Evening star., 1937-01-18
START CAMPAIGN
IN COAST EVENTS
Bulge, Mako, Riggs and Hunt
Expected to- Bag Trophy
for US. This Year.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

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the Davis Cup back to these
shores next Summer, will begin their
years tennis campaign in a long
series Of California tournaments.
They will be directed. or rather,
guided, not by the United States
Lawn Tennis Association operating
from New York. as certain cynical and
misguided commentators have as.
serted, but by the Southern Cali.
fornia Association. which Is quite
competent to attend to the work Of
preparation. -
Edward B. Moss. secretary Of the
U. S. L. T. A.. has no fault to find
with prophets who believe that the
detection Of Fred Perry from the
ranks Of English amateurs gives the
United States a bright outlook fer
the recapture Of the famous inter-
national trophy
Bunny Austin" he says, Simply
cannot win two single matches from
Germany. Australia or the United
States. So, on paper, at least, Eng
land can be counted out.
Should Have Beaten Australia.
a S FOR the United States, we
should have beaten Australia
last year. Against the fact that We
did not. you have to consider the
undoubted fact that We should have.
Well. Australia beat Germany, and
England. with Perry. remember. de.
feated the Australians So there is our
basis Of hope"
Between what the United States
team should have done and what 1t
did not do lies discrepancy which
cost us the Davis Cup in 1886 and
has. and always will cost a lot OF
other teams and individuals cham.
pionship titles throughout all the his.
tory of sport.
II one grants that Baron Won
Cramm will have regained good health
by next Summer, as is likely, he may
be included with a teammate Of the
name of Henkel, who is expected to
be pretty nearly. if not quite. as good
as the baron this year, while another
prospect, Hans Denker, is regarded
highly by qualified observers as an
internationaiist of the highest class.
With the experience and ability Of
these players, it is carrying optimism
long way to predict that the group
ivh
mentioned can hurdle the Teutonic
barrier. And if they do, what about
that Australian galaxy made up OF
Adrian Quist. Jack Crawford. vivian
McGrath and Harry Hopman?
Have Sustained Fire.
A IL these players, German and
Australian. have a certain COM
petitve ruggedness, sustained fire,
in international court battling which
the Americans of current eminence
have lacked, Bulge no less grievously
than any Of the rest. The solidity
of match character. such as was
found in Tilden. Johnston. Vines,
Williams, Richards and Mclaughlin,
Is missing.
This may be due TO the youth OF
the present crop Of leading American
racket swingers. fault which. in such
case, maturity will correct. Or it may
be due TO a superficiality in the ex-
preston of lawn tennis which is
fundamental and so incurable. There
are those who believe that this is the
present malady in the Davis Cup situ-
alton as it affects this country.
Meanwhile. the professional cause
strikes the dismaying hiatus Of a mid =
land sick bed toward which Ellsworth
Vines inevitably directed himself when
he met Fred Perry in the Madison
Square Garden in the early stages of
influenza.
1t is just as well from the promoters
standpoint. For the spare 5000 at.
tendance in Cleveland, q good tennis
center. must have proved convincing
evidence that, until Vines regains his
health, there is no profit in these ten
mis- shows. And even after he gets
well he will have to beat his English
rival a couple of times at least befors
the Midwestern turnstiles begin to
click with anv celeritv