JUSTICE GRANTHAM ON PINGPONG.
Here (writes Mr T. P. O'Connor in this week's M. A. P.) is a littlestory of Mr Justice Grantham, who has raised Lady Haberton's ire and some correspondence in The Times, in consequence of his summing up in a case at the Essex Assize. Last week he was trying a case at the Hertford Assize in which the defence tried to prove that a conversation carried on between two persons could not be overheard in a passage adjoiniog the room, because people were playing the piano and ping-pong in a room overhead. Mr Harvey Murphy — massive, bald, and smiling — was the defending barrister. "No doubt your lordship knows something of the game of ping-pong," he rehe remarked with sly humour. " Well," replied Mr Justice Grantham, with a gravity which would have admirably suited a bishop in the pulpit, "my experience of the game is that — people generally miss the ball!" Probably his lordship's experience is shared by many other devotees of the game.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1459, 10 June 1902, Page 4
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167JUSTICE GRANTHAM ON PINGPONG. Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1459, 10 June 1902, Page 4
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