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Cy Sussman
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Samuel “Sy” (later “Cy”) Sussman, born Oct. 13, 1922, started playing table tennis in 1935 at the 92nd St. YMHA in New York City, as Sol Schiff and others had before him, under the tutelage of George Schein. By 1936 he was good enough to travel down to Philadelphia and win…
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Eddie Pinner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan USTTA Table Tennis Topics columnist Reba Kirson (later Monness) said that the “most exciting” match in the Feb., 1939 Pennsylvania Open was the final of the Boys’, won by Eddie Pinner over Roy Weissman, -18, 12, -20, 18, 19. Weissman, who, like Pinner had learned his table tennis under the tutelage…
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Barbara Chaimson Kaminsky
Courtesy of Tim Boggan It’s 1957, and Cherry Blossom time in Washington, D.C.—Cherry Blossom Open, that’s the name of the tournament at which, for the first time, DCTTA V.P. Robert Chaimson’s daughters, Barbara (later Kaminsky) and Donna (later Sakai), future USTTA Hall of Famers, are mentioned in Topics. At the time, the best women players…
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Jimmy Jacobson
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Jimmy Jacobson played in the Parker Brothers-sponsored American Ping-Pong Association’s first annual Metropolitan Ping-Pong Championship, held Mar. 24-28, 1930, at New York City’s Pennsylvania Hotel, and was beaten in an early round by one, Dave Pressberg, of the N. Y. Hakoah Club. However, by the next 1930-31 season, Westchester County’s New…
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Joseph R. “Tim” Boggan
Tim Boggan’s 1996 interview in Table Tennis World My earliest recollection of playing not table tennis but Ping-Pong was with my father in the basement of our house in Dayton, Ohio, in the sandpaper and hard rubber bat days of the late 1930’s and early ‘40’s. I loved the lights over the table and the…
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