BILLIARDS
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SPECIAL MODERN TABLE From Indianapolis, Indiana, one learns that, a splendidly modernised table B to he used for the world's i liree-eushion billiards championship, which is to lie played there. The cloth will he purple instead of the conventional green, as it is thought that this colour is best suited fe relievo eye strain. “Green creates after-images, which is proof of eye fatigue.” soys Mr. Faber Birren, the colour expert. “It, is definitely a had colour upon which to focus tile eyes constantly. This new shade of purple is a neutral colour which has no apparent after-image and therefore produces, no fatigue.”
The table is also lo have a new bed of steel and wood, and the mahogany legs will lie replaced by- hollow braces ot chromium steel.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 7
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