Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26
EIGHT ARE NAMED
ON YANKEE SQUAD
Hunter, Only Veteran, Rated
at No. 1-SeIeCtionS Are
Based on Ratings.

BY the Associated Press
N YEW YORK. August "a squad
from which the players viii be
NJ selected to represent the united
1 States in the international ten
mis- team matches with England
and France during the next two weeks
were named today at a conference be-
tween Joseph w Wear, chairman OF
the international play committee, ana
Charles S. Garland, chairman OF the
team selection committee of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association.
The squad consists of eight players
who have been selected IN the follow
ing order, based upon the 1927 national
tennis rankings:
No 1-Francis T. Hunter Of New
Rochelle, N. Y.
No. George Lott. Chicago,
No. 3-John Hennessey, Indianapolis.
No 4-John Van Ryan, Orange. N. j.
No 5--John Doeg, Santa Monica,
Calf
No. 8--Wilmer Allison, Austin Tex
No. frederick Mercur, Harrisburg,
| Pa.
No. a-w. F. Cohen, Kansas City.
Bell Also Invited.
THE committee also invited Berkeley
| Bell of Dallas, Tex, but owing TO
previous engagement TO participate IN
| tournament play at Denver. Bell was
unable to accept the invitation TO De.
come member Of the squad which VIII
| participate in the team matches against
| England and France.
| In these matches. the first of which
| will be played against the English team
| at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest
Hills. Long Island. Saturday September
and Monday, September 3, LABOR
dayl the event will consist OF three
singles and one doubles match, best two
out-of-three sets each day. At Phlla-
6elnhia international match between
the United States and France Will oe
A three-day affair with three singles
being played on Thursday. September
6, three doubles on Friday, September
7 and three singles on Saturday sep
TENDER 8. ,
English team consists of Edward
Riggs, ranked as England's No player;
J. c. Gregory. captain. No. 4 w. h.
Austin. No. 6, and l. G.. Collins.
Austin is one of the youngest players
tn participate in international play IN
the history of English tennis. He Is
captain of the Cambridge University
tennis team and a player OF remarkable
ability and promise. In the interna-
tionai team match between the United
States and England played at East
bourne this Spring. he defeated ooth
John Hennessey and George Lott:
In the English championship az
Wimbledon he won from Junior Coen In
| a five-set match and carried Rene
Lacoste. the French Davis Cup ace and
holder of the United States singles
championship. to full five sets before ne
was defeated During the match
against England, Austin and Coen VIII
renew their Wimbledon rivalry.
French Team Powerful.
France will use against the United
States in the team matches at German
town the following players: Henry
Cochet. ranked No. . in French tennis
lists: Jean Borotra. No. 8; Jacques
Brugnon, No. 4; Pierre Landry. No. 3;
Christian Boussus. No. 6, and Rene de
Buzelet, No. 3 The three last-named
players are the leading players of the
French younger generation and are be-
ing developed by the French associa-
ton to defend the Davis Cup when the
famous French musketeerS." LacoSte,
Cochet. Borotra and Brugnon shall have
passed from international tennis.
The order of play in the singles and
doubles events in both the United
States VS.. England and the United
States VS.. France matches have not as
yet been decided upon. Conferences
will be held at Boston during the COM
ing week. where ell the foreign players
are participating in the national doubles
championship held at the Longwood
Cricket Club and these details viii be
worked out during the next few days