BILLIARDS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 327, 14 June 1911, Page 7

BILLIARDS

LTNDRI'M v. liEECE. By Cable —Press Association —Co;, j right. Melbourne, June 12. Lindrum defeated Recce, the scores being, Lindrum 10,000, Reece 10,040.

Great interest is being taken in the present match between Melbourne Inman and George Gray, as, despite the opinion recently expressed in the London Times—that Gray can give choice of balls and then beat easily any player in the world—there are some people who think that young Gray will meet his Waterloo at the hands of bobh Inman and Stevenson. Before Gray's appearance these two players stood out by themselves as the best players of the present day. On the other hand, there •are not wanting persons who thoroughly agreed with the London Times' opinion, gild predict that Gray will beat Inman (s'ho is very little inferior to Stevenson) by about 4000 points in the match now taking place. Gray scores principally by losing "hazards"—surely a term now proved to be a misnomer—off the red ball, mainly into the top of the table pockets. He has made while in England two breaks of over 2000, besides numerous ones in excess of 1000.

At tlie end of ,1010 the following "records" were published by Whittaker: Best "spot-in" break (cxhibitien match) 3304, by W. J. Peall, 1890; matph fo? jponev, 2031, by W. J. Peal], 1888. Best sj>ot-barred breaks, 1392 *by Roberts, 1894, and.. 1467 by T. Taylor, 1891. .Greatest number of spot-hazards in succession, 033, by W. J. Peall, 1888? Successive nursery cannon record of 180 is held by W. Cook, on January 11th, 1000. Largest number of .successive screw-back red hazards, 186, by J. G. Sain, 1883. Fastest 1000 up game, all-in, W. J. Peall, 1884, 44min. Fastest 1033 spot-barred, J. Roberts, 1894, 69'/ 2 min. Under Billiard Association Rules, 11. A. Lonsdale is the amateur champion. The ■highest breaks are 1143 (and 879 off the Ted) by George Gray, in 1010, at London and Hull; 802 by H. W. Stevenson, February lGth, 1905, recognised bv the , 8.A., and 821 by John Roberts, January 24th, 190!), in Scotland. In London, in 1906, M. Inman scored 300 points off the red ball. By menns of the now abolished cradle cannon W. Cook, in June, 1907, ■ scored 12,746; and by the aid of the same stroke T. Reece, during June and July, totalled 499.135. but the latter was not passed by the Billiard Association, »&-it was not made entirely in public olay. In 1908 M. Inman challenged H. W. Stevenson (who had beaten Dawson for the championship in 1905), but there was no response, and Inman took the lliampionship by default. Inman engaged m no championship match in 1909 or 1910.