LAWN TENNIS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1531, 29 August 1912, Page 5

LAWN TENNIS.

AMERICA OUT OF DAVIS CUP. The efforts of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association to secure a team to visit Austrnliu this year for the Davis Cup have evidently proved of no avail, as last week Mr. T. H. Hicks, lion. secretary of'the AuMra!a*i'.ui Association, j received a cablegram from America stat- j ing that it was impossible to send n team j this yeai\ . •! The committee appointed to carry out ■ al) matters in connection villi America's , challe:igb for Iho cup has been hard at work for month's past ondravoiiriiig to ■ ; persuade the loading players to take places \ in the team, and. Humph (he outlook was - : .unpromising from Hit beginning, they '■ have no!' relaxed their efforts until now. ; The national championships which wero i to begin at: Ncwpnrf "la«t ilondiiy, would '■ brill;; together all players with any claims ' to select ton. No douut iinal cli'orN were then mado to complete a team, and when ; these failed Hie cablegram received here s yesterday was regretfully dispatched.' J " The BrilUb Isles, thercfoi-i;, leccive a for- : <eit from Iho United States of AnU'cica, ; and will meet Australasia, the holders of Hie cup, and tho international lawn tennis ! cliampiousliiy, ;it Melbourne next November.