Show AMERICA LEADS I MM T I V VIN IN TENNIS PLAY PUT Defeats Englishmen Yesterday Winning the Right to Meet Australia Philadelphia Sept 13 America won te to today day from Great Britain in the third and decisive match of the Davis Davia lawn wn tennis cup play on the courts COllU of the German Germantown Germantown town Cricket club B It D Little and H HH HH HH H Hackett defeating in the doubles J JC JC JC C Parke and W C Crawley S If 36 64 14 4 14 4 46 86 H This Thill decides the preliminary tie and makes America the challenging nation against a Australia which now DOW holds hoJda th the coveted blue ribbon of the tennis world Tomorrow the single matches match will be continued with Lamed meeting Parke and W J Clothier playing C P Dixon The TIle result of these theae matches however will not affect the championship The veteran Little seemed to be the main objective of the visitors attack and they subjected him to a merciless bom born bombardment bombardment of drives and smashes Parke seemed the best of the Englishmen al although although though he was w uncertain overhead and his errors error in this respect were largely responsible for the loss Iou of the final set Parke and Crawley showed fine form formin in the first set but the Americans American steadied down in the second set and won it 64 tHo making the match one all Little and Hackett won the third set Nt 14 4 The Englishmen took the fourth set 84 64 making the match two sets lIeta all The Americans won the fifth set 84 IS and laad the match It is III unlikely that any member of the American team will go to Australia AraUa as u asIt uIt asIt It is III understood none of them cares cana to tomake tomake tomake make the Ute trip It is ia generally under understood understood stood that the two California experts Melville H II Long and Maurice F Mc McLaughlin McLaughlin McLaughlin Laughlin will be selected to go to the antipodes The third member may be Beals Reals C Wright who went to Australia last t year with F B Alexander |