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THE DAVIS CUP

NEWSPAPER COMMKNTS

DINNER TO THE TEAMS

PROBABLE AUSTRALIAN TEAM

FOR ENGLAND

(Received Last Night, 8.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY. December 2.

The Sydney Morning Herald, referring to tho Davis Cup contest, says: "It would lie absurd for Australians to deny that the result of the Davis Cup has been a keen disappointment to them. Wo regret the loss for sentimental reasons, and for tho more practical reasons that Australia has, for a time at least, lost tho right to expect a visit from the best players of Europe and America. No doubt the opinion of British experts should have warned us that our supremacy way in serious danger, and experience should have taught us to be on our guard. We should, have anticipated that the English habit of refusing to recognise when they ought to l)e beaten, which appeared more than once in cricket, would appear in tennis also."

1 Describing the piny, tho Herald says: "It was <lno to Parke's magnificent play alone that the Cup is taken back to the British Isles." The Telegraph declare." that everything depended on Heath, and ho was unequal to the task. Ho had the misfortune to strike a player at the top of magnificent form. The honours of the contest, it says, unquestionably rested with Parke, who would return, to ln's native land, covered with glory.

MELBOURNE, December 2 Lords Denliam and Fuller were p

sent at the Australian Tennis Association's.! dinner to the teams.

Mr Weigill, president of the Association, in congratulating tho Britishers, said that Parke had given Australia almost too much of Jim self, to remember. "That drive of his," said the president, "was reminiscent of the scriptural hero, tho late Master Jesu." No doubt, he <>:iid, the visit of the Britishers had provided tho necessary funds to enable the Association to fit out an invading expedition in pursuit of the Cup.

) Mr Dixon, of the British team, paid a tribute to the treatment tho team 'had received, and to tho fine sporting spirit of the Australians. He said ( thatParke'vS victory had absolutely won tho Cup. It was hardly fair that a challenge round cup rfiould be held in the country of the holders year after year. He suggested that it should be held by different countries alternatively. Jf that was impossible, he said, let it bo the country of the challenger, and not, the holder. Such an arrangement would ineroaso the interest in tho contests. ! Mr Lowe claimed that he helped to win tho Cup by standing down. Unless he had done so, the- Britishers would not now bo tho holders of tho Cup. I Mr Parke, in proposing "The Australian team at Home," said it had always been thought that as long as Brookes was playing, it was useless wnding a team to Australia. The Britishers had been horribly lucky. Brookes was defeated on an off-day for himself. He had never played such a gamo in his life, and ho hoped never to play another like it.

Mr Brookes, in replying, said that the loss of the dip was deeply felt, but the visitors deserved sincere congratulations for their pplendid performance. Australasia had played its host team, and that team had done its best, the visitors wcro really a ' British Isles team, and had it not been for good old Ireland, the dip would still be safe in Australia's hands. Ho would be only too willing to make ono i of a team to try and recover the tro-

Mr Dunlop s-aid the Australians were well beaten. The Britishers undoubtedly deserved to win. Mr Heath, amid cries of dissent, said ho regretted that he had not supported his captain as he should ha.e done.

Mr Jones claimed that though he had not played, ho had done his best to pull his side through by barrackino-.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 5

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THE DAVIS CUP Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 5

THE DAVIS CUP Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 5

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