Happy Birthday, Bill

Bill Bradley turned 80 today, and we wish him many happy returns of the day.
At a small presentation to him during last night’s practice evening, I noticed the look of awe on the faces of some of the very promising juniors when they heard he was 80. They were no doubt wondering how it [...]

Lessons in life

Greg Letts is an above average Australian player ( ranked 32 in the Commonwealth in 2005) who writes a table tennis blog. Any table tennis player could learn from his musings on the philosophy of life, based on his table tennis experiences.
I’ll just pick out a few gems. Firstly for the ‘oldies’ among us…

The kids [...]

Club AGM 2008

Arrangements for club Annual General Meeting, September 2007

League OGM

The League’s Ordinary General Meeting (also known as the “handbook meeting”) will be held on Tuesday 9th September 2008 at St Teresa’s Club, Upper Aughton Road, Southport, commencing at 8.00pm.
The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:-

Apologies
Club Roll Call
Minutes of the OGM 5th September 2007
Matters arising
Issue of -

Handbooks
Scorecards
Scorebooks
Balls

Fixture Secretary’s Report (including  any alterations required to [...]

Who said, “The more I practise, the luckier I get”?

Well, clearly it was a golfer! Most people credit this comment to Gary Player or Arnold Palmer, but Lee Trevino and Tom Watson also get mentioned as possible sources. It was supposedly in response to a spectator’s wisecrack about a lucky shot in holing out from a bunker. But is there anything more to it, [...]

Let’s play ping pong!

The new season is now only 7 weeks away, and yesterday was the deadline for registering clubs and teams with the Fixture Secretary, John Langton.
Last season we added two extra teams making five in all. This season we are entering six teams as follows:
Division 2
A team: captain Colin Fyles, match night Tuesday
B team: captain Dave [...]