Play began to-day in the lenge round of the Davis Cup Laws Tennis Competition, The holders (USA.) and the—challengers (France) have each won a mateht Lacoste beat Johnston, 6—3, 6-2, 6-2, while Tilden defeated Cochet, G4, 2-6, 0-2, &-6-—Reuter, Philadelphia, Sept. 9."
In the challenge round of the Davis Cup lawn tennis single', in which Lacoste beat Johnston 6/8, 6/3, 6/2, the American appeared. worried and. made repeated errors, constantly finding the net.
Lacoste was very steady, and time ing with uncanny accuracy and' his shots to the sideline, kept the Californian constantly on the run, In the last set Jobinston ran wild, and the coolness of Lacoste enabled him to take the utmost advantage of his opponent's lapses, In the match in which Tilden be Cochet 6/4, 2/8, 6/2, 8/6, the American gave a' typical dazzling exhibition of his famous cannon-ball serving. Cochet countered with caaftily-varied pace, the second set Tilden te orarily lapsed, losing two service games, but recovered with slashing, nick-fiting shots from all ringles, chasing Cochet all over the court, The Doubles the doubles lawn tennis play for the Davis Cup Tilden and Hunter beat Borotra and: Brugnon 3/6, 6/8, 8/3, 4/6, 6/0.
The early stages of the match were characterized by the wildness of Hunter, who failed adequately to support Tilden, who made splendid and: almost" single-handed efforts, After that Hunter gradually picked up, the Americans. putting furious attack, nonplussing the"
The fifth set started very tensely, The struggle, however, was short lived, the" Americans taking advantage of the many lapses on the part of Brugnon, against whom the brunt of the attack waa directed, Sept, 10.
France has won the Davis Cup.
Lacoste' beat Tilden 6/8, 4/0, 6/8, 6/2 and Cochet beat Johnston 4/0, 6/2, 6/4, France thus yon three matches to two.
Johnston played the game of his life, Cochet attacked flexeely, meet~ speed with speed, and his' decepely shifting pace' ran Johnston fall over the court, Johnston, howe ever, managed to pull himself tox gether temporarily, though the i of the match did not remain long Lacoste opened nervously and double-faulted, Both players, strain" ing every nerve, played slightly less accurately than us tial, Tilden putting four successive balls out of the court with misjudged sideline driv Later Tilden momentarily ran wild against Lacoste's stonewalling, but recovered and with scintillating driving and volleying ran the Frenchman all over the court, Lacoste, however, came back, and Tilden became tired, after which the Frenchman broke through the American's erviee and won' the This is the first occasion on Which France has won the Cup. The United States had been the holder since 1920.—Reuter.
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