A Fantastic New Idea.
Eighty years ago, Mr. Goode of Putney, South London, went to the chemist’s to buy some aspirin. In the shop, he almost forgot about his tablets as he stood looking at the pimpled rubber mat on the counter. It has given him a fantastic new idea.
He paid for his aspirin and the rubber mat. Then he rushed home, cut the rubber mat to the right shape and size and stuck it to his wooden table tennis bat. The thin layer of rubber helped him put a very fast spin on the ball. When he became the English champion, everyone started copying him, putting rubber layer on their bats, and soon Mr. Goode’s clever idea completely changed the style and speed of table tennis.
Table tennis was first invented in England in about 1880. At first the game had several strange names: Gossima, Whiff Whaff and Ping Pong. It wasn’t until 1926 that the international Table Tennis Association was formed with international championship and rules. One of the rules was that the rubber lining of the bat (Mr. Goode’s invention) couldn’t be more than two millimeters thick in each side.
Questions:
1.Where did Mr. Goode live?
2.Where did he see the pimpled rubber mat?
3.What did he do with rubber layer?
4.In what way did the thin layer of rubber help him?
5.What changed the style and speed of the table tennis?
6.When and where was table tennis first invented?
7.How thick could the rubber lining of the bat be?
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