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Jennifer Johnson
Courtesy of Tim Boggan “Play Ping-Pong and see the world”—that’s a mantra many of us have taken to heart, and few more so than 2012 U.S. Hall of Fame inductee Jennifer Brown Johnson. The Ping-Pong, er, Table Tennis, we’ll get to in a moment, but Jennifer’s peripatetic sports life began not in the U.S. representing
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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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Peggy Ichkoff
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Peggy Widmier (not yet Ichkoff) is first mentioned in Topics when, unranked the previous season, she improved quickly to play a strong match at the Jan. 19-20, 1946 Illinois Open—falling –13, -20, -20 in the 8th’s to U.S. #12 Carrol Blank. Although Peggy apparently hadn’t played in the most important tournaments
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States