BILLIARDS
EMPIRE CHAMPIONSHIP NEW ZEALANDER WINS GAME MELBOURNE, June 3, (Received June 4, at 1.5 a.m.) Moses (New Zealand; met Burke (South Africa) in the Empire Billiards Championship to-day. Moses was nervous in the afternoon session and failed to convert good openings into breaks. Burke soon ran ahead. The scores for the session were: Burke. 619; Moses, 434. The New Zealander’s nervousness continued in the evening until the last hour, when he recovered brilliantly. He secured breaks of 105, 51 and 93, which took him 18 ahead. The game ended: Moses, 1141; Burke, 1078.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 16
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