New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
y. S. Net Stars
Planning Visit
TO Australia
Davis Cup Team May Make
"Trip OH Battleship if the
Anzacs Retain the Trophy
By Fred Hawthorne


Should Australia retain the Davis
Cup this year (and the chances seem
to be in favor of such a thing) there
is possibility that the challenging
team OF 1920 from the United States
VIII make the long trip to the Antip-
odes III quest of the famous trophy
in one of our big battleships or crl,is-
erS.
am not at liberty at present to
make any definite statements concern
ing this proposition but il is a fact
that the matter is being given serious
consideration, with high navy officers
! greatly interested. AS may readily be
imagined, the challenge for the Davis
Cup would take on d truly official in
ternational aspect under such condi-
tions and would prove tremendous
impetus TO the game all over the
world
According to the tentative arrange
ments, the players from this country
would embark on tic warship at San
Francisco or some cther Pacific port,
with commander. well-known as a
tennis player, in charge of the ship.
Stops would be made at Hawaii and
other countries en- route, with inter
national courtesies exchanged between
the United States warship and the
countries VISITED.
All this would serve to enhance the
Importance of the mission and world
wide recognition would be obtained for
lawn tennis. Imagine the thrill the
players would get as they lined up
on deck while the big guns from their
ship doomed forth the international
salute, with the coIors dipped and the
band playing. 1t would do much to
cVermore firmly cement the feeling
of international brotherhood among
the nations to which the great war has
given birth.
10, no, then, mates, for the Court
Marines.
The urge of tennis is being felt all
over the land It's spread is confined
to no one section of The country. Now
some of the larger universities and
colleges, not content with the play they
get in the matches connected with the
Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Associa-
ton, arc planning to form an inter-
collegiate Tennis league. with series
OF matches scheduled for the spring.
Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Cornell
and Pennsylvania are named as the
primary prospective embers of the
new league Such Il body would do
lawn tennis a major sport among the
colleges. and Harvard University is
particularly desirous Of bringing this
about. 1t is proposed to get each
athletic council at the various institu
tons to agree to give the major let
ter" to the members of the team that
wins the championship of the league
each year, with series of round robin
team matches TO decide the title
The Intercollegiate Tennis League
would in no way interfere with the
present intercollegiate Lawn Tennis
Association schedule. since the latter
body holds its champ pionship in Septem
Der.
The chief event of the week on out
door courts and probably the very last
Of the almost moribund season, will
be the visit of the New York Tennis
Club team, new champions of the Met
ropolitan Tennis League, to Phla-
town Cricket Club team, which recently
Won the Philadelphia and district title.
The usual series Of six singles and
three doubles matches Will be played.
and added interest will attach to the
match between the No. I man on each
team, for Vincent Richards, national
indoor champion, and William T. Til
den, "a, former national clay court
title holder, and former national
doubles champion. with Richards. will
represent New York and Philadelp lpha,
respectively.
Those Of Us who have seen the pre-
vous clashes between these two bril-
liant eXponents of the came, know
that the quality of tennis that Will be
brought forth ON this occasion WlIl be
Of the scintillating variety.