THE DAVIS CUP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 3

THE DAVIS CUP.

AMERICA'S REPRESENTATIVES. (From Our Own Correspondent). SAN FRANCISCO, 20th March. Tennis players in California believe there is every prospect of an American team being sent to New Zealand .this year to try to bring back the Davis Cup — this in spite of recent newspaper reports to the effect that the Cup was to be abandoned and that Britain and the United States would arrange a new series of international contests. \V. A. Lamed, national champion, was here a few days ago, and, though he would not commit himself, he left the impression that ho was more hopeful than at any time since Australasia won the Cup of being able to make the southern trip next Deeembei\ Lamed is, in the opinion of the San Francisco player Maurice M'Loughlin, a better player than Noiman Brookes — and ' M'Loughlin has played them both. If New Zealanders see a garnet between these two champions of champions, they may confidently reckon it a contest for the world's supremacy. M'Loughlin himself, who has improved much since he played .for the Davis Cup at Sydney, is willing to go and do battle again, and he will almost certainly be chosen if a team is sent. Thomas Bundy, another Californian, who is now rated second only to Lamed among American players, is said also to be confident thai he will be free to make the trip. And reports- from the East say that Beals. j Wright could also go^ It is difficult, to say what course the j American Association will take in regard to the preliminary round. This country is drawn to meet South Africa, but it may be considered sure that no team will go to South Africa. It is- possible that, if a sufficiently powerful team can be got together, it will go straight to New Zealand, confident of victory in the preliminary games, in the event of any other teams going there.