LAWN TENNIS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

, THE DAVIS CUP. AUSTRALIAN TEAM FIT. .(BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION COPSBIOHT.) '.AUSTRALIAN ASfi 5.2. CABLE ASSOL-^IiONJ SAN FRANCISCO, June 7. According to a Los Angeles message, G. L. Patterson informed the United States Lawn Tennis, Association that the Australian team,-' which, has l>een practising aud playing an exhibition match, will leave for the Eaet on June 20th, but he -lias not yet decided whether the team should "go direct to New York or participate in various middle-West tournaments, including the clay court championship at St. Louis on July sth. Patterson, however, stressed the intention of the team to participate in tho leading Eastern turf tournaments prior to the first round of the Davis Cup tieß, including at Seabright, Newport, and Longwood, the National Doubles at Southampton, and tho New York Metropolitan Championship. Members of the team are feeling fit, but Patterson is anxious to begin action immediately, wislung to get the team into condition gradually instead of crowding all its practice into a. short period, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA WINS AGAIN. (eeuter's telegrams.) PRAGUE, June 7. In the second round of the Davis Cup, Ozecho-S!ovaMa beat Switzerland by four games to one. [ln the first round Czecho-Slovakia, beat New Zealand.] WIMBLEDON ENTRIES. MLLE. LENGLEN'S RECEIVED. LONDON, June 9. Mile. Lenglen'a entry for the Indies' singles and ladies' doubles haß been received for Wimbledon, but it is understood she is still in poor hea'th, and will give the Olympic Games preference if necessary. FISHER BEATEN. LONDON, June 8. In the Gipsy Club lawn tennis finals, G. F. Kingscote beat F. M. B. Fisher 6-2, 6-4, 6-1.