Show t U. U S. S Counting on Budge To Win Three Games From Two-Man Two Australia Team By BILL BO BONI Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Aug 31 When 31 When Don Budge S Co face Australia in the Davis cup challenge round starting Saturday at the GerI Germantown Ger- Ger Germantown man town Cricket club Philadelphia a it will wilI be the first time since I 1927 that a United States team has been cast in the role of cup de de- lenaer The full weight of the burden will rest on the shoulders of John Donald Don- Don aid ald Budge the worlds world's but best est amateur and quite possibly its best player It is on Budge that the U. U S. S L. L T. T A A. A and American tennis fan don have pinned hopes hope They are lookIng lookIng looking look look- ing to Budge to beat both Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist in singles singles sin sin- pies thereby leaving the trophy defenders defenders defenders de de- fenders needing only one more point In to the two other singles and the doubles Probably the safest and surest way to figure that third point Is to look for Budge and Gene Mako his erratic but frequently brilliant partner partner partner part part- ner to beat Bromwich and Quist in doubles This system of advance bookkeeping therefore would make the California redhead responsible for the deciding three points po In the light of that calculation its it's interesting to look over oter challenge round results of the tho last decade and see how man many men have ha been able to rack up the clinching three points in the games game's foremost team competition com com- petition Only two have turned the trick in the last 10 matches from 1928 1923 through 1937 One was Budge him him- himself himself self as he led his hI mates to victory over a mediocre English team a year ago at Wimbledon The other was Henri Cochet French master of the volley half-volley who helped end enda a year seven-year United States domination domination domina domina- tion in 1927 and was a star of each of the the succeeding French combinations combinations that kept L La Belle France on top of the heap for five more years Three times over that span Cochet Cochet Cochet Co Co- chet came out of the challenge round undefeated In 1928 when he beat Bill Tilden and John Henne Hennessey ey in singles and teamed with Jean Borotra to whip Tilden and Frank Hunter In doubles doubles doubles dou dou- bles in 1930 when Tilden and Lott were his hI singles victims and he and Jacques Brugnon beat Wilmer Allison Allison Allison Alli Alli- son and John Van Ryn and in 1931 when he trimmed Britain's Bunny Austin and Fred Perry then paired with Brugnon again to down George Patrick Hughes and C. C H. H Kingsley Others dur during g that same stretch have tried to turn the hat trick and failed It was too much of a task for Cochet in 1929 and 1932 Wilmer Allison won only one o of f six matches against the French and British in 1932 and 1935 and Australia's Australia's Aus Aus- Australia's Quist and Jack Crawford a two two man man team like the present combine combine com com- combine bine of Quist and Bromwich got only two points from the Britons in 1936 Tilden a three-point three winner against in 1920 and against Australia in 1923 and 1924 tried it again in 1927 He got only two-thirds two of the way After beating Cochet in singles and teaming with Frank Hunter to top Borotra a and Brugnon in a blistering set five-set doubles doubles dou dou- doubles bles match he was spent the last day and bowed to Rene Lacoste in four sets |