BILLIARDS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 7 January 1911, Page 7

BILLIARDS

GRAY v. DIGGLE. By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright London, January 5. In the billiard match Gray lias scored 5335 and Digglc 2814. 'Writing of Gray's swond break oE 1143 on November 11, Mr. C. V. Dichl said in the Daily Mail:—"Over a week ago I wrote of Gray as a 'super-developed wonder,' and to my mind he stands forth as the first genius at his particular art in all its history who has possessed the supreme faculty, like a Liszt, a Paderewski, or a Paganini in music, of having the chance from a very early age of unlimited practice and being able to go through it without even a symptom of tiring. Young Gray has practised" as no other player ever has, averaging six hours a day for ten years, and it is wholly due to this intensity of perseverance that he has made a name for himself over the wide world, for by the time these lines are in print the name of George Gray, a mere youth of eighteen, will have been spoken of in every quarter of the globe, such is the enthusiasm of the British subject, at home and abroad, for anything supreme in skill, nerve and tenacity."