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Show HOPE TO TAKE TENNIS CUP FROM AUSTRALIA NEW TORK. Sept. f. Lawn tennis players of the British !a!ea and Amerh'an International cup leama will meet today In th. flrat of th. International games for th. right to challenge th Australian holders of the Pavla cup. emblematic or the wortd'a championship. On tbe turf courts of the weat Hide Tennla club of thla city William A. turned, tur-ned, aeven tlmea holder of th. American Inaiea honor., will meet C. P. IMxon. captain of the British team, while Muur-Ic. Muur-Ic. K. Mclxiughlln of California will iwtt A. H. I .owe of tits British challenger. Th. eertea for the right to challenare eonalata of four elngten and one douhle. The douhle will bo played on slondnv. Thomas C. Blindv of California palling with Raymond D. Utile of thla city aaalnat Dixon and A. K. Reanil.lt, thiid member uf the English team. On Tuesday Tues-day th. second act of alnxlea will he Flayed. Lamed facing Lowe and Me-.oughlln Me-.oughlln meeting IMvon. Three out of the Ave match, give, the winning nation na-tion the right to go to Australia. The cup for which lite nallona are competing com-peting waa first offered In l.te bv t. F I'.vl. of HI. I .oil ... Th. English challenged chal-lenged for It that year, but did not. w In until 1S03. when H. L. and n. Ijoltenv captured It. In 1907 the Au.liallauv A. F. Wilding and N. K. Hrookeo defeated B. C. Wright and Karl H. Ttchr-and cored for th cup. Since that time Anier. lea haa been the onlv nation to go to the Anlipodea for th trophy. |