{"id":602,"date":"2018-08-21T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2018-08-21T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:13:20","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Southern Badminton Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Southern Badminton Association was first organized on October 30, 1938.&nbsp; The formation of the SBA was organized by Mr. W. Hamilton Walter, President of the American Badminton Association, who mailed letters &#8220;to all of the pricipal cities in these three states [North and South Carolina and Georgia] to the sports editors of the various newspapers and where names were available to individuals playing badminton.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The following individuals were elected as officers, with two year terms on the Board of Directors:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>President &#8211; Henry J. Heffernan, Augusta, GA<\/div>\n<div>Vice President &#8211; H.S. McGinty, Winston-Salem, NC<\/div>\n<div>Secretary &#8211; Adon N. Smith II, Charlotte, NC<\/div>\n<div>Treasurer &#8211; Dean Hammond, Charlote, NC<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>These additional individuals were elected for one year terms to serve on the Board of Directors:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>D. W. Crowell, Winston-Salem, NC<\/div>\n<div>Dr. Harvey Cleckley, Augusta, GA<\/div>\n<div>Miss Julia Pickens, Charlotte, NC<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>At that first meeting it was moved by a Mr. Dean Hammond that the Southern Badminton Tournament would be held in Charlotte, N.C.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>It is documented that the first Southern Open was held in Charlotte March 8th-11th, 1939, with the second SBA meeting held at the tournament.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Badminton Association was first organized on October 30, 1938.&nbsp; The formation of the SBA was organized by Mr. W. Hamilton Walter, President of the American Badminton Association, who mailed letters &#8220;to all of the pricipal cities in these three states [North and South Carolina and Georgia] to the sports editors of the various &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History of the Southern Badminton Association<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sbabadminton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}