Tennis Champion to Be Released October 16
Berlin, Oct. 12.
The German tennis champion Baron Gottfried von Cramm who, it will be recalled, was sentenced to imprisonment of one year for grave moral delinquencies last May, will according to a statement issued by authoritative quarters here, be released from prison on October 16. For the remainder of the sentence a reprieve will be granted.
Baron von Cramm had appealed against the sentence but had later withdrawn his appeal on the advice of his attorneys. It was reported at that time that Baron von Cramm had been warned that it was quite likely that the court of appeal might pronounce a more severe sentence instead of reducing the original one and that a reduction of the prison term of one year imposed upon him by the lower court was not to be e: pected in any case.
Tennis followers in Germany naturally wonder whether Baron von Cramm will now resume his interrupted tennis career. Informed quarters here regard this as impossible and they believe that he will retire to private life—Trans-Ocean.
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