Davis Cup

While the U. S. Davis Cup team was having a good time taking all five matches from Germany last week on the Rufous Scoria courts of Berlin's Rotweiss (Red White) Club, sport-scribes were having a good time cabling details that did not appear in the scores. Some of the details:

U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman perspiring diplomatically in a hot coat while the rest of the gallery sat comfortably in shirtsleeves. . . . Dr. Daniel Prenn stopping in the middle of his match with Francis T. Hunter to chase away an annoying yellow butterfly. . . . Hunter gleefully flinging his racket across the courts after he took the final game from Dr. Prenn. . . . Hans Moldenhauer politely catching William Tatem Tilden's serve in his hand after an erring referee had called "out" to the previous Tilden service. . . . Patriotic Germans groaning loudly while Doubles-Partners Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn raced through three sets after dropping the first to the Moldenhauer-Prenn combination. . . . Bathers in a nearby lake wondering what the groaning was all about.

After the Berlin matches, attention centered on the challenge round, the Strong U. S. v. Strong France in Paris.