The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

Forest Hills, N. Y, September B. The Davis cup, emblematic of the worlds team tennis championship, remains in America for another year.
 R. Norris Williams of Boston and Watson M. Washburn of New York, the cup .defendingN doubles team, clinched the championship for the United States by defeating Ichiya 1lpmagae and Zenzo Shimidzu of Japan, three out of four sets by scores of 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, on the courts of the West Side Tennis club this afternoon.
 The winning of the doubles match today in conjunction with William M Johnstons victory over Kumagae and William T. Tilden's win from Skimidzu in the singles yesterday, gave the American players the neces- gary three out of five victories,
 Have CIinched Victory
 On Monday, Tilden will play Ku- nagae, while Johnston crosses rac- quets with Shimidzu. The outcome of these two singles matches, however, will not affect the status of the in- ternational play for the season of 1921.
  doubles pair which eliminated in the retention of the ctfp agains the chal- lengers of 12 nations, was not as closly fought out as the scores would appear to indicate. Williams and Washburn, as d team, were clearly superior to Kumagae and Shimidzu, particularly in the finality of their strokes Streaks of cratic playing and error making at times marred the play of the victors. The Japa- nese, however, while they stroked the ball with the same care and ef- fectiveness in their singles play, did not pair well together. They were frequently thrown out of position or lined up in the middle of the court where they interferred with the free- dom of each others strokes.
 It was on their earned points that the Americans won, and it was in the scoring of these placement and service aces that they showed clearly superior to their oriental opponents. In addition Williams and Washburn were a comparatively evenly bal anced team which could not be said of the Japanese.
 Earned Points
 There was but points difference in the earned honors of the Amerl- cans, whereas Kumagae had almost twice as many as Shimidzu. To OIL set this, however, Kumagae was less steady than his teammate and the Japanese made less errors than the Americans, due, in part, to their ten dency to avoid taking chances for a winning smash. While Williams and Washburn had the same number of placements to their credit, Will Hams piled up far more errors than the New Yorker. The same was true in a general way of Kumagae, who tried at times to make forcing fight against the winners.
 Rain Comes Up
 The match was played under diff faculties, terrific thunderstorm in tervening at the end of the thlru set and delaying play for almost two hours Both teams were -slNen " noisy greeting at the end of the piay' the handclapping and applause con finuing for several minutes after the winning stroke had been made, not xyjthstanding that the match did not produce the sensational volleys ana strofsing of the ball which the spec tators had hoped for.
 After the teams returned to the clubhouse, kumagae, as the captain of the challenging nation, said tnae heJand his tearnmate were very we'll eSaIlsfied with the results of Japan first appearance in the role or Davis cup challenger. s
 He said further that they were pleased and proud to nave reacneu tbe challenge round and would en- fer team for the cup next year 1,umagae said that they were deVel- ou3ng a number of new players Tn Japan and that there would be much surprise in the United States when they came to this country and It was