23 Sep, 2020 | All England Champions Pre-1940, People
Donald Hume – A Great Champion in the 1930s Donald Charles Hume started to play badminton at the age of 16, when he joined the Alexandra Palace Badminton Club in London in the season 1923-24. Donald’s first experience of the All-England Championships, at the age...
10 Apr, 2020 | All England Champions Pre-1940, People
SIR GEORGE THOMAS The measure of the extraordinary qualities of this man goes far beyond the number of badminton championships and tournaments that he had won during one of the longest playing careers of any badminton player. He was a...
4 Apr, 2020 | All England Champions Pre-1940, People
Marjorie Henderson nee Bell with her doubles partner Thelma Kingsbury dominated woman’s badminton in the 1930s. They won the All-England woman’s doubles four times in a row 1933 to 1936, a record which was not beaten for almost 70 years. After...
23 Feb, 2020 | All England Champions Pre-1994, People
Photo: – Peter Richardson RUDY HARTONO Rudy Hartono one of the truly great All England champions. In 1976 Rudy Hartono from Indonesia broke the record for eight men’s singles titles. Erland Kops of Denmark had previously held the record of...
16 Feb, 2020 | All England Champions Pre-1940, People
Betty Uber, who dominated Women’s badminton in the 1930s and won a total of 13 All England Championship titles. Click on images to enlarge. Betty Uber playing woman’s singles at the All-England Badminton Championships held at the Royal Horticultural Hall,...
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