Word: pong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exponent of the penholder grip and possessor of the fastest forehead in University table tennis, Jack I. Levin '40 won the Ping Pong championship yesterday at Barry Cowle's shop. Levin downed Pong stylist William W. Maish '40 in a bruising encounter which lasted over an hour...
Playing steadily and retrieving everything with dogged determination, Maish built up a lead of 11-2 in the final set. Here the fickle fortune of Pong turned in favor of Levin, whose wicked drives started clipping the edges of the table in unreturnable fashion. The final score...
Varsity netman Hauck, who has also been active in University Ping Pong circles, was blanked 3-0 by Maish. Other tennis men were unable to get by their first round opponents, including MacDonald Deming '37, George M. Goodwin '39, and John G. Palfrey, Jr. '40. Although he holds down the number four berth on the Yardling tennis team, following in the footsteps of his famed sister, Palfrey was unable to fathom the intricacies of the table game...
...small size of the clubs makes inter-club football impracticable but touch football is well organized, a complete pamphlet of special tough rules for the association being published by the governing board. During the winter basketball, squash, and ping pong are carried on while inter-club hockey in the Hobey Baker rink has proved to be the most popular. Swimming is limited to three meets in both the club and dormitory league in which all members enter contestants at once, while in Wrestling and Boxing there is an open University meet as at Harvard...
...those members of the Class of 1940 who reluctantly leave the fine pool room in the Union, Winthrop presents an appeal in the form of a game room, which in addition to the inevitable ping-pong table, boasts a pool table (one, count 'em, one.) It is true, that the present cues are in various states of degeneration, but there is a movement on foot to replace these with new ones, and when the time comes for the members of the Class of '40 to descend upon the Houses, this department ought to be in ship shape...