Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-31

| tennis players and officials are already
planning for the recapture of the pa-
Wis Cup. wen by the Australasian team
at Forest Hills. l., l., through the ef-
forts of Norman e, Brookes and An
thony F. Wilding With Maurice e.
Mclaughlin as n nucleus new team
will be organized and a challenge
issued in 1915, provided the European
War clouds have dispersed and the in
ternational situation warrants such
action.
With Brookes and Wilding unlikely
to defend the trophy again and
score of young American players rap
idly rising to the heights already at
tanned by MeLoughlin the prospects of
regaining the cup in the next try is
considered bright. McLoughlin's vic
tories in the recent tournament
stamp him as the greatest singles
player in the world, Because of his
youth he is conceded TO have at least
five years championship tenure,
What Is needed TO give the United
States really representative team is
another player of almost equal singles
ability and a strong Well balanced
doubles team.
In addition to Mclaughlin and r.
Norris. Williams End; William NJ. john
ston, John r. Strachan, r. Lindley
Murray. Clarence Griffin, G. c. Gamer
and Ella Fottren. form a squad of
young players who are rapidly mount
ing to the highest ranks and these
players together with several others
of more mature experience give a
wide field from which to select. From
ina a
doubles pair might be formed, al
though pairs already accustomed to
the necessary team work, like Dean
Mathey and George NJ. Church, who
surprised the Davis Cup gallery by
defeating poust and Dunlop, the Aus
tralasian reservists. are available
and need but a little polish to make
them of cup ealibre,
Unless the other tennis playing ma
tiens OF the world keep pace in the
development of young players 1t is
doubtful therefore if the next contest
for this cup viii witness the close
and thrilling play that developed in
the 1914 struggle. An analysis OF the
Davis Cup records for the tournament
shows that the representatives of the
seven nations which participated play
ed six rounds consisting of thirty
matches: ninety-tiye sets and nine
hundred games, With the exception of
the British Observation-Disclosures and the
United States Australasian matches
all the rounds were one sided. BrookeS
and Wilding after defaulting two
matches to the British Isles team won
20 games to A and defeated the Unit
ed States 202 to o. In the challenge
round the point tables show that Nc
Loughlin defeated Broekes 176 to 146
and Wiiding 121 to IS. Brookes de-
feated Williams 1876 to 102 and Wild
ing Won liz to Sc, In the doubles
Breokes and Wilding defeated Nc
1oughlin and Bundy, AS to $50. But 10
points separated the two nations at
the end of the play, the final score for
five matches being Australasia 637;
United States 61s.,
The war abroad which envolved Eng
land has upset the elaborate plan for
season of amateur and professional
bouts far more ambitious than any,
thing heretofore attempted by the
British ring promoters. Several new
boxing stadiums were under construc-
ton, the money being raised by the
sale OF stock and with ticket privileges
In fact there was every indication of a
boom in boxing which would necessi-
tate firm handling of the situation by
those who have controlled the sport in
past years. To this end the National
Sporting Club had planned to Coop
crate with the army and navy toward
the formation of board of control to
cnDerVisa rapItfa hIa r1atc
The control board had 1t been form
ed would have named referees and Of
ficiais whose judgment could not be
appealed from. A ban would also have
been put on the kidney punch and
the spine jarring chop on the back of
the neck, which detract from rather
than add to the science of boxing. Dis
honest promoters would have been de-
MED recognition. The late boxing
boom gave promoters an exceptional
chance to foist ridiculous matches on
the public, and the real sport element
felt that something should be done to
put boxing on a clean sportsmaniike
basis.
Although there We're two amateur
golf championship, tournaments, one
at medal play and the other ar match
play, held in the United States, IN
1894 1t was not until the following
year that the newly organized United
States Golf Association assumed con-
troll of the game in this country the
first amateur championship under the
auspices of the National organlza-
ton was decided on the course or the
Newport Golf Club. Newport, r. l., in I
october 1895 and won by Charles %.
Macdonald, entered from Chicago, and
now a resident of New YORK CITY,
Next Monday the twentieth anniver-
sary of this event carrying with 1t the
championship cup and title for when
a great field OF players will CONTEND
will begin on the links of the Ekwanok
County Club, Manchester, VT, and
the final round will be decided.the fol-
lowing Saturday,
In the early days of golf in this
country it was only natural that
those who had learned the game IN
Scotland and England easily led the
American players, as after the victory
in the first tour