Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1914 — AMERICANS WIN TENNIS CUP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICANS WIN TENNIS CUP

Davis Trophy, Emblematic of International Championship, Won by McLoughlin—lts History. —— World supremacy in lawn tennis rests with the. United States. The struggle for the Dwight F. Davis trophy, emblematic of the international tennis championship, ended in a victory for the United States, when Maurice E. McLoughlin, the American singles champion, defeated Charles P. Dixon, the veteran English player,[in straight sets, 8-6, 6-3, 6-2.* The Davis cup now goes back to the land of its donor after the most interesting fight for its possession since it first left home in 1903. The victory of the Americans will be all the more memorable because it was the first time in the history of the cup that seven countries —the United States, Canada, Australasia, South Africa, Germany, France and Belgium—competed in elimination matches for the hofior of challenging the British holders. British followers of tennis are depressed over the possibility of recovering the cup, and freely predict thatit will remain in the United States for at least five years, as there are no young players in sight to take the places of the veteran experts, of whom Parke, the youngest, is over thirty years old. The Davis cup, emblematic of the world’s team championship in lawn tennis, which returns to this country

after an absence of ten years, was first put in play in 1900. The trophy —a massive stiver bowl —was the gift of Dwight F. Davis. During 1900 and 1902 the United States team successfully defended the cup against the attack of the British isles players. In 1903 the Doherty brothers carried it away to England. During the next four years the United States and Australasian players made sorties for the cup, and finally, in 1907, the famous Antipodean players. Brookes and Wilding, took the cup to Australia. There it' stayed until a year ago, when the English team, consisting of Parke, Dixon and Beamish, won It for the British isles.

Maurice E. McLoughlin, Tennis Champion.