BUDGE’S PROTEST
AGAINST VON GRAMM’S I I M PRRISON M ENT. I NEW YIRK, May 20. Donald Budge, world’s champion tennis star, has cancelled his tennis tour of Germany as a protest against the treatment of von Cramm. Von Cramm was sentenced to a year’s gaol after a secret trial in a Nazi court. The charge was moral delinquency, and referred to an offence allegedly committed before 1933. Budge asserts that von Cramm is innocent. Leading American players who knew the German star, say they are firmly convinced that his character is above reproach. They contend that the charge was a political attack on von Cramm because of his democratic views. This attack was carried out, they believe, under cover of slanderous and ill-founded accusations against von Cramm's morals.
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Grey River Argus, 28 May 1938, Page 8
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129BUDGE’S PROTEST Grey River Argus, 28 May 1938, Page 8
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