MARBLES KING
“CHAMPION OF UNIVERSE.” It is a melancholy fact, but Great Britain does not seem to possess a marbles champion. For years now the United States has run big inter-school and interstate championships among school boys and girls, and Charles Albany, a thirteen-year-old boy of Philadelphia has been proclaimed “champion of the universe.” Researches and inquiries do not reveal any British boy who aspires to contest honours with the American youth. Several years ago , two American girls who were in London with .a music-hall turn and fancied their prowess as “marbellers” sought to arrange an international contest, but failed. Like so many other things, marbles grew scarce during the war, and it has taken them a long time to regain some of their old-time popularity.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 2
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