SNOOKER PRODIGY
11-Year-Old, Girl (N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON. The Constitutional Club, at Chatham (Kent) has a snooker champion In the making—an 11-year-old girl who can almost always beat the men. Tracy Joyce, who took up the game at the age of five, practices for two hours a day at the club owned by her father, Councillor Eric Joyce. She is only an inch taller than her cue. She challenges people to half-a-crown a game and the steady clinking of coins in her pink piggy bank is evidence of her skill.
Tracy was recently invited to play a game with the former world snooker champion, John Pullman. The tiny champion said: “I was so nervous when I played Mr Pullman that I couldn’t play properly. He beat me, of course, but told me that I could become a champion by the time I am 15.
“I want to be champion of England when I am grown up and turn professional.” Her father said: “Tracey plays after hours. We do not let snooker interfere with her schoolwork. “She usually beats the men she challenges. Not long ago she beat the secretary of the club's snooker team. She has never had a lesson in her life, although I have given her some help.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32035, 9 July 1969, Page 19
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210SNOOKER PRODIGY Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32035, 9 July 1969, Page 19
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