PING-PONG.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7505, 12 September 1902, Page 1

PING-PONG.

■■■ NOTES* \ .. (By RACKET.} Almost every business dinsti'tulioitt of any magnitude in Sydney ihae ita tables now far uhe uee of its employees after hours and during ilunoh ihour. A Sydney 'writer suggests .that the New Soufch Wales Table Tenons Association Should org»nise an Inter-State Taumaman* at which teams from Queensland, Victoria, Hew Zealand and New South. Wales ehouid be represenied. A. B. Jones, who won the Inter-Staute Gbampdonefoip at Brisbane, "wais beaten in the aemi-fiii*! of tihe New Soujtlh "Wales Qhampionabdp 'by C. K. Ikrfbertson » few mootiha ago. He *nd Ro'bartson.the two most successful of tlhe New South WaJes plajers at Brisbane, are tine onJy ones who Tftly ome^y on the forehand game. The other fouiv-H jund H. R. SUiatit and J>. <C. Amd R. C Waj-d— use the pen-holder grip. The Inter-State team mutch between New Souihh W*ks and Queensland, played *i Briabane at the end' at ljast month, resulted in *n enay wiai for *he Sydney players by 23«ets (700 games) to 8 sets (542 games). T*he teams were:— 'New South Wiaies, Horace *ud H. E. Elliott. A. B. Jones, 0. K Bobertson, I>. G. &nd R 0. Watd; Qu&cn»l*nd, E. B. Wilfcms, .W. A. (Leslie, N. Leslie, G. B. Dix, J. Hutoheson and J. Cryle. Jones «nd Eobertsoh, in ipkying .thedx six opponents, get through wi'tihout losing a «et. Other events resulted: — Queensland dhampdoinaihip— K. B. Wilfcins 1, G. -B. I>k 2. Xnter-Sta*e Cbaimptonahip—^A. B. Jones 1, H. B. Elliott 3. Inter-State Haradicap— A. B. Jones 1, ft C. Weird 2. Lovers of liable tennis have not, «4 a rule, the slightest idea of iihe actual cost of making a iuß^mze . regulation table. A " top " i« really all *hftt is required. An ordinary table, whdeh is io be found l in «ny (house, will do /or (the support. Th.e> 'best m»teri«j to uee (sa^s a writer in the 'Sydney " Spoptem*n ") •s-4-indh or J-inoh ndwood. Five boards. Sit long and lain wide, should 'be obtained /ram 3. good timbar merdhant. should/ be cramped "together, and 'then fastened with airee light oross i»«oea. To prevent " mg?ing" «nd to en«ure » ievtil surface, » oouple of Bxl Oregon atringere ehould 'be run on tihe underneath add*. The *able will then be nJways even, and witfh a <pot of green painrt, Bind « streak of -iAj*» for. lie edges, .-&e tobl« bop may b*. oonndeted 1 at' a cost of not more bham 10a foe timber,, maila and paint all told.