Loss To Polish Tennis
The news has reached London that Jozef Hebda, “No. 2” Polish lawn tennis player,' was killed on the Eastern Front. He played against Germany in the Davis Cup last May, and latex*, at Wimbledon. Count Adam Baworowski, also a Davis Cup player both for Austria and Poland, joined the Polish Army on the outbreak of war .and has not been heard of since. Ignacy Tloczynski, “No. 1” Polish player, is safe, however, in Latvia. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska—“Jaja” to Anglo-Saxons—who was a Wimbledon and Forest Hills finalist, is also believed to have escaped, but nothing definite has been heard of her, however, since the fall of Warsaw.
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Northern Advocate, 30 January 1940, Page 8
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