BILLIARDS.
« _. PROFESSIONAL TOURNAMENT, The professional billiard tournamest l the Sports Club was continued and in the afternoon Thompson 'S*l Little (325). Little, with a breaker passed his opponent at the ninth one $ scores being Little 309, Thompson 'to Thompson then took a hand, and break of 32 reversed the position afttJ loth cue. Little now put on 43 *£(ss, g" tag his opponent. The scores' $£?_£ Little 456, Thompson 431. The ba_ fS** ing Thompson, he scored 20 -1' &J«!s making him 525 to Little's 487. LIMi S) ' plied with 24 and 81, and thi ». J* called the game 551 all. Thorny, _** 25 and 33. making the score°e§Mo 8« his favour. Little, flghtimj with vS* initiation, pnt on a finishin" break $& and, creeping ahead, he palsed at 709, amid great excitement SS to game a winner by 26. The eroin__? between fetephanson (scratch) and pff (360) attracted a large attendance' SiP sot very few opportunities, and was „„ played by Stephenson, who was S lent touch and gave a magnificent 4mv tion. He had the fine average ofV? St display embodied two perfect h~.L- "* 130 and. 54, 20/ SO, 1 him "into" the" fina" which Friday and Saturday evenings, S'.2 winner of the game between Ever*? iiS /Little. The concluding game is IYrJ. Mi played in two sessions. oW> "&
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 169, 17 July 1919, Page 2
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