This sport is growing by leaps and bounds as a competitive event, a home game, and as an exhibition feature. Not only were many thousands of spectators thrilled by two top professionals at Radio City, New York, but in amateur ranks as well the sport continues to be of great interest. Competitively it is making remarkable headway, too, with Dave Freeman, of Pasadena, Calif., a twenty-year-old student at Pomona College, Calif., presiding as badminton's top man. Formerly a tennis player of international note, Freeman retained the men's National Championship for its third successive year, defeating Carl Loveday, of Montclair, N. J., for national honors. Loveday later won the Metropolitan New York, Eastern, and New England badminton titles.
Among women badminton stars, of which there are many, Miss Thelma Kingsbury, former English champion, became the women's national badminton title holder. She defeated Miss Evelyn Boldrick, of San Diego, Calif. In the mixed doubles championship, Freeman and Miss Kingsbury took the crown in masterful manner. Freeman and Chester Goss, also of Pasadena, won the men's doubles title, and Miss Kingsbury and Miss Janet Wright, of Oakland, Calif., won the women's doubles crown. Miss Mary Hagan, of the Old Sixty-ninth Badminton Club of New York, exhibited a fine brand of playing which earned her both the Eastern and Metropolitan New York titles.
Among badminton organizations in New York, Central 'Y' won the men's Class A team title of the Metropolitan Badminton Association. Spencer Davis is the standout among college players, winning the Eastern intercollegiate title when he was a sophomore at Princeton. John P. Laimbeer and Julian H. Burgess of the Garden City bc won the sixth annual Middle Atlantic doubles championship.
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