DAVIS CUP TENNIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17009, 22 July 1929, Page 3

DAVIS CUP TENNIS

AMEBICA WINS TROPHY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) BERLIN, July 20. In the Davis Cup America, beat, Germany. Allison and A r anryn defeated Moldeuhauen and Prcnn, 9—ll, <i—2, (i—4, Last year the Davis Cup was Avon by France, whose team defeated America by five matches to one. INTER-VARSITY CONTEST, ENGLISH TEAM'S SUCCESS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) NEW YORK, July 20. At Newport, the Oxford-Cambridge tennis team took the second leg, for the permanent possession of tho Prentice Cup, having won 15 matches to six by Har-vard-Yale at the end of the tournament. All the American victories were in the singles to-day. Wright, of Yale, beat Cooper, 6—3, 6—l; .Dericou beat Ongraham in a twohour match, 6—4, B—lo.8 —10. Wright and Dericou were tho only men to take two victories during the tournament. Holloway, of Yale, defeated Young, 7—5, 6—B. In a doubles match, Young and Avery defeated Wright and Holloway, 6—3,, 6—o, 6—3. Young's match against Wright was the most sensational feature of the tournament to date, running to a 24-game set. Young ployed' briHiautly, gave a spectacular exhibition, winning this marathon set by 13 to 1.1, hut, later, he tired from his efforts and faded before the •steady and resourceful tennis which tho Yale player unfolded, ultimately losing the deciding sets, 6—l, 6—4. Dericou (Oxford) defeated Whitbeck, the Harvard-Yale captain, 6—l, 7—5. Avery, of Cambridge, beat Wood, of Harvard, 10—8, 6-4.