Billiards DEATH OF WALTER LINDRUM

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29271, 1 August 1960, Page 8

Billiards DEATH OF WALTER LINDRUM

Former World Champion (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BRISBANE, July 31. The former world champion billiards player, Walter Landrum, who died of a heart attack at the beach resort of Surfer’s Paradise yesterday, aged 61, was a P ro ~ fessional billiards player at 12 years of age. He was at that time playing with his father. A left-handed player. Walter Lindrum belonged to a family who for more than a century have been world renowned as billiards and snooker champions. The game of billiards took Lindrum from a job as a marker in a Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, saloon to Buckingham Palace for a “command performance" before King George V. Walter Lindrum is generally regarded as one of the greatest billiards players of all time. He was so good that for some years up to his retirement from competitive play about 12 years ago. he found it difficult to find anyone to challenge him. He made many world tours giving exhibitions of his skill. He captured 57 world records. He scored more than 800 breaks of 1000 or better, including the world record, which still stands, of 4137, which he set in London in 1931.

Lindrum was well known to Australians as a worker for charity. He is credited with raising more than £3,000,000 for charity, especially for sick children.

Lindrum owned a billiards saloon in Melbourne.