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(7 7 (7m.Aw ( /m.Aw m.Aw / . m.AwCE , //CE CE / ? / CEup SPORT has an odd way of hook hookmg mg up time tune and space On one onenight onenight night lately we ran across an Aus Australlan Austrahan trallan sportsman In New York v.ho vho v.hofelt . whotelt felt fairly confident that Jack Brom BromWlch Bromwich Wlch and Dinny Pails Palls could take takepretty ' 1 1next pretty good care ot of the Davis cup cupnext next December Next we had lunch lunchWIth lunchwith WIth Beala Beals Wright the famousU famous famousaniiBaBOl - -aniiBaBOl aniiBaBOl - tr U S tennis starW star " U W rig right h t defeatedboth defeated ' fli both Norman NormanBrookes NormanTV NormanTVI 0 I Brookes and TonyWUding Tony . * ' . < . * - wnding WUding on AustraIl Aus Austraban traIl traban an turf In Da DavIs Davis vIs cup play backin back . , - - in 1808 1908 when theyw they theyS S . w were ere consideredunbeatable considered [ ' unbeatable alth6ugh al " w th6ugh Australia Australiaretained Australia- Australia Australiatalned ' retained talned the cup cupGrantlandRIco - * . Grantland 32Grantland GrantlandRIco Rico 32 Here was a gap gapof gapof of 38 years In time and 12 000 miles milesin milesIn in space with the Davis cup the themain themain main mainItem item of conversation conversationI I think "e e " a have an excellent excellentchance excellentchance chance to hold the cup our Aus Austrahan Australian trahan friend said Bromwicb BromWlch is isgood isgood good but in my opinion 19 year old oldDInny oldDinny DInny Pails Palls is even better Or he hewill hewill will be better with the 9 or 10 10months 10months months of play and training he has hasleft hasleft left before next December Some Somegood Somegood good advice from Sir Sll ' Norman NormanBrookes NormanBrookes Brookes won t hurt Bromwich Bromwlch is isstill isstill still in good form an excellent excellentplayer excellentplayer player and a stout competitor And Andwe Andwe we may have others by the cup cupdate cupdate date Against Agamst this strong Australian Australianpall Australianpair pall ' the U S must bank largely largelyon on Frank Parker Billy Talbot and andpossibly andpossibly possibly Kramer and Schroeder it itthey ifthey they can get out of service in time timeI timeto I to reach former form You will dis discover discover cover no Big Bill or Little Bill m inthis I Ithis this group-the group the group - the pair who brought broughtthe broughtthe the cup home in 1920 after World WorldWar I IWar War WarT T But it will be an experienced experiencedteam experiencedteam team that can at least put up a agood agood good front tront frontBeds Beds Beals Wnght Wnght-and Wnght and - cmd 1908 1908Australia Australia and 1908 are a long longway longway way and a long time back Beais BeaisWrIght BealsWnght WrIght remarked We took a fool foolIsh toolish Ish gamble because becauso only Fred Alex Alexander Alexander ander and myself made the trIp trIpI tripI I kept wondering wondermg what would hap happen happen pen if it either of us should get sick sickor sickor or injured We had no substitute subsutute I Ihad Ihad had two great matches with Nor Norman Norman man Brookes and Tony Wilding WIldmg and andwas andwas was lucky to be at my best In both bothcontests bothcontests bothcontestsUnless contests contestsUnless Unless conditions have changed changedthe changedthe the U S team must be ready to toface toface face two Important factors One is isthe isthe the Intense heat in December When Whenwe Whenwe we played the temperature was was115 115 degrees While it was a dry dryheat dryheat heat still 115 is what you mIght mIghtcall mightcall call a bit warm I recall an Intense IntensedesIre intensedesire desIre to take a drink of water waterthrough waterthrough through the matches which of ofcourse ofcourse course I couldn t do You shouldn t tdrInk tdrink drInk any water or anything else elsewlule elsewhile wlule the play Is on onThe The second factor Is the turf turfAustrahan turfAustralian Austrahan turf is quite d differentfrom Ierent Ierentrom [ rom ours and England s where the thegrass thegrass grass has a much lighter Ilghter or thm thmner thinncr ner texture Australian turf is much muchstronger muchstronger stronger much more rugged This Thismeans Thismeans means your spikes are re likely to tostick tostick stick affecting ; ) our ankles and andyour andyour your leg muscles I don t think my mylegs mylegs legs were ever quite as sore I had hadto hadto , to go in for rubber soled shoes shoesBeals Beals Wright is the son of the theIlate thelate Ilate George Wnght WrIght who played playedI playedshortstop I shortstop on the unbeaten Reds of of1869 ' 1869 a team that won 55 games gameslost gameslost lost none and was tied once onceGeorge I George Wright played profession professional al ball until he retired retll'ed retlled ' In 1876 1676 the theyear : year that gave birth to the NatIonal Nationalleague 1 1league league He was also a br brilliantcricketer llant llantcricketer cricketer and a good golfer late in in1I1e inlife inlifeCalls 1I1e Calls Tilden T den Greatest GreatestI I asked Beals to name the great greatest greatest est tennis player be he had ever seen seenin seenin in his 40 odd years of compebbc.n compebbcn compebbc.nand competitionand . and observation observationI I ve seen many great ones he hesaid hesaid said The Doherty brothers- brothers brothersBrookes brothers - Brookes and Wilding - Lamed Larned - McLoughlin - Billy Johnston - the theFrench theFrench French stars especially Cochet - the best that have come along SInce since1900 1900 But the top man Is still Bill BillTilden BillTilden Tilden in my opinion Tilden had hadboth hadboth both speed and power on the court courtAs courtAs As tar far as I could see he bad had no noweakness noweakness weakness in ill his lus championship championshipyears championshipyears years He had amazing stamina In addition to this Tilden maen had naa unusual unusualcourt ; court generalship He was one of ofthe ofthe the few men I ve seen aeen in sport who whocould whocould could let down and then pull him himself himself self back He had the art of keep keepIng keeping Ing bis his opponent oS 01 % balance both bothmentally bothmentally mentally and physically No one oneever oneever ever knew what was coming next . . ' . . . Honesty Pays OffSeveral Off OffSeveral Several years ago Hurry Up Yost YostMichigan YostMichigan Michigan s famous football coach coachmade coachmade made over 200 addresses in one sea season season son to high school and university universitygatherings universitygatherings universitygatheringsThe gatherings gatheringsThe The theme of his many talks was wasthis wa wathis this- this thisHonesty this - Honesty is the best invest investmcnt Investment InvestmentI mcnt mcntI I wanted to prove he told methat me methat that honesty wa- wa wanot wa * - not only the best bestpolIcybut bestpolicy polIcy-but polIcy but - but that it also paid bigger biggerdi"ldends biggerdividends di"ldends dildends " in every way In other otherwordsthat otherwords words-that words that - that you could make more moremoney moremoney money being bemg honest |