From: ajchien@med.umich.edu (Alexander J. Chien)
Subject: Re: speedglue banned
Organization: University of Michigan - Medical Center
Distribution: ssd
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:32:30 GMT

In article <1h7d5oINNoiu@travis.csd.harris.com> donh@gcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Don Holzworth) writes:
>In article <168C4D31A.M16302@mwvm.mitre.org>, M16302@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
>|> Reglued rackets sound different.  It may be possible to check re-gluing with an
>|> acoustical spectrograph.
>
>Seriously? If I run an under 50 player tournament where I try everything I
>can to just break even you want me to have an acoustical spectograph?
>I can just imagine how much one costs. Then I have to learn how to use it,
>not to mention that with the different types of woods and rubber how
>accurate is it?
>
I dont think that any kind of acoustic test will be able to tell if a racket
is glued or not. The reason for the popping/corking/louder sound that 
re-glued rackets make is because the ball makes a more solid contact with
the blade. A really soft sponged rubber with a stiff blade can sound and
feel slightly reglued even if it's not.


>
>Why not just let those who want to cheat do so? I'll enjoy playing with
>the 99.99% who won't and when I think someone is cheating, I won't play
>with him. If it's a tournament, let the cheaters have whatever advantage
>they can get. Life is too short to spend trying to make imperfect people
>conform to rules some are bound to break. For the major tournaments,
>let the national bodies supply people to enforce whatever rules they
>want to. That too is beyond what I'll ever care about.

Im personally not too worried about players cheating. If most players 
nowadays are willing to point out edge balls, paddle points, their own
bad serves - Im sure that most people will abide by the gluing ban.
(EXAMPLE - 89 team world championships, first match - appelgren v. jiang :
A point that should have been jiang's the umpires ruled in favor of
appelgren. Apple refused the point saying the point was jiang's, but the
umpires still awarded the point to apple. On apple's next serve, he purposely
served the ball completely off the end of the table - giving the next point
to jiang. With that type of sportsmanship in the WC, I cant see why most 
players wouldnt abide by the ban)

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