) BADMINTON

ON

Tvis seme resembics tennis, is »laved with a feathered cork
called a shuttle-cock instead of a tennis ball. The racket, too,
is of special size and weight, A wooden vaddle was originally
used in India in place of a racket. In Beltimore recreation
centers, ordinary tennis reckets are used,

tne Game

DOUBLES {played by two on a team}-@hoice of courts and service
decided by a toss, as in tennis.

Unlike tennis, the B:dminton doubles game is played in a
series of innings. Ecch innings consists cf two services on one
side of the net. A service means the time during which one
player whe serves the shuttlecock continues to win her aces of
points. When e player fails to win her ace she is out and her
partner then becomes the server, with this exception, that the side
beginning the game has but one service in its first innings. The
server stands within the right half-court and serves by an under~
hand stroke (hitting the shuttle lower than the waist) into the
opposite right half-court. The receiver must stand within her half-
court until the service is dclivered. As soon as the service is
completed the players may move about at will, paving no attention
to the boundary lines. The receiver must return the shuttle before
it touches the floor, but may reutrn it to any part of the court
which is on the opposite side of the nct.< If the server fails to
hit the shuttle completely across the net end within the proper
court on her service, or if she or her partner fails to return it
to the othcr court after it has bcen hit back into their own court
by their opponets, they are out and th service goes to the server's
partner if it is the first service of the innings or to the right °
half-court opponct if it is the second servicc of the innings. If,
however, the scrver succecds in making it fall to the floor in the
opponet's service court within thé ercoa bounded by the short half-
court linc, the long service line, the ecnter and sidelines upon
the service, or if the server or her partncr meke it fell to the
floor any place within the whole court on © return strokc, they
score one point or ace and the server changes to the left-hand court
and serves to the opponet diagonally opposite, who is standing
within the left-hand service court. The scrvcr continucs to serve
from each court alternately until she fails to win her points. The
first service in each innings must be from the right-hand courte
The player served to may alone take the service, and no pleyer may
take two consccutive services in the same gamce

SINGLIES--The singles gams differs from the doubles gome

somewhat as singles in tennis differs from doublcs. The court is
narrower, as shown in the diagram, but the service court is
2 fect 6 inches longer. The playing also differs from doubles in
oS thet the player serves from snd receives scrvice in the right half-
“ie Crt only when the server's score in 0, or when sho hes seorcd m
even number of aces in the gamee She serves from and reccives in
the left half-court when the server hes served an oda number of
ACCS»
scoring--Only the serving sidc can make a point. For womcnts
doubles a game consists of 15 points, end in singles 11 points. .
In a doubles gamc, when 13 points have been made by both sides
so that 13-all is declared, the ployers first reaching 13 may
claim the right to "sect" the geme to 5. The score is then called
lovewall, and the sidc which first scorcs 5 aces winse If 14-all