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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 12

A Sydney writer states that a, lot o£ talk is being indulged in with regard to the Davis Cup contest being withdrawn, and that South Africa is being allowed to enter after the entries have closed (two months ago) Mr. T. H. Hicks, honorary secretary of the Australian Council, on the subject, says most emphatically that there is nothing official before the council, and until somo application by South Africa, is made to the proper quarter nothing will bo dono, and that tho arrangements made already by the council stand, viz.:—That Belgium plays the British Isles, and that Franco has the bye, and will play tho winner of the British IslesBelgium match, to see who . will proceed to Australia, as challengers to the holders of the cup (Australasia). Some few months ago, Mr. Frank Churchill, the head o£ a sporting concern conducting boxing matches in Manila, went to Sydney, aad took away with him Llew Edwards, Vinco Blackburn, Tommy Ryan, and others to engage' in contests in the Philippines. A roomy stadium has been built by Mr. Churchill, and the advent of Australian boxen has boomed the game so much in tho East that tlje company has decided upon conducting matches in Shanghai and Hongkong.

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