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USE OF COMPOSITION BALLS (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 18th February. Writing in "Sporting Life," '"Hazard" asks the question: "How would Lindrum and M'Conachy have fared against our. leading billiards professionals had the playing medium remained ivory and not composition?" '. "As a matter of fact," writes "Hazard," "I doubt whether we should have seen these two brilliant colonials over here at all had the ivory ball remained in vogue. M'Conachy never forgot Ms own dismal experience when ho was in lingland some years before. "He may not have been, so good then as he is now, but he was undoubtedly a better player than the ivories made him out to be. M'Couachy, of course, never mastered them during ille season; it would, indeed, be almost an impossibility for anyone to switch from composition to ivory and become proficient in one season. "The standafdisatin of the playing medium removed the barrier that prevented, or militated against, colonials coming to this country. Now Liudrum and M'Conachy have been here we are almost certain to see them again—and again."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 8
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