BILLIARDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14393, 7 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

BILLIARDS.

Joim Roberts, it is said, will be back.in. London in January- H;3 agrooment with George G*ay coimionces on April 2. Says Graj*: "TV hen by ffcft of Harch I have finished out toy contract with ilessrs Riley, I go irith Mr John Roberts to Oura, «ad Japan. He rn& be travelling wirh . Itte,.-. 3ly contract witk 31[r R-o.herts jtarts on April 2- He qnite flO hare xnythincr to do with o> contract that began a day earlier.*' *. In answer to which of his strokes he considered tb© most difficult, the yoi.tli . replied: ,< Tho run through into the ttimWTa pocket# In addition to judging the strength and the hitting _my own bail and the object ball correctly, I hur rt to r>lay into a "blind* pocket." - Kubelik and Backhaus (famous -es vr:i ? hJst and pianist) were introdncpd *■*> Gray after one of *Bfe IttiSoo shows t ~ys the end tno pisesst T -* * off the situation thai T— i the Australian, atid his EngT r «h to a» nicety "by rem?irk- »'«<*: i4 I was going to challenge- you. M • Gray, bnt as I play on ivorie3 and with composition) that is impose ** hu - U another piVnst wTinstf' pr : recreation is VlKird*. and