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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1952

Table Tennis

Hong Kong table tennis players are now up to world championship standard. In December, they made almost a clean sweep of the Asian champion- ships, in Singapore, beating the present world champion, J. Satoh of Japan.

Johnny Leach and Richard Bergman visited the Colony, and local players proved their superiority over these two former world champions. Johnny Leach paid our players many compliments, and expressed the opinion that they should visit Bucharest for the next world championships, where they could be expected to acquit themselves well. Marty Reisman and Douglas Courtland of America and also Japanese and Indian first-class players visited the Colony, and lent encour- agement and interest to the game.

Track and Field

The Track and Field Association renamed itself the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association during the year. The Association has had a most successful year and done much towards reviving athletics. Numerous meetings on tracks, roads and fields were held and many local records fell.

The highlight of the athletic year was the short visit during October of Miss Marjorie Jackson, the Australian Olympic games champion, accompanied by Mrs. D. Magee, Hon. Secretary of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union. They gave many useful hints on training and starting to a very enthu- siastic gathering at the King George V school.

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