BILLIARDS.
Roberts and North have played a match for £2OO a side, spot barred, 12,000 up, Roberts giving 4,000 points. Tlio match created great interest, and player' us Roberta is .it was generally thought he would fail to give the points '■o North, who is at the all round game beyond doubt the second best man in England, North had all the best of the game until the lust day when the '• champion of champions" swooped down upon him at a terrible rate and won by 242 points. Roberts' play on ilui last night .was, I am told, little, short ot witchcraft, he seeming to do just as he lilted with the hails, and during the evening htating all previous r words by making a break of 451'. This is 17 paints o\er the previous remnl, which was, uf course, his own ; a.break of 451 wiJinui, being allowed the stop is really a wondurfnl performance. The spot is entirely barred, too, for, whereas is some matches three spots are allowed, in this two spot strokes may not be made consecutively, another score must be made after any spot stroke before another one can be played to,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2319, 12 June 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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196BILLIARDS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2319, 12 June 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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