Table-tennis Champions.

No longer is the parlour game called “ping pong”! Table-tennis has arrived! Due in a large measure to the classy exhibitions given by the Hungarian table-tennis stars, Kelen and Szabados, in New Zealand last year, New Zealanders were prepared for brilliant exhibitions of the indoor game by Barna and Bellak this season. However, they did not reckon on seeing two of the world's best players at their best. In all of the matches in New Zealand Barna, five times world champion, and Bellak, American champion, played before large crowds, and simply amazed the spectators by the ball control and foot-work shown.

Barna, on being asked why Hungarians lead the world in table-tennis, stated that it was merely a passing phase, that other countries were now producing top-flight players and Hungary's supremacy was fading. He also expressed the view that H. Boniface, the young Wellington player, would climb to world class if given the opportunity of regular play against star men. Playing in New Zealand, he declared, would not elevate any player to the best class, but should Boniface be given the opportunity of travelling he thought the Wellington boy would soon be holding his own in world championships.