"PING PONG."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 323, 14 January 1909, Page 4

"PING PONG."

To the Editor.

Sir—Uadzooks! but 'tis a world of 'terrors indeed. One almost fears to 1 open the morning news-sheet tliesey troublous times, for the days of revolutions and of plagues are as Jlca-bitcs 'to the terror-fraught horrors uf IUOJ>. One day we are thrown into a sea of apprehension, Sicilian earthquakes in bold 'lettering stare us in the face; the •next we read of American nightriders i 'sentenced to death; of a man kicked to n sbocki-iig death in a circus, etc. But •Litis morning you shock us with a letter "on "Tile Xoble Art" or of that sort, signed by •• Ping Pong Player.' tan it he possible that one of these ■dangerous rullians is allowed to live in this anti-sporting, kill-joy • community? Why, J thought the vile sport 'had been wiped out years ago and labelled " Dangerous." Are you not aware that a ping-pong player.in Alaska several years ago suffered blood-turgid-aty of tin! conjunctiva through the living egg-shell striking him in the leftward ocular organ? It is recorded by (trustworthy witnesses that one or two. •1 am n»t absolutely certain how many, applications of a buraeie lotion were netcessary before the damaged optic was tput- right again. I am sure this bloodcurdling fact will be sullieient to cause •every editor, 'mother and guardian of Children (or imbeciles) to be on the tjui vive lest those under their charge should fall into the awful abyss of ping-'pong-ism. As a. boxing man 1 rise in Vear and trembling and demand that thin fearsome game of ping-pong b? vjuietlv but firmly suppressed; that bull'rtishes be cut down to give place for 'bun-rushes, etc. Against the man who use* his lists we arc well protected—we 'nearly all have hands—but against the , iman with the jping-pong racquet what >oii earth shall we do? 1 must leave oil' 'here, as 1 wish to go out and buy an •axe.—l am, &e.,