DAVIS CUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1937, Page 18

DAVIS CUP.

AUSTRALIANS IN MEXICO. HARD LU€K FOR McGRATH. MEXICO CITY, April 2.5. Two of the Australian Davis Cup plnyere practised agnin to-day, when Quiet defeated Bronivricli 1- 6, fr—2, 6—3, 6-—4. before crowded galleries. Crawford wne tired, and rested. He ha« not adjusted himeelf to the high altitude , here. MeGrath'e doctor hopes to decide tomorrow whether to lance the player's thumb. The manager. i'[r. C. E. Sproule, has decreed intensive practice for the team. in the coming week. Hie training rules include curfew at 9 p.m. He expects an eaey victory over Mexico, but that the absence of McGrath would increase the burden on the othere. . Australia's next match would be against the. winner of the Japan-United States tie, to "be decided at San Francisco on hard courts on April 30 and' May 1 and 2.

KEHALING PASSES.

HUNGARIAN REPRESENTATIVE. ; . BUDAPEST, April 26. The death hae occurred from heart attack of Bela von Kehrling, the Hungarian Davis Cup player.

Von Kehrling represented . Hungary "in the Darin Cup fn-v. ~i&z*. lo.liKU ineW she. In 192(> ne bent both'H. W. AuStin and J. C. Gregory, desnife which Britain won the fourth round (three rubbers to two) at Budapest. Kebrling also defeated Austin, again in 1933. at the Beaulieu tourney on the Continent. A shrewd tactieirw. he won 2 —6, fr—3. 6—2; but Gottfried von Crnmtn beat the Hungarian in the final, 6—B. 6—3, 3—6, B—6.