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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1445, 31 December 1886, Page 3

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The London papers received by the last piail contain reports of th.“ oonclosion < f * very remarkable billia'd roa ch. 'I he European Mail writes :—“ At th«> Roja! Aqm him, on Novembe- 5, *he match < I 15 Of 0 points op, 1 ail in,’Jbetweea W J. Pe»l and G- Collins, tbe latter rec'-ivi; c 50(30 points start, was re-nmed tbe score ttandiug-Cobins 10,174; P-*ali (in play). 10,044. When the ar’j nr-. • meat took place tbe prev ; ons day Pea l bad made a mas n fioent m fi isHd break of 2,f’02, tho« besting hi* own jr-e-don* records of 1989 and 1922. Tbe Pall Mall Gazette gives the following additional df - fails :—“ The extraordinary scone wh ch took place at ’be Royal Aquar nm < n Friday on the conclusion of M- W. J Peall’s mammoth break of 2,413 ha- not often been witnessed in a billiayt room Soon a f ter starting playing o > the pr - ylous afterro?n be made 709 which coyfirming ip the evening be ucre’eed amid breathless excrement to 2002. w eBUtcing the nex- afternoon he wept on hammering away at the spot, assisted by a II tie all-roand play, until he broke down tt au ordinary winning hazard, having beaten h f s owr Cambridge re-ord of 1889 by no lets tbnr §24 point*. Then the s ectators, yielding t' cnaselves np to excitemen*, yelled heir oorgramlation* till they became hoarse, and fir Robert Peel, unable to contain himself, sprang towards the smiling little player, and wrung bis band with rapture and goodfellowship. Mr Wriffht, after a neat little speech, in which he seemed to p’ace Mr Peall’s marvellous performance among the greatest achievements of modern times, presented the player with the £SO note he had premised to the p'ayer who would first make 2000 -ff the bails. Pead then, after a fcre-k from" CdHcs, w-tinuf-d scoring until he had amassed 780, at which point the limit was reached for the d. v■ The extraordinary character of the poifo!malice may best be judged from the fact that for many j ears, np tdl comparatively recently, Mr Cook’s 900 was the record. Perhaps fee fact that the present hero cf the billiard world abstains from emckir g aud drinking ia the secret of his wonderful cf 0 , -h3Ed«dn(sa and equally tnrrvelVnf pteadv-baodednsa"-”