TENNIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1920, Page 4

TENNIS.

tAUSTRALIAN & N.IE. OABLB ASBOOIAWW] Davis cup team. & SYDNEY, December 5 A wireless received from the captain of tlie American tennis team alnard the Niagara stating they wish to cancel their arrangements as Tilden End jobnstori are returning by :Ke first boat after tlie Davis Cup. They will visit Australia if possible. The message has caused widesprerid disappointment.

THE DAVIS CUP. AUCKLAND, December (

The American Davis Cup team have arrived. Tilden, when interviewed declined to predict the result of the forthcoming contest, but he. expressed his pleasure at again meeting the Australian captain. Tilden said he . ,w»g anxious to start practice right away. The Australiaris, who comprise the. Australian learn, landed late to-night and are all well. . The Australasian tennis team am/-. ed very ht and well. Interviewed. Norman Brookes said they were not at all depressed and were full of hope. In 1911 they had to meet super-playe.# and they managed to win. They hoped to do /?o again. The team whim comprised himself, Patterson O’Hara, Wood and Heath, was the very best j that could he picked, and had been | picked on merit alone. He was convinced that the Americans would find Gerald Patterson a very different min to what he was at Wimbledon wuen I Tilden beat him. I The American challengers for the I Davis Cup arrived by R.M.S. -Niagara J fit and well. Hardy was not disposed I t|o make any predictions concerning I the result of the cicpnlpg struggle j They had come prepared to play their j hardest and they had brought the best j America could produce in Tilden and! Johnston, lie .added that if, it was j possible he would tplce the. team acr as? I to Australia; The Americans commence I practice to-morrow.