DAVIS CUP

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 283, 25 July 1932, Page 6

DAVIS CUP

ITALY REINSTATES TWO PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS. AMA TEURISM THREATENED. Italy, distatisfled with tlie strength of its present Davis Cup team, has sought a solution which has ereated a crisis of the first magnitude in intcrnational lawn tennis. It has reinstatid two professionals as aniateurs. Czechoslovakia has joined fon's with Italy and is anxious to reinstaie Karel ICozeluh, possibly the greatest professsional in the world. A year or two ago Kuzeluh was engaged at a heavy fee by the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Briiain to coach at Wimbledon, and more recently he has made overtuves to visit South Africa. These proposals, of course, threaten the whole future of the Davis C-.ip competition, which' is ruled with the strictest amateurism. An examination of the rules of the International Lawn Tennis Federation reveals, however, that under Rule 22, Section C, a player who has lost liis status as an amateur may b e reinstated by the governing body of the association to which he belongs. The only case within reeent years of a first-class player boing reinstateJ is that of Paul Feret, who became a professional at the same time as MPe. Lenglen and poined "Pile Circus," which toured America and England. He played for the Paris team against London recently and defeated H. V/. Austin. English lawn tennis circles are as yet bewildered at these new developments. But Italy and Caechoslovakia are regarded as opening the door to a world-wide development of veiled professionalism.