BILLIARDS.

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1922, Page 6

BILLIARDS.

LINDKUM V. STEVENSON. SYDNEY, May 3. I 'The latest scores are: Liudruni 2645; Stevenson 1252. VISIT OF H. W. STEVENSON. The coining visit of 11. W. Stevenson, the ex-ehainpion. billiard player will he his third to New Zealand. His ! first visit to this country was in 1902- ' i, when he toured Australia- and New Zealand. His second trip was about 191)8-9. Knghts of the cue are perhaps inclined to regard Stevenson as the “old ■ man of billiards,” but this is some- ; what fallacious. He is still on the I sunny side of 51), and should remain among foremost exponents of the game | for some years He was born at Hull | in 1874, and at 18 years of age, I through the instrumentality of the late I John Roberts, went to i’butli Africa. He played Rubel ts several matches, . hlt perhaps his greatest fight was with Dawson, who 'was continually challenging him for supremacy in the game. One of the bri.htest periods of bis career was 19051910, in which he won matches with Roberts, Dawson, Recce, and in 1908-9 swept the honours board clean, alos establishing an unique record by comptnng i 1000 breaks cf 100 and over in the season, ' During tho last three or four years i he has been quite as good as form- i erly, but lie is such an 'artist that I matches or exhibitions ill which he is concerned arc ayways a centre ol attraction. His re-appenrar.i-c in the Dominion recalls an : mining incident which c.c- | enrred when Stevenson and Inman ' were playing in tne championship at Thurston's (London), two or three years ago. At tho end cf a bneak of 437 Inman had >ft rhe balls very awkwardly for Stevenson, who was just taking his stroke when in strolled Mr Horatio Bcttomley. He lookover Stevenson’s shoulder, and seeing the position, nudribly remarked: “Put plenty of left hand side and hit like’ hell.'* The audience exploded and Stevenson, also heartily laughing. made a. bard drive and fluked I both white balls down. How many morning dailies are now published in London? Most people, journalists included, would answer: offhand that there are not more than a. dozen. Actually, the addition of liio “Westminster Gazette" to the I'st b’ings the total up to thirty. London's morning publications arc eon- ' siderably in excess of the evening isIsnes, whose number is twelve. A few of the constituents of this Vatter list are also not to be found „n rhe ordinary bookstall.