BADMINTON IN N.Z. AND AUSTRALIA NEEDS STIMULATION

Wanganui Chronicle, 9 September 1950, Page 3

BADMINTON IN N.Z. AND AUSTRALIA NEEDS STIMULATION

AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).— The most important lesson of the New Zealand badminton team's successful tour of Australia was that the game in both countries was in need of stimulation either in the form of a tour by a great professional or in matches with another country, said Mr. p. Hawksworth, of Masterton, captain of the touring team, which returned from Sydney today. “It was a great satisfaction to us to win the Whyte Trophy from Australia for the first time since the competition began in 1939,” Mr. Hawksworth said. “We had a most successful tour and in three weeks in New South Wales, Victoria South Australia and Tasmania did not yield more than two rubbers in any evening even in the Test match. Our leading player, j. E. Robson, a former national lawn tennis champion, of Dunedin, performed brilliantly and is unquestionably in a class of his own in the two countries. Our leading woman player, Mrs. M. Potts, of Christchurch, was also too formidable for the Australians, even though her play suffered occasional attacks of nervousness.”