MARBLES KING.
"CHAMPION OF UNIVERSE."
It is a niejancholy fact, but Great Britain does not seem to possess a marbles champion. For years now the United States has run big inter-school and inter-State championships among school boys and girls, and Charles' Albany, a thirteen-year-old boy of Philadelphia, has been proclaimed "champion of the -miverse." Researches and inquiries do not reveal any British boy who aspires to contest honours with the American youth.
Several years ago two American girls who were in London with a music-hall turn and fancied their prowess as "marbellers" sought to arrange an international contest, but failed. Like so many other things, marbles grew scarce during the war, and it hap taken them a long time to regain, some of their old-time popularity.'
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 200, 24 August 1929, Page 18 (Supplement)
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