WHITFORD AVERAGES 15 A CUE TO BEAT ROBERTS EASILY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1941, Page 12

WHITFORD AVERAGES 15 A CUE TO BEAT ROBERTS EASILY

! '^ lle most consistent- disjil iv ~i billiards '«» 'ar in the Aiu-kland ;m o. inc-ir.| : was la>t ni —!i* In ; to o!, in •'/•"'eating K. V. Kob'.-, bv i ot.lo to -41. Koberts. who iii,id" a bre d lot 1 in. in the first round -the hish.»t of | tlie tourney - was quite out o; to;i< it t night and only twire did lie ivach the I twenties. Whit tor,l. on the ut.hev han.l played exccediindy well, do-in-.nstrated by l t-he fact that lie averaged J,", p„i ; ,rs ~ eiu- '■ ; well aisive the averac- to date. Whitioid played many line cannons to retrieve , awkward positions. He was soon in the lead, and rcaeiied A*l when K.w>, ; was 'only S(». lli s best break. ta». took him ! into flic third hundred. a:i 1 he added 'another 31 nnd .'{!> which took hini t.. '!'>S with Koberts 172. Whitford then put t'he i frame b<\vond tioul>t with a lireaU of ."»! I and ran to points with un nnlinislied 14 | 1 he u inner s breaks over twent'v wf-re 30 23 20 23. 2.i. *>0. :!9. :,i ;I „,i 44.' 1;<,|, 01 , K ; J only breaks over twenty were 2.') .111,1 21 ; ihe tournev will be continued at Messrs I 1 Barton and M Gill's to-night at 7.3". wlicn" j Knott plays Keane.