Show U 5 S1 fAVORED TO RETAIN TROPHY French Players Players' Will Enter Finals After Long Absence PHILADELPHIA Sept 8 AP AP- AP The challenge round f for rth the Davis cup emblem of ot Int national International team tean tennis supremacy w will wl l have ave a new setting this year For the first time in the quarter century of comp competition Frances France's actors will wUl take part In the final scene with America Amerl a in the defending role in the series of five title matches Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day Friday and Saturday Four times in the last five live years ot of victorious reign the United States has beaten back the forces of Australia Japans Japan's challenge was repeated in 1921 America Americ relying once more on the seasoned brilliance of Tilden Johnston Johnston John John- ston Richards and Williams will be favored to keep the famous trophy at at- home for or the sixth year in a row but it will be in jeopardy at least if Jean Borotra continues the dazzling dazzling daz daz- streak that chiefly accounted for the defeat of Australia AustralLa in the zone Inter-zone finale and if his p partner Rene Rone La a Coste recovers the form that carried him to ch championship heights at Wimbledon earlier this year Where La Coste fell before the cannonading of Gerald Patterson A Australian howitzer of the courts Borotra overwhelmed James O. O Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson Australian Australian- captain played a stellar role in the French rench doubles victory over o Patterson and and- Hawkes Hawk s I then turned loose in t the e deciding I match a fire even more more- deadly in I its effectiveness e than Pattersons I |