BILLIARDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19093, 28 January 1932, Page 5

BILLIARDS.

DAVIS V. LINDRUM. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. January 26. Davis (receives 7000) 20,137 including (379, 620, 719. 205). Lindrum 17,650 (including 228, 977). Walter Lindrum is suffering from a

BRILLIANT BILLIARDS. CLARK McCONACHY S STROKE PLAY. SAID TO BE ALMOST PERFECT. | English writers on billiards continue to give much attention to the performances of Clark McConachy, the greati est player of billiards that New Zea- ! land has produced. Here is one of the ! most recent encomiums of him. written lat a time when he was making a ‘hack” of J. Davis:— | The exceptionally fine form which I McCcnachy, the New Zealand billiard j champion, has shown in his present match with Davis has confirmed the I impression of the great improvement jhe has made compared with his ! achievements of last season. On his ! present form there can be little quest- | ic-n that, with the possible exception ; of Lindrum, McConachy has no sup ir- ! ic-r at the present time, and if he | takes part in the professional champ- ! ionship he must have a very fair I chance of success—that is if Lindrum’s engagements do not permit him to take part in the competition. No player in the long history of the game can have applied himself move carefully to his profession. The concentration which McConachy is able to bring to bear on his play is little shoit of remarkable. He may score slowly at times, and may appear to be almost a little too scrupulous when an apparently simple position is presented, but his keenness is unmistakable, and nothing finer has been seen this season than the brilliance of his stroke play. McConachy’s judgment of each stroke is one of the most striking features of his play. He has greatly developed his ability to riiake close cannons since last season, and there can be no question that as a match-winning factor this phase j of the game has to be regarded as of the greatest importance, but McConachy does not always concentrate on this form of scoring. He maintains his form by varying his methods, and his general stroke play at the present time seems almost perfect. As an exponent of the masse stroke, one of the most intricate and certainly one of the beautiful strokes in the game, he has no superior and very few equals.