BILLIARDS ON HORSEBACK.
A New Ypr.k corrospqiidenriiTitnTthat two wealthy but eccentric -Yankees have' recently distinguished.: ithepelves by playing-a game of billiards.; uiider extra, ordinary conditions and -with" stakes of £IOOO a BJde/"''.fA ! hundrdd-up was the required. BCoroy. i;n A billiard'table was erected on a large-platform in'one of tho public'halls of that' city, andah'-ontrtnee fee of 1 Odols was charged' for' : onlookors. ' At, tho hour appointed the expectant tho two.champions rido up . on magnificont steeds lo tho tablo.' With their left haud.thdy held theroina and with their right tho cue, The'-game'laetod two hours, and just as the' clock Brju'cki twelve. John Warrington ffiiishodlW',' with a .magnificont break (considering'the circumstances) of twolve-making three cannons in sucoession and' pocketing the red ball twice, -Warrington left his opponent, lowis,'far behind,,beating him by thirty points, The match, oUr correßadds, has oxcited groat interest iu New York, ■-•■*
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2439, 30 October 1886, Page 2
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141BILLIARDS ON HORSEBACK. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2439, 30 October 1886, Page 2
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