ARMLESS BILLIARD-PLAYER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 149, 24 June 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

ARMLESS BILLIARD-PLAYER.

The most interesting work in billiard circles this season is that of George H. Sutton, the arrnlcss player. Although he lost his match coutost with Gallagher at the Montauk Rooms, Brooklyn, he cave a remarkable demonstration of what a man po handicapped can do. It was said that he did not play up to hi 3 usual form, partly on account of numbness in the upper part of his amputated arms and the fastness of the table. However, he made runs of over 50, and made many difficult shots that brought forth the heartiest kind of applause. Sutton lost both hands when a boy by coining in contact with a circular saw, and am-

putation was made about three inches below each In playing he uses no attachment to hold his cue, but by patient practice and study he has acquired such use of the short, flexible muscles on the stumps of his arms that he asserts he has as perfect a "wrist movement" as that of any player. He-can make ten masse shots without replacing the balls, and by a delicate stroke he can play the rail nurse. In play Sutton conceals the stumps of his arms under a baglike covering of his shirt sleeves.