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Proof of the growing interest in ping-pong at Harvard is furnished by the popularity of the tournament, now being conducted by Harry Cowles Squash and Tennis Shop, in which many prominent squash and ten-is players are entered. Heading the list of seeded men is M. T. Hill '31. Other seeded players are H. M. Culley, Gurdon Worcester, A. G. Thacher Jr. '29, R. S. Kazanjian 2G., G. H. Perkins 3S.A., W. J. Iselin '29, and A. Ingraham '30. B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University tennis team, and T. E. Jansen '26, runner-up in the State...
...Ping-pong tables have been installed in the Union, Gore Hall, the Harvard CRIMSON, and several clubs in the University. A Freshman tournament is in progress at Gore, and installation of a duplicate outfit in the Smith Halls common room is being contemplated by the dormitory committee...
Last week a challenge at ping-pong was given the formality of print. The editorial staffs of The Dartmouth and the Harvard Crimson, college dailies solemnly arranged to meet on tables at Cambridge, Mass. The Dartmouth, trepidatious, threatened to give collegiate journalistic standing to Alton Kimball ("Al") Marsters, famed Dartmouth footballer. Marsters, Dartmouth interfraternity ping-pong champion, rates no golden key for activity on the college daily, but Editor Robert Rathbone Bottome said that, if necessary, he would appoint Marsters to his staff if the Crimson pingers ponged potently. The Crimson's men complained bitterly...
Dick Black, captain of the 1928 Dartmouth much-battered football team, while playing ping-pong last week, was severely injured by running a large splinter into his forearm. He was put in the infirmary...
...Manhattan, Michael ("Sure-Seater") Mindlin opened a theatre (Little Carnegie Playhouse) with a card & chess room, with free coffee & Marlborough cigarets, permission to smoke, walls decorated in modernistic colors, girl-ushers selected for their beauty, a dance room and a ping-pong court with three tiers of upholstered seats for spectators. There is no sound device...