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Suspecting that he had played too many love sets with the Nazis during the war, the French government refused a visa to Germany's aging (42) Court Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, scheduled to play in the French International Tennis matches which started in Paris this week...
...never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...
Baron Gottfried von Cramm, graceful tennist, onetime jail bird (on a morals charge) has returned to Berlin from the eastern front and resumed his tennis...
...ball game for the American League All-Stars and the Nationals won. Same year, TIME-covered Helen Hull Jacobs lost the tennis singles at Forest Hills. In 1937, TIME-Covered Pitcher Bobby Feller hurt his arm, and was mostly idle until July. Same year, TIME-covered Baron von Cramm lost to Donald Budge at Forest Hills. Same year, TIME-covered Wallace Wade's football team-Duke-lost the Southern championship to North Carolina. In 1938, TIME-covered Golfer Johnny Goodman, favorite to win the British Amateur, was put out in the early rounds, and booted both his Walker...
Young Segura may be no Perry, Craw ford or Von Cramm, but he is the most fascinating foreigner to invade U.S. tennis courts since dazzling Henri Cochet. Like Cochet, Segura picked up the game as ball boy: at Ecuador's swank Guayaquil Tennis Club. Small and puny, he found two hands better than one, never gave up his ten-fingered grip...