PING-PONG.
Ping-pong is to be played in a glass house by a Dublin club which lias just been formed for the summer enjoyment, of the game. Table tennis has found its sea legs, and bids fair to become the chief-amusement of fashionable ocean travellers. The game was introduced on .board tlie Atlantic linor Campania, .'and afforded so much'amusement to the passengers that the company, it is stated, has decided to install table tenuis outfits on all their ships. Scarcely lmd the Campania left Liverpool when the passengers wero hard at it, striving for the table tennis championship of the North Atlantic, which was won by a Scottish gentleman. A ping-pong club is aljout to be started at North Taicri.,. Tho club will meet once ft week at the. Atheiiffium Hall. It is expected that the club will startr with a membership of 30 or 40.
Ping-pong has brought a new ailment in its train. Medical men call it "ping-pong tena-synovitis." Writilig to tho "British Medical Journal," a' doctor describes the ailment as causing acute pain in tho leg, accompanied by much swelling and reddening. Playing much in stiff boots may bring it on. Ho believes that until a new costume and suitable footgear are evolved tho ailment will cause trouble among devotees of the game.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12394, 2 July 1902, Page 3
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