PING-PONG.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7436, 24 June 1902, Page 3

PING-PONG.

-«> — NOTES. , , . ■•• > (By. .RACKET.) . Prizes amounting to £7i5 are being offered for a ping-pong tournament in Sydney. The recent New South Wales Chanipion&hip tournament extended over a fortnight, and every night a crowded audience witnessed the play. The only drawback was that the Amateur Sportß Club rooms were too small to accommodate the spectators, and for the closing round* numbers had to be refused admission. On the last night people -were turned away mi !hour and a ihalf 'before the play started. The championship was won by H. Elliott, with C. K. Robertson as runner-up. " N. 0." writes in the Sydney " Referee as follows:— The Sports Club, a progressive institution, might well initiate a movement for the formation of a Table Tennis Association, and, if m&cessary, give a ©mall donation towards founding it on a eound 'basis. An Association of this kind 1 must come; tne • sooner the better 1 . And when it cornea we must 3ook forward to iriter-Stftte and .Intercolonial tournaments, for the game is equally popular in the other States and New Zealand. Since writing this I learn that the bports Club Committee have taken the matter Of the semi-finalists in the New South Wales Championship, a writer in the Sydney "Referee" says-— Horace Elliott and D. Uj Ward use the pen-holder grip, pl»7. j***-** 11 ? chiefly, and with skin racquets. C. it. •Ko'pen* son and A. B. Jones play foxe-hamd chiefly, Robertson, never using the orthodox backhand stroke. The two latter were the neatest and most etyliah pQayers in the tournament —their tennis catdhes the fancy in much the same way a 9 Victor Trunxper'a 'batting does. They used wooden racquets, and ■therein differ from the two other Bemi-finali«ts. Both being open to improvement in one or two points, they should be still- more formidable opponents in the next championship tournament. Elliott's racquet is a specially prepared sheepskin made by Mr James Searle, of the imperial Arcade. The same kind of racquet was used toy the "winner of the Queensland championdhip. ' '