1214 Meta description of the site: 901, tourn aments were being conducted with over 300 participants. The Ping-Pong Association was formed but was renamed The Tab le Tennis Association in 1922. In 1902 a visiting Japanese university p rofessor took the game back to Japan, where he introduced it to university students. Shortly after, a British salesman, Edw rd Shires, introduced it to the people of Vienna and Budapest, and the seeds were sown for a sport that now enjoys popularity al al over the world. In Britain, table tennis had also begun to spread outside the distinctly middle-class confines of Lon don, and leagues sprang up in provincial towns as far apart as Sunderland and Plymouth. In 1922, an All England Club was fo rmed, which boasted such luminaries as Jack Hobbs the cricketer and other famous names of the time from the world of sp ort. The Daily Mirror organized and sponsored a nationwide tournament in which there were 40,000 competitors. Table tennis was firmly on the map, and on April 24, 1927, the English Table Tennis Association was born, under the chairmanship and direction of Ivor Mont ague, son of Lord Ewatthling. He was not only to become the architect of modern-day table tennis, but he also achieved crit

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