BILLIARDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17249, 27 August 1919, Page 10

BILLIARDS.

THE CRYSTALATE CUF. ' ' Tho ; second game in the Crystal*** Cup ! competition was played l«st evening in Aicouk's room* between -£. W. Wta*eh ' (holder) . and, J. Fredateviqh, In the- opening stages both players wore slow , to get going, Warren evidently not being up to his usual form, and at the end of the first century the score was even. Warren, who coutd not get settled down to his favourite mode of scoring, seemed to be "inclined to ' tighten up the game. - His opponent, however, would not be denied', and kept scoring ] tenaciously., and was 42 ahead when the half-time mark was reached, Up to tMs no breaks of any ■£& had* been- rhade' but \varren now: with a 37'brea4 and : at .the JS& a cue &**F ix *&, read Ereda* tovieh M Warreri - 248.' The' latter how 1 treated -the to a fins display of I al .-round billiards, '..and. some gpca. losins >'■ - hazard play. He compiled -a.nicO break & 70, the marker calling the scores Warren 812, Fredatovioh 290, The gaaie from now, on was very evenely contest©!. At the 37th I visit the score was called 385 all. and tbo next hundred was called 475 «E." It was now anyone's game, and both players missed easy openinge. The excitement was intense when at the 63rd cue the scores wad 491 '. •each- Fredatovich should now have run out, ' as he had ..his opponent over the pocket . but he massed. h& shot. 'Warren won the -' game-—a wtoher-by six/poihte. , • .Thja evening's between Mr. "'•■ 1 i '- ." ' ■' ' 4 * '■