BILLIARDS MATCHES
NEWMAN LEADS M'CONACHY
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LONDON, 4th December. The following are tho scores ia the professional billiards matches:—
Idridruin, 20,176, including breaks of 720, 426, 603; Smith, in play, 17,057, including 529, 330, and 613 unfinished.
M'Conachy, in play, 15,203, including breaks of 413 and 235; Newman, 15,883, including breaks of 378, 575, and 342. Newman took tho lead for the first time in the match with a brilliant break of 578, scoring 1399 in the afternoon, with an average of 101, while M'Conachy, who was off form, only averaged 38. The New Zealander in the evening made a fine break of 413, averaging 63 against Newman's 61.
Lindrum?s 603 is his fifty-third break over five hundred during the seven weeks, beating Smith's record for the whole of last season.
Davis, with a break of 1141 unfinished, has now scored 16,921, leading Falkiner, whose score is 15,871. to which Davis conceded 3000.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 8
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