NOVEL BILLIARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1932, Page 16

NOVEL BILLIARDS

FUN AT THURSTONS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, uth January.

The series of novel matches played on behalf of the Newspaper Press Fund was concluded at Tlmrston's Hall in Leicester Square on Saturday, when two more sessions of interesting and amusing events were hold.

In the afternoon Mrs. McConachy defeated her husband, the New Zealand champion, in a handicap match of 25 up, by 2a to 10. McConachy was handicapped by having to play bis strokes left-handed, and was not allowed to form a bridge, but for certain strokes he was allowed to use the table brush. In another match Miss Thelma Carpenter, who holds the women's amateur break record, beat Newman- by a similar score. The handicap was that Newman had to look away from the table while ho was making his strokes. K. Jones, the jockey, beat F. Parkes, an old heavy-weight amateur boxer, by 50 to 16, and H. W. Bond, a former London amateur champion, lost .to Ben Tillctt by 50 to 8, Bond starting from the owe 50 mark. P. Calder, a Polytechnic hairier, and J. Graham 'Symos played a "fivo reds" snooker game, and there wore other events of a more usual character, in one. of which Rceee beat Inmau by 200 to IGS.

The good fun was continued in th'c evening when 'McConachy wore a pair, of boxing gloves and beat Parkes; by 50 to 45, and F. Fox, the jockey, beat J. Mack, who played with a whip as a, cue. Eeece, in a game with Jones, counted only three-figure breaks, and he failed to score, his best run being 87.

Smoke and its bad effects cause heavy losses to English cities, the bill for London beins £C,515,000; for Manchester, £2,900 000: fov LUn V :,01,. £2.:JOS,000; for Mio-RicM, -'.'1.277 000