LAWN TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2142, 26 July 1907, Page 2

LAWN TENNIS.

THE DAVIS CUP

Through winning the Davis Cup tUo Australasian tennis team lms accomplished a most meritorious loot, which is 'likely to have a notable etfcel on the game in Australia and i-jf.v Zealand. The Davis Cup, like Li 10 America Cup oi yachting iainc, is an international trophy winch has always to he competed tor ill tlio country of the holder. Last year the British team won it, lionco this season saw the competition decided in JO 11 ['land. Next season it will he competed for either in Melbourne oi Sydney, and it is practically certain that the best players oi' Britiyn and of America will cross the seas to take pan in the tournament. Should the Australasian team again win it there is a possibility that. New Zealand might bo chosen as the convincing ground on a subsequent occasion. The team which represented Australasia- in tlie great victory thus secured was:-—Norman Brookes (Australia) Anthony Wilding (N.Z.), Dr. Sharp and Doust (Australia). By his success in winning the English singles championship and defeating all-com-ers in the Davis Cup competitions. Brookes has proved himself the finest lawn tennis player in the world today, and the New Zealand reprosen- , tativo has also shown himself capable oi holding his own amongst the lead- . ing exponents of the game.