DAVIS CUP CONTEST.

West Coast Times, 28 January 1914, Page 4

DAVIS CUP CONTEST.

AUSTRALASIAN TEAM SELECTED,

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT l I SYDNEY, Jan; 23.

The selectors for the Davis Cup team* have clibsen A. Dunlop and S. Drust to complete the team, The Australasian Association has still to decide whether these two, with Norman Hi pokes (N.S.W.) and Anthony Wilding (Now Zealand) will compose the team,

[Writing a fow days ago on the Davis Cof prospects “Austral” tlm wellknown Australian authority said;— ‘ Anticipations with respect to the constitution of the Australian Davis Clip team for 1!) M have so far been realised. The Selection Committee— Messrs ■..Brookes, T. H. Hicks, and E. 0 Anderson—have chosen'A. I l ’. Wilding and X. K. Brookes as the first instalment of the (oain. . This choice, n.ts been Cabled to Wilding, and tin; champion, it will'have heen observed with satisfaction by New Zealanders, lias replied accepting nomination and at tile same time agreeing to play bercvcT the matches may he located—in America, cf course. Xow that ilding has accepted, tly> team can be hnilt up on Ids solid foundation. A. W. Dunlop, wbojias partnered lironk'■s with such remarkable success on so many occasions, will without doubt he next choice. A fairly wide selection of “probables”- might ho made to Ml the fourth position, and while the choice will very likely rest onll. W. Heath, S. X. Doust, or A. B. Jones, the claim of players like O'Hara Wood, Darker and J. 6. Anderson will also have to receive consideration. The obtries have to be made to (bo bon. Secretary of the American' Association (r champion nation) by the first Monday in March. The draw will ho-made shortly afterwards, and the result of the preliminary ties are to be played. Hour players (not necessarily Hie saint' four) can be chosen for each tic, ami th i locality for each tic can be settled hv the nations competing in it, and if they can’t agree the champion nation can fix the locality, and in this last event America would probably cbocse us own country. It is probable that all Hes to.be played before the English championship.in .Juno will be played in I‘bmipe (those in which Australasia takes part probably in England , aid! after Juno it is as probable, as it would he politic, that Australasia (if •till competing), would nsk all matches tv be played in Arnerleb, so that its players could become accustomed to ’be courts and light (hero.