LAWN TENNIS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 2 November 1912, Page 12

LAWN TENNIS.

. :;.■ ' -,'" } ■ ■ . CBy "Fooifauw."] Omcial Operiirig Thorridon Tennis Club, November 2. Davis Cup, Challenge, Round, British Isles v; Australasian-Melbourne, Nov- ' : ember 28; 29, SO, 1912. . New Zealand Championships.—Hastings; ' December -26,27, 28, 1912; Australasian Championships.—Hastings, December 30 and 31, 1912; January 1, 1913. Hastings Club Chainpibriships and Han-dicap3.-f-To follow Australasian ingPahiatua Club Championships and Han- ' diciips.—Pahiatua,' January 1 and 2, ' 1913. . , Club Games and Coiirts. The- inter-club matches,'which, had to be postponed owing tb.the/ lack of courts, will Coriiriibnce. next, Saturday. ..' So. far no definite arrangement has beeri made with regard tb courts',: bit no,'doubt tho Day's Bay ground will bo again secured this/ season. , . Arrival of the English Team In Australia, ■ Four members of tho visiting English team reached Melbourne on October 28. They were ,passengers via the Capo, per s.S. 'Themistocles. .They were Messrs. C. P., Dixon, J. C. Parke, A. E. Beamish, ! and E, T'. Lowe. One feels sure that thev will do justice to their reputations bptn as played and.spbrtsmen. Whether they win the Davis Clip or not, they will prove formidable opponents to all other teams tiib/ri those which include Australia's best four. ......', . . Acting on a happy thought, the tralian Association dispatched a wireless ihcssago of welcome tb tho English captain, and he replied, oh Sunday expressing thanks, and adding that all his team were well.. . English files are naturally full of the doings and expectations, of the then departing team, arid the following is interesting:— What England Thinks of Them. One paper quotes Dixon as "recognising the severity Of the task; but hot without hope. ; "Brookes might strike an, off time. Parke I will probably play the singles, and Parke arid Bfeaniish thb doubles. We are going to have, a jolly good time, arid I have' git iriy golf clubs with me." ~ j..,'. . •_'■;.■; The "Daily Chronicle of September. 13 deals at length with the, history .of the Cup, and predicts Australasia's sucoessj and says: "All tho leading iieri of the day acknowledge that Brookes is the greatest player in the world" •■ --. ■ .- ■ , „The "Standard". of Septenibe'r 10 also devotes great space to the Cup and thb British players prospects and . previous performances. ,All of .them argue..'put two defeats in the singles for Rod.Heath by pither Dixon and Parke or Dixon and Beamish. ~;.,' The "Globe" 6f Septehlber 11; adriiits tiieir teaul'is as good ris they could hope to send out, and. congratulates the associatioi on hiakirig a fight of it. .They vote for Beariiisli as secoud sti'irig in the singles; as lie is chpable, though erratic, of rising to a greater,height,, They, also state: "Norman Brookes is at present unquestionably the greatest player in tlie < world Dixbn mav. give hini a godd ganie,^

but cannot, humanly !»• t>xpocted to win outright. All the comment is characteristic pi too best in English sport* Australian on Australia. In regard to Australia/a team, 7'Atis-. trol" Makes the Mowing remarks:— "As to our own team, I have still less doubt than I had last week that A. B. Jones will go Very closo itideeid to catch* ing 'tho Spanker's eye' for inclusion in our Davis Cup four, and, frankly, I dm a good deal sorry that he .should haw gone across to Wostralia. Sorry for. his own sake that his chancp should ..be so lessoned; sorrier for Australasia's salco, fof if. through liis atonco Brookes, is sole' feolector, has not, so good a., chance pf judging his form, the Westralian trip will be to blamo. ._ :.' "I don't say this because I corisidpr Jonbs shbuld find a.jilaceahead.of Heath or Dunlop. That ftir..two thai t don't"think he should; and, secondly, because I am, hot hankering after interfering with Brookes's' job, I pay it simply because of ono_ of our men. may strikd a feeasbh of indispositioni and we don't want tb tike any chances. "It ihay.be also, as I said last week,' that Byccfct or some other, player will be chosen instead df Jokesj but' it would have been well for' hihi tb be.here till the :7th, when tho choice must be inade, ready for .selection."