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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 205, 14 October 1873, Page 6

It is related of Mark Twain that a few months after his first baby was born, as he was holding it on his knee, his wife said, " Now confess that you love the child !" " I can't do that," replied the humourist, " bat am willing to admit that I respect the little thing for its father's sake." Mr Cook's splendid break of 762 has been eclipsed, if the following account of the "longest break on record," which we take from Bell's Life, is correct :—" On the Thursday evening preceding the Liverpool Cap a number of gentlemen assembled at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, to compare notes, &c, after which several of them paid a visit to the spacious billiard rooms attached to the hotel, and were amply rewarded by witnessing the manipulation of Mr William Timbrell, the manager, well known as an excellent player. Mr Timbrell was conceding 400 points in a game of 1000 up to a well known gentleman amateur and athlete, and during the game he made an uninterrupted and unparalleled break of 893, of which number 296 were spot strokes. The applause and excitement at the close of the break were intense."