Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-23
Rouse Interest
as International
Tennis Stars Come

NHc AuStTdIdSIan ana BRITISH Isles
tennis teams in this country has
quickened interest in the international
tennis carnival which will lead UP 10
the challenge round for the Davis
Cup at Forest Hills, September ..
The Australians are scheduled to
meet Canada in Toronto today, the
matches to decide the British Isles
opponent in the second round. The
players from the antipodes are tbs
outstanding favorites over the Cana
dams. The British australian match
which win be played at Pittsburgh
Pa, on Aug. 4. . and virtually for the
championship of the British En-
pire." is expected to be one of the
highlights of the international court
series.
Although the famous Australian
names. Brookes and Patterson are
missing from the personnel, players o!
experience are included on the team
which is considered not unlikely TO 60
through to the challenge round. Cap
tain Norman Beach, Joe Anderson
c. V, Todd and ]. B. Hawks compose
the quartet
Beach and Todd represented Aus
tralasia in the match with New Zeal
and 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 a formid =
able player. Capt Sam Hardy of tbs
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. so in the United States.
Joe Anderson is believed by Norman
Brookes. the famous veteran, to hold
the greatest promise among the
younger players in Australia. He is
said to play an excellent all-around
game with more speed and power
than his teammates. In the Davis
Cup challenge round of 1919, he de
feated F. G. Lowe of England in five
sets, feat that denotes much ability
G. Y. Todd is the youth who defeated
Gerald Patterson in the singles cham
pionship of New South Wales last
winter. Jack Hawks. a left-handed
boy of 20, is also brilliant, possessing
a puZzling twist service and ground
than fair.
The English quartet. composed oil
Captain Maxwell Woosnam, F. G
Low, O. G.. Neville Turnbull and ]. 3
Gilbert combines experience with
youth. Lowe and TurubulI have
played in many international tourn
aments. Gilbert was selected only re-
Gently to replace Major Cecil Camp
bell
Captain Woosnam, although a com
parative newcomer in international
play, made his mark in the Olympic
competition at Antwerp last summer
when. paired with Turnbull, he won a
gold medal in the doubles tournament
Previously. he won doubles with
Turnhull at Eastbourne and lIythe in
1919. He also represented Cambridge
against oxford in 1919. Woosnam is
regarded as one of England's best all
around athletes. tic represented
Cambridge in association football and
golf as well as in tennis and has
played for the city of Manchester and
for England in football.
Lowe, who is 81 years old. attended
Cambridge and represented that uni
versity against oxford in 1906. That
was two years after this veteran, who
learned his tennis at the Queens Cub
and Wimbledon, had won his first open
tournament in doubles at Paris
paired with the late Tony" WildinS.
In 1909. Lowe went TO the last eight
in the English championships at
Wimbledon. He represented England
in the Olympic tournament at Stock
holm in 1912 and was Il member OF the
English Davis Cup team which visited
Australia the same year.
@. G.. Neville Turnbull won the
doubles with Woosnam at Eastbourne
and Hythe in 1919 and represented
England in the Davis Cup match
against France at Deauville in 1919.
Last year he won the gold medal IN
doubles with WooSnam at the olym :
pie Games and reached the semi
finals in the singles. Last season saw
an additional triumph when ne cap
t,Ired the doubles championship Of
Spain with Manual Alfonso at san