DAVIS CUP CONTEST

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 7

DAVIS CUP CONTEST

THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM. By Telegraph —Presi Association. , -■ Auckland, October 28. , . The Australian tennis players who took part in the Davis Cun contest, and who , 'returned by the Makura; could not speak too highly of the way the American people treated them. The colonials i found the Japanese a very solid team, and also wonderfully good sportsmen. Speaking of the play of the Japanese, the Australian® say they can get the ball .back os often as they liked. Shimidzu is a marvel on the back line. Both Poach and Anderson agree that they know no player who could beat, him at. it. ■ The meeting of Sbimidzu and Tilden in I the challenge matches was most exciting, , and a close go resulted*'in the Japanese being within two points of beating the American three sets straight. An outstanding feature of the tour,-so far as the .Australians, were concerned, said Peach, was Anderson’s defeat of Tilden, 19—17, in the fifth' set in the East v. West match at Chicago. Anderson was playing for the Wcst< team, and beat the American player three sets to two. In the first couple of sets Tilden was a bit' erratic, but after that the tennis was' distinctly good, and Tilden was playing as well as ever he did in Auckland.