BILLIARDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1932, Page 5

BILLIARDS

McCONACHY V. DAVIS. [BY CABLE—PBESS ASSN.—-COPYEIGHT.] LONDON, March 9. McConachy’s score is 15,503, including breaks of 521 and 400. Davis is 14,250 including breaks of 509 and 454. - LINDRUM V. NEWMAN. TORONTO, March 9. Lindrum registered a break of 1024 to-night in the exhibition billiards match against Newman. Lindrum is 7076. Newman (who received 3500),

is 6073. McCONACHY’S plea. LIMIT NURSERY CANNONSLONDON, March 3The greatest sporting gesture in the game of billiards this century, is how the newspapers describe the declaration by the New Zealander, Clark McConachy, that his record run of 297 nursery cannons has proved the necessity of limiting them in the in-

terests of the game. McConachy emphasises that he made the record by turning the balls at the corner pockets instead of driving round the table. > He has, he states, developed several methods of turning them, which he was the first to exploit. He took the balls nine times across the table during his record run, in order to demonstrate that a limit is imperative. The “News of the World” considers that McConachy’s manoeuvres have so impressed the scoring possibilities of nursery cannons, that other great players are likely to make the game 80 per cent nurseries, and the only method of preventing; it is legislation requiring an in-off after a specified number of them, probably 70. McConachy says that he has no desire to stop “these exquisite nursery cannon,” but he thinks a surfeit of them ought to be avoided.