Gordon Sylvester Bradshaw Mack (known as Curly Mack) (13 May 1898 – February 1948) was a
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
player from
Ireland
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.
Career
Mack won the
All England Open Badminton Championships, considered as the unofficial World Badminton Championships, in men's singles in 1930. In total, he won eight
All England Open Badminton Championships titles between 1923 and 1931, six of them in men's doubles, one in men's singles and one in mixed doubles.
Mack also won twelve
Irish Open titles.
References
Irish male badminton players
1898 births
1948 deaths
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