 What is the narrator's perception of ping-pong?
Illustrated by Schoenherr The wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with ice crystals. Walking, talking natives on a blue sky planet with 1.1 g gravity and a twenty per cent oxygen atmosphere at fifteen p.s.i. The odds against finding Chang on a six-sun survey on the first star jump ever must be up in the googols. We were able to show them our sun, in their telescopes. When I say they, I mean a ten-man team of them. "Four, the ten-man language team also learned chess and table tennis. People who talk English, drink beer, like jokes and beat me at chess or table-tennis are people for my money, even if they look like tigers in trousers.
 He is embarrassed to be beat at it by members of other races
 It is a sport he is dedicated to  He is embarrassed to be beat at it by members of other races  He always watches it on television but never cared to play  It was a favorite hobby as a child but he does not play anymore