1928 Western Lawn Tennis Assn DAVIS CUP MATCHES Photographer Press Pass Ticket

Description

1928 Intl Western Lawn Tennis Championship
Photographer Press Pass Ticket
- Davis Cup Matches -
Official Card
Western Lawn Tennis Association
No.
18
ISSUED TO:
Herald-Examiner
ACCOUNT:
PRESS
EVENT:
DAVIS CUP MATCHES
AT:
CHICAGO TOWN & TENNIS CLUB
DATE:
JUNE 1,2,3 1928
The
Davis Cup is an annual international team event in men's tennis. Established in 1900 as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge, it is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), who describe it as the "World Cup of tennis”, and the winners are referred to as the World Champion team.
The first event in 1900 was a match
between Great Britain and the United States. By the year 2016, 135 nations had entered teams into the Davis Cup competition.
The 1928 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 23rd edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.
27 teams would enter the Europe Zone, while six would enter the America Zone. Chile, Finland, and Norway made their first appearances in the competition.
The 1928 finals saw the United States matched against Japan.
The United States won 5-0 over Japan that year.
Tilden’s Davis Cup teams were invincible from 1920-26, winning seven straight titles.
"Big Bill" Tilden led the charge, compiling a 34-7 record, including a 25-5 mark in singles, third best in history behind Andre Agassi and John McEnroe.
Tilden became the first American player to win the men’s championship at Wimbledon in 1920 and repeated this victory in 1921 and 1930.
His Davis Cup play was outstanding, and his 21 victories in 28 cup matches helped the United States hold the trophy from 1920 to 1926.
In 1931 Tilden turned professional and spent the next 15 years traveling the world and playing exhibition tennis matches.
He was named the greatest tennis player of the first half of the 20th century in a 1950 Associated Press poll and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959.
The Herald-Examiner was the lead Hearst newspaper in Chicago. Its reporters were among the most aggressive and creative in the city. The paper was founded as the Chicago Morning American in 1902, and was renamed the Chicago Examiner in 1907. After a merger caused in part by circulation wars with the Tribune, the paper was combined with the Chicago Record-Herald and became the Chicago Herald- Examiner. The paper was never highly profitable, but it vied with the Tribune as leader in the city’s morning circulation.
The rivalry with the Tribune became increasingly unsuccessful in the 1930s. After additional mergers, the paper was sold to the Tribune in 1956.
(D. Mann Historical Collection/Vintage Original)
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