Half- Volleys

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 7

Half- Volleys

••Foot faults abound, being almost as plentiful as the flies in the pavilion at lunch time, but few umpires have the courage or the energy to call them. Two juniors out of thrpe plant a foot fair on the line, and but few were checked, which is a pity,” says “Wayfarer,” in his notes on the New Zealand championships at Christchurch.

Malfroy, who after playing brilliantly in the first two sets against Bartleet, lost the next three, is one of the most promising youngsters in New Zealand. He almost replaced the Auckland ' champion in the semi-final.

The U.S.A. has entered its challenge for the Davis Cup in the American zone, notwithstanding that Tilden stated that he and Hunter would only be available for the inter-zone final. If that be so, it may take the U.S.A. all its time winning through the American zone to the inter-zone final. The American Association is to make arrangements with the Australian Association to play a match in America on its way back to Australia.

Rather a jocular outcome of the strike in Queensland is that owing to their having attended a ball at which a cake was served that had been cooked by a cook already declared black, both J, O. Anderson and R. O. Cummings became tainted with the sombre hue, and are well and truly “black.” Jt is not alleged that they ate any of the black cake.—Sydney “Referee.”

There have been 22 contests for the Davis Cup, beginning with 1900, when it was placed in competition. It has been competed for by 32 nations, and four of them have had possession of the trophy. The cup changed hands in 1903, 1907, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920 and 1927. The United States held it in

1900-2-13-20 - 21-22-23-24-25-26;' Australasia. in 1907-8-9-11-14-20; British [«les, in 1904-5-6-12; and France £n 1927.