Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idraetshuset gymnastic hall, Danes and their guests watched in astonishment as a blond Californian ran the badminton trunks off Malaya's great Ooi Teik Hock in the final of the Copenhagen Open. Pasadena-born Dr. Dave Freeman, 28, had not lost a singles match in ten years, but the Europeans had considered most of his victories minor-league stuff, scored against so-so U.S. opposition. In Copenhagen, he was playing in badminton's big league...
Puppets at Play. As the feathered shuttlecock darted back & forth, Dave Freeman, who specializes as a doctor in neurosurgery, kept up his usual flow of chatter, most of it addressed to himself: "Stupid -wake up!" "Oh Dave-how could...
...obvious that slender (148 Ibs.) Dave Freeman was no classic stylist. His smash was somewhat less than devastating, his wrist-flick deception shots not the game's most subtle or varied. But like Bitsy Grant, the once-mighty mite of tennis, he made incredible gets. His knees were always scratched and bloody after a tough match...
...badminton rivals call a "mean streak inside." In the early stages of a match, he sometimes rejects a wide-open chance for a kill, so that he can soften up his opponent by running him to death. Against Ooi Teik Hock, whose forte was also patience and consistency, Dave Freeman concentrated on outlasting his opponent. He won the first set, 15-11, lost the second...
...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...