Show i Table Tennis Had Start in India Authority Says Table tennis started In India sometime sometime some some- time before 1000 1900 Like most pastimes was teas was the outcome of boredom English Eng Eng- lish officers tired of or tinkling their drinks s on time the veranda before beCore dinner m made de a ball out of a wad of or assorted feathers packed tightly In 10 a II woven cloth cover and began batting It around with V vellum rackets They stac stacked ed bool books s across the library table to serve sere as a net and nd made matte Indoor i tennis of ot the thing writes Kyle Crichton Crich- Crich ton Jo n IJ Colliers Collier's Weekly In the early period the game was all but because the time old shuttle shuttlecock shuttlecock cock was hea heavy y the players learned to drive It This went on until the celluloid celluloid loid laid b ball was generally generall adopted The nest next Innovation was the bat which up to that time had been a plain wooden paddle It was In 1002 1902 In London that a II man named Good Goodal al walked ed Into an apothecary shop to get geta a headache powder and came away with the rubber mat on which the dru druggist druggist drug drug- gist cIst counted out the change He glued blued the rubber mat to the smooth wooden paddle and purl proceeded to make himself champion of En England spinning spinning spin spin- ning the ball past the old masters with th the utmost aplomb |