BILLIARDS.
NEW RECORDS PUT UP. Received March 7, 10.38 a.m. LONDON, March 6. Playing billiards against M. Inman (who will shortly visit Australia and New Zealand), 16,000 up, Reece made a record break of 1,269, including 521 consecutive cannons. ({This break is a big advance on previous records under English rules, the best of which is 802, by H. W. Stevenson, put up on February 16th, 1905, at Leicester Square, London. John Roberts put up 821 on January 27th, 1905, at Glasgow, but this was not on a standard table. E. Diggle is credited with 791 in 1902 (not on a standard table), and H. W. Stevenson made 788 in 1904. The greatest number of cannons recorded is 180 jiursery cannons by W. Cook in 1904, and 159 cannons by W. Cook in 1905).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8375, 8 March 1907, Page 5
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134BILLIARDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8375, 8 March 1907, Page 5
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