BILLIARDS.
GREAT SNOOKER BREAK. AN AUCKLANDER'S FEAT. A snooker score of 134 was made in a friendly game yesterday by the well-known Auckland billiardist E. J. O'Donoghue. whose previous best was 102 last year. This score will be brought under the notice of the British Billiards Control Council a view to having it officially recorded. The possible score is 147, and it is on record that the possible was made in January last year, by a Birmingham professional, A. Mann, playing against an amateur player. That being so, O'Donoghue's score of 134 is not a world's record, though it stands easily second. The best official snooker' score by .Toe Davis, the present English billiards champion, is 100, but .scores of 117 by Con Stanway, of Canada, and 116 by Frank Smith of Sydney, have been claimed. In the game played by O'Donoghue yesterday he broke the reds, potting one, and went on to pot the remaining 14 reds and colours, finally potting all the balls in one visit to the table, his opponent not getting a shot. In the course of the game he potted nine-blacks, four blues, one piuk, one green and all the remaining colours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 102, 2 May 1929, Page 18
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