Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Badminton, modern version of the ancient game of battledore & shuttlecock, takes its name from the county seat of the Duke of Beaufort. Legend says it started there in 1873 when the guests at a dinner party stuck goose quills in champagne corks, began batting them across the table...
...next 25 years, badminton led a double life. In England it enjoyed a mild vogue as a socialite amusement for which the proper uniform was evening dress. In garrisons and officers' clubs in India where it was called poona, badminton was played more violently, took firmer root. Badminton's renaissance in England started soon after the War. In the U. S., where socialites had been playing dignified badminton for years, strenuous badminton did not put in an appearance until about ten years ago. About 1931, badminton began to boom. Currently it is the fastest growing game...
Tradition, and the fact that the only requirements for a court are a flat surface and plenty of headroom, make armories the appropriate place for badminton. Last week's tournament was held in that of the Naval Reserve. Before the tournament started, officials debated whether or not to accept the entry of Hock Sim Ong, Malay post-graduate student at the University of California who learned badminton when he went to Cambridge on a British Government scholarship. Before it was over, four other contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock...
What Walter Kramer got for winning the men's badminton championship last week was a silver cup, named for New York socialites Bayard Clarke and E. Langdon Wilks who were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status...
About four years ago, a Boston badminton professional named George F. ("Jess") Willard visited Hollywood. Cinemagnates, always on the lookout for new fads, showed only less enthusiasm for learning the game than for telling the rest of the world all about what they had learned. Three years ago, Warner Brothers released a one-reel short called Good Badminton. Last year the firm of Fanchon & Marco hired Jess Willard to play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only...