Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bartolik ya fara aikinsa tare da ƙungiyar matasa ta KS Gdynia kafin ya fara aikinsa na ƙwararru tare da Arka Gdynia a cikin 1937-38, da Gedania Danzig daga 1938-39. A shekara ta 1939 Gedania Danzig an hana shi shiga cikin wasanni na wasanni da Jam'iyyar Nazi ta yi a lokacin da aka mallaki Poland
Ka yi haƙuri. Sakamakon barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na II, an tura Bartolik zuwa Krakow, inda ya buga wa Wisla Krakow, Garbarnia Kraków, da Groble Kraków daga 1940-44 yana wasa a cikin gasar zakarun Turai ta karkashin kasa ta Kraków. Bayan yaƙin ya ƙare sai ya koma Danzig, yanzu ana kiransa Gdańsk, don buga wasa a Gedania Gdańsk (wannan ƙungiyar da aka sake kirkirar ta bayan haramcin ta a 1939). Bayan shekaru uku Bartolik ya koma Bałtyk Gdynia inda ya zama manajan dan wasa.