New Britain herald., 1925-09-08
FRANCE ID ENTER
 DAVIS CUP FINALS
Drama Of Challenge Round to Have New Setting This Year

Philadelphia, Sept. 8. R)-The drama of the challenge round for the Davis Cup, emblem oi international team tennis supremacy will be held on the same stage as 1924, but with q new setting this year. For the first time in the quarter-century of his- toric competition, Frances actors will take part in the final scene, with America in the defending role in the series of five title matches on the turf of the Germantown cricket club here Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week.
 Four times in the last five years of victorious reign, the United States has beaten back the for ces of Aus tralia. Japan's challenge was repulsed in the remaining season, 1921. Now the fiery youth of France presents a new threat. America, relying once more on the seasoned brilliance of Tilden Johnston, Richards and Will Hams, will be favored 10 keep the famous trophy at home for the sixth year in row but it will be in jeopardy at least, if Jean Borotra continues the dazzling streak that chiefly accounted for the defeat of Australia in the inter-zone finals and his partner, Rene Lacoste, recovers the form that carried him to cham pionship heights at Wimbledon earlier this year.
 Frances entry into the challenge round not only has heightened in- terest in the championship matches but the manner of her triumph over Australia in the last elimination test at Forest Hills has put an entirely new front on the situation.
 Frances main hopes had been pinned upon the cool and quiet La coste, 20 year old champion of Europe, but it was the volatile, hitherto cratic Jean Borotra who brought triumph to the tri-color and now looms as a threatening figure in Americas calculations.
 Where Lacoste fell before the can nonadng of Gerald Patterson, Aust raian howitzer of the courts, Borot- ra overwhelmed James o. Anderson, Anzae captain played a stellar role in the French doubles victory over Patterson and Hawkes., then turned loose, in the deciding match, fire even deadlier in its effectiveness, than Patterson's.
 In preparation for the final tests, members of both French and Ameri- can teams were to be at Germantown today for practice. Little Bill' Johnson, veteran Californian, who is slated to bear the singles burdened with Big Bill" Tilden, and R. Norris Williams, captain of the American squad, arrived yesterday. Tilden and Richards, the later due to team up with Williams in the doubles, were expected today.
 Borotra and LaCoste, with their teammates, Jacques Brugnon and Max Decugis, captain of the invaders, are likely to indulge in only light tuning up inasnuch as they have just come through hard campaign.
 Frances climb to the challenge round marks only the third time in Davis cup history that the monopoly of the "big three"-Australia Great Britain and the United States-has been broken in the final tests. With the exception of Belgium's 1904 challenge, when the United States and Australia did not compete, and Japan's 1921 challenge. all previous title rounds have been confined to the three English speaking rivals. 1n the nineteen champion series since 1900, the United States has wor eight, Australia six and Great Britain | five,