Japan offered Shanghai the first glimpse of her 1988 Davis Cup team when the players, passing through this city, gave a series of exhibition games at the German Garden Club era Shanghai's champion, was invited to join in the occasion, which drew a fair crowd of enthusiasts.
The visitors were captained by Tamio Abe, the 36 years old veteran. Yasumine Kuramitsu, a student of Kwansai University and Japan's No. 1 ranking singles player, and Fumiperu Nankano of Hosei University are the two other members of the team. These three exponents reached here in the s. Terukuni Maru yesterday morning, en route to Europe where they will participate in a series of tournaments in Italy, Germany, France, and England, including the Wimbledon Championships, before leaving for New York in the middle of July to compete in the American Zone of the Davis Cup.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.