TABLE TENNIS LADDER

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23052, 21 June 1940, Page 14

TABLE TENNIS LADDER

TO THE EQITOB 03 THE PBEBB- - you explain why last year’s open table tennis, singles and doubles champion was not placed higher than fifth on the ladder at the beginning of this season? Is it that the senior players, who are also committee members, are not sports enough to acknowledge and encourage a brilliant youngster and give him his rightful place? As far as I can ascertain the rules last year gave the previous year’s champion the right to challenge No. 1 on the ladder and any player could challenge two places above himself, This ygar, for some reason, the champion has to start in his previous year’s position and also is only allowed to challenge one above him at a time. /Another sidelight on the governing abilities of the committee can be drawn from the fact that immediately a|ter the last championships the committee had quite an argument as to whether the new champion should be included in the. Canterbury team to play Otago, I believe the “Noes” had it. One can imagine the fuss that would be made if the tennis champion was left out of a Wilding Shield team. -Although I have followed and played in most sports 4 it is the' first time I have heard of a championship winner being classed fifth on the ladder unless, as.-was not the case, those above him were absent from the championship.—Yours, etc., , PLAY THE GAME. June 17, 1940. [This letter was referred to the secretary of the Table Tennis Association, who had no comment to make.]