted to enter their best scuI1ers, fours and eights. Under the afhliation agreement between the British Amateur Rowing Association and similar association of other coun- tries the crews of any club. members of these associations are eligible for entry at Henley providing their. anna teur status complies with the Henley regulations.
 The Australian oarsmen, however, brought forward a. point which the Henley stewards refused to lconcede when they asked permission to enter an all-Australasian eight at their re- cent regatta The secretary of the regatta management replied in part to the request as follows.
 My committee, after very careful examination are of opinion that, under the rules, this would be impossible By rule W, the entry of a crew from outside the United Kingdom cannot be accepted unless such crew. belongs to a club which isyaf11iated to a union or federation having san agreement with the committee of management of Henley Royal Regatta. This rule ob- viously contemplates. and has always been interpreted as contemplating, a union or federation of separate clubs duly affiliated thereto, which by vfr-s