Evening star., 1944-01-30
Star 10 Sponsor
Paddle Classic
February 1913
Master Performers
Will Keep Tourney
To Prewur CuIiber
BY ROD THOMAS.

Sparkling with the brightest
names in the sport, the Eastern
Open Table Tennis Championships
will be held here February 1918
under sponsorship of The Star, ar
rangements for the paddle classic
having been completed yesterday by
representatives of the United States
and District of Columbia Table Ten
mis- Associations and this newspaper.
Preliminaries will be run off at
the Columbia Table Tennis Center,
1880 Fourteenth street NV, and the
finals at sHeurich's Gymnasium,
Twenty-sixth and D streets NV,
both scenes of many memorable
battles in the sport. This will be
the third time the EaSterns have
been staged in Washington, hot
bed of the game, and wartime con-
ditions, it appears, will take little
if anything, from tournament that
annually attracts the Nations best.
Defending the mems singles cham
pionship will be world-famed Thor
HaZi, Hungarian-born Washington
nian, who probably has won more
tournaments than any living player.
An Army corporal, he is stationed
here and will employ a furlough to
prepare for the contest. In mixed
doubles he will pair with Mae
Clouther of Boston in another title
defense, and Mrs. Clouther also will
defend the women's singles crown.
Sol Schiff, New York, international
star, will team with John Somael,
New York, in defense of the mems
doubles title.
Pagliaro Big Attraction.
With no championship to protect,
but very much in the big paddle
party will be Lou Pagliaro of New
York, beaten in the mems final last
year by Hazi. Pagliaro, national
champion in 1912, was unable to
defend the crown last year. He and
Hazi, the two hottest drawing cards
in the sport, figure to clash again
in the Eastern final.
These are only few of the per-
! formers who will display for WASH
| instons table tennis addicts the
game as it is played by the worlds
best.
! Heading the Washington woman
entrants will be Carolyn Wilson,
who. at the age of IS, won tire
Eastern women's title, bpt later
bowed to Mrs. Thor Hazi and Mr..
Clouther. 1t is understood she's
ready to make fight to regain the
/ throne. Peggy Mclean. brilliant
New York youngster who lost in the
1943 final to Mrs. Clouthers, will try
again.
Honorary chairman Of the tour
nament will be Army. Col. George
H. Foster. long prominently identified
with table tennis, with Guy Irving
Burch, president of the District
Table Tennis Association. the active
chairman. John Meininger of Wash
| ington, treasurer of the national
association, will be the referee.
Two Sessions at Columbia.
The tournament will open a week
from Saturday at pm, with play
at the Columbia to be resumed next
day at 1:30. The big show at
Heurich's will open that night al 6.
At the Columbia an admission fee
of IS cents a session will be levied.
For the finals, reserved seat will
cost SIPS and general admission 85
cents, all receipts going to the table
tennis association for expenses. The
Star will provide the prizes. S25
War Bond each to the mems and
women's single winners and the
equivalent of two S25 bonds in
stamps to be divided by the mems
and women'S winning duoS
The number of players in mems
singles will be limited to 64 and in
other events to 80 teams. Only men,
bers of the United States Table Ten
mis- Association will be eligible Ap-
plications for entrance should be
sent to Chairman Burch, 142 South
Columbus street. Arlington, Va,
phone Chestnut 1856. The fees are:
Mems singles, 81; women's singles,
81; mems doubles, rs cents per per-
son; mixed doubles, so cents per per-
son; veterans doubles, rs cents per
person.
Tickets for the tournament will be
on sale shortly at the AAA, Seven
teenth and Pennsylvania avenue
NV; Sports Center, Eighth and D
INV; Tennis Shop, l141 Fifteenth
NV; Fairway Sports Shop, 1923 G
NV, and at other places to be an
nounced later by Chairman Burch.
Entries close February 10.
picture on Page A-15.)