"I saw some time ago that Baron Gottfried von Cramm was taken prisoner in Africa - he was the most beautiful player I ever watched," Joyce said then. "If all the German children were required to play tennis, there would never be any wars."
"Why so?" I asked.
"Because tennis teaches fair play. There were no better losers at Wimbledon than the Germans. If Hitler had given them tennis, instead of war games - well, don't get me started on that!
(from The Applegreen Cat, by Frances Crane)
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