Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
.HE team that beats England

Gun ties abroad will play
the winner in the American
zone for the honor Of challenging
France.
This is the way the situation.
looks to me on the western front
in these international matches Tor
the premier honors of tennis.
1t has been so long since England got
into the Davis Cup challenge round
that one would have to look up the
records to see when it was. Once the
dominant power in the game, England
went into a decline shortly before the
start of the war and only in the last
couple Of years has she begun to re-
cover. The last time British team
played in the challenging round was
1919. and no Englishman has won the
championship of his country since 1909.
Bunny Austin is the great hope OF
England today. A beautiful styllSt,
Austin has come along rapidly IN the
last few years, and all he needs TO de-
velop into one of the worlds great
players is a little more stamina. Last
year he beat Frank Hunter at Wimble-
don and many critics rank him among
the. first 10 players of the world.
He's a Model Player.
Austin has never been able to show
at his best in the United States. so
American fans have little idea of low
really good player he is. Some Of our
own young stars would do well to take
him as a model. for his form is beauti-
full.
With Austin, England also will put
into the field j. c. Gregory and possibly
Edward Higgs, I. G.. Collins and E. c.
Peters. Gregory beat Hunter in the
international matches with the United
States at Forest Hills in 1928 and he is
one of the most rapidly improving play
ers of his country.
Collins and Higgs also are well known
to United States tennis followers, while
Peters Is the young man who startled
the tennis world by beating Bill TIden
on the Riviera early in February in
straight sets. No one over here ever
had heard of Peters before. and this
shows how the young players Of Eng
land are improving.
The improvement in the English
players is to be attributed in part to
the far-sighted policy of the tennis as
ISOLATION in sending English players to
America and on a tour of South Africa
and Australia, where they could benefit
by the best opposition these countries
could afford.
Another factor has been the coach
ing of Karel Kozeluh, little Czecho-
Slovakian who holds the world profess
sional title. For the last two years
Kozeluh has been coaching the English
Davis Cup squad and he has done fine
work.
England Was Upset.
England was expected to meet the
United States In the interzone match in
1929, but Germany, sensation of the Euro
pean zone, put England out in the final
round, three matches to two. Before
that Bunny Austin and his teammates
had made clean sweeps against Poland
and South Africa and defeated Hun
gary, with the capable Baron Won Kehr-
ling, to 2.
Last years setback should make Eng
land all the more dangerous this year.
She will have all her best players
available, and it is only logical that
they should be better players than
year ago.
Through the draw England viii face
one of her toughest matches Of the
European zone play in the very first
round. She is bracketed with Germany
and must be at full strength to carry
the day. But the odds should be in
England's favor and look for her to
win.
Australia, Japan and Italy are other
powerful contenders to be reckoned
with in this zone, and If England can
come through them all. as she has a
good chance of doing, she should make
it hot for the United States in the in
terzone match.
would not be surprised to see Eng
land get into the challenge round in
the event the United States is repre-
scented by an entirely young team.
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