By 1990, badminton was in full swing and during that year the Shanghai Badminton Association was formed and the League games inaugurated. Prior to that date, the French Club had league sides of their own running teams under such high-sounding names as 'Zulus', 'Hottentots' "Esquimaux' etc. The League also i stituted annual championships; men' doubles, mixed doubles and men's singles, the ladies' singles not coming into being until the following year.
This season the game has suffered in some respects owing to the lack of accommodation caused by premises which were utilized for courts being either on the wrong side of the Creek Or being used for some other purpose and, of course, at the time the Season should have commenced and the preparations made, prospective players, keen as (hey might be, were more concerned with the rather heavier material than shuttlecocks which were then flying about Shanghai.
The game is in full swing, however and the Leagues are in progress, admittedly in a more concentrated form, and the Championships and the Whalley Shield competitions are about to be played-off. The hope conditions will be such next y io see the same number of playing facilities last season and the equivalent League entire:
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