LAWN TENNIS.
DAVIS CUP POSSIBLES. ®alegrapix.—Pres3 Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Oct. 9. Tiie Daily Telegraph, reviewing the Davis Cup possibilities, says Brookes and Patterson are certainties. Aulerson previously seemed the only possibility from New South Wales, hut his form seemed to preclude him. Ollivler was a Teraote possibility. Brookes requested that he should play In the Victorian championships, but this Is regarded as a sop to New Zealand, as Victoria is likely to supply all the personnel. O'Hara Wood and the youthful Jack Hawkes are favored. The latter twice decisively defeated Brookes, and, 1 I with hi 3 brother, beat Brookes.and Wood in doubles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. U.S. TEAM WEAKENED. Received Oct. 10, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 9. Richard Williams has resigned from tl'e Davis Cup team owing to business pressure. Watson Washburn, who ranks tenth amiong American tennis players, will replace Williams. Tenuis circles consider the loss of Williams a serious matter, since ho is regarded as one of the greatest American doubles players, and he twice held tho American championship. He would have played with Tilden in the doubles—Aus.-Ts'.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1920, Page 3
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