Word: pong
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Although it is a registered trademark, ping-pong is the historic name for the game. TIME declines to be drawn into a purely commercial quarrel over the propriety of the name...
...Viktor Barna, spry and handsome ping-pong player of Budapest: the world's championship, for the fifth year; after a close match against his clumsier countryman, Miklos Szabados, who injured his right hand by falling; in London. C. Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas runner: the Baxter Mile, feature event of the annual New York Athletic Club indoor track meet; in 4.09.8, with his two onetime rivals, Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron, 30 and 40 yards behind; in Manhattan...
...Common rooms and a ping pong room as well as a library be provided...
...give their game the name by which it is known to everyone else is a grave indelicacy when in the company of ping-pong players. In the U.S., ping-pong players call it table tennis. In France it is tennis de table, in Hungary, asztali tennis, in Germany, tisch tennis. In England, the only expert player who is likely to use the name ping-pong for the game invented by British Army officers in South Africa before the turn of the Century, is Frederick Perry. World's ping-pong champion before he became its No. 1 lawn tennist, Perry...
...little man who followed Perry to the ping-pong title presents an interesting contrast. Small, pale and agile, with a striking facial resemblance to Cinemactor Richard Dix, Viktor Gyözö ("Viki") Barna was brought up in Budapest, played real tennis as a child, gave it up when he got a table tennis set on his 13th birthday...