Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), Monday 3 June 1940, page 20


Quist Enlists In A.I.F.

MELBOURNE, June 2.

Adrian Quist, Australian tennis champion and Davis Cup player, has enlisted, Quist, who is 27, won the Queensland championship last month.

He was recently appointed New South Wales manager of the Dunlop Sports Company, but has returned to Melbourne to complete business matters before inlisting. He has been a member of the Sixth Battalion (Royal Melbourne Regiment) for more than a year Other sportsmen to enlist include L. Thomas, captain and coach of North Melbourne Football Club: W. smallhorn, Fitzroy champion; Jack Higgins. Victoria's star baseball pitcher; and R. Bird, CoUingwood baseballer and cricketer K Trumble. son of the former Test cricketer, has applied to enter the R-&JLF.