A LAWN TENNIS DISEASE.
Relief (tbe Pall Mall Gazette remarks) is coming to the unfortunate people, who, throughout the summer months are compelled at entertainments of the garden party ord'-r to look on at the endless games of lawn tennis, and to applaud vigorously, though they don't care a bet for it, A now disease has come hi light in connection with the game, though not to the players (who should he quite content with tennis elbow), and jist apprehension of a seizure should be quite sufficient to excuee any appointor from seeiug more of the game than he or she wants to. The f-rra taken by the malady is a perpetual oscillation of the head, and it has been observer! to arise in this manner. Every time the ball is struck over the net, the eye and then the bead follow its eours«; this movement, tirst in one direction and then in th°, other, becomes, at the end of a season's onlooking, spontaneous, and the victim is condemned to ceaselessly waggle his head. As yet there have been no cases on this side the Atlantic.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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186A LAWN TENNIS DISEASE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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