EXHIBITION OF BILLIARDS BY MR H. W. STEVENSON.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11951, 3 June 1907, Page 2

EXHIBITION OF BILLIARDS BY MR H. W. STEVENSON.

Novei in the history of the game has billiards attained anything like the prominence it has to-day — admitted by all to be the most scientific of all games. This evening we shall have the opportunity of seeing tbe greatest living exponent of the game, for not even John Koberts in all his glory over distantly approache.i anything like the performance pnt up by H. W. Stevenson, when playing Dawson in iJurroughes and Watts' last £100 tournament, winning by 5,269 points in a game of 9000 up, with an average of 89.83 each break, during which game he made breaks of 702, 579, 538, 392, 353, 348, 331, 327, and 312. The imagination reels at the amassing of a full 9000 points within the length and breadth of but one hundred inningsi totry and think out what this feat imples is beyond the spot-barred or anchor cannon radius of realisation, for figures tell that it represents an average rate of 90 points for each successive time lie I was qallftd to the table, Nn matter fche leave . ana the b«d were plentifully besprinmlfld with the ;iood — the safety— misses or double i-aulfes. All put together his score ;>egs may be considered to have jumped a solid 9 points forward on each occasion, "truly a most marvellous performance. To-night Mr Stevenson is to play a well-known local player, conceding 7 in 10. One of Alcock's "Standard" tibles has been specially prepared for the occasion. The arrangements for the seating of spectators is nicely arranged, and intending patrons can be assured of an instructive and interesting evening.