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Sally Vincent '52 will be leader of badminton and chairman of other sports include Joan Bennett '52, bowling; Judith Haskell '51, dance group; Martha Sherich '51, swimming; Ann Wierum '50, riding; and Janet Stewart '50, basketball...
North Carolina's tennis star Vic Seixas turned in one of his many spectacular performances Tuesday when he led his fellow Tarheels to win over the Crimson. But unfortunately for Cambridge tennis enthusiasts, all-day rains forced his match off the Soldiers Feld courts and into Boston's Badminton and Tennis Club...
...games were originally scheduled for the Soldiers Field courts, but when all-morning rains made the courts impossibly soft, Coach Jack Barnaby quickly rescheduled the number one and number two matches for the Badminton and Tennis Club in Boston and arranged for the rest of the matches to be played in the Brookline Country Club...
...Badminton. Since a Japanese American introduced him to badminton 14 years ago, Dave Freeman has been a talented athletic radical. After winning the National Junior Tennis Championship at 17 (he beat Ted Schroeder and Jake Kramer consistently in those days), he gave up big-time tennis because practicing bored him. Although he was besieged with athletic scholarships, he paid his own way to attend Pomona College, then went on to Harvard Medical School. Beginning in 1939, playing when the mood suited him and following no training rules, he was Mr. Badminton...
Last winter, in Britain for further study in neurology, Freeman got his first crack at Ooi Teik Hock in the Thomas Cup matches (badminton's equivalent of the Davis Cup). He beat the champ in what many a badminton fan thought to be a fluke win. Last week, after proving it was no fluke, Dave Freeman made an announcement: he was through with big-league tournament badminton. Henceforth he would play only...