PROFESSIONAL BILLIARDS.
McCONACHY WINS MATCH.
MARGIN OF 1818 POINTS,
The final scores in the professional billiards match between . Clark McConachy andMerl O'Donoghue were 53,906 and 52,088 respectively. The best breaks by McConachy during the match were breaks over 900, one break over 800, two breaks over 700, nine breaks over 600, four breaks over 500, fourteen breaks over 400, ten breaks over 300, twentyseven breaks over v 200; sixty-six breaks over 100. O'Donaghue, two breaks over 200, sixteen breaks over 100. McConachy thus won by 1818, after giving O'Donoghue 40,000 start in: a time-limit match of three sessions per day for a fortnight. Sixty-eight' games of snooker were played, O'Donoghue winning by 36 to 32.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 14
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