BILLIARDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 16

BILLIARDS.

Commenting on the play in the match hetween P. Lindrum and the Xew Zealander McConachy, a Melbourne exchange says: — Fred. I.indrum will find it a very difficult task to boat McConaehy in the match which they are now engaged in at Alcock's Parlour. Again he has not taken the Now Zealander seriously enough—it was a similar underrating of his opponent's abilities that caused him to lose the Inst match. McConaehy is one of the most deceptive of players. At the earlier stages of this match., though he was receiving the long start of 3000 in IS.OOO, hio chances seemed very poor. Tie conditions troubled him. The hazard sequence is limited to 25 shots, and it rnunt then be broken by a cannon. During the first wee* he was completely at sea. With one or two exceptions, he was not able to play hazards at all, and, while he ran up a few breaks of over a century at mixed billiards, theoc were not large enough to make the Australian champion feel the necessity of playing the full strength of his game. For several sessions towards the end of last week theee tactics seemed justified, but on Monday McConaehy, like Kiplinjr'o steamer, suddenly *" found himself." He would make his sequence of 20 hazards—now and then he would venture almost to the limit—and then lie would play a cannon. iSometimes he would be able to resume the hazards at the next shot, or it might be that he would have to play quite a spell of all-round billiards before the loser position would be secured. On Monday evening he was scoring heavily, making over 1000 during the cession. He played fine billiards under the conditions governing the match in his break of 345. This included four hazard sequences, aIJ exceeding 20 shots, and the rest of the scoring was at all-round billiards. After this he got 252, 100, and 110, while Lindrum practically did nothing. Lindrum U so far behind his points—l7oß at tne time of writing—that he will have to play phenomenal billiards in order to win. The game, at the conclusion of the session on Tuesday afternoon, was called: McConaehy (rec. 3000) 11.820 Lindrum 9,542 (Evidently the phenomenal play required came off, for the final ecores were: Lundrum 18,000 McConaehy 16,557 Sporting Editor.]