Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-10 | Page 14 | Pate Picks Seven Netters, but Load Rests on Riggs for Defense of Davis Cup

Pate Picks Seven Netters t But Load Rests on Riggs j jF I IFor F For or Defense of Davis Cu CuBy Cui By LAWTON CARVER J NEW YORK Aug 10 INS INS Tacitly Tacitly admitting that the tj ed s States ates is devoid of standout male tennis players Walter WaIter ft g c captain o of whatever a ve Davis cup forces we ca can has selected a sq squad d of seven seve vC from hom l om which ultimately w will be bethe bep pig the two or three who will wilt aH attempt to retain the tM fancy In trophy at t the Merlon Merion Cricket club in sub suburban han i next mo month th thIn In naming the seven players Captain Pate mentioned something about keeping the Australians guessing As a matter of t fact tad the Australians Aus Aus- S and practically everybody Is pr pretty tty well convinced that we must win or lose with Bob Bobby by Riggs of ot Chicago s sand and Frankie Parker Parker Parker Par Par- S ker of Pasadena Cal In singles 1 and probably the same twO tw in doubles dou dou- bles S Bitsy Grant of s Atlanta Elwood Cooke of ot Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land Ore Gene Mako of Los Angeles Don McNeill Mc- Mc I Nelll Nelli of Oklahoma ma City and Sidney Sidney Sid Sid- ney Wood of New York are the theother theother Bobby Riggs other members of the squad and might manage to land one of their number in doubles but this is r regarded as aa unlikely None of them has shown anything in the current eastern campaign Riggs and Parker h haven't vent looked too good either but they theys s Seem em to be the best weve we've got In fact every very man on the squad has been beaten at one time or another lately Has lIas Loafing Habit Our one chance seems to be in getting from Riggs the tM kind of game he is capable of bt pIt wh when whOn n he wants to bear d which isn't t o often ten He lie j Is qUit stamped t now flow g 5 t L j il the in-the the e early sets This habit wont won't do h M l' good against Jack Adrian Quist of Austral Undoubtedly will beat Cuba CubaT series starting today at Sea Er N. N J. J then beat Yugoslavia YugoslaV h final play off before the t 1 round It might be mentioned d ju one more time tithe that with z zaid 1 aid Budge on our out side aide 1 la lawe last we retained th the trophy trophy minimum margin of three aj I Ito to two Budge won both singles m matches Riggs won O his and Budge and M Mako ko d d i the doubles S l I Maka ko B Below low Pat Fir a t I That's how close It a 11 1 t 5 Budge in there for us loss of Budge to the f we also lost Mak He i Il t cup squad but he ke S I same since his red red-h red headed pu pt-ite pt I quit the amateurs j Anyhow Captain Pate or I lect four men nien n from among d. d li lien en for the team proper r. r Th t f be done at the very Its I J Jute ute as he put ut it Then jut fore the matches start he he sili i ignate who among the fo J play and whether it will t i t I Igles or doubles double J The he point f going to do the best vest he can cui r what hes he's got Its It's not gorge be a picnic I r- r r