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Sol Schiff
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Solomon “Sol” Schiff, born June 28, 1917, says he “learned the game [in 1925] on a lunch table at P.S. 151 on East 91st St.” By 1928 at P.S. 30 in Yorkville, he was playing with a wooden bat on another improvised lunch table. Later he joined the 92nd St. YMHA…
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Leah Neuberger
Courtesy of Tim Boggan When Leah Thall Neuberger died at her home in Manhattan around Christmas of 1992, it was quite a shock to many a New York player in particular. To Tony Gegelys, for example, Leah, over the years…day-in, day-out…was a familiar figure at Lawrence’s Broadway Courts…or Reisman’s…or Gusikoff’s, ever ready with her all-consuming…
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Dick Miles
Courtesy of Tim Boggan By the late 1930’s and early ’40’s, Ping-Pong parlor-game sets had been around for decades. It was ironic but not particularly surprising then that Dick Miles, perhaps our greatest U.S. Champion, should be introduced to the Sport in this way. “For my 9th or 10th birthday,” says Dick, “a woman friend…
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Jimmy McClure
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Jimmy McClure first appeared on the 1934 American Ping-Pong Association (pro Parker Brothers) National tournament scene at the 7-city round-robin Intercity Matches at the Hotel Morrison in Chicago. Here, with a 16-1 record, he suddenly established himself as a great rival to Sol Schiff as North America’s best player. He was…
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Ruth Aarons
In the spring of 1933 there suddenly appeared on the table tennis scene a woman destined for greatness. Her name was Ruth Hughes Aarons, and she would be the only U.S. player, male or female, ever to win a World Singles Championship. Just a few weeks before her 15th birthday, she’d had her first “bewildered”…
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