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...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 in the U. S. Last week in Chicago, the cream of the U. S. crop of 40,000 badminton addicts played the first national championship tournament...
Four major heroes of U. S. sport's greatest decade were Baseballer Babe Ruth, Golfer Bobby Jones. Prizefighter Jack Dempsey, Tennist Bill Tilden. Oldest (44) of the four, Tilden's years of supremacy began when he first won the U. S. championship in 1920.* Last week with the others all long since retired, Oldster Tilden stepped out before the winter's most socialite tennis crowd to play the season's climactic match. His opponent, in New York's Madison Square Garden, was England's Fred Perry whom Tilden has frequently called the "world...
That, last week, was the start of professional hockey's most important series of games thus far this season-for the championship of the National Hockey League. The only more important series of the year will start next week, when the winner of the Canadiens-Red Wings series plays an as yet undetermined opponent three-out-of-five games in the final play-offs for the Stanley...
Harvard will be one of the nine colleges which will compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Chin Golf Championship Tournament to be held tomorrow evening at 6:15 in studio number 1 of WOR at New York. John L. Allen '39 will wear the colors of the Crimson in an attempt to win a three-foot-high silver...
Harvard's cork-capped pursuers of the willow spheroid will cavort against Army's trio on Thursday in the Inter-collegiate polo championship. Army has won the Townsend Cup two years in succession and is favored to win again...