Feb 8—A statement was made in the newspaper this week that the game of badminton was originally called "Poona" and that it got its name in England from being played with a quill-studded champagne cork over the Duke of Beaufort's dinner table at Badmington by a number of young officers just returned from India. This caused the question to be put to me, "is it correct to call a shuttlecock "a bird," and if so, why?" I was forced to reply that' the question was beyond me but that I would do my best to explain the meaning of terms used in connection with the game in its various forms....all of which I have found very difficult. To begin with, nobody k for certain whether the shuttlecock was ori
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