Bartlesville Table Tennis Club
Tuesday - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Except on some Holidays
and when the School where we play has their own function
Location:
American Christian School and Grace Baptist
Church building
396980 W 2400 Road
Bartlesville, OK.
Players enter at the rear door on the south side of the
building
Contacts:
Roland Harrison
ph:
918-333-0481
rhhmmf@att.net
David Jones
918-331-9219
David Devorss
918-766-0229
We have two Stiga
Expert roller tables and one Stiga Privat table.
The
Bartlesville Table Tennis Association was formed in 1968.
Below is an article from Tim Boggan about the
history of the Bartlesville club from a 1976 article:
Jim
Taylor gives us a little history of the Bartlesville, OK TTA and
its successful Junior Program (TTT, Sept.-Oct., 1976, 10).
The BTTA was formed in “a relatively prosperous community of
30,000” in 1968.
Though on the average only 10-12
memberships were issued yearly, a third of them to children, the
Club somehow stayed in existence.
Then, in 1964, Taylor had
the opportunity to teach table tennis at the YWCA to a group of
“4th, 5th, and 6th grade youngsters.”
Given the Y’s
connections with elementary schools and its credibility with
parents, Taylor and his friend Cliff Smith had an initial class
enrollment of 36 students.
In the last two years, “a total
of 364 youngsters [“198 boys, 166 girls”] have participated in
the program in basic classes, intermediate level classes, school
leagues, summer leagues, open sessions, junior-high team
matches, and state and national tournaments.”
Emphasis is on
the younger children, age 9-12, and of these, says Taylor,
“about 50% of the broad cross section can play well enough to
enjoy playing,” and probably “only 10 to 15%” will have “the
ability and desire to become tournament caliber players.”
In
the 9, 10, & 11-year-old age groups our girls are superior to
the boys” (the Oklahoma U-11 champion is a Bartlesville Club
girl).
At age 12, ”the boys become better than the girls.”
Saturday morning sessions stress the basics, after which the
most promising players, perhaps as many as 40 or 50, are urged
to stay and play in the afternoons, get on school teams that
foster sprite de corps, and play seriously at the BTTA Club.
Results of the Bartlesville Green County Open (1976):
Championship Singles: Bruce Smith. 2. Russ Finley. 3. Larry
Kesler. 4. A. Lee.
Championship Doubles: Finley/Stacy over
Kesler/Smith, 19 in the 4th.
Women’s: Kathy Thompson over
Sue Sargent.
Mixed Doubles: Smith/Sargent over
Jones/Thompson, 19, 17,-18,-19, 19.
Senior’s: Mort
Finkelstein over Cliff Smith.
U-17: Johnny Cortez over Mark
Stoolz, 27-25 in the 4th.
U-15: Stoolz over Cortez. 3rd
Place: Roland Rittmaster over Kirk Golbach who went 19 in the
3rd with Cortez.
U-13: Rittmaster over Karin Thompson.
U-11: Karin Thompson over Lori Proctor. Bartlesville
Jr.’s:
H. Bui over L. James.
A’s: Al Lee over Jones who’d outlasted
Al Stacy, 26-24 in the 3rd.
A Doubles: Finney/Lee over
Smith/Joe Ogilvie.
B’s: Roddy over Lacy in 5.
B Doubles:
Golbach/Stacy over Roddy/Lacy.
C’s: Kelly Boyce over Steve
Summer in 5.
D’s: F. McCammon over C. Lewis.
Consolation: Don Bassett over Ogilvie.
(this web page was created on 11-30-10)
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