Judge — February 6, 1932 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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| | | | Judging the Sports j (Continued from page 10) | sporting, never failing vigorously to pump the hand of the winner in the very best Germantown manner. | If you are interested, the current national champion is a gentleman named Mr. Marcus Shussheim of New York, who is by way of being some thing of a sports celebrity in his own name, which is pronounced as if you were singing “Shush shine on, silvery | moon, Mr. Shussheim is a ve oung man ante, junior, size nose, and he comes bounding on to the floor with his sleeves rolled up to the elbows and his dark hair se- flattened out under generous spreads of slickum. You can tell he’s a champion just hy looking at him. There thing about him that conjures up visions of Mano’ War, Ty Cobb, Na poleon, and Flagpole Kelly. (And he also reminds you a little of one of the Shussheims.) Mr. Shussheim tells the press that | he owes his pre-eminence in the sport with a sort of Jimmy Du verely is some to subway rushes, food in automats. park-plan dances, and plenty of good old soot-soaked air. His advice to other young men is It is better to have pinged and lost than never to have pon; all.” Very sound and timely too I'll say, in these turbulent times. The next step in the competitive development of ping-pong will prob- ably -be a tournament along Davis Cup lines. The game is more gener ally played in’ continental Europe than in America, and the best players dwell on the far side of the Atlantic. Oddly, Hungary is the hotbed of | ping-pong, and most of the innova tions, including the new rubber sur face bat with its increased diameter, come from there. Mr. Bill Tilden, himself a ping-pongist of no little skill, tells me the best player in the world is Fred Perry, the English tennis star. In describing Tilden uses such restr: Perry's game, Mr. d, une tional words as “magnificent tounding,” “i ous.” From which sort of notion t Perry must be pretty fair, all things considered. How would Mr. Tilden, still one of ratest of tennis players, fa 1 ping-pong match against Perry no means the equal of the American in tennis techn “T'd be lucky to get five points on him in a game,” Mr. Tilden answers. “Then it doesn’t foilow that a star tennis player will become a star ping pong player?” “There is no (Page 31, please) reason why — he DEM O C R AC Y IN THE PAsT TEN yeaRs the number of Bell telephone calls made daily in this country has doubled. The American people do not double their use of anything unless it returns a dollar's worth of value for cach dollar spent. A telephone in your home costs only a few cents a day, Yet it brings to your service the use of billions of dollars’ worth of property and the efforts of hundreds of thousands of skilled workers. Fair pay to the workers and a modest profit on this property is all you pay for. There are no speculative profits in. the AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND Bell System. Everyone, from the president down, works for salary and pride of achievement. More than six hundred thousand people are shareholders of the American Telephone and Telegraph Cempany. There are shareholders in every state of the Union. About half of them are women, One out of five is a telephone employee. But no one owns as much as one per cent of the stock. The Bell System, in the best sense of the word, is a democracy in industry .. . operated in the best interests of the people who use it. TELEGRAPH COMPANY Wilbur T. Emerson ?h furnished or unfurnished, with full § Under the direction ot hotel service or with none ot oll. The 12 EAST 86" ST.- NEW YORK