BILLIARDS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 52, 25 November 1919, Page 9

BILLIARDS

The crystalnte cup contest, which is virtually" tho club championship of the ■Wellington province, commenced at Aloclt's last night. There are nineteen competitors, and two, sames of 300 noints each are played on each evening. Tucker nnd Marconi, the Federal Club representatives, were by a. coincidence drawn to play one another in the first game. Jioth players started nervously, Tucker particularly so. Possibly tho latter's play was affected in tho earlier stages fcy tho adverse run of the halls. Both players wero level at the first hundred, when Marconi drew away and held n lend of 6ome forty points. Tucker now, however, gaining confidence every stroke, drew un, and catching his opponent at 170, parsed him. The next hundred wn« nil Tucker's, and he reached his Wfl points before T'.bircom could let to 200. Certainly the latter player h"d n.nite tho worst of leaves, whilst for 'J'nekev Ihe.r Tan unusually veil. Still the latter player gav" an exhibition of sound billiards, and n>"rited his win. The best breaks were: Tucker. 2.'t, 20, 2", 22: Marconi, 21. The second game was belwcni Arnold Williams, of tbe Commercial Travellers' Club, and Wikem, of the Dominion Club. V'ny at the commencement was not. bright, both playing cautiously and feeling tlHv way. ' r!iv"ughout the wlvle gane there was hardly n time when lliev were separated by more than 20 point- - . A 1 53!) the scores were even, at 205 thev vw the same, and so it had been all alonr. .At (hi* latter stag? Wnkei» wa« fortunate nnd drew nway, eventually winning bv ''lo c e upon 30 poinls. Williams found the spread of the balls a HUle ('ilii-MU, :md in a longer game would no il-mbl lin<-" j."ciir»tl many a shot thai I'e failed in. No breaks of note were made. To-night a' 7 n'e'e"-': M'Nei!! •ihiys JTam-on, and at G.llfl Tr-ms plays fi'onc, Of 'Pctone.