Solomon Joseph Schiff (June 28, 1917 – February 26, 2012) was a Jewish-American

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player from New York. He attended Textile High School in New York City.

Table tennis career

Schiff was a six-time U.S. Open Men's Doubles champion, and nine-time U.S. Mixed Doubles champion. In 1936, he won the U.S. Men's Singles title. From 1937 to 1947, he won four medals in doubles and team events in the

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. The four World Championship medals included two gold medals; one in the doubles with Jimmy McClure at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships and one in the team event at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships. He also won an

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title. He was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere arou ...

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Table tennis career

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