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...Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts, p. 35). In addition to novelty, badminton has over tennis the advantage that, since the game consists largely of scrambling, the posture of the subject does not, like that of almost any actress photographed with a tennis racquet, reveal that she does not know much about the game. Able male Hollywood badminton addicts are Pat O'Brien, Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Robert Montgomery. In Hollywood, the virtues of badminton, like many other things, have been exaggerated...
...began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian geese, whose high grease content makes their...
...tournaments which few men would have had the temerity to enter before they had been playing the game five years or more. He won every tournament he entered with ridiculous ease: the Canadian singles championship, the Canadian and U. S. doubles championships (with Clarence Pell Jr.), the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament and the Racquets and Tennis Club championship. That he would acquire the U. S. championship as summarily as the others became apparent last week in the semi-finals when, in what most observers considered the most brilliant performance ever seen on the Racquets Club's court, Grant polished...
This is Dorson's first defeat since he lost to Buell Hollister, number one man on the Yale team, for the intercollegiate invitation squash racquet tourney during the Charistmas holidays...
...Clarence C. Pell Jr., & Robert Grant III: the national racquets doubles championship, beating Edward Mitchell Edwards & Warren Ingersoll after 1 hr. 10 min. of play at the New York Racquet & Tennis Club, 12-15, 18-16, 15-11, 15-8. In the balcony, watching, was Pell's father, nine times national doubles champion (with Stanley Mortimer) eliminated this year in the semi-finals by his son's runners...