BILLIARDS.
THE CRADLK CANNON,
LONDON. Jun« 16
In a match at billiards between R«ie and Chapman, t-alf a million up, Recce made an uncompleted break oi 150.135, including 75,052 cradle connoris.
Recce is a player whec knowledge of the ■ topof-the-table "' game and delicacy of touch make him peculiarly fitted for obtaining the nccefcarj pos.tion for the cradle cannon stroke and keeping it.
Keeping the "cradle"' cannon )X3iition from Monday evening, April 15, Dawson at Glasgow on Saturday, April 20, brought Ins game of 25.000 up with Lovejoy to an ond "with a break of ?3.769 urfimshed. On <4ie latter date Dawson made h:s " craJlo cannons at an aieracrf 1 !at« of 30 per minute, pnd h«» was nt\<r in <lifiic ullic. AH previous records v.-oie, of course, biokon.
In our Roxburgh letter of 'a^t v.-ook, m a reference to a nice crco of app'r: Mr Wm. ifalcolmson's name was changed to M. Adanisoo.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 62
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