DAVIS CUP TOURISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 11

DAVIS CUP TOURISTS

There’s a good deal of travelling connected with this Davis Cup competition. The Australian team, for instance, went half way around the world to take a neat if not gaudy trimming at the hands of the Italian court coverers in the very first round. The Japanese team actually girdled the globe to arrive finally in Chicago. These tennis players are the Marco Polos of modern sport. Their travels make C. C. Pyle’s late lamented transcontinental trot across America, look like a sprint race. The tennis tourists, most of them, took to the road in March, and the survivors are only now approaching the finishing port.

a speedy and livley line, which slings the ball from wing to wing with carefree abandon, and follows up fast to hustle and bustle the opposing backs for possession in the danger area. With both clubs at full strength, the game should be strenuous enough to rouse the fans to the highest enthusiasm. The junior clubs which survived the first round —Corinthians, Metropolitan, and Manurewa—have each been unlucky enough to strike senior opponents in to-morrow’s round. Corinthians meet Northcote at Blandford Park, and in view of the good show made against the strawberry growers last week by the orchardists from Glen Eden, the Corinthians should have a good opportunity of living up to their illustrious name in both local and overseas Soccer. Metropolitan will face Ponsonby, and it will be a shock if the leaders in the senior championship are knocked out of the cup by a junior eleven, and the same remark applies to Manurewa at Devonport, where it is opposed to Shore on its own domain. But there are no more certainties in cup tie Soccer than in cricket, and all the bouts should be interesting.