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Re Adam Baworowski

This contemporary por-Nazi magazine claimed (or at least published it in) 1943 along with the deaths of several other non-tennis-related heros as they called them. That's the most close, semi-independant source I could find. FYI I am planning to nominate the article for a DYK so if you feel like take part in it. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 09:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. So there's no doubt he died during the battle of Stalingrad, either at the end of '42 or at the beginning of '43. It should be possible to find out about his exact fate by sending an inquiry to the Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt), but this costs ca. 20 Euros and takes at least 10 months. Maybe there's an easier way to find it out, and we can find something reliable online.--Kompakt (talk) 13:23, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I noted that he is occasionally misspelled "Bawarowski". The Austrian Tennis Association (ÖTV) says that he is missing in Stalingrad [1].--Kompakt (talk) 14:02, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes If you want get full online coverage on any players you must think of all possible misspellings. In this case I tried Baworóv (his Polish noble name), Baworowsci, Baworowsky, "w" to "v" shuffled through, von Baworowski, I guess that was all. And in some cases it's worth to try Hungarian (e.g. "Baworowski gróf"), as all Czech, Austrian, Croatian, some Italian and so on was born in Austria-Hungary and you might get valuable results in Hungarian sources that way (as you're probably aware of both German and Hungarian were official languages). Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 16:06, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bad news. Another Nazi daily paper dated 9 October 1943, it lists him as an unranked German tennis player for the 1943 German rankings. Kinda confusing. It mentions unsufficient comparison data and not death as the reason for him being unranked. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 21:49, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's right, but I don't think this list is significant. A "H. Henkel" from Berlin is mentioned in the same list yet we know Henner Henkel had died on January 13, 1943 already, circa 9 months before this newspaper was published. The creator of the list didn't know who was still alive and who wasn't, apparently all he knew was that none of these men had taken part in tennis tournaments in 1943.--Kompakt (talk) 11:54, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. I dag deeper and found this interview in which the WWII partisan claims he owns a Nowy Kurier Warszawski Polish newspaper that also published Baworowski's death at Stalingrad. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 15:04, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. This edition of the Nowy Kurier Warszawski could probably tell us more, unfortunately I don't speak Polish; I'm also not sure if there's an online archive for it. I haven't been able to find something more exact online. The year 1943 is from the book I added as a reference. Although it is an official book from the German tennis federation (DTB), I've noticed there are a couple of other errors concerning dates in the book; so the year 1943 here could be wrong as well. On the other hand, I haven't found any reliable source online for the year 1942.--Kompakt (talk) 17:32, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Internet is amazing. I even had hits for "Barowowski" and "Bowarowski"

. As for his death let's stick to the 1943 at Stalingrad until something new pops up. Even the sportowahistoria.pl article was only uploaded on September 2013 just a few month ago. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 12:04, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bingo! Look at this. Use Google translator: "Hauptmann Adam Baworowski resigned on December 21, 1942 He handed his own airlift place to a heavily injured soldier during the Luftwaffe evacuation and decided to stay in the trenches with his subordinates." So he was indeed a hero regardless which side he fought and was 99% alive to the end of 1942. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 14:10, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK proposal

Hello!
What about nominating this article to DYK with the following hook?
"Did you know...that German tennis player Kurt Gies won the German Championships 1943 while having been released on vacation from the Eastern Front?"
What is need to be done here to spread your book ref with the corresponding page indication (where the facts pop up in the book) to the sentences they verify. Please respond ASAP because today is the last nomination day. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 10:26, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lajbi, the article is almost entirely from the article from "muelheim-ruhr.de" (which is the city's official website) that is listed under "reference". Only his victory at the 1941 Danish indoors championships is referenced with a link to the Danish site – the "muelheim-ruhr.de"-site claims he won it in 1940 already, but this is obviously an error. Apart from that, I find the article about Adam Baworowski much more interesting and suited for such a nomination. Has the time already expired for a nomination of that article?--Kompakt (talk) 12:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've already nominated it and included you. Here you can check it. Template:Did you know nominations/Adam Baworowski. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 19:44, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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George Hillyard article

Very nice work on the George Hillyard article. I bought George Hillyard: The Man Who Moved Wimbledon by Bruce Tarran a couple of months ago but haven't come around to reading it yet. Is it good? I did add a {{one source}} tag to the article but that's easy to get rid off by adding a few more sources. --Wolbo (talk) 19:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The book is really nice, very interesting and rather fluent to read! It gives a detailed insight into Hillyard's life. The author is head coach at the Leicestershire Lawn Tennis Club, a club Hillyard had a very close relationship to. Plus, it contains a lot of great pictures, including e.g. an aerial photo of the Wimbledon site at Worple Road from around 1920. There's also a (smaller) chapter about Blanche.--Kompakt (talk) 20:23, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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