BILLIARDS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 23

BILLIARDS

M'CONACHY AT HOME

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 7th January.

Clark M'Conachy, the New Zealand billiard champion, has been touring in Wales, where he played, two or three matches. At Carmarthen he played Tom Carpenter, the Welsh professional champion. Yesterday M'Conachy commenced a fortnight's match against Smith at Edinburgh, and doubtless he will be glad to have finished with the smaller exhibition games in the provinces. In this connection the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "Clark M'Conachy's return to the arena of important matches will be welcomed. It seemed a mistake for him, at the height o£ the season, to devote a prolonged period to playing games o£ minor importance in various clubs; also, his London debut has been far too long deferred. The result is that the public do not even now realise how great a player M'Conachy is; that realisation is fairly certain to come during the next few weeks when the New Zealand player will be more in the centre of the stage. "It should be a very near thing between him and Smith, and later, in a match against Davis; while there are those who believe that M'Conaehy has a real chance of winning when he meets Lindrum, whom he has already beaten in Australia. When a player improves_ in the remarkable way o£ M'Conachy Bince his last visit to England, there is no telling where he will stop. "The M'Conachy of to-day could give the M'Conachy of a few years ago half the game and win with the utmost ease. The change has been largely due to the fact that M'Conachy is now playing with urystalate balls instead of ivory."