DAVIS CUP

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 8

DAVIS CUP

NO ALTERATION IN YENUE.' Mail advices last week contain (lis news that surprise has been caused in lawn tennis circles'™ Australia by publication of Mr. 11. jr. Gore's remarks concerning Mie venne nf the comine Davis Cup challenge round, Disciissinc the subject,. with a fl--rtncy 'Sun" representative. Mr. T. H. Hicks, Hon. pecretarv of the Australasian Tennis Association, snid: "So far as the refluent for an alteration of venue is concerned. none has rrone from our association to IT»w Zealand, As a matter of fact, the last two communications from our association to New Zealo-ud were by' cablegram and letter, instruct,ins the authorities there to nroceed with tho nrepsration of the courts at. once. "A couple of months apo the New Z»a. lard Association made their attitude nuite clear to the Australasian Association, hv •talw» tbat iat -iU eocts the murt ho n'.ayed in New Zealand. The acreement. entered between (ho Australasian Association a"d New Zealand nrovided that, out of three matches nlayed In Australasia two must, be played in Australia, and one in "New Zealand, in that order, and two have already been planpd in the Commonwealth." My asr;-,. ciation quite realises that Ho alteration could he made without thp concurrence of tb« New Zealand Association." The statements were placed before .Mr. 11. }[. gore, president of the New Zealand' Jiawn Tennis Association. b(it he had no further comment to make. Evervthinp was now in train for the contest to take place- at Auckland, and recent cable messages had been received asking for particulars as to accommodation and erounds available for practico