PRETTY GIRL CHAMPIONS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 184, 19 May 1939, Page 1

PRETTY GIRL CHAMPIONS

TABLE TENNIS STARS LONDON, Feb. 15.—1 n 00(10 dubs all over England they are practising •a sport which has made remarkable progress recently—table tennis. Why are women flocking to take up the game? One. ot the chiefs of the English Table Tennis Association, gave the answer. “They have f oamd it makes them healthy and attractive,” lie said. have "“noticed! that all the pleading .iVehien; players are remarkphpretty, and that ■started them thinking ... ' ‘ ' v y. “When they made inquiries from their playing girl friends, they found that table tennis is good for you.” A Twenty-two-year-old Miss Wendy Woodhead, of Amersham (Bucks), is mixed doubles champion of Britain with Beliak, of Hungary. Her striking blonde beauty is famous among the thousands of fans who travel of miles to see her in champoinship matches. “Then there is Miss Margaret Osborne,” Mr. Rose said, “another famous player. She is a pretty, auburnhaired girl from the- Midlands. “Table tennis means glamour, and thousands more women are taking it up every week. Women are (.attracted to the sport .by the fact that smart costumes can be worn in play. The Women’s Advisory Council, has just finished a dcy hate Ayw jifbper clothes. Shorts, • divided skirts, or long trousers are all permissible, but they tn\ist begrqy in colour. -Blcais©.sj t -,c{jo).«dk tif; any colour r> except wliitA-fir shades. Popular colours are royal blue, navy blue, maroon and green. - Table tennis T-s-#Yd&)f cheapest, epdi'ts to take-"up, as Canadians will know. -y - •