BILLIARDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 9

BILLIARDS.

THE GRAY-NEWMAN MATCH. ; 8j Telegraph—Press Aasoolatlon-OopyTlglil London, January 28. In the billiard match between Gray and Newman at the Holborn Hall, the Australian conceding Nowman 4000 in 18,000 up for £100 a-sido, tho 'scores now are: Newman, 7351 (including a break of 267); Gray, 3133 (including a break of 502, unfinished, and 471 off the red).

The burning ■ question of the day • (says "Substitute" in tho Sydney "Referee") is how Cicorge Gray will fare in his forthcoming matches against "Tommy" Newman, the young professional, whoso surprising performances this season in England have made him famous as a billiard expert, and robed him with the claims of a coming champion. Newman is in tho hands of hi? trainer and backer, John Roberts, who 19 ranking the necessary arrangements for the playing of the games, two of-which aie to bo played in London and one in .Manchester. All are prepared to admit the shrewdness of Roberts, who believes in the saying that a match well made is half the battle. The veteran has had Newriian under his wing and. watchful care for some time, and he haS, no doubt, imported to tho lad much of his vast knowledge and experience in the' gentle art, "hs Newman has advanced so rapidly in tho; profession of late as to have' caussd quite ij. stir in billiard circles down under.. The stern fieht made and victory, gained by him aerainst that sterling and' indomitable battler, Melbourne Inman, -. has proved his calibr", and given rise to the opinion that he is provin" a verv apt pi'nil of the G.O.M. of billiards. Gray will require to brine out all his forces in the "all red route" with eo'>«ist«Ticy to admit "f his qettinj nvrajr with Newman. Should the AnstraHan ' nrove to be in crcod form and en friendlv terms with his little red ball, then I look to him to win, even under the weight of such a.massive handicap.