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Wendell Dillon
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Wendell Dillon, as he tells us in a brief biography, played in his first sanctioned USTTA tournament—the National Intercollegiate’s—when he was a second-semester freshman at Ohio University in 1954. But you wouldn’t say he’d begun to make his mark in the Sport, not yet, not for a while—in part because he…
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Fred Danner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan This year’s Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Fred Danner. For a quarter of a century Fred has made countless local, state, regional, national, and international contributions to our Sport, and is currently near to completing a mammoth version of his Memoirs, calledAdventures of a Ping-Pong Diplomat. Having enrolled at…
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Coleman Clark
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Who better to tell us about Parker Brothers’ 1932 American Ping-Pong Association Champion Coleman Clark than the expatriate Japanese penhold defensive star Yoshio Fushimi, APPA #8 for 1932, whose showmanship Clark so appreciated. In his 1933 book Modern Ping-Pong Clark pictures Fushimi “rushing towards the table like a mad bull to…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States