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Show til 'Twas twenty years ago, they say, Thai Davis put the cup In plaj Por tenniS cracks to scrap and buzz My, how time flics we'll say she does. Our Uncle Sam had had good teams Hut they don t always win, It scents. We've held the trophy but three years While Europe holds It by tho ears. The records prove that Johnny Bull And Australia with all its wool Have kept tho cup among themselves Most of the time upon their shelves. The Yanks are In the Antipodes X'ow with their game of secret codes And if they're lucky with their whack Perhups--ptaybe thc 'll bring it back. If Dwlght F. Davis had foreseen twenty years ago that the trophy up which he put up for competition would have lived as the world prl;-.e in tennis he oays he'd have selected a massive gold one instead of silver The Davis Cup has been the life and soul of all International tennis competition! compe-tition! all they years and probably Will always be The greatest honor of the rack sport is to possess Ihis little tropin cup a rather insignificant thin$f In it self but great in meaning. The United States has had some wonder net players during this time but they have had rather poor success In winning the precious trophy Uncle Sam has held the Davis Cup but three years out of the the twentv The British Isles have held it for five Years and nvf m 1 li elv Brookes and Wilding overwhelmed the Americans in 1914 and took the cup back to Australia, where it remained re-mained unchalleged during the war until this year. Our present team now in New Zealand Zea-land William Tilden. 2nd, William M. Johnston, Watson M. Washburn and Samuel Hardy are figured to h0 the Strongest team we ever nt on thel quest. j The greatest exhibition of tennis I shown by Tilden and Johnston on tb Wimbledon courts in England a few months ago gives Am. ri. an tennis firna I lliope that they may conquer the Aus-jtralians Aus-jtralians and bi ing back the prize. j Thee will meet their old rivals, I Brookes and Patterson, whom they vanquished In England, but playing on home on home courts the Australians may turn the tables. This, the fifteenth battle for the trophy, will be held on the courts at Aukland, Xew Zealand, beginning on Dec. 20. I Records of pn3t competitions don't give much hope for an American year land our dope is chiefly hope. It's about time we brought the cupj I back" w here tt started from. |