DAVIS CUP GOES HOWIE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1937, Page 8

DAVIS CUP GOES HOWIE

With llie defeat of Great Britainj by four matches to one the Davis Cup, after long exile abroad, returns to its original home in' America. In the absence of Perry, now playing professional tennis, it was hardly to be expected that Britain would retain the Cup against the United Slates team headed by the redoubtable Budge, this year's champion of Wimbledon. The Englishmen began reasonably well by winning one of the first pair of singles matches on the first day. Handicapped in the doubles by the loss of Hughes, they failed after a good fight. To retain the Cup they would have had to win both remaining singles matches, and this proved an impossible task. The Davis Cup thus goes back to America after ten years. This great silver bowl, the guerdon of international tennis, has had a

chequered career. America has won it on twelve occasions, seven in succession. Britain has won it nine times, Australia seven times, and France six. Thus the trophy has gone round in a manner that has kept competition keen. America, after losing it to France, has made desperate efl'orts every year to recover it. She has now succeeded, and nobody .will begrudge her the fruit of perseverance. In America the Davis Cup will be further away from Europe than it has been for years, but it will be nearer Australia and New Zealand.