Sport: Cup-Hunters

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William Tatem Tilden II, tennis tycoon, conducted a round-robin tournament with a group of youngsters at Augusta, Ga. For the first time in many a year there were sweating battles to determine who should be members of the U. S. Davis Cup team. The following were picked last week to play in the first match against Mexico:

John Hennessey, 27, a Tennessee inhabitant of Indianapolis, who was the only one to lose no matches in the round-robin ;

Arnold W. Jones, 24, Yale graduate from Providence, R. I., handsome tennis technician;

Wilmer Allison, 73, student at the University of Texas, awkward but hard-hitting;

William Tatem Tilden II, 35, veteran of eight Davis Cup campaigns, sometime actor.

Junior Coen of Kansas City, 16, whose play last week was amazing, was selected as alternate on the team.

After the battle with Mexico, other players will be given another chance to get on the team. Among these are young George M. Lott Jr., of Chicago, who was in bad form last week, John Doeg, Edward Chandler, John Van Ryn, Francis T. Hunter, who was too busy to play last week.