Loved this quote from the article:

“At the ’35 Wimbledon, Budge, who had admired the baron from afar, was eager to meet him.

Von Cramm, however, was not smiling when he introduced himself to Budge, and after congratulating him on his quarterfinal victory, the baron took the younger man aside for a serious chat. “Don,” Budge recalls him saying, “you were a poor sport out there today.”

Budge was flabbergasted. The baron was considered the arbiter of court etiquette, and Budge, like most players of the time, sought to emulate him. Budge couldn’t for the life of him imagine what he had done wrong. “Do you recall,” Von Cramm continued in his perfect English, “that when the linesman gave Bunny a bad call on a ball that clearly hit the chalk, you deliberately double-faulted to compensate for it?” Budge did. It was common then, at a time when linesmen’s decisions were seldom disputed, for a player to lose a point deliberately if he felt his opponent had been victimized by a bad call.

Mystified, Budge asked Von Cramm what was so wrong about that. “But you must see, Don,” the baron replied, “that by doing what you did, you embarrassed that linesman in front of 15,000 people. It is unthinkable.”

“After that,” Budge said later, “I played the game the way it was called.”

Maybe you should write the German book

via http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138011/1/index.htm

I think this says it all. The article is from 1993. I found it a while ago.

There is currently no german book about Gottfried von Cramm available.

I’d never even heard of Gottfired von Cramm!