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Sydney Heitner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan The only extant photo of the 1933 New York Table Tennis Association National Champion Sidney Heitner is a sedate, pipe-smoking, suit,-tie,-and-vest one that bespeaks him as a serious fellow, old beyond his years. It appears in the beginning of Table Tennis Tactics, a 100-page, softcover book published in 1933 by the
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Davida Hawthorn
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Davida Hawthorn, 1945 U.S. Women’s Singles Champion, learned her table tennis at what is probably, historically, the most famous Club in U.S. table tennis–Herwald Lawrence’s Broadway Courts in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Lawrence, a West Indian, had infinite patience as a teacher, and his number one protege was David Hawthorn,
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Bobby Gusikoff
Courtesy of Tim Boggan “Bobby, let’s go and watch your cousin Leon play ping-pong tonight.” From that casual suggestion, made by a father to his son on an evening in the late 1940’s, comes Bobby Gusikoff’s half-century recollection that, “As we climbed the stairs to those fabled Herwald Lawrence Broadway Courts, there was no way
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