DAVIS CUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 170, 20 July 1936, Page 7

DAVIS CUP.

Australia's Doubles Team To be Rearranged. McGRATH REPLACES QUIST. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. It lias been decided that V. McGrath shall partner J. Crawford for Australia in the Davis Cup doubles against Germany to-morrow. Adrian Quist's ankle, strained in his singles match against von Cramm, is a little better to-niglit, and he hopes to be able to play in the singles against Henkel on Tuesday. Henkel will partner von Cramm for Germany in the doubles. In the opening singles matches at' Wimbledon on Saturday Crawford beat Henkel, who retired indisposed, and von Cramm defeated Quist, who played out five sets though handicapped by a twisted ankle. McGrath is the Australian reserve, and he is to be used in the doubles match instead of Quist, to enable the latter to rest his injured ankle in view of his second singles game against Henkei. The play to date indicates that the win will hinge on the doubles match.

WAR FUNDS APPEAL.

POOR RESPONSE IN BRITAIN. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. The Abyssinian Minister in London has issued a renewed appeal for £2,000,000 to defend the unoccupied territory of western Ethiopia. Donations since July 7 amount to £504 from 428 people. FURTHER UPRISINGS. TROUBLE IN ABYSSINIA. (Received 1.30 p.m.) ADDIS ABABA, July 19. Uprisings in the region of Addis Ababa are unsettling foreigners who are in constant touch with their Legations j for protection. j

ALTITUDE RECORD.

RUSSIAN CLAIMS 36,627 FT. (Received 1.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, July 19. An airman, Vladimir Ivokkinaki, claims the world's altitude record of 36,027 feet. 'PLANE HITS FENCE. MISHAP AT AERODROME. MELBOURNE, July 19. An aeroplane took off near Essendon aerodrome yesterday and struck a fence and capsized. The pilot, Mr. George Bills Thompson, who is a radio announcer, received severe head lacerations, and Ronald Larsen, aged 10, an aeroground assistant, fractured his skull. His condition is critical.