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Show UNITED STATES WILL . LOSE BY DEFAULT. New York. Aup 7. The United States probably will be compelled to default its place in the Davis International Inter-national lawn tennis challenge cup matches Robert D. Wrenn, president of the National Lawn Tennis association, associa-tion, has been diligently searching for players -willing to make the trip, but his efforts have "not been successful, and there is small likelihood now that America will send a team. The unwillingness of the xmerican champions and near champions to gle any positive assurances to rcpiesent this country hns been due principally In the fact that the English Lawn Tennis assoclat'on, following Victory In the preliminary tics a.iainst France, j ha definitely decided to play the Amorlcans, if at all, In Australia. This means that the Americans, if they wish to play for the world's trophy, must journey to Australia to play the English team to decide which will become be-come the challengers of the Australian Austra-lian holders of the cup., |