UNITED STATES AND THE DAVIS CUP

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7302, 1 November 1933, Page 9

UNITED STATES AND THE DAVIS CUP

Much Change In Team For Next Year Expected

The American Davis Cup team for 1934 —one that will come to Wimbledon next year, and not lo Paris—has already been unofficially canvassed (writes A. Wallis Myers, to a London journal, from New York a few weeks ago). That it will be differently constituted to the team of 1933 is virtually certain. There may very likely be new horses for a new course.

T should not lie surprised to see Frank Shields and Sydney Wood both in harness. Essentially turf-court players,both have services that bite on grass; both have a divine spark in their game. They failed in Paris two years ago, but that was on a slow mineral floor, inimical to speed. Sydney Wood is now a busy business man in New York; be lias only limited leisure for lawn tennis. Yet at Rye the oilier day, emerging from his stable, lie played perfect tennis, routing both Stofen and Slitter. I have always considered Wood to possess a genius that can rise to heights unsealed by men ranked above him. Lor we read that how, after his second visit to Wimbledon as a mere stripling, taken to task in conservative quarters for his optimism, he announced blandly that he would return to win the title. The same young man, beginning life with a frail constitution, had conquered physical ailment by self-discipline. Ilis uncle, Julian Myrick, builf a big insurance business with I lie same industry and self-confidence. If the Davis Cup is to return to America, 1 should not be surprised to see Sydney Wood taking a hand in its recovers*.