GREAT MATCH BETWEEN COOK AND ROBERTS FOR £1000.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1161, 28 September 1882, Page 2

GREAT MATCH BETWEEN COOK AND ROBERTS FOR £1000.

As an outcome of the late match on an ordinary table between W. Mitchell and AV. Cook, in which the latter was victorious by 779 points in a game of 3000 up, level, tor £lOO, John Roberts challenged Cook to play him 5000 up. on an ordinary table, lor £5OO aside, and offered a start of 750. Tins invitation Cook at onco accepted, and it was decided to play in the Public Hail, a: Newmarket, on three successive evenings during the the .Inly Meeting, commcncingat nine o’clock on Tuesday, the Ith, when a small biit select company had assembled. At the linish of the first night’s , jilav the score stood—“ Cook, 2167 ; | Roberts, 1951,’’ the first-named with I an unfinished break of 271, holding a I good position. Play was resumed on , Wednesday night, in the ten minutes i interval a bet of seven ponies was laid lon Cook. The Prince of AVales and ; a retinue of noblemen came in after the interval, when Roberts showed some brilliant play in an innings of 653. The game at 12 o’clock was, Cook playing, Roberts, 2262; Cook, . 3091. The room was crowded on Thursday evening shortly after the , game commenced. Play was slow for some time, Roberts, who had to go on i from last night, failing to make a 1 stand, and while he was scoring 39 i Cook made 210. The biggest break ; before the interval was 270 by Cook, who was playing when the interval took place, the score then being Cook, 4176: Roberts, 31-99. On resuming, i Cook added a few points, and Roberts \ then went in and made 189, when lie | broke down. .Just before the Prince | of Wales arrived Roberts made 97, I and then broke down, unluckily, but i the scoring was slow on both sides I after this, and at twelve o’clock the I score was —Cook, 3531 ; Roberts, 13991. The latter, after making a white loser, again gave a chance, which ' Conk utilised to the extent of 169 (49 ; spots). In answer, Roberts put in 75, | bring the game to Roberts 3978 to j Cook’s 1595, but the latter was away again with 177, reaching 4872, atiH although Roberts made breaks of 20 and 34, they were of uo avail, Cook, after failing to score, in response to the former run, reaching the spot in his next, essay after scoring half-a-dozen, running to within two points of game, with the aid of the red, and finally winding up with a cannon, thus winning at 11.25 a.m. by 968 poiotein a grandly played 228, Roberts's final score being 4032. At the conclusion of the match the Prince of Wales shook hands with the players, and expressed hie appreciation of the splendid play he had witnessed.—•- “ Bell's Life.”