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NANCY

I'D LIKE TO POKE DAT HIGH-HAT COUSIN OF MINE --- I MET HIM. DIS MORNIN' AND HE GAVE ME D' GO-BY!

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Friday,

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March 17, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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For

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GARDEN ORNAMENTS

Endled Veslary Biodika Ter,

BUSHMILLER

AUSTRALIA CONFIDENT OF

SUCCESS IN DAVIS Golf CUP COMPETITION

Norman Brookes Thinks America Will Be Beaten

With a Davis Cup team composing of John Bromwich, Adrian Quist and Jack Crawford, Australia, as last year, are likely to be America's challengers at Philadelphia in September, says A. Wallis Myers in the Daily Telegraph.

The Australian President, Mr. Norman Brookes, with characteristic boldness, is reported to have said that the odds in favour of a Commonwealth victory are 3 to 1. This, of course, is far too sanguine an estimate. It is not even 3 to 1 that Australia will survive the eliminating contest.

Japan, added by Jiro Yamagishi,, looked the fact that in the last may spoil the Australians' chances, American chumpionship Bromwich Last year, Bromwich and Quist had did not win a set against Mako, nor a narrow escape at Montreal. The Quist win more than one set against Australians are under no delusions Brian Grant? about the calibre of Yamagishi.

DEFENSIVE METHODS

which 13

Starting

Times Announced

2.08

2.12

Old Course

Landsbert, It. J. K. Walker.

H. Clark, D. W. Hume,

M. Pearson, T. F. R. Waters.

B. Cassidy. W. M. Barton.

2.18 D'Arcy Weatherbe, S. II, Dodwell. Old Courie

0.14

M. Pearson, W. 3. E. James,

1.20 H. N. Willlamion, W. Woodward. 9.24 E. L. Groome, F. A. M. Ellott. 0.20 K. 9. Morrison, 1. 11. ClearC 0.32 W. N. A. Smalley, It. J.

0.30 1. P. Tamworth, E. Shrigley,

9.40 L, R. Cramer, G. C. Worrall, 0.44 . I. Gregory. It. K. Valentine, 9.4 A. N. & Q. A. A. Macfadyen. 1.52 F. A. Redmond, D. J. Valentine, DSA J. C. Brown, L. Jackson. 10.00 A. E. Lissaman, D. J. Glimore. 10.04 A. M. Mack, G. Ridiell-Carre. 10.00 T. E. Pearce, DA. Weatherba, 10.12 A. B. Purves, J. Forbel 10.15 E. M. Bryden, F. S. Geldart, 10. F. Laidłow, J. W. Mayhew, 10.24 Ọ. Eager, D. S. Edward,

10.28 Col, Calin, Major Johnstone.

1032 B. D. Evans, D. D. Forbes,

10.30 N. K. Littlejohn, W. W. C. Shewon. 10.40 3. Linaker, t. J. D. Lowe. 10,44 A. D. Humphreys, If. H. Mundy. 10.49 F. D. Hunter, T. Low. 10.52 W. Hewitt, A. Sommerfelt, 10.30 D. L. Prophet W. J. S. Key.

New Course DAI M. B. Lloyd, A. I. LRY.

Katharine Hepburn brings her talents to the King's Theatre to-morrow in Columbla's "Ioliday," In which she co-stars" with` Cary Grant. This is said to be one of the inesi fims of the year.

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U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

The Americans have selected FI Neither Mako nor Grant may be new ground for the Challenge round, chosen for the singies this year, but J. F. Robinson, J. G. Cosworth, The Merion courts at Haverford, the American team-builders are not p30. Mrs. Smalley, Mrs. Shrigley.

sylvan outpost of likely to forget that both the Aus- 0.44 1. C. & Mrs. Millett. Philadelphia, do not possess the tralians prefer the fnst strokes which 932 W. & Mrs.

10.10 Col, & news. traditions of

where Australlan turf invites, and are less Mrs. Dell, Germantown. many great battles for the Davis Cup happy against the shrewd defensive 10.30 Mrs, Daines, Mr. Edward. have been waged, but their turf is methods and the pawky shots that 128 V. J. & Mrs. Gordon, much superior tind should provoke men of the Grant setool employ. none of the heartburnings over falsc If ranking rules the selection, asians for the defending doubles team. bounds which both teams experiene-It usually does in the States, Robert Even Budge and Mako were not in- ed last year.

Riggs will be the Drat choice for the vulnerable. At the present time Moreover, since nelther Philadel-singles, and the second place wil le America have no pair of outstanding phia ground has permanent stands, It between Mako and Sydney Wood. eullbre, but in W. R. Sabin they have faction with the progress revealed in will cost no more to erect accommoda- Riggs and Wood are the better all-a really great doubles player, and it the estimates speech.

The Admiralty had taken measures) tion for 10,000 spectutors at the new court players, and both have superlor will be to the advantage of Australia for the development of the country's

if he is not added to the Davis Cup naval power which would have been Mar. services to Mako and Grant. The Americans will also have to The fact remains that the Aus-squad.

As the European zone with its 30 excellent in ordinary circumstances. May choose a new defending team, for, of tralians would prefer to oppose the course, they have lost their pivotal first two, und either Bromwich or competing nations, the draw suggests His criticism was that the National July

Donald champion,

Budge, Mr Quist can beat Riggs on a true grasa that Jugoslavia, who have a compact Government's foreign policy had led Oct. Brookes evidently thinks that his court, and one of them is likely to team; will be

Anaists, Britain into the position, in which the Dec. withdrawal to "another place" iz 1-beat Wood,

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