Exile For Czech Tennis Champions
Reeeived Friday, Midnight. BERNE, July 15. ' The Czechoslovakian tennis stars J. Drobny and V. Cernik who were ordered by Sokol, the Czech national sports organisation, to withdraw from the Swiss ehampionships and return to Prague, announced today that they are going into exile and hoped to reaeh the United States. . Sokol objected to Drobny and Cernik playing in the Swiss ehampionships because Germany and Spain were participating. Drobny and Cernik in a statement said: "We have nothing to do with politics. We are sportsmen wholly interested in tennis. Therefore we will follow our sports inclination, espeeially as we have deeided to go to the United States."
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1949, Page 5
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111Exile For Czech Tennis Champions Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1949, Page 5
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