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The final accounts showed that the<br />
cost of the Championships had been<br />
£352, equivalent <strong>to</strong> about £18,000<br />
<strong>to</strong>day. In broad terms, the main items<br />
of expenditure were £140 for the<br />
visi<strong>to</strong>rs’ travel and accommodation,<br />
£100 for printing, postage and other<br />
administrative costs and £75 for the hire<br />
of the Memorial Hall. The income from<br />
ticket sales and programmes was about<br />
£95 and that from entry fees was about<br />
£55.<br />
Another £50 was received in miscellaneous<br />
donations but by far the biggest<br />
contributions were from Ivor Montagu<br />
and his family, his mother donating<br />
the Swaythling Cup, his father hosting<br />
free the Foundation Meeting and Ivor<br />
making up the deficit from his personal<br />
funds.<br />
Those in the English Association who<br />
had initially been so apprehensive about<br />
the magnitude of the project, now<br />
recognised the significance of what had<br />
been achieved and the Conference in<br />
the following year, at which the English<br />
Table Tennis Association was formally<br />
established, passed with acclamation<br />
the following resolution:<br />
“That this Conference places on record<br />
its cordial appreciation of the work done<br />
in connection with the International<br />
Tournament by the Hon. Ivor Montagu<br />
and thanks him for the financial<br />
provision made by him which ensured<br />
the success of this his<strong>to</strong>ric competition.”<br />
<strong>London</strong>, the Home of Table Tennis<br />
Pho<strong>to</strong>: ETTA Archives<br />
Ivor Montagu,<br />
Referee for the 1926<br />
World Championships<br />
<strong>London</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>London</strong> 33
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