The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-02

the kind that used to be known as battle
dores.
Warming the battledores slightly before
the fire Will improve their elasticity, but
care must be taken not TO overhead them
When wings nre used with the net, these
should be fixed up on the posts, so that
they project out beyond the edge of the
table, and thus prevent a ball being re-
turned round the sides OF the posts Instead
/. The game is for two players. They
shall stand one at each end of the table.
The player who first delivers the ball shall
be called the server, and the other the
2. At the end of the first game the
| striker-out shall become the server and the
server shall become the striker-out ana
so on alternately.
s. The service shall be strictly under
hand and delivered from beyond the end
of the table.
4. The ball served must drop anywhere
on the table top beyond the net and Is then
in play. If 1t drops Into the net or of the
table 1t counts to the Strker-out, There Is
no second service. as in lawn tennis.
D. In serving, it is let IL the ball touch
the net In passing over.
g. If the bali in play strikes any object
above or around the table before 1t bounces
on the table top Itself met post except
ed it counts against the player.
4 The server wins stroke If the striker
out fails to return the service, or return
the service or ball in play or the table.
s. The striker-out wins a stroke II the
server serve a fault, or fails to return the
bail In play, or return the ball in play so
that 1t falls Of the table.
9. No Yolleyilng is allowed but as long
as the ball touches the table top 1t is In
play, and can be taken at half volley.
10. on either player winning his hrst
stroke the score Is called Is for that
player; on either player winning his sec
ord stroke the score Is called 50 for that
player; on either player winning his third
stroke. the sCore is called 40 for that Dlny-
/ er, and the fourth stroke won by either
| player IS scored game for that player, eN-
cept as below:
il. II both players have wen three
strokes 40 alO, the score is called deuce
and the next stroke won Ivy either player is
scored ADVANTAGE to that player. II the
same player wi the next stroke he wins
the game; II he loses the next stroke the
score is again called deuce, and so on,
until either player wins the two strokes I'm
when the game is scored for that player.
-. The player who first wins six games
wins set.
19. The game may also be scored by
points, twenty-five up. The players in this
case. change the service aI1er every I'VE
points scored, like covers" at cricket.
The apparatus Of the game costs about
$3.50
A ping pong dance, Ia which the women
wear ping-pong patches and powdered hair
is the latest development of the present
mania The women, carrying white balls
with a red number on each and each gen.
tleman a scarlet ball with a corresponding
figure in white, walk down the ball room
and meet at silken net. Batting begins
Az soon as each dancer secures the bah the
numbers are called out, pairing on begins.
and the couples glide down the room hand
in hand, In minuet style. The latest rival
which has Just been exhibited at the Alex
dndra palace,