SERENITY OF SPORT

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 9

SERENITY OF SPORT

PING-PONG IMBROGLIO

COLOUR LINE IN LONDON

INSULT; TO INDIANS

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LONDON, February 8,

Barracking and the colour line shattered the. serenity of the ping-pong tournament, threatening to cause another international incident. The umpire of the Franco-Latvian match in the table tennis championships, which are being played at Kensington ruled that, a. ball touched the edge of the table. The spectators indignantly whispered a denial, after which the umpire changed his decision.

Harmony had ■no sooner been restored than an urgent meeting of the English Table Tennis Association, was called'to consider a West End hotel's refusal to accommodate the > Indian team with- other competitors, insisting that the Indians should stay at a neighbouring hotel under the same manage^ ment. "We are. very upset," sai'd Mohamed Ayub,-the Indian captain.

"There are' so many unfortunate incidents in ihternatibnar sport that we are-standing no nonsense," said' Mr, Woodcock, the association's chairman. "We "have delivered an ultimatum to the hotel that unless they retract the ban on the'lndian'team, we shall withdraw all the other teams from their hotels."

The hotel eventually withdrew its objection, and five English players vacated their rooms in Xavour1 of the Indians.