AN OLD-TIME GAME
CENTURY-OLD BILLIARD TABLE.
BALLS ON AN OAKEN BED.
OCTOGENARIAN’S GOOD SCORE.
(United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 21.
In celebrating the Burroughes Watts centenary, billiards was played on a century-old table, with an oaken bed on which the balls rumbled peculiarly,, recoiling little (from tl(e cushions, made of list. W. J. Peall, ex-cliampion, now an octogenarian, scored 1000 in 44 minuteb.
In 1884, before the spot stroke was barred, Peall played an exhibition match in which the spot stroke was permitted, and beat Sydney Fry, aged 66, ex-amateur champion, by 225 to 187.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 8, 22 October 1935, Page 5
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