Athletic Romance Races.

If cricket is the diplomatic game of the Empire, lawn tennis has a similar place in world diplomacy. The United States gave Europe the League of Nations, then ran away from it. But the United States also gave the world the Davis Cup, and the world, including the United States, has been “Davis Cupping” ever since, with the result that W. T. Tilden is remembered when Woodrow Wilson is almost forgotten. Even the professionalisation of Tilden has scarcely dulled the big man's lustre. But Davis Cup contests know him no more, and in mid-July in Paris, the British Davis Cup team beat the Americans for the first time for twenty-five years. This left the final to France (holder) and Britain. Borotra (the “Bounding Basque”) lost both his matches, but Cochet won both his, and France thus retained the Cup by winning the doubles. The names of Lenglen, Lacoste and Cochet place France high in tennis, and if Carnera carries the heavyweight boxing crown into the Romance world, the Blonde Races will have to look to their laurels.