VERY MUCH BRIGHTER BILLIARDS.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 707, 5 July 1929, Page 9

VERY MUCH BRIGHTER BILLIARDS.

Planing billit ntis o' Mtlbout'ne, Walter ' Lindrum (Australia) has scored -i ,553 tcith breaks of d<s7, 458. and 3tsJ Willie Smith (England) has scored 5.440 tcith breaks of 1-I®, 381. and 199. News Item.

whose record break at billiards was two electric light globes at one swipe says that if this speed of scoring gets much faster, it won't be long before somebody gets hurt at this game. Sam’s motto at billiards Is: “Cut your cloth according to your stroke” and he says that if these slower games speed up like this, they’ll make ice hockey look like a slow motion picture of a dormitory for paralysed cricket umpires. These days the thing seems to be for everything to go faster. Sam says that motors, planes, people and hall pints go quicker than at any previous time. And with games like billiards step ping on the gas, this is the sort of thing we can expect to see in the newspapers in the near future. INTERNATIONAL BILLIARDS BROWN V. JONES AT MELBOURNE Brisk scoring. Reed. 9 a.m. Melbourne, Tomorrow With a leeway of a couple ot billion odd points to make up. Tommy Jones (England) commenced his score today against Georgie Brown, (Australia). With well greased cue, Jones toed the mark in the pink of condition and amidst thunderous cheering assumed his famous "tiger crouch.” The gong had scarcely been struck ere he whizzed to the table and the staccato rattle of cannons filled the air. Within tan minutes he had knocked up some 500,000 points and then settled down to steady billiards. For half an hour no sound was heard save the steady buzz of the automatic indicator as it ticked off the hundreds, and the sharp rattling of the billiard balls which resembled the bursts of fire from some machine gun. Reaching the million mark, Jones ceased for long enough to change his cue, which was worn to a short stub, and to substitute three new balls for the ones that he had been playing with, which had now been worn down to the size of peas.

Commencing afresh, he played on until the billion mark was reached. At this stage the red ball dropped through the table, having worn its way through, but Jones, with his famous flying cannon overtook it with spot’ as it fell, knocking it into the corner pocket of the next table and finding balk with spot. Playing from there back to the oil table he made a fine cushion shot which brought both balls back to the new table and spot in off plain. From then on the steady crackle oi serious scoring continued until after 2 hours and 3 minutes of play the clang of the scoring bell announced that Jones had overtaken his leeway and made up the two billion points. Unfortunately at this stage the player slowed down and the blur of his rapidly-moving arms gradually materialising into movements that the eye could follow, both. Jones and the audience saw that he had worn his cue down to nothing and that he had obviously been playing, for the last few million points, at least, with his rigid fore-finger. Besides this, all three billiard balL were seen to have disappeared, either having worn themselves out or else melted from the frictional heat generated by the cannons. As no one could say for certain when this happened the game was held over until the problem could be worked out by experiment.