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[HE C&Ivttt SPORTS CDLUI You would hardly reecognize that gamne ,oday. Now i's table tennis, a wilid hardsmasinggame o ýf split-secofld reflexeq, The littie cellu- ï0ld banIlnow gets hit So hiardi that, bounced on the table by smnash sho-,t? iî speadts outiike an egg, or, clOttted ful p wex on the side,itet out Tike a lefon, Andý you probably never thoýught pn-og a termn that, ýis frowned uipon iný table tennis circles today, woul.d becomne oaa 0 f the greatest of ail international games. But it has. The 21st World Table Te-nnis 'Tournament was held in London and its entry was supiigyinternatlional For the firsÉt ture, the world meet ,elcomed inito the fold competitors fromo, Argentine, Australla, Leb)anon, Nepal., Saar- fond and Spain. Also ecompeting were officially noniinated re- presentativeý of Hong Kong, Fapan-, Pakistan, Singapore, 1iun- gary, Austria, Czechoslo)vakia, Ruinaïia, England aDil the United States' And in its bofmnddes able tennis can teaeh a esson to Other sports whose administrators waste so m.rucb timýre on the poirntless business of dIvidirg amateurs from the professIonals, Al are classified as players ai-d those who wlsb to make moiney oujt of it have, merely to rýecor(? that faut to thalr national controlling body, as a matter «f record and information, but it miakes nio difference at'ailIiri the eligibility 0f the players for comipetition in any evenit, The freedom froin nmeaningless, dividing tines is on.e 4o1 the things about table tennis that imnpressed this observer. Aniother is its internationalism, Take somne other sports by tcOmParison, Caniada'ýs owr favorite game, ice- hock, haS had a great upsurge of. popularity in Euvrope. But it isni't narl s internationafl, foir instance, as socce-r. And still, soccer is onl1y a ninor gamne in the Uîted States. Basketball, though spread- ing rapily, bu still Amer' ic-ominated.An baseball's - called "wôrcý,series" isn't even nenainl Judglng bY the fUst of coutrÎes lnvolved la the recent table tennls tities, fixe gamre that started so modestly as plnig- pom i as as maich rlght a ny to br elemed the greate>st of inernationai sports. 'O14r'a commÇnntes and suggestion,? foy this omnwl be, weicomed by Elmr Feg!sOýn , c/ William ,W. Rees Caver Onari Saes anaer,431 Yonge Street, Toot. UatIY'tidDISTILLERS LIMITEO PLAIN HORSE SENSE. "Y F.<BtOB)VON lPILIS With the On)taria arer tri au4theurudigcn X~jinsprouting 'la aliretos siunis fIbeOntariô Weeratica of Ar- The large a4tru a bu mutris alsO showing 4igI1s 0f tr.quresfilled wherx tii lncrealsed atvte.Premier eopealed thie ,session. Meî The organization drivf" h Fotwelefxned thf viitrs w i union during the last Sli'x mnts had corne fomas far îaay as las taken on such dimenns s Welingon ad We nt w or t>h that I L is begi'vmnlag to shade the outis Fedle-'atioa onut ";f its trry- The Prem-fier tanked the OFA *yedineria. or is coopertionin geting It seeme, that the Union appeal t ork êdone and saïid thai for actiýon has bLýeen pa-rticlarli-.y kmany points onf !the anialrief auccesful n Noth Ontarlo ýand fpreseaited Iý OFA !had bEeýni- Vitoria Couatieswhrethirty pmýe)ïnted, or forýýtY aew lcalsý haveý been- Mr, Friist poirted ouï that the _mtabis!hed. f arm pôpuatiý'n was ýlargely un-_ LlÎndsay Metig rganiized adthat forganization To put za brake to this adverse was needed to ezliinate xmarkajýt- tirend OFA called a imeceting in ing problems offar produjcta, Lbndésay and brought iiri its biý- lHe spoke of the necessity o0f im- gcst gn.proving urbahb-rural eltin To; keep abreast of the develop- 1anmd said fthat agriculture stJ1i mnients we linvited a.; g-(ond fat rer theback-bone of Canadian econ friend and stauach- Federation n omy, supporter to corne aiý,ýlng and Marketing Acts dreve up to Lindsay. Mr. V, S. Mlur secretary- TYhe first person we ra P ito1 manlager of fthe Ontarlo Fadera- ml - tiell of1the Clegaewas tioP (mf.Agricuture, î i itoduc- Ontario's Prenuer, Mr, Leslie ing the main speaker Mf the Frost, shakidng Ihands wiý,dth and eveniing, took gredit for theý Fed- we3comning "the boys" frôm Vif'- eraion for, the e-nactirent of theâ New Member Foe Santo's Tecsm - lt's about ei<ght monfhis early, but Santa Claus has reason ta mnake an early appearance. Her. lie holds ace member of his reinideer tearm, os Blitzen, 'the proud pare-nt, >vatche!s. This is the first fcawn born teoa pair of Alaiskan reindee-r which were flown ta North Pole, N. Y_, from Alaska last August.