BILLIARDS.

Evening Star, Issue 4253, 13 October 1876, Page 2

BILLIARDS.

M. CARME'S BILLIARD EXHIBITIONS.

M. Carme'B second exhibition of still at billiards wag given at the Princess's Theatre saloeu last evening. There was a large attendance and every one was delighted with the French champion's wonderful performances. Mr J. Nesbitt was his opponent on this occasion, receiving 500 points oat of 800. The play was as follows: Nesbitt broke the balls and each made small breaks till the game was called 514—28, when Carme made a break of sf<, almost immediately compiled a bfautifully playea run of 60, and altered the scores to 520—156. Although not makincbreakß so largo as on the previous evening it conld be seen that Carme was in quite- a3 good form, for after adding 52 and several runs of over 20 to his total he ran up a magnificent break of 128, in which his cannons off the cushions were particularly good. Nesbitt had meanwhile made several additions to his score, his best break being 10. 5*1—402. Nesbitt kept at work with 8, 8, and 10, );ut, his opponent rapidly put together 40, 56, and ■M, and the aeore stood at 578—546. At his next essay Carme passed Jiesbitt with a fine break of 76, iV'ilow'i iiimn\li:iu?ly with 36 and 23, when the wIH-i bfilis touched. 576—C8G. By the aid of small comrilmtions Nesbitt at length reached GOO, a-.vJ then pit. together a break uf 12, half of which, however, must bo credited to what looked suspiciously like n push cannon. 0)2—700. Carme tben got tho balls well together, and ihe same looked ail wer, but :ie broke clown after running up' 84 Nesbitt, with 0 and S, increased his score to 626, but Carme then went out. with J2 ami 4. 626 80J —(Great applause.) The following is the time ■ >ccupied by Mr Carme in scoring each huudivd : Ist, 11 mius ; 2nd, 8 mins.; 3rd, il mins.; 4th, 5 mius. ; stti, 3 mins.: 6th, 9 mins.; 7th, 12 mius.; Bth, 9 mins. Total, 1 hour 14 minutes. Mr Carme then cave an exhibition of fancy shots, which wero received with i • ni*use applause. Several new stroke-? w< re introduced, somo biing of s"> 'lifficult. a nature that the audionce became quite enthusiastic.

This evening- an interesting game may be looked for as Mr < arme plays Mr Tondut, a fellow-coun-tryman and a gentleman tolerably well acquainted with the peculiarities of the French game. Tho points given will be 500 out of 800. This match is tho last but one that Mr Carme will play in Dunedin.