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In 1902 a visiting Japanese university professor took the game back to Japan,
where he introduced it to university students. Shortly after, a British salesman,
Edward Shires, introduced it to the people of Vienna and Budapest, and the seeds
were sown for a sport that now enjoys popularity all over the world. In Britain,
table tennis had also begun to spread outside the distinctly middle-class confines
of London, and leagues sprang up in provincial towns as far apart as Sunderland
and Plymouth. In 1922, an All England Club was formed, which boasted such
luminaries as Jack Hobbs the cricketer and other famous names of the time from
the wo