BRITAIN SMILES AGAIN

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 4

BRITAIN SMILES AGAIN

in thp realm, of sport , and pastime Britain lias suffered reverse alter reverse during the p**&~ decade and now oven the M.C.C. is feeling.anxi ous concerning the ability of her cricketers to win the one and only rest match allotted against the New Zealanders on tour. But once, more John Bull wears that old proud smile of hie. H there 's. any trophy he covets more than the Ashes ii is the Davis Gup. Far too long has U hoe.u denied him. Too olteri have his p.ckod tennis players been defeated Bit iliis week the British team has made good by eliminat-ug Japan in the final for ihe European zone. Th s series was marked by surprises. For instance to the semi-final. Italy vas so confident of beating Czechoslovakia. that she. had completed, arrangements to hold the European final at Naples. the Czooho-Slpv-ak lans, Wenzel and I.laenaeh, both platers unknown in England overwhelmed the favourites. By defeating the Danes later alio Czcoho-Slovn-kiaris, whose nation i.s scoring heavily these days industrially as well a? in tennis, have the honour of playing put the European zorie Anal with Bt .; • m’s team. ,