CORRESPONDENT'S VIEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 129, 17 June 1937, Page 15

CORRESPONDENT'S VIEWS.

Sir, — ^Please allow me a small space to answer some of "Drop Shot's" notes which appear in your paper each week. I am afraid that "-Drop Shot-" wanders away from the. true f acts. He says that Miss Lancaster and Miss Lassen have had only one year's experience. Miss Lancaster had been playing in Hastings sinee 1931 and Miss Lassen since 1933 or 4. "Drop Shot" also mentions that Mr. Noel Wilson has had a lot to do with the establishment of badminton in this district. The Methodist Club was formed in 1930, but previous to that there was a club in Napier and also one at Havelock North, so that the game was well established before Mr. Wilson eame to Hastings. By tho reading of "Drop Shot's" notes one might take it that there' is only one club here, and that is the Hastings Club, but there are seven other clubs playing here now. Now, "Drop Shot," as regards the shots, if you studied tho game more you would find out there are several more than the smash and drop shot. I agree with him about the scarcity of halls suitable for badminton. He says that no inter-club matches have been played yet.*4 One club has played two and is playing another within the next day or two.-^-Yours, etc., " SMASH. »» . Hastings, June 14,/1937. The first part of this letter, dealing with two individual players, is a justifiable correction for which "Drop Shot" is duly grateful. Since the arrival of Noel Wilson the Hastings badminton clubs, as quoted bv ''Smash," have increased .from one to eight. In exhibition mateh'es, Wilson 's play was a revelation which created a wide interest in the game, and which helped to establish badminton on its present footing in Hmvke's Bay. On May 20 this writer stated that, "apart from the serve, the two most important shots (for tho beginner) are the high clear to the baseline and the smash," This statement requires neither qualification nor explanation.— "Drop Shot."