The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-20

wis Cup international tennis schedule
 compBHed, both the National Asso-
 ciatioA and the clubs allotted pre-
 liminary and challenge rounds are
 makiDs elaborate preparations for
 handling the matches and the thou- sands of spectators expected to wit nesS the play. If the English and
 AustHAlasian teams reach the final round, as Is generally predicted, there ! will be almost as much interest in the match between these two nations. , to be played at the Longwood Club
 on August 6, z, and g. as in the chal-
 Ienge round at Forest Hills, Long Isl-
 and, the following week.
 With this in view, the Boston Club is preparing to seat close to six thousand spectators and the West Side Club will almost double these
 figures for the series between the United States team and the challen-
 gers which will decide the 1914 win ners of the trophy emblenatic of the worlds team tennis championship. T Interest in the international play will not cease with the Davis Cup
 matches, however, for the members
 of the English, Australasian and German teams, if the latter come to
 America at all, will all play in the national championship tournaQ1ent at I Newport during the week of August l 24-2e. With Brooks, Wilding, Doust, ! Dunlop, Parks, Lowe, Barrett, Dixon ! l the singles againstA Mclaughlin, Will l Hams, Wallace Johnson, Touchard, l William Johnston. CIothier. Pe1l and | other leading American players who will enter at Newport. 'fhe national
 championship tournament is certain I to attract a record assembly to the I Casino courts
 That this will be the case is clearly l indicated by the demand for reser-
 vations even at this early date Des- Ipite the fact that the seating capacity at the Newport courts will be great ly increased 1t is apparent that the sl demand for tickets will exceed the supply The boxes surrounding the | grand stand court were completely ,l sold out a month ago and additional I stands are being built to provide for the thousands, who are expected to | witness the all-star matches to be l played on this court.
 Additional rows of temporary seats will be placed in front of the grand I stand and two new stands will be erected, one at each end of the
 championship playing turf. The I east stand will also be widened by the addition of rows of seats at top
 and bottom and when the alterations are com pleted it is expected that
 .nnore than 5000 spectators can be l accomrn odated around the star court of the Casino grounds.
 During the early rounds many of
 the other courts will be occupied by prominent American and foreign players and 1t is not unlikely that
 should the draw distribute the lead ing players evenly an attendance full | ly equal to thRt at the Davis Cup challenge round will be present on certain days.
 While rapid progress is being made
 in the matter of accommodating ! spectators at these matches the same
 cannot be said of the assembling of the players who will form the teams | of the leading entrants, considered
 as nations. Australasia is to date the
 only competitor with it's team formed and practfcing as a whole. In view l of the formidable aggregation of | players that the Antipodes possess in | this advantage Is not ont to be disre- garded. Before the Australasians i sail for America early in July both 1 the United States and English tenniseI authorities will have begun the as- mbling of their teams put at the l present time there is little definite idea of the strength or arrangement of these teams.
 The American cup defenders will | be called upon. to face a heavier l
 attack this summer than in any Da- wis Cup match in years and the ex- pert tennis authorities are emphatic in their declarations that at best the | United Staten, team will not have bet | LST InSA iAn even chance or retaining the trophy regained at Wimbledon
 last summer. It is certain that
 Champion Maurice Mclaughlin will
 form the foundation of the team, but
 beyond that all is speculation. The Canfornia delegation, includ- | ing Mclaughlin, William Johnston. 1
 Clarence Griffin Thomas Bundy and possibly Ella FottrelL and Roland Roberts, has been requested to come
 east early in J July. Here they will | T1 r tAa. L. Hahn who have been playing bril-
 liantly in the east for some weeks. The eastern contingent including | Williams, Wallace Johnson, Touchard
 roy, Church, Hackett and others
 have been playing for some weeks
 and when the two squads join forces l
 the .. s. l.. T. A. officials will imme
 diately begin the work of trying out ] l the players in various tournaments in l
 order to gauge their present ability for cup defense purposes
 | Somewhat similar conditions pre- ! vail in England with the first rounds but a few weeks away According to | the draw, the English team mus. ] l meet Belgium at Folkstone July 2, B. l
 g, and winner play France at Vim l bledon July II, 13, IA. England should survice these rounds even
 matches did not represent British top notch tennis strength. For the play in this country, however, England l
 must have the best combination pos
 sible in order to have a fair chance against the Australasians and towa.~
 this end little has been done. 1 Beyond appointing a subcommittee | | of three to organize a series of dou-
 bles trials at Wimbledon, the inter- national committee has taken no def | l mite action in regard to the interna- tional team. One or two players
 have been unomciaIly advised that | ! they may be selected, but that is as 1 far as the committee has gone. What l is needed, according to English writ | | CTS, is that the committee should | concentrate a team which is pfysi- 1 callv sound. a. team which is vo11not