Table Tennis: A Description of the Game, With Rules and Instructions for Playing (Classic Reprint)

Table Tennis, Whiff-W hafT, ID ni-P om, Ping-P ong or any other name which an inventive mind can think of, are all played alike, there is absolutely no difference of any description in the tables on which they are played, the racquets, the balls, the nets, or in the rules which govern them. The game originated in Japan, and has been played there on and off for nearly two thousand years; it was introduced into England some years ago under the name of Whiff-W haff, but did not take on well, as no one seamed, at that time, to realize the amount of skill necessary to play the game well, and it was not until 1900 that it became popular, and its popularity can be directly traced to the substitution of celluloid balls in place of the rubber ones with which the game had been previously played. With celluloid balls the possibilities of the game were increased a thousand fold, and a game which, with the old rubber balls, had been considered at the best only fit for children and old women, developed into one of the most skillful games played with a ball.
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