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Mildred Wilkinson Shipman
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Neither the Parker Brothers’ American Ping-Pong Association (APPA) nor the break-away New York Table Tennis Association (NYTTA) held U.S. Women’s Championships before 1933. But although the Mar., ‘33 APPA Chicago National’s had a very good turnout of 40 entries in the Women’s, Mildred Wilkinson, one of the locals (from Glen Ellyn)…
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Bernard Hock
Courtesy of Tim Boggan More than a quarter of a century ago, a friend of Bernie Hock’s, Dave Russell, wrote a letter to the USTTA’s Topics to say that this “old buzzard” Hock, “a number-one-class character,” just had to be remembered in the magazine. “You can’t let a champion, a fine man, and a person…
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George Hendry
Courtesy of Tim Boggan More than 40 years ago, at about the same time that Japan’s Hiroji Satoh was astonishing everyone by winning the World Championship with his strange sponge racket, George Hendry married Marilyn Schuessler and soon thereafter gave up playing table tennis to establish his own accounting practice. Then, after an absence of…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States