The history of ping pong (1)
Pieces of wood lie by day heaped on the roadside in Hong Kong. In the evening four or five boys arrive. They set noisily to work and, in a few magical moments, the pieces of wood are converted into a Ping-Pong table. Then the boys begin to play. Those who cannot afford bats use strips of hard cardboard instead, wholesale replica designer handbags. Their only audience is a dog, which sits and watches, its head moving from side to side.
This is how it started as a friendly game, played for fun without worrying very much about rules. No one knows who invented it. One story is that it started when two students at Cambridge University began knocking a cord to each other across a table, using old cigar boxes, wholesale designer handbags.
In about the year 1800 an American manufacturer of sports goods produced a game which he called indoor tennis. The Americans were not very enthusiastic at first but he exported it to his London agents and it became very popular in Britain. The game was then played across dining –room tables, or on the floor with the net strung between chairs. The players used a ball make of cork or rubber, which was covered with soft string to prevent it from damaging the furniture. The bats were covered with sand-paper.
A few years later a hollow ball like the one we use today was invented. The game then quickly spread all over the world. A gentleman called Mr. Wood, wholesale coach handbags, of London, had the idea of covering the bats with rubber to give greater control over the ball.
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