Table Tennis History Journal 84 Excellent reading for Historians, Collectors, February and all Lovers of our Great Sport 2018

The Lady magazine, January 23, 1902 Gowns for Ping-Pong parties - page 14 From the Editor Table Tennis Dear Friends,

Welcome to issue 84 of the Table Tennis History Journal for History historians, writers, collectors, and all lovers of our sport.

Journal Our beautiful cover illustration was found by Alan Duke (ENG) while researching early magazine articles. Alan also continues his series on early newspaper articles., this one on Parlour Tennis.

Steve Grant (USA) continues to document the spread of the new game with part 4 of his series on early advertisements. Jorge Arango (COL) sends another installment on early pirated images, while Gerald Gurney (ENG) recalls a foreword by Montagu to the brilliant Zdenko Uzorinac’s Od Londona 1926 do Sarajevo 1973.

Your editor offers some exquisite early items in New Discoveries, Old Treasures, as well as a Great Shots vintage photograph,and my usual report on Auction Action, which has some surprises.

Our Philatelic Update is a brief one, with only one new stamp, and several blue meters by the German TT Bund (DTTB).

My former Table Tennis History website can now be viewed at ittf.com/history/documents , including the list of all past editions of our journal. Recently I created pdfs of all pre-2000 AGM No. 84 minutes for Dropbox, and hope these can be restored for public access. I will continue my dedication to preserving the history of February 2018 our great sport. It is very disappointing to report that one of our members has Editor and Publisher: committed a serious breach of ethics by falsifying a quote which he attributed to me in an online article, pompously claiming his Chuck Hoey, Honorary Curator is the ‘greatest collection in the western hemisphere’. Never ever ITTF Museum would I make such a bizarre and untruestatement. I have worked new: [email protected] with the journalist to right a wrong and remove this bogus quote.

Hope you enjoy the new issue. Feedback always welcomed. Next Publishing Schedule: edition scheduled for May 1, 2018. I encourage our readers to June 1 Submit articles by May 15 share their experience, research and writings about Table Tennis Oct 1 Submit articles by Sep 15 history. Feb 1 Submit articles by Jan 15 Chuck

In this issue …

Magazine Old Articles Early Ads Pt4 Treasures Great Shots 14-23 Rowe Twins 6-12 3-4 Parlour Tennis 5 32-37 Steve Grant Alan Duke

Pirated Montagu Philatelic Back Page Images 1973 Update 2 World Auction Championships 24-29 30-31 13 Action Jorge Arango Gerald 38-47 Gurney 2 New Discoveries - Old Treasures

A major discovery, a magnificent bat with silver handle and shield with English hallmarks dating to 1902. The bat is in a wood presentation box with custom-fitted plush interior & engraved shield. Black vellum on wood. Your editor plans to donate this to the ITTF Museum in Shanghai.

3 New Discoveries - Old Treasures

Fancy pair of gilt brass net supports. Impressively large at 35cm. Truly an old treasure. I plan to donate these to the museum in China.

4 Great Shots

This wonderful photograph of the famous Rowe twins with a group of young players was sent by Fiona Dobie, whose father, David Dall, is between Diane and Ros. But who were the other players in the group? This was a puzzler, as we were not able to identify any of the others. Finally I contacted Diane Rowe Schöler, who said it was likely from one of their training camps at Butlin’s Holiday Camps in Filey, England, between 1952 and 1954 . Fiona wrote that her father continued to enjoy Table Tennis well into his senior years, so the Rowe twins did a great job of inspiring the young lads to love the game! What a privilege to have 2-time World Doubles Champions as their coaches!

Here is a souvenir or prize from one of Butlin’s training camps, a fine pierced brass dish with enameled insignia, a pair of crossed rackets.

5 Early Ads Around the World Part 4, the Americas

Concluding our series, we look at 1900-1902 ads in seven countries in the Americas. (For Bermuda and Jamaica, see Part 3, the British Overseas Empire.) ---Steve Grant (USA). USA

Dec. 11, 1900, New York City. To British ears, “Pom Pom” evoked a discharging Boer War Pom Pom cannon. So, in England, Slazenger was filing instead for trademark rights to “Whiff-Waff,” granted Dec. 31. (Competitor Wright & Ditson of Boston then used the Pom Pom name in 1901.)

July 16, 1901, New York City. Slazenger sometimes lost the hyphen and added an extra “h”.

Fashionable, Dec. 4, 1901, Kansas City

Finally arriving in Waterloo, Iowa, May 1902

Ping pong parlor ad by “Alice Up-to-Date,” Sept. 13, 1902, Omaha July 20, 1902, Dallas

6 …but no Ping Pong, Feb. 13, 1902, Newport, Rhode Island

Even a paper hanger “sells the Ping Pong,” Sep. 20, 1902, Chester, Pennsylvania

Siegel-Cooper department store, Oct. 30, 1902, New York, 43 styles of bats

May 18, 1902, Chicago

April 6, 1902, Philadelphia

Sept. 12, 1902, Colorado

7 Gibson Girl pictures, June 6, 1902, Colorado Springs

Doughnut as ping pong ball, 1903 booklet for Cottolene shortening

“The very newest,” Nov. 11, 1902, Janesville, Wisconsin

8 CANADA

Dec. 4, 1901, Winnipeg

Jan. 27, 1902, Toronto, “with American racquet”

“Ensuring quick and graceful movement in the player,” April 2, 1902, Victoria, “for the tourney” that’s scheduled.

May 12, 1902, Edmonton July 21, 1902, Edmonton [For more examples from USA/Canada, see my book Ping Pong Fever: The Madness That Swept 1902 America. ---Steve G.]

9 MEXICO “Mexico City, engrossed in golf, has allowed ping pong to go by default up to the present time, but hereafter it is expected that cards and dancing will be in a considerable measure displaced by the new and popular pastime.” ---Mexican Herald, May 13, 1902. In July, the American club there challenged the British club to a home-and-home match.

May 14, 1902, Mexico City

May 12, 1902, Mexico City

Making Americans feel at home, Sept. 25, 1902, Cuernavaca

April 16, 1903, Mexico City

Too slow for Insomnia Club, April 16, 1910, Guadalajara

10 CUBA

Ping Pong sets sold cheaply if you buy or rent a piano from this music store, September 11 and October 9, 1902, Havana July 19, 1902, Havana PERU December 23, 1902, Lima BRAZIL April 13, 1902, Sao Paulo, “Now arrived, a huge assortment of this interesting game for the family.” We learn a new name for the game, Timo-Timo, which the next century’s Timo Boll may find amusing. Casa Fuchs borrowed the wrong illustration from Slazenger, showing Table Badminton instead of Table Tennis! In the upper right is “Registered,” which also seems out of place. The store ran its first Ping Pong ad in January 1902, then many smaller ads in April, and also ran the ad at left in a second paper, now with the “correct” spelling of Whiff-Waff. Beginning in 1903 and continuing for more than a decade were numerous Sao Paulo newspaper reports of ping pong clubs and inter-club matches.

11 CHILE Paton’s 1901-02 ads in the Spanish-language El Mercurio were in English, but by 1903 (right) they were in Spanish. Westcott (below) made the same switch. Dec. 28, 1901, Valparaiso June 28, 1903, Valparaiso

Sept. 7, 1901, Valparaiso May 19, 1905, Valparaiso The years 1903-04 saw numerous reports in El Mercurio of inter-club matches, including one of an English team versus a Chilean team. Prior to the Grand Championship, Aug. 16-18, 1904 (left), Westcott hosted an exhibition in its store. There was also a match on Aug. 12 of Chile versus The World:

12 Philatelic Update

Syria 2016, for the Olympic Games in Rio

ITTF World Tour German Open Bremen blue meter

ITTF World Tour German Open, Bremen blue meter with Christmas & New Year greeting

A third variety of the 2018 German Open blue meter

Special thanks to Hans-Peter Trautmann, Winfried Engelbrecht,Tang Ganxian, Gao Yi-bin, Ortwin Schiessel, Marc Templereau, for their helpful reports of philatelic items. 13 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES – PART 7 by Alan Duke This 7th part of the series is a bit of a Ladies’ Special, featuring as it does articles from The Lady (published weekly in the UK from 1885 to the present), Our Home (also a UK weekly from 1898 to 1927), The Lady’s Realm (1896-1916), and Woman’s Beauty and Health. The Lady 2 January 1902 rather low over the table, it is best to rule that any ball THE PLAYING OF PING-PONG. hitting it, and thence dropping to the opposite side, is out, BY A PLAYER. and counts against the player. Skyrockets are bad play; the ball has no business to hit anything before alighting in CERTAIN superior persons have been gravely its proper sphere, and if it reaches its destination by so concerning themselves with the name, which they circuitous a route, instead of direct from the racquet of designate as senseless and frivolous, of the popular novel the player, it is chance, not skill, that has directed its pastime. It should bear the more dignified title of “Table course. This rule does not apply if the ball strikes either Tennis.” The “senselessness” of “Ping-Pong” I can’t of the side posts, and if it merely scrapes the net and rolls admit, as it really succeeds in conveying a very fair idea over it is counted in. of the peculiar sound given forth as the little white Then there are the bevel-edge balls, about which celluloid ball springs from racquet to racquet, with a different sets of players seem to form their own bounce on the table in between. And as for frivolity— regulations. I think the fairest way in the long run will be well, it is a delightful and fascinating game, to be sure, found to count such strokes “let,” and have it over again. but not so deadly serious after all that it must needs feel Most private dining-tables are adorned with a bevel or itself insulted by the friendly, if slightly disrespectful, carved edge more or less projecting beyond the level nomenclature under which it has won its position in our surface of the table proper. Balls striking this edge fly off hearts. Nevertheless, I shall be by no means surprised if at a tangent, which frequently renders them impossible to its present name should shortly become a dead-letter, and return. Balls which skim the edge and just barely shave it for the reason that it may soon cease to be appropriate. on their uninterrupted course floorwards are quite Vellum racquets are the only ones that give forth the impracticable. In strict tournament play such are “ping-pong” sound, and these bid fair to be superseded by disallowed altogether; but some players who practise various other makes, upon whose advantages, or the cutting things very fine prefer the middle course of reverse, I shall discourse later. counting them no point either side. ______The Lady 9 January 1902 The Lady 23 January 1902 THE PLAYING OF PING-PONG. GOWNS FOR PING-PONG PARTIES. BY A PLAYER.

II. THE rules for home play need not, of course, be so hard and fast as those for public tournaments and competitions. It is nevertheless well to make a few regulations and stick to them, in order to avoid anything in the nature of bickerings and discussions during the progress of the game. Ping-Pong is a merry, cheery, good-tempered pastime, but it is highly undesirable to leave any loophole for disagreement on doubtful points. There are always to be found persons of an incurably argumentative disposition who stand out for their supposed rights on every insignificant occasion, and would prefer to cause dissension amongst the whole party rather than concede a point with smiling and silent good humour. These rules cannot be laid down in black and white, as they must needs be modified by the varying conditions and accommodation afforded by the different dining- rooms dedicated to the game. It is becoming the custom more and more to eliminate so far as possible the element of chance, and make the game strictly one of skill. Whereas originally a stroke was counted “in” if it got the ball over the net and lodged on the other side anyhow and anywhere, it is now usual to make certain restrictions for the purpose of putting out of court mere flukes in which AS ping-pong seems to have become more or less of a skill has no part. If a lamp or electric-light fitting hangs national institution, and ping-pong parties and tournaments are the prevailing form of entertainment, it 14 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES really is time that the costume possibilities opened up by shops. Coffee-coloured or chocolate icing will represent the game should be taken into consideration. A ping- the surface of a dining-room table with good effect. pong frock should not be an ordinary afternoon or evening gown; it ought to be carefully chosen to suit the Some detailed recipes for “delicious cakes” [Cherry occasion. First of all, it should never display a long train, Mixture, Fruit Mixture, Walnut Cake, and Coffee Cake which would prove a trap for the unwary feet of the (American)] were given. unfortunate mortals who are engaged in chasing and ______securing errant balls, with or without the aid of a “picker- Our Home 8 February 1902 up.” Then it should have something about it in colour The Game of “Ping-Pong.” and style suggestive of or sympathetic to the game. BY BEATRICE LEWIS.* The left-hand gown on page 141 [previous page] is If the ping-pong craze serves no other and more lasting what might be termed a “sympathetic” one, made of fine purpose, it will surely tend to refute the accusation so soft French cashmere in a restful shade of green, the skirt often hurled against us as a nation, of being phlegmatic– trimmed with strappings of the cashmere, narrowly piped apathetic. The hold which the delightful pastime has with white, from hem to waist, and with a wide band of gained over old and young alike, over the athletic and the rather darker green silk netting round the bottom, this indolent, over the idlers and the workers of all classes and headed with a band of strapping, also piped with white. both sexes, leaves no room for doubt on the score of the The pretty bodice is strapped to correspond, and has a childish enthusiasm of which we are one and all capable plastron, tiny epaulettes, and deep cuffs of white satin when once anything chances to take our fancy. The most overlaid with Paris-tinted lace. unlikely persons—persons who have never cared for any The centre gown is of cream China silk, trimmed with other game, suddenly announce that they “would like to tucks and embroidery, very simple, but extremely have a try at hitting the ball.” They try, and straightway charming, and calculated to reduce short-sighted fall captive to the fatal fascinations of the game. opponents to despair, for against it the white ball would One great reason for its universal popularity is practically be invisible. undoubtedly the fact of its inexpensiveness. A set can be The third is a most effective gown of brilliant red silk, obtained and the game enjoyed at the most moderate covered with big white “ping-pong” spots. This also has outlay—that of a very few shillings. Of course, the vest and cuffs of white silk and lace, and, like the white qualities and prices, especially of racquets and nets, vary frock, it would probably, when the wearer was playing, enormously, but with the best will in the world to spend produce optical illusions which would amuse or money, it could scarcely be called an extravagant game. exasperate the other players, according to their way of It can be played on dining-room tables of almost any size, looking at things. preferably over 6ft. in length. The regulation tournament size is 9ft. by 5ft., but very few ordinary dining-tables reach those dimensions, and, luckily, they are by no The Lady 6 February 1902 means necessary. PING-PONG PARTY CAKES. The rules for play are similar, with very slight exceptions, to those for lawn tennis. But no “fault” is CAKES prepared for these popular parties should be allowed, as if the first serve goes out, or against the net, a decorated to distinguish them from the ordinary afternoon point is scored against the server. If, however, the ball tea-cakes. This may be done simply or elaborately, touches the net in passing over, it is counted “let,” and according to the fancy of the maker, and the amount of another serve is allowed. If the ball, when in play, strikes time and trouble she is inclined to devote in preparation. any object, such as a hanging-lamp, before alighting on Much may be accomplished with ordinary sugar icing, the table top, it is called “out,” and counts against the forced through a bag and pipe into the shape of balls, player. The only exception is if it hits either net or posts racquets, battledores, net, or even the magic words “Ping- and then rolls over, in which case it is counted in. No Pong.” These should be traced on a plain ground of the over-hand service is permitted. It must be either under- icing, and the shape of the cake should be oblong. hand, or sideways, if preferred, so long as the face of the Coloured icing looks very pretty and effective, good racquet is below and not above the level of the wrist. The contrasts being thereby easily secured between ground server must stand a little way back from the table, so that and emblems. A more elaborate form of decoration is the racquet does not reach over the table during the serve actually to fashion miniature racquets, net, etc., and strokes. In the after rallies the players may lean over the arrange these on an iced ground, in which case the cake table to their heart’s content. In the quick half-volley should be of fairly large dimensions. The racquets may game a great deal of the play is conducted well over the be made from slips of whalebone or cane, bound over table, and often close up to the net. No volleying is with narrow white ribbon, and again bound together to allowed. If this rule is transgressed the point would score form the handle. The centre can be constructed from against the player. For this reason be very cautious not to rice-paper or parchment, fitted in neatly. The posts and take balls at volley which would otherwise be out. Many net may be omitted, or if represented, can be fashioned points are lost in this way by beginners through lack of from bamboo or rounded sticks of wood. A lead pencil judgment as to when the balls would fall out, and should, may be made use of at a pinch. The net is easily netted, therefore, be left severely alone. and the balls may be represented by those large white Almost all beginners hit too hard, and bang all their sugar marbles, or cannon balls, to be obtained at sweet balls out. There would be no harm in hitting hard if only they could aim downwards, and make sure of the ball 15 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES alighting on the table on the opposite side of the net. But honest, it is often very puzzling to determine, with this is precisely what they cannot do, so the ball flies off imperfect nets, whether a ball has followed the prescribed to the opposite wall or the mantelpiece or the ceiling. It course, and is properly “in.” It is always wisest to leave is a very good thing to practise a swift serve, but if swift as little room for uncertainty as possible, and so avoid it must also be low, otherwise it will invariably fall out. argument. (To be continued.) In trying to attain to a good, swift serve, you are very apt ––––––––––––––– to bring a lot of balls into the net, but better risk that than The Ladies’ Home Journal October 1902 go on always lopping easy balls over the net for your opponent to do whatever he likes with. The great art to aim at is not merely to get your balls over anyhow, though one is glad enough to do that just at first. One should try to “place” the balls all over the court in different corners, and with varied strokes, in order to render it as difficult as possible for your opponent to return them. A little practice soon enables players to keep up all right long rallies, but that is not now considered good play, unless difficult balls are “placed” and returned. There is a great deal in serving, and although a swift serve is very useful, it is not everything, as a good player will soon grow accustomed to it, and return it without much difficulty, unless you vary your programme. The serve that most players find very baffling is the cut, which is much used in ordinary lawn tennis. The ball is not hit straight out from a racquet held at right angles to it, but is cut underneath with the racquet held at a peculiar slant, which has the effect of making the ball bounce back or sideways after alighting on the table. The only sure Our Home 15 February 1902 method of returning these “tricky” balls is by quick half- The Game of “Ping-Pong.” volley strokes, which do not allow the ball time to bounce BY BEATRICE LEWIS. off as a tangent, but pick it right up from the table. II A great diversity of opinion prevails as to the best In my last chat I mentioned various advantages implements of play, especially with regard to racquets. possessed by Ping-pong over and above other games, and The most universally used, however, by good players are highly conducive to its popularity. A not inconsiderable wood or vellum. Messrs. Hamley Bros., of 512, Oxford one is the fact that no special dress is required, so that one Street, to whom belongs the registered title of “Ping- can always play for an odd half-hour in whatever pong,” highly recommend their vellum “tournament” garments one happens to be attired. Still, as it is a game bats, which are very tight and hard, and are the correct demanding agility and freedom of movement, and giving size—that is, 6½in. by 5½in.—for match play. Most enough exercise to render the players very warm, it can racquets are made with quite long handles, but all players be played with more comfort if lightly clad. Evening agree that the best results can be obtained by cutting them dress, with the wrist and arm free, is very suitable, so that short, to about 5in. or less. At this firm’s various depots the skirt is not of lace or chiffon to fall long in front, to be are to be seen many ingenious inventions for still further tumbled over and torn. I do not find a long skirt really in popularising the fascinating game. Pickers-up of the way if it is easy to hold up in front with the left hand. different patterns may be obtained to avoid the A good player will not require to dash about a great deal, discomfort of grovelling after balls. A little rubber cup at but sudden moves are essential on occasion, and any the end of a cane picks up the ball and holds it as long as impediment of dress might lose one the stroke. At certain desired. The nets on canes will pick up several balls at a houses, where respect is paid to handsome dining-room time. The wire cages that fasten on the under-side of the carpets, mats are laid down at either end of the table, or table-top hold about a dozen balls in a conveniently the guests are requested to wear or are provided with accessible spot. These can also be fastened on to chair- slippers. This is no hardship, as they would be much less backs. Folding ping-pong tables, either with legs to stand tiring to the feet than high-heeled shoes or stiff walking by themselves, or without, to lie on top of a smaller table, boots. Men who are in any degree vigorous players often are made to fold away and take up very little space when beg permission to doff their coats, and to play in their not in use. The stained art green ones are preferable and shirt-sleeves. A fine aid to digestion is ping-pong, and much more restful to the eye when playing than the shiny the chilliest individual will be found to develop a quick black ones. The nets and posts can be obtained very circulation and rosy cheeks after a quick rally or two. cheap, but rather dearer ones are more satisfactory, as The game is usually sustained by two players, but if they should be stretched tight and reach out a few inches there happen to be a good many of the party, and it seems beyond the edge of the table. This prevents the selfish for just two to monopolise the table, quite an possibility of balls sneaking round the corner or under the amusing game may be arranged for four. This is a good tape and arriving on the other side of the net by method of handicapping your crack players, if you chance illegitimate means. With the best will in the world to be

16 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES to have one or two much better than all the rest. Put a Messrs. Gamage, of Holborn—at whose establishment, good and a bad player together on each side, and give a by-the-bye, the game is known under the more dignified few words of explanation as to the rules by which you title of “table tennis”—have an enormous assortment of play before commencing. There are no fixed rules for sets and a large choice of separate appliances to suit four-handed games, but if strictly played, with a table varied tastes. Their aluminium racquets are very marked out in courts as in lawn tennis, of course, the fascinating, and the most ornamental of any yet on the service balls must alight in their allotted space. It has market. The shiny ones, though the prettiest, are not, been suggested that this method should be followed in however, quite so satisfactory as the frosted ones, which ordinary play in order to increase the difficulty and the are the latest development. They are made in three demand for higher training and more mathematical weights, and with the heavy ones in particular, you can precision in matches and tournaments. For private houses bang in a splendid service. The real vellum ones are and for persons who enjoy a pastime merely as an beautifully made, and very tight-stretched, and there are amusing after-dinner recreation and not with the wooden ones of every possible variety and price, ferocious and deadly seriousness of the expert and the commencing at ninepence! Of pickers-up, there are also champion, this development is not likely to become an abundance. The white celluloid tube, with which you general. can, without stooping, pick up and hold a dozen or so of When four are playing, one of the most important rules balls, is really a great boon, and looks like a tube of to be observed is not to interfere with your partner’s rally. ribbed ivory. Indeed, all appliances for the game at this A player commences to serve from the right-hand court, home of sports and pastimes are of fine workmanship and and serves balls alternately into the right and left courts pretty design; and if you can have things both ornamental opposite. The rally had best be sustained between the and useful, why not? The difficulty seems to be that they two who respectively serve and take the serve—in this cannot get things made, especially racquets, fast enough way the partner of the server is practically out of that to cope with the enormous demand which still appears to game altogether, but his turn soon comes, as one game is be on the increase. Clubs, too, are springing up in every very quickly over. Unless some such arrangement is direction, besides those old-established general clubs agreed upon, many points are lost, and tempers are tried which are rapidly adding Ping-pong to their list of by constant collisions which result in a complete miss of attractions. Restaurants and tea-shops are also devoting the ball. Either both partners rush for the ball and each space to the game, and, as they find it answers their mars the other’s stroke, or both stare helplessly at a ball purpose, others will doubtless follow their example. which chances to fall equally between the pair, each Tournaments at public halls and places of entertainment expecting the other to return it. It is difficult to say which follow each other thick and fast, with the inducement to fiasco is the most annoying. Now, the serve must be enter of numerous very handsome prizes for the winners, taken by each partner in turn, and if it is well understood both ladies and gentlemen. Well-played, it is a graceful that each keeps up the rally he has commenced with no game, and one essentially suited for ladies to excel in. fear of interference, no such mishaps can befall. (To be continued.) When two players of unequal powers are opposed to ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– one another, the most enjoyable play can be obtained by The Ladies’ Home Journal (US) October 1902 the stronger one conceding points to the weaker. He may allow fifteen in every game, or, if the difference in skill A Ping-Pong Poster be very great, he may give thirty, which means two points. In playing equal, it is apt to be dull for the good player and discouraging for the inferior one when all points are scored and all games won on the same side. Judicious handicapping equalises things, and the expert has to play up and look alive in order to keep his supremacy, instead of getting slack and slovenly in his play, and so allowing his antagonist to score easy points over him. There is a great deal in being used to one’s racquet, and in its having a comfortable handle. If you play at the houses of different friends, it is far wiser to take your own racquet about with you, as you may chance to get landed with some monstrosity which would entirely spoil your evening’s play. A short, stumpy handle, twisted round with wash-leather, is easily arranged, and very comfortable to hold. Almost all the bought racquets require a little manipulation to render their handles quite satisfactory. The very cheap sets, which were much used in the earlier stages of the game, were furnished with common parchment racquets, which get very soft and slack, and would quite put you off your game. A different size and shape to that you are accustomed to would also prove disconcerting.

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HUNDREDS of girls will want THE JOURNAL’S cover friendly game. The objects of the club, as set forth in this month, by Mr. George Gibbs, as a poster for their their list of preliminary rules and regulations, are as rooms. It shows the American girl at the new game of follow:—“(a) To afford opportunities for assemblies of ping-pong. So we have printed an extra edition of the the members of the club, which shall consist of ladies as cover, exactly as you see it on THE JOURNAL, with title well as gentlemen, in order to participate in friendly and date lines all retained, but with no advertisements on games of Ping-pong; (b) to hold tournaments, in which the back. For ten cents we will mail one of these copies, only members of the club and their friends (to be rolled in a tube, post-paid, to any address. [Too late now!] introduced upon such occasions and upon such conditions –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– as shall be determined by the committee) shall take part; (c) to issue to, and accept from, kindred clubs challenges Our Home 15 March 1902 to hold tournaments when and where may be thought The Game of “Ping-Pong.” desirable; (d) to hold such social functions as may from BY BEATRICE LEWIS. time to time be deemed expedient.” Anyone requiring III further particulars should apply to the secretary, Harry W “How is it there are no London or West-end clubs?” Ile, Esq., 12, Porchester Gardens, W. demand the aggrieved enthusiasts of the popular pastime Ping-pong literature is increasing to an amazing extent. who chance to have their dwelling place within the With a rush several books on the subject have made their Metropolis. Enviously they regard their suburban appearance one on top of each other. But the one that neighbours who enjoy the use of prosperous clubs, where will probably prove most useful and most popular is matches and tournaments are organised, and whence “Ping-pong: the Game, and How to Play it,” written by crack players are trained and despatched to fight for Mr. Arnold Parker, and published by Mr. T. Fisher glory—and frequently to win it—in the big London Unwin. The author, by reason of his own prowess and tournaments. Of course, many old-established general remarkable success in the game, is well calculated to be clubs now provide a table for the convenience of their able to tell other people “how to do it.” This he most members, and Ping-pong accommodation is to be found efficiently and practically does, and his explanations are at tea-shops, restaurants, hotels, and, in fact, almost rendered doubly helpful by the assistance of a number of anywhere that the requisite space can be found. illustrative diagrams, by means of which every stroke But not many of these are places where ladies would described is so plainly and simply shown, that all who care to play, even with their own friends. There has, up wish to improve their play would find it time well spent to quite recently, been an extraordinary dearth of to practise strokes from the book. Here the beginner is opportunity for lady players to practise the game catered for as well as the expert, since, as Mr. Parker anywhere but in their own or friends’ houses. There says, it is his object to teach novices how to play, and to would be no hardship in this were it not that few houses, show experts how to play better! and scarcely any flats, possess a large enough dining- Of course no one can learn any game through simply room and a full-sized table. Besides, to make progress in reading the theory of it, but when one plays just a little, the game, one requires to meet various opponents with advice and warning may be most useful, especially as different styles of play, preferably better than one’s own. tending to prevent the forming of tiresome tricks and bad This advantage it is difficult to secure, except at a club, habits, which seem to come so much easier than the right where one can drop in any time and have a “knock-up” way. with any other chance player who happens to be there. The book contains a great deal about serving, upon Now, the very thing required has just made its which the writer sets much store. This is not to be appearance, and will doubtless be hailed with joy by all wondered at, since his own serves are the most terrifying Ping-pongists in the West of London. “Hyde Park Ping- imaginable, tearing past his adversary––for few manage pong Club” has its headquarters in the Elysée Galleries, to return them––with the velocity of a shell fired from a Queen’s Road [now Queensway], Kensington Gardens. cannon’s mouth. After the serve comes every sort of These charming rooms are situated at about two minutes’ possible and impossible stroke, which are a recent walk from either the Queen’s Road tube station [now also development of the science of the game hitherto Queensway] or the Queen’s Road Metropolitan station undreamed of. Such enormous strides and advances have [now Bayswater], and are therefore very accessible. The been accomplished in the short period during which the rate of subscription has wisely been fixed at a very small game has achieved such wide-spread popularity, that it is sum, in addition to which the advantage is offered of difficult to tell where it will all end. But it is, doubtless, being able to join for the half-year only if preferred. This because it contains such enormous possibilities that it ought to be a large inducement to those persons who are invariably “catches on” with all who start playing the still hovering on the brink, and cannot entirely make up game. their minds whether they care for Ping-pong or not, and Mr. Parker lays great stress, both in the service and are quite uncertain whether they shall stick to it or “chuck return, on the need to cultivate a varied method of play. it up.” No grave loss would be incurred even if they did As he points out, however fast and deadly your balls, a give it up after paying the extremely moderate half-year’s worthy opponent will soon get the hang of them, and be subscription. prepared to return them. Nothing but an artful change of But although so inexpensive, every effort will be made tactics can make one a truly terrifying adversary. And if by a most careful and efficient committee to keep the you can manage to look one way and serve another, the club select, and to restrict its membership roll, to such games, or at any rate your own service games, will persons as any lady will be pleased to meet and join in a probably be in your own hands. Useful information of a

18 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES general kind, such as how to run a tournament, how to PRACTICE, and a great deal of it, is of course the first play four-handed games, and a complete list of the rules essential towards the making of a crack ping-pongist. of Ping-pong, are also to be found in this little manual, But much use may be got out of watching good games, whose price is but a modest shilling. and perhaps even more use by reading the description of –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– and reasoning out the best methods of play. All who The Sketch (UK weekly from 1893) 16 April 1902 have achieved distinction in the ping-pong sphere have displayed a marked individuality of style by which they can be labelled and their game instantly recognised. The pastime affords enormous scope for such specialisation, and players may do well to follow up their own instinctive notions, and perfect themselves as far as possible in what they find their own most effective line. And yet it is to this cause that I am inclined to attribute the fact that the most successful and apparently invincible players have hitherto found it well-nigh impossible to maintain their hard-won supremacy. A player, for instance, finds her powers adapted to the hard-hitting style, and so lays herself out to development along those lines. Another discovers that the rapidity of her half-volleys is peculiarly disconcerting to her adversaries. A “stone-waller” tires them out, and stands to win through their deficiencies rather than her own expertness; while the command over a good screw stroke assures an immense advantage over adversaries of all but lightning quickness. The exponent of each and every style scores a huge success, and is acclaimed with champion honours. Then appears upon the scene a daring upstart, armed with a completely different method, and down into the dust descends the fame of the once invincible before the conquering racquet of the newcomer. NEW COOK : I’m afraid I can’t take the place, Mum. Now I would argue that not one style, but all styles be MISTRESS : Why ? sedulously practised—that no one stroke be made a NEW COOK : Well, Mum, the kitchen-table ain’t big speciality of to the exclusion of other equally desirable enough for Ping-Pong! ones, but that all possible strokes be cultivated and ––––––––––––––––––––––––– perfected. In fencing, every attack has its accompanying parry. If you are slow in the use of certain parries, a Illustrated London News 24 May 1902 skilled antagonist will soon discover your weak spot, will A Solid Gold “Ping-Pong” Charm, from harass you there, and get his hits on every time. In a half-page advertisement by The almost like manner, ping-pong—which really verges on Association of Diamond Merchants, the realm of “exact science”—has a correct “parry” or Jewellers & Silversmiths, Ltd, “response” for every stroke. Between experts each ball of 6 Grand Hotel Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London. that is sent over the net constitutes a challenge which can be most effectually dealt with in only one way. That one ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– way being outside your limited range of strokes, a less The Lady’s Realm (UK) June 1902 efficient one has to be substituted.

19 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES To commence with the serve. The most desirable one to start with is a fast, hard stroke in which the balls just clear the net and alight on the extreme edge of the opposite court. If you can so place them as to shave the edge of the table, they never rise, but continue an almost uninterrupted course floorwards, and are only to be returned with much difficulty from below the level of the court, as shown in fig. 1. In this serve it should be at the player’s command to place the ball at any corner of the court, diagonally or straight down the centre or sides. Standing four or five feet behind the table, with the ball held a little below the level of the top, a very fast service, strictly under-hand, can be delivered, while a slight turn of the racquet’s face to left or right determines the direction. With the racquet held sideways pointing out towards the right, and the ball dropped on to it slightly above the level of the net, a deadly serve can be banged over. But if many of these strokes are utilised in succession, a Whatever sort of stroke you are employing, your great worthy antagonist will soon get the hang of them. Now is object should be to deceive your opponent into expecting the time to make use of a screw; and when another fast something else. It is most important to cultivate a ball is evidently expected and prepared for is just the nonchalant attitude that shall convey no indication of the projected passage of the ball. If you assume a tell-tale moment in which to drop a tricky little twist just over the net. pose, with artless gaze fixed on the spot where the ball is to alight, your adversary will quickly read such signs to his advantage, and be on the alert in the right direction. But keep the pose of your last serve while you ply him with a completely different one, and he will be deceived, and hit wide every time. “Lobbing” is the beginner’s game, and, whether in service or return, is the great point to be guarded against. In fig. 4 I show the course of a lobbed- over ball, which bounces at just the right height for a strong player to smash it back with terrific velocity. Fig. 5 shows the treatment of a ball which has been lobbed just over the net. The player stretches right across the table and smashes the ball down almost perpendicularly. This is a highly effective stroke, much used by lawn-tennis players, and very rarely witnessed in a feminine game. In fig. 2 I illustrate a back-hand screw serve. The Fig. 6 shows a back-handed half-volley stroke. Certain racquet held across the body to the left side is almost at players conduct their games almost entirely on this right angles to the surface of the table, but is swung principle. It is a towards the right underneath the ball, which is dropped quick, pretty, and on to it from above, and which on alighting will break off graceful stroke, but is to the right. To make it break to the left, the racquet must not conducive to very face in that direction. This point should be decided in hard or brilliant play. your mind with a view to baffling the expectations of Exceedingly rapid it your adversary. Fig. 3 shows a fore-hand screw serve must be, as the stroke with the bat held almost parallel to the table-top. The is aimed for the spot racquet describes a circular sweep towards the ball, which where the ball will is held low and just dropped close on the surface. It can probably alight. If thus be made to travel pretty fast, and probably breaks off time is allowed for it at a sharp tangent. The great danger of these screw actually to do so, the serves, both fore- and back-hand, is that they are very apt opportunity for half- to rise considerably above the net, and so to execute a volleying would be high bounce on the other side, which a smart player is lost. A great pretty sure to take advantage of by “killing.” When, drawback to this however, they can be surely made to just skim the net at a class of game is that good pace, they will be found of excellent effect. players are very apt to pass the ball backwards and

20 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES forwards at a great pace, but always to and from the same with a surface of coarse sandpaper gets a splendid grip on spots. Endless rallies, which tend to become very the ball, and is a great assistance towards imparting sharp wearisome, may thus be kept up. top-spins and under-cuts. A shiny surface to the racquet Fig. 7 shows the grip of the is a distinct disadvantage. Very short, soft, padded racquet for half-volleying a ball handles are delightful to play with. Held in the hollow of which alights on your right-hand the hand, they permit most perfect freedom for the side. Of course, fore-handed racquet to turn and twist in any direction. They are half-volleys are also used, but are conducive to playing every kind of stroke, whereas many not nearly as general. A back- other ways that obtain of gripping the racquet are handed player who suddenly specially convenient for certain strokes, while quite essays a fore-handed half-volley unsuited to others. And the great point is, as I is almost certain to lob the ball commenced by saying, to make yourself master of all high and send it out. A few experts can screw their half- manner of strokes rather than to specialise in any given volleys very effectually. A brilliant stroke, which is direction. occasionally seen, picks the ball up from the table, hitting –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– it at right angles to its flight, and sending it off with a Woman’s Beauty and Health August 1902 spin which causes it to spring back again over the net after it has alighted and bounced. For this game the racquet should be held very short, and the movement of the wrist must be perfectly free. A top-spin can occasionally be imparted, but this is one of the hardest is to ping pong as an exercise that I would strokes to perform, and rarely succeeds, since it is well- direct attention. True, its onomatopoetic but nigh impossible to fore-judge at what precise angle the silly name is against it. It is academic— ball will rise from the table. abstract. No one can think seriously of a sport whose title sounds like a child trying to do an imitation of a set of clock chimes. But if one can divert his mind from the reverberating and fix his attention on the game itself, he or she will find it a hard, punishing, muscle-tiring sport. It is of no use for the scoffer to plead that it must be a game for children or old ladies of both sexes, just because it is played in the dining-room. Many a duel to the death has been played in smaller spaces. Ping pong makes you work hard. Ping pong causes rills and riverlets of perspiration to flow and makes you feel from head to foot that moist glow that only hard exercise can produce. There is no doubt that it is one of the best flesh reducers known to too heavy man—or woman. According to Dr. F. L. Burt of the Union General Hospital of Boston, and a well-known specialist: “Proud men and beautiful Fig. 8 shows an effective stroke, which in tournament women spend at least play is pretty certain to draw a round of applause from the $1,000,000 every year in spectators. When the ball is out of reach in any other Boston alone, and nobody way, it can sometimes be saved by a rapid twisting of the knows how many millions body, with the back to the of foot pounds of energy, in table and a back-hand stroke, their frantic efforts to get on the happy chance that the rid of superfluous tissue. ball may alight on the farther They ride, swim, walk, box, court. fence, play golf, and do all Fig. 9 shows the grip for a sorts of leg-swinging and fore-hand drive in service or kicking up calisthenics in return, which will bang the their anxiety to get thin and stay so. They enrich ball across at a great pace; and doctors who have the fig. 10 depicts something of a reputation of being able to freak in the way of a palette bat. cure adiposity. Quacks of A rather heavy racquet is all kinds thrive and fatten helpful towards a hard game, so on these martyrs who drink long as its weight is not sufficient nauseous waters, hot or lukewarm, and who submit to to impede the rapid movements of boiling, steaming, baking and Japanese, Burmese, the hand and wrist. A wooden bat

21 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES Swedish or German massage in the hope of achieving and baseball or any other game of ball there are moments of retaining slenderness.” resting, of standing still. In ping pong there are none. To my mind, Dr. Burt is right, but, presto! ping pong But the feature of ping pong that makes it the greatest arrives and the necessity boon to him or her who would lose flesh is the stooping for all these arduous down to pick up the ball. Think of what that means! labors and sacrifices Nobody who has resorted to calisthenics in the effort to vanishes with its advent. burn off weight needs to be reminded of the bending Moreover, the game exercise that is always a chief feature of this work; knees amuses while it reduces, stiff, heels close together and the body swung downward which is more than the until the finger tips touch the floor. The eliminators of laboring fat man can say adiposity always resort to this as far as the patient can for his therapeutic horse endure the strain, for every time one bends this way he or or walk on baking, she flexes the abdominal muscles and by this exercise boiling and kneading. It burns off tissue in the very region from which the average may seem idle to man or woman desires to lose it. In ping pong this introduce here any exceedingly laborious bending is completely disguised as evidence as to the its being a mere incident of the game. Never shall I amusing quality of the forget the stiffness of those bending muscles on the game, but let it be morning after my first ping pong match! Although the recorded for the benefit muscles were all in prime fettle from much golfing, of the ponderous and walking and riding, they were very sore and strained after pondering type that ping my two hours of ping ponging, and I understood the joy pong is every bit as of my teacher, who casually remarked that he had taken fascinating as golf and that hardened golf veterans, off 10 pounds by three weeks of ping ponging and hoped veritable high priests of the game, have deserted the to lose before warm weather three pounds more. pastime of the links to burn incense before this new god of sport. How does ping pong reduce one’s weight? First, by the briskness of the exercise. There is not a quiet moment from the time the first ball is served until the last point is scored. It is just as lively work as tennis, for the little celluloid ball is faster than the tennis ball, although it does not fly so far. One has not so much ground to cover, but he must start more quickly and go faster. Secondly, the game is played indoors, and this always means that the same amount of work will burn off a greater amount of flesh than if it were done out of doors. On this account it is always imperative that the ping ponger should see to it that the air in the room is pure, and, if it is not feasible to open the windows of the room in which the match is carried After every rally in ping pong there is a ball on the on, the windows in floor. The server walks after it and picks it up. His mind some adjacent room is on the project of recapturing the little celluloid globe. certainly should be He doesn’t think of his bending exercise in stooping to opened. To compare pick it up. In an ordinary evening of ping pong he will ping pong with stoop thus from 200 to 500 times. The most hardened boxing sounds at first athletic flesh reducer will not ask his fat patient to do the ridiculous. Yet the stooping exercise more than 50 times a day. game resembles that Consider, then, the superiority of ping pong as a means most strenuous of restoring a vanished waist. One caution it seems exercise in its necessary to give. Inasmuch as ping pong is a violent incessant foot work, game, it should never be played for at least two hours and the stepping in, after a hearty meal. Small boys and other species of jumping back, side- savages have been known to leap and run with apparent stepping, bending impunity within a few minutes after eating heavily; but forward or sidewise men and women who dwell in cities are not so hardy as and the swinging of that. Be sure to rest two hours, or at the very least an the right arm. The fact that the ping pong racquet is hour and a half, before beginning the most fascinating, swung only by wrist movement is outside of comparison; but most wearing game. the lunging and swinging of the arms are constantly The game is played indoors on a flat wooden table, going on, and the footwork never ceases. In football, which for match regulation size is five by nine feet and two and a half feet from the floor. Although marked into

22 EARLY MAGAZINE ARTICLES courts like a tennis lawn, these completely eliminated. In such fierce attacks rallies are courts are rarely used, any ball almost out of the question, for every ball aims at being striking the table being in play. untakable, in which it frequently succeeds. Prizes Many families play the game on innumerable have fallen to the lot of this little expert, an ordinary table, but the glossy who, indeed, has proved himself more than a match for surface makes the balls bounce almost every other player of note. When it was too high. Across the centre of announced at the close of the last Queen’s Hall the table a net six and three- Tournament, that Master Stephens and the successful quarter inches high is placed. competitor of the week would play an exhibition game, This net is three-quarters of an crowds closed round to watch and applaud a contest of inch for every foot of the table. remarkable brilliance, in which the original of this picture This net may be mesh or gauze, preferably the latter. proved himself invincible. Although turned sixteen, he The game is for two, although four may play. Each looks considerably younger, and gives the effect of being player is provided with a racquet weighing about five only just tall enough to see over the table. It will be ounces. The balls are small spheres of zylonite, very light interesting to players to hear that although he was one of and full of bounce. These are all the essentials to the the very first to adopt the short, stumpy-handled wooden game. Each player stands at the end of the table. One racquet, he has not kept to it, as his natural reach being so player is called the server and the other the striker out, as very short, he found he could do better with a few more in tennis. The main difference, however between ping inches at his disposal. He recently adopted a “bulldog” pong and tennis occurs after the start. The player in racquet, but is now using a rubber-covered one, which he serving or putting the ball into play, must not raise his considers has greatly improved his play. racquet above the waist line—that is, it must be an underhand, not an overhand stroke. Standing about two feet back of the table, the server sends the ball over the net, into that section of the table where his opponent is. The ball must bounce before it is returned. There is no “volleying” as in tennis. As the ball bounces the other player, the striker out, returns it over the net. The server strives to do the same. The one who fails to return the ball loses a point. The object in serving the ball is to do so in such manner that the opponent shall have the greatest difficulty in returning it. The “cut” in serving is apt to do MASTER MUIR N. STEPHENS, THE CLEVER execution. This is attained PING-PONG PLAYER. by drawing the face of the racquet over the ball when –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– serving or returning, so that instead of a straight bounce, * Two of the above articles are written by Beatrice it jumps out of line, either to the right, the left, backwards Lewis, but who is she? I believe that this may be a nom or lying low to the table. The latter is called the “shoot.” de plume for Lady Beatrice Kemp (later Lady Rochdale), Some have face sanded so that they grip and spin the ball for although Beatrice Lewis is shown above as also being to make a “cut.” the illustrator, the annual volume of The Lady’s Realm An article on a similar theme was published in lists her as the writer of the Ping-Pong article, with Lady The New York World (May 1902) [TTC 72/11]. Kemp as illustrator. If so, she was born in Worsley, rd –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Lancashire, in 1871, as Lady Beatrice Mary Egerton, 3 The Lady 1 May 1902 daughter of the Earl of Ellesmere. In London in 1896 she A TABLE-TENNIS CHAMPION. married Sir George Kemp, and lived at Beechwood, Rochdale. She died in 1966. It is interesting to note her THIS picture gives a good impression of the diminutive family name of Egerton, one of the names ‘borrowed’ by stature of the wonderful boy ping-pongist whose play Albert Slazenger! [TTC 78/10] creates such a sensation wherever it is seen. The game as –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– played by him when matched against a worthy opponent With thanks to Peter Lovesey for The Lady’s Realm is indeed a revelation to those who have hitherto regarded article, and to Nadine Rooke from The Lady for her help it as a mild home pastime, easy to pick up with a little practice. There is nothing either mild or easy in this with access to the magazine’s archives. Further extracts young player’s method, from which such frivolities as from ‘The Playing of Ping-Pong’ series of articles will long rallies, in which the average player delights, are feature later in this series.

23 EARLY PIRATED IMAGES By Jorge Arango Continuation In this TTC issue, I continue my TTC 82 and TTC 83 article, presenting more early pirated images.

First, an update: Steve Grant presented on page 32 of TTC 82, within his article “Early Ads around the World, a Finland ad with the pirated image considered in my article, TTC 82 3. SLAZENGER’S ADS Page 10.

On the other hand, I found the source of Bussey’s sentence referred to Royal Magazine, mentioned in TTC 82: A Jaques’ four-pages ads. The following is the image of the Jaques’ ads, at the enf of one of its pages:

The image in the Bussey’s booklet is very similar to that of Jaques’, and the reference to the magazine is the same, although the real name is “The Royal Magazine,” so in this case the lettering was also pirated!

24 7. THE POPULAR GAME AND THE YOUTH’S COMPANION PIRATED IMAGES

Two boxed sets.

Perry Mason Company’s ad. Of the three images, which is the original?

25 8. WOOLEY

Two Wooley boxed sets.

This pirated image is from the mentioned Bussey’s booklet (TTC 79.)

26 9. THE PREVAILING CRAZE

PING PONG, THE PREVAILING CRAZE, San Francisco, Sunday Examiner Magazine, March 2, 1902. Image pirated from a New York newspaper.

A sheet music. Several details have been modified or removed.

27 10. DAVENPORT AD.

Pirated image detected by Steve Grant (TTC 82). Left: J. Davenport ad. Right: Swedish copy.

11. STANLEY WHITE’S PIRATED IMAGES Several images were pirated from the White’s article in “The Royal Magazine” (TTC 72 and 73.) I present here the first of them.

28 Left: Steve Grant Image (TTC 82). Right: Image from a German Magazine.

Left: Pirated image, Boys’s Own Paper (TTC 3). Right: Hamley pirated image (TTC 52.).

Image from a four-page Jaques-Hamley ad, NOT PIRATED. This is one of the few cases in which credits were given: “These illustrations are reproduced by kind permission of the Publishers of The Royal Magazine.” To be continued

29 Although my acquaintance with Serbo-Croatian is nil, Zdenko Uzorinac I was delighted - several years ago - to receive from Zdenko Uzorinac a complimentary copy of his Od Od Londona 1926 Londona 1926 do Sarajeva 1973. Ivor Montagu no Do Sarajevo 1973 doubt had the same problem - but in his brilliantly lucid style - he gives a survey of the state of table tennis in 1973. Gerald Gurney

30 31 “Read All About It” – PART 1 (Parlour Tennis) by Alan Duke This series, a companion to the Magazine series, presents a selection of newspaper articles and advertisements from the earliest years of the game. Some add snippets of information to our knowledge of its history, others provide different views of the game and of the general way of life at that period of time, but all illustrate the impact of the craze. This first part in the series will be devoted specifically to items which include a reference to Parlour Tennis (but see Note at end of article), highlighting the frequent use of this very early name, and the perception of the game at that time as just another indoor game for the home. Wanganui Chronicle (NZ) 15 December 1880 New York Sun 30 November 1891 Parlor tennis is a new game that seems to be catching on. It can be played on top of an ordinary dining-room table. Liverpool Mercury 5 December 1891 From an advertisement for Bunney’s Christmas Fair, at 3-5 Church Street, Liverpool: CHRISTMAS GAMES. Liverpool Mercury 20 December 1883 Dulness at a discount! Hilarity above par! At Bunney’s you may purchase now the far-famed “Bogey Man,” And “Halma” and “Reversi,” and the new game “Pagodan.” And “Tiddle-de-Winks” and “Solitaires,” and “Dominoes” abound, And “Parlour Tennis,” “Parlour Quoits,” and “Skittles,” too, are found; St. James’s Gazette 27 February 1894 Various forms of indoor recreation, combined with exercise, have been devised from time to time. We have Dundee Evening Telegraph 4 January 1886 heard of parlour tennis and miniature gymnasia ….. Parlour Tennis was described as a game in which cards The Girl’s Own Paper November 1894 were thrown into a hat to score points. A four-page stapled insert advertising Jaques’ “latest and Capital City Courier (Lincoln, US) 10 November 1888 most popular Winter Games” included the following: In a lengthy article, Parlor Tennis this time referred to a game involving batting balls into a sort of keep-net [TTC 44/7]; rules and the catalogue illustration were included [TTH 83/10-12]. Two weeks’ later, in the same paper, the There is no evidence that Gossima was ever called Wessel Printing Co. advertised that: Parlour Tennis, and it is more likely that the latter name A NEW GAME KNOWN AS was merely used in the advertisement as a means of describing Gossima to the uninitiated. PARLOR TENNIS, [Information and images courtesy of Michael Thomson.] HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED AND WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO HAVE OUR FRIENDS CALL TO SEE IT. IT WILL BE THE Aberdeen Free Press 3 December 1894 PREDOMINATING HOME CIRCLE AMUSEMENT THIS WINTER AND NEEDS BUT TO BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED. From an advertisement for A & R Milne, Wholesale and Family Stationers, 229 & 229A Union Street, Aberdeen: Dunkirk Observer, NY 3 November 1890 GAMES:-- Halma, 1s, 1s 6d, and 2s. Fish Ponds, 1s, 1s 6d, and 2s. Ludo, 1s. Nine Pins, 2s. 6d. Alphabetical Chess, 1s. Race Round the World, 5s. Chess Boards, 1s to 12s 6d. Word-Making, 1s. Chess Pieces, 1s to 15s. Spoof, 1s. Draught Pieces, 6d to 2s. Reversi, 1s. Tiddledy Winks, 1s. Parlour Tennis, 1s. Table Croquet, 1s 9d and 2s 6d. Parlour Football, 1s. Alphabet and Picture Blocks, 6d to 2s. Belper News 17 December 1897

Bury and Norwich Post 30 December 1890 Very seasonable are games for indoor amusement this year, a great variety for green boards, or rather for one green board. Fittings are supplied for parlour tennis, cycle races, a skating rink, cat’s promenade, hop scotch, bagatelle, &c., all applicable to one board, the cost being the only drawback to a comprehensive family friend of this nature.

32 EARLY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Dundee Evening Telegraph 23 November 1898 Gloucester Citizen 28 June 1901 Christmas gifts and where to get them. At Draffen & Jarvie’s. Boys and girls both will rejoice in ….. parlour tennis, and all the variety of games. This advertisement continued occasionally until 18 Oct. Sunderland Daily Echo 13 December 1899 1902, by which time the price had risen to 7/6d. per set. London Daily News 27 July 1901 WET DAYS AT THE SEASIDE. ––––––––––– How to amuse their youngsters on a wet day must be a serious problem to the thousands of parents who, with children of all sizes and ages, are cooped up in small seaside lodgings. For wet days will come in our fickle climate, even in the driest month, and on the most successful holiday. But much can be done with a little knowledge to make even a wet day pass pleasantly for Sheffield Independent 11 May 1901 children shut up in a small room. PARLOUR GAMES. The following games, which for convenience we have divided into groups, can be bought at any game depot in There is a game which is new if not original, and London. ….. popular although not intelligent. I forbear from giving its Table Games, including table billiards, table football, name; that name is too childish and absurd to deserve table croquet, table tennis or ping-pong, table bull, mention in this staid column. Yet I believe that the name English bagatelle and French bagatelle. ….. is partly the source of the enormous vogue that the game In playing the noisier games it is always safer to move has obtained. If it had made an unostentatious bid for all breakables out of the room before starting, if parents favour under the title of parlour tennis, it would have do not want to have a bill of damages to pay. If expense been neglected save at children’s parties. But it has is a consideration, we advise the making of “ping-pong,” found for itself a name so outrageously nonsensical and or parlour tennis, by a working carpenter, who can supply so abjectly vacuous––I repeat that I decline to mention all that is required, except rackets and balls, for a few that name––that people have been tempted into an access shillings. of frivolity and have inquired into the nature of this preposterous pastime. I am not contending that it is Western Times 30 August 1901 altogether a bad game; there is amusement to be derived This advert appeared frequently until 16th December. from it, and a certain amount of skill is required to play it. It is not so silly as its name; but I maintain that it is mainly because of the name that it has become popular. People are conscious of unbending when they indulge in a game so idiotically labelled; they feel that they are acting like children; they are half-ashamed of themselves, and they like the sensation. For society it seems to provide an agreeable contrast to the intellectual effort and nervous strain of Bridge; and those who are not in society acknowledge that its apparatus is inexpensive and its rules elementary, and that it gives one something to do indoors. It has, moreover, the temporary and trumpery recommendation of being the craze of the day. It has not come to stay. In a few months from now I venture to predict that it will be almost forgotten. It is a butterfly recreation, destined to a short life and a merry one. [Now let me guess! Er, “P - - g P - - g”, perhaps?!]

Portsmouth Evening News 14 May 1901

33 EARLY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Whitby Gazette 16 August 1901 unknown to its present place as a fashionable pastime. Whilst the game was undoubtedly introduced in a crude form several years ago, it was not played to any extent till July or August of last year, yet by Christmas it had caused a perfect furore, and no upper or middle class social function was considered complete without its ping- pong table. Yet, wonderful though this rapid development is, its cause is not far to seek; the game unquestionably fills a long-felt want which the various indoor pastimes previously introduced had failed to do. Falkirk Herald 11 September 1901 Demanding, as it does, quickness of the eye and hand; From an advertisement for Shaw, Walker & Co, City furnishing splendid exercise, keen interest, and real Ironmongery Stores, 14-18 Union Street, Glasgow: enjoyment; being inexpensive and easy to arrange for—it appeals alike to the middle-aged and the young of both sexes, and is equally popular in the enthusiastic clubroom or the more dilettante atmosphere of the drawing-room. The features of the game that have contributed so Derby Daily Telegraph 13 September 1901 materially to its popularity would also seem to furnish a reasonable ground for the belief that, far from being a mere passing craze, table tennis has “come to stay,” and may be said to have already taken its place as the indoor branch of lawn tennis. A word with regard to the actual name of the game. Whilst it has undoubtedly attained its present popularity under the onomatopoetic title of ping- The Parlour Tennis advertisement was published most pong, its more enthusiastic and serious devotees object to days until 10th December. the somewhat frivolous suggestion which this name conveys, preferring to style the game table tennis, and Arbroath Herald & Advertiser 26 September 1901 there seems little doubt that under this latter title it will Notes on the Philharmonic Bazaar live in the long run. by Jonathan Oldbuck. As I was musing …. , a voice in my ear said “Come and have a game of pim pom!” There was a ring of Hallowe’en about it, and as I thought myself on the eve of solving a long pondered puzzle––I went. But it had nothing to do either with apples, cracknuts, or threepenny bits, and turned out to be only a very delightful game of parlour tennis. I lost, as I usually do …. In describing and treating of the game of table tennis, it Yorkshire Post 5 October 1901 is almost essential to pre-suppose on the part of the reader From an advertisement for The Grand Pygmalion, some general knowledge, at least, of the companion game A Monteith & Co, Leeds: of lawn tennis, and the writer has followed this course in not attempting a detailed explanation of the technical terms common to both games. Table tennis is played on almost exactly the same lines as the “singles” game of lawn tennis, except that, as no courts are marked out, the full expanse of each half of the table is available alike for the service and the return. Whilst the game can be enjoyably and skilfully played on any ordinary dining or drawing-room table of six feet or more in length, the size of the regulation match table has been fixed for the present by general consensus of opinion at nine feet long Sheffield Weekly Telegraph 19 October 1901 by five feet wide. The height of the net should be in the proportion of about three-quarters of an inch to each foot length of the table––i.e., the height of a match net is six and three-quarter inches. Whilst there are a number of different types of net supports on the market, each R. WALTER HARRISON, Honorary claiming special advantages, the undoubted sine qua non Secretary of the Cavendish Table Tennis is that they should extend six inches or more beyond the Club,* writes in the current issue of the sides of the table, thus leaving its full width available for “Windsor Magazine”:—Of all modern games, unobstructed play. Two types of racket are at present in table tennis––ping-pong, as it as at present more vogue, the one being covered with vellum and the other generally called—holds a unique record as regards the strung with gut, the former, with a playing surface of rapidity with which it has passed from the regions of the about six inches by five inches, being much more 34 EARLY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES generally favoured. Originally the ordinary battledore formation of suburban and provincial clubs, which with a long handle was used, but this has evolved into a commenced last winter, and which is likely to largely specially designed racket, with a very short handle. The increase during the forthcoming season, will, we believe, balls used are of celluloid, about one and a quarter inches tend to accord its true value and legitimate position to this in diameter, combining strength with extreme lightness, best of all indoor pastimes. the latter quality being specially advantageous for * Headquarters of the Cavendish Table Tennis Club, drawing-room play, as entire immunity from damage to 40, Moorgate Street, London, E.C. even fragile ornaments is ensured. The general rules of table tennis are very simple, being Note that the title of the above extract from the Windsor practically the same as those which govern lawn tennis, Magazine article was changed from the original “Ping- with the exception that the service must be strictly Pong or Table Tennis”. underhand, that in serving no “fault” is allowed, and that Shields Daily News volleying is entirely prohibited. Owing to the fact that 1 November 1901 the game is at present quite in its initial stage, and that no central controlling association yet exists with the requisite authority for framing definite laws and regulations, the foregoing general rules have received somewhat varied This advert continued to be used until the end of 1902. interpretations by different sets of players up and down Driffield Times 2 November 1901 the country. This particularly applies to the “service” rule, as the expression “underhand” allows of From an advertisement for G R Jackson, Driffield: considerable latitude. Difference of opinion also exists as to the reading of the “no volleying” rule—as, for instance, in a case where the return would have been clearly out of court if the ball had not been volleyed. The “Cavendish Table Tennis Club,” which, in its capacity as the pioneer combination of players, has assumed temporary legislative powers, has adopted the following definite rulings in regard to these two points: “That the service must be delivered from below the waist,” thereby Whitstable Times 16 November 1901 disqualifying an almost unplayable service delivered from about the height of the shoulder; and “That all volleying, irrespective of the position of the ball at the time of the volley, shall count against the volleyer.” As to the future of table tennis, it would be unwise to attempt to dogmatise, but This advertisement was last used on 4th January 1902. we think that from the foregoing it may fairly be Western Daily Press 3 December 1901 deduced that the game has in it all the requisite From an advertisement for The Barton Warehouses Ltd elements of a high-class Grand Xmas Bazaar, Bristol: indoor pastime. That it is at the present time ridiculed by many, objected to by some, and cordially detested by a few, is entirely discounted by the fact that it has provided untold enjoyment and healthy exercise to thousands during the last year, and will do so North Devon Gazette 3 December 1901 increasingly in the near future. It may be remembered that lawn tennis had to go through a period, shortly after its introduction, when it was contemptuously relegated by athletes to the realm of girls’ schools and garden-parties. It successfully survived the ordeal, and it augurs well for the future of table tennis that its keenest players are drawn from the ranks of lawn tennis and cricket. Probably the coming winter will be the crucial time for the new game, and will determine its continuance or otherwise; but if it be taken up again with renewed energy by those who almost regretfully abandoned it at the advent of the hot weather, its future would seem to be assured. That there is a large section of those who have played table tennis in its after-dinner social variety, who have not yet recognised the game as a really serious branch of British sport, goes without saying; but the

35 EARLY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Belfast News-Letter 7 December 1901 Note that Smiths were publishers of the Score Sheet Book (copyright 36968; 18/2/1902) Bournemouth Daily Echo 17 February 1902 DEVELOPMENTS IN PING-PONG. One of the burning questions agitating the minds of “Ping-Pongist” has reference to what is known as volleying. At present the rules prohibit this stroke. Many expert exponents of the pastime would like to see volleying introduced. They admit that it would impose a considerable strain upon the players, and they do not deny that it would add to the fastness of the game; but they argue that it could be made optional in every individual contest; and on general grounds they plead that Shepton Mallet Journal 13 December 1901 a well-recognised stroke at ordinary lawn tennis ought to From an advertisement for A Byrt & Son’s Christmas be admissible in ping-pong. On the other hand, quieter Bazaars, Shepton Mallet and Wells: players are strongly opposed to volleying. They argue that it will necessarily tend to encourage rough play. Above all, they say it will detract from the grace and cleverness of both attack and defence. The essence of the game at present being to get so much “screw” on the ball that those who have to retrieve it never know exactly what direction it may take after the rebound, the volley stroke, it is contended, would do away with the necessity of all such displays of skill and would be attended with Shrewsbury Chronicle 13 December 1901 no compensating advantage. THE RELATIVE MERITS OF RACQUETS. From an advertisement for Groves’ Arcade, 10 Castle Somewhat involved in this controversy is the discussion Street, Shrewsbury: now going on as to the relative merits, or, rather, legitimacy, of the different materials of which racquets are made. Nearly everywhere one hears decided preference for the wooden articles. Gut seems to be almost entirely discarded. Soft silky woods or vellum are Fife Free Press 14 December 1901 the only materials now recognised, and the choice depends entirely upon the style of the player. It is said that the wooden bat is responsible for the call for volleying, as a clever manipulator can put work on the ball however he receives it. The best exponents of the Cornubian and Redruth Times 27 December 1901 game undoubtedly favour wood, for the reason that they can design their bats to suit their particular tactics. Some From an advertisement by W Chandler & Co, Redruth, for incredulous people may be inclined to smile at the Watches, Jewellery, etc: remark, but it is none the less true that several crack players have employed skilled engineers to make special Dundee Courier 6 January 1902 bats. Vellum, of course, still has its patrons, but they are mostly people who play a quiet game at home “for the From an advertisement for W L Hampton, 34 New Scott fun of the thing.” The complaint freely made that Street, Perth: wooden bats have contributed to the practice of “stone- walling” is not altogether reasonable. A proficient could PARLOUR employ just the same blocking tactics with vellum. As a GAMES. ––––––––– matter of fact a player who never adopts the aggressive is PING-PONG. generally a failure. He may exasperate his opponent, but PARLOUR TENNIS, at 1s, 2s, 3s, to 5s. a clever server would know how to treat such a defence. Another charge against the wooden bat is that it has Taunton Courier 8 January 1902 prompted the call for four players instead of two. Third prize in the newspaper’s Xmas Competition was a Competent judges, however, declare that the question “Set of PARLOUR TENNIS complete with Parchment depends upon other considerations. On the broad ground Racquets, Balls, Net, Clamps, &c., value 10s 6d.” that ping-pong is solely parlour tennis, they fail to see why it should not be played under conditions as similar as Suffolk Evening Star 15 January 1902 possible to the outdoor game. This arrangement, they assert, will be facilitated by the provision of special tables fitted in suitable rooms.

36 EARLY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Hampshire Chronicle 15 March 1902 Cornish and Devon Post 24 December 1910 From an advertisement for a shop in Winchester: The Fancy Bazaar at Church Street, Launceston, was still advertising Parlour Tennis amongst its huge selection of goods suggested as Xmas Presents. The location is appropriate, as John Ruderham names nearby Plymouth (founded 1903) as one of the oldest continuously- operating leagues in the world [TTC 69/18-20]. Cambridge Daily News 20 December 1919 THE TOY SHOPS. Games that I do not remember seeing for a dozen years or more have re-appeared in brand new boxes, and in some cases with brand new names. One could not help smiling to find an old friend Shields Daily Gazette 31 October 1902 “Ping Pong” camouflaged under the title, “Parlour Tennis––the latest game.” From an advertisement for G R Carruthers, 9 Croft Terrace, South Shields: Games, a good selection. Ping Pong and Parlour Tennis, 1s, 1s 6d, 2s 6d, 3s 6d, 5s, 7s 6d, 10s 6d. Hampshire Advertiser 7 February 1903 NOTES BY THE WAY [SPECIAL] Is ping-pong dead? So far as Southampton is concerned practically it is. We hear very little indeed about it now, while last winter it was simply a rage. It went up like a rocket, and now ends in a fizzle. I was talking to a Southampton tradesman the other day, and he told me that while he sold grosses of ping-pong balls a year ago he only sells dozens at the present time; and for sixpence you can get ping-pong sets that sold for five shillings last NOTE: Parlour Games (‘informal indoor games’) were year. The disappearance of the craze furnishes a very hugely popular in all their many forms in the Victorian curious puzzle. The advantages of ping-pong were so home. The parlour, a now slightly outdated term, many. Its outfit was cheap, it was an infallible specific referred to a sitting room or drawing room, where against dulness, invaluable as an auxiliary to match- usually the best ornaments and furniture were displayed making mammas, and a wholesome exercise. Was the - perhaps not the best choice of location, and hence the game too simple or too cheap? “Will it ever revive?” is frequent references to lost balls and the advantage of another tempting subject of speculation. Experience their lightness in limiting damage! suggests the possibility. Ping-pong is practically a The term Parlour Tennis has been applied to a number reproduction of “Gossimer,” (sic) a kind of parlour tennis of different games (including Tiddledy Wink Tennis), popular twenty years ago. The completeness of the before eventually becoming a table version of lawn recovery surprised everybody; but it was slow. In twenty tennis. A few early examples have been given where the years, perhaps, when somebody rechristens ping-pong, connection with tennis is not obvious, but to add to the there may be another scramble for rackets and balls. confusion the name was also occasionally used for I see that people who have a large stock of ping-pong racquets on hand are converting them to ornamental Indoor Tennis, which most of the time was just that (i.e. purposes, and distributing them as birthday and other lawn tennis on an indoor court), and preferably with a presents to their friends. Some that I have seen— room a little larger than a parlour! For example, as racquets I mean, and not friends—are decidedly pretty. advertised in The Times of 25 November 1881: On one set there are handpainted groups of figures, represented as engaged in the popular game. On others the subjects are flowers. The most artistic of all are the inlaid bats. In these a scroll, or arabesque design, is carried out in stained wood of many shades, generally in Although some of the earlier examples are undoubtedly browns and creams, but with an occasional admixture of for the table game, it is generally only with the examples bright green or red wood. They make very effective from 1901 onwards that we can be fairly confident that ornaments. they really are ‘table tennis’ proper. St James’s Gazette 17 September 1904 Thanks to Graham Trimming and the ITTF Museum for A new game was referred to as being “‘drawing-roomed’ the images of the Parlour Tennis sets used to illustrate and made a parlour game, like parlour cricket and parlour the Walter Harrison article. tennis”.

37 Auction Action

Royal Bayreuth porcelain demitasse $56 Somehow I forgot to bid on this!

ABC of Table Tennis by C.G.Eams 1902 £65

A Little Book of Ping Pong Verse Hungarian medals $30 1902 $300

38 Mally advertisement c.1902, unusual with score sheet on the reverse. £35

39 Early strung racket with concave wedge & leather butt cap, pristine mint condition, including the full leather strip around the top of the racket head.

Wood boxed set, with pair of drum rackets unusually trimmed in green leatherette. Looks like a Bussey box c. 1902. Up for bids on ebay now.

40 The Royal Game or Table Tennis, by Milton Bradley 1902, with pair of parchment drum rackets with medium-length handles $200

Horsman (NY) boxed set c.1902, with pair of vellum drum rackets with short handles. $200 41 Spalding boxed set with fine color lithograph, pair of single vellum cane rackets. $630. Another set without the lithograph was offered for $695

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Cavendish set by Ayres, 4 drum rackets, estimated between £100 and £200 in the Graham Budd auction. Another Cavendish set on ebay went unsold at an astounding$2,237 ! 42 Someone got a bargain on this set by Bussey which sold for £140 in the November Graham Budd Sporting Memorabilia auction The strung rackets are well preserved, and note the long strap in the upper left

Box with partial color lithograph, by Hobbies. £8

43 Pair of drum rackets, long handles £95 Boxed set with free standing white net, pair of drum rackets, £88

Pair of fine wood bats with wrapped handles, ribbed faces, Pristine mint condition $40

44 Full page advertisement for Curnock’s Table Tennis, C.1902, with its perforated bats. Interesting that the ‘perforations enable the Player to “screw”’. No mention of any aerodynamic benefits (which are false). The blade on the Coronation set are made from polished Xylonite. Overall an excellent piece. Sold for $56.45

Example of the Curnock rackets with xylonite perforated head. Also exists with long handles, and wood faces.. 45 Barna thick sponge racket with giant pips, 1954 £345 Another example on ebay is offered at £300, with a dark patina. Italian poster for SAMCO Table Tennis Balls, estimated between $100 - $200

Dunlop Barna hardbat with red teardrop logo. $200

46 Pair of Stigma Original hard- Bats, a bargain at 700SEK

Seldom seen Butterfly Stiga Expander Sport, thick sponge racket 451SEK Stipancic-H £150 47 1907 Ping-Pong High Society anthropomorphic postcard. Bidding ends soon!

Seldom seen early undivided postcard, ‘A Favorite Position of the Players’., From a set of at least 4 that are known. Slight damage in lower left corner. Sold for an astounding $361 48 Bidding ends soon on ebay for this real photo Abstract painting, 32x22cm (13x9 inches) $100 card, lady with battledore. With some touch-ups in white.

Tuck postcard 624.lll, available on ebay for $10. Undivided back. 49 On ebay there is a fine selection of photographs of the great Swedish superstars, including Kjell Johansson, Jan-Ove Waldner, and the men’s team, winners of the Swaythling Cup in 1989, 1991, 1993 & 2000

50 Johansson & Alser winning the World Jan-Ove Waldne on tv in 1992 - another Doubles title in Munich, 1969 gold medal to his extensive collection!

51 Collector Directory Günther Angenendt ebay Winfried Engelbrecht Germany Barry Hayward UK Langacker 10a 44869 Bochum, Germany Virgiliastr.21 D-45131 Essen 49.201.78.6795 19 Little Hardwick Road, Streetly +49-2327-77117 [email protected] [email protected] Philately: West Midlands WS9 0SD Pre-war World Ch Programs; all Ttitems Stamps, FDCs, Sheets, Postmarks, books, [email protected] German boxed sets & bats; TT pins phonecards, tickets, stickers, W.C. Programs Chuck Hoey Curator, ITTF Museum Jorge Arango [email protected] Romualdas Franckaitis Lithuania Chemin de la Roche 11, RENENS 1020 Cl. 10 No. 25-103 Ap.116 Medellin Columbia [email protected] Switzerland [email protected] Philatelic & general TT items Art bats, unusual bats, historic photos, Gao Yi-bin [email protected] Important medals, museum quality items Michael L. Babuin, PhD USA No.9 Xin Wen Road 21-905 Phoenix Tree Garden PO Box 3401 Cary N,c. 27519 Jiangning, Nanjing, Jiansu P.R.China 211100 Martin Holland [email protected] [email protected] +8625 5212 3334 TT stamps, FDC, postcards 44 Victoria Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria Pre-1905 books, old film copies, programs phonecards, coins, medals, pins, cancels England BA14 5JU TT postcards & trade cards

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