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J. Rufford Harrison
Courtesy of Tim Boggan J. Rufford Harrison (the “J” stands for “John”) was born in England in the merry month of May, 1930, and named “Rufford,” so the story goes, after a ruined abbey where boyfriends liked to take their girlfriends. When, however, Rufford himself came of age, he was less interested in “verderous glooms…
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William A. Gunn
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Bill Gunn, President of the Gunn Brothers Oil Co., a home heating firm in Mamaroneck, N.Y., didn’t start playing the game until the early-to-mid-1930’s, when he was 33 years old. In 1935, when the Larchmont Westchester, N.Y. Club changed its affiliation (it had been one of the last holdouts) from the…
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Otto F. J. EK
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Surely no USTTA President was ever so anonymous to the general membership as he’s about to take office as Otto Ek was. Not a word had been written about him in Topics, only the line in the monthly list of “Affiliates” indicating he was President of the Ohio TTA—and even that…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States