European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Some of the future Davis cup contenders who competed recently in the Eastern Junior championships at Forest from left to right the Richard Savitt Fred Herbert californian youngster who won the Hugh Stewart and the Mathey Dean and Mcdonald f v by Tom Shehan yank staff writer for most people Back Home the end of the War will mean the return of tenderloin imported War Bond in Madeleine Bob carib bean labor Day week real estate Wrigley chewing Beer James silk Oil elec tric polite hair fathers and for the United states Lawn Tennis it will mean More than anything else the return of America to International Davis cup the last time the Davis cup was up on the Block we were represented by a team that consisted of Bobby Joe Frank Parker and Jack that was in just before the outbreak of the european War brought International Tennis to a for the Sake of the the contingent was beaten in the finals by three matches to the Only players from the 1939 team who will be available for Davis cup play after the War will be now an Ensign in the and who is a sergeant in the army stationed in the also with the army in the turned professional before he was in Joe Hunt was killed while he was flying for the the Usta sweating out the next american Davis cup also figure on such experienced prewar hands As Ted Don Gardner Elwood Cooke and Bill the team May also include a couple of players youve never heard if it is a Safe bet that these new players will be products of the Usta replacement training system known As the Junior Davis the Junior Davis cup program is directed by a committee consisting of Ellsworth major James Bishop of Culver military Academy and Alrick who acts As general manager and nonpaying Captain of the every year the committee selects six or 10 youngsters from various sections of the country and brings them East during the season of big time that gives them an Opportunity to play against and to watch the Best Competition and to get a few weeks of intensified coaching from to ranking a former tournament player now in the real estate business on Long arranges transportation for the wrangles them invitations to spare rooms in the Homes of Tennis enthusiasts and sees to it that they put in the required hours of practice instead of goofing off on the clubhouse porch or getting into too Many sets of mixed when you ask Man about the Young Tennis prospects who have come up since weve been he mentions Herbert Hugh Stewart and Henry Fister from buddy Behrens from fort Edward Ray and Bernard Bartzen from Fred Burton Richard Savitt and the Mathey Mcdonald and he says that Charles Oliver of Perth who ranked eighth in the mens singles list last is the Best Eastern As the Best ones keep coming from he just like All the Best ones in recent its not Only the California which lets them play All the year the Competition out there is stiffer and the people in Back of Tennis in California give Young Talent All Possi ble they see to it that a prom Ising kid gets Good instruction and plays against the Best older the outstanding youngster in the american Tennis picture right now is Jinx Falkenberg Hes in the army i think he can make the next Davis cup team even though hell be competing against More experienced players like mul Loy and he was the 1 Junior and the 6 senior ranking player last this Layoff in the army wont Hurt he has a sound game fundamentally and it wont take him Long to regain his Lloyd the famous teaching professional who developed his own into a National has been watching mans Junior Davis cuppers at work recently at the West Side Tennis club in Forest he thinks that the Only real Davis cup Prospect in the current Cycle of replacements is who has won two National boys buddy is Only 15 years old but i saw him take a set from Francesco the South Ameri in Florida last Budge that quite an achievement for a boy that Segura is one of the Best around this Behrens has everything my brother Don had at 15 and he hits a harder Ball than Don Behrens and the other Junior Davis cup recruits Are not seeing and playing against the Type of Tennis on the big Apple this season that you would Call Grade like College football and major league tournament Tennis in the is far below Par As a result of the selective service the two Best men players serving the Ball Are who has won the National Clay courts and who Defeated Sidney in the finals of the Eastern Clay courts Tournai the Tipoff on the kind of Tennis being staged Back Home is that Wood and Frank Shields Are playing semifinal and final Wood and Shields were finalists at Wimbledon 15 and 14 years looking Back Over the Junior Davis cuppers developed in the Man thinks that the great est of them was Frank now in a Hospital in Camp after a stretch in the army in the Southwest he is suffering from High blood the doctors would not per Mit him to play an exhibition match against Bill Tilden at Camp Lee a while i dont believe that even Tilden in his great est Days had a repertoire of strokes like Man but Frank refused to take his Tennis i remember one time after a tournament at the Marion Cricket club when we were talking and he complained to me because not enough big time players went in for i told him that hed have to make up his mind either to play Tennis for fun or to play it with the intention of becoming the greatest Tennis Star in the he did Well but not As Well As he should have done because fun was too important to Holcombe president of the once wrote Kovacs the following letter my dear boy your deplorable clowning or the court which has marred the current Tennis season will not be tolerated in the coming National championships at Forest we strongly urge you to be Kovacs replied my dear Ward i shall try very hard to be serious on the court during the coming but something tells me i shall not