DAVIS CUP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 7

DAVIS CUP

ENTRY OF DOMINION

COUNCIL DECIDES IN FAVOUR

With only one dissentient, the council of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association decided last evening to recommend to the management committee that New Zealand enter this year for the Davis Cup, the players mentioned being Malfroy, Coombe, and Brown (the present champion).

Mr. A. G. Henderson, chairman of the management committee, said the >. committee was of the opinion that an - entry should be made, not annually,? but every year or two. so that New Zealand's name could be kept on the. tennis map in other parts of the world. At present Malfroy and Coombe were overseas, and Brown, the present champion, who had just come home, wanted to go back in February and would be available. The committee. did not think that there were any , other players In sight sufficiently promising to be worth while sending.

So far as .the committee could see, there was likely to be a loss on any. match played at Home. Expenses / were high, higher than . some niight think justified; but the men, after all, were representing New Zealand and mixing with other players whose ex-., penses, perhaps, were not limited. Ex- , penses in the past had been on a rather generous scale.

Mr. C. K. Donnell (Wellington)moved that a team be entered this.year. Coombe, he said, had, among other good performances, taken Butler, a highly-ranked player, to five sets at the Queen's Club; Brown's first season at Home had been as good as Coombe's' first season and contained some very good wins; and Malfroy was still capable of holding his own with the best in England.

Mr. W. J. Melody (Wanganui), who seconded the motion, said that several prominent players were dropping out of world tennis, and thought that New Zealand should enter at least once in every two years.