Tomorrow's Tennis

"If the war would end today and Davis Cup tennis could be resumed next week, athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army & Navy posts for the sole purpose of playing a few sets of tennis with homesick soldiers and sailors.

Five of Europe's Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may 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.

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