Table Tennis POWER GAME OVERSEAS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 17

Table Tennis POWER GAME OVERSEAS

“Players Like Machines” (NX. Prtn Association) AUCKLAND. April 23. International table tennis had become more like lawn tennis with It* (pin services and powerful driving, said G. A. F. Frew, a member of the New Zealand table tennis team which returned to Auckland by air on Monday, from the world championship* at Peking. With Frew were A. R. Tomlinson and the three women members of the team. Misses N. Davis and N. Attwood, and Mrs J. Green. The remainder of the team. M. L. Dunn. B. A. Foster and the manager (Mr K. C. Wilkinson) returned direct to Wellington from Australia. Frew said that the game had certainly been revolutionised and that New Zealand had a lot to learn. Mr* Green said table tennis was a business, not a sport, with oversea* players. “They are like machines." she said. "We will have to give up the idea that table tennis is a sport and really, get down to some hard work here in New Zealand " Tomlinson said that most players floundered against the in the men's singles. six Chinese . and two Japanese, all used the . grip,” he said. '‘The Europeans - had no answer to the style. All [ the New Zealanders used the I orthodox handshake grip.