1937 U. S. Open Final…Don Budge vs. Gottfried von Cramm

[don_budge]

Searching for results "budge vs von cramm youtube" I came up with this rather short but decent quality video clip. From Don Budge's historic Grand Slam run on the four majors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3oAM9IjDg

Here's a decent article about the man after he passed away at the age of 84...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/28/guardianobituaries

From the article...

Asked what made a champion, he replied: "Discipline. You have to have discipline to go to bed early."

At what age do you start teaching a child discipline?

[stotty]

Don Budge

Searching for results "budge vs von cramm youtube" I came up with this rather short but decent quality video clip. From Don Budge's historic Grand Slam run on the four majors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3oAM9IjDg

Here's a decent article about the man after he passed away at the age of 84...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/28/guardianobituaries

From the article...

Asked what made a champion, he replied: "Discipline. You have to have discipline to go to bed early."

At what age do you start teaching a child discipline?

Good clips are rare, aren't they? Old film of any length and quality is hard to find, even for someone as high-achieving as Don Budge. These guys are lost forever in many ways. I would love to see good quality clips of Hoad and Sedgman but there are only a handful around.

I liked the article. Tennis was very chivalrous back then. Tilden's sense of fair play and sportsmanship remained stamped on the game for quite some time, right through Budge's era and beyond. It was a time when men were men...