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Show DAVIS GUP TEAM IS BEST i U. S. EVER SENT ON QUEST ! SHOWING MADE LAST SUMMER AGAINST AUSTRALIAN CHAMPS BUILDS , HOPE FOR AN AMERICAN TRIUMPH. BY DEAN SNYDER. America is neither peculiar nor nelflsh In disliking to see ltx trophy cups wandering about In foreign lands. It prefers to have them at home. The first lesr bf tho quest for the Davis cup, emblematic of the world's team chapionshlp, will soon be undtr way. The teams representing tho United States now abroad Is concoded to oe the strongest this company has ever entered in tho International event. It is made up of William M Jolin-ston Jolin-ston of San Francisco, national c:iam-plon; c:iam-plon; William T. Tllden II of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Indoor champion and second on the ranking list. R Norrlc Williams IT of Boston, formerly at the top or America s tennis aces, and Charles t. Garland of Pittsburg, captain of Yale university tonr.ls team and former junior ju-nior champion. These four are accompanied by Samuel Hardy, veteran Callfornian. who Is to act as non-playing captain. Test at "Wlinblcdon. The first test will com In England at tho Queen's club on tho great Wimbledon Wim-bledon courts, beginning June 21. The results of theco matches win glvo a lino on what the International team Is liable to accomplish in tnej Davis cup preliminaries when tho United Uni-ted States mceta France at Bast-bourne, Bast-bourne, England, starting July 8. The will tour Europe, finally meeting meet-ing tho crack Australian champions, present holders of the cup Johnston and Tilden will, in all probabilities, shoulder tho responsibility responsi-bility of America 'In the singles, with the combination for the douolus tcuni to be seloclcd later. Weakest In Doubles. Tt Is In the doubles that the Americans Ameri-cans are weakest. Johnston and Tllden flashed tho best exhibition of doubles of any American pair against Norman E. Brookes and Gerald Patterson, tnc Au3trallan stars who toured the Uni- ted Slates last season. I Playing together for tho first time thoy decisively dofeatod the Austin- , Han veterans. With more practice to- J j gether. such as they will get this summer, sum-mer, they will gain etrenglh. Johnston's speed And unerring juag-ment juag-ment and Tilden's dynamic ctyic of ! attack and whlpllne service, makes an Ideal combination. Williams Is still regarded by Nor-' Nor-' man Brookeu as potentially the great-j great-j em of them all. When he 13 on ms I game this star plays such sonsallonal j tennis that ho has been called tno "su per-Wllllams." I Garland proved himself to bo cioac I to England's be3t at 'Wimbledon last ! summer. The outcome In the final tests will depend a great deal upon the luck of the drawings. It will take wonderful tennis to beat I these American tennis aces. Tho United States last hold' tho Du-vls Du-vls trophy in 1913. |