A WORLD TOUR

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 15

A WORLD TOUR

LINDRUM AND McCONACHY MAY PLAY IN THE ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP To live in New Zealand and indulge in tramps would appear to be two important factors in the making of a good billiards player if the experience of Walter Lindrum, the brilliant left-handed billiardist, of Australia, counts for anything. Lindrum, who is at present in Wellington, will leave to-day by the Makura for Australia. He landed in Auckland last August, and since then has travelled through New Zealand to Invercargill. Acquainted by his father with the beauties of the scenery in the Dominion, he found it fully up to expectations—indeed, beyond. them, so as to astound him. He obtained a variety of photographs from Mr. Messenger, of the Publicity Department, and he is returning to his own country with the determination to give New Zealand a “boost.” He went tramping in Auckland, and also in Wellington, under the guidance of Mr. F. W. Vosseler, and was so convinced of the benefit he derived from the exercise that he attributes to it much of his success in New Zealand.

“I have perhaps played my greatest billiards since I came to New Zealand,” said Lindrum when interviewed yesterday. “In the whole of my career —over 16 years —I have made seventeen breaks over one thousand, and eight of them were made in this country in the space of three or four months.’ ’ Lindrum waxed enthusiastic over the tramping that he has done in New Zealand—it had made him fitter in health than he had ever been. The experience of tramping was a new one for him, since the recreation was little followed in his own country. He had scaled rocks and peaks to the accompaniment of a foreboding that he would never play billiards again, but the result had been to give him a new zest. “A billiard player needs exercise of some sort —rowing and such pastimes are too strenuous —but tramping gave me the thrill of my life, he said. He considered. the billiard rooms of New Zealand to be better than in Australia, and its billiard tables to be superior to any in the world. He thought the standard of amateur billiard players in New Zealand to be good. . Commenting on Ins games with Clark McConachy, Lindrum said be was sorry McConachy had taken ill—that had taken a lot of brightness out of Lindrum s tour. The two of them had made many records in the course of their matches. “When McConachy recovers we hope to make a world tour together, announced Lindrum. “As partners Ido not think any two players m the world will equal us. as our styles fit in so well and give us command of all phases of the gamee —top of the table, nursery cannons and open billiards.” Asked if he would play in the championships in England in 1030, Lindrum said it was practically certain that he would do so. Also he thought it likely that McConachy, too, would participate. McConachy, as soon as he was well enough, would go to Australia to pnt in steady practice in anticipation of the world tour with Lindrum. Lindrum himself intends to play in Australia for the season, after which the tour will no doubt be commenced. . Lindrum is very pleased with his piny in New Zealand—the only country he has visited outside Australia. When the world tour with McConachy is over he hopes to again visit the Dominion. In conclusion Lindrum expressed his appreciation of the treatmnt accorded him by the Press, and particularly of the publication by. “The Dominion of articles from his pen on billiards. LINDRUM’S POOR SHOWING AGAINST SMITH (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, December 16. The result of the billiards match between Smith and F. Lindrum was: Smith, 30,900 (including breaks of 20-, 633, and 233). and Lindrum 11,722 (Including breaks of 468 and 381).