Sport: Ballroom Tennists

Residents of Philadelphia's swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel were agitated last week by what was going on in the ballroom. Some 200 young people, clad in sweat shirts and flannel slacks, kept popping in & out of it at odd hours. They carried funny-looking little paddles. From the ballroom came the sounds of what seemed to be some sort of scuffle.

Investigation revealed that the doings in the Bellevue-Stratford ballroom were nothing at which Philadelphians need take alarm. In progress was the National Table Tennis Tournament on twelve tables, under green-shaded lamps, surrounded...

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