BILLIARDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 180, 29 July 1916, Page 16

BILLIARDS.

At Thurston's Grand Hall, Leicester Square, in a match against Inniau, Recce accomplished a marvellous performance. Receiving 1000 start in 18,000 up from the champion Inman for stakes of £200. the Lancastrian already had opened out a substantial advantage according to the' handicap conditions, and as he was in play overnight with 495 (unfinished), a large crowd of people turned up for the fifth session in the hope of seeiug Recce eclipse his own individual record of 780 made against Inman a few seasons aao at Glasgow. The onlookers were not disappointed, for from a fine position at the top of the table the Northerner jumped into his stride straight away. The short red winning hazard and the little cannon flowed from tbe striker's cue without the slightest trouble, so perfect was his control over the balls, and practically his first obstacle arose in the middle of the seventh century, when he was compelled to make an awkward 'bridge in order to negotiate a white loser. Recce brought off the stroke all right, and proceeded upon the smoothest of lines again until he had left his previous lushest compilation well astern. Uutimately the ivories •betrayed a disposition to roll out of angle, and at length he received absolutely his first bit of luck in fluking the object white. Recce attempted a trip along the all-red route, -out he soon missed just an ordinary loser at a centre pocket, and the announcement of the full break of 901 was greeted with thoroughly deserved loud and prolonged anplause, r