DAVIS CUP.
A " TEMPORARY POSSESSION." FRENCH CUSTOMS COMEDY. (FROM OUB OWW COBBESSOKBBKT.) LONDON, October 4. The Davis Cup, which was taken to Trance from America by Cochet, had great difficulty in passing through the Customs. The Customs officials never seemed to have heard of it before, and wished to make it pay Customs dues as though it were an ordinary piece of As .the Transatlantic liner, the France (£300) for which it was insured. As the Transatlantic lines, the Trance, sailed into Havre, M. Gillou, the manager of the French tennis team, held it aloft for everyone to see. It was photographed and filmed in the hands of Cochet, the only one of the victorious French four to return and then the party advanced to a waiting car with the. ob. jeet of taking the Cup to Pan? and displaying it at the B&eing Club or the French Lawa Tennis Association. It was at this point that the Customs intervened. In the end the Cup was allowed to enter France as a "temporary possession,' 5 but according to Cochet now that France has secured the Cup she intends to keep it for a long while. Cochet considered that America bad lost the trophy because she relied too much upon one wan, Tilden, while France relied upon the whole team.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 11
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