INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 166, 30 November 1912, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

BRITAIN v. AUSTRALASIA. THE DAVIS CUP COMPETITION. AUSTRALASIANS WIN THE DOUBLES By Oable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 2!t, 0.35 p.m. Melbourne, November 29. The international match for the Davis Cup between Britain (challengers) and Australasians (holders) was continued to-day. There was an attendance of 6000, including the Governor-General and Stat.e Governor. Parke starred serving, and won his game after love—4o had been called against him. Brookes took the serve to 30. Beamish lost his serve, scoring only one ace. Dunlop won his serve to thirty. Parke, hy splendid serves and volleying, won hi, service to love. Brookes against took his service, but only after deuce had been willed. Beamish won his second service. Dunlop won his service to love. Dunlop playing superbly, and the best of the four.' Parke again won his serve to love, making the game 5 —4. Brookes won the next game after deuce, and the'get. G—4.

In the second set Beamish began by winning his service. Dunlop won his to thirty. The Australasian took Parke's serve to love, Dunlop doing some magnificent work in the air. Brookes won hi* service to fifteen, and the next three games with the loss of only five points, taking the set to (I—l. The set lasted but ten minutes.

In the third set Brookes won the service to fifteen. Beamish won his after a long game, which was characterised by some good rallies. Dunlop here dropped his service, and the score stood at 2—l, Parke leading. The Australasians evened this by winning off Parke's service. Each then had two advantages. Brookes again won his service, and Beamish likewise. 3—3. Dunlop lost his serve to Brookes, the loss being mainly responsible by his getting out of position twice, leaving the Britishers an easy shot into the unguarded court, Britain loading with 4-3. The first. ace of Parke's next service produced probably the. best rally ever seen in Melbourne, the four being engaged in short, sharp volleying at the net, the rally lasting a dozen strokes, Parke finally winning. Beamish got in some beautiful shots at the next. Brookes and Dunlop took the game to 4—4. Brookes then won his service to thirty. 5 —4, Australasia leading. Beamish took his service to thirty. Notwithstanding Brookes' excellence at the net, Dunlop won his service with the loss of two aceSj Parke's serve ran into several vantages, hut was won by Australasia, which took the set at 7—5 and the match.

The contest was a distinct advance on the final in the Victorian championship. It was a brilliant exhibition of doubles throughout. Dunlop was the best of the four,- his fine volleying and overhead work and heady services being responsible for many winning shots. Brookes did not show his usual snap, and did not as ordinarily dominate the court; Parke was distinctly the better of the Britishers. Beamish was in better form than last Saturday, but did not as a doubles player seem in the class of the other three. His stiff-arm volley, made with practically the same action as his drives, put iii\n at a disadvantage In close interchanges. Dunlop was cheered enthusiastically, and the others were also applauded. Subsequently, in an exhibition game, A. B. Jones beat Lowe, o—4, 6—3.

SCORES. . Brookes and Dun|op (Australasia) beat Parke and Beamish (England), 6—4, fi—l, 7—5. 1 POSITION OF TEAMS. Britishers.—Two matches, six sets, 59 games. \ Australasia.—One match, five sets, 55 games. The Davis Cup will be concluded today, when two rubbers of singles will bo played, Brookes meeting Dixon, and Parke playing Heath. The Cup goes to the players winning the best of five rubbers—four singles and a doubles. The score stands at present with the British claiming two rubbers and the Australians one. The probabilities are that Brookes will defeat Dixon in the singles to-day, and the match will then centre round the contest between Heath and Parke. A SENSATIONAL GAME. Received 29, 11 p.m. New York, November 29. Nat Browne and Claude Wayne beat Bundy and McLoughlin in a sensational game, winning the Los Angeles tournament. ENGLISH TEAM'S VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. The secretary of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, Mr. A. J. Petherick, has received particulars of the proposed tour of the English Davis Cup team in the Dominion.

The members of the team, Messrs. C. P. Dixon (captain), A. E. Beamish, J. O. Parke and F. Lowe, have booked their passages to Auckland by the Marama, sailing fronv Sydney on Monday, December 16, and arriving at Auckland on the following Friday. The New Zealand representatives for the first match, Messrs. Geoffrey Ollivier, ,T. C. Peacock, F. M. B. Fisher and R. N. K. Swanston, will meet the English team on the Eden and Epsom courts, at Auckland, on Saturday and Monday, December 21 and 23. The visitors will then journey to Hastings, via Rotorua and Taupo, arriving in time to compete in the Australasian championships to be held there, commencing on Monday. December 30. After that the team will proceed south to Christeluireh. where a second representative match is to be played on January 4 and 6. From the southern town the team will come straight back to Wellington, and there play the third and final representative match of the tour, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 7 and 8. On the following Fridaj' the visitors take their departure from Wellington for Sydney. New Zealand's representatives to tako part in the second and third representative matches at Christchurch and 'Wellington respectively will be selected at a later date.