 What is the narrator's perception of ping-pong?
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. "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. It was more that we all seemed to make silly mistakes when we played them and that's fatal in chess. Of course it's a screwy situation, playing chess with something that grows its own fur coat, has yellow eyes an inch and a half long and long white whiskers.
 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