The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-22
INTEREST QUICKENED
nv TENNIS CARNIVAL
By Arrival of Australasian and Brit
ish Isles Teams to Prepare for =
Challenge Round.

| New York, July 22.--The arrival OF
the Australasian and British Isles ten.
mis- teams in this country has quick
ened interest in the international ten
mis- carnival which will lead up to the
challenge round for the Davis cup at
| Forest Hills, Sept. 2,
The Australians are scheduled to
meet Canada in Toronto to-day, the
matches to decide the British Isles
opponent in the second round. The
players from the antipodes are the
outstanding fsvorites over the Cana
dams. The British Australian match,
which will be played at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on Aug. 4, and virtually for
the championship of the British EN-
pre- is expected to be one of the high
lights of the international court Sc
ries.
Although the famous Australian
names, Brookes and Patterson, are
missing from the personnel, players of
experience are included on the team,
which is considered not unlikely to go
through to the challenge round Cap
tain Norman Beach, Joe Anderson, G.
v. Todd and j. b. Hawks compose the
quartet
Beach and Todd represented Aus
tralasia in the match with New Yea
land last winter when the Davis cup
team of the United States visited there
for the challenge round.
Beach, in the opinion of the Amer
lean team members, is not formidable
player. Captain Sam Hardy of the
American team saw him in action
against player of fair ability in
Auckland and declared on his return
home that Beach would rank about No.
90 in the United States.
Joe Anderson is believed by Nor
man Brookes, the famous veteran, t.
hold the greatest promise among the
younger players in Australia. He is
said to play an exnllent all-around
game with more speed and power than
his teammates, In the Davis cup ehal
lenge round of 1919, he defeated f. g, |
Lowe of England in five sets, a feat |
that denotes much ability. c. V, Todd |
Is the youth who defeated Gerald Pat |
terson in the singles championship OF |
New South Wales last winter. Jack |
Hawks, left handed boy of 20, is also |
brilliant, possessing puzzling twist
service and ground stroke and net |
game which is more than fair.
The English quartet, composed of
Captain Maxwell Woosnam, +. G.
Lowe, o. G. Neville Turnbull and J.
B Gilbert combines experience with
youth. Lowe and Turnbull have played
n many international tournaments.
hilbert was selected .only recently TO
eplace Major Cecil Campbell.
Captain Woosnsm, although a com
,arative newcomer in international
,lay, made his mark in the Olympic
competition at Antwerp last summer
when, paired with Turnbull, he won
'old medal in the doubles tournament.
he won doubles with Turn
,ull at Eastbourne and Hythe in 1919. .
lie also represented Cambridge against ,
)xford in 1919. Woosnam is regarded
s one of England's best all-around
thletes. He represented Cambridge in
ssociation football and golf as well as
4 tennis and has Saved for the city
{ Manchester and for England in foot
all
Lowe. who Il 81 years Of age, at
ended Cambridge and represented that
University against oxford in 1905. That
'as two years after this veteran, who
armed his TEMPS at the Queens club
nd Wimbledon, had won'his first open !
1urnament in doubles at Paris, paired
18th the late TONY" Wilding In 1909. !
owe went to the last eight in the
nglish championships at Wimbledon.
e represented England in the Olympic
at Stockholm in 1912 and
as a member Of the English Davis cup o
am which visited Australia the same
ear.
O. G.. Neville Turnbull won the dou L
les with Woosnam, Eastburne and e
ythe in 1919 and represented England =
the Davis cup match against France Z
Deauville in 1919. Last year. he won "
le gold medal in. doubles with Woos- o
I'm at the Olympic games and reached s.
e semi-inals in the singles. Last sea a
n saw an additional triumph when he leo
ptured the doubles championship Of 81
pain with Manuel Alfonso at San Sc g
Istian. d.