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Bill
Warner
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Jim
Pierson
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Whitey
Likens
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Tim
Spradling
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Dick
Evans
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Norman
Kilpatrick
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Dave
Albright
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John
Kilpatrick
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Bruce
Sorgman
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Todd
Jackson
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Jay
Nelson
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Bob "Doc" Halladay
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Bob
and wife Mary were honored with lifetime membership in the
Club when he retired from play in September 2003. It was estimated
Bob travelled over 60,000 miles over 20 years back and forth
from Ashland, Ky to Charleston. His wife Mary came too, every
Monday night, bad weather or good. The Proclamation stated, "Doc" has
always been a fierce but gentlemanly competitor, an example
for young and old players, and a credit to our Club as well
as the game of table tennis."
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 You
may have called it Ping Pong all your life and you were right. It was
invented in Great Britain around 1880 and took it’s current form
in 1900 with the advent of celluloid balls which were imported from the
United States by Englishman James Gibb.
The sound the balls made when they bounced inspired the name of Ping Pong.
This name was patented in the United States, so Europeans called the sport
table tennis which is the name it goes by all over the world.
 Additonally,
Table Tennis has many other interesting facts. For instance, did you know
that USA Table Tennis (formed in 1933) has 7,000 ranked tournament players
and 300 sanctioned clubs nationwide? Or that, Table tennis became an Olympic
sport in Seoul in 1988. Next to soccer it is the most popular sport in
the world. The ball travels as fast as 150 mph and more! In 1996, 18,200,000
Americans played table tennis. In October 2000 the ball size increased
from 38mm to 40mm. Both sizes are currently in use.
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